Best Of 2020

these days, you know, I just I don't know. Man, hey, and I give the fans today a lot of credit for being so invested, because this is the most hardcore audience I think there's ever been. But I could stand corrected. But here we actually we're about to be joined by our guests already. Who has his ww F tye or excuse me, wwe get the f out allegiances as we welcome in the one and only the Great Scott Stanford. Where is he? There he is? Guys, what's happening? What's up? Scott?

For a second, I would just tell you I was changing my camera for you. There you go, what's that accent? I live in the New York area, New York. Everybody says that I have a New York accent, but I'm originally from Philadelphia, and so I feel like my accent is way different from your New York. Well, here's here's the thing. When I am on the air, I will change my voice to sound a little more uh non New York. I like it. Don't you change for anyone, Scott?

You no, listen, I'm not going to be asked you guys. I'm here for one reason and one reason only. I came to play America's favorite game show, porn Star or baseball Player. Did you love it? You love that on? Scott? Well, I'm so thrilled at you're here because I I always have to just play with Chad and you know it's all right. But I don't think you can handle it though I don't know. It's uh yeah, it might throw you for a loop. Are we going to play against

each other? I'm gonna how about it before we get rolling? How about we do a little rapid fire? How about that? May I say one thing. I feel like I'm at a disadvantage because I feel like Scott would know more about baseball players than I do. I also know more about porn stars than you do as well. Well, that's another thing because I haven't watched porn in years, so I might be a little rusty, but sure, I swear Listen. Since I've had my children, my whole life has changed.

I don't have time for porn anymore. I just want to sleep, and I don't even get to sleep anymore. So I'll you know, no porn for me, but I'll do my best, all right. Who would like to go first? We'll get it, you know what, Let our desk go first? Yes, that would be that would be fitting. Uh. Now, I don't have all of the great uh little uh descriptions for this because we're going rapid fire. All right, But Scott, I'm gonna let you go first. Baseball player or porn star.

Go ahead. Richard Cheese You mean Dick Cheese as he goes, friends call him. Uh, let's see, Richard Cheese. That's a good one. I'm gonna go. Didn't he star and white men can hump Richard Cheese? Or no? My god? If you know titles, I am going to so so your final answer would be porn star. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go baseball player. You are incorrectes is a porn star? He wasn't can't hump? He probably was? Did he win an Aviana Award? I'm sorry, I don't have the information

available at this time. I don't want you to think I'm a degenerate. The only reason I know these names, James, is because one one WrestleMania back in New York, I was part of Dolls Ziggler's comedy night, and I roasted Dolph a little bit, saying how he looks like the pizza delivery guy in a porn movie. And I started throwing out these these titles and names and that that's the only reason why I know. But I because I only watch once a day, so I wouldn't really get

to know all of the porn star. Oh you're you're down to one movie a day day? No, no one, Francis, You're giving me too much credit. It's it's one three minute clip a day. That's all you need though, right, really, with time to spare sometimes? Oh yeah, all right, Queen of Extreme Europe, much info for me? But okay, all right, here we go. Now you're a veteran of this game, so I'm gonna try to give you names that we

did not hear the last time. All right, so here we go, Dick Poll Dick Pole like p O l E p O Ellie. I think I know that swim Dick Pole. I'm going to say that he is a baseball player. You are correct. Look at the queen of extreme taking in an early one. Nothing lead, all right, here we go, All right, Scott, here we go with yours. This is a good one. How about Tom Wanks? Oh, Tom Wanks, Jesus, these are good. Uh. I think Tom

Wanks is a porno star. You are correct. Tom Wanks is a porno star, obviously a take off of the of course, famed Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks. And I believe he he may have starred on Saturday Night Beaver. If I'm not correct as far as Tom, yes, I remember correctly. Yes, Well, there you go. All right, queen, here you go. How about Bruce le Bruce. That kind of name is Bruce le Bruce? Well, is it a baseball player or porn star? That's the kind of name. Yes,

Bruce le Bruce. I think it's stupid sounding, so I think it's a porn star. You are correct, Look at you. It sounds very stupid under the pressure of the the guests welcomed in. You're you're dominating. I don't mess around with that. I came right into this game, brom telling you who the boss is around here? That's me. All right, here we go, Scott ed Head, Oh Jesus had he's a he's a baseball player. Ed Head is indeed a baseball player. Look at you. Okay, all right, here we go.

All right, Francine, how about Flash Brown? Okay, Flash Brown? Hid all right, I'm gonna go with my god. I'm gonna say a baseball player. You're saying a baseball player. Yeah, Flash Brown is a pornographer. Flash Brown. I just thought flash like it would be like a like a nickname for a baseball guy. Now, I know you guys are using We're on stream yard right now right Indeed, when I use stream Yard, I always knew the boxes pushed

back a little bit. You guys like them up close and the three we do, Okay, I just checking because you know, the further back the better, the better I look. I know that. You know Francine's favorite is the is the Brady bunch that I like? The push up? It's all about to push up, all right? Sorry, don't try to distract me there as Lance Thruster is your name. Lance Thruster is absolutely a porn star. Absolutely, that was those two easy flash Brown. Come on, all right, how

about now this is the name that I know. We had that one. We just kip right now, we had that one too. All right, here we go, France, Yes, boof Bonser boof boof Bonser boof the boof bondser the booth Bondser. I'm gonna say, baseball player. You're correct, with New York Ties played for the Yankees. Okay, all right, how about Mo the Monster Johnson. Oh, geez, Mo the You know it's funny as you said that. The guy just started mowing the lawn outside my basement. Herecap m

O the Monster Johnson, Mo the Monster Johns. That's that's gotta be a porn star. No, yes, you are correct. He is a porn star. He is a porn star. We're gonna go one more for each of you. All right, here we go, Francine, Jack Reacher, Jack Reacher, and Tom Cruise play Jack Reacher might have Oh gosh, check Reacher. I think I'm wrong, but I'm gonna guess porn star. I think I'm wrong, Francine. I think I'm wrong. You

are correct, Yes, you are on a roll. I'm skipping this one because, come on, Rocky bal Boner, I'm not I'm not saying that one. I'm not saying that one. No base for the Mets, And yeah, I'm skipping him. Come on, that's ridiculous. All right. Your final one, mister Stanford, would be Ryan Driller. Oh, Ryan Driller. Oh, that's a good one. That's you know what I'm going. I'm going porn star on that one. Ryan Driller is indeed a porn star. There you go, although he could have been

a middle reliever somewhere. I'm sure at some point you know your stuff. That was really good, but you as you stipped your games up with the Compared to the last show in Francine, I will say that was very good. I read in the I read in the newspaper that you didn't know Rusty stopped the last time you played this game. I read that we made the sheet. I

didn't know a lot of things last time. I'm trying to like listen to the last name and like put it into a scenario, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it's the biggest pop came from Pete Lacock. So the next week I had to bring the Pete Lacock baseball card. Do indeed show this was a baseball player? Oh god, that's well. There was a guy by the name of Dick. Is in you who played for the Astro? No, get

out of here. Could you imagine going to school with a name like that, like, please call me Richard, Call me Richard, don't call me Dick Scott. Let's let's let's get her mind out of the gutter. And that's true. I forgot why I was here exactly. Let's put you over a little bit. Seven time Emmy Winner. Really that you're gonna bring my talk? Well you mean you mean this? He hasn't, Scott? Do you have seven of those in your house? Oh? My god? Can you juggle with them?

That's why he wanted the wide shot. That's why he wanted the wide shot. You want to go wide shot if you want? My goodness? Yeah, that's impressive. Now you are you a married man, Scott? Unfortunately? Yes, Fan, I was gonna say, do you use them as lever? Do you use them as leverage with your wife to get action? Because well, listen, every time I walk into my bedroom. I say, hey, baby, you ever sleep with a seventh time Emmy winner? And she goes, no. He says no,

and I'm still not. Oh well, she she goes, what's going on? Hell? How do we win seven Emmys in a lifetime? I think back when we had our kids. I only had four at the time, so that was probably the last time. No, you know what, I listen. I've been a sports and news anchor here in New York, yes, for since about two thousand and three, okay, and you know every year they have the Emmy Awards, and I've

I've won seven. I've won one for the morning show that I used to do with my partner Suki who we have our show at night now, and I won six others for on cap the be the best sports anchor in New York on camera perform. I love that. That's well, you're very charismatic. I could I could just tell by the little conversation we had. That's that's impressive. And I've I've never won a Slammy Award though in my life. That's something that's never happened. Well, I think

an Emmy Trump's a Slammy. You're better off with the Emmy. How did you get involved in the sports world so to speak? Now you started doing the commentating for the news and right right, no, I I basically everything kind of felt, you know, you have you have to. We had this conversation of a day on our show with Kevin Eubanks used to be the Tonight Show director musical director. Right.

You know, it's you could have all the talent in the world, but just like WWE, it's always good to have a little luck to get yourself in a position to you know, show off those talents. Uh. And I just happened to, you know, I had a friend call me about doing sports one day, and I ended up doing sports on the radio here in New York, which led to me doing sports on TV for the Fox station, uh and the UPN nine station, which is how I

kind of got into WWE. And then just you know, when you're in broadcasting, you constantly move from you know, you move up, you move up, you move up till

till you get to a certain level. Uh. And I've been on a bunch of different stations here in New York, you know, as a sports reporter, sports anchor, and it's just once, you know, once once you get on the air, it's always easier to get a job somewhere else while you're on the air, you know, because in this business with with w W as well, you got to you gotta be on to stay relevant, right and once you're out of sight, out of mind. Uh, there's so many

things going on right now. If you don't stay present, people will just kind of forget about you. So you know, I kind of slowly moved up here here, a little more money here, a little better position here. Uh, And that's really how it worked out. And I just did this. I always wanted to be a game show host or me and Gene Oakerland love it. Okay. So the sports,

the whole sports thing just kind of fell into my lap. Uh. People always say, oh man, you must be watching sports all day long, and you know the short answer is no, watching porn all day in between WWE. So it's listen, you know, I have a little time for sports. I watched the highlights like everybody else, and then I report on it. My favorite is Jeene Rayburn from Oh I Love Geene Rayburn. I love him in his long microphone, long mic good Enough and Charless and Riley that show

is like the best. I'd agree with you on game shows. I would love to be a game show host. The best beverage. Since I saw Bob, Bob Barker always hung around with the beautiful women, Dianne Parkinson and all those with jan right they were he had an affair, I got to be this guy. Oh yeah, I think Bob Bob slept with all of them. Well, I know Diane Parkinson or whatever her name is, that she admitted that

she had an affair with mister Barker. Yeah, So how do you go from you know, you mentioned a little bit you started on the sports How do you go from there to getting a job with w w F at the time or w w A. Did they contact you or were you trying to get into the company. Well, here's the funny thing. I was the sports ager Fox and UPN. We're together here in New York, Okay, So I was the sports guy at both stations. SmackDown about eleven years ago, because I've been here for eleven years now,

SmackDown Friday Night. SmackDown came to the UPN network, if you recall, and once it came to the UPN network, you know, whenever something starts off, you make a big deal about it. So they wanted a guy, and I'm in the New York area closest to WWE. They wanted a guy who can go out and do feature pieces for all the news programs that would come on at

ten o'clock after SmackDown. SmackDown's on from eight to ten on Friday nights, ten o'clock to eleven o'clock was all the local UPN newscast that would come on in all the markets, right, So they wanted it. So how do you keep that? How do you keep that audience it's watching Friday night SmackDown? You put a little t's into the show coming up on the UPN nine news at ten. You know hul Cogan caught with his pants down in Florida,

you know, or the Bella Twins or something. So I was the guy who worked with WWE on all those feature pieces. I would so, let's say WWE was at Madison Square Garden. I would go to the garden. We would set up like ten interviews, the big Show and all the you know, seeing all those guys CM punk at the time. They would come into a room with me and I would literally sit and do like a five minute interview with each superstar. Okay, so now you have five pieces in the can. For the next five

weeks of shows. You would put together a piece with b roll and video and this and that, so you know, coming up after after SmackDown on the upn nine news. You know CM Punk's favorite, you know, Hobby blah blah blah,

we'll have it coming up after the you know. So it was kind of a way to keep that SmackDown audience on Friday nights, to stick with the news coming up after smack because it's a totally different demographic of course, right for folks who are going to watch the news, so they wanted to try and hook the people who are wrestling fans. So anyway, long story short, I was the guy working with WWE to do all these pieces, so it was almost like I worked for them already.

I had all these I had all these videos and me interviewing everybody and doing pieces at WrestleMania and this and that and this and that. So when the time came, I got a call from the PR guy said, hey, we're looking for a new studio host. Vince Saw. They narrowed it down from three hundred tapes. Vince narrowed it down to three. He hated the three that we showed him. Put together a quick and we'll show it to Vince.

They showed my demo to Vince. He said, get this guy up, get this guy up here, and that was that. I went up. I auditioned with Joey Styles. Remember I love how can I forget? Yeah? Yeah, he took me through a little audition process. We called a few matches together and did a few things, and I did a couple of pretend interviews and here I am eleven years later. I basically you know, I'm still still going strong. People.

It's funny because once in a while on Twitter, I'll when I do a kickoff show for a pay per view, people are like, I didn't even know this guy's still at the company. Yeah right, especially in this day and age. Right, I'm like, oh, I appreciate that, but yeah, so's It's

been eleven years and in this pandemic. I've been doing all the kickoff pay per view pre shows as well, because everything's done right in Stanford, Connecticut, right And next Saturday I'm doing the NXT kickoff show with Sam Roberts again and you know, we got Summer Slam coming up, and I've been doing this week in WWE forever and it's just been great. I love it. I still love it. Every day is like the first day for me. See, And that's what you mean. You need to love what

you're doing or else you're going to be miserable. We say that all the time. Yeah, And it's interesting because I always say, you never know who's watching always, you know what I mean? So you here you are, You're on a local network news, and then they see you, and then you get this opportunity to do their show as well. Yeah, you're double dipping. You're here there, And you know what's funny. I've worked at NBC four here

in New York. I was the news anchor It Picks eleven here in New York, the morning show host WWE. Never I never missed a day. It never interfered with anything I was doing. There were times where I was doing a Monday night Raw pre show and a Tuesday night SmackDown pre show with Booker and Corey and Otunga.

I would do my five and six o'clock newscast. I jump on the train at Grand Central up to Connecticut, for a seven o'clock show, seven to eight o'clock we would do, Yeah, we would do the pre show, hang out after, have a little dinner, I jump into a car, they take me back down for the ten o'clock news. So my Mondays and Tuesdays were pretty hectic. But it's it's none of it's like working for me exactly. It's so much fun. I love doing it. Nothing is like

work for me. Were you a wrestling fan growing up? I was? I was. I was. I used to walk around the house pretending I was mean Jean. Yeah, at a child. As a child, so you didn't want to be a wrestler, you wanted to be mean Gene Okerland. I always wanted to be mean Gene. I always loved Vince when he was the you know, the commentator on the side of the ring, back when I was watching

on the Spanish stations when I was a kid. And when my brother, who's still a cameraman to this day, he got his first like camquarder back in the day, those giant things they used to sell. When he got his first camp corder, the first thing we did was put me in front of like one of those old wrestling advertisement posters, you know, Pedro Morales and Brunos San Martina. Yeah, and I was literally all right, ladies and gentlemen, this

Monday night haul Cogan, Oh forget it, I am. And then when I got to meet me and Jane and work with him, it was you know, it was just a thrill for me. That's adorable. You should have taken that footage if you still had it, and I have it on your highlight reel. Oh, I love that. I want to see that. That's so cute. I have it if I actually I have it on my phone. I wish I would. I could have emailed it to you could have played it. Follow you after on Twitter. I want to keep I want to I like to follow

up a guest and see what I love. Like something. I love Justin Roberts, who I'm sure you know, good friend. Yeah, he's a he's a great guy. I love him to death. And I love how he always puts up like his pictures when he's a kid with and then and then you see him in the ring. Yeah. My dad used to take us here in New York to the Westchester County Center. Yeah. I think I've worked there. You probably have always one of the stops. It's a little, tiny,

small little venue in west Work there. I'm sure when I was a little kid, we used to see like Andre the Giant and Ivan Putski would be there, and I just happen to have this. Look at there's all that's Andre. I don't know who's on it could be doctor Dave Schultz. I don't even know. I can't tell, but it looks like they just weren't tights because Schultz

would have had the single that's amazing. There's Andre that was at the Westchester County Center and I always remember had the shirt that said Polish Power for Ivan Putski and I love it. We were big fans. I love that venue. That's always been one of my favorites. I saw shows there many times. It's a that's a It's an interesting one because they run conventions there. I think the Westchester Knicks play there. It's like it can do it, can do it all. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we ran there.

The name is ringing a Bell. It's sad. I don't remember much these days. I think because I hit my head so many times. My memory is when were you there? Did I ever see you backstage? Or because I worked for w W in two thousand. I did two thousand and five The One Light Stand for You, and then in two thousand and six I had signed a contract for the new The Fake w is what I right,

fake whatever you want. It didn't live up to expectations, but I was there for about six months and then I got the good old we have nothing for you. I got you, okay. No, I started. I started in nine. Yeah, I was gone, Yeah, okay, I was already pregnant and having my first shot. And listen, and now in the pandemic, right we're all shooting in our homes. I'm gonna take my camera. Here's here's my WWE set right over here.

Oh god, that's awesome. I got my posters. So I sit in front of those, okay, And you got a nice little set there, and I do all my shows from there. So it's, uh, it's great. And when it's nice that obviously I'll do it. Like in my backyard. So there's it opens up. You see some trees. But back in in March, when we first started doing the you know, the pandemic hit and the weather wasn't nice. I stole a few posters from the from headquarters I got myself a nice little set. Look that's gonna come

out of your paycheck the warehouse. That's funny. Do you have a fevered interview of anything anything? Oh? Boy, god, you know what. Someone asked me this the other day. And I've done so many I mean, I've met so many celebrities, so many athletes. Even the show that we've been doing, uh, the Suki and Scott Show, which is on Facebook Live every night. You know, it's kind of like the Tonight Show. We have celebrities and entertainers. So

we'll have a celebrity uh. You know, we had Taylor Dane on the other night, Lisa Much singing, We're dancing, you know, George Lopez and god, you know, doing the Morning Show in New York, you'd be on the set doing a story and in the commercial break, a celebrity would just come walking in, you know, like Cheryl from Charlie's Angels, and I'm like, oh my god, I used to have your poster on. Wow, that's awesome. Yeah, there's so many of them. I can't even can't even you know, say, oh,

I have a favorite that I've done. There are favorite people, like in sports that I loved working with right right athletes who were always you know, a little nicer than others. But it's just a god, I've done so many I don't even I couldn't even come up with a name for you. Let's reverse it. And you don't have to answer this because I never answer it. Do you have anyone that you despised that was so hard to interview that they just didn't want to be there? Not hard

to interview? Uh, there are some people that I and I don't despise a lot of people. There are some I do despise, mostly sports stars, because you know, I had a chance to be in the locker rooms with everybody for a long time, right, and people always used to say to me, Oh, that must be so cool. You're in the Yankee locker room with Jeter and a Rod and all these gain and the Giants and stray Hand and all these And I said, you know what

to be at the start, it was very cool. Now in my career it's how quick can I get in and how quick can I get out? I want to get out, But yes, there are I could. There are a couple of people who I just think are kind of like dbs, if you know, what I'm saying, Okay, and you don't have to name names, you know, at this point in the game, like I don't heal anyone because why bother? Right, it doesn't right, it doesn't matter.

But even even when I see them like on Twitter, I'm like, you just you just want to you just want to clock them in the head, you know, you know, you know, right, And the thing is, you know, and I've seen it firsthand, you know. There they are athletes,

not really celebrities, but athletes. These guys make so much money and they are they're in a world that we will never know unless you win the lottery, You'll never know what it's like to be an athlete and pampered and not paying for anything and treated like you are absolute royalty and you and you're still a putts, you

know what I mean. You still act like the weight of the world is on your shoulders with all the things going on around you in the world and people who are suffering, and you've got a life of a king, and you're still you're still a dB, you know what I mean. And I look it up. If you don't know what that means, people, Yeah, yeah, just initials, just initials. Understood. Well, I think you're delightful. I'm so happy to meet you.

There's so many people in this business I've never met, So anytime we get like somebody I haven't met before and they're nice, I pop because because you know, some people can be dbs as well. That's what I'm saying is there's no reason not to be nice. It's like, what's the what's the point? You know? Well, some people are just miserable in life and they're being change. But you're delightful and and I wish you the best of luck.

Do you have any questions? No? I mean I talked to Scout a couple of months ago, right after me Jean passed away, and he kind of told, you know, the whole story about like kind of what he was saying. But you know, I'll throw one actually, just you know, from the the kind of the studying factor. When talking to mean Gene, you know, and seeing his style it was so different. I see a lot of the elements in you because you had that classic kind of like

look and sound. Whatever. Do you ever go back to watch any of the old stuff from older guys, to not even just wrestling, older announcers, just to kind of borrow, you know what traits if I if I see well, listen. The funny thing is the what was it the last pay per view I did with Peter Rosenberg. We did

the kickoff show to not Money in the Bank. I think Extreme Rules was the last one, right, Extreme Rules before Summer Slant, and I literally opened the show as the camera's pushing in, I'm like, you know, in the words of mean Gene Oakland, all right, ladies and gentlemen, come on in. Yes, yeah, and I'll just and a lot of folks, a lot of folks have written me, especially when I first started, they said that I reminded them of mean Gene, probably because as I probably acted

just like him. And I'm just so used to doing it now, you know, all right, ladies and gentlemen, you know, but he was Listen. The great thing about him back when is that he was still the announcers. The interviewers were part of the shtick back then and part of the show. And he was as big a part of of of any segment as anybody. And he you know,

he made half of those segments. And listen, he turned the macho man and Haul Cogan interviews into something special, whereas today it would have just been you know, my guest at this time, come on in, and the and the and the the superstar speaks and then they walk away.

Back then, it was just he was such a part of the stick that you just mean, Gene was a character, and so you know, like Bobby the Brain and Jesse Ventura when those guys were announcing and Guerrilla Monsoon, the announcers were all characters of the show and it was just all part of of the one group, you know what I mean. But it's just I love it. I love the whole thing. We just did a thing last week for our Patreon about bloopers. Was it last week

or two? It was two weeks ago? What it doesn't mean? And I love when Jeane is interviewing Sid and a lot and we're a live pal that is my favorite. Mean Gene, he says, can we do this again? He's like, oh, we're a lot? You know, this bops be huge every time I watch it. But you know what it is, though, I just like what I love about Scott's approach is that the one thing that I look at when I watch announcers and being broadcasting on such a minor level.

It's the act like you've been there, model, and like you look like you've been in front of the camera for fifty years. You're you know you you're so comfortable and and it's a lost art. But no, but it's a lost art where I feel like there's a lot of the kind of the modern day sports announcer is more in the fan approach, and you got to act like you've been there. Me and Jeane he could have been out drinking half the guys at the bar because

he didn't he was there, you know. And that's a big thing that I feel it's lost in broadcasting as a whole, is you got to be as big as that guy who's making one hundred million dollars. That's that's really a lost art, right, You can't, right, you never listen as big as these people are all you never. Oh my god, I'm so excited to interview. You know. It's just hey man, I'm just as I'm just as big as you are. We're both here together. Let's have

a fun conversation. You're not going to do anything to throw me off. And it's just you know, I tell the young kids today, it's all about practice, practice, practice, you want to look comfortable in front of that camera. If you're reading a prompter, you don't want to make it seem like you're reading a prompter. You have that

that's an art in itself. And the mirror, yeah, right right, practice in the mirror, practice with the radio, and it's one of those things where you know, to me, it's almost like I've never been big on on drugs, even college or whatever, but to me, when I'm on television, that's like my high. Yeah, when you're a live show, When you're doing a live show where you're sitting out there at a WWE on the side of the ring, whatever it is, you're not thinking of the bills you

have to pay or any troubles in your life. It all goes away for that time being and it's just, you know, it's it's great. But yeah, practice, practice, practice gets you comfortable in front of the camera amazing, and it gets you to Carnegie Hall too. So's there you go. Well, Scott, as I said, delightful. I enjoyed our time together here. I am going to follow you as soon as we are done everything because you're charming and I like you. Thank you so much. I need more Scott in my life,

so I'm going to do that. Can you tell the people where you can be found and what you're doing. Yeah, listen at Scott Stanford One is my Twitter and and most of the stuff I put up is just funny stuff. The Suki and Scott Show on Facebook is the show we've been doing every night. It's this great fun stuff on that show. And again we started it to help people through quarantine, something fun, non newsy, to get them through the night. Uh. Turned into almost a full time

thing for me now. But yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. And you could if you just search me on on Facebook. I got a few pages and if you if you go look Francine, you'll see all the clips that I have up from even doing sports and news in New York. It was always about having fun and entertaining an audience rather than that same you know, here's the news, here's the bad news, Good night everybody. Yeah, I was always a sports guy for people who did

not like to watch sports. He's reeling in everybody, and I love the style. Well, Scott, thank you so much for joining us today. Continued success to you, and hopefully down the line we will meet face to face because back so you'll have to come on my show. We'll do a rematch of Porn Stars and Basebook. I would love that. That would be. I gotta get her. I gotta work on her a little bit. I gotta help her. I gotta I gotta have flash cards and stuff any money up and then we'll be ready. So just when

you need me, I'll be there. Take care, Scott, Thank you great, Thank you guys. You know I sound I sound like a brother. That's what I'm trying to I'm trying to make sure we got some lighting up when the house at the time had to help with the setup, whether it's lighting, recording anything from top to bottom. So

that that was what was cool about that. So the the crew is on the zoom call and we're sitting there and there talking right before we shot him out a day before we did time like a run through of here's the house, here's what we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that. So he wrote me a a little like little little side. You know, it was like that he couldn't use the Man of Steel, that's my ga nick name. But because obviously, you know, he didn't want to get sued righted in my best so they

came up with yeah. Yeah. So he came up with the Bringer of Pain. So I was like, all right, let's roll with it. And here it sounds sounds very eaties all start put on the red and yellow wall about it. How can we make this very wrestling like? I'm like, well, we'll tell me what you want to do. I was like, the first thing that came to mine was I was like, I need a chair because first he's like, can you drop an elbow on the grand craftics.

I was like, you're going to jump. I think you to jump, but do you want to do like a dusty elbow? And he was like, what's the dutsy? I'm like, I get a better I mean, I've got a better idea. I got a better idea. Let me let me try this chair. And once I did the chat, I loved it because it was just weird. They see the grand practice flying everywhere, but that was my fancy your fly. It was definitely my idea and it was funny. Really,

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rough around the edges. Yeah, yeah, I didn't want to bring up when you said he was a wrestling Fanily, I never want to bring up wrestling to these people because for me, it kind of looks like, Hey talk about me because I was in wrestling, Like, I don't want to do that. I never want to do that. But about to join us here on the air, I'm very very happy to welcome in the host of the Everybody Is Awful podcast, the comedian, the legion, one and only,

mister Jim Florentine, joining us today. Jim, I'm so excited to have you on, really, I am. We were just talking about it, and you know, I I do a lifestyle podcast, right but we had mostly like wrestling people on and it's so refreshing to have somebody that's not in the wrestling business and that, like I know, from another genre of life. So I'm super excited to have you on today. And I know a little about wrestling.

My kid got me back into I was a big wrestling fan when I was a kid, Okay, and then he, you know, I got I was out of it for a long time and then he got me back into it. So, okay, is he a WWE fan? Yeah, But you know I got him into the other stuff. I got him in the you know, he had the WWE app so he's watching the old ec W stuff and him can you tell him I'm not really a slut like in real life. I'm a good person. It's a character. He's only nine. I don't know if he knows what that worn't you've

got okay, good, that's good. We had a couple of years. Wead a couple of years. When he's older, you can let him know. So how is your quarantine going? Like, have you been sequestering yourself or are you one of those people that have been out on the belt. No,

I mean I you know, I'm staying in. I visit a couple of friends here and there around the corner, but you know, wearing a mask, going to the store and just you know, yeah, you know, just obeying the you know, in New Jersey, we get we're the second hardest hit state. That's where I'm exactly exactly. I haven't been anywhere in like nine weeks. I got left my house. Sometimes I just got my car and drive. I never thought I'd be like that, you know, And I do

fifty five miles an hour to sixty five. I'm the guy in the slow lan. I'm like, I got nowhere to go. I just want to get out of the house. Yeah, So I had to take one ride because my car needed service and I like dropped the car off. I'd run into my husband's car and then came right home and then picked the car up. I didn't go anywhere else. And that's that's the most I've done. I haven't been to a store. My kids won't go to like for walks, because my daughter's like, we're going to get the krona.

I can't leave, can't leave the house. She's nine, she's ten, And that's sad. Yeah, that is yeah, it's really I'm trying to explain to them, like, not everybody has Corona walking around. You could take a walk, it'll be okay. But she's like, no, Mom, Corona's out there. I can't do it. I'm like, okay, well just stay home. So that's what we've been doing. But anyway, I've done some research on you and I have some ball of points Ione talk about. You're a Brooklyn boy. I got you up.

I was born in Brooklyn until about two or three years old, and then we moved into Jersey, so now Jersey really ties to Brooklyn, that's right, right, And you came from a huge family. You have six siblings, right, Yeah, the seven of us total Yeah, Irish Catholic. You know they are Irish Catholic. So do you ever get the

Catholic guilt when you're like doing something in entertainment? That's a little bit on the raunchy side, because because my mom used to always holler at me when I would work because of what I had to wear or if I said the F word or whatever, and the guilt got to me. Did it ever get to you or did you just say, oh, who cares? It did so I was about twenty one and then I didn't care anymore and you just didn't give a shit anywhere. I get it. It really messed with me up till that age.

I really thought I was going to go to hell for everything I did. I think that, like I still feel that way. I don't. You got to get it's a lot easier to life if you if you don't worry about it. You know, I spent half Yeah I need to just but my mom lives with us and she's ninety and she watches the Rosary every day. So she's always telling me, you're not going to church, you're not saying the Rosary with me, Something's going to happen.

You get the Catholic guilt, like literally in your living room, Like you can't get past the guilt. She it lives with me. I can't get over it. But I saw you were you were raised Catholic and some people are, you know, they have it and some people don't. So I'm glad you got out of it. You know. I got a nine year old boy, and I was like, I want to raise them Catholic. I'm like, all right,

I'm fine. He's not going to Catholic schools like I did, but I got him in those religion classes CCD and he's got to go for eight years, like grade one through eight, and I'm like, I could, I could teach the Catholic religion in an hour. You know what, That's interesting that you say that because I started, Uh, my daughter in Catholic school right now. She's going to the sixth grade. She had her communion and her reconciliation done. My son was always in a public school because he

had a praxia. He was a late talker and so I had to send him for services. So public schools good with services. But he's going into third grade and I didn't get him communion this year, and like, I'm again, I'm freaking out because I'm like, okay, second grade, you make your communion, Like what am I gonna do? We I stopped going to church because I'm having issues with the Catholic Church. So I'm like, oh my god, I have to get these kids, like their their communion, their

their pennant, everything, and I haven't. And that's another thing that's freaking me out, Like I don't want my kids to go to Hell because I didn't get them their their stuff, like so now I have to send them for eight years. I thought it was like one year and then they get it and it's done well because you have to like the I guess communion is like third grade, and then Confirmation is is like eighth grade. Yes, I thought maybe they could take a break and then

go back. Now no, no, it's the same thing like night school. You did go back after a little while. Like school. My whole up until twelfth grade, from kennerdarten to twelfth so I had everything done for me. I never did the public school system. I don't know. Yeah, so thanks Jim. I just but you know, it's great because in New Jersey now instead of going like every Tuesday, which they have to go for like an hour and a half to this religion class. They do it that

you can go for one week in the summer. It's almost like a summer camp for them. Wow. And it covers everything. Yes, And it goes from like eight in the morning or eight thirty to three thirty like a school day. Oh my god, I'm so doing that. He loves it. He's like, I love this camp. Like good we knock out just in one week. We get it over with. Oh, I'm going to look into that. Thank you. So I'm glad I brought this up. Okay, back to you and your and your stuff. Yeah. So when you

went to college, I read that you were like a DJ. Right, that was like one of your first things that you did. Did you think that that was going to be like your life goal or you were you just doing this because it was like something cool to do. Because I know later on you saw it Rodney Dangerfield Special and you saw Andrew Dice Clay and you said, oh, that looks cool. I maybe I want to do that. Am I right? Because this is what I'm reading online. I'm

trying to study you, so I know what I'm about. No, I was always in the music I was a big music fan. I was also a big comedy fan. All my friends were in bands growing up. Okay, so but and they were playing. I just couldn't play an instrument. I tried. So I'm like, I got to get in the business somehow. Maybe as a DJ, I could you know, at least I'll be kind of in show business, you know, a kind of band thing. Because I was like a

big rock and heavy metal guy eyn Moore. I was young, so I was like, maybe I could be like the heavy metal DJ in a rock club. So I was on the radio, like college radio, and I got this job at like a little small station as a DJed air, and I had my own DJ business. So I was doing that in the comedy okay. But then yeah, once but once I get on the radio and I realized I couldn't just say what I want to do and make jokes and become a personality unless you are Howard

Stern back in the day. You couldn't do that. I was like, God, this sucks. So I just started writing jokes because I'm like, I was writing jokes anyway to you know, make topical jokes on the air. And I was always a big comedy panicle. Let me try doing stand up maybe that's you know the job that it will work for me. And once I get up there, once I'm like, this is what I want to do. You got helped right away, right, just because I didn't.

I didn't have to worry about a boss. I could say whatever I want, I could wear whatever I want. I love that freedom. That's awesome. And then so you were doing stand up and then you started that Terrorizing Toe Marketers series. Yeah, okay, so I read that it was a CD, right, and I read that your ranking, I think it was on Amazon with something like two

hundred and eighty two thousand. You get on Howard Stern and you go to number two after a couple appearances, and like, yeah, and I would have went to number one by my website crash because I didn't have enough bandwidth. Well no, let's let's face it. Backstreet boys were really hot, and that's who is at number one. There were some credit to the Backstreet I know, I said, because yet they weren't too much men. But I really could have went to number one of my website didn't crash because

he was just sending everybody to my website. When he was plugging on the air, Howard Starn so everybody went there was listening to tracks and I didn't. I didn't. I didn't know about bandwidth or any of that crap, and it just crashed so nobody can listen. So I think that's why I got stuck at too, but I did. Yeah, I was at two hundred and eighty two thousand. It's amazing that number two. Those are amazing numbers, like the power of that show. And that's that's where I first

found you, was on Stern. Yeah. No, he gave me a big break, you know, by playing. He loved frank calls. He heard my calls. He's like, oh my god, who is this guy? We got to have men, you know, And then I just became a regular on the show just from that, just some Frank call CD. I didn't think it was going to go anywhere. I just made it up. I was just bored at home during the

day because I was a comic. I didn't have anything to do until I had a showed that night, so I would just try to keep telling marketers on the phone, just to mess with them. It's hilarious. Yeah, I got I gotta stop for one second the record the what what the what? The record? Yeah, and then you put him back on the phone. Put him? Is that the first time I heard that? I think I shipped my pants that was sitting in front of it. Yeah, that

was I got to tend to call. I had this guy because look, I know, we telemarketers are just trying to They're sticking to the script. They can't go off script. So I just keep messing with them. And they're like, I did get rattled, you know, because they have you know, ten people in a row going f you don't ever call here again, you know what I mean, you lose

my number. Now they do not call us, and they finally get something in the phone like me, like, all right, this guy's being being stupid or an idiot, but he's still on the phone. I might have a sale here. Well, Daniel, but Daniel back, I did that for a living, you did, I did? I did listen to this. I did accidental death and dismemberment and show. Oh Jesus, no one wanted it.

And I don't blame them because, like I remember, port of the script was if you get run over by a bus and you lose a limb and everybody's like, well, why would I get run over by a bus? Like I'm never gonna need this insurance. But you have your like your superior hanging over you saying keep reading, keep reading. Yeah, so they they push you to keep going. I was

hung up on so many times. So I mean, if I had someone like you on the other end, like going back and forth with answer, I mean, that would be that would make my night. Because no one ever wanted to talk to me. I always knew, like you, you know, they got a supervisor liston. Instead of don't curse or tell them you don't want the product, they stay on the line with you, which is great. So I had that advantage. I never cursed. And then I I you know, I still string along. I'm just trying

to get the information whatever I was doing. So I never said I didn't want the product, and I would just keep it clean. And I know I keep on the phone. That's hilarious. Now do you remember Ian from the Stern Show? Oh? Absolutely not now, not you. I'm asking Jim if you remember said Ian? You said you remember? I said, do you remember Ian? I'm asking Jim? Wait too long? Oh no, no, no, no, I see I

worked at Stern. It was about five. I don't remember crossing passages when I worked paths how long I was there from about the end of the summer five through getting onto serious about mid oh six. What did you do for the show? So I worked back work backstage quote, I worked in the office. I was working basically in like his promotions department. But then I was working at

his office in his building, like his personal office. So he probably wouldn't have seen me where I was stationed, but I was hooked the first time I heard yes see when you said you had a picture of Jim, I thought, oh, yeah, no, I got it from one of the comedy shows, because whenever he would come down to Macgoobi's, I'd showed up to mcgoobies from where where I live in Virginia is the only place that he's been to in like a one hundred mile radius in me.

And I got a picture signed after I got a couple of DVDs and nice night out with the wife, and you know that's where I got the picture. So you're saying that I was still going on the show back then, because I remember I was there the last day when he did his last day regular radioh Yeah, that was the greatest day of my life. That was unbelievable. That day I carried the outdoor Yeah, I carried the tickle chair. In the line of the march to the

new building. I carried the tickle chair. Yeah, I remember he marched over the serious Yeah, I was there. He actually mentioned my name and his speech like I want to thank Jim for his brank calls. I was like, holy, I can't believe he mentioned his name and I like that closing speech. So that was a great day. Well, it was. It was a great opportunity for you. He I mean, he really helped you out with you know

this this Telemarketers CD. When you released the second one, that's when you caught the eye of Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla for crank Yanchors, Right, is that what they contact you? Yeah? Well they were big fans of the Stern Show, so they would they would listen every day, and Adam Bothlan was sitting in, you know, on the show, just like a bunch of other comics people were already already lying got the full time gig there, so they heard my stuff. I never met him, and they didn't

know who I was like, who is this dude? We got this Frank call show. We want him on our show because he heard him on from Howard sterned playing them. Okay, so that was the only unknown comic they picked for that show that you know, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Crawl, they were already doing The Man Show at the time, so they're really popular. Then they got Sarah Silverman, Dave Chappelle, Tracy Morgan wanted the Sykes. I was. I was the only comic that was pretty much unknown that got that gig,

which is great. Did you come up with like special Adam and the Bobby Fletcher character yourself? Yeah, I was doing a special ed on my on my CDs and then it was just me but a different name. It's just my voice and a different name, just being a dick basically they were and I felt again, there's my Catholic. I felt bad laughing at the special Ed character. It's so amazing, but it was hilarious. Those characters were so great. That led you to working with Eminem and how was he?

He was great? You know. We found that through a grapevine that Eminem was a big fan of Crank Anger. Some we're like, really, we never know who's watching you. We never knew because the show didn't really take off the first season, but they guaranteed us a second season. Okay, they give it a shot, and then you know, we're like it's gotten really no traction and we got called win that Eminem like the show like wow, you know, yeah, we didn't think it got out that far, like as

so many people could watch it. I guess he used to watch it with his daughter. You know, that was their favorite show. And his daughter's like, how come you're not on that show? Dad. He's like, well I will. I'll just make a phone call im Eminem, I could do whatever I want. And he was always making prank calls on his old CDs anyway, so he was a big prank call guy. So actually I know, you know he's on we go to you know, Detroit, to his eight mile studio and record a bunch of calls that

he liked the characters I did. So we did a whole day of phone calls. It was amazing. He was a great dude. Wow. And and at this time, are you hosting that metal show or that did that come? Like afterwards? That was afterwards that started in this is around two thousand three, two thousand four, So you're you're you're doing your stand up, you're doing crank anchors, you're doing your your telemarketing things, and then you get back to the metal scene and you get to host this

and that was on VH one Classics. Yeah. VH one actually started two thousand and eight. Yeah, VH one Classic Okay, two thousand and eight to twenty fifteen. We did it for seven years. That's that's incredible, did you Yeah? I guess you enjoyed it because that's your jounder, right. The metal that's what I like growing up, especially Catholic. I was always getting in trouble. I was always grounded. I had to stay in so I just made prank phone calls because I was bored, and I would listen to

heavy metal because I had to. All the brothers, So that's all. My whole childhood was that. So when I get back on TV, is you know, doing prank calls and then co hosted a heavy metal show. I was fans of all those bands anyway. I was a big music fan anyway, So I didn't it was a unbelievable gig.

I would have done it for free, right. I was just gonna say, like, what was the moment, like your your biggest markout movement, Like when you you get to meet all these bands, right, what was the Who were the one band that you were like, holy shit, I cannot believe I'm interviewing these people. I think it was like I think it was the first season we did Angus Young and Brian Johnson. They were in New York promoting an album. We did an interview with them. I

just could not believe I was in Angus's presence. See, that's that's great when you get to do stuff like that, and it's become a time capsule too, because I mean guys that have passed away and those kind of casual like environment that you guys had, those are like unprecedented interviews at this point. They're like metal history at this point. Yeah, we had We had Ronnie James Deal on the show twice before he passed away, you know, and stuff like

so we had a lot of those guys. Janey Lane from War was on the show like two weeks ago before we unfortunately passed away too. So then I read that you won an Emmy for Inside the NFL and the thing. And I don't know if this is true or not, but it's said that you used your your emmy as leverage to get girls into bed. Is that? Of course? Are you admitting that to me? Yeah? And it worked, it worked well, yeah, you know, I think

I think they closed the deal probably really. You know, some girls impressed that I got guy's got an Emmy, like, wow, I can't leave it. I'm like, yeah, I just got it from working on the show I did. It was really an Emmy. But yeah, I think I had to pull that out if I wasn't, like, I don't know if this is going to work or not, you know, if I'm going to close the deal with this girl, so let me bring up the Emmy. So it's not your stunning personality or good looks at your mmy? Is that? Yeah?

It was sometimes that that's what I needed. I needed. It's just like, you know, someone's showing off. Like I didn't really have too much to show off, but I could show that off, right. No, I read it and I thought it was funny, and so I'm just trying to break your balls. But yeah, no, it's just like it So it's great, it's the guy. It's like the guy that puts the smart books out before a girl comes over his apartment, Like, yeah, like he reads those books.

You know he doesn't. But she's like, oh wow, this guy's educated. Oh yeah, I love those kind of books. It just I just love a good book. That guy's b s and two he's an intellectual. Yeah, yeah, I love this. Or you know, she goes, why don't we watch your Dance with the Stars. You know, I didn't really like that at first, but I tuned in one. It's a pretty good show. He's just lying. You're just

adapting to your environment, is what you're doing. So I was like, all right, I'll blog because it's a real emmy. It wasn't like it was plastic. I mean, I really did get it. But imagine she picks it up. It's very lightweight. There's no weight to it. Oh my goodness. Tell me a little bit about Meat de Crease. That was a hidden camera series that me and my buddy

Don Jamison did. We just go around with a hidden camera and we decided to do it on our own, and then Comedy Central took a liking to it, so we did a pilot. Comedy Central used to have a broadband channel in their net channel, so they put the show on there. Stuff that was a little too edgy for the actual network. That's what they said. It was deemed too mean spirited. Yeah, give me an example of what you mean by mean spirited. What the what's the

meanest thing that you've done with someone? Well, you know the thing what our stuff was, we didn't at the end, like impractical joke. There's a lot of shows we didn't show to reveal like hey, we're just joking like oh you got me? Oh whatever like that. Yeah, our yeah, pump, like our stuff just faded to black, and you were like, what happened? I didn't like them to sell. I'm just going to go, whoa, that was okay? What do you think One time we took I want to hear something funny?

All right, this is what we did. We took we had girlfriends and we took flowers off someone's grave and gave to our girlfriends and filmed it and they were all excited. Whatever. We filmed that, and then by two weeks they were that we got them flowers. And then two weeks later, when we edited that footage was taking off the grave given it to them. We showed them where we got the flowers from. Okay, my girlfriend thought it was funny because she had a sixth sense of humor.

And Don's girlfriend broke up with him. She was so mad. You know who didn't find that funny? Jesus, Jesus. Yes, if I worried about that, that was okay. I remember one time I did stand up on George Lopez when he had that light night talk show, right and I did a penis joke, something about my penis I they get and my mother watched it. How could you make a joke like that. Your niece that's eleven years old is watching. I go, I go, Mom. When I write jokes, my eleven year old niece is not in my mind.

If it is, I wouldn't be a comic. So I don't worry about that stuff. So yeah, And people in your family must have to have a very thick skin if you incorporate them, you know, into your act, Like did any did anybody ever like take word with you, like, oh my god, I kiple you said that about me? Or are they cool with it? Well, if they come to see me, I would just drop those jokes that night.

Oh no, no, never. And then my girlfriend too, if I had new girlfriend jokes, if I had a girlfriend at the time, if she was in the back of room, I just skipped those jokes that night. Yeah, because I did them. You would have to win another animy to get her in the bed, and that's not yeah yeah, on the way home. Yeah I got that's hilarious. I'd always tell my girlfriend, I go listen, I'm just this is my work. I'm just bitching about you at my work,

just like you do at your job. You bitch about me at your job the things I do, so I just have a bigger audience for we're doing the same thing. Yeah. I like if I was your wife or girlfriend, I would let you say whatever you want it about me because I never, like, even when I worked, I never took offence. Like the guys would come up and say, do you mind if I call you this? I say,

you can call me whatever you want. I don't care, right, Like, I know we're friends and we're acting out there, so you have the floor like I Well, they took it. You know, I've been called every name in the book, but it never bothered me. You know, I think it's funny, right, It's a nightclub thing. It's a it's an arena thing, it's a wrestling thing. So you just go now to my night That's what I do at night. That's my job. And when I'm doing today, I'm normal. My friend was

nervous about that meeting. Is I mean my son meeting his teachers. He's like that, I don't curse, don't be inappropriate. I don't I know how to act like. I don't go in there cursing and saying the airport every third word. When I go meet your teacher, I know how to act in public. I met at a nightclub at night. It's different, right, you take on a different character. Oh

that's hysterical. You're going to walk into to the you know, the school and do your stand up in front of his new teacher or something like these kids are crazy. How about your your podcast comedy Metal Midgets. I understand the comedy, I understand the metal. Where do the midgets come in? You know? I just needed three words for some reason, like you don't kicked it out of the air well for I do a show on on Serious XM and Aussie's Boneyard and the hard Rock Channel. It's

called Metal Midgets. Because I want to medal in the title. They said, you come up with a name for your show, So I'm like metal and everything else was taken metal whatever, So I said metal midgets. It flows who else have metal midgets? And and I want to call my podcast comedy metal Midges because there's more of comedy. But now I change it to everybody is awful but okay? So that okay, but the midges doesn't mean anything. I just drew it in there just to throw it in. I

thought it was clever anyway. And did you say I liked it? Did you say you had something that you wanted to bring up? Yeah? I wanted to just say. So the podcast, which I'm a huge fan, I haven't been listening to basically for the whole time you've been doing it, just moving over to barstool in the last six months or so now. My wife and I have

been contributors to the podcast on many occasions. I've told you this and the other interviews that we've done, but you actually went as far as to say that my wife was the female you with one of our submissions that we sent, because she sounds so angry sometimes with what she sends in to you from these mom Facebook groups and stuff that that we submit, that you actually refer to my wife as the female you and that was a huge badge of honor for this household name.

It's either comes up as lit or Elizabeth, and I know who you're talking about. Yeah, oh dude, she yeah, And you even responded to her one night. You must have been at a show backstage or something, and it was on a Friday night and she sent you like two or three in a row, and then she was like, I'm really sorry for like sending all these to you, and you wrote back like, no, no, this is great, this is this is awesome stuff because she's got a

lot of anger and she's got some good content. I'm always fascinated, Like it's mostly my show is more for guys, you know, I'm just bitching about whatever, and I make fun of everybody, including women on it, and yeah, I get it, it's not for everybody. But while I'm always fascinating when I got to know the woman that send them emails, how annoyed they are by these Facebook moms and all the goofy stuff that they do, and I'm all fascinated by it. And I know there's only about

six of them that send those emails. Oh yeah, yeah, she she sends gold I mean stuff that. And we actually we did one of our Patreon episodes we did like kind of like a tribute, and we did a similar thing, and she came on and read some of the ones that she would, you know, kind of pull and send you. I mean, and it's just ridiculous the

stuff that's going on. And now with all this coronavirus stuff and the corniness with people doing school and the principal's office and all this shit, it is like it's got you, dude. You have like six months of material just based off of like one month of coronavirus. Yeah. I was trying to stay away from metaphors like that, but then after a while, in my god, at least I'm not making fun of the coronavirus. I'm just making fun of the corniness that's going around, Like, you know,

people having drinks at home and call them quarantinees. You know, it's like you don't want to gain any weight. You don't want to gain the COVID nineteen you know. Yeah, yeah, have you been trying to like, I know nothing's open yet, but do you have any dates coming up that you're going to be doing stand up because like for me,

like all of my conventions have been like canceled. And there's a couple that I have later in the year that they're teetering, like they don't know because you take pictures with fans and it's hard to do like a picture with the six feet It's like, hey, how you doing over there? Like do you have anything coming up that you think is going to like go through? Well, tomorrow night, I'm doing a show down in Atlantic City, New Jersey. They're doing these driving County shows. Oh where what?

I don't It's in a parking lot in Atlantic City. I don't know exactly where yet they're going to give me, but they've done it for like the last four weeks. People pay and they rig the sound system up in your car like an old drive in movie, and you sit in your car and the audio and you're on like a flatbed truck standing there doing it and they beat the horn when they like a joke. Oh my goodness,

love that. That's great because I always wanted to see you at We're gotta where God is like my place, like I love we one never got I'm doing that Creezy of Kids tour. You know, we're supposed to do it out in April, Me, Robert Kelly, rich Foss, and Ron Bennington would do it. Got rescheduled to uh I think the night before Halloween would do to Bargotta. Okay, well I might have to come and see you there

because I I yeah, I've been trying. We've been trying to catch you and Jim Brewer, and I could never. I can never get there because I have every two months, me and my girlfriend have a night out and we sleep over and we do Bergotta, and I try to plan it, but it never goes my way, and like when I get there, it's usually like some R and B person that I never heard of, and I'm like, I don't want to go see that. And we never go to a show, but I always wanted to see

stand up there. So I'm gonna keep my eyes open for when you go. Yeah, yeah, the day Gid reschedule. But I haven't been on stage in almost well since like March thirteenth, So tomorrow night I'm gonna try this thing. They've done it for like four weeks in a row. I'm like, I just want to get out there and just tell jokes. Again, it's going to be weird obviously in a parking lot with people sitting in their cars.

But yeah, but it's a brilliant idea. It gets Yeah, it's going to be weird for you know, if they like a joke, they're gonna be so I guess if they don't like it, they're not going to beat You're not You're gonna be crickets. Oh my god. Yeah. So if somebody goes over really well, they're just gonna hawk that horn for like five minutes. I know. I'm like,

all right, that's my that's my standing ovation. I guess you need a friend to come and just beat all the time, like yeah, the one, the one heckler that you know, but this will be like a good person and just beat the horn all the time. I like that it keeps everybody safe. What's that I just said? I love the concept because it just keeps everybody safe and you get to go do what you love. Yeah, and people, you know, people want to get out too,

And I've heard it's pretty successful. People just sitting in their cars, some of them have drinks and stuff like that and they just hang out like a drive in movie and they some of them have drinks and drive home afterwards. It's brilliant. But yeah, so you know, whatever I do, I haven't. I'm you know, I'm dying to get back up on stage. I'm sure you are, okay, So where can people find you online? I just followed you like two months ago. I'm on Twitter. You don't

post very often. Yeah, I just I don't like to mix it up with people and fight with people. You know what I mean? People fight. You can just put a nice quote up there everyone, so I know, because everything that he's talking about is what they're Everything he's making fun of is what they're talking about. So they'll just catch eye, you know, they'll they'll catch wind of it. Yeah. I know. I had social media people posting stuff and for me and then not saying it the way I say, like, well, Jim,

I can't believe you said this. I'm like, it's not me. Oh well, I'm sure you have tour dates and stuff. So where can they find you to find out where you're going to be? Yeah, Jim Florentin dot com on my Twitter is mister Jim Florence, and I post clips for my podcast. You know, each week. Okay, like one minute clips from it, like best of clips or whatever, so people go listen to podcasts. I don't like to deal with the nonsense with Twitter. Everybody's a baby. Everybody

takes it the wrong way. There's no tone. It's like I send it a text to your significant other. There's no tone in the text, so they take it the wrong way. It true. I just say I don't feel like fight with people that I don't know. Jim, I just found out that my ig my d ms are open.

I never I don't know how to use Instagram because I'm old, but I somebody wrote me a friend of mine, and so I clicked it and I read what they wrote and then I it said you have like a hundred messages or whatever, and it's all from fans, and so I read them for Patreon and they were really dirty. Oh yeah, it's yeah. Now it's going to be a monthly thing for my patriot. I'm going to keep them open. I'm not going to answer anybody. But we found we

found a gold mine, and I'm really excited about it. Yeah. I think that's a good idea. Yeah, just what Slavs guys are like. They think like some writing, some dirty is going to go, Oh my god, I got a hook up with this guys. Yeah, that's what I said. I said, Man, this is getting me so moist right now, I'm going to run and meet you. Here we go. You know, she had edible under Somebody want to eat

edible underwear off of her. Somebody wanted sexy pictures. It was yes, off your coach, it was uh, yes, It's a treasure trove of content. But man, I'm I happy. I'm just a regular Joe. It was good. Yeah, So you don't, yeah, you don't have to deal with it. But that's why I don't do too much on social media. I just don't, you know, because I'm not playing that

that base. I'd rather be in a comedy club where people are there to c stand up comedy that go in knowing that there could be some inappropriate shit said and they're okay. You know, I'll say before you go, I have to tell you one of the times I did see you and I mentioned this to you before. There was a bachelorette party that you just completely like, did they They were your your typical bachelorette party, trying to take over the whole show. And you literally like

stop the whole thing. And it was unbelievable. That was down in the Goooby's, that rowdy asked place there in Baltimore. That was that was a good I love that place. Yeah, you bachel at parties. Look, when you're mixing alcohol and big groups going out together, it's usually a disaster. Big groups is the keyword. Yeah, Yeah, sometimes I gets uncomfortable. You must must have been uncomfortable that night because I was great. Yeah, we could see it from the second

you came on stage. It was going to be a problem. And the other what happens is the other comics probably told me, listen, there's a baucherette party out there and they're being noisy. So I'm already mad going in. I'm like, oh boy, there's gonna be a battle going out there. And as soon as they come ahead, I'm like, all right, Well, it's almost like it's almost like being the substitute teacher and you're not getting any respect up there and no one will listen. So that so you got to calm that.

You got to calm that class down. That's what you have to do. And when there's alcohol mixed, nobody ever thinks of doing anything wrong. What it was I doing. I was just talking. I'm not allowed to talk. No, you're not not in the comedy show. Shut up, sit out, shut up. Well, I want you to know that as a female, I love what you do. Like you don't. You don't offend me at all. I like your humor, you know what I mean, Like if you're going to take this stuff personally like that, That's why I always

tell people on my podcast, don't take it personally. You know what I mean, It's just joke. Yeah, just enjoy it, you know what I mean. I don't I get it. It's not for everybody. Yeah, well it's for me. We we enjoy you on this show. So I'm thrilled that you took some time out for us and I can't thank you enough for being here. Yeah. So everybody is awful of podcasts every Monday and Thursday on Barstool Sports to keep sending stuff in. That's great, dude. She will

trust me. As long as there's mom Facebook groups and uh you know, uh crazy Mommy and all these weird things that she finds with all she's in them, you'll be getting them. So I'm so happy that people Because people will send in stuff like the material for my podcast, so I don't have to go search it out, because if I had to go search it out, out of my mind. She said, she wants the real email. She wants to go right to you. She doesn't want to she wanted one of any kind of filters. Now she

wants to go right to Oh my, I'm kidding. All right, Well, we won't hold you up anymore. Thank you again so much. Hopefully we can catch you at We're gotta suit sooner than later. But tomorrow. Yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah, come back to mcgoobies, man, whenever this stuff. So, I'm dying to go back or come to Virginia. I can't go to mcgoobies. That's too far for me. We got to get these Virginia comedy club owners to get something together because I missed you at State Theater with that metal show a

couple of years ago. And that's all the time I've seen you in Virginia. Maybe one time at the draft House, but I couldn't get all the way up there. No, I never did the draft House. I usedn't do a draft house, Okay. I used to do a rich Man and I used to do somewhere else in Virginia, but I don't know. It's just you know, it's all politics with those clubs. Yes, you know you're not missing anything by not being going, by not going to riginal Do Bregotta,

because I can get rooms at Bargotta for free. I think it's the night before Halloween the Creeps with Kids tour. Yeah, maybe we can go there. Yeah, that'd be perfect. Yeah, it's gonna be a great show. Awesome. Well, I'm looking forward to it. And again I'm a huge fan. Thank you so much for coming on. This was fun. Yeah, yeah, all right, all right. Thanks. You can just click out when you're done. Watch that so you can just click off of it when you're done. All right. Thanks, so

good to meet you. Yeah, all right, I'll see you guys later. Thanks. Thanks, sim take care. I'd love to always say to these marks these days, just like you do you know, the shirts coming bigger sizes at different colors. Yeah, like like you don't need to wear the same size that you were worn in the nineties. Oh can you guys hear me? Are you wrestling fan? Are you in the nineties? I was one of the marketiest marks you'll ever have. The desk pleasure of speaking to you in

the nineties. Okay, yeah, now, oh no, because I do a lot of work for the Keeping one hundred podcast Disco, and I think I'm going to kill a couple of marks one of these days. I despise them. Yeah, you know what it's like, It's like last night, Disney Ann it's the shitload of Marvel and Star Wars productions and they're all freaking out. No, finally, finally an ubi Wan TV show. It's like, that's what you're excited about, not the fucking voxinge, not the not a lower tax bill,

but you're excited Ian McGregor on the paid service. And that's what I think has the problem with wrestling today is that they but I think that because most of the fans are men, and they think that men are supposed to like sports, but they don't actually like sport. They but they like wrestling. So they've started to react to wrestling as if they think it's real, and I think it's exactly so that's their sport. Yeah. Like, there's people who probably think his name is stone cold Steve Austin,

Like on his birth certificate it says stone cold. Yeah, excuse me the surname Undertaker, like it was right, it was the Undertaker was on cameo, not Mark Hallaway was on camera Like I'm saying the Undertaker. But that's the problem. The marks have completely blurred the line and everything's reported now as it's real. So something happens on Monday at Raw Raymisterio gets hit by a car on Monday at Raw they have a medical update on Tuesday, you know

on the dirt sheets. Now the Dirt Sheets are chasing Francine around backstage to find out, you know, what's going on. They're trying to find out, you know what Braun Strowman got suspended for hitting you know one of the officials for what I don't care is is people can watch stuff like Game of Thrones and Sopranos and be so aware that it's thick and scripted and all just done

for entertainment, but then they forget that wrestling. It's like, well, how can you be wearing a Star Wars shirt, like, oh, this is reality based. I think you're the sweetest man I've ever met in my life. Oh but not until some of my past tweets Every Surface when I was reviewing certain rap albums. But the but the thing is, I think it's sad to say it, but it's slowly dying off. M hm, a resurgence with like the newer

companies and stuff because same fans. Yeah, it's like I know of heading up very well and I'm about to blow your mind. I'm a big sci fi fun I know what you're thinking. You're like, fucking hell, you were just making fun of the marks. You have an orgasm ever Star Wars and stuff, and now you're telling me he's a big fan for it. He's just a fan, but he enjoys it. He could he could stop. He's not putting on his unless I don't know this, put

on his Captain America helmet. You know, when he's getting ready to watch a movie, like he just likes the movie. He does. We're around. I'm going to assume. Okay, I'm going to assume. But there was a thing where I went to the midnight premiere of Star Wars The Force Awakens, which was the first one in ten years, and there's this big, long, long queue to get in, and there's a grown man behind us. Me and my friend were talking, you know, being really cool all that sort of stuff.

About all the fights we've won, all that sort of stuff, you know, like then the one million fighters against this test seven figure or whatever. This grown man behind us started balling, crying like literally like like that, and and I was just like, what the fuck happened? And at one point he left to get something out of his car, and I said to his friend, I said, I know I'm sticking to nosing, but is he okay? Is everything all right? And he goes, oh, yeah, he just really

can't wait to see the film. And it's like, that's that's not okay. Know, he's overwhelmed. It's like, you're not allowed to cry over Star Wars. So I'm more surprised at you being concerned for somebody else's feelings than for that man crying. Oh no, I just didn't want Yeah, I just didn't want to crying beside me. Wanted them to cry with her so that I could fill me. Okay, I see, well, what so you you say you interviewed a lot of people beside Sean that you've had You're

just wait this phone call. Oh, the worst would be I would have to say, well, well from the wrestling world would have to be said, he said, any world. She said, any any world, I would have to say possibly, uh hmmm. Hitler was a bad one. Yeah, I mean I didn't realize he had to hit a bad side to him as well. Okay, no, I interviewed, well the the Fire. I can't think of anything bad straight up. Well have you ever heard of of the show whose

line is it? Anyway? Of course? Which also is what uh my documentary about cocaine autis And I interviewed a guy from that called Colin Mockery, and he just seemed so infuriated at the idea that someone would ask him a question. Yeah, And I was like, why you fucking hear? Then? Wow, he's supposed to be the like, the likable one. He's supposed to be like the you know, like the he's the bald guy, right, Yeah, yeah, he's supposed to be like, oh, he's the goofy guy, you know, but he would be

a dick, which is kind of surprising character. But you were gonna say, what do we say about sid because I've already said too and it ain't necessarily uh you know, something that I would put on the top of my list, ether, Yeah, I had a said on and he's the largest person I've ever seen, and he looks insane, and he was from my era of a wrestling fan, so you're still kind of a mark where you're like, it's fucking said,

oh my god. But then you forget his career was relatively short, so there's gonna be so much you could ask him about the fact. I'll tell you who the worst interview was that just remembered someone you know, Raven because he doesn't want to talk, Like, no disrespect to him, but why would I want to talk to him? Not about his wrestling career, and he didn't want to talk about that, But then anything else you ask him, he goes, you know, I don't know. It's like, why do you

not know what you think about? Fucking sut And i'd lied, I don't know. Oh well, okay, well you're not the first one to say that either, so I tend to believe you. When I interviewed Raven, I actually chopped out the parts where he didn't answer the questions, and I reversed the order of how the show aired, so the stuff I asked at the end went before the stuff I asked first, because he was so all over the place with not answering and giving you non answers that

I had to flip that shit. And it was a four minute interview. Now we stretched it because the conversation was like forty minutes, but I think we use like twelve. Okay. See, the thing about Riven is he's clearly got attention. Dash it the shorter and he will get distracted. He'd be the teless stories like so one day I'm with The Rock and we're going to buy a limo and next thing you know, the Rolling Stones walk into the room. President Clinton's there and I said, wow, look at that car.

It tell a story. He goes by, yeah, I don't know, you know, and then stuff have got yah YadA. Well, I'm assuming you're you're enough of a professional that you could dance around these people. So I definitely want to check out your podcast because you're entertaining me. So I can't imagine what a full hour of you would be, Like nobody would know about that. But but just to answer your question you said about wrestling never coming back with The Rock having this retirement match, I think that's

going to be the final big thing in wrestling. Then it's never gonna become big again. Okay, is this a thing. I'm in the dark. Is he having an official match? The Rock is coming back to have an official final match with Room and Rings, and it was supposed to be at Wrestle Minia, but of course you may not. But from what I've been told from my connections bro, is that if once they can have funs back, the Rock is going to headline WrestleMania for the official final

time ever. So that'll be great because that'll be like a multi media fucking explosion and everybody from that area is back on top doing interviews and stuff. But after that, I got this, can't see it, And plus there's there's too much of it. It's like if I say to you doing to grab a slice of pizza? You go, yeah, sure, Or I go, don't to go grab fifteen piaches? You go no, LA's too much? No wait, that sounds good to me. Yeah, I've had, I've did in the morning. Really, Francine,

you slamed pizzas last week. You were talking about it for three days. You could have won. I ate three pieces in one day and I felt like I was gonna die. The thing you said is interesting because you know, uh, we do an event called wrestle Con that's every year and it's based around WrestleMania weekend, and of course you know this year it was canceled because of Corona, and you know they want to do next year in Tampa.

But it's up in the air as well because it's you know, it's in the kind of the first quarter begetting in a second quarter of the year, and people don't know if it's going to happen or not, and they're not going to do the Rock and rooman if it's going to be another empty arena because they want that draw and they want the people to buy tickets.

So like if they announced it this early and then they can't do it, I think if Russelly's going to keep going on the decline, do you really think that that match, like two years later is going to draw people back in. It might be like a one night thing.

I think it will because it's inevitable that it's going to happen because the Rocks daughter is training to be a wrestler, so there's excuse me, so there's no way he's not going to come back to help her win the match or marker to the ring once or something like that. So he's never gone and plus them. From what I've heard, there's already been a behind the scenes agreement that for that one match, he's gonna get something like five million dollars. Oh, how nice. Yeah, that's not

even a w five million dollars. That's that's still five million dollars. Five million dollars. You gotta get that while you can. Well, you know why, Uh, if I need wrestling information, I'm gonna come over to Boozy Hughesy. Yeah ship, he just drops some fucking dollarge job. I'm telling you,

I don't even know this stuff, so I'm impressed. Yeah, But the whole thing about fans coming back, it's like it's like in the porn industry, not that I know anything about it, but they it's like when when they had that big age explosion in the nineties, It's like it's like, if you've got age, don't go to work. How fucking hard can it be? Well, what's so saxy about age? And I I've got ADDS. I'm so horny sexy. Yeah, fucking age, which, by the way, I'm completely against ADDS.

I don't see the big prison Oh my god, I can't. Okay, Well, on that note, yeah, so special he's a big it's it's all about not I don't even know where to stand on AIDS now. I'm like kind of, uh yeah, stand away from the age. Yeah, it's terrible. We don't want anyone to get it. AIG's still a thing. I mean, it's I thought it was all COVID age is a thing, but thankfully it's curable. Is it is? AIDS a big thing in Ireland. If you if you speak to Bonno,

it is. He's the biggest AIDS mark that there's ever been. Freddie Mercury spoke about AIDS less than Bono. I can't, okay, I appreciate your take on certain things. We're talking about topics that would never have come up if you weren't a guest. So this has been pretty cool, very entertaining, gentlemen. For the record, this isn't my regular her. I haven't been I haven't been able to get her cut short, so I'm having to make do you with the scruffy

look temporarily? Well, I think you're handsome, you look fine, and your shirt compliments your eyes. So I'm glad she said it, because if I said it would have just been weird. You look very nice. You look very very nice today. I thank you for dressing up for us. And again, if you want to plug your projects and your social media so our listeners can come over and listen to you. Yes, yes, it's the It's hugey Hello podcast. It's on all services for the last month and a half.

I've been doing Christmas themed episode so because we stood from November first onwards. To check that out. I'm also part of Keeping one hundred Go check out the YouTube channel. We're just past twenty thousand subscribers. We're coming up to ten million views. Me and Conan are the best of friends. I don't car what anybody says. This go inferno is smaller than I am. Also check out get my Do you know he actually is smaller than me? I'm learning. Yeah, Disco is a meaglely five to ten two and two

hundred and ten pounds. I'd break him if I felt like it. But enough about that. And also check out Get My Go, which tomorrow is the Christmas episode recording mich I'll be debut and yet another Christmas jumper. Very nice sounds fun? Well, well now you're on it again. Keep having chat as a guest. What is going on? Because Child has insight, because you see, child has. The problem that I sort of have is that we're never

been part of the wrestling business. We just happened to know people who are so the marks harmed us to try to get to people like you front sing Oh okay, Well yeah, the more I talk to you guys, people keep telling me I have to go on this Get my Ghost show, So we might we might have to make that happen, because you know, I don't know that much about it, but I hear it's quite entertaining. Don't worry. You've been on it just about as much as I have in the opening, so it's all good. You've kind

of already been on it. If we piece all the day the little cold opening spots I've sent in, Ah okay, it sounds good. Well, I would love to come and talk to the rest of you and the rest of the fellas, so maybe we can arrange that in the future. Brilliant, and I would like to guilty I guilt trip my way into interviewing New Frand scene in January f I survived New Year's Eve absolutely, And if we do this, I promise you I will answer all of your questions.

Oh shit. You shouldn't have said that. I should have said that. I will be one of the guests that you know, you say she was a delight, So yes, I accept. Okay, well, I'll not take advantage of your honesty. I might if you need me to stand a few before you you go on. You know, yeah, we'll have a cocktail together and we'll talk about whatever. It'll be a cocktail. Hey you said cock I did, but I put tail on the end of it. So it's look

what happened to him. Oh my okay, Well, thank you for coming on, busy, hughy okay, thanks very much, and Christmas Day everybody, you too. Hunt care buddy later.