Josh Wolf: America’s Funniest comedian!

This is Josh Wolfe by the way. Everyone you know I love about comedy. I would love to know what you love about comedy completely subjective. What does that mean? That means that, like, there's something out there for everybody, if you, if you want. I love when people are like I don't like comedy, like you don't. Have you ever heard someone said that. I've asked people, do you go to stand up shows? You're like, no, I don't really comedy. You don't like to laugh, you don't like

having fun like I don't understand what that means. But what I love is that no matter what you like, you could be the t totnist church going list, and you're gonna find a comic out there that works for you. But you could be the raunchiest sitting the gutter, you know what I mean, And you can find that too.

You're right, you have to find the comic that works for you because like some I'm not really like a super raunchy person who likes to like talk about a lot of like I don't know, like some comics are. Like it's just like I don't find it funny. You I find really funny. Like I feel like you definitely push the envelope, but it's like all within like a boundary that I can still really laugh at and not

feel like weird about laughing at. You know what. I toured with Lady the Cable Guy for a while and he said to me, he was like, you know, the trick for me is I'm not dirty, but I'm naughty. I'm naughty, and I would say I'm one step above him. He doesn't swear and all that stuff, but I'm not, like, I'm not dirty, but I feel like I'm relatively naughty. I get that. I totally get that you say what everyone's really feeling, but you don't say it in a way that makes people feel like, oh god, I can't

actually listen to this. Yes, yes, and I you know, one of the reasons Los Angeles was a tough place for me to perform, And it was by the way, I'm not I'm not a dude. I live in Nashville now, but I'm not a dude who is leaving Los Angeles like, so, you know, I'm not bad mouth in it. But for me personally as a performer, it was my place that I hated performing the most. If you say, what city, what city do you hate performing in the most? I would tell you Loss Angeles. Okay, details and again this

could be me. And the comedy Store is my that's a legendary. Everyone goes through the comedy store. So did you go through the comedy store? Oh yeah, that's my home club comedy but also the club that makes me the most matteress. Okay, tell me why. I've just never been one of the cool kids. I don't consider myself to be one of the cool kids. I figured the comedy store is where the cool kids are. I have a very Middle America relatable aesthetic, you know, and I

don't feel like that is what plays the best. So what do you have to be to be a cool kid at the comedy club. What's the vibe? Well, I feel like this is my own personal stuff, your own personal stuff. But in your opinion, what's the vibe to be a cool kid at the comedy club. Oh, I don't know. That's a great question. I would say, Um, I don't know. I don't know how to explain it.

Like I said, this is my own I think it's my own personal Like, but like my my jokes are okay, my jokes are right here, you're in front of your face. They're pretty simple, they're pretty linear. There's stories. Um, there's nothing clever. I'm not making a statement, you know what I mean. None of that stuff, which I think plays better especially at the comedy store, do you know what I mean? And especially for a long time, I was just the dude talking about his kids, and that's not

super relatable for that part of the country. People are a little older when they have kids. You know. When I sit at Zany's and I talked about, you know, at my age having a twenty something year old, people are like, yeah, like I just took my kid to preschool. You know, I'm not I'm not relating with this. You are just on a different plane, You're in a different arena and your wife than maybe everyone else I feel like.

And but by the way, I will say also, but that nervousness that I had performing there, which was just mes what other comics were putting on me, maybe better. Yeah, it made me better. Well. Yeah, if you can do well at the comedy club in l A, then that means you are, like, you're great, because that's like the that's like the rhyman of Nashville, like the opery of Nashville,

you know country music. It really is. You know that place when I first started UM, a woman named Mitsy Shore owned it, and um she was the original owner and she when she passed me. So what would happen is is that you would have to go up for three minutes in front of Mitzy UM and nerve wracking, and if you don't crush in those three minutes, you don't get a chance. You'd have to come back and sign up again. So she just sits there with her arms crossed and she's like make me laugh, ye, like,

walk me through this audition. This is nerve wracking. I watched that show on Netflix. What is it called what was it called, like the comedy club or something that comedy like it was something the store coming. The store intense, Like the comedy world is hard. It's hard to break into. It's hard to like stay into. It's like this whole inner web working and it's like whoa, and you have to like get your jokes all right, and like you

have to think. It's much different than music though, I mean it's super cutthroat and there's a lot of people going after very I would say the difference is this, Well I don't know the music industry well enough to say this, but nowadays as a comic, yeah, so the comedy Store doesn't pass me. Who gives a ship? I have twelve million people on Instagram and you know eight million on TikTok, and that's where I do my stand up and I don't need to do my stuf, you

know what I mean. So it's a little different. Um, But to be a true stand up comic, you can't do it on TikTok and you can't do it on Instagram. You have to get on stage. Yeah, the comedy Store is for me where the best came and you would go when Mitzi would sit in the back row up against the wall, and if the person before you did really well, you were fucked because she was she was going to call him over to talk to her. She wasn't gonna hear a second of your set. She was done,

like what she found on she liked. She was kind of like done for the day, that wasn't it. She was just gonna talk to them. And you were performing, so she might miss your set and you just have to come back and at the time, and then somebody else would come up, Oh okay, so it's like they're keeping it going no matter what he's doing. I think there was like three or I forget it was so long ago, but it seemed like three two, three, four showcases something like that, and she called me over. Somebody

was like after. I think this was my third time going up in front of her, and she called me over and she sat me down. And when you get called over, you were like, oh man. And I sat down and she said you were very funny, and I said thank you, and she said enhanced. I said, oh, thank you. She said you remind me of a young Steve Guttenberg, and I was like, uh, is that good? I don't know, you mean the guy from police Academy.

I don't it worked. It worked? Yeah, yeah, But then she said I want you to work the door, and so is that like a good thing. Well, as a young guy, I took it as an insult. What I know now is that she wanted you to learn from the best. So sit right there and watch the best people in the world every night work their craft and watch how they change jokes from Friday to Saturday depending on what worked. Watched them work out and be working comics.

It was like apprenticeship. Yeah, I get to sit and watch. This was fascinating for me. You took the job at the door even though it offended you, You took it. Well, I didn't. It didn't offend me after it was explained to me. You know, but at the time, I was a single dad raising three kids. I also a huge accomplishment. Josh, Well, I mean, I mean that's hard work. Yeah, they're a live There are a lot say who's the best? Mama? I mean you really like you really crush you really

crushed that. And defany, I feel like I kind of looked into I think I might have found her in a moment of weakness, her weakness, not mine. And yeah, I think she was in a moment of weakness. She wasn't sure what was happening. Might have something to do with the Rufi's. You just slid in there and you said, listen, we're gonna this is gonna happen. This is happening. I said, I mean, listen, let me ask you. How hard is it to pitch? I'm a single to have with three

kids and I'm a stand up comic. Waka waka. You know what I mean. Come on, isn't that enticing? Investing? Is this beautiful film director? She's like one of three women in the in the whole world who produced major motion picture. She's incredible in every way. Yeah, y'all are a perfect match. Though, well, I have to tell you like she and thank you that I that for you to imply that I somehow match with hair. But she she's like, she hasn't started really aging yet, which is no.

Can I tell you something. I'm gonna tell you something that she's gonna kill me for telling you. Okay, good, yeah tell me. Yeah. She's pretty decent looking person. Oh yeah, she talks. She hasn't worked out and probably fifteen years she's just one of those people that just like stays probably fit without working out, and then she like binges on candy when she's in the middle of a stress moment. That is exactly right. I tell her all the time. I'm like, so, how was your booty getting better with

not working out? Like? What is the exercise? If she's just visualizing it in her brain. She's so powerful in her mind. She's just all she's doing is just putting it through her brain and she's got it. It's it's so crazy to me. I mean, I'm like, I need how many carbs in that? What are the sugar? And she's like, do you know? We used to sit in bed and I would just look at her and she

would eat just watching because we'd sit and watch. So when we lived in l A, we would make sure we were bed by liven o'clock so we could watch the back to back Friends. By the way, how such are you to watch that Friends reunion? Oh my god, I mean I'm putting I'm trying to keep it low key because I have a lot of expectations for it that it needs to fulfill in my soul, because I mean,

Friends is hello, It's Friends. So I'm just like trying to say chill about it, and I'm really just praying it's everything that we all are praying it will be. I am you know what, it already is hit met expectations for me. And I'll tell you why I am there. You know what I love. So I was on a show called Chelsea Lately for a long time, right, yeah, you were. And also we gotta get back to your door story I segue from you, so don't forget to go back to that. Okay, all right, but but I will.

And the and the thing that I learned from being on that show that I yeah, and then I deal to get on that show that was like a big late night national syndicated show, and she was like right after like the was David was David Letterman and Jay Lennard were the aready gone. It was like the late night funny show. She was on at the same time as those guys and on and what it was crasshing for a while there, I don't think I realized how big that show was. How did you get on that show?

And then yeah, what do you learn? She's the last person I dated before I met Beth. Oh really, Yeah, that was a good one. David's not the right word, but you know, you have a good time. Yeah, we did drugs and went out and you know what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, it was just we were young and she was listening, you know what. She was a ton of fun. We

went out one night. Ready, So we went out one night and we and we went to a party that my brothers were at a house party and we were kind of sucked up and there was a pool table there and she was limping and I walked into the room and like, what are you doing? She was just she was like, just go with it. She told everybody there she had a wooden leg. I can't imagine two comics actually dating each other. This would be really funny. Well we we, so I just went with it. But

it was so funny. She was like, you know, at one point, she switched limps on her legs by accident. I'm like, you're limping with her wrong leg. She was like, but she I love going out with her because, especially when she was younger, she basically walked in. If she walked into a room, she was gonna walk up to whatever. Dude felt like he was the biggest alpha and she was gonna take the piss out of him like that.

She wouldn't know. She wasn't gonna let that. She never let even that long ago in a room in l A, dudes who thought they were the ship, she wouldn't let them. Never. She went in right away. If you were going to think you were the the alpha, she was going to let you know who was the real alpha. I No, I loved it. I loved it. And her attitude was like, fuck these guys, they can't tell me what to do, like this is not that's not up to them. How I go about the world, what I talk like, what

I act like. And I really I really respected that in her a really a lot. She was the first woman that I remember getting on stage and just talking freely about being an alcoholic and having sex with a ton of dudes. Yeah, people have come along since then, but you know what, one joke I'll always remember. And

I was like, Oh, I love this woman. She's she and she was as a young comic and I think I think her last few specials or whatever, but I think I think, you know, to be a stand up it takes a lot, a lot, a lot of practice, you know, And she took a little break. But I think she started out like such a unique she said. Once she said, Um, I was out with this guy and I was drinking and I was on my like my fourth drink, and um, he said, you know, you don't have to drink to be more interesting, and she

was like, I'm drinking to make you more interesting. I was like, yeah, that's I mean, she had unapologetic you know. But UM, what I learned on that show is that just like Friends, you know what people when they turn on the show, when I turn on TV, if you can show them a dysfunctional family that they relate to people where they're like, oh, I'm you know what people love doing in Friends, I'm Phoebe, Oh I'm Chandler. Right,

you're relating. And so one of the things about Chelsea is that people turn it on to watch a dysfunctional family make fun of each other and bicker at each other but ultimately love each other. And I'm watching I watched the did you watch the trailer for the Friends thing? Like I did? I'm sure twelve times. I'm already getting all the fields the song you play, the song I'm in. But seeing them talk to each other and go remember remember,

all I need is nostalgia. I'm not even in it for the last can I want to I want to feel those fields? Do you know what I mean? And I already I already am so it. It's already, it's already there for you get expectations. Yeah. Do you want to talk talk about remembering a joke that Chelsea's that impacted you when Michael and I went to watch you with Zany's a few weeks ago or a month ago or something. You said something that we quote all the

time because people and I have been together. We've been together like over ten years, like dating, married, all of it, Like we have been through it all the ups and downs and started dating as kids and like we broke up, got married off things. So you were talking about marriage, and you were like talking about You're like, who's who's newly dating in the audience, Like who's out there that just started dating or just got married? And then like someone raised their hand and they were like all in

love and like so in the butterfly face. And then you're like, Okay, now who's been married for like a long past time. And you found someone who's been like forty two years and you said the people and the four the people who have been married for forty two years had a fight in the car that would ruin you to the newly ones. That is so true. You could like be totally like going at it, whether you're a person, are you going for years? Then you wake up and you're like, Okay, I'm gonna go get a

drink and then over over. I say it all the time. If you've been married over twenty years, you you said something to each other that day that would end other relationships because because you can just be like fuck you, fuck you, and that all right, that's it. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's it? Like I hate you, I hate you? Two and where are we going to dinner? Do you know? That's if you're like brand new, you're like if that's it, it's over. Yeah, that is over.

It's one of the things that is great that they don't tell you about being in a relationship for that long is that the level of comfort you have to have with that other person is something you didn't know going in would be the benefit of a long term relationship where you're like, I actually can just relax. Do you know I've never heard of like that before. I think that's one of the biggest blessings of being in a long term relationships is you literally can just put

your full self on display at all time. It's so comforting, right just too. You know, when you were first dating you guys, and you spent the night, did you worry about how you look in the morning, woke up and like Brandon bathrooms and make up for gas and like brush my hair and like tie my shirt up or something, you know, and you might wake up with a booger

on your face. Now you don't care, You're like whatever. Whatever. Yeah, I mean, it's such a different and it's hard to explain how when you don't have to worry about that stuff, the other stuff you can kind of let into your life. You know what, when I look, I mean I never, thank god never had to be on a dating app or that stuff looks horrible, like horrible. I know. I can't even imagine the stress of just like did they not swipe? Or how's that nobody's picking me? Or I

I don't know about you. I don't I was not good at meeting strangers. I was like fine with many strangers, but I was terrible at dating because I did not know how to date. I was like super insecure and I get defensive and I did not put myself out there and I would just I was an awful Later, what was your upbringing like, were you were religious? Were you conservatives? Bringing super conservative upbringing? I mean also like

open minded parents, but like very very uh. I was very traditional and raised really sheltered in a good way. And I just like, I don't know, I just a lot of it. Was there guilt associated with any of the like for a long time, Like I just didn't know who I was as a person, and I felt like super insecure about that, and I felt like not I always struggle with worthiness and not feeling good enough and feel like, oh, people were better than me, so than if someone actually got to know who I was,

then they wouldn't want to date me. You So I had to put up this hard guard even though I was great. You know, I was just like a kid. You didn't know who I was. But when I was in it, it was very all consuming. You know that sounds very familiar to me, Like the I just reasonly and this has been maybe the biggest change in my life ever in my life, but I just recently realized how dangerous your inner dialogue it can be if you're constantly calling yourself a piece of ship. Self talk. Yourself

talk is everything. It's the voice that you listen to the most. So it doesn't matter what other people are telling me. If I'm constantly saying but you or I'm never forgiving myself. Oh yeah, that was hang on stuff. I have recently done that, and I have to tell you. I'm like, if I catch myself and everybody does where, I'm like, you're just such a for not And then I'm like, relaxed, man, just pick it up tomorrow. And

it's changed. It's I'm telling you, it's changed. I you know, the one thing I noticed is that my I used to want my shoulders are a little tense. My shoulders are damned you know. I can see it. On stage two. You're more comfortable just being yourself. And we talked a little before this interview. You're like, I now know who I am, I know what my mission is, I know what I'm trying to do, and like if someone misinterprets that, that's really not on you, that's on them, and that's

a freeing place to get to. Yeah, thank you. Change this inner dialogue and get there. What was like the catalyst for that? Well, you know what, honestly, Um, moving to Nashville allowed me to relax. Okay, why is that? Well? The one thing about being in Los Angeles is that you're constantly surrounded by people who are not only more successful than you, but it's just always in your face.

And so I would get up and instead of doing what I do now, just get up, drink coffee, walk my dog, come home, hang out with Beth, and then turned my phone on. At noon, I would wake up early because now I can wake up and go back sleep. L A I woke up, I was like, what am I missing? Right on the phone. Other people's in, other people's lives so much better than mine, other people's lives. Well, my, why did they book that? How come I'm not at this club? I didn't get in that theater always about

somebody else's life and not about mine. And so nash has been a good move for you, for me, it's been a godsend. You've loved it. You don't at all regret moving here. I missed Jacob, I miss Caitlin, I missed my brothers Um, and I missed the weather. Nobody told us that the weather Nashville was hoary, Blake I told, I told Bethany that the weather like from January to

mid March. Well, December works because it's Christmas, so there's magic in the air and there's all the good Christmas vibes, so you know, and like it's fine to be cold and have a little bit of miserable weather when there's like Christmas everywhere, but they're in well or holiday for the season, because I know not everyone is listen. I want to tell you something. As a Jew, when someone says Merry Christmas, I say thank you because what they

are actually saying to me is something nice. It's just reading. They're not saying Jews, you know what I mean. If they're not saying you're not allowed to they're just saying Merry Christmas. Because that that is in my brain, the same as Happy Holidays, the same as everything else. It's somebody sit wishing something nice to me. So for me to correct them and make them feel like an asshole because they don't know I'm Jewish is the dumbest thing.

You correcting yourself just then it's one of the things that you and I were talking about before the show. You don't have to apologize for that ship, right, right, you know what you're intentive. I'm not playing Merry Christmas and suck the Jews. You're saying merry Christmas because it's Christmas season. If no one else, the majority of people celebrate Christmas. Right, So if you're going to say one thing that seems to be grouping grabbing the most boats,

it's so silly, isn't I carry you on that? Yeah? Totally? So Okay, you have a Christmas holiday season in December, so it's fine, but then January hits, you have New Year's which is still fun, and then after that it is you have to get out of town. I mean you, I mean I have stayed here most years, but like I would much prefer to have somewhere else to go from January to mid March or April because it's really

to wrench and terrible. But then it starts to get a little human, yeah, which we weren't used to, like Collen and allergies. Yeah yeah, yeah, there's a there's a lot more going on than what we were warned about. However, I would not trade it back, you know, honestly, meeting people like you and Michael and just you know, Philip and Becky Sweet and just the people that we've met and and outside of the business in Nashville are just

more my speed. What I always say I love about Nashville and entertainment industry is, yes, you have your superstars, you have for people who are like crushing it, but everyone is super chill and laid back. And I'm not saying people don't have like personal issues and things going on. No one's perfect anywhere, but it is like this community of people who are down to earth they want to hang out. That's very include so and it's very supportive.

I mean it's it's there's things that need to change obviously within the country music and like to expand, and I feel like everyone's starting to become more aware of that. But like, I just feel like people want to be friends, they want to help people out, they want to be a good person, they want to collaborate. Collaborate is so cool now. And by the way, I don't want to put them on the spot, but I'm trying to get your husband to write a funny song on me. I

know we were talking about that. I think he's nervous because he's never done comedy. It makes total sense. It makes total sense because as performers, the thing I think we're all worried about the most is looking stupid. Yeah, do you know what I mean? And you know what you're lane is, and you're like, well, I don't look stupid in this lane, but that lane I'm look real, don't. Now I am a person who not only doesn't mind

looking dumb, I kind of like it. But it's like you look dumb on your own terms, Like you create the dumbness that you look. If that makes when you're looking down doesn't catch you off guard per se, you might be prepared for it. Well, I'm setting myself up to look dumb because I'm trying something I've never done before, Like trying something I've never done before for me, you

know what? Okay? Okay, So as an artist, the thing that I as I got older, I missed the most was like I started to a stand up in Seattle, and I would sit at this place called the Hurricane Cafe with my friends when we were young comics, and maybe we could all afford one pot of coffee, but we were talking about jokes and like, you know, spitballing and oh yeah, that was great to do that that feeling you lose the longer you go, the more comfortable you get, right, And so to put myself in situations

like this remind me of that young art where I'm like, oh, this is that excitement that I don't get anymore. But what's such a huge part of why I loved what I did? Don't make sense? Yes, just that adrenaline, the rush, the unknowingnus Like you're still proving yourself on every level. You don't even know if it's gonna work for you, but you know you have this passion in this dream. You just need people to receive it. You gotta put yourself out there. Yeah, you get started in comedy, like

who wakes up as a human? Is Like, I'm going to be a comedian because to me that feels I've said this even before I've known you, Like being a comic would be like the worst job for me. I would feel so much anxiety and stress in like a forming jokes And then how do you know when to like drop the punchline and make people laugh and like have them flow and like where to push it. We're not I mean that to me is just like next

level stress central station. I want to tell you I told Beth not too long ago that you would be a very good comedian. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no no no no. I agree that thing at people, But I am not funny. That's not true. So here's the dude. You are two of the things that make a comic good. You're honest, you can't help, you can't help but be who you are. And you tell a

good story. So if you told the story right that was about some of the house that happened with your kid or your husband, that's relatable, and then that somebody like me would sit there and go, Okay, tell me the story. Here's a joke for this part. Here's a joke for this part. Here's a joke for this part. And now you're a stand up comic, how do you

find the jokes? Like? That's the thing, Like, how do you make a joke out of just like a normal everyday life Like, Okay, for instance, I just got twelve chickens with Michael, how do you make that funny? Okay, Well, first of all, why did you get the chickens? We got chickens? As Michael's always wanted chickens. He wants to be a farmer. He grew up on a farm, and he just wants chicks. Okay, right away, You're like, first of all, you know what am I'm not providing? Do

you know what I mean? Like you want to turn it inward? Right, so you want to turn it inward? Like should I feel offended? But I'm not enough to any twelve chickens? Like you know, am I not? You know? I mean, depending on how far you want to go? Like, am I not producing enough eggs? This dude? Like, so

there's so many different possibilities. You can tell the story of going out and the first time you don't know how to get eggs from a chicken, so you think it's like you know, bugs, bunny cartoons, you're just lifting them up, you know, like like foghorn, leghorn, And there's so many things that you could do, right, But that's all comes through just practice. But what I do with stories because I tell them exactly how they happened the first like five or six times, just to hear which

part of the truth is really interesting? Do you like practice? Do you like speak to your mirrorge? Do you speaking to the mirror, like, how do you work these bits out in front of people? So? Do you just love with it your head? Do you ever speak out loud before you speak in front of the audience. No, generally, not because they're winging it well. No, because I'm pulling from stories that happened, so I don't have to write them down. They're up here, and if I write them down,

they end up sounding for me to rehearsed. But I don't need to write them down because I got it. I'll write down some punchlines, like if I'm writing punch lines that didn't happen, I'll write those down because I have a harder time remembering those. But the very first time I helped that stage, I was fifteen, Oh yeah, how did you know that? Like, Oh, I'm just gonna go be funny. I'm stage like I'm a comedian, Like get that thought in your head. I was watching TV.

I saw some stand up. I thought, man, I had done some musical theater. Um, and I loved it. I loved being in front of people and UM. I told my dad and mom I said I want to do stand now, and they were like, okay. I said, there's a open mic one town over, Will you drive me over there? And they were like, yeah, So I went over. I signed up. I asked the guy, I said, what should I talk about? And he said, well, have you ever done it? I said no, and he said, talk

about what you know? And all I knew was my parents, right so, And the funniest thing to me about them is that they both have really bad guys. Out of your house. They were they were there was one time and I ended, this was my closer. I ended this one about my parents. They have really I was fifteen. Do you want to hear the first joke I ever told?

I would love to. Actually, my parents are sitting in the front room, and this was back when they had you know, I could hear my mom taking zick click, you know, one of those old click, like the like the little Kodak cameras that they take pictures with, you know, they had to wind up and stuff, and she was like the knicks. She was so excited. I walking on the stage. Or do you want to hear what I was wearing? Okay, I had acid washed jeans. Okay, those

are back in style now. They they were tucked into my untied very chunky white high tops. Okay, filing still in style. Actually, I had a mullet I had that looked just like this atipt. It was not Cambo, but the same kind of style, but it was. I played on my baseball team, so it was my high school baseball team. Hat. I had a thick silver chain, not like a rope, but like when you find on King Tuck, you know what I'm talking about, Like one of those thick silver chains and wait for it. I was wearing

a white mess shirt. I feel like, kind of, Josh, that's like all back in trend, like you sort of were like, have you ever have you just like staying consistent of that style all these years because it's like right on pretty much is it it? Minus the mess shirt? I feel like I'm a millionail. The Mess shirts probably making a comeback soon though, I mean going in and no time. But I'm that's ballsy. So you just started off, You're like, hey, I'm here, I am here's my nipples

and everything. Yeah, well it was like a like a smaller mesh like a football shirt. Okay, so you can nipples right right, Well you can see you know. When I was growing up, my brothers used to tell me that I had meeting nipples. That's why I was I was the kid who wore a T shirt to the pool because my brother was I was like, you gonna let those meeting nipples out of the pool, Like, no, I'm not. It turns out I don't have meeting nipples.

I just have like a meteor area. We didn't. Okay, good, So I come up on stage and I said, Hey, everybody, I'm Josh. I'm fifteen years old. And they clapped and I said my parents are here tonight, and they clapped, and I said, I'm pretty excited because this is the first time I'll be have to fucking swear and from my cut sucking mom. Gosh, can I tell you? The room exploded? And I was like, yeah, I got it. I love this, And can I tell you something else?

Since that day, I'm not a dirty coming. But when I when I when my mom comes to the show filthy Why because you just want to show you want to prove that, like you don't have to mind her rules. No, because you know, if you know anything about me, I like making people feel uncomfortable and nothing makes my mom more uncomfortable than me being dirty. And on top of that, Caroline she feels like she has to laugh at every

joke er it gets. It makes me laugh that I look at her and she's like, she doesn't want to laugh. And my dad will always come with me before a show and be like, are you gonna tell him? Do you have to? I'm like, you know, I do know why you know I do? I just this is for me. You sure that that she comes to its purely. So you love those the most because you just get the most joy out of making your mom's feel so uncomfortable as come into it. Where did your farting parents come

into this? So at the end of the set, I was telling jokes about their different styles of farting. My mom was more of so embarrassed. Yes, I told him. I was like, my mom is like she likes to walk and fart, you know, one of those and my dad You can always tell because my dad would just he would lift his whole body up like that, even in a restaurant. You like trying to be more subtle, right, and they don't know they're fine to just let it

fly at any time. Zeros to give there. They don't want to hold their gas and they gotta let it out. We were on the mass turnplates. The U in Massachusetts there major like the the turns like the highway is called the Mass Mass turn okay, And we were on the mass turnplate and we were in um We had one of those station wagons with the seat that faced the back and the way back, and my mom was just far enough storm she was in the whole car. She I think maybe she had had like in the

middle of a high protein diet or something. I don't know what was going on, but she was making things uncomfortable. And my dad pulled over and he goes, hey, you gotta get on what he was like, yeah, yeah, you gotta step out. You're killing the car. And she goes, what do you want me to do? He goes, I don't know, walk it off. So she because you know, he was like, it was like, it's stuck in your pants or something. You gotta just walk it off. She

walked above him. Oh my god, I love it. Y'all are just so like chill about farting all the time. It's like no big deal. Our house was a I grew up at three older brothers. At one point in time, my mom had four teenagers boys in her house. Oh, she's a saint. She deserves it, Like she really does

deserve an award for that. There's having only had one in the house, I can't imagine the smell that just permeated that house all of the time, and just like the unruling nous that must have been going on at all times, Like did she just lose control? Was there anyway? Is that why it isn't just something called controlled chaos? Yeah, that's what he's probably started from childhood. Yeah, probably right.

I think I think I did maybe learn and I told my mom this recently, that you just get from her. You just gotta pick your battles. I can't be yelling at these four dumb apes all day every day. I just gotta pick the important stuff, right, So a lot of it just has to like go. You just gotta

let it go. It's the it's maybe the biggest lesson I learned as far as parenting, which is especially when they get older or younger, it doesn't matter your kids do things what you consider to be wronging right all the time. Do you want to spend your whole day do you want to be known as the person who is constantly just correcting and telling that person what they're doing wrong. No, yeah, it's it's not fun for either one of you. It's not the relationship you want to have.

So for me like I, I and I, especially when I was raising those three kids, I had to pick and choose. I wanted to more you a single dad. Uh for a few years. How do you manage that with being a comedian and working in like one of them was like a baby, right, Yeah, you know. I had some help from my brother, especially from one of my brothers. All my brothers kind of help. But uh,

it's funny though, you know. They have all had the same attitude, which at the time I didn't enjoy but now understand, which was if I had a sense, like to do some stand up, they were they would help me. If I wanted to go on a date, they were like, nah, because there thing was, look you you made this bed, so we're happy to help you try to get out of it. But as far as you're using us so you can go out and live it up, now you're gonna have to hire a babysitter. Like that's not that.

By the way, me too, and so I had comics help, you know. One of the I met Chelsea because she used to watch my kids while I went on stage. Comics helped me. My buddy Joey Diaz helped me a lot. Um, but babysit. You know, as long as I cooked him a turkey burger, he watched the kids. Um, you did everything for those kids and work. I mean, what did you learn about yourself in that season? Um? I think I learned what's important. I I you know, I was.

I know that recently and recently I found this out. Recently, I found that some comics thought I was aloof, aloof, aloof because I would go to the comedy store and then leave. Yeah, And I was like, yeah, dude, I had a life. I couldn't sit around and talk to you guys about whatever the you guys were talking about. As much as I wanted to shoot the ship, there was other things that was just more important. I knew I had to be up at six in the morning

and take the kids to school. I knew. I knew I had to go home and make lunches, and I knew I had to be fresh. I knew I had to get up two kids were going to school, and I had to be with the baby all that. Like, what were you guys doing Actually, that's totally impressive though, to be uh, such a committed single dad like that, that's hard work. One kid is hard three It's like, man, I I I get I thank you. I. So my situation was, you know, I met a woman. I don't

know if you know this. I met a woman. She had two kids, we had a kid together, and so when I kept her out, kicked her out, I kept the three kids. And and so it wasn't never a question of you just do those are your kids? Like do you know what I mean? Like, it's not even a question of what you should or should like these are my people. So you you take care of your people, you know. And I it really did early on. And I'm glad I never got sucked up into l a

because what was important was always staring me in the face. Yeah, you get sucked up. Really, you know what's funny And I'm sure you have recently seeing this for the kids. It struck me with the kids, was I, Oh, and this is not a bad thing. This is what everybody should do. I've always just thought about myself, right, Oh yeah, you don't realize how selfish are until you have kids and you're like, literally, you don't ever get to think about yourself every now and then you do, but like, yeah,

the vast majority of the day for sure not. And by the way, you know, I think people use selfish like it's always a negative. I don't think it's always a negative. And I think in the business that we're in to be successful, your business is you, So you have no choice but to be selfish. That's why I

give entertainers a little bit of a past. When people are like they see those self and at alved happy if they're If they don't find themselves the most interesting, then who else will have to be have to constantly be looking at themselves in the mayor have to constantly go how how does this appear to other people? You're constantly you're in the business of you, So to get sucked down the selfish drain. I get plus, if you get successful, not only the business of you, everybody else

is too. Exactly you know. So, but kids don't they don't let you. As soon as you're like, yeah, what about me, someone throws up on your foot. You're like, god, so when did you know that you had made it? When did you know you were like a successful comedian. I don't. I don't know how to answer that, um,

because I don't look at myself that way. When did you thought that you were having a thriving career as a comedian, that this was like you have respect, you had people that loved you, you could sell tickets to shows and do well, Like when did you know that? I'll tell you this, I can. I can tell you that when I was growing up, I always had a dream to have a late night talk show called the Josh Rope Show. And I did. I had it was now it only lived six weeks and it was on CMT.

But that was the moment, you know, my dad called me and maybe it might might have been the day before I premiere and he said, um, hey, I just want to call you and say, you know, we can't wait for tomorrow and and he said, do you remember the conversation about what your dream was when you were a kid. And I was like, I don't think so. And he's like, let me put it back and he ran it back and I go, that's right, and he was like, and you all you were like, I want

to have the Josh roll Show. And he said, do you realize how many people get to imagine a dream and have it come true. Dang, that is serious right there. And I said, yeah, that's and he said, so everything else from here is the success for this. Even the show lasts a day, a six weeks, six years, sixty years. You got it, you achieved it, you visualize it, created it out of your imagination, and then you get a whole network and crew of people to get on board

of it and spend time and energy money. Here's how messed up our businesses. Eventually everything is a failure because it gets canceled. Right, But why is that a failure? You know what my dad said? This is so many things that my dad had said to me recently that have really helped our business. Especially So, you were in a band, what was the name of your band called Stealing Angels, Stealing Angels, the Stealing Angels making an album

We did, but it was never released. And but you got together with a group of people made now right, that is like you created something. Do you know what I mean? Like in our business unless you're Kevin Hart or Luke Bryan. Yeah, I love when people call Judge Reinhold. Do you know who? He is? An old actor and he was like in Beverly Hills. Cop has been Yeah, his career in for Hollywood was fifteen years of every movie and now he's that's the way it goes. He's

not a hasman, dude. He is in the one percent of people who have ever done that job exactly and done it well and had success. You know what. It is so true. It's like just because your streak per se is over and has like faded, like I think every artist, musician, entertainer for the most part, and then you have your enigmas like Reba who have like lasted for decades and like people who have you know, transcended

through all the all the years. But I think everyone has like a moment, you know, where you have like this is your moment where you are like on top or you are having all the success. It's like your season, and then it's gonna obviously it's gonna go to someone else, you know. And that's just the way it is. It makes me laugh. People use Polly Shore as a punch line. You know, this dude's career in the when when he was the Weasel, he was just about the biggest thing

in entertainment on planet Earth. He was in movies that made a gazoonian dollars that now it's time for somebody else's so for somebody to use him as a punch line. And I'm like, yo, he did things that you could count on your hands and feet. That people have done has been what I mean, it's very specific. Nobody's like, yeah, that dude the accountant, Yeah he was better in the nineties. You're like, yeah, they still are on account and they're

still doing their thing exactly. It's a crazy thing that happens to artists. It's almost like they people are waiting for them to drop a little bit so they can punch it. Well. I feel like that's why so many artists have massive breakdowns, especially when they've been like on top and like everyone's loving them and praising them, and all of Suddens brings us like squash or I have no idea what his mental health is like, or his life or whatever. But then all of a sudden, he's

not on top of people are dogging on him. It's like that can send people into sanity in their minds. You know, It's like everyone dogged up Britney Spears when she crashed and burned. But like can you even no one can even imagine what if you take it on one step a couple of runs down in the entertainment, Take any band that had one big hit, two big hits right these by the way, that's not easy to sustain. Now you have all this attention, you're on the road,

this is a great tour. And then now now again the fact that you had a hit that made a gazillion dollars and it still puts you in the one percent of people who have ever picked up a guitar. How the business that makes you feel like you're a failure, even though you done something that millions of people have woken up and dreamed of doing. Having all hit would hang their mothers in the backyard it do you know

what I mean? Yeah? Hit, And now all of a sudden, these people are no man that it's such a that shift in perspective. I think it's something that has happened to me. But that shift in perspective, like of how you look at yourself is I think so important, you know, like and certainly way back is that's what really has brought you, that inner piece and that voice to calm, that voice that's negative and making stead positive. Is that

really the awakening that you've had. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you something that happened to me in Nashville that changed my life. Maybe when this when the snow storm drapping five and I'm gonna try not to cry, And so this did. This was the final cherry on top of the changing Sunday. I was. Remember when we were having the puge snowstorms. Remember when you guys relying to us about the weather. Um, I was walking down Kirkwood in between twelve stop and eight. I was walking my dog

and there was a woman walking. Um. I was walking back, she was walking up and we both had our masks on because that's what we were doing at the time. And and I say hello to everybody. By the way, if I'm walking down the street and it's me and you, we're saying hello, whether you want to acknowledge or not. And if you don't acknowledge it, I'm gonna say something to you about not acknowledge. But if I opened the door for you and you don't say thank you, I'm

will probably follow you into the building. You'd be like, did you not I'm sorry the door for you? If you didn't see me that was me, you know. So I walked by her and I just dropped my mask and um, I go, hey, how are you doing? I hope you having a great day? And she dropped her mask and she I recognized where she was, this woman? Do I I seem panhaning up at Kroger A bunch handling, yeah, begging um and and I said how you doing? She

said good. She was carrying like a little plassic bag that had some to go food containers and how are you doing? She was pretty good? And we just started talking and I go, how's it going? She was pretty good? She said, I gotta run up the street. There was a woman who had seen her also out at Kroger, and as I I was like, look, I can't give any money, but it's supposed to snow for four days. Do you want to come stay in my backhouse for four days so you can get out of this no

stranger telling a stranger right? And I was like, I was like, Wow, that's amazing. And I was impressed with this woman. And this homeless woman says to me, she was yeah, I want to get home. I bought us to taco if there's a taco chark right at the corner, and she said, I thought I saved up the money from today to bias. It was a taco plate. A taco plate, and I want to go home and share it with it. And it just struck me that somebody

who had nothing gave everything. Oh yeah, I couldn't get over how here's a couple of things I couldn't get over one. How genuinely happy she was to be able to do this for somebody else. And I thought, honestly, in that moment, why does she know more about happiness than I? I have? On paper, I have so much more than she does, But I can't remember the last time I was that happy with myself. Wow, Josh, that's serious, that's profound. And how proud proud she was of herself.

Was like, what am I missing in this life? What am I prioritizing that I apparently I've prioritized them so much that they're not attainable. That I'm just constantly reaching for this thing that's just out of my grass. Hers was right here, she grabbed it, and I was so happy to do this for this woman that I profoundly. I went home. I probably cried for about a half

an hour straight. It really it impacted I mean it impacts me too, but like that was a moment that like it changed the course of your thought about life without a doubt, without a doubt. It it it made me want to be to find happiness in this simplicity. It doesn't like, look, we get one ride on this rock, what am I chasing? The happiness I get you on that? And especially so easy, there's always something else to get.

And as soon as you get what you think you wanted, there's something else and someone else has this, and it's like, but like, what are we actually going for happiness? Look what you got in front of you get that beautiful baby, and you get that tall, strapping, handsome husband, and happiness is in front of you every day. But for whatever reason, we're always looking at our front door for happiness and so look, obviously you can't it. There has to be

the blend. There has to be the balance, and part of the balance has to be that happiness is in front of you and to find that and to embrace it into not prioritize or to put your what you consider to be your financial happiness or your business above what really is important, which is those people when you're eighty who are going to be sitting next to you, smiling with you, laughing with you, rememory stories about your

beautiful life, do you know? And so I don't know that I would have found that because I'm not sure I would ever allow myself to get off the wheel. L A, I get that. And so it's been such a and John arriving here, which brings me to I mean, I want to keep talking to you. I'm gonna start to wrap it up, but I want it brings me to you thriving, which is you're doing all these shows

at Zaney's. They are hacked. You're doing like okay, So tell me about the one that's coming up, like this big one, because like I feel like you're like on top of your game here and like in your life emotionally, spiritually. Just hearing you in this interview and then like your career to me is like reflecting your internal state because your career is like crushing and thriving, and like if you're just doing so well here, I thank you for saying that I feel so good and that's a key

thing to feel good as an artist. You know that to be true that you are when my shoulders were up like this. There was no flow, yes, and so I think nothing was coming out of and the things that we're coming out of me felt a little forced. And and one thing that really one thing that I really didn't do much in l A, just because I was more worried about what other common experience. Yeah, my

guitar doing the guitar county and I love it. You know, there's silly parodies, I write some originals, I do some character stuff, but it's just silly fun and we and so on June, I'm recording my very first comedy and music album and I'm wanna have a pretty far I'm first penty it adds as so it's live. It's gonna be a live recording. So you are doing a show and you're recording the whole show. So that's a big deal, Josh.

The other thing that I like to do, and I think we've talked, I'd like to push myself into things that make me nervous that I've never done. So live show means I don't get to stop down and do it over if I mess it up, which on a special is a little risky, but it's kind of how I like to do it. It's kind of how I like to do it. I really feel like, especially with art, that the perfection is in the imperfection. With love, especially live,

I want to know I'm at a live show. I want to know that ship happens, life is happening, and we're still all here together and we can move on, you know what I mean? Like And so this show will have crazy surprise guests. Is there anything you can tell us that will be there? Well? As always, My partner in crime on stage is Felip Sweet from a little big thing. He's you know what he really is like and he and I are so similar in so many ways. We really love to just go what's gonna happen?

I don't know, let's go see Let's have some fun and that's it and fun vibe to work with. And he's so talented. So when you're both talented and you're both willing to let it roll, you have all the creativity is just flowing. And neither one of us care about and I'm not going to use the word fail, but neither one of us care about bumps in the road on stage because that's part of the deal. That's

part of the deal. And you know, what I think as an audience member, it's kind of fun to see that every now and then we're like, well that could work. You know. It's fun to see people recover from it too, because you're like everyone has bumps in the road in their life, and like when you see someone who's putting themselves out there on stage and then they can like recover and make it funny and like move along, it just kind of gives you, like the confidence in yourself

that it's okay to mess up. It's fine. Yeah. And by the way, as an artist, for me, you can't get better unless you fail. You have to realize what doesn't work, you have to try, and if you don't try new things, a lot of times you never find the gym. So true, you never find the gym any things, and push yourself into that uncomfortable place too, because it just stretches you to that spot where like, yeah, there

it is, there's a gym. Do you remember, I imagine for you because you're very open on his person, but do you remember the first time you kind of dipped your toe into that water in public and how nerve racking that was? Well, that would probably be for me when I started like singing live in front of people, like even like in like high school and junior high and started performing, and I really wasn't that great at

the time. I got a lot better. Yeah, you start putting yourself out there to be judged on your what you think is your talent. You know. So, by the way, why aren't you and I singing a song on stage? Retired from singing, but I still can sing. I just don't really sound live a long time. I mean, but what we're doing together, and you've heard me singing, so you're gonna sound great next to me. And we'll write

a funny song. We could write a funny song about marriage. Okay, Okay, I'm not shutting down the idea, Okay, I keep I'll keep it open. June twenty off, Guys, it's live. It is going to be It's gonna be a bang, and they can everyone to buy the CD afterwards. H Yeah. I will post the video on my YouTube page and then um, I will release it on iTunes and if you if you, yeah, I do like in my stand up, which I do like storytelling, and so it's becomes a

mixture of storytelling you news. What is your YouTube page and your website, Where does everyone find you? Website is comedian Joshua dot com. Social media is all josh Wolf comedy and uh, I think it's Josh Wolf Comedy on YouTube too, and I think I got over a million people over there, and the videos are a ton of them. That's so big, they'll have a million people following you. Do you think like a million people or do you just think of it as like you're just talking. I

am so humbled. This is true every time I step on stage, and I mentioned there's a lot on stage, especially on the roof. It's a very humbling job for me because when I see people in the audience, even if there's only say there were only ten people there, I still know who's on my list of people that I would leave my house to go see. So to be on anyone else's list is like so humbling. It's hard for me to put it into words. That's expective

to always do it like that. But someone is willing to go to the effort to leave their house, to spend the money to buy the ticket, to arrange whatever they need to arrange to be there to see you, because it's worth their time. It's what makes them feel better. I always think that, like, what is it as an entertainer that you are offering to someone? What are you giving to them to bring them something that they need

in their life? And that's where I feel like entertainment is so precious is because everyone has hard lives and struggles and things they have to deal with. So entertainment is that moment to laugh, to feel something, to reset your soul, to get out of your grind. It's needed. It's important for your spiritual being to like drop that guard that you carry all day and that monkey on your back and like have a good time, you know,

like people need that. I think the biggest thing for me that And when I talk to a lot of people over this past year, when I asked them, I'm like, what's the A couple of tell me the big things takeaways? And there were three big takeaways that were consistent. One I it made me refocus on what was important in my life. I hear that over and over again about and whatever it is that was important. It made you go,

what what have I been doing right? The other thing that um being inside for a year made people remember I gotta remember to have fun. Like I think people go through their lives and forget to have fun. Anytime anybody tells me I didn't have time, all I don't have time, I don't. So you break down your entire day. And I don't know about you, but I funk about for more, way more than a half an hour a day. You can't find fifteen minutes for yourself every day, that's

a lie. At the minimum, fifteen minutes. What do you like? What is it you like? And make sure for at least fifteen minutes a day a you're finding that piece. And I think over this past year, a lot of people have been like, yeah, I just need to remember what I like to do and to do that, you know, and entertainment, man, you got people forgot to have fun. That people have been living their whole lives with no fun.

It's stress, stressful, and like all the good stuff comes when you let yourself have fun, because then you can relax, and then you can let your soul come out, and then you can remember why maybe you're here a little bit, not just to work and die. There's so much more. What you get one ride on this rod? One you get one ride? How do you want to live it? You want to live it, um yelling at people online who probably aren't even the people you think they are.

Or do you want to go outside like your life and enjoy your own life? You know, I really believe this to be true, and um, I think if you you could probably take this the wrong way. But the way I mean it is is I think if you really want to make a difference, and if everybody was like I want to make a difference, cool, that everybody should take care of the people who live in their community. Right, be good to the people who live in your community. So if it's a bad always rapidly leave your life.

So what do you want people to know? So I feel like this is it? How do you let's wrap this up with this? Because this is a good ending moment. I love this. Take care of the people live in your community. Right. This doesn't mean you don't care about

other ethnicities or other marginalized groups. But so say we live in If the ven diagram is you're taking care of people in your community, well you and I both belong to different communities, right, so some overlap, but if everybody is good to the people in their community, it overlaps to the point where we're all just good to each other. Do you know what I'm saying? I should Look, I'm gonna use this as an example, and I'm not going to get into whatever side side somebody might think

I am. But I've seen Portland being thrown in the news for the last year Portland Portland, Portland as a rally rallying cry. Why do the people who don't live in Portland give us ship? Take care of what's happening in Alabama? Or do you know what I mean? Like, if you're worrying about ship, that don't affect your life, And the only way it affects your life is it adds stress and anger because you're letting people push fear of look around you. Take care of the people in

your community. Does that people need that person needs a lift? Does this food bank need help? Can I have? You know? Just do we need to volunteer at the school? Whatever it is? Everybody does that? What's the problem. I agree with you. I totally agree that if we all took care of everyone around us, if we all did that, then what a wonderful world it would be. It's it's

it's not as hard as it seems. And and um, this one person can't do everything, and I think that's like the stress that I feel, especially with like all the news and all the social media and all the access to seeing everything going on at all times. I'm a super empathetic feeling person, and I feel like a lot of people are too, and it just feels like it's just too much, Like I don't even know how to like get it, get going to help all these

giant problems, Like I feel like I can all. And I've kind of come to the same realization with you because I'm like, what am I doing to help the world, And I was like, you know what I am? What is what I can contribute is my podcast. I can bring guests on that share stories that can help others and that can spread and that's where I feel like I have a gift. And then I can help where I live in my community exactly what you're saying and what comes into my life that I can be a difference.

I can do that. But besides that, you can't stretch yourself out across the whole world. It's not possible. It's really very difficult. And by the way, I'm not saying that we shouldn't be trying to supply clean drinking water to places in Africa. And I understand that what I'm saying can be broken down to you broke blah blah.

But I think the thing I will add to that is I think you can do things worldwide, but you need to let yourself be called to it, like you just you don't have to do everything in the world because you said you have to. I think you should go where you feel a calling to help, because then you really will impact. I agree, and I also am affirmed. And this is just again me, but I feel like kings well, like I feel like I'm more useful talking

to people individually or in groups in person. I don't do a lot of spousing about stuff online because it becomes white noious, And I really do want to be useful, but I want to be useful in the way that I think that I I can be, like I know me, and I think the changes that I make are best face to face with people, and if that's one at a time, five people at a time, or whatever it is. But I think Twitter and face Book and Instagram you

just end up shouting and do an echo chamber. And I don't know that anybody's minds or lives are changed, you know, and so I choose not to do that, and I choose to make my difference in the world in real time. M hmm. But there may be someone who feels like they connect on you know, YouTube or Instagram or whatever. So it's really goes back to you have to do what feels right for you where you can make the difference and really like feel like you're

impacting in your own life. And then we're just gonna die. So that's it. That's it, and then you just hip start. You high five someone on the way out. Good luck out over from here, it's gonna be a long, buppy journey. You're gonna have a lot of great times. It's as gonna be really emotionally stressful, and probably some trauma's gonna happen. But overall, I hope you get to the point where you see the point of it all. Yeah, enjoy yourself.

I don't forget to have a good time. I up that, okay, Joshua, If you're amazing, I can literally talk to you for hours. You're such an awesome guy. I'm so happy to have you as a friend. I love your comedy and everyone who's in Nashville. You'll need to go June twentie. Get your tickets for Zanies because I'm sure it will be packed. And then if you can't make it, make sure you follow along on Josh's handles and figure out how to get this live CD that's going on. Then you're coming

to the show, aren't you. Yeah, I'm gonna call. I'm gonna really play for it and get a babysitterre and stuff. Okay, it's hard for me to fly by a stick in my pants, no, you know, but I uh yeah, we'll be there. Yeah, it's so it's the opposite for me. Now, I'm like, what are we doing? I don't know, ask me tomorrow. Isn't that great that you like you? You know what it's like to be strapped down in the best way by kids where it's like you have to only do what you can do and then that's it,

nothing extra. And then when the kids are all grown and like on their own, it's like you got I mean, you can just run wild. I got a hot wife, we got some pretty time. Yeah yeah, yeah. Now, I will tell you we're at an age now where if someone was like I want to have sex all night long. I'd be like, that sounds terror, that sounds I'm good for one time in an episode of Friends? How about that? Can we can we compromise? You know what I mean?

Right now, at my point in life, if someone was like, I want to have a threesome, I'd be like, cool, my threesome. My my my ideal threesome is Beth. Beth and I are having sex and you're cleaning up the house. Is that cool? Well? I mean, really, fantasy st change the longer the older evolved. They definitely do. They definitely well, josh thank you so much for joining me. You're awesome. This is so fun, and everyone check them out just online, josh all things. I don't know your handles, but what

are they spout them out over time. Me and Joshua dot com is the website in Joshua comedy and all socials. Okay, great, okay, Joshua