August 23, 2022 • 27 mins
Comedian and funeral director Shuler King joins Rick to talk about his life and contrasting careers. Later, Rick welcomes comedian Bobby Jaycox to the show to talk about his St. Louis roots, life and career.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment. Hey,
welcome back to the show Rick Tittle with you nationally
syndicated of San Francisco and around the world on the
American Forces Radio Network. Always loved catching up with the comedians,
and if you are in the City of Love, make
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sure to get to Helium Comedy Club tomorrow Saturday and
even a Sunday show. There'll be two shows with our
guests Schuler King tomorrow too on Saturday and a special
Sunday show at seven pm. Schuler will be headlining and
Schuler welcome to the show. First of all, And and
what's it like when you grow up being funny around
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your friends? Because I think all of us as teenagers
thought we were hilarious, but we we never transitioned into
making it a profession. So when did you know, Hey, man,
I think I can make money doing this? Oh man? Um,
A bunch of people just started telling me that I
was like that I needed to be a comedian, you
know what I mean. And it started out with me
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just uh, just uh. I don't know. I always felt good.
He's making people laugh. So next thing, you know, people
started saying, hey, man, he'd big meeting. And next thing
you know, hey, I gave it a shot and I
didn't get booed. I just put it that way. I
didn't get boomed. So you know, that's what gave me
the confidence that, you know what, I think I can.
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I think I I'll give it a shot. Let me
try to people's up. Now, your family has a um, well,
let's just say that you're you. You're a funeral director, right, so, um,
there's nothing funnier than funerals. I mean not so this
the the contrast between your your day job and your
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night job. Huh yeah yeah, yeah yeah, there was like
there's this big contrast you know what I'm saying, like, um,
well and actuality. You'd be surprised how many uh messed
up jokes and things you hear around funeral directors. Man,
it's hilarious, but you know a lot of things, so much,
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so much stuff happens when people die. What would be
and I know this is getting kind of dark, but
you're probably used to it, what would be maybe the
biggest mishalf you ever saw with like or maybe the
corpse fell out of the box or something. Now you
know what's funny enough, I've never we never had anything
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like that. Um. I've seen people get put in the
volt casket before, and uh, i've seen people like uh,
I've seen somebody you know, well okay years ago. UM
and I wasn't there to see it, but some people
started shooting at a church. Who was a guy who
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had had more than one wife, and uh, you know,
of course you know they were I guess they were
the same type of woman because they just both of
them decided that they were going to come and uh
bring guns to the uh to the funeral. And they decided,
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you know, okay, we see it. There's a there's some
kind of some kind of issue here, and both of
them decided that they were going to resolve that issue
by h you know, I guess you know it's gonna
be a two for one, you know what I mean?
What was what was the weirdest thing you had to
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put in a coffin with somebody? I don't know, I
mean president, I know I put um. I assume people
get buried with a lot of stuff. Man, it was
a guy that um, that died, and it was this
tradition that they threw money into the casket. So you know,
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it just took a lot of willpower to me standing
there and watch people throw a bunch of money into it.
Can't get like that was that was hard. Like that
was the hardest funeral I've ever come to, you know,
I mean because it was a lot of money. And
to this day, I still remember where he was buried,
and I still like I had to. I don't live
in that state anymore, so I'm like, all right, I
don't have to worry about you know, uh, you know,
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being there, but you know, every nine and it kind
of a crossed my mind, you know, kind of swing
back anybody to dug it up, you know what I mean. Well, yeah,
and just you know, a personal note when when my
dad passed away and he was a naval officer, he
had one really cool medal that that he earned. And
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after the funeral, I asked my mom, I go, where's
Dad's medal and she said, well, he was in his
dress uniform. He was wearing it. I go, you you
you buried the metal and she said, well we can
buy another one, and I got nan, I don't want
a fake one. But have you ever had somebody get
buried and someone's like, exhume that body, I want something back. Um,
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I've seen people like most of the time it's just
driving to move them or something like that. But it's
never been like, oh, I want something to Trust me,
you don't want anything back, you know, And trust me
when I tell you you've been in there and they've
been there for a while, you don't want anything back.
I don't care what you how bad you think you wanted.
Like And then when you have somebody who's said, oh,
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well like grave robberts, like you got to be oneself
and somebody like you really have to be, like you
really have to be money hungry to dig into somebody's
grave to get something like because I've seen it what
it looks like when people come out of you know
what I mean, like what they look like like. You know,
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it's terrible, you know, but you know, if you really
want you know what I mean, like that gold too,
is that bad? Then I guess you could get it. No,
I wouldn't do it. A couple more questions for Schuler
King and healing feeling. I'm asking him a hundred mortuary questions.
But here's another one. Sure did you ever have like
I don't know during the embalming process or whatever, just
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like somebody gets a case of nerves and move a
hand or blink or anything really spooky and creepy. Listen, man,
people asking you know all the time, and I will
say with the resounding hell no. And the reason is because,
um I've said, you know, I don't know if y'all noticed,
but I'm black. And the would I wouldn't be in
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this business if there were people like if somebody moves,
you know, like if I if it's my understanding that
you are dead and then you move, that's my last
dead work. Like I'm not coming back. I'm retired. I
officially retired, you understanding, like I promise you, and that
will also be the day that my colon will be
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as clean as however, then you trust that because then
there will be some bold movement going on. I can
promise you that. So the comment I'm black, does that
go back to the Eddie Murphy thing, like we out
like the first sign of a ghost. Yeah, like we're
gonna We're not. We're not, you know, I'm not thinking around.
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I'm not gonna make it. I don't care you that
he said white people get flashlights and go investigate. Yeah,
I mean, but you know what, and you find out
that that's that's not exactly true. White people y'all run too,
I don't know, Like we gotta get rid of some
of the stereotype of things that you know, like white
people run and you know what I mean, you may
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not be the fastest people in the world. Run. Now.
I know you're from the Palmetto State, So you know,
when I think of South Carolina, I think it like
you know, Danny McBride, you know, comedy as well, but
as South Carolina and Charleston, all those great old southern towns.
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What was it like growing up there? Um? Well, it
was okay, you know what I mean, sometimes just something good,
something bad, you know what I mean. The natural scene
is beautiful, you know what I mean, And then you
know it's nice and slow you'd be going, you know
what I mean. But you know there's some some things
that are just kind of kind of rough to you
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know what I mean. Well, what was it? Was it
five years ago they took down the Confederate flag, right,
wasn't it in the state flag? Right? Yeah? It was Yeah,
it was that and then uh, you know it was
your kind of I don't know if that that means anything,
you know what I mean, Like you know they take
down the flags, like okay, so all right now everybody's
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had and you don't know where the l a a now.
So you know, I was more comfortable when people were
out in the open. You knew we had not to
go now. I ain't gotta I gotta ask a few
questions to think out with it. Somebody likes me or not,
you know, but you know, I guess so goes the world,
you know. I mean, that's that's like symbolism, you know
what I mean, Like black people say, you know, we
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want justice, and the only thing we really got was
that said, Okay, we're not gonna call the master bedroom
the master and rom that makes you all uncomfortable, like
we you're not gonna get justice, but we're all gonna
stop calling this. We'll call it the main bath bath
room in the bedroom, but we're not gonna say master.
And it's like, okay, well we appreciate that, but that's
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not what we ask. Well, what about the golf tournament
the Masters in Georgia? Right, you know what I mean.
It's like, I don't know. I think you know, everybody
is not that sensitive. Well, we get to a point
and see me, being from South Carolina, I haven't caught
up to everybody's sensitivity. So you know, I'm I'm I'm,
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I'm very blatant. I'm not a shock person. But I
just say stuff and you know, and you know, I've
just found myself to a point where I will say
I talk normal, like how I normally talk, and everybody
starts crying because that's the you know what I mean.
If I step on it, if you step on the roach,
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then that's topic masculinity. Like I didn't know that. I
didn't know that I was supposed to pick the roach
up and kiss him and set him out the door.
I didn't know that. Well, I didn't know. Like standing
in line at a party for the bathroom and the
line for the girls was like ten deep in the
line from the men's you do you could just walk
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right in and somebody says mail privilege. I'm like, because
you've got a longer line, this is mail. Okay, I
guess this is mail privilege. Sometimes I don't know too. Yeah, no,
I think, um, but now, the way things are going,
everybody's mixing and matching. It's gonna get to the point
where we're gonna be able to just pee wherever we want,
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just dropped trial. Yeah, it's not really going to matter.
There's no such thing as you know. It's just just
a big you know, we'll be able to just have
a big soup of whatever. You know what I mean,
It's really not gonna matter. I give it, give it
five years. Everybody's just going to be you know, it's
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whoever gets there first, you know what I mean. That's good. Alright,
last question for you. I've always been impressed as someone
from uh, you know, the Bay Area, I've always been
impressed by the manners of the South, Yes, sir, No, sir,
you know, darling sugar, all the little um sweet things
you say. Do you like when you go to Philadelphia?
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I mean, that's that's that's the industrial north right there.
So do you you see that contrast? Yeah, I actually
talk when I um, when I met my wife. My
wife is not from She's she's a military person. So
you know, I grew up calling women, hey, dobbing, ma'am,
sugar punking all the stuff. And she didn't like that,
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you know what I mean, I had so I had
to learned how to stop doing that real fans, you
know what I mean. You know, but yeah, I see, Um,
you know, North women are you know, they're very aggressive.
Like you know, you come from the conservative South. You
start traveling, you realize that all women aren't the same,
you know what I mean. Like I was in the
Jamaica and you know, women are very aggressive in Jamaica,
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you know what I mean, Like I don't you know,
and it's and you don't have any choice because all
of the men are skinny and all the women are big.
Well you're you're kind of a you're kind of a
dapper guy though you got the drip going right. Yeah,
I mean, you know I am, I guess you know
when I'm on stage, but you know, I'm like a
regular guy after you know, I'm a jeans in the
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shirt most of the time. But on stage, you know,
I've always you know, the reason why I started winning
tuxedos on stages because I didn't have any money. M Yeah,
because I didn't have money to have a wardrobe, so
I just would toxedo because I was like, I'll just
buy this it always works. Yeah, and and it seems
like you're working. I used to get, you know, get
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people to tease me about, you know, when tosedo. But
you know I'm I'm on the phone with you, So
I guess I made it. He made it. And make
sure to get over to Helium and Philly. Two shows tomorrow,
two shows Saturday, one show Sunday night, Helium Comedy dot
com Schuller good stuff. If you're ever in h San Francisco,
come on in studio. We'd love to have you. Man
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we loved bringing in the comedians here in the last
twenty years when they're in town or we get them
on the horn. And it's the first time we've met
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Bobby Jaycowks and he is a stand up comedian and
Bobby I was just told before you went on the
air that you're a huge sports fan and sports is
your whole life. Yeah, yeah, Dominic. Dominic took great care
of me. Yeah they did. In the sports know everything
about it. Uh No, I actually, uh I actually was
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gonna be the in game host of the St. Louis Blues.
True story. I was like in like the final rounds
of being like that guy that's like on the ice
on the commercials, you know, that goes out there and
like plays games with the audience. But then they asked
me hockey question and they're like, so you know nothing
about hockey, and like you got it? Yeah, yeah, so yeah,
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not a crazy big sports fan, but yeah, because I
do comedy, that's what I do. I know a lot
of comics are sports fans. But I got I got
no extra time. Really do you know why? And maybe
you don't. The St. Louis Blue is a couple of
years ago, on their run to the Stanley Cup. Every
game they'd play Laura Brannigan's Gloria and the whole crowd
would sing it. You know. I think that's just something
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like I grew up with, and it's something that just happens,
and you kind of don't know where it comes from,
you know what I mean, I don't really know. I'm
sure someone in St. Louis is mad that. I don't
know that answer, but no, I don't know why they're
saying that, but yeah, it's definitely like something. I've heard
it pretty much every hockey game I went to when
you grew up, did you go to because you're a
Saint Louis guy, did you go to Old Bush? How
many times have you been to New Bush? I've probably
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I've probably been to I'm probably catching up on the
amount of times I've been to the Old Bush Stadium
because when I was younger, we would go that one
all the time, which I love. It was cool. It
looks like a colosseum like it was great. And now
I've been to the New Stadium a bunch, which I like, Uh,
you know, it's it's got such like a big nightlife
and stuff too, so it's like before it was just
you would go down there kind of for the game,
then you'd go around other bars. But now they kind
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of built it. It's like this whole area, so if
you go out to a game, you can hang out there.
But I'm a little partial to the old stadium, but
I think it's just nostalgian stuff like that. But yeah,
the New Stadium is pretty cool. One of the cool
things about this job over the last doing this show
twenty years is that if I get a young headliner
here at San Francisco, at Cobbs or the Punchline, and
then they get to the point where they're so huge
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they sell out that they don't need to do press anymore.
And one of them I had in here several times
is someone from your town, the lovely Nicky Glazer, who,
of course, yeah she's now she's now huge, So are
you guys peeps? Um she well, I would say she
helped me out a lot when I started, and yeah,
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I would say we're friends, but she's definitely helped me out.
More like that, it's more of a one way friendship.
She helped me out a lot, like yeah, when I
started out, I mean she took me on the road
to feature for her before I pretty much like started
hosting at my home club, which is like you moved
forward your home club. But she saw me, and uh,
her mom was actually one of the shows. Her mom
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saw me at an open mic and she, like Nicky
stopped me and she goes, you were my mom's favorite
comic tonight, And I was so new. I was like yeah, right,
she's like you were, Oh my god. Yeah, but Nikki's
killing She's got that new special coming out on HBO,
so yeah, that's she's killing it. Yeah, she's She's incredible.
I know you've also no opened for Nate Bargozzi of course,
who's clean. So do you do you have to be
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clean for his shows or not? Um, you know, when
I opened for him, I don't think he ever specifically
even asked for it, but I think because I knew
like that he was clean, I just chose to be, like, well,
a lot of his fans are going to be out there,
and if I'm headlining, you know, I'll do the material
that I want to do, you know. But if it's
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if I'm opening for someone, I give that respect, you know,
as often as I can. So I'm sure I probably
cleaned up my act. Like I just opened for Brian
Reagan a couple of weeks ago when I did against By,
like a five minute Gains spot for him, and he's
clean too, and it was at this big theater and
I was like, yeah, I'm definitely gonna do clean stuff
because that's what his fans want. So it's like I'm
not gonna go out there and be like this is
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what I do. I'm like, you know, because whenever he's like, now,
because I've been headlining more, I write more jokes from
just my secific perspective. But whenever you're starting, it's like
you're just kind of writing jokes. So it's like I
still have those, and I'll still bring those out, you know,
before a show, or just you know, do a clean
new joke that I'm doing, because you know, when you
get to open for any of those guys, I would
feel like it's important to care about their show because
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so many people just come out of the opener of
the host and they're like, whatever I want, and it's like, no, man,
it's not your show yet, because when it's your show,
you're gonna want people to kind of you know, not
your show or mess up your show. Sorry, do you
guys have a bleep on that? Oh my god? Yeah,
that's okay, you know it's uh. I mean, first of all,
does it get any better than Brian Regan? I mean,
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come on, really, it doesn't end. He is. He's so
nice off stage, and I'm not just saying because like
Nikki is the same way. There's so many comics that
I feel fortunate I got to meet, and I would
say Brian was one of the nicest, like he also
likes to joke. I was about to go do it
was like one of the biggest theaters I've ever done,
doing a guest spot form at the People, and I'm
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about to go on stage and he comes up to
me and he taps me on. I'm like about to
walk out, and he goes, Hey, the big yellow ones
the sun or these my glass He goes, those are
my bits. So I'm about to walk on stage. We're
doing that, and I go, Brian, you didn't tell me
that I thought I could do your bit. No, those
are my bits, And I go, Daniel Bryan until like
right before I'm going on stage, nothing with me. So
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it's like that always makes all the difference in the world,
because like getting to just work with comics, you know,
I always thought that would be the treat, But getting
to know them as people and that they're nice and
cool and stuff like that, that's that's always the best.
And yeah, Brian is definitely one of the grades of
all time for sure. In my book, got more questions
for Bobby jay Cox. You know you you have had
two jobs that girls like. I mean, you're on stage,
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you're commanding, and you know you're a good looking guy,
so the girls will look at you. But you are
also a fireman, and they even ugly fireman get girls
because oh it's a fireman. So what's that like you
would think. I will here's the thing though, it's like
to be a fire like when you're a firefight, like
if you do comedy, keep see you on stage. But like,
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like you know, most people at the fire aren't really
you know, looking for a date or like, oh my god,
my house, my dog, you know what I mean. People
are like did you get my dog out? You know,
that's that's what they're wondering. And then whenever you're out
in public, you know, you're not wearing your uniform, so
it's like you kind of have to bring it up.
And I think it's kind of you know, it's you know,
how often can you just be like ah blah blah blah,
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Yeah I have an accent work, Oh why because I'm
a firefight like, so it doesn't work as nice as
you would think. But uh, there are I will say,
there's a lot of guys that I know that are
firefighters and they use that, and I definitely when I
was like starting out, I really didn't try to say
it a lot because I, you know, I used I
feel like it's a civil servant job. You know. I
do it because it's something I wanted to do, not
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because of the perks of being like, oh, you get
a date from it or whatever. But I was out
on a date and this girl and asked me. She's like,
have you ever saved a person from a fire? And
I was like, you know what, I haven't, And I go,
but I have saved a dog, and I mean, I
think I didn't know that was she thought that was
cooler than a person that was I was like, oh wow,
I was like, I guess that's kind of cool. So, yeah,
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that's a uh that's one of the first of it.
But yeah, I was a firefighter for a while and
I love doing that. I really did. Even Brian Reagan,
he has a he has a bunch of brothers and
I think I think they're all brothers, maybe a couple
a couple of sisters, but like the pairs of him,
like him and his brother won't to stand up. And
he has two other brothers that are firefighters fires and
hit me. Two others that are lawyers or account who
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I don't remember, not who cares, but I can't remember.
But yeah, I I was a firefighter. And I told him.
He was like, let you know, my brothers were firefighters,
and I was like yeah. I was like, like did
you like it? And I was like, I it's a
great job. The only reason I quit is because I
just I had to do this, like I wanted. I
knew I had to give this a shot. I could
always go back to firefighting, but this is kind of, uh,
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you know, it's like a time sensitive thing. When I
was younger, I was like, I didn't really care about
David money or having, you know, a good job or anything.
I just cared about like wanting to see what it
felt like to do the road and all that stuff.
So I feel very fortunate with what all all the
stuff I've gotten to do, very cool. And then I
also got to say, I don't know too many people.
Maybe Jared Freed that has more interesting merch than you do.
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You checked it out, you like it. What's your favorite?
I think probably I think I think probably the car
decal that takes up the entire hood. Oh, that's so
my best friend Chris Briggs. Shout out Chris Briggs. He
made that for me. I was telling him. I was like,
I want to have some really silly merch that's like
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not available on my website, like just I was just
like thinking about really silly stuff. And he made that
for me, and he goes specifically, you can only it
only works for an eighty three Mustang. You can't get
the DK, it doesn't it can't go on any other car,
you can't go on a truck, and has to go
on the three Mustang. Yeah, so far no one's even
ordered it. But we are out of stock right now
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and we're having um, we're having problems getting you know,
the shipments in, but so is everybody. So now, your
name is Bobby Jay Cox. Your initials R b J.
So your mug that says I Heart b J. That
people misconstrue that, you know, I think they do, But
I only mean it's just my initials. So it's like
you like me, and it's like it's instead of it's
I heart New York, it looks like I heart you know,
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it's my initials. You know, I can't help those are
my initials. I can't help what people think. If someone
buys it because they also like me, that's what I'm hoping.
But if if they have something else in mind, Hey,
that's what merch is about it. You know, it's art.
You know, you can interpret however you want. By the way,
good looking models on your website too. Oh you think
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I am I allowed to say that? Or am I
appropriating or am I objectifying? You know? I don't know,
but I know the models you're speaking of, and I
will say that they are like they they like anyone
who makes If you make a beanie on the web
site that I made a beanie on like to sell
my merch, you get the same model. They just like
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it just slops it out. So I haven't met them.
I don't know them specifically. I didn't hire any of them,
but I got a lot of different models on there.
I have men, women, I have some babies. There's some
babies that have modeled my great for all ages. Well,
now tell me how uh you know. I don't want
to say you're too old for TikTok because I think
of fourteen year olds, but it is a powerful tool.
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How have you used TikTok to help your career. Um. Well,
recently Helium Studios, they've been posting uh my clips from
the special I did at uh their club said like
a short thirty minute special and it was a great
experience and they've been sharing it on there. And I
will say the caveats to what you said. It it
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almost it can kind of outdata sometimes to assume something.
It's four kids because when it first came out, and
one was because but here's how I here's kind of
how I think about it. Like you ever been like
when you were a kid or you know whatever, like
you ever like are you ever like you know all that.
You're at a party, but it's like, you know, the
adults are upstairs and the kids are downstairs. It's like
when the kids are downstairs playing, it's like that's your
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own world. That's how TikTok started it. And then eventually
there's a couple of creeps that come down and they're like,
the wey kids don't playing soccer down here, and they
start playing with the kids and you're like, okay, those
guys are creepy. But then eventually there's a bar downstairs.
You know, eventually it's like, hey, kids go outside. Now
the adults are downstairs too, and it's like, so now
it's kind of like now it's just a space for everybody.
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I feel like at the beginning, yeah, it was just
kids like lip thinking stuff. But now some of the
funniest stuff I've ever seen is from TikTok, and I
I just don't want to. I don't want to be
one of those guys that's like, oh I prefer Vinyl.
You know, it's like you gotta sometimes you gotta go
with it, so you know, I don't. I don't really
use it as much because I've never found a way
of like, I'll post funny videos whenever I feel like it.
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But I have friends that do really well from it,
and if you don't post all the time, you don't
do that well. And I just I just don't have
the time. I work other jobs right now. It's like
I'm because I'm driving all over the country. So it's
like gases. You know, gas is expensive. There's so many
like you know, just different parts of it. So I
have to work because my money. Who I have a
friend he does so well on kicktock. He does great,
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He's so funny, and he sent he showed me how
much money he made. I think it was twelve cents
last year. He goes, Bobby checked this out and I see,
so he's like, yeah, dude, I don't like to brag.
He made a post about it. He's like, I like
the brag guys, but yeah, my buddy Joe not it.
He doesn't so good on there. And he's like, yeah,
if you don't make money, but it is cool and
it is nice to have like those viewers and stuff.
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Like I was on a subway and I think was
I can't remember if I was in Silly or New York,
but I saw like another not a like either a
fellow comic. I think I've done a show with her
or something like. She looked familiar. But I was standing
next to someone on the subway in their phone, like
got it, Like they were standing right next to me.
I look over and it was a clip I had
just watched on my phone, and I was like, oh,
that person is now getting introduced to other comedians. Like
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it's not great because you have to give your stuff
out and it's better to come see it live, you know,
But I think it's a cool time to be able
to like just sit down on a subway and you
just find a new comic you like, like you know
what I mean. Like, there's this comic Steve Gillespie who
I literally think an Instagram kept showing him to me
and I was like, I guess I'll check this stay out.
And he's so funny. I just saw him live in
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mil Walton or not no long not. I hate the case.
I hate to cut you off. We're going to a break,
Bobby Jacox dot com j A y C. When you're
in San Francisco, come on in man, absolutely, Rick, thanks
for having me on. Have a good day, Bunny. Thank you.
This has been the Rick Tittle Podcast on the eight
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Side Network.
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment. Hey,
welcome back to the show Rick Tittle with you nationally
syndicated of San Francisco and around the world on the
American Forces Radio Network. Always loved catching up with the comedians,
and if you are in the City of Love, make
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sure to get to Helium Comedy Club tomorrow Saturday and
even a Sunday show. There'll be two shows with our
guests Schuler King tomorrow too on Saturday and a special
Sunday show at seven pm. Schuler will be headlining and
Schuler welcome to the show. First of all, And and
what's it like when you grow up being funny around
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your friends? Because I think all of us as teenagers
thought we were hilarious, but we we never transitioned into
making it a profession. So when did you know, Hey, man,
I think I can make money doing this? Oh man? Um,
A bunch of people just started telling me that I
was like that I needed to be a comedian, you
know what I mean. And it started out with me
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just uh, just uh. I don't know. I always felt good.
He's making people laugh. So next thing, you know, people
started saying, hey, man, he'd big meeting. And next thing
you know, hey, I gave it a shot and I
didn't get booed. I just put it that way. I
didn't get boomed. So you know, that's what gave me
the confidence that, you know what, I think I can.
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I think I I'll give it a shot. Let me
try to people's up. Now, your family has a um, well,
let's just say that you're you. You're a funeral director, right, so, um,
there's nothing funnier than funerals. I mean not so this
the the contrast between your your day job and your
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night job. Huh yeah yeah, yeah yeah, there was like
there's this big contrast you know what I'm saying, like, um,
well and actuality. You'd be surprised how many uh messed
up jokes and things you hear around funeral directors. Man,
it's hilarious, but you know a lot of things, so much,
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so much stuff happens when people die. What would be
and I know this is getting kind of dark, but
you're probably used to it, what would be maybe the
biggest mishalf you ever saw with like or maybe the
corpse fell out of the box or something. Now you
know what's funny enough, I've never we never had anything
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like that. Um. I've seen people get put in the
volt casket before, and uh, i've seen people like uh,
I've seen somebody you know, well okay years ago. UM
and I wasn't there to see it, but some people
started shooting at a church. Who was a guy who
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had had more than one wife, and uh, you know,
of course you know they were I guess they were
the same type of woman because they just both of
them decided that they were going to come and uh
bring guns to the uh to the funeral. And they decided,
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you know, okay, we see it. There's a there's some
kind of some kind of issue here, and both of
them decided that they were going to resolve that issue
by h you know, I guess you know it's gonna
be a two for one, you know what I mean?
What was what was the weirdest thing you had to
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put in a coffin with somebody? I don't know, I
mean president, I know I put um. I assume people
get buried with a lot of stuff. Man, it was
a guy that um, that died, and it was this
tradition that they threw money into the casket. So you know,
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it just took a lot of willpower to me standing
there and watch people throw a bunch of money into it.
Can't get like that was that was hard. Like that
was the hardest funeral I've ever come to, you know,
I mean because it was a lot of money. And
to this day, I still remember where he was buried,
and I still like I had to. I don't live
in that state anymore, so I'm like, all right, I
don't have to worry about you know, uh, you know,
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being there, but you know, every nine and it kind
of a crossed my mind, you know, kind of swing
back anybody to dug it up, you know what I mean. Well, yeah,
and just you know, a personal note when when my
dad passed away and he was a naval officer, he
had one really cool medal that that he earned. And
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after the funeral, I asked my mom, I go, where's
Dad's medal and she said, well, he was in his
dress uniform. He was wearing it. I go, you you
you buried the metal and she said, well we can
buy another one, and I got nan, I don't want
a fake one. But have you ever had somebody get
buried and someone's like, exhume that body, I want something back. Um,
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I've seen people like most of the time it's just
driving to move them or something like that. But it's
never been like, oh, I want something to Trust me,
you don't want anything back, you know, And trust me
when I tell you you've been in there and they've
been there for a while, you don't want anything back.
I don't care what you how bad you think you wanted.
Like And then when you have somebody who's said, oh,
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well like grave robberts, like you got to be oneself
and somebody like you really have to be, like you
really have to be money hungry to dig into somebody's
grave to get something like because I've seen it what
it looks like when people come out of you know
what I mean, like what they look like like. You know,
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it's terrible, you know, but you know, if you really
want you know what I mean, like that gold too,
is that bad? Then I guess you could get it. No,
I wouldn't do it. A couple more questions for Schuler
King and healing feeling. I'm asking him a hundred mortuary questions.
But here's another one. Sure did you ever have like
I don't know during the embalming process or whatever, just
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like somebody gets a case of nerves and move a
hand or blink or anything really spooky and creepy. Listen, man,
people asking you know all the time, and I will
say with the resounding hell no. And the reason is because,
um I've said, you know, I don't know if y'all noticed,
but I'm black. And the would I wouldn't be in
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this business if there were people like if somebody moves,
you know, like if I if it's my understanding that
you are dead and then you move, that's my last
dead work. Like I'm not coming back. I'm retired. I
officially retired, you understanding, like I promise you, and that
will also be the day that my colon will be
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as clean as however, then you trust that because then
there will be some bold movement going on. I can
promise you that. So the comment I'm black, does that
go back to the Eddie Murphy thing, like we out
like the first sign of a ghost. Yeah, like we're
gonna We're not. We're not, you know, I'm not thinking around.
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I'm not gonna make it. I don't care you that
he said white people get flashlights and go investigate. Yeah,
I mean, but you know what, and you find out
that that's that's not exactly true. White people y'all run too,
I don't know, Like we gotta get rid of some
of the stereotype of things that you know, like white
people run and you know what I mean, you may
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not be the fastest people in the world. Run. Now.
I know you're from the Palmetto State, So you know,
when I think of South Carolina, I think it like
you know, Danny McBride, you know, comedy as well, but
as South Carolina and Charleston, all those great old southern towns.
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What was it like growing up there? Um? Well, it
was okay, you know what I mean, sometimes just something good,
something bad, you know what I mean. The natural scene
is beautiful, you know what I mean, And then you
know it's nice and slow you'd be going, you know
what I mean. But you know there's some some things
that are just kind of kind of rough to you
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know what I mean. Well, what was it? Was it
five years ago they took down the Confederate flag, right,
wasn't it in the state flag? Right? Yeah? It was Yeah,
it was that and then uh, you know it was
your kind of I don't know if that that means anything,
you know what I mean, Like you know they take
down the flags, like okay, so all right now everybody's
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had and you don't know where the l a a now.
So you know, I was more comfortable when people were
out in the open. You knew we had not to
go now. I ain't gotta I gotta ask a few
questions to think out with it. Somebody likes me or not,
you know, but you know, I guess so goes the world,
you know. I mean, that's that's like symbolism, you know
what I mean, Like black people say, you know, we
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want justice, and the only thing we really got was
that said, Okay, we're not gonna call the master bedroom
the master and rom that makes you all uncomfortable, like
we you're not gonna get justice, but we're all gonna
stop calling this. We'll call it the main bath bath
room in the bedroom, but we're not gonna say master.
And it's like, okay, well we appreciate that, but that's
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not what we ask. Well, what about the golf tournament
the Masters in Georgia? Right, you know what I mean.
It's like, I don't know. I think you know, everybody
is not that sensitive. Well, we get to a point
and see me, being from South Carolina, I haven't caught
up to everybody's sensitivity. So you know, I'm I'm I'm,
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I'm very blatant. I'm not a shock person. But I
just say stuff and you know, and you know, I've
just found myself to a point where I will say
I talk normal, like how I normally talk, and everybody
starts crying because that's the you know what I mean.
If I step on it, if you step on the roach,
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then that's topic masculinity. Like I didn't know that. I
didn't know that I was supposed to pick the roach
up and kiss him and set him out the door.
I didn't know that. Well, I didn't know. Like standing
in line at a party for the bathroom and the
line for the girls was like ten deep in the
line from the men's you do you could just walk
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right in and somebody says mail privilege. I'm like, because
you've got a longer line, this is mail. Okay, I
guess this is mail privilege. Sometimes I don't know too. Yeah, no,
I think, um, but now, the way things are going,
everybody's mixing and matching. It's gonna get to the point
where we're gonna be able to just pee wherever we want,
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just dropped trial. Yeah, it's not really going to matter.
There's no such thing as you know. It's just just
a big you know, we'll be able to just have
a big soup of whatever. You know what I mean,
It's really not gonna matter. I give it, give it
five years. Everybody's just going to be you know, it's
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whoever gets there first, you know what I mean. That's good. Alright,
last question for you. I've always been impressed as someone
from uh, you know, the Bay Area, I've always been
impressed by the manners of the South, Yes, sir, No, sir,
you know, darling sugar, all the little um sweet things
you say. Do you like when you go to Philadelphia?
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I mean, that's that's that's the industrial north right there.
So do you you see that contrast? Yeah, I actually
talk when I um, when I met my wife. My
wife is not from She's she's a military person. So
you know, I grew up calling women, hey, dobbing, ma'am,
sugar punking all the stuff. And she didn't like that,
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you know what I mean, I had so I had
to learned how to stop doing that real fans, you
know what I mean. You know, but yeah, I see, Um,
you know, North women are you know, they're very aggressive.
Like you know, you come from the conservative South. You
start traveling, you realize that all women aren't the same,
you know what I mean. Like I was in the
Jamaica and you know, women are very aggressive in Jamaica,
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you know what I mean, Like I don't you know,
and it's and you don't have any choice because all
of the men are skinny and all the women are big.
Well you're you're kind of a you're kind of a
dapper guy though you got the drip going right. Yeah,
I mean, you know I am, I guess you know
when I'm on stage, but you know, I'm like a
regular guy after you know, I'm a jeans in the
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shirt most of the time. But on stage, you know,
I've always you know, the reason why I started winning
tuxedos on stages because I didn't have any money. M Yeah,
because I didn't have money to have a wardrobe, so
I just would toxedo because I was like, I'll just
buy this it always works. Yeah, and and it seems
like you're working. I used to get, you know, get
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people to tease me about, you know, when tosedo. But
you know I'm I'm on the phone with you, So
I guess I made it. He made it. And make
sure to get over to Helium and Philly. Two shows tomorrow,
two shows Saturday, one show Sunday night, Helium Comedy dot
com Schuller good stuff. If you're ever in h San Francisco,
come on in studio. We'd love to have you. Man
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Man appreciate it. I definitely do that. You're listening to
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world on the American Forces Ready on network. You know,
we loved bringing in the comedians here in the last
twenty years when they're in town or we get them
on the horn. And it's the first time we've met
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Bobby Jaycowks and he is a stand up comedian and
Bobby I was just told before you went on the
air that you're a huge sports fan and sports is
your whole life. Yeah, yeah, Dominic. Dominic took great care
of me. Yeah they did. In the sports know everything
about it. Uh No, I actually, uh I actually was
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gonna be the in game host of the St. Louis Blues.
True story. I was like in like the final rounds
of being like that guy that's like on the ice
on the commercials, you know, that goes out there and
like plays games with the audience. But then they asked
me hockey question and they're like, so you know nothing
about hockey, and like you got it? Yeah, yeah, so yeah,
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not a crazy big sports fan, but yeah, because I
do comedy, that's what I do. I know a lot
of comics are sports fans. But I got I got
no extra time. Really do you know why? And maybe
you don't. The St. Louis Blue is a couple of
years ago, on their run to the Stanley Cup. Every
game they'd play Laura Brannigan's Gloria and the whole crowd
would sing it. You know. I think that's just something
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like I grew up with, and it's something that just happens,
and you kind of don't know where it comes from,
you know what I mean, I don't really know. I'm
sure someone in St. Louis is mad that. I don't
know that answer, but no, I don't know why they're
saying that, but yeah, it's definitely like something. I've heard
it pretty much every hockey game I went to when
you grew up, did you go to because you're a
Saint Louis guy, did you go to Old Bush? How
many times have you been to New Bush? I've probably
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I've probably been to I'm probably catching up on the
amount of times I've been to the Old Bush Stadium
because when I was younger, we would go that one
all the time, which I love. It was cool. It
looks like a colosseum like it was great. And now
I've been to the New Stadium a bunch, which I like, Uh,
you know, it's it's got such like a big nightlife
and stuff too, so it's like before it was just
you would go down there kind of for the game,
then you'd go around other bars. But now they kind
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of built it. It's like this whole area, so if
you go out to a game, you can hang out there.
But I'm a little partial to the old stadium, but
I think it's just nostalgian stuff like that. But yeah,
the New Stadium is pretty cool. One of the cool
things about this job over the last doing this show
twenty years is that if I get a young headliner
here at San Francisco, at Cobbs or the Punchline, and
then they get to the point where they're so huge
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they sell out that they don't need to do press anymore.
And one of them I had in here several times
is someone from your town, the lovely Nicky Glazer, who,
of course, yeah she's now she's now huge, So are
you guys peeps? Um she well, I would say she
helped me out a lot when I started, and yeah,
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I would say we're friends, but she's definitely helped me out.
More like that, it's more of a one way friendship.
She helped me out a lot, like yeah, when I
started out, I mean she took me on the road
to feature for her before I pretty much like started
hosting at my home club, which is like you moved
forward your home club. But she saw me, and uh,
her mom was actually one of the shows. Her mom
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saw me at an open mic and she, like Nicky
stopped me and she goes, you were my mom's favorite
comic tonight, And I was so new. I was like yeah, right,
she's like you were, Oh my god. Yeah, but Nikki's
killing She's got that new special coming out on HBO,
so yeah, that's she's killing it. Yeah, she's She's incredible.
I know you've also no opened for Nate Bargozzi of course,
who's clean. So do you do you have to be
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clean for his shows or not? Um, you know, when
I opened for him, I don't think he ever specifically
even asked for it, but I think because I knew
like that he was clean, I just chose to be, like, well,
a lot of his fans are going to be out there,
and if I'm headlining, you know, I'll do the material
that I want to do, you know. But if it's
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if I'm opening for someone, I give that respect, you know,
as often as I can. So I'm sure I probably
cleaned up my act. Like I just opened for Brian
Reagan a couple of weeks ago when I did against By,
like a five minute Gains spot for him, and he's
clean too, and it was at this big theater and
I was like, yeah, I'm definitely gonna do clean stuff
because that's what his fans want. So it's like I'm
not gonna go out there and be like this is
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what I do. I'm like, you know, because whenever he's like, now,
because I've been headlining more, I write more jokes from
just my secific perspective. But whenever you're starting, it's like
you're just kind of writing jokes. So it's like I
still have those, and I'll still bring those out, you know,
before a show, or just you know, do a clean
new joke that I'm doing, because you know, when you
get to open for any of those guys, I would
feel like it's important to care about their show because
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so many people just come out of the opener of
the host and they're like, whatever I want, and it's like, no, man,
it's not your show yet, because when it's your show,
you're gonna want people to kind of you know, not
your show or mess up your show. Sorry, do you
guys have a bleep on that? Oh my god? Yeah,
that's okay, you know it's uh. I mean, first of all,
does it get any better than Brian Regan? I mean,
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come on, really, it doesn't end. He is. He's so
nice off stage, and I'm not just saying because like
Nikki is the same way. There's so many comics that
I feel fortunate I got to meet, and I would
say Brian was one of the nicest, like he also
likes to joke. I was about to go do it
was like one of the biggest theaters I've ever done,
doing a guest spot form at the People, and I'm
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about to go on stage and he comes up to
me and he taps me on. I'm like about to
walk out, and he goes, Hey, the big yellow ones
the sun or these my glass He goes, those are
my bits. So I'm about to walk on stage. We're
doing that, and I go, Brian, you didn't tell me
that I thought I could do your bit. No, those
are my bits, And I go, Daniel Bryan until like
right before I'm going on stage, nothing with me. So
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it's like that always makes all the difference in the world,
because like getting to just work with comics, you know,
I always thought that would be the treat, But getting
to know them as people and that they're nice and
cool and stuff like that, that's that's always the best.
And yeah, Brian is definitely one of the grades of
all time for sure. In my book, got more questions
for Bobby jay Cox. You know you you have had
two jobs that girls like. I mean, you're on stage,
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you're commanding, and you know you're a good looking guy,
so the girls will look at you. But you are
also a fireman, and they even ugly fireman get girls
because oh it's a fireman. So what's that like you
would think. I will here's the thing though, it's like
to be a fire like when you're a firefight, like
if you do comedy, keep see you on stage. But like,
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like you know, most people at the fire aren't really
you know, looking for a date or like, oh my god,
my house, my dog, you know what I mean. People
are like did you get my dog out? You know,
that's that's what they're wondering. And then whenever you're out
in public, you know, you're not wearing your uniform, so
it's like you kind of have to bring it up.
And I think it's kind of you know, it's you know,
how often can you just be like ah blah blah blah,
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Yeah I have an accent work, Oh why because I'm
a firefight like, so it doesn't work as nice as
you would think. But uh, there are I will say,
there's a lot of guys that I know that are
firefighters and they use that, and I definitely when I
was like starting out, I really didn't try to say
it a lot because I, you know, I used I
feel like it's a civil servant job. You know. I
do it because it's something I wanted to do, not
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because of the perks of being like, oh, you get
a date from it or whatever. But I was out
on a date and this girl and asked me. She's like,
have you ever saved a person from a fire? And
I was like, you know what, I haven't, And I go,
but I have saved a dog, and I mean, I
think I didn't know that was she thought that was
cooler than a person that was I was like, oh wow,
I was like, I guess that's kind of cool. So, yeah,
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that's a uh that's one of the first of it.
But yeah, I was a firefighter for a while and
I love doing that. I really did. Even Brian Reagan,
he has a he has a bunch of brothers and
I think I think they're all brothers, maybe a couple
a couple of sisters, but like the pairs of him,
like him and his brother won't to stand up. And
he has two other brothers that are firefighters fires and
hit me. Two others that are lawyers or account who
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I don't remember, not who cares, but I can't remember.
But yeah, I I was a firefighter. And I told him.
He was like, let you know, my brothers were firefighters,
and I was like yeah. I was like, like did
you like it? And I was like, I it's a
great job. The only reason I quit is because I
just I had to do this, like I wanted. I
knew I had to give this a shot. I could
always go back to firefighting, but this is kind of, uh,
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you know, it's like a time sensitive thing. When I
was younger, I was like, I didn't really care about
David money or having, you know, a good job or anything.
I just cared about like wanting to see what it
felt like to do the road and all that stuff.
So I feel very fortunate with what all all the
stuff I've gotten to do, very cool. And then I
also got to say, I don't know too many people.
Maybe Jared Freed that has more interesting merch than you do.
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You checked it out, you like it. What's your favorite?
I think probably I think I think probably the car
decal that takes up the entire hood. Oh, that's so
my best friend Chris Briggs. Shout out Chris Briggs. He
made that for me. I was telling him. I was like,
I want to have some really silly merch that's like
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not available on my website, like just I was just
like thinking about really silly stuff. And he made that
for me, and he goes specifically, you can only it
only works for an eighty three Mustang. You can't get
the DK, it doesn't it can't go on any other car,
you can't go on a truck, and has to go
on the three Mustang. Yeah, so far no one's even
ordered it. But we are out of stock right now
(22:50):
and we're having um, we're having problems getting you know,
the shipments in, but so is everybody. So now, your
name is Bobby Jay Cox. Your initials R b J.
So your mug that says I Heart b J. That
people misconstrue that, you know, I think they do, But
I only mean it's just my initials. So it's like
you like me, and it's like it's instead of it's
I heart New York, it looks like I heart you know,
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it's my initials. You know, I can't help those are
my initials. I can't help what people think. If someone
buys it because they also like me, that's what I'm hoping.
But if if they have something else in mind, Hey,
that's what merch is about it. You know, it's art.
You know, you can interpret however you want. By the way,
good looking models on your website too. Oh you think
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I am I allowed to say that? Or am I
appropriating or am I objectifying? You know? I don't know,
but I know the models you're speaking of, and I
will say that they are like they they like anyone
who makes If you make a beanie on the web
site that I made a beanie on like to sell
my merch, you get the same model. They just like
(23:53):
it just slops it out. So I haven't met them.
I don't know them specifically. I didn't hire any of them,
but I got a lot of different models on there.
I have men, women, I have some babies. There's some
babies that have modeled my great for all ages. Well,
now tell me how uh you know. I don't want
to say you're too old for TikTok because I think
of fourteen year olds, but it is a powerful tool.
(24:16):
How have you used TikTok to help your career. Um. Well,
recently Helium Studios, they've been posting uh my clips from
the special I did at uh their club said like
a short thirty minute special and it was a great
experience and they've been sharing it on there. And I
will say the caveats to what you said. It it
(24:37):
almost it can kind of outdata sometimes to assume something.
It's four kids because when it first came out, and
one was because but here's how I here's kind of
how I think about it. Like you ever been like
when you were a kid or you know whatever, like
you ever like are you ever like you know all that.
You're at a party, but it's like, you know, the
adults are upstairs and the kids are downstairs. It's like
when the kids are downstairs playing, it's like that's your
(24:58):
own world. That's how TikTok started it. And then eventually
there's a couple of creeps that come down and they're like,
the wey kids don't playing soccer down here, and they
start playing with the kids and you're like, okay, those
guys are creepy. But then eventually there's a bar downstairs.
You know, eventually it's like, hey, kids go outside. Now
the adults are downstairs too, and it's like, so now
it's kind of like now it's just a space for everybody.
(25:18):
I feel like at the beginning, yeah, it was just
kids like lip thinking stuff. But now some of the
funniest stuff I've ever seen is from TikTok, and I
I just don't want to. I don't want to be
one of those guys that's like, oh I prefer Vinyl.
You know, it's like you gotta sometimes you gotta go
with it, so you know, I don't. I don't really
use it as much because I've never found a way
of like, I'll post funny videos whenever I feel like it.
(25:41):
But I have friends that do really well from it,
and if you don't post all the time, you don't
do that well. And I just I just don't have
the time. I work other jobs right now. It's like
I'm because I'm driving all over the country. So it's
like gases. You know, gas is expensive. There's so many
like you know, just different parts of it. So I
have to work because my money. Who I have a
friend he does so well on kicktock. He does great,
(26:02):
He's so funny, and he sent he showed me how
much money he made. I think it was twelve cents
last year. He goes, Bobby checked this out and I see,
so he's like, yeah, dude, I don't like to brag.
He made a post about it. He's like, I like
the brag guys, but yeah, my buddy Joe not it.
He doesn't so good on there. And he's like, yeah,
if you don't make money, but it is cool and
it is nice to have like those viewers and stuff.
(26:24):
Like I was on a subway and I think was
I can't remember if I was in Silly or New York,
but I saw like another not a like either a
fellow comic. I think I've done a show with her
or something like. She looked familiar. But I was standing
next to someone on the subway in their phone, like
got it, Like they were standing right next to me.
I look over and it was a clip I had
just watched on my phone, and I was like, oh,
that person is now getting introduced to other comedians. Like
(26:47):
it's not great because you have to give your stuff
out and it's better to come see it live, you know,
But I think it's a cool time to be able
to like just sit down on a subway and you
just find a new comic you like, like you know
what I mean. Like, there's this comic Steve Gillespie who
I literally think an Instagram kept showing him to me
and I was like, I guess I'll check this stay out.
And he's so funny. I just saw him live in
(27:08):
mil Walton or not no long not. I hate the case.
I hate to cut you off. We're going to a break,
Bobby Jacox dot com j A y C. When you're
in San Francisco, come on in man, absolutely, Rick, thanks
for having me on. Have a good day, Bunny. Thank you.
This has been the Rick Tittle Podcast on the eight
(27:29):
Side Network.
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Rick Tittle
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