Rick Glassman, Take Your Shoes Off

Rick Glassman is an actor and comedian. You know him from the TV show Undateable and the film A Futile and Stupid Gesture. But you probably know Rick best for his hit podcast Take Your Shoes Off, where he gets personal about his life and the Autism level 1 diagnosis he received when he was 30. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Might check.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I walk around town with the black tech nom bout
the waistlan kicking the hope.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Shit.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm never claimed to be the best type of rapper,
but I have to show y'all, motherfuck is what I'm after.
I'm after the golden, after that the platinum.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
You're such a good freestyler.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I wish I was freestyle as Redman.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh, I was really impressive.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's Redman.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
That Matthew Hussey episode was so good.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I was not only laughing, but I was saying, preach
to all of us as I as I listened to
us sharey.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Do you know what I will say this? Do you
know what gets old really fast? Though?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
What?

Speaker 4 (00:46):
What do you say this?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I was gonna say this, saying, well, the way it
makes me feel and the way I feel about things.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
After a while, your wife would be like.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Motherfucker, I don't care how you feel.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, shut the fuck up, right. I get it that
you guys, how many years have you been marrying?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Ah? Shit, twelve? When you've been together how many seventeen? Eighteen?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, I get it. When you being together eighteen years,
certain things you just like, shut the fuck up with
that fucking counselor talk.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, you sound like an ass.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Do the fucking dishes.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I want to.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Adjust my seat. Yeah, so you can see, so you
can see my properties?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, you know, keep changing your camera position. But the
one you had last time was good.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Look at my properties?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
What is that? A Star Wars set.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
One sixth scale, just like the Millennium falcon right there?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Uh huh Star Wars set.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's a tattooing Where'd you buy that?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
That is tattooing?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Where did you get that?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
A gentleman online? I'm gonna say his name correctly.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Why did his name shout out? No one's gonna buy
a one six scaled tattooing set, but.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
You socia face.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
But his name is Legacy Arts Custom Dioramas.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
What a beautiful Legacy Arts Custom dioramas.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
So, mister, Legacy Arts Custom Dioramas made those for you
or you saw them and said I need those.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I saw them and I was like I need that,
and he was like, I've got you. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
How long did it take for him to make him?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Uh? It took him a while.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
But you know what I think, you know what I
think he did. I think he just gave me his
old one. I'm just joking, but I think he gave
me like he gave me an old prop, which is
really dope.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
He gave me. Look, there's a bunch of things.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Are you running out of room in that animation studio?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I feel like zero room left.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I feel like, little by little, there's no room for
you to animate.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
You got ceiling space left.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
I can animate boxes and stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I know. But are you going to maybe expand into
the garage.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm gonna have to because look, let me just make
sure that nothing unseeable because look at this ship.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Wow, wow, God, Oh that's the crane Jesus. I think
you might need to It's all right. I think everyone knows.
Everyone knows blurt out. There's not a single person that
that'll be funny if you blur out the bonk. Listen, Donald,

(03:29):
Does Casey know that you're gonna start expanding into the garage.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I've already started expanding into the garage, Zach.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah. Do you want to have our our our shared
contractor Bill? Maybe take down that wall?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I think that I think he needs to take down
this wall and build another wall one step away.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well, why don't you just take over the whole garage.
Who cares? It's your studio.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, there's a you know what, that would be great
if I could, because there is a washer and dryer
that I.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Want to get removed and put inside the house. Wants
to do that?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, there you go. So this is how you frame it, honey.
I really want to do what you want with putting
the washer and dryer in the house. Yes, And in
doing so, I'm gonna move this wall.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Right, and and everything in here is now for you,
for you, babe, right, but everything in here is now
my space.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
So well, you don't have to say that. I wouldn't
say it like that. I would say for you, babe,
I'm gonna move the washer dryer and then just just
because I never liked this wall, and move.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
It even though I'm the one that put the wall up.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh you put the wall up? Yeah, Oh, well you
need to get rid of it. I'm happy though you're
living in your dream.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm living my dream. Look. People buy cars, people buy
fucking you.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Don't have to justify your hobby, bro.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I buy Star Wars memorabilia and stop motion stuff and anime.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Listen if it makes you happy, But.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Then why are you so sad. Don't feel that bad
if it makes you happy.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, I mean there's people. Everyone has hobbies that they
love doing. This thing is your favorite thing in the world.
I don't think you should have any justification for it.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Why are you so sad?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Daniel loves to play video games? He got me? Did
he just still play video games?

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Do you?

Speaker 3 (05:24):
You don't stream anymore? You just you just play it
plays for himself. Now, Joelle, do you still play video games?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, all the time. I love video games. A big
SIMS four kick right now, It's delightful.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh houses, Wait why SIMS is Films for the latest.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
SIMS four is the latest. They just announced the ten
year anniversary, and they've just announced they will not be
releasing a SIMS five, which I find very interesting.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
They're going to wait expanded been around.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Wait, SIMS has been around way longer than for ten years, though.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
This is the anniversary SIMS for the specific game.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yes, is it still like the classic SIMS? I mean like,
I mean I used to play the like old school.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
You can still when we lived in when we lived
in that apartment together in New York City, we would
play SIMS.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Really I figured out really that the best way to
crush fast was just save enough money for a hot tub,
and then I would put the hot tub in the
living room, and it solved a lot of your problems
because your friends would come over, but you could bathe,
you would get rest, you could meet men, you know,

(06:38):
you could meet friends and girlfriends, and robbers couldn't steal
it. It was too big.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
You know, it's just pretty convenient.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
They I recommend, if you're a SIMMS player, just put
a hot tub in the house, and then I just
put in the living room.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
But you needed a TV.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know what sucked about the SIMS is that you
know a food processor? Why because you couldn't cook it
put out the food price.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
You needed to freaking reget that.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Things so easy now.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
I feel like if I go down a SIMS wormhole,
I will never get anything done.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
I have to be honest. I have to feel like
you have to stop playing the SIMS. On the weekend,
They're like, this is this is out, We're veering an
hour four You've built this house, uh, and there's just
no time.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
That's why I'm I distract myself. I distract myself. I
want a productive hobby, like learning the piano or Donald's
learning animation. I feel like with the SIMS, I would
just sit there for hours, being like another hot tub
in another room.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
The satisfaction is worth the ease. Oh man.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
If I'm tense and like really under a lot of pressure,
I'm like, let me go build my dream house. And well,
by the end of it, you just feel accomplished. You
haven't done anything, really, but you feel accomplished. You're like,
what kind of immaculate my home is amazing?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's why I plan.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, that's nice. I mean that I miss being into
a good video game.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I used to be a folkesperson for the SIMS back
in the day.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Really really, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I did a whole commercial and everything.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
That's fun.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, I wanted to mention everyone I did. Johnny c McGinley,
our friend in Doctor Cox, has a podcast called Connective
Tissue where he talks just about like the creative folks
and you know how they work, whether it's an actor
or writer, director, artist, painter or whatever. And he's got
some really interesting guests so far. And he asked me

(08:28):
to be honest, I did it. So if you want
to hear me and Johnny shoot the shit about being actors,
It's called connective tissue and you can find it wherever
you get your podcasts.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
What's up with the drumsticks? Bro?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, I have a drum city here. I have a
basic drum set, and on my to do list was
to take some drum lessons, and I was I went
to rock. You know, they have School of Rock here,
and you know it's for kids, but the kids during
the day they're in school. So I head up the
demandager and I was like, hey, can I come take
drum lessons at School of Rock when the kids are

(09:06):
in school, because like, my place must be empty? And
he's like, of course, bro, And so I went there.
I've had a handful lessons and he's just fucking teaching
me drums at School of Rock and we're the only
people in there.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Are you getting good?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
I got a few beats, but I would like to
get better?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Okay, I like that.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
When I get good, I'll do a performance for you
and the podcast. That sounds great.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I mean it doesn't, but okay, wow, wow, Why is
it you hater?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
H Why?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I just know what beginner drummers sound like when they
just start and drums.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
You know, I know a few beats I'm just trying to.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Do you do know a few beats. That's true. Yeah,
So what have you been up to, bro?

Speaker 4 (09:51):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I've been getting in shape? I really I I went
to it was in Stockholm, and I was in Paris,
and I was in New York and I was I
was eating wonderful food and drinking lots of red wine.
And now I'm in l A doing what people do
in LA and dropping the weight and getting in shape.
I took a tennis lesson. I'm doing hot yoga. I

(10:14):
got back with my trainer. I stopped eating like a dickhead,
and the weight's falling off of me. High yoga is
so good man. I recommend it to anybody if you're
an anxious person whose mind is very busy and you
want to drop some weight. It kills two birds with
one stone.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
And you don't mind being uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well, you go in. It's uncomfortable, but it feels so good.
You go in there and it's fucking hot as hell,
and you stretch and you do yoga. It's not very
hard yoga where I go. It's just it's just the basics.
And then uh, you come out of there and you
feel so high. It's just natural.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Are you doing it in a are you doing it
in a like a like a in a valley spot
or are you going someplace?

Speaker 7 (10:55):
No?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
I go and I go and wiho. But there's just
a it's it's it's really amazing. It's like go during
the morning. Is not a lot of people there. And
I recommend if you but if you've never done yoga before,
maybe go do to some basic yoga class that isn't
in the heat, so you so you get like the
basic moves. Nothing is nothing I'm doing is advanced. It's
just basic shit. And then go do hot yoga and
you sweat, you lose like a couple pounds of sweat.

(11:19):
But when you come out and not only have you
stretched your whole body and quiet in your mind, you
just you feel extraordinary. I really highly recommend it. I
gotta tell you, man, And did you ever come to
that with me?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
No? I do not like hot yoga at all. Right,
I have.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
I did it with an next girlfriend once and we
are that's why we broke up. The thing is wow, Yeah,
I am very judgmental.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
There's the counterpoint everyone, there's a counter very yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Anyway, So.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I the thing that I do like about working out.
I hate working out now, but what feels so good
is the feeling after.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, you've just completed working out.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's what you work out for, you know, they say
find the silver linings and stuff like that. I hate
fucking working out now. I used to love it. Now
I hate it. You know what I love now that
before your feeling after Oh yeah, you can't beat that
with a baseball back now, no matter what you do.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Like, that's longer than five minutes. Come on, you feel
good for.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, but then yeah, but life comes back into play.
You know, you have that five minutes of ah, well,
you're trying to rest and then you know your worries
come back eventually.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
But that one, that that little bit.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Of time where you're just like focused on the fact
that you're tired and that you worked hard and that
you finished it and that your and your body's pulsating.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
That is so much more rewarding now to me than
actually working out.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I enjoy certain workouts. I enjoyed playing tennis. I enjoy yoga.
I enjoy going on a hike, listening to listening to
a book on tape or or a podcast. I like that.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm trying to enjoy feeling uncomfortable again, and that's very hard,
you know what I mean. Like, I used to really
enjoy the feeling of being uncomfortable when I worked out.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
I like that I'm alive aha, and.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm having a hard time doing that Now Now it's like,
fuck man, I'm so uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's so sweaty.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
What about I used to like boxing a lot.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
That's how I'm getting back in shape. I got a
guy that comes over here. We go up how many times?

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Three times a week? Well, that's good, and then I'll.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Hike or I'll ride my peloton or something like that.
You know, I got to tell you I do, and
I do like the art of boxing.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Before it was just swinging and trying to I'm gonna
fuck somebody up one day. I'm gonna use this a
fuck somebody up. Now it's about trying to position my
body properly so that everything is a flow. So it's
you know, Bruce Lee has that documentary be like water.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
If you can, if you if you can move your.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Body and your feet properly, everything flows from the core
and itself and it's so much more powerful.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
And I do enjoy that about boxing?

Speaker 3 (14:03):
More importantly, are you going to come to Vegas with me?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I want to go to Vegas really bad. Oh great,
here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Here's I'm trying to. Here's a Joel and Daniel. I
tried to put a little Vegas one night in Vegas
trip together for Donald and some friends, and and Casey
are ruminating about saying yes, which is a big step.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Here here's here's here's the thing that I worry about
the next day, the very next day. Yeah, I have
my special effects guys coming over and we're supposed to
do a bunch of stuff with the motion control rigs.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
So if you can promise.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Me that we can go to and this has been
scheduled for a while, we'll go and then be back
the next day.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Because I got this is important to me.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Of course we'll be back the next day. No one
likes a second night in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm not built for it anymore. Bro.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
As Bill Lawrence one said, I've never had a good
second night in Vegas. My new thing is I like
to go have an amazing meal, like epic amazing meal,
and then play some blackjack with my friends, maybe see
a show.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
What you want to see.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I don't know something, Surcy.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
You want to you want to see us, Surley.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
I don't know. My favorite thing. My favorite thing is
to see magic. But I've seen a lot of the
magic shows, and and David Blaine, who I want to see,
isn't doing magic. Mike Yet, you know who's there there
the night we're going Do you think Donald and are
going to go see magic? Mike? Come on? I mean

(15:41):
if the magic we could be hidden? Donald, do you
want to you know.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
There?

Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, but you know who's going to be there playing
the night we're going to be there, Lionel Richie. Let's
go say you say it together?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Say it for always. Oh, that's the way it should be.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I wonder if during the show and he sings hello,
if they showed the video of him with the blind sculptor.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
This is how I see you.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I tried to buy Donald the statue, but he didn't
want it. There's a guy, there's a guy online who
makes them.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
I could see it in your eyes.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
He said, no, I'm gonna get that for you guys.
That's going to be your holiday President Joel and Daniel.
Donald's already said he doesn't want one. Joel you don't
want to long Richie from Hello, the video is hell
one is.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
Well, it's purely about space at this point, exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Is Hello to one? Where he goes, I could see
it in your eyes.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
I can see it in your eyes. I can see
it in your smile. Donald, We could see lowd Richie,
we could see magic. We could see circus. So lay.
I love a good Vegas show.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
I really want to see that Michael Jackson Circus so late.
I'm not gonna lie. I've seen I've seen a lot
of them.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
There's a lot of good magic shows, but I've seen it.
We could go see Penn and Teller.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
I do like pen and you know what.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
The last time I saw Penn and Teller I was
a kid. I would love to go. Yeah, man, I
would love to go see them.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Okay, we could do that. The Eagles are at the
Sphere Eagles, Eagles, But I don't want to go to
the score. You've never been fear It's fun. No, I
don't think you want to see Eagles?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Why?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Why not? What's wrong with the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
The Eagles are great. I just don't know that. If
I have one night in Vegas, I want to go
to an Eagles concert.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
You don't want to see a hotel California.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
The line, well, you got to see the sphere, dude,
with some of your favorite.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
When come on.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
You would love it.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
But you can't smoke in the sphere. They say you can't.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
You definitely in the sphere, but you can smoke outside
the sphere. Smoke out Shine just wants show.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Just rape in the sphere.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
Who's gonna snitch?

Speaker 5 (18:02):
It's gonna take like you can't every concert I go to.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Now, No, Joel, you don't understand the sphere like they will.
You'll be out of there in two seconds. It's they
don't funk around.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
Ship not all cool like the l A people at
the stadium. Whatever, it's not.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's not. It's not as huge as you think. I
mean it's huge, don't get me wrong, but a lot
of that is not seating. The sphere is enormous, but
the amount of seats in it aren't that crazy. So
they see your ass, they be like, Joel, get the
fuck out.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
I called out specifically my.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Name, Joel Monique. We know you're down to get down.
Get the funk out.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
I hate getting in trouble. It would be awful I'm like.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Oh no, yeah, I hate getting trouble. So I told
you the story about how I got arrested and put
in in New Jersey Devil's Jail, being wasted as a child.
I told that story in the podcast. Yeah they put
me in the they put me in the slammer, in
the New Jersey Devil Slammer. I started crying. Oh my,

(19:13):
I had never been I had never been in jail before.
My first jail was New Jersey Devil's Jail.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
Jail.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
It was a good starter jail. My mom had to
come pick me up. It was so embarrassing what she
was like, don't say a word. Absolutely, And you know,
I understand. I was a good kid. I was a
good kid. I did not get in trouble. And my
mom got a call on like a fucking week weekend
day at like whatever, four o'clock, like hello, man, whatever

(19:50):
it was. It was afternoon game on the weekends, and
my mom got a call like, Hi, your son is
ship faced at Brendan Burn Arena. We haven't in New
Jersey Devil's Jail. You just couldn't get his ass. And
my mom, she I never saw her so mad, but
she she definitely did that. She didn't say a word

(20:12):
the whole ride home from brandon Burn Arena. Then she
brought on the rash at home. She did to come
sign me out of fucking New Jersey Devil's jail.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
The jail's right next to the samboni. That's the fun.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
It was so embarrassing. Oh my god, you do not
want to be signed out in New Jersey Devil's jail
by your mom. Mind you mind you mind you. Not
only was I crying, but I was still fucking hammered. No, no,

(20:54):
they made me do it.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Did you drink of choice that night?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I'm sure it was beer. We would just like, you know,
we couldn't get beers in the stadium, so we would
be we would be in the car, like huddled up
in an suv, just pounding like the cheapest beer, meister
Brow or whatever the cheapest beer was. And then we'd
be hammered. And then we'd stumble into the like the boonies,
like the last fucking row in Brendan Burnerina whatever it's
called these days, I don't know. And uh, and then

(21:20):
I went I remember, I went to go get a snack.
I was like, I need a snack. And then I
remember out of a movie. I stumbled and my wallet dropped,
and I went to go down and get my wallet,
and then I saw two sets of boots, Wells and boots,

(21:42):
and the camera, the camera slowly tilted up to reveal
Brendan Burn Arena security and they're like, you're coming with us,
You're drunk, And I'm like, what a you sucking about?
I was like, come on, Fellas.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Goodness no, I was like, come on, Fellas.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
No heavier was like ever Clear and four Local, Oh
my god, a disaster, you guys were.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Ever Clear was cheap and four Loco was easy to
get a hill.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
We used to get forties too. We would just drink
whatever we get our hands on.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I remember when I was drinking underage with my buddy
Frederico from the neighborhood, and we would be out la.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I don't think I was under age, but I wasn't.
I wasn't. I was out of high school, but I
wasn't twenty one yet, and we would drink this thing
called Cisco. You ever heard of Cisco?

Speaker 3 (22:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
No, right, So Cisco was like this, It was like this.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
It was liquor, but it was like and it wasn't
a malt liquor, but and it came in flavors and
stuff like that. And later on we found out that
had like lighter fluid in it and ship like that.
But we would get wasted off.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Of a ship, right.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Cisco, Cisco the War the Nasty. Look it up, Cisco.
I think it's even spelled like the fucking singer?

Speaker 3 (23:05):
What was Cisco? The singer's hit song Thong song? Oh,
the thong song that was a masterpiece.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, he liked it when the beat go?

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Why did he love thongs so much?

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Because it makes the booty go?

Speaker 7 (23:16):
But but.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
He really, I really love thongs.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well when it makes the booty go.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
What's the lyric? Thong the dongdong tong? Everybody?

Speaker 2 (23:31):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
What the lyrics?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
What tho song? Are you?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
As I remembered, it's like thong, the dongdong thong. Everybody
loves a thong.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
What's the next lyric?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
You know that?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
What happens after that? What happens after that?

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Don't wear no booty shorts? You gotta give me a thong.
All I love is a thong. The thong, the dong
dong kong get it up in that crack thong dong
thong thong ye.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
That's it?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
What is the real lyric?

Speaker 8 (24:10):
Like?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Because I like it when the booty go baby make
the booty gong don dumdong.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Where's that coming from. I don't think that's the lyrics there.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
Yeah, he's singing the musical part.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's what he goes.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
I like it when the booty baby make the booty
gong don dundong.

Speaker 9 (24:34):
Let me that.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
I never heard that before.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
That's deep in the background.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Wow, he loves thongs, that guy.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
That's did you listen to this song?

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I was gonna say, damn sung that before?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yo would make a musical based on the Thong song.
When that song came out, I didn't even like Cisco,
but I love that song.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
For some reason.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Do you love thongs?

Speaker 1 (25:14):
I mean, all right, but.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
That song for some reason that because I was laughing,
you would laugh so hard at those don't speak those man,
he's singing hardcore.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
He if I was a woman. You're yelling, bro, you're yelling, yelling.
I don't have to turn this down, so I don't
have to turn that.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
I like the way you do your thing. Tell me,
all right, that's cisco. I know that's too much, Joe,
exactly what the I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Sounds beautiful, rendition, Donald and I respect him.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
You're saying he's very passionate about thongs. I agree, he
loves the ship out of some thongs. I don't understand
why women wear a thong. It feels like it would
really annoy your inner crack. Maybe it's more freeing. I mean, yes,
it's just so like the Is it just so that,
Joelle that the you don't see lines on the on

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the outfit.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
Many women are just like, hey, I don't like a pantelion.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Some are like it's sexy, right, you know, lots of
reasons people were thought.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Let me ask you a question, Zach.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
You are if you are with a young lady, yes,
and she takes off her clothes, yes, and she has
a thong on, or she has you know, regular underwear on.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Right.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Well, there's many different other types, but yes, a different
type than the thong.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yes, right, Asking yourself right now, which would would you graduate?

Speaker 1 (26:51):
A gradvitate too?

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Truthfully, I don't.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
I I.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Think I think there's other types of underwear.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I motherfucker just say the thong.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Dude, just say no, that's your preference. I'm trying to
give you the honest answer. You want me to say
the thong because of Cisco and his fucking hot ass song. No,
listen to me. I think there's other types of underwear
that I would prefer to it.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Thought, but none of them make the booty go dead.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
That's true. That's do we have?

Speaker 7 (27:29):
All?

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Right?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Let this count seven stories?

Speaker 10 (27:33):
I'm not sure we made about a bunch of docs
and nurses. He said, he's the stories net, so YadA here.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, let's get right to it, Rick Glass, Did you
actually play basketball with Lebron James growing up?

Speaker 1 (28:03):
No? Did you play with Kyrie Irvan growing up?

Speaker 4 (28:06):
No?

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Get so good at basketball? Because you are good at basketball,
are you not?

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Yeah? So first, yes, I played with Lebron. We like
to dive right in here. There we go, So you're lying.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Were you better than Lebron?

Speaker 4 (28:21):
I mean probably when I was born, because I'm a
year older than him.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Wait, tell us the playing Lebron story.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah. The reason I said no was because I've mentioned
I've played against Lebron because it's cool and I've talked
about it sometimes. But now like other people talk about it.
And people will come up to me and like if
I'm in a group, and they'll be like, oh, it
is Rick bragging about how we played against Lebron and
like other people are talking about it.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Well, our audience hasn't heard the story. Likely Rick, they
follow me za some of them do. I'm sure some
of them do. Who like funny comedians. Rick is a
very if you don't know who Rick is, he's a
very funny comedian and he's a very funny actor. And
are you reading this man? Yeah, I'm reading this and
just says it is a very funny comedian as a

(29:06):
very good actor. No, this is all improv. And then
Rick also has a very popular podcast called Take your
Shoes Off? What is it called?

Speaker 4 (29:13):
That's it?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah, and as a fascinating story and a big connection
to Bill Lawrence. But I just want to start where
Donald started because I was surprised to know that you
are very good at basketball. It doesn't seem you don't
strike me as someone.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Because his last name is Glassman.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Well, I'm going to say we Jewish folk, there's always
been a stereotype that were not necessarily great at sports.
If you remember the joke in the movie Airplane. He says,
would you like some of the stewardess says, would you
like some light reading? How about this pamphlet on famous
Jews and sports. But Rick defies the stereotype because Rick

(29:53):
is apparently very good at basketball. Go ahead, Rick, is
there a question? When did you get good at basketball?
And are do you still play? And did you play
Lebron good?

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah, you got it. I'll take it from here. Boys.
So I started playing basketball in high school because I
ended up having to go to like this special school
for troubled boys or girls. And I was really embarrassed
about it. And when I came back, I came back
to school, I was gone for eighth grade and half

(30:23):
of ninth grade, and in our school, eighth grade is
where high school started. And I was really embarrassed. And
when I came back for half days, somebody shout out
to Tim gilmour by the way asked if I played basketball,
and I said yes, just because I wanted to be
included in something. So I just started playing with people
and it was kind of my only social network. I

(30:44):
played magic the Gathering on Friday nights, and then I
didn't really have a social network outside of those random
people at this card store. Basketball kind of gave me that,
so I really kind of obsessed over it. At the time,
I didn't realize it, but I think what I obsessed
over was being included. And then I just kept playing
because I'm allowed to play with people. And then I

(31:04):
just kind of got addicted to it, and I didn't
play much in high school and then college. Kind of
my sophomore year, I got relative to my ceiling really good,
and I just started playing all the time. And it
was really cool because like I would go to the
gym and people would like, get me first, like we
got Glassmen still does something to me? We got Glassmen

(31:28):
still does.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
I was never picked like kickball in like elementary school,
always picked last or second to last.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Why why you think that is because I wasn't good
at sports.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
And I even if I was making them laugh, they
were like, yeah, he's gonna make us laugh, but that's fine,
we'll pick him last because he's gonna be here making
us laugh either way. Whenever team he's on, he's not
going to kick the ball very far.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Well, is that give me one second.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I gotta be honest with you guys.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I would be upset if I got picked third, I'd
be pissed off.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
I was just going to ask who you're a good
kickball player? I am fucking I bet you Donald's great.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
I threw my fucking back out playing kickball with my
kids about two years ago, and I have retired from kickball.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
I bet you were really good at dodgeball too, Donald.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
I am pretty good at dodgeball as well. Yes, I
can dodge a ball.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I would get pegged in the face and dodgeball.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Not Rick, I had moves.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Rick.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
When did you realize that you had the ability to
make people laugh? Because we're similar in a few ways
and we both have O, C, D and UH and
and realized it as a child. And I wondered, did
you at a certain point go this helps me when
I can make my classmates laugh, because that helps me

(32:43):
make friends.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
It's a good question, Zach. But before we get into that,
why are you always leaning so much into how bad
you are at stuff?

Speaker 3 (32:54):
I'm not? I'm not. I have a I have a
neurosies about wishing I'm better at sports, but I have
nothing other than that.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Well, sports, what about uh? What about movie making? Are
you good at that?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yeah, I'm decent at that.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Why I just I don't like the way you've been
talking about yourself.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
I was on your podcast. Yeah, you was on your podcast.
It was a great episode.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was. I think you're really great.
I think you'd be really good at dodgeball. Now I
got into making people laugh, Zach, I think you're really special.
You're also so much nicer to me on your podcast
than mine.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Wait a second, what happened? What happened when he was
on your podcast?

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Just cut you a clip of him just beating the
shit out of me.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
He's we had a lot of fun, but he's exhausting.
And we'll get to that.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
There it is, there, it is.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
I love Rick. I didn't know certain things about Rick
that we'll get to, but he I loved him always,
but he would drive me fucking nuts. And then we
had a we had a really in depth heart to
heart on his podcast about me realizing why I love
him so much and and why he's so funny. But
we'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
One of my first one of my first can answer
my question, please?

Speaker 1 (34:11):
He did already, didn't he?

Speaker 3 (34:12):
No, he didn't. He never. I asked him a very
good question as a podcaster about when he realized he
had a sense of humor that was funny.

Speaker 7 (34:19):
Go, you know, I was just a boy in school
who would get a little silly. So time, what do
you want me to say? What do you want to
say that my parents fucked me up or something?

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I want to know when you start getting laughs? When
were you like people think I'm funny?

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Oh, I could answer. I could answer this a little
bit differently. I never knew how people felt about me
because things were kind of contradictive. Like I wasn't really
included as a kid. That's why I brought the basketball thing.
But at the same time, I wasn't really overtly excluded.

(34:56):
I wasn't like bullied basically until you came on my podcast,
I just wasn't really part of stuff. And like sometimes
even the neighborhood kids like I would go over and
I would play outside with them or something, but then
they would go inside and they would like close the
door and say you're not allowed in. And I never
understood why. And it was always like sometimes people were
nice to me and sometimes they weren't. And I don't

(35:18):
I'm looking at this as an adult now, I don't
think I realized that as a kid. But but like
when I would laugh and when people laugh, that was
something where I feel like you can't fake it. I
still feel that way. I still feel like when people
are laughing, you know, you know, like you know when
it's fake. I talked about this with somebody. I don't
think it was on a podcast. Recently. I saw an
old round table something with Sandler talking about like the

(35:40):
hardest part of acting. I think it was Sandler, and
he said something like the hardest thing you could do
in acting is the fake laugh. He said, he just
can't do it. There's something just genuine about laugh. So
I think I felt validated, not just in making people laugh,
but like, oh, here's me being accepted, even if it's
just for like this five seconds. I also have a
very very funny family. Uh you just we complain, we

(36:02):
call attention of things. We're not easily shamed. So I
think the combination of I.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Met your mom when I was at your house for
your podcast.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Oh yeah, she was. She's here now too, Oh yeah,
but she's watching her stories.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh does she watch soaps?

Speaker 4 (36:18):
She watches Castle and then cis.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Old school soap operas.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
I mean that's what they are now, I know.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
But I wish it was General hospital or something.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Children Children was hers and she just had a friend
come over and drop off some clothes for something. And
she goes Zach Brath and Donald the scrubs guys are here,
and she's like, oh, I wish I could watch, but.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
She can. She can watch it on YouTube after this
when this airs.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
But Donald, do you go ahead?

Speaker 6 (36:50):
Zach?

Speaker 3 (36:51):
No, No, Donald's turn.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Donald said something and then Zach you got mad at him.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
We're so excited that you're here. You're a very funny
standing community.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
You know what I forgot?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
I remember now, I remember my first time, well it's
not my first time meeting you, but kind of like
one of the first times we were where we kind
of hung out. Was on the set when they did
The Undateable Live. Yes, and what's his name, Bill Lawrence? No,
not that guy that's I'll never forget his name, Ed Sheeran. Yes,

(37:22):
he was on the show.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
You forgot Ed Sheeron's name. That guy, Yeah, the Redhead kid,
the Redhead Kid. I want to give the audience some
context for those don't know. Bill Lawrence made a sitcom
called Undtable. Well, Scrubs and amongst his many shows, he
made a suitcme. They ran two seasons right right, called
Undtable three. Three seasons and at a certain point it
became live, like they would air it live on the

(37:45):
East and West coast. They would do two runs of it,
one for the East, one for the West. When did
that happen?

Speaker 4 (37:50):
Third season? I think like nobody was. They weren't watching
it enough, so like, what if we do it live?
I don't know. I think you guys did at the
end of season two and it was an hour special
with Ed Sheeran and everybody, and I think that went well.
That finale maybe would have gotten canceled if it weren't
that going well. And then they're like, let's just do
the whole season live.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I had a lot of great comedians on it, and
how did you how did you get the part? Because
how did you get discovered?

Speaker 4 (38:14):
To be sure?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
On that it was like all stand ups, right.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
First cast or stand ups, and then there were a
few non stand ups. Bill had a Bill met with
Brent some afternoon. I remember Brent and I more John Dewell,
Alison Buzmo who ended up writing on Undtable. Brent Moore
than and I. We all lived in the same building,
and I was coincidentally watching Scrubs again. I loved to show.

(38:38):
I grew up. I was so young when it came out,
and I grew up watching it and I really loved it.
I was a little baby when it first came out,
and I grew up looking up to you guys and.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Saying how young you were when you were just insane.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
I remember. I remember it because I didn't have any friends,
but I was three years old and you guys are
having the series finale, and I remember it like, these
guys aren't real doctors, but you could tell the real friends,
and that's something that really translated through the screen. So
I was, but also I was I'm a big fan
of the show.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
All right, you were so jealous projecting.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
So I was watching the show again and Brent came
in and it's like, I have a meeting with the
guy who did Scrubs, and as he said it, I
press pause. In the X ray of Bill Lawrence came
up on the screen. I'm like, Bill Lawrence, that's crazy.
And then Brent invited you guys were living together, same building,
but it was very much like our doors are unlocked.
You just walk into each other's places. He just opened

(39:32):
the door and he's like, I have a cool you know,
you moved to LA and it's like you want to
have a meeting with people, you know, like, oh, I
met this person. Who knows what that means, but it's
just like cool. He is a meeting with the guy
that did Scrubs. And then later that night we all
had a show at the Improv and Bill came to it,
and that's where I met Bill, and Bill met me

(39:52):
and saw Brent do stand up et cetera. And I
knew Bill was in a basketball game, so I said,
I don't know how this is going to happen, but
I want to get in that game. And he gave
me his assistance email and I emailed her once a
week for almost four months, and then she goes, we
have a we have two slots tonight for Brent and me.
And then I got into that game and that was

(40:12):
like that game. I didn't have agents, I didn't have
any I hadn't done anything before. Hey dad, real quick,
you want to see my dad's hair?

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yeah, absolutely, I don't think they're you're gonna be able
to hear they're gonna be able to hear it. Look
at that hair. Wow, hi dad, you.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
We're a huge fan of your son.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Wow, he does have a big, full head of hair.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
Yeah, Zach said he wants to have a little wiener.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
He just said, you know, I didn't. Wow, you're the worst.
You're the worst. Well, it means you're gonna have your
hair for your whole life. Your dad's got a big baby.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
We'll see. My dad's hairline is like a thumbnail. All right,
But let's see what we talk about. We're talking about
what made me about Bill Lawrence.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
You finally got into the game.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Yeah, dad's audio issues. Could you just go in the
other room with.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
The mon tell them to go work on Russia. Shana dinner.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Za I said to go Russia, work on Russia Shana dinner,
and Donald said, what's Russia? Shana?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
I did not say that.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
You got into the game, and how did you perform
in the in the sports competition.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
So so, in my mind, what makes me valuable still
but definitely then was being a good basketball player, whether
or not I'm I people think I'm good or not.
Like that's when I started getting friends, That's when I
started feeling confident. That's when people start.

Speaker 11 (41:35):
We got glass moon, Like I'm the fucking man, so
like I needed to be I needed to play hard,
and these guys were you know, some people are great
basketball players and some of people are fifty year old
comedy writers.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
And I just got I took it very seriously.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
And are you trying to impress Bill? You think or
that's just your natural way you play?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Well, I think you.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
I think it's a natural way I play. But I
think it's because I'm try to be honest. I think
I don't know if impresses the right word, but I
think it's, like I said, I want to show that
I'm valuable, like I could help people win. Like in
pick up basketball, if you lose, you sit. You never
want to sit forever, right, So the only so you
don't care. I don't care who somebody is. If we
don't have to sit, we want them, you know, So,

(42:20):
like I wasn't thinking about anything else. I remember I
got in a fight with somebody and then Brent called
my attention that like, Rick, you need to chill out,
But Bill said he liked it. I found out later also,
I ended up getting kicked out of that game five
years later another conversation.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
Well, no, that's let's go into that conversation because it
proved to be very pivotal in your life. You've shared
this before with other places, but I want our audience
to hear Bill calling you and talking to you became
a sort of a pivotal moment in your life, right, Yeah,
can you share that a bit with people who don't
know the story.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
Yeah, I'm in this game for a couple of years.
Even then a Dale comes, so I'm probably in this
game for six or so years before the show. The
show runs three seasons, the show's canceled, We're still playing
for a year or two. So I'm like part of
this game now that's every week. And Bill sent me
an email that said, hey handsome, as he does.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Yes, but a Bill email is not great to get
because he didn't send them off.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
No, this was a He opened it up with, hey, handsome,
this is a tough email to send. I remember that
because I ended up writing this short. I made this
thing about it. Joel McHale plays Bill, and his script
is the email from Bill, and it was, hey, hey handsome,
this is a tough email to send. You could tell
me to fuck off if you want, but I think

(43:44):
it might be worth you knowing that there's a few
people in the game that don't show don't want to
show up when you're there. And he gave a list
of reasons, some of which I still disagree with, some
of which makes sense to me, none of which I
remember when I read it, and I was crying. I
remember reading it like whether I agree or not, I
had no idea anyone felt this way about me. The

(44:08):
short that I made, I mean, I guess I'll plug it.
It's on YouTube. It's called I'm Phenomenal. I'm proud of
it because it was a traumatizing moment. Then I turned
into something but like the whole idea was like I
am phenomenal, I'm the best. Everyone wants to play with me.
And then I found out that not only am I
pick last a lot of the time, some guys don't

(44:29):
even show it when I'm there, and I'm like, what
are you talking about? Also, Zach, I don't know if
I told you, but like two weeks before that, I
was kicked out of a poker game that I was
in for a few years for just talking too much
shit and doing too many bits and you would call
it exhausting, and I'm like, Okay, I just got kicked
out of this poker game, and I know they're all wrong,

(44:52):
but like, now I know these guys are wrong, and
how could like thirty people be wrong.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
And it was like when someone says, when I have
enough people to tell you to sit down, you're drunk,
you probably should sit down.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Well it really I haven't heard that saying, but yes,
I think that's exactly what it is. And it's something
it's a tool that i've that I've that I've started
to kind of put into practice, even with like podcast stuff,
Like I read comments on my podcast. I scroll through
looking for because people put time stamps of moments that
they like, so like that's where I find clips and

(45:25):
then sometimes I end up reading more than I need to.
And typically the people, at least on my podcast are
they're very nice people. I think there's a lot of
socially awkward people that connect with me and they're just kinder.
But like, when I start to see a pattern of things,
I don't necessarily agree, but I do have to be like, like,
let me look at this. It's something I didn't do before,

(45:46):
and I don't think it's as much as my pride,
as much as I didn't recognize certain things as patterns,
Like getting kicked out of a poker game in a
basketball game is a pattern. But somebody saying I'm being
too loud, and then somebody saying they don't want me
to play basketball with me, I didn't realize maybe those
things are connected. Nobody told me these things. Bill gave
me a list of things that I'm like, Oh, I

(46:08):
didn't think I was like this in basketball, but somebody
else has told me this about other things, and this
and this and this, and he said, like, kind of
the inciting incident to this self discovery of mine was
he's saying, I don't think you realize how people perceive you.
And he was spot on because I never felt like
I don't know how people perceive me. I always felt

(46:29):
like people see me the same way I see me,
which is awesome. You know, like my mom applauds everything
I do. I just am around a loving family, even
when I have a joke on I'd say on stage
now that I didn't know. I found out in my
thirties I didn't have friends. I never knew. I just
thought everybody was busy all the time because like I

(46:49):
was never I never was consciously like lonely or not included.
So like nobody told me things directly because it's so
much easier to just be like, let's not invite Rick anymore,
as opposed to saying, hey, Rick, if you could just
turn the volume on your microphone down, we could handle you.
So Bill did it, and also at a time in
my life, or I guess, I was able to receive it,

(47:09):
and it ended up helping me discover things about myself.
Like I said, I had to go like these special
classes in special school, and I was diagnosed with lots
of different things as a kid, different medications, and I
even had to get glasses in third grade. And then
I found out through this Bill stuff, I ended up

(47:31):
getting diagnosed with a level on autism. And when I
found out, I was like, this makes so much sense.
And like all of those unrelated obstacles and unrelated things
in my life that I then were able to see
as patterns kind of made me recognize. I don't know

(47:55):
how to explain it other than just self awareness somewhat,
you know, just a little bit more. But it wasn't
even like I became more aware. It just made me realize, like, oh,
I need, I need to pay more attention to things.
I started asking lots of questions. Uh you know, Uh,
the first one I did, I put this in the

(48:16):
in that that video. But like Zach is leaning forward
and his eyes are squinted a little bit, And I
learned that like when people squint and they lean forward,
it's they want to hear a little bit more, and
if they squint and they lean back, they've heard enough.
And like I started asking and looking at people's body
language with things that weren't intuitive to me that I
think I've gotten really good at now. And uh, when

(48:38):
I started my podcast, it's called take your shoes off.
Like Zach, I I also have OCD and take your
shoes off as kind of like the easiest rule, Like
everyone at least gets that, even if they're not that.
But then there's so many more, like when you come over,
I don't let outdoor close on my couch, so you
have to sit on a blanket and wash your hands
and do this, and and I have to do bits

(48:58):
with it all because otherwise I rather be mile Rick
does jokes all the time, as opposed to man Rick
is an asshole, So like that was kind of a
language of people could receive it. If it's funny.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Let's take a break.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
We'll be right back after these fine words. I'm just
ask you this is so interesting you mean, but how
did you the social cues thing which seems to be
a piece of this what you're saying, Like I had
to learn if someone leans forward and squints their how
did you just take it to parlor? More, how did

(49:33):
you learn that you had autism? You went and got
how did you know to go get assessment?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
So for almost two years before that, I was kind
of hypothesizing do I have or something like this because
just certain things in my life that make it we're
curious to me. But then I ended up getting lunch
with one of the ron funches, who was also a
stand up comic who was on Undateable.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Yes we love him.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
He is open and talks about it in his act
a lot. Uh, I say, I mean, I don't want
to say a lot. But he talked about his act
and it's very funny. He talks about being, yeah, a
father of of of a of a teenager with autism
and his son lives with him, and uh, if you
watch Ron's act over the years, you kind of like
learn how he grows with his son and and it's

(50:21):
it's very funny. He's very like, it's not self temper gating.
I don't know, explain it, but like he makes jokes
about it all. Like it's very honest and real and
like the obstacles and what he thinks is cool and
kind of the cheats that he gets to do. And anyway,
I was at lunch with him and his son, and
his son did something that that I did a lot
when I was a kid. It does I don't need
to get into it, basically stimming. Uh do you know

(50:43):
what stimming is. It's it's self stimulation. It's it's not
an autistic thing. I mean people do it when they
tap their pens or just you know, in their hyper
like yeah, yeah, whatever however it might come out.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
I love fidget toys, Phil, I keep them around because.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Yeah, a lot of people with a D d uh
like things like that too. But he did one that
was very specific to when I was a kid, and
I'm like, I used to do that, and Ron had
brought to my attention. Yeah, there's a lot of similar
things that I've noticed and then I'm like, oh, well,
I was thinking this and he goes and he didn't
diagnose it or no, and he goes, yeah, I could
see that that makes sense, and it just made it

(51:18):
curious to me. And then I looked into how to
find out and when it's a lot harder to diagnose.
It's the hardest to diagnose in females, which we could
talk about if you're interested. But that's like its own
category of like how it presents itself so much differently.
And you know, even though you're fake doctors, I'm sure
you're aware that, like a lot of medical things are
tested in, practiced and prioritized on men, and it's already

(51:41):
it's not like you could check somebody's blood, so females
and also adults because in kids, when you're a kid,
you haven't yet adapted to figure out ways around some
of your obstacles. As an adult, it depends on how
how much it is, like there's different levels. On level one,
it's like something that you might not know unless you

(52:02):
got to know somebody. And I've adapted. I've you know,
people would say how you doing. I learned to just
say good, how are you? I mean that was truly,
I never did it. I would always just say I
don't want to tell you, or I would do a joke.
And like I learned about call and response, and you
don't have to do it for you, just you do
it to survive. I say that, you know, kind of hyperbolically,

(52:24):
but just like certain things during the day I've learned.
And but I would just get drained. I also, you know, Zach,
you said that it's exhausting. That's something that I didn't realize.
Not only was I exhausting other people, I was really
exhaust Like I would get home and I would just
be done. Like I didn't realize how tiring I am
to myself.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
My experience with you was that I would be laughing
the whole time because I find you very funny. But
also it was just you wouldn't ever stop. Yeah, and
I would be like, I need a nap. Now I've laughed,
but I need a nap.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yeah, have some you listen, Rick, you have some of
the best timing out of all of our friends that
we know.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
That's what I'm telling everybody in the whole building.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
I'm that serious enough.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Bill Lawrence Camp you are probably yeah, you are one
of you are top.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
In my opinion, top five funny in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
You have some of the best timing that I have
ever you and Ron both and Chris two.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
You guys have some of the best timing, like just
out of the blue where it's like, where the fuck
did that come from? You know what I mean, the
three of you, but you especially like you take moments
that everybody can be like down and somber, and you
turn it and you flip it right away. One example
is Bill Lawrence's birthday. We got Charlie Pooth singing freaking

(53:47):
the freaking we got him singing the fucking it's been
a long way without you, my friend, and he's killing.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
It, and he's at the piano to doing it.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
It is a real, like, this is a fucking Grammy
level performance he's given us right now.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
And out of nowhere, Collin.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Rick fucking starts doing the fucking with Khalifa.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Park No no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
I yeah you did.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
I was just I was freestyle. I was freestyling stuff
I don't know, I was making it.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
I was.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
I was pretty stoned.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Even better, even better, I remember what made me.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
I remember feeling good about this because I was again like,
I like this video I made I called I'm phenom
I think, like I, this is gonna come across. I
mean it. Honestly, I'm aware this isn't true, but I
think so many things I do are so phenomenal. But
I'm also not surprised to find out they're not. That
you guys didn't think so, and I get that, but

(54:46):
but for whatever reason, I disagree, and I love living
life that way. But hold on. But so I'm doing
this and I'm stoned, and I remember I got there.
I wanted if any of you guys remind me to
remind me to talk what when I first got there
how Bill treated me. But I'll get to that in
a second. I got a little stoned and I started rapping,
and I just felt like I was in the pocket.

(55:06):
I love rapping, doing my pot all the time.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
You really, you E would like this, he went like this.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Who knew?

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Must I ned like wrack?

Speaker 9 (55:14):
Come on?

Speaker 1 (55:15):
All right? All right, all right, all right, right, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Yes, yes that happened. But then then then I saw
Charlie was smiling again. He might have been not, but
you know this is my this is my thing. So
then I did more. I remember Zach said, who is that? Zach,
you asked me who is that? And I go, I
just made that up? And you go, no, you didn't.
I remember, you didn't believe. I probably wasn't even saying anything.
I was just sometimes I rap and it sounds like
I'm saying stuff and I'm not. But I remember, Zach,

(55:41):
you thought I was. At least you you thought I
was rapping somebody else's.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
I think I think I probably thought, because I don't
know the song that well, that maybe there was a
rap portion and you never there is.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
That's why I went, but I don't know. I don't
know the words to it.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
So I probably assumed that you were doing that.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
Well that just got me. That just I'm like, I
walked out of that the I walked out of the
living because here's something I learned.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
And Donald's right, Donald's right, It's fucking hilarious. Got everyone.
This isn't Bill's like like bar like like it's a
small room.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
It's like a piano but everybody it's he has people,
Hey do you want to come over for a coffee,
And it's like like the Grammy Awards, like the people.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
My point is is that like Charlie Booth was having
his moment at the piano. I Charlie Booth was having
his moment at the piano and you and you were
like you started rapping over it, and I remember thinking,
I remember thinking it was fucking hilarious, but so hard.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I laughed so hard since we're having laugh since we
have our lap animals with us. Now, I laughed so
freaking hard, like I was crying, and it was. And
it was toward the end of his performance, like he
had done all of the hits.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
We don't talk anymore. He did all of them, and this.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Is the finale, talk anyone. And then Rick started rapping
over that ship.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
That ship had I laughed, Oh my god, I laughed.
I laughed for days about that. I talked to my
wife about it.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
That was a really fun I remember that. I remember that,
and I remember you doing your dancing. Everyone was everyone
was performing, and nothing about it was like to everyone
stealing spotlight because everyone there was a performer, and everybody
had spotlight and an audience and everybody was it was.
That was fun. So when I walked in there, Bill
does something with me. I guess this is fine. I mean,
whatever Bill does something on me, at least he used

(57:28):
to and maybe still does, but I don't see him
as much. But I think Bill thinks I'm really funny.
I also think Bill thinks that I might bother somebody
all at the same time, kind of like what Zach
is saying about himself. But like I watched Bill, so

(57:48):
I walk in and I wasn't high yet, and I
wasn't high on purpose because I know Bill, I'm projecting
Bill is scared of me doing something, so like I'm
going into this man's house, don't be high, at least
not yet. And I remember him, yeah, and I remember
he introduced me, and I saw him introduce me to people,
and and he introduces me to people in a way
where like he's like a producer. He's like almost trying

(58:11):
to manage people's expectations. And I'll say something like Rick
is a Rick is a little weird, but he's funny,
like something where he like lets people know. And and
I watch him. I don't remember who it was, but
some an agent of his or somebody, but it was me,
Bill and one other guy, and I watch I'm talking
and I'm doing bits because I'm there and I'm watching

(58:31):
Bill watching look at me for a second, but watching
the other watching the other person, and once the other
person laughs, then Bill kind of like, okay, I'm safe.
And I saw enough of that to where I'm like, okay,
I think I could get high now. I just remember.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
But a cocktail party, you're perfect because you do bits
kind of NonStop. But you're like a magician who's work. Yeah, dude,
it's and then and then no one's like, oh my god,
well this guy shut the fuck up.

Speaker 4 (58:59):
They don't always I don't and I don't shut up,
and I'm You're like a magician. We worked on. I know.
This is a trick. This is a trick. Here's what
I learned. I actually, I actually when I'm out at
parties or something and there's groups, especially if I feel
like I'm in it, which again I feel like I
am more than I probably am. But like I'll be
like like like how Castanza goes all right, I'm out.

(59:20):
I did that after the wrapping. I once I get something,
I'm like, I need to do more bits. But I
just say that rick Lee for thirty seconds. And this
is get out. So when I'm when I'm at a
party or something, I'll I'll once I get a laugh,
I'm like, I want to keep going because I want
to ride the wave.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
But I I don't.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
Think anyone will tell me Rick it's too much. So
I leave and I'll go up to other groups and
I'll be like, are we doing like? Are we doing bits?
I'll ask the group, are you guys having serious talk?
Are we doing bits? And people they'll tell you because
it's such a specific question. People will say, yeah, we're
just joking around or we're just talking. I'm in like, yeah,
such and such sister, as you know, going through blah blah.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
I'm like, I should walk away.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
I don't even say it, I just do. Do you?

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
But do you ever go? Are you able to go? Oh?
Tell me about so and so sister. No, you don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
I don't know them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
It's it's it's I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:00:14):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
I mean, I think it's important.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
You're in the you're in the pocket.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
You got to listen. If I'm at the bowling alley
and somebody brings me a baseball bat, I'm not gonna
say baseball stupid, but I'm not here right. And also
back to the idea of like it's exhausting and bits
and I exhausted myself. The truth is bits are king okay,
because without bits, it's just how's your sister now? If

(01:00:37):
I'm interested, or if it's important to you and this
is a way of connecting, or you need support or
I'm catching up. Sure, I'm not saying serious conversation is unnecessary,
but like by design, a lot of these things, a
lot of most of our interactions, with exception of long
form like podcasts, it's very superficial. I don't mean that
in a derogatory way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
I just mean no, I was about to say, hold
on now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
They're been times where I've had conversations with you and
You've been like, no, seriously, Donald, how's everything going, And
I'm like, oh, you're fucking doing a bit right now,
how aren't you? There has been that there had that
has happened once or twice hold on now, No.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
But but you're making my point. I'm saying, if I'm
interested in somebody and or they're interested in me, I'm
not saying talking like we're talking serious now, it's not stupid,
But I'm saying there's a lot of times where it
and I could be wrong or I could be right,
but also somebody could have a different opinion. It just
doesn't feel genuine to me. It's just like a like

(01:01:33):
a oh man, how's your family? Like I don't know,
maybe I just don't buy it, like why don't we
talk about something that that we're interested in talking about?
Or let's do jokes. And the problem that I had
was I didn't recognize when somebody might be interested in
having a real conversation and just because I'm not doesn't

(01:01:54):
mean that they're not, and that's me shutting them down,
and it's also forcing bits. But what I learned, and
I'm still hard, but what I learned is is a
genuine conversation for me, if I'm not in the mood
is very difficult. And if I don't do jokes, I'm
just zoning out, I'm looking away or I'm not present
or I'm rude. I mean it's rude. So like what

(01:02:18):
I've learned from the podcast is if I'm not interested,
it's because I'm not curious. I happen to be a
very curious person. So there's a I think a nice
way of having genuine conversation while also not negating what
somebody wants to talk about is finding something within it
that I'm curious about. So like when somebody's like, you're

(01:02:40):
talking about Bill's party whatever, I'd be like, h, I'm sorry,
I'm not quite remembering that kind of stuff. What was it? Like?
What was funny about that to you? Or whatever? It
might be like finding curiosity in things. But then, like now,
then I end up just talking too much and I
don't know how to balance it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
I have a question about I have a question about
I have a question about level one autism? Does that?
And I don't want to misspeak at all, So please audience,
I'm gonna get educated here because I don't exactly know.
Did this used to be called Asbergers? What's the overlap
with the term that's no longer used as Burgers?

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
So it used to be called Asperger's?

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
What what was known as Asperger's?

Speaker 9 (01:03:25):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Is what is basically level one autism spectrum disorder. Uh.
Some people say they stopped calling it Asperger's because it
was named after a Nazi.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Yeah. I heard he was a Nazi, so he had
to get rid of that term.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
Yeah, but that's coming back bigger than ever now, So
I do is going to be back too, And buddy,
look at my new merch just says I have Asperger's
free the Jews or something.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
No, is that really true? Asperger?

Speaker 6 (01:03:51):
Who?

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
Who?

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
What?

Speaker 8 (01:03:52):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Ad Asperger? He was a Nazi? But he what does
he have to do with as.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
He's a doctor and and and he defined it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
I see, so we had to get rid of his name.
We had brand.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
The other thing that I heard and that makes more
sense to me, but they both might be true, is
that that it's very it's similar. There's different levels and
what how how high your obstacles are, and what your
sensitivities might be, and how many of them there are,
and that's where the different levels are. But when you
call it aspergers versus autism, that that Aspergers was like

(01:04:28):
milder better, almost stigmatizing one way or the other, like, oh,
it's not like it's autism or oh it's just aspergers.
I've heard. I don't know if that's true, but it
made sense to me because it's like, you know, kind
of like how add and ADHD they're the same thing,
but like there was different classes. You could have it
more or less severe, but why have these different diagnoses?

(01:04:50):
So that's my understanding of it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
It's also like I said, it's harder to diagnose in
an adult than as a kid. Uh as a kid.
If people understood it better, I probably would have been
diagnosed younger. And also, you know, you say, Zach, you
don't know a lot about it, but a lot of
people don't.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
And well that's why I feel like we can educate
a little bit. No, we always want to segue into
You had a show called As We See It, Yeah,
that we got a lot of critical acclaiming, and you
were very good on it. I think I texted you
and said, I.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Actually found out that you liked it because somebody clipped
you talked about it on one of your podcasts. I
thought that was really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Well, there you go. I was very happy for you.
It was an Amazon Prime series. People can check it out.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
Great show.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
What's interesting about it is that it was about people
on the spectrum, and all the main actors were all
people who were somewhere on the spectrum correct.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
As well as one of the writers, and a lot
of production and hair makeup. If they weren't on the spectrum,
one of their brothers or sisters, their son, their daughter
likes everybody was within one degree connected to this, which
you know, I guess is nice for representation, but also

(01:06:09):
gave for like so many different points of view, which
I don't know if that was a mission for the show.
It was created by Jason Cadoms, who did Parenthood and
Friday at Lights and he's brilliant and his son is
on the Spectrum and his son is when the show
was coming out. When he was writing it was, you know,
turning into his teenage years and becoming an adult and

(01:06:30):
what does that look like when you're a caregiver for somebody,
like a child who is it's a typical thing on
the spectrum or not. You tend to your children, but
as they get older and the idea of what that
life looks like and the independence or lack thereof. And
there's a show called on the Spectrum, an Israeli show
that he adopted it from, and there are the show

(01:06:55):
was supposed to take supposed to be about three twenty
somethings who are living alone but together, like they're not
living with their family, they live in a house together.
They have somebody come in like a guidance counsel type thing,
you know, every day to check in on them and
everything played by Socy Bacon and on that show, and

(01:07:16):
so many there's so many background actors and guest stars
that were also on the spectrum and so different. Some
people you'd look at them and be like autism, and
some people you'd be like, what's going on here? I say,
what's going on here? Because like that's a thing, you know,
not autism aside, Like you'll meet people or you'll walk
by somebody and you'll be like, what's going on with

(01:07:38):
this guy or this girl? And I think that comes
from curiosity, but also even subconsciously judgment first, like what
the hell is this? And I've always been very connected
to those kinds of people, I guess because I played
Magic Gathering and they were probably a whole bit all
what's going on here type people. And there's something safe
about it because when there's somebody that's what's going on

(01:07:59):
type of person. I also feel like they a lot
of people don't ask what's going on, like what is that? What? What?
What job does your dog do for you?

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
Why are you doing that with your hand? What are
those noises you're making?

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
They don't ask the questions, so instead of understanding the person,
they're whether they know it or not, they're judging them,
or they're feeling like this person isn't worth me being
curious about. And I assure you that almost everybody, if
not everybody, who is a what's going on type of person,
not only are they going to be okay with you
asking them that, they're going to be flattered that you've
showed an interest in them and they.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Are How do you ask that, Rick, How do you
without without without offending anything?

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
But there is offending, There is no offending.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
What I'm saying. Okay, well, then tell people who are
listening to you this is good advice. How would you
would you broach the subjects?

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
So so I'm going to answer you with a little
bit of a long winded thing that is is uh
uh important that I think that I mentioned, which is
if you offend somebody, they're like you, Like we said,
we have to take responsibility how we're being received. But
at the same time, there's a there's a like a
standard deviation of where is it our responsibility and where

(01:09:08):
are your feelings not my responsibility? And there's a big
section where if you're offended, Zach, that I ask you
why you're you know what's going on with the scar
on your face. That's maybe because you're feeling insecure about
your scar. But and there's there's there's tact and there's
figuring out, and there's reading a room of course, but
like if you see somebody and they just don't think

(01:09:30):
you start doing like that kind of like what you
would think is weird shit if you're not used to
that and you just I'm being polite by ignoring it.
I would argue that you're being dismissive by not acknowledging
it addressing it. Yeah, now you don't have to draw
attention to people and say, hey, everybody, look at this,
but like, hey, I saw we were working on the thing,
and I saw you doing these things? What is that?

(01:09:52):
And they'll explain whether I was stimming or I do
this or whatever it might be. Then you could decide, oh,
I don't want to be around this if for whatever
reason you don't, but find out why first. I'm speaking
for myself, but I truly believe that curiosity is not
offensive to ask questions about Donald and black culture because

(01:10:13):
I don't want to bring up black stuff or something.
It's like I'm curious about it, like ask him about it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
I don't think I don't think any person.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
I don't think any human being, any African American, would
be offended if you ask them about their culture.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
You're absolutely right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
Like Donald, do you use a washcloth in the shower?

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
This is a big topic on our shot.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
Definitely, is it really?

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
Joelle does as well. Yes, it's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
It's fair white people.

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
You white people don't learned that in college.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
We actually made I don't know if they're still available
in the Merge storage you will. But back when the
podcast again, we made Fake Doctor's Real Friends washcloths because
we discovered that stereotypically African American people.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Using you can brand it with fubu.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Wow, well well wow there they're for you. Yeah, by us,
I get it ricks by us.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
Rick tell Donald that joke that I love that you do.
I don't know if you do it anymore. But he
didn't see it when you start your set with your
hood up.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
Oh well, I mean it's a performance based joke and
I'm not going to do it now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Can you just walk the audience here? Some people watch to.

Speaker 4 (01:11:20):
Tell you what, to tell you what, go to punch
Up Dot Live Slash Rick Glassman to find out when
I'm going to be performing in your city, and I'll
do some of those jokes.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Yes, yeah, we want you to go see Rick His
stand ups hilarious. Can I tell the audience?

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
But are you still show up? No? Man, let him
tell his jokes.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
I want to tell his show because it's so far.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
I remember when we did Undated, but we when we
came on that one episode, you weren't in shape. And
then I saw you again like four months later, and
all of a sudden you were jacked and ripped and
everything like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
It comes and ghosts, it comes and ghosts, it comes
and goes.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
Rick, you're very good with the ladies. How's your love
life going? I've seen you with some very attractive, nice women.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
What's what?

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
How was that going?

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
Well, first, let me just say that all women are attractive,
even the ugly ones.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
Now I think, wait a second, wait a second, wait.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
That's Rick. You gotta let him be ricked.

Speaker 4 (01:12:12):
Well, I don't know what you're talking about, with like
me being like, I don't know what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
A few times in our experiences, I've seen you hanging
out with very attractive.

Speaker 4 (01:12:21):
Very well, I'm very they're also very funny.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Yes, I just I'm wondering if you're currently seeing someone
or is there is there a missus Rick in the picture.
There's not, there's no mister, are you actively dating? Are
you taking women out to dinner and asking?

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
I am not actively dating?

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Have you ever gone by the ricker?

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
He's not going to get a silver Spoons joke? He's
too young. Remember he told us how young he was.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
Want to that's sorry, my headphones cut out. And here
what Zach said? Isn't that from silver spoons?

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
You're too young to know. You're too young to know
a silver spoon reference?

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
No, I got out of a relationship. I got out
a relationship a couple of months ago. I guess maybe
more than that now came out.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (01:13:04):
It's always hard? I mean, I I I have It
takes me years to fire an agent. I just I
don't leave people. Well, id it in you sitting down?

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
Yeah? We are, uh cordially kindly and then just me
being depressed for six weeks, right right, there's no way
for it to end without.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
We've all we've all been there. Can I get her number? Rick?

Speaker 4 (01:13:39):
You know what's interesting about that? Why is it like,
of course, when you break up with somebody, they're going
to be with somebody else. But the idea of it
being with somebody else, I don't know if it's worth
somebody who's like I'm really close to, or somebody who
I kind of know but for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Ah, dude, I don't want to see anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Listen, Listen. If you date in Hollywood, you better believe
that now you don't want somebody after you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Well, you don't want to be anyone you know that's.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
It's always somebody you know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
That's not true.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Maybe you know a lot of people and.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
They might be someone you know, like like you don't
know them, but you know who they are.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Well, I don't want to give you her number because
she's wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Hold on, I would I would never date. I would
never date. I'm doing a bit, but I would never
date some Rick's ex girlfriend. I mean, like the people
who are like one of.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
Your girlfriends is my x of mind that you don't
even know about.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I'm about to say I have I have friends that
I have serious ones that have dated ex.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Girlfriends of mine.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
Someone dated Donald Plan. I'm not going to tell you because.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Now now you're in. Now you're in it. Now you're
in it, So go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
Someone I dated used to date you yes, and asked
me not to tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
Mhmm. Can we figure out who it is you won't
tell me now?

Speaker 4 (01:14:57):
I just made that up. I was just looking for drama.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
I don't want to lie.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
If I were editing this, I would have really lean
into it and made this into a thing for a while.
But this is your show. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
I was ruck. I was going through the ladies. I'm glad.
I'm glad that's not true. Can I tell your bit
that you won't tell everyone?

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
No? Because I don't want to be able to know
it's it's kind of a joke. It only works once.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
Do you still use it?

Speaker 4 (01:15:21):
It's a joke that I really believe only works once.
So I do use it. But like one in twenty shows.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
I laughed a lot at it. Go see Rick do
stand up? How do people find where you're doing stand up?

Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
Rick?

Speaker 4 (01:15:33):
Punch Up Dot Live slash Rick Glassman. It's kind of
a mouthful, but it's where where? Not only will it
show where I'm at? It also people, I actually if
you want to see me, I would love for you
to go to that site punch up dot Live slash
Rick Glassman, and you could see exclusive stand up stuff
I have up there. But also you could sign up
for my mailing list where you just give an email

(01:15:54):
and your zip code and I don't email you any spam.
I'll only email you when I'm coming within fifty miles
of your city. And I started setting up my first
tour now I've never done it before. I never wanted
to leave by I always hated traveling. I still do,
but because of the podcast, I just would do. I
do three to five shows in La every week, but
there are.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
Fair which which club.

Speaker 4 (01:16:14):
The Laugh Factory and the Improv are where I'm at
every week pretty much, and then the Comedy Store sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Donald we should go see him at one of these clubs.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
I like watching you make me laugh. I would love
for seeing you with Bill that I was with Bill
when we saw you do the bit that you won't
tell people.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
I would love for you guys to come to a show.
And then I'm gonna just put it out here because
who knows when we're going to talk again. I would
love for you both to come on my pot at
some point together.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
Right, but I've been on your podcast, and if everyone
wants to see that episode, how do they find that episode.

Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
One sixty five? If you actually go to Rick Glassman
dot com, it'll be right up there at the top.
Why did you?

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Why did you? How do you re memorize that it's
one sixty five sec.

Speaker 4 (01:16:54):
I'm not sure if you remember what I told you
about when Brent Morean came over. I am a big
fan of Scrubs.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
I don't believe you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
You said you were a baby, you said you were
three years old.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
He brought out a puppet from his barman's fuck.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
Don't don't fucking talk about my act?

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Shut up?

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
Oh my god, Oh well I am at the top?
Is not because it was so well received.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
I uh stopped updating my website. Coincidentally, after your episode,
I've done.

Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
You're a liar.

Speaker 4 (01:17:26):
No, seriously, n.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
I'm going to live in a world where it was
because it was so well received.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
Oh my god, it's insane. How worls people were like, wow,
that bully is Uh, it's funny sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Bully, Well, you do have to take off your shoes
and he puts down blankets because you have outside outside ship. Yeah,
so Rick when you come home, you change full fully
into inside clothes.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
Yeah, there's two. There's there's two tiers of inside clothes.
There's uh. When I come in. Once something's worn outside,
it's becomes outdoor clothes until it's washed, and then it's reset. Obviously.
Now I have a dog. Now, so when I go
and I walk the dog, if I don't sit down
on anything, including my car, they're indoor closed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
Still, oh oh, not about the dogs? Now do you
have to wash the dog's pause?

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
I wipe the pause when he walks in.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Yeah, okay, that's interesting, Rick, You know what, I take
showers because of if I go outside, and it all
started with COVID.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
So COVID happened.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
Sure, COVID happened, and now because of it, if I
go outside, Let's say I go to a supermarket. When
I come home, automatically, I shower, bro and I got
to change the clothes I had on Donald.

Speaker 4 (01:18:34):
Doesn't that make you not want to leave now? Because
of the work.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
He doesn't, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
I don't go anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
I'm trying to get him to go to Vegas. It's
like begging.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
I could talk to you about I found So I
was like this. Myosi was very bad as a kid.
I got better as an adult. COVID made it brought
me back, like COVID back. But it's getting better and
there's different different tools. And I actually one of the
reasons I got a doggy was to make me go
outside more and to be okay with like relative like

(01:19:02):
wipe his pause but like an animal around my house
and stuff. And it's really helped. But yeah, the good
it's it's like sometimes it's like I want to go out,
I want to do this, but then I have to
for you shower, for me change my clothes. It used
to be, uh, I have to wash my glasses and
my phone and all the things. It's just it wasn't
worth it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
It became person personal question.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
Eight inches if I push from the side, but about
eight I'm serious, if I push from the side saying
like you know, talking about like if you go like.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
No, no, it's fun it sounds funny, but I want
to know where are you pushing.

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
From the side on the pelvic bone in the side,
so you do like a kegel, let me longer. Let
me show you this and if you just if you
just push down right here, it's it's just kind of
just like it makes it its biggest Okay, d dad,
give me here for a secon No, no, no, no, it'll
be something oft I have autism. I have autism. Let

(01:20:03):
me do this. We know we no no, no, no,
came here.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
No, we don't want to understand.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
I was just asked we're talking about our penis size,
and I was gonna see if you would.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
Oh my god, that doesn't.

Speaker 4 (01:20:14):
Want to show it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
Now let your dad go out of there.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
You just ran down the steps. Sorry dad, let's take
a break.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
We'll be right back after these fine words. My honest question,
and this isn't a bit, although I'm sure you'll turn
it into one. What is it like being so germophobic
having intercourse with a new woman who doesn't know all

(01:20:44):
of your needs as an O c D person?

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Why don't we open with this? That's now that's a
curious question. Yeah, well, first of all.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
Do you have to scrub her down? What's that Meryl
Street movie?

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
Now you're turning it into a bit. You started off
really good and now you're turning it into a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Zach, Sorry, it's not Meryl Street. What's that movie where
there is a nuclear facility? Joel and they have to
scrubb her.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
That's in the past.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
It's guys, is it silkwood?

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
Rick, do you have to silkwood the woman here?

Speaker 4 (01:21:16):
I'll let my mom answer. I'm gonna take the headphones
off for a second. Zach ask again, No.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
No it, Hi, please please don't. Hi's goodness.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
What was the question that you asked me and my
parents house? One second? Jack, is a question for you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
I was asking Rick if.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
It's okay you ask her. You could ask.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
Because Rick has such strict OCD needs. How does that
translate when he's having intercourse with a new woman.

Speaker 12 (01:21:43):
Actually, that's funny you would ask, because I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
However, However, I've actually thought.

Speaker 12 (01:21:52):
I've actually thought in my mind, if he makes them
wear like a you know, like a what is it
called a wet suit or something, so that nothing touches him.

Speaker 6 (01:22:02):
It's a real idea.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
I hope.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
I hope it's fun.

Speaker 12 (01:22:05):
I hope it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
Get it. Tell Zach and Donald what the oil said
when at my brist.

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
Seriously, yeah, come on, no, no, I want to know.
A moil is someone who cuts the force, the guy that.

Speaker 12 (01:22:22):
Does the circuit religious guy, and he did it and
it was over. And now my mother and I my
mother was very very funny New York burlesque woman. And
my mother and I are upstairs after the brist to
change baby's diaper. And my mother looks at the baby

(01:22:42):
and she goes, oh, Conaharah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Is this is this?

Speaker 10 (01:22:47):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
A healthy baby?

Speaker 4 (01:22:51):
And I said, I.

Speaker 12 (01:22:51):
Don't think they got it all. And I called the
oil and I said, did you get all the foreskin off?
And he goes, this is last man, your son is
very well.

Speaker 4 (01:23:04):
Thanks Mom, so right, and believe me that Dad and
I have so go in the other rooms. This one
question that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
Is a first in in fake doctor's real friend's history.
A mother bragging about the size of her son's penis.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
And this is why I walk around thinking I'm phenomenal. Yeah,
but let me let me just say this.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
Do you silkwood? The women go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
I'm not a germophobe. It's not about germs. It's about
things that I think are dirty, right, So like that's
that's that's objective. If you're talking about like it's like
like I don't think grass and dirt is bad. I
think like spit and stranger stuff and like stuff that
you're walking on on the street, like stuff that's like
if you got it on your fingers. If I picked

(01:23:54):
up grass, I wouldn't go. If there's something like you
got it on your fingers or something like, you'd want
to wash your hands immediately. I can't have that stuff
in the house. So I have indoor clothes, which are
just her indoor clothes, and then I have bed clothes.
Bed clothes don't leave the bed, so so like I'll
have bed clothes for a day or two and then
I'm like, all right, these bed clothes are done. I'm

(01:24:15):
going to graduate them to indoor close and now I'll
wear those bedclothes on the couch and then i'll either
wash them.

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
You're avoiding my question.

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
It's connected, it's connected. It's connected. So so when a
girl come, I'm going into the room a little cool.
We're getting close to that hour.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Oh moms, it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
Doesn't come out yet. They can't hear it. They say
Happy New Year. Donald. Then you could ask questions about
that if you want. Because of the Washington conversation's got
it fine. So when a girl comes over, if she
we're going to be in the living room, she'll just
sit on the blanket. But I explained to her, also,
by the way, if you're coming over, you you're into

(01:24:56):
this already.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
You get this, you already know.

Speaker 4 (01:24:58):
Yeah, you're not just you are having a first eight
and you come over, I go take off your shoes,
take off your shoes, like you're into this already.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Right, So, but she knows like there's gonna be a process.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
So I let them know beforehand that, like, hey, so
I'm a certain way if we end up I don't
say these words, but if we end up having can
I say hanky panky on.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
This intercourse, you can be thank you if we're going to.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
Like if we're gonna like make out or whatever in
the bed, Like I'm not, I have no expectations of
us having sex. I'm not saying that's what's gonna happen.
But you can either need to take off your clothes
or I'll give you some shorts.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
So you give them a hook up outfit.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:25:36):
Well, typically they just you know, with with with such
grace and and they're so smart and and and important,
they will traditionally if they're gonna take if they're gonna
get in bed, they'll just take off the clothes.

Speaker 4 (01:25:47):
So at that point.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
You're so But some of them I'm sure, like, yes,
I will take the hook up outfit.

Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
Sometimes they'll put on like yeah, like shorts or like
they'll put on box or something, and if it's called
a sweatshirt or something, yeah, But what about their mouths?

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
Are you worried about the germs in their mouths and
sticking your tongue in their mouth?

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
I don't really. I'm not somebody who really hooks up
with somebody like without getting to know them some like.
I'm not like there's some random.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Person tried to kiss me the first day you met me.

Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
Comedy kiss is different. I don't remember doing it, but
I believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Do you ask them to like swirl some scope or something.

Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
No, I'll tell you what I do.

Speaker 1 (01:26:32):
You're doing a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
I'm not doing a bit. I'm genuinely curious. It's very serious.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
I if somebody has bad breath, I will I can't
do it. I remember I was with a girl who
was before but she ended up being a girlfriend of mine.
But we were uh, I'll say canoodling then is that
what we were? Connodling? And her perfume was just so
strong perfume is poison. I don't get it to me.
I get it's for you and enjoy yourself, but like

(01:26:58):
walk into it. At least people are having pushing and
I just couldn't handle it. And we're fooling around a
little bit, and I said. I remember thinking like, Okay,
I could tell her later, or because I have to
tell her at some point, or if I'm going to
tell her later, I might as well do it now.
And I remember I said something like, hey, I want
to bring something up. This is a me issue, not you.

(01:27:18):
I'm very sensitive to smells and the perfume is so distracting.
I'm not really able to do this. Just like, next time,
maybe you could just walk into it if you know
we're going to be together type of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Oh my god, how does she react?

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
Well, she became my girlfriend, so for a little bit,
so I get insecure that the girl won't say something
like that to me, Like I I'm like, if there's
an issue that you have with me, tell me. I
don't want to think about is my breath gross? So

(01:27:50):
I now like condition not just in intimate relationships, but
in friendships as well, like, hey, this is how I
communicate and please teach me how you communicate. But I
will basically say what I need from her by also
putting it on me, saying like, hey, uh, I brush
my teeth already, but if my breath is gross, you
gotta tell me please and yeah, And then they would

(01:28:11):
be like, I will tell you also, is mind gross?
And then I could be like, I think we could
brush our teeth, you know, if that's necessary? Because what
are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
Because that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Listen, if those guys at that basketball game told me
that my breath was bad on day one, they wouldn't
have built enough resentment to make Bill kick me out.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Just tell me, right, we're so intimate figuratively about your breath.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
Yes, we're being intimate, okay, I am, I am. I'm
exploring your body. I want to be able to be
honest with you. And if you know there's some smells,
how do we figure this out so we could continue
doing this?

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
What about if and when you go down on them,
do you have to say?

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
Oh? I'll speak for all women here. Okay. If a
man is going down on a woman and the woman
isn't feeling confident, she'll give a heads up Okay. If
a woman ever lets you go down there and it's
not good, shame on her.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
All right, we can stop there. I just yeah, how
it ends. We'll cut that.

Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
I can a genuine question if we need to. I
think it's a fine note. That's a fine answer, Rick,
because it's people. If anybody is questionable down there and
someone goes to give you head and you're not good,
that's a sin on you.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
Yes, How does the woman know? How does the woman knows?

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
How does the woman know if she's been you've been
hanging out all you know?

Speaker 6 (01:29:43):
She takes off her pants changes. When was the last
time you showered?

Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
You're away?

Speaker 6 (01:29:47):
You know what's happening with Zack?

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
If I walk my dog and it was ninety degrees,
I'm not going to let somebody go down on me
until I shower. Right, Okay, out of respect, shout out, Rick,
thank you, that's my merch By the question?

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
Wait, can I answer?

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
Now? Do you all the way?

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
Let well ask you question?

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Donald?

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
Donald so Ken?

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
This is me, the whole, the whole, damn it of you.
This is me? So can I Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
Okay, right, but then I'm sorry you feel I didn't
realize that I was hogging the interview. I was so
excited interview Rick, But Donald, you go first.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
What do you have nothing? Go ahead, Joel?

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Okay, Donald, don't remember it? Please Joelle, you go ahead.
But then, Donald, please, I would love to hear from you.
I haven't talked to you in so long.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
You want nothing, Okay, Rick's gonna ask you about the
wash cloth. Go ahead, Joel.

Speaker 5 (01:30:32):
Beck. I was really glad to hear you talk about
late diagnosis, especially for women. I have ADHD. I was
diagnosed at thirty. It was a hell of a ride
trying to get a diagnosis. Now I am a managing
executive producer and I really keyed into hiring people who
are on the spectrum. My brothers on the spectrum are

(01:30:52):
uh neurosis manifest in completely different ways. He's a very
socks on, like hyper specific timely person. I'm like cabin
which stuff. I don't like my socks on. I never
late because it annoyed people. And that's one of the
first masking techniques I learned was how to be on time.

(01:31:13):
Because I was like a very high achiever as a kid,
and I was like, I can't ever be late.

Speaker 6 (01:31:16):
They'll hate me.

Speaker 5 (01:31:17):
But when you're trying to hire and work with folks,
especially younger people who either don't have the business know
how just yet or they haven't caught up to like
how do I work with my specific like abilities? You
did a whole show where you hire. Everyone you hired
was on the spectrum. How do you make space professionally,

(01:31:39):
especially when you're maybe people who are above you are
neurotypical and don't understand what it is to be neurodiverse.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
Yeah, I mean that's that's that's its own podcast. I
will say that everybody is different. You take five neurotypical people,
they're all different, five atypical people same, So like everybody
has their own strengths and obstacles. I think that I
think that it starts with what I was talking about,
with the curiosity and being willing to ask questions of

(01:32:07):
these people that you would be hiring, like saying, hey,
here am I deliverables? Which of these do you feel
is an obstacle for you? And can you find a
way to do that differently? And if not, that might
not be the job for them. But there are so
many different ways to produce a podcast, to to write
a show, to act in something, to light, Like, there's

(01:32:28):
so many maybe not light, but there's so many different
ways you could do stuff that like maybe just because
it's different doesn't mean it's worse. It might be better,
And you just have to there's maybe a way to
sell this better than what I'm going to say, but
you just have to be patient with learning different ways
people not just work but communicate, and by having that

(01:32:49):
kind of diversity, not just necessarily neuro diverse, but like
black people, white people, those are the big two, but
like you know, people from different different different ways their
mind works in different cultures to work together. But like
the truth is that that our show had somebody that

(01:33:09):
was there that she's also on the spectrum. Her name
is Alane Hall. She's fantastic. She works on on Atypical
and works with a lot of shows. If there's if
there's autistic people, she's probably involved in it in some way.
But what her job was basically there was to facilitate
and to help out people that have their needs. But
what I noticed, most of what she was doing wasn't
necessarily helping at least the lead characters with things that

(01:33:34):
they need as much as it was being kind of
like a middle person to the production, so not translating,
but basically in shorthand something like that. And the reason
that's necessary is because not enough people have worked with
that kind of diverse kind of people. But once they do,
then it's just working with somebody who's a little bit different.
Does that make sense?

Speaker 12 (01:33:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:33:55):
Absolutely absolutely?

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Do you want to ask? Do you want to ask
a question? Because he made me feel like I hogged
the whole interview.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
No, I don't want to ask anything, Rick rick I.
I first of all, it was nice to meet your parents.
That was really cool.

Speaker 4 (01:34:09):
I come home all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
That's good. Do you live in You live in the
Cleveland area proper?

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
Yeah? I don't like to say exactly where, but like
within within twenty minutes of Cleveland. But I live in
Los Angeles. My family lives.

Speaker 1 (01:34:25):
Here, right, But do you do?

Speaker 8 (01:34:27):
You?

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
I've talked on a podcast a lot about the Cleveland cuisine.
I'm a huge fan of Cleveland cuisine.

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
Great food, great theater here, great theater.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
I didn't I never We're the first.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
Stop for all touring UH Broadway shows, so like not
every every show goes every city, but every show comes
to Cleveland and comes to Cleveland first, and we have
a great theater district and it's there's a lot of
there's a lot of it's Cleveland's awesome. And then when
lebron came, obviously he's not any more. But truthfully, when
he came and changed downtown like everyone, they were building

(01:35:00):
new flats and it just became kind of relatively cool
and Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
The r n C changed a lot of Cleveland four
years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
All so me and Chris were out there doing a
movie right before the election, and they were building hotels
just to house the people.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
For the rn C.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
Oh like a small Olympics. How they just build new stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Right, But these hotels went on to because we came after,
and so the hotels were still there, like they literally
the hotel we were staying and was built for the
rn the rn C.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
But thank you if we keep don't cut out.

Speaker 4 (01:35:39):
The audio was say, Zach looks so bad.

Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
I really really, I really had nothing to ask, to
be honest with you, since he gave me the since
he gave me the floor.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Is not letting me ask anything in the interview. I'm like,
I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry, what's your question?

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
So the Cleland food.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
It's delicious man. I had a great time in Cleveland.
That's one of it's It was a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
It rocks all right, like Cleveland rocks.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
Great guests. Check out Rick Lastman dot com go see
him live if he ever comes to the main.

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
Thing I want to plug. The main thing I want
to plug is and what I'm I'm so proud of
is my podcast. I think is awesome and inches yes, no, no, no,
I appreciate it if I push, but take your Shoes
Off and uh, and it's audio and YouTube, but we
do a lot of visuals, a lot of we do
live action animation and musical scores and and uh, I
really like it on uh. If you're a YouTube watcher,

(01:36:40):
check out Take your Shoes Off on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
Yeah, and Donald, I will come on together.

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
I would love for you guys too.

Speaker 3 (01:36:46):
We will do that. We will do that because I
want Donald to have the whole experience of being on
your show.

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Donald, I think you'd like it. It's great.

Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
I don't Rick, I don't do other people's podcasts because
I say a lot of things that he really doesn't
will get me in trouble.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
I understand. He means he let me, let me, let
me let me hurdle that hold on, Rick Zach, I'll
take it from here. Donald, I got it, Zach.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Oh my god, Rick Zach.

Speaker 4 (01:37:07):
Donald, you need to do what I'm doing. Moro Zach wants.
So Donald, here's what we're gonna do. You're gonna come over.
You're gonna love it. It's gonna be great. We're gonna
edit it a lot. It's gonna be very fun. I'm
going to send it to you and anything you want
taken out to the point to where if you go
don't even post it. I won't.

Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
Okay, Bet, I like that, I do, Zach, I was much.

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
I fucking hate you, but I love you. But I
also want to say that, Yeah. I think Donald sometimes
needs the safety net of knowing that he can have
someone clip something he says that he doesn't want to
have said because he enjoys marijuana a lot, and sometimes
his words I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Sometimes, you know, big, big thoughts lead to baked mistakes.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
A great T shirt. That's a great T shirt. Write
down Donald, you know, quotes, quotes, and then put a
line that says Donald's fa on him. Put that on
a shirt.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
Craig Robinson said the same thing Craig Robinson doesn't like
going on podcasts because he gets stone. He doesn't know
what he's gonna say. But you guys got Craig on
because you guys knew how to handle it. I think
you will. You would love my podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
All right. I mean you've said some questionable things on
this one.

Speaker 3 (01:38:14):
No, he's great, he's come on, man, you're great, Rick,
Thanks so much for coming on. We love you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
And happy happy Russia, Shana. I hope your your parents
make you a delicious meal last night.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
You guys got like holiday after holiday.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
What do you mean? What do you mean you guys?

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
I mean like the Jewish people.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
Oh you're saying thanks for having me, Zach.

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
You're saying we have space lasers? Are you saying we
have space lasers?

Speaker 4 (01:38:41):
I didn't say what are you saying about the r
n C?

Speaker 5 (01:38:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
What are you saying about space lasers?

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
I didn't say anything about all right on that note?

Speaker 4 (01:38:50):
No, no, no, no, Donald, Where are you from originally
New York? Good food, great great food, great great food.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
I love that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:10):
Yeah, but you get it, you know what I mean?
You get it? And and and.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
Well now I understand so much more. But before I
knew what what what challenges he was facing, I I
saw every time I would talk to him, I simultaneously
I was laughing but wanted to wring his neck because
so he's so rick.

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
Yeah, I remember my first time meeting him being like, damn,
he's just not gonna leave. He's gonna stay here and
talk to us this whole time, isn't he? And he did,
And I remember that I laughed through most of it,
but I remember thinking, dude, we're.

Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
Not supposed to be talking right now.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
They're doing a take right now, and he's in my
ear like and then so and then so, and I
was like, what is with this guy?

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
And then to hear all of that, it was refreshing to.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
Know it so long with him.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
Yeah, we almost did two hours. He's a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (01:39:59):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:39:59):
He's one of those.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
People that's a good episode. He's so funny.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
That was really good and really fun and what an
interesting guy. Thank you guys for tuning in.

Speaker 10 (01:40:09):
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