Thurs Part 1: Joe Gatto Is In Studio! + Is Someone Leaving The Show?

Joe Gatto stops by the show to talk about leaving 'Impractical Jokers,' reveals if they ever got into any legal trouble, his new comedy special and more! Plus, we share an update on Lunchbox's Altima, Eddie's chicken business, and if someone is leaving the show...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good transmitting.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to Thursday show more in studio. So they listed
the best cities with the best odds for an alien siding. Oh,
I'm only giving myself sixty seconds for this. I know
you guys don't ever talking about aliens.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
The number one city for alien sidings Phoenix, Arizona. I
mean it's a lot of desert, yeah, and like over
there is where they have like Area fifty one, but
it's probably where they're doing a lots of tests on
stuff too. So people think they're seeing ali ufo.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know, they probably are seeing UFOs.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Right, So but they just go, that's got to be
an alien, right, Arizona first New York city of two.
Now this is also if something were to come, where
would they come. The big cities, the big as a
lot of people, Las Vegas, which, by the way, Vegas
is not far from Area fifty one. Yeah, but a
lot of consumption of you know.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, that's what you're not seeing things straight.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
No, I would think it's the desert, guys. Portland, Oregon, Tucson, Arizona. Four,
the five are all desert where there's probably experiments with
aircraft happening that people think are aliens. And it's also
probably where the real aliens know that, so they're coming there
as well. So people think it's probably the experiments you
know too.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
I was thinking, like Vegas, they have that pyramid with
the light that goes straight up.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Maybe the aliens see that lights. But what if that's
a communication that we have and we right in front
of our eyes. Who and we're sending up signals right
in front hiding a plain sight. Uh huh, that's all
my give my stuff talking about aliens. Guys. Good, I
just saw the story. I could do it forever. But
those are the cities we have the best odds to
possibly spot an unidentified flying object, although I think they
could be coming from the ocean because we don't know

(01:42):
what's at the ocean. Bottom of the ocean could be
like space. As far as we know, it's not been
Anyw'm gonna shut up, play a song. What happened? So?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I was it Stevenson's cross country meet And there's people
from all over there, tons of kids, tons of parents,
and this one mom comes up and says, hey, a
big listener. And I was like, oh, you know, where
do you listen? Where are you from? And she's like,
oh Fort Campbell and she goes. My first day ever
listening to the show was the day that y'all got

(02:10):
a call from a listener saying they hate the show.
We had gone on air, I think somewhere in Kentucky,
and we drove to Kentucky and got ice cream.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Sort no Summer's thatt No, okay, but that's not even
your version of the stories.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
This is what she told back to me. If you
remember what happened, really, she I remember the girl not
liking the show, and then we went to Sonic and
we got people ice cream.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
So what really happened was I don't remember some bits either,
And all this stuff is true, like we don't fake
bits on the show. Somebody called and they hated our show.
We just had come on on their station. She was like,
you guys don't talk like you should be on the radio.
You don't have good voices, you don't It just all
seems off. And I said, if you listen to our
show for two weeks, I'll give you a hundred bucks.
If you don't like it, I'll pay you. I will

(02:53):
drive to you and give you one hundred dollars. If
you tell me you don't like the show after listening
two weeks, like, just give us a second. We are
an acquired taste because we don't sound like other shows.
We've also been friends forever. We're not like a bunch
of radio people that a company has put together, which
allows our dynamic sometimes like we can mess with each
other a little more. And if you're new to the show,

(03:13):
you're like, while they're picking on Amy or Bobby or
we're not. We've just been friends for so long. We
know where we can go. And so it was only
fifty bucks on a hundred bucks, I remember there was
one hundred. I don't know how much it was, but
we'll say it with one hundred. Let's go with one hundred.
I'm trying to not commit myself always to being exactly right,
but so we this is a long time ago. But
but if you looked that up, Mike, let me know

(03:34):
which money was. So we drive up to summer set
a couple hours away. Because she said she still did
not like the show after two weeks, because I think
you said that if you still don't like it, yeah
I don't like it, I'll pay you money, boo. And
she goes, okay, cool, and so I hate it. Okay,
we got in the car and we drove up there.
So not only we give her the money, she showed up.
I paid her the money. Mike, how much was it?
Fifty bucks? Munch bucks? You can go to sound like a baller.

(03:54):
I don't want to sound like a baller. I want
to be all honest. So we gave her fifty bucks.
She was actually quite nice, but was like, still don't
like to show. Although I probably would have said that
two for the fifty bucks. Yeah, and then we bought
all the listeners that showed up ice cream at Sonic.
It was amazing and it's funny what people remember. Yeah,
I don't know that's true either.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
This one mom or woman that I met, she said
that was the first time she ever heard us on
the radio, and she's been listening ever since.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
She said.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Later she even came down and volunteered. We did thirty apes,
which just recently, that was eleven years ago. It came
up on my you know.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Not the listener. We paid the money to the listener.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
No, the listener I met like. She was like, I
was wearing my thirty ape shirt the other day. But
it was that show. Taking the money to Kentucky to
that listener in the ice cream situation at Sonic. That
kind of hooked her in. She's like, who are these people?
What are they doing?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
It was no sponsor involved either, we weren't even on
with Sonic at the time. I think I took my car. Yes,
we just drove up and I just paid her the
money because she said she still didn't like the show,
so I respected it. Yeah, but I'm not doing that
anymore because I'd be broke. Yeah, it was a fun memory,
because you know, sometimes people paid h and it is
what it is, is what it is to this point,
that's good. I haven't thought about that a long time.

(05:05):
A lot of a sin by, a lot of a
sin bar good the question to be, because, well, hello,
Bobby Bones, I'm new in the dating world. I'm thirty
six years old and dating a guy who's forty two.

(05:25):
He's been divorced for almost a year. He has two
teen kids who are both very active in sports. My
concern is when I asked to go to one of
the sporting events to show my support for the kids,
he gets noticeably uncomfortable. He tells me, as kids aren't
ready for that kind of thing, which I would normally
be understanding towards but I've met and hung out with
his kids multiple times. Then he says he doesn't want
me to upset his ex by bringing me around, and
he wants to keep things easy, and the co parenting

(05:48):
concept isn't normal for an except this much control over
his relationship. It ends up making me feel bad because
after games, they'll go with another family for lunch or
dinner as a family while I'm left out. Is this normal?
I don't know how to bring my feelings up to
him without seeming demanding or insecure. Signed New Adult Data
Amy this right up your alley.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, yeah, because I'm a divorce mom with two kids,
and I think that there is no normal at least
what I'm learning. Every relationship is so different. But whether
his kids are the ones that are not ready or
he's not particularly ready for that type of interaction, then
I would just be patient and respect that. If you

(06:29):
feel secure in your relationship, you should be okay with it.
I think anything that involves the kids and the coperinging dynamic,
you just have to be patient.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
This is something that's not about you, right, and that's
what it boils down to. It's not about you, so
don't make it about you.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Right, Anything like you feel left out of that is
that's one hundred percent. What you're doing is making it
about yourself, and it's complicated. So I would just respected
and feel secure in your relationship because what that boils
down to is some sort of insecurity that you're feeling
about your relationship.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
It is not about you. They're not leaving you out
because it's about you. They are making decisions based on
what they feel is best, and it does. It is
a part of your life too, but it is not
about you, So don't make it about you.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I do see the main character here, I don't obviously,
we don't know the full picture here, but I do
think that there is something to be said for if
he is avoiding it simply for the other co parent,
like if it has nothing to do with the kids
and he just doesn't want the drama. I think it's
respectful to want to make sure that everybody's comfortable. But
at some point that band aid needs to be ripped.

(07:37):
And if he's just trying to constantly please the other
person too worried about their feelings, then that could be
a little unhealthy.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
But It also says new adult daters, they couldn't been
dating that exactly. Yeah, if you're a new adult dater,
there's got to do with kids just to sit out. Yeah,
it's not about you. Don't make it about you. That's
tough love. We get him, tough love. I feel good
about that. Tough love. We're glad you emailed us. But
it's not about you. Don't make it about you. That's
the anonymous inbox. They can pile of stories.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Elite colleges are shocked that students can't read an entire book.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I saw the story. I think mostly it's they're not
sitting down and investing in an entire book because of
how long it takes to read a book, more than
they can't read.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, yeah, we're talking Georgetown, Stanford, Columbia, and yeah, it's
just that they're overwhelmed by the idea of having to
read an entire book.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
But still I get it. People, No, you don't. Oh
I don't read right, That's what I'm saying. I'm saying.
Kids now, their attention spans have been trained. The culture
of the attention span is so much shorter than when
even we were kids. So for a kid to read
a book. I mean it has to be forced upon

(08:48):
them probably or even less of a sliverable. We had
people that actually enjoyed reading. I enjoy reading. Sometimes even
my attention SPAN's like, oh man, I need to get
on TikTok. So I get it. I get why that
would be weird to these seventy year old professors. They're
not bragging my day. But I do understand kids not

(09:08):
wanting to invest. And also you can just like get
online and summarize it, watch it forming a YouTube. You
shouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Ye, well, that's like our version of when we were kids.
We would go to the store and get the Yellow
Cliffs Notes.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
You never read, you did it. That's how I read book.
I read the book. I was the rare person that
read the book.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Okay, cliffs for the vest. But yeah, that is what
people do on YouTube now they just summarize it. So
California has become the first state to ban sell by dates.
They're trying to simplify how dates are used on products
to cut back on food waste and reduce consumer costs,
which I thought was pretty cool. And I was like, Oh,
those sneaky little people because sell by date isn't used by.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
That's true. I wonder though if they don't sell it,
if they hold it and then people get sick or
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
The sell by date is supposed to be for the stores,
and they say it gets very confusing, and really all
they're going to be able to go off of, at
least in the state of California, is best if used
by to indicate peak quality.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Okay, so they're still going to use that one. They're
still going to have the expires.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
On dates, so that one best if used by is
just like it's going to be best if you do
it here, but you can still use it by this date.
And the used buy is food safety And I was like, ah,
this is great because I feel like we end up
throwing food out that we don't need to, or why
you should.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Shop at the gas station like I do. My wife doesn't,
but I for a lot of my stuff, I still
stop at the gas station and get it, eat it immediately.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
But nothing there is meetium that used by date like nothing,
it's old dusty, okay, it's so grown.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Else old man's smell is the new thing. So and
I have a fourteen year old so I definitely.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
See in my house old man's smell.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, he's very into old spice, like that's what he wants.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Anytime we go to total spice is an old man's smell?

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Is it feel like my dad wore that?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Okay, so got it? Fragrances that existed when our parents
were alive? Is now old man smelt brute? Oh yeah,
brew was good?

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Right? But then this is what's going to make you
really feel old because what they're searching for on eBay
to get the scent to is a lot of stuff
from the nineties, and that would be like what if water.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Cool water was legit? I never I never had a
cool water because it wasn't at Walmart. Brute was at
Walmart in the green bottle. So I was all about Brute.
Way too much brew to do.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know what Aqua did geo is?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
You know, they probably would sound like something Ray would
were at some point not good. I don't like the
Aqua type stuff Safari, Browser.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Lamel, but this stuff is selling on eBay for a lot,
and like.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
That had to be before us though, right probably I
remember Polo Abercrombie Abercrombie cologne. I'm pretty sure he was
yelling brands. No, I'm pretty sure they had cologne.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh remember the unisex one C two K what?

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh is that common classes? I'm gonna tell you other
than brute when I never worked, never worked on my life,
dang Man's much just likes you A two C. He
would do Abercrombie. I'm pretty sure they have a coloone and.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
That cidature smell that when you're everywhere in the mall,
you can smell their cologne. It's super strong. I think
it's called fierce. I think it's Abercrombie Fierce. But remember
Michael Jordan cologne. Yeah, that was awesome about the water.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Leather and so, I well, if y'all have any leftover,
you can throw it on eBay and some teenager's gonna
buy it.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
All right, thank you, Amy. That's my pile. That was
Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news.
She's eighty four. That's pretty old. The dog's thirteen. That
was pretty old. They've been together for a while. Okay,
she's eighty four. She falls, So you're eighty four. I mean, listen,

(12:46):
you're forty four and you fall, it sucks. Imagine if
you're eighty boar man. So she falls and so she
couldn't get up. And so they're in like a little
cabin where they're staying. And so the dog goes out
and just sits in the middle the road to stop
a car. The dog sits in the middle of the road.
How do they know what to do? It sits wild.
The dog walked to a nearby road sat in the

(13:07):
middle of it until she caught the attention of a
passing County Sheriff's deputy who was driving through.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
My dog would never this.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
My dog go to see a squirrel run away bone.
Do you think we can Stanley he take a nap?
That'd be one of the two. Do you think you
can act that out? And see? Tests your dog? See
what that they do? I do stuff like that sometimes
I fall the times. See what happens and what it
stands with their bits? Nothing?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
He just.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Maybe my face. Can they tell you're acting?

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:34):
No, I'm a pretty good actor. I've been like I
was band Slam. I was three episodes in Nashville, Like
I actually have some like credits. You'll see me.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
They look at each other in the like it's just
another bit.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
The dog just goes and stands in the middle of
the road. Amazing crazy, so big shout out to Jeta.
The thirteen year old kind of looks like a like
a Pat part lab. I don't even know what this
dog is, but it doesn't matter. Dog's awesome. That's what
it's all. That was telling me something good. So Bobby

(14:05):
Bones Show Interviews. In case you didn't know, his name
is Joe Gotto. You would know him from Impractical Jokers
also The Misery Index. He's got a new stand up
special called Messing with People. I met him in Vegas
a couple of weeks ago at our Ihear festival. Here
he is, Joe Gotto. There we go on the Bobby
Bones Show. Now, Joe, good to see anybuddy, Good to

(14:26):
see you. Joe and I were crammed together like a
blind date. We were presenting together at the iHeart Radio
Music Festival, and like a blind date, it was dark
and the music was playing, and so you know, there's
like a I'm never good at small talk, not my thing. Yeah,
just like I'm not good at it. I'm just awkward.

(14:47):
And Joe's really a warm guy, and like we talked
for a little bit and then I was like, I
gotta go to the bathroom and I just sat in
there and looked at the mirror and I was like,
I'm really bad at small talk, so that's kind of
my thing. But I felt like we had a kind
of a little dynamic there at the end.

Speaker 7 (14:58):
I think we definitely we got thrown into it because
the teleprompter wouldn't work. Oh true, so the telepromts on
the camera wouldn't work. And they were like, hey, yeah,
so the teleprompt is not working. Ready three two one,
And then we just had to go.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
And then we were just like, go, I forgot about that. Yeah,
I blocked trauma. It's kind of thing. We did great though,
we did great. I'm proud of you. So I have
a lot of questions, like just about and I'm talking
about your special on a second, but just about like
your life and career because to me and practical jokers
is and I know you're you've been off for a
bit now, but it's like the Shark Tank to me,
where if it's on I can watch like four or

(15:30):
five episodes again again. And I don't just like Shark
Tank also like I don't really pursue Shark Tank, but
I love it once I forget how much I like it?
What's the prison show too? Locked Up? Locked Up is
another one man? It was a big lockedout fanel Yeah, yes, yeah,
locked up. So talk to me about kind of the genesis,

(15:50):
like how did this show even come together or get
picked up? Yeah? Where did im practical jokers come from?

Speaker 7 (15:55):
It was just, Uh, we had been a comedy troupe
for a long time. We live for like an eighteen
year overnight success. We had tried a bunch of TV
shows that it failed and went and we started our
comedy troupe in nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 8 (16:06):
Me and the guys went to high school together.

Speaker 7 (16:07):
We know each other over thirty years at this point,
or guys on New York Guys and Yeah, we just
finally were like, you know, let's try to put a
show where it's just about like us.

Speaker 8 (16:16):
But what we do is how we make each other
laugh and let everybody come along.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
And we came up with the formula of like an
inverted kind of prank show because it wasn't really it
was really just messing with your friends.

Speaker 8 (16:25):
There was nobody feeling.

Speaker 7 (16:26):
Bad or like your traditional pranks where you weren't like
got yet, like you're just messing with your friends and
that's uh. It started with one episode and I was
on it for a decade nine and a half season. Wow, yeah,
and yeah they're still going so it's it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
So back in the day, there would be like prank shows,
like hidden camera shows and yeah, you're right, there's a
fine line, yeah, between doing something and everybody feeling good
and doing something and people pointing their finger.

Speaker 8 (16:48):
Yeah, if you point the fingers.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
But like, we would do stuff and if it felt
if people were getting mad, we would like stop.

Speaker 8 (16:54):
We would like, this is wrong, how can we turn it?

Speaker 7 (16:56):
And we would stop filming, get gather up, tweak it,
and go back out and then we would get the gold.
Because it was always about laughing at your friends or
with your friends.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Who gave you, guys an opportunity first where you're like,
I can't believe this is happening.

Speaker 7 (17:08):
It was True TV. We a True TV and MTV
got in a biding more. MTV wanted to recast us
and make it a strip show, so it would air
every day, five days a week with a rotating cast,
and then True TV was like, you know what, these
middle aged fat men could be our poster child and
we ended up being True TV's like guys. They were like,
you know what, we'll give you the show. So we started.
But True TV wasn't didn't have any comedy. It was

(17:29):
we aired between two basic cable reality tow truck shows.
It was Lizard Lick Towing US and then South Beach
tow And it was like the comedy was jammed in
the middle and it just took off air, but it
took to it. And then True like inverted and was like, oh,
we're gonna make it a comedy channel. And then they
started doing comedy when we were in season like three,
two three like that, and they started like got rid

(17:51):
of all the reality tow truck stuff and started becoming
like trying to do a comedy network.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
When did you feel like you were actually starting to
be known and then be famous. Yes, uh, you'd get
it a lot.

Speaker 7 (18:02):
Like the whole first season we filmed and it wasn't
on TV and we were filming season two. It didn't
even air yet, almost like it was only a couple
of episodes. And it being on True TV helped because
there was such a you know, smaller network, so a
lot of people didn't even know you, so that was
kind of bad and good because then when you're like
you're on a practical jokers like.

Speaker 8 (18:18):
What is that?

Speaker 7 (18:19):
It's not like you're a kid the camera and they're like, yo,
we got you, you know. So it was like a weird,
a weird thing. But I think the first time was
we had gone to a wrestling event. So Q, one
of the guys on the show, was a big wrestling fan.
We got invited to go to this big wrestling event
in Westbury, Long Island. There's this uh place in the round,
so there's no walls, you know, the things in the
middle into all circles. And we started sitting there and we,

(18:40):
you know, we're doing our thing, having fun, laughing, getting loud,
and people started like looking around and turning. You know
that thing where you see a couple of heads because
we were in the back, you just see a couple
of heads turn and turn and turning. And in the
live wrestling events, there is the moments where like they
switch between matches, right and it just stops down and
it turned around.

Speaker 8 (18:54):
The one goes like, hey, can I get a picture?

Speaker 7 (18:55):
And then the whole place turned and like a zombie apocalypse,
the whole room came to us, and we were like
up against the wall and it was like thousands of
people being like Will and I.

Speaker 8 (19:04):
Was like and I was like, we gotta get out
of here.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
This is it was just awesome. I drove. I was like,
we gotta get out.

Speaker 7 (19:09):
I just started I was like at my bit like
on the show, as I yelled Larry and like, you know,
get through crowd. So I just started doing that. Everybody
thought it was a bit and I was like, guys,
just stick with me. I'm like Larry and everybody's like laughing.
And then we just literally ran to our car. People
were chasing us to our car. It was insane and
I was like, oh wow, this is really I guess
we're onto something. So that moment was one of the
finding ones for us. We're like, yeah, this is this
is something.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Did you have to change how you did the show
after that moment just in case that would happened again.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
No.

Speaker 7 (19:32):
The good thing about it was, you know, we did
it in New York, which was an ally because is
you know, if helf the city doesn't know you, it's
formula people to mess with, right, So we were just
like hanging out in New York and doing a lot
of it, but we had to make some adjustments where
we couldn't really go out.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
By the end, we couldn't go out in pairs as much.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
We'd love going out in pairs and trying to mess
it up, but then people be like, I could kind
of look like Joe, but then somebody can't kind of
look like the other guy. You know, that would give
us away. So we started we had to stop doing that.
And then when we started doing like the focus group stuff,
we would like have to do tricks to get people.
So like, if it was somebody else's turn, I would
play the reception is checking them in, just like not

(20:09):
even for camera, just to see if somebody recognized me.
So they didn't recognize me, and it was somebody's turn,
and they're like, okay, we're good. They don't know the
show it a strategize, strategize some stuff. The hardest part
was when we were doing something in the park and
you're like talking to somebody you finally got them in,
and somebody comes flying over.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
It's like, oh my god, joke, can I get a selfie?
And you're like oh, and then the person's like who
are you.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
I'm like, oh, I'm their pharmacist like you just like, oh, really,
well they did, don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
So what about getting people to sign the waivers? Do
you ever have difficulty with that?

Speaker 8 (20:34):
Not really, because most of the time people just thought
you were crazy.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
You know, we weren't like getting people right, so weren't
get in the mid They was like, oh, I didn't
even know I was on the show?

Speaker 8 (20:41):
What is this? This stupid kind of thing, you know.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
But there were points where some things was so good
that you just kept it with a blur anyway. But
a lot of times people just got away because we
went so fast. You know, we're in the park Manhattan,
messing going around, but there's so many people coming through.
Sometimes our production people would lose who it was, so
they did get blurred, not because they were mad whos,
just we'd miss them, you know.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
But it was such a good bit that still worked
with the blur, we would keep it in. So what
kind of kid were you? Oh nerdy?

Speaker 8 (21:07):
Such a geek?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
In what way? Like college books are reading?

Speaker 8 (21:10):
I used to make mad.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
I used to make tests for my father, Like he
would come home from his ten hour workday was selling
life insurance to the door and I'd be like pop
quiz Dad, like, I was like super geek.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
Like I didn't really have many friends growing up either.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
I had you know those stupid inspirational posters that was
like an oak tree and it was sad like strength,
you know, build your foundation, like one of those. I
had this one in my room my dad got me
because I had no friends, and it was fighter jets,
like three of them up and it said attitude winners
surround themselves with winners. And I remember my dad telling me.
He was like, it was like eighth grade. It was
almost before I went to school. It was into like

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you know, creative writing. I was good at math, you know,
I was pretty smart, and he was like, h don't worry,
I just don't have any winners yet.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
And I was just and I just always stuck with me.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
And then in high school freshman year, I met the
boys and you know, came friends with them and had
the whole journey. So it's interesting, but I was definitely
like a little geek, nerdy, little brother, youngest of fifteen cousins,
so like one of those. And then you know, so
I was like the baby boy, Grandma's favorite.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
That whole thing, big Italian family.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
So any of my friends at Italian from the northeast
person of New York are much like I'm from the south,
and we're close with our cousins. It's a very tight
knit which the cousins grew. So when you say fifteen cousins,
I'm assuming you all lived near each other.

Speaker 7 (22:24):
We lived in different parts, but we spent a lot
of time together. We'd vacation all the Christmas Eve at
Grandma's house. Everybody be there for a couple of days,
that whole thing. So we would do that. I have
one cousin, Mike, who's one year older than me. That's
more of a brother than a cousin.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
You know.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
We've been through a bunch together. So yeah, but it
was very tight knit for sure.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
What did you want to be when you grew up?

Speaker 8 (22:43):
An architect? Yeah, I loved legos. I thought that would translate.
It didn't.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
I ended up get an accounting degree. I have an
accounting degree, which makes no sense. I can't even bounce
my own checkbook, you know. So I have an accounting
degree and I didn't really I didn't really use that
much at all.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
So you meet the boys and like high school, eighth
or ninth grade whatever that is. And did you guys
just do bits for each other at first?

Speaker 8 (23:05):
Yeah, I was. I was still very shy in high school.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
I didn't come really out of my shell to make
people left till junior year or high school. I used
to have lunch with Sal and you know, the guys
all time. And I used to make Sal laugh all
the time at lunch. And they had joined the improv
group at school and they were like, you gotta come,
You're so funny, and I'm like no. I was like,
you know, I can make my three friends laugh, but
it was like eighty people everybody watching you.

Speaker 8 (23:25):
I'm like, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
And then I went to it and I really enjoyed
the improv thing. So we all started doing improv together
in high school. My junior year of high school. So
we'd been doing comedy a long time together.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
So when did you decide though you were going to
focus on that's how you were going to try to
make your living? Was being creative?

Speaker 7 (23:42):
Twenty eleven? So I was selling I worked at a
baby store. I was selling high end baby gear and furniture.
I was a salesman and we got I took my
two week vacation to film the pilot because.

Speaker 8 (23:52):
I was always doing it was always the five to nine.

Speaker 7 (23:54):
Like it was after work. On the side, I would
be editing the videos, doing all the stuff.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
But you had a normal job.

Speaker 8 (23:59):
Normal job, Yeah, normal job.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
I was a training program manager for this company called Giggle,
this high end baby store. So I used to do
that and then I took my two week vacation to
film the pilot. We got picked up and I went
to the CEO's office and I said, Hey, I'm gonna
have to take a six month hiatus. And she was like,
so you're quitting. I'm like, no, it's a hiatus and
she's like, you can't. I can't not have someone in
your position for six months. He's like, so, don't worry.

(24:21):
You're gonna go be a TV star and if it
doesn't work out, come back. And I did not think
that was going to happen. It's such the chances of
what has happened to us is unbelievable. And I was like, nah,
I'll be back.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
So you make this video, and are you are the
videos you're making? Are you sending them out to people?
Are you emailing to people? So we did.

Speaker 7 (24:37):
We were big on YouTube and MySpace because back in
the day, the algorithm was literally a person.

Speaker 8 (24:42):
It worked like a newspaper. There was an editor's desk, right,
so it was one or.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
Two people that were deciding what goes on the homepage,
and both of them were fans of us and just
liked our comedy, so we always ended up on that.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
So we built a big following and then we'd made
When we.

Speaker 7 (24:56):
Was time to shoot the pilot, we just took our
cell phones and we went and shot a It was
just basically a sizzle reel, which was like us doing
stupid stuff in public.

Speaker 8 (25:04):
We went to Times Square a Tyler Perry.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
Show movie was premiering, and I had to get up
to a packed theater and tell everybody that I far
did and excuse myself. So I do this thing, but
the whole crowd went like nuts and got behind me,
and I just got caught up in the moment. So
I exit like I climbed over the seats down the middle,
and everybody was cheering for me, and it was such
a weird moment. There was like yeah, yeah, and that
we left and then James tried to do it and
they were like shut up and they like so it

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was such a different dynamic because he was so not
confident about it, and we had just a sizzle tape
and in the room, True TV was like, we want this,
we want the show, we want to buy it in
the room and we were like, oh, okay, that's great.
And then MTV made the offer and we went back
and forth and decided no, we should be on TV.
We actually decided it with a coin flip because it
was four of us and we always pretty much agreed,
and we said, listen, if it ever comes.

Speaker 8 (25:47):
Down it's not the words two and two, we'll flip
a coin.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
And that decision was made with a coin flip to
go with True instead of MTV.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Wowol, what kind of husband are you to your wife
as far as jokes? Or are you not as extraverted
at home? I'm wildly introverted when I'm not doing this. Yeah, like,
how are you away from the microphone?

Speaker 7 (26:04):
I'm a way better husband now, I was, Yeah, I
don't do uh. She is very introverted. She is very
you know, she shines around dog people. We have like
a dog rescue, so she loves like dog people. She
talked to all day, all night. She's two different people
with that otherwise She's like, you very introverted wallflower kind
of thing. But we love to laugh. We laugh a lot,
and she finds me annoyingly funny. I guess you know,

(26:27):
we're not like pranking at home and stuff. My kids
though it's funny because my son and daughter. My daughter's nine,
my son is seven, and I'm with my son. We're
in the supermarket and he just starts laughing, and I'm like,
what's up? And he points to a carton is a
pineapple in it? And he goes to pineapple? I go what,
he goes, I put it there. Now, I'm now I
have a decision to make. Do I yell at him
and be like, don't mess with other people's stuff? Or

(26:48):
do I can like give him a high five? And
I say it's great. I said, great job, buddy.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
He goes, what do we do?

Speaker 2 (26:52):
What do we do?

Speaker 8 (26:52):
So we went and we hid. I said, you gotta
wait to see them find this.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
So we went and hid behind the Mkapa oreos and
we're just sitting there waiting for it to come and
the ladies a while to get back.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
And I just looked down my son and opened a
bag of.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
Oreos and he was eating the oreos, watching watching it
wait until that I shot him a look and he
thought he was in trouble for the wrong reason. So
he goes, oh, sorry, do you want one? And so
he's just sitting there eating oreos for this woman to
come back. But it's funny because you see your kids
like realize that. And that's what my new tour is about.
So my new tour, I'm on tour now. It's called
Let's get into it, and I really just break down
how people become.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
It's exactly this. It's like, how do you become the
person you are?

Speaker 7 (27:25):
Because I started as such a nerdy, geeky kid, but
I ended up as this loud, confident, brave guy and
it's like, it's so weird.

Speaker 8 (27:31):
How we get there?

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Did you continue to do stage work as you were
doing the show?

Speaker 8 (27:36):
Yeah, so we did.

Speaker 7 (27:36):
We went on tour as the Jokers and we did
five world tours together.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
But would you do and I knew you guys had
toured that, but would you do comedy by yourself? Ever?

Speaker 7 (27:45):
No, as always on stage. I only started when I
left the show. So really, yeah, three years ago.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
How did when you got started? Like where did you start?
Just do small clubs Appleton, Wisconsin, and without telling people
you were coming or no announced.

Speaker 8 (27:57):
Yeah, but I did Joe Gaddle's Night of Comedy.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
I brought two very good comics with me, Steve Byrne,
who you may know, and I Mark Chaguardian, and they
were good friends of mine, both really seasoned stand ups.
And I was like, all right, look, I'm gonna go
up there, and if it's terrible, you guys are gonna
come in and see the day with Joe got Is
Night of Comedy. I know we'll have a good show.
But I went up and I did like thirty five
minutes and it was really good.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
It felt good.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
I came back and Steve, who's a very good friend
of mine, was like, you've got this, don't worry. You
just got to figure out what you're going to talk about.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
So, and you're special messing with people? What do you do?
Are you messing with people? No?

Speaker 7 (28:28):
It's my story about how I liked, how I entertain
and enjoy messing with people, and how I realize it's
just so ingrained in me. So I'm a storyteller. That's
how my format is more. I tell stories, not just
like a you know, joke writer kind of guy. But
I have a lot of interesting stories that I have
punched up, and a lot of it just shows that
I really just do this in my DNA.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Do you feel like after you tell a story and
it exists, that you can't tell it anymore?

Speaker 7 (28:54):
No, I mean, if you just got to, don't tell
it to the person that's already heard.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
It, I guess.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
But if somebody comes to a show, right.

Speaker 7 (28:59):
No show, this new thing is all brand new. It's
a brand new hour, so let's get into it. What
I'm touring with now is a completely different hour than
the Messing with People special Once you I did it
for two and a half years and it was time
was up, and I was like, you work so hard
on something you don't want it just to go away.
So I made the special and I was proud of
the product. I was like, I want people to see.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
This, so why YouTube? Obviously a lot of people wanted
your services.

Speaker 8 (29:21):
Yeah, not as many as you think. No, it was
you know, eight hundred pound gorillas.

Speaker 7 (29:27):
They're a good partner and they're really a home for
like stand up and I want people to see me
in this new light. So it's good to be with them,
so you bring in a different crowd and different you know,
I like to to like the subscription ones are great,
but it's always who's subscribed. Although people, you know, you
still get a big audience, but everybody could get the
special for free, which is good.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
It's super shareable, which is nice. You know.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
How's that been doing for you?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Like?

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Pretty good? Do you like the YouTube relationship?

Speaker 8 (29:51):
Yeah, it's great. I mean the comments are fun, Like.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
You go, look at those I do. I group.

Speaker 8 (29:57):
I respond to every comment, good or bad.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
You're out of your mind, do it?

Speaker 8 (30:00):
I mean wow? I mean why not?

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I remember you're extremely likable though to be honest, yeah,
that's nice, but people aren't okay, fair enough, tell me
a comment story.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
There's something that that's like, you know, but I remember
back in the day. I don't know if you remember this,
but when Jean Favreau did Swingers, and I'm a huge
Fabreu fan and Vince Vaughn fan, he had put up
a comment board. It was just on you could go
and he would reply to the comments and you would
talk to John Favreau. And as a young person who's
like trying to do it, I thought that was so cool.
The accessibility, and we're so accessible now. So I was like,

(30:29):
you know what, I'm going to do this with my special.
I wanted people to be able to say what they
want to say and then get back to them. And
then if people say they don't like it, it's fine, because,
as you know, comedy's one hundred percent subjective. If you
don't like it, you don't like it, it's okay, thanks
for giving it a shot. You know. It's not like
I don't get into it and start like yelling at them,
you know, And I'm not really getting anything like like
name calling me or like bully and stuff. I shut
that stuff down real quick, you know. So I'm not

(30:50):
really worried about that. But I just think it's important
to interact with the fans. I mean, we're roll here
because we have fans.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Right, So how long is you're special?

Speaker 8 (30:57):
Just over an hour?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Was that purposeful? You try to keep it in an hour?

Speaker 7 (31:00):
Be about an hour is the right amountain time where
you could go Yeah, I cut out some stuff that
I didn't like it during the tour because I toured
with it for two and a half years, like I said,
and I had a funny story that happed me with
my son.

Speaker 8 (31:13):
That's a big part of my show.

Speaker 7 (31:14):
And I actually took out a different story and just
put that in because I was telling my friends.

Speaker 8 (31:17):
We had gone to disney.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
World, and I don't know if you ever been to Disneyland,
they do that big Star Wars ride and my son
was five years old to plointed, and he had never
We went on the Star Wars ride and it's super immersive,
like everybody's playing a part. And my son had never
been on a ride and never seen a Star Wars movie,
so he thought he had abducted by aliens.

Speaker 8 (31:35):
He had no idea.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
And we're on the ride and having I'm such a
Star Wars geek, I'm a joint and I look over
and my son is hugging the guardrail and he's yelling.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
I want to go back to her. And I'm like,
oh my god. And then I realized.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
I was like, oh no, this kid has no idea
what's happening. And it was just so funny. And I
told that story to Steve in the car as we
were driving, and he was like, you gotta tell us
on stage, And that night I told it on stage
and it became like a centerpiece of my show.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Would you watch it back and realize where you were
getting some laughs and then try to make those moments
a little more crisp. Yeah, do you game tape yourself?

Speaker 8 (32:04):
I do. Dang, that's hard. That's hard. You watch yourself.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I hate myself when I do that.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
Everybody does. That's the worst. That's the worst. Watch when
you're like, oh, when do you think something's gonna kill?

Speaker 2 (32:13):
But I get less confident, like I'll watch anything I
do and I'm really, oh, yeah, I'm like, you're awful.
So I find like, sometimes, depending on where my mental
and emotional state is, it's better for me not to
do that. Sometimes if I'm in a good place, I
can and I can make the notes. Do you have
anybody that you can trust to tell you that something's
going great or even not going great?

Speaker 7 (32:30):
Yeah, you could tell too, though. I mean I've been
doing it a long time. I've been doing comedy a
long time, so you could tell. I self at it
a lot. I'll also not give up on something. If
it's not working, then I'll sit up there and say
three more jokes in it.

Speaker 8 (32:41):
That's what my friend Mark taught me too.

Speaker 7 (32:42):
It is like, try three jokes if one doesn't work,
and if none of them work, it's.

Speaker 8 (32:46):
Not a good joke.

Speaker 7 (32:47):
So I'll get up there because I have improv background,
so I'll just jump in try some stuff. I had
a great show, Like this new tour is still like
in its very early stages. So I just did Chattanooga
last night and it was a great show, and I
was like, Okay, this is this is the one to
start replicating. So you know, I've done about twelve shows
with this tour so far, and I was like, this
is the right one.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Joe Gotto official dot com, not.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
The regular Joe. I don't know that other guy.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I don't know if the exists. Did you look at it?

Speaker 7 (33:15):
Know it's somebody just has the domain. It's just somebody
hasn't So you got to throw the official on the end.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Or mister that's what I had to do, mister Bobby Balins,
because yeah, some guy wouldn't give me. This sounds very regal,
I know, and I'm not like that's the weird part
about it. Joe Goto official dot com for all the
tour dates, and you're all over the place. There are
dates all the way up until March up next year.
So is your goal to build out another special.

Speaker 8 (33:37):
The goal is to keep getting in front of people
and making them laugh.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
I just love making an event for people to come
and forget how terrible life is and laugh together for
a while.

Speaker 8 (33:45):
So I'm having a lot of fun doing this.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
And then I'm sure when this is over, I'll have
the same feeling I had with the last one, which
is you just don't want it to just go away.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
So the kid's book, tell me about this? Yeah, where's Barry?

Speaker 8 (33:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (33:56):
I just came out. I just came up with a
kid's book. It's been so much fun. My I partnered
with Penguin Publishing Group, got illustrated by a great guy,
Luke Flowers, And it's a story about my son lost
his stuffed animal and he he was playing hide and
go seek with it at bedtime. Like if you're a parent,
you know, if your kid loses their stuffy it's at bedtime,
it's forget it, it's over right. So it was catastrophic.

(34:17):
So I was like, you gotta calm down, let's find it.
And we taught him how to calm down and retrace
his steps, and he started like breathing and doing like
this non mistay thing, which way.

Speaker 8 (34:25):
I didn't even know to this day where he got
it from. He was like mine.

Speaker 7 (34:28):
I was like okay, And then he had hidden it
under a pot under the sink, like upside down, like
I never would have found it. He was playing higme
and go seek with it, and we never would have
found it. So I'm like, thank goodness he was able
to and it was a fun story. So I sent
it out. It got illustrated and it came a really
fun kids book.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Your Animal Rescue. You talk about your wife, you have
a service dog here with you. Yeah, what apremony. She's
in the book as well.

Speaker 8 (34:47):
She was in Where's Berry?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
What is it about dogs or animals that you guys
are so passionate about.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
We have a senior dog rescue in on Long Island.
It's called Ghatto Pups and Friends, and we started it
about two years ago. My wife was just collecting these
old decrepit dogs for a while. She was just that
we just had like so many rescue dogs, and I'm like,
we could probably do better if we start trying to
find them homes and adopt them out, you know. So
we just adopted out this last week and I think
our one hundred and twentieth dog, which is so much fun.
It's great to find homes for them, but we we

(35:15):
just love them.

Speaker 8 (35:15):
They're part of the family.

Speaker 7 (35:17):
We have eleven dogs ourselves and then the path.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
You have eleven dogs, eleven dogs, Yeah, this is where
do they all live.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
In the house?

Speaker 7 (35:24):
Yeah, and they sleep in the eight of them sleep
upstairs with us. Most of them are like smaller. We
only have a couple that are bigger, bigger, but like
she sleeps on my pillow and she tours with you.

Speaker 8 (35:32):
She comes within the road with me every now and again. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
How much of the touring are you doing in a car?
How much are you flying?

Speaker 7 (35:38):
When it's a fly in and then fly out one,
I'll take the dog with me. If I'm doing multiple
flights in between, I don't take her, But I do
lots of driving.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
I like to drive.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Well, you just drive. We won't just drive from New York,
but you'll fly somewhere, fly, pick up a rental.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
What do you do all day when you have a
short night, I.

Speaker 8 (35:54):
Walk around, I go.

Speaker 7 (35:55):
I love going into these little towns, just popping around
and stuff, going to main street, getting a coffee and
a donut, meet people, shopping, into like a you know,
candles and BS store.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I just think if I saw Joe, I'd feel like
I'd be looking around.

Speaker 7 (36:07):
Oh that you get that all the time, like, well,
are you about to do something to me? Yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry. I was at Target and I got to
find the paper towels. Is a nice little old lady
red vest. I say excuse me, misswiss of paper towels,
and she looks at me and goes, oh, no, Joe,
you're not getting me towels later.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's funny.

Speaker 8 (36:23):
That was the old time.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Are you. Are you feeling fulfilled from kind of this
new season of Joe? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (36:28):
Life is good. Yeah, I got a little bit of balance,
a little bit back.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
I got uh you know, I feel like a better dad,
better husband. I'm still getting the comedy, uh uh, scratching
the itch of the comedy with everything I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
The creativity is great.

Speaker 7 (36:42):
It's just always fun when you concentrate on something for
so long, one thing, like you know, when you were
able to look away, you have so many other ideas.

Speaker 8 (36:49):
It's cool to be able to chase these things.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
And did you feel like you weren't able to get bored?
Therefore you wouldn't really create. Were you so busy doing
the show?

Speaker 8 (36:56):
I was very busy doing the show. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (36:58):
It was very consuming, you know, because I did the
production and edits and everything, and then we toured together
and it just was non stop kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah. If I am just going, if I'm doing stand
up or doing a TV show and then doing the
radio show, I can never get bored. Therefore, I just
feel like I'm never actually creating. I'm just trying to maintains. Therefore,
nothing is coming out of me that I'm like super
proud of because I'm just trying to keep up all
the time.

Speaker 8 (37:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (37:22):
But then when you start something new, that sparks up
the whole machine again.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
Right.

Speaker 7 (37:25):
So that's what's really fun and exciting, is like like
I wrote the kids book, I'm like, oh, this is
really cool. I've never done this, and then you get
really into it and behind it, you know.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
I like to go back to something you said earlier
when you said, uh, up on my comment of I'm
not good at small talk. You said, yeah obviously or
something like that. He noticed, Yeah, yeah, he k know
whatever it was. He said, I'm curious to get pulled
the bathroom. You pulled the eye, got got the body,
and you disappeared by myself and hold on. I was
for like a good ten minutes, and then I did.

(37:53):
I was like, I just need to go to the bathroom
and kind of regroup, because again, you're a big famous
Joe and here here I am. I'm like, I don't notice.
It's loud, and you're like, hey, man, where are you from?
And so that's awkward. So you didn't yell at your
face oh me, Oh that's me. It's like that was
a pressure to you. It's like you're meeting somebody in
a bar. A good pressure to me, though, what do

(38:13):
you like to eat? You're just doing that the whole time.
So I'm like, I know I'm annoying this guy. He
doesn't want to be here with me either, But I
did like you. I thought you were super warm. I
just think nobody ever wants to be around me because
I'm terrible at that. What was your impression after working
with me for I don't know eight minutes.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
I was excited that we actually because we was able
to book this right we got the news that I
was doing this right before, so I was like, oh,
this is great. I could talk about doing this, and
you're like, yeah, i'll see you that, I'm gonna go pee.
I was like, all right, later, I guess i'll talk
to the studio. But and then you were like, yeah,
I gotta go piece out. This is my wife Sea
and you were gone. But uh, I think like you
were that. You're right, that is a very loud, weird place.
Everybody's looking at you. But when the cameras started and

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we were on that little stage together and it got
we had a lot of fun in the moment. We
only had you know, you know what was it before
we introduced Keith Urban.

Speaker 8 (38:58):
We had a minute and a half.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
But it was a very fun minute and a half
because we went off the cuff, which I love.

Speaker 8 (39:04):
And you are super smart and quick, which is cool.

Speaker 7 (39:07):
And then everybody in the theater like responded to us,
everybody in the arena, which was really fun.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
So I think overall, you'll give yourself.

Speaker 8 (39:14):
A hard time. I'd back it down a bit. I
think you're a good guy.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I never said I wasn't a good guy, but now
I can actually see. So when you're doing these shows,
what time do you get to bed?

Speaker 8 (39:26):
Depends if I have the dog with me.

Speaker 7 (39:28):
I sleep way better, go to bed much quicker because
I'm so used to sleeping with so much animals.

Speaker 8 (39:34):
But yeah, i'd probably go to bed I right when
I get back.

Speaker 7 (39:36):
You're off the high of a show, probably around midnight
ish one o'clock.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
So not like the hard comedy four am.

Speaker 7 (39:44):
No, because the shows I only do one show. I
don't like comedy clubs. I'll go to bed later because
the late show starts at ten thirty. But my show
is in around seven thirty, so I'll go when I
play casino, it's a little bit later.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
That's pretty nice.

Speaker 8 (39:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Do you ever have that feeling like because homot do
you tour by yourself?

Speaker 8 (39:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (39:59):
Well I have a group of people that come, but
the team that works with me. But and then Mark,
who's my opener, who is very funny. He's with me
on all dates.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
But like you're close, you're close folks. They stay home
for the most part.

Speaker 8 (40:08):
Yeah, my kids come to me every now and again.
My kids will be me next weekend, which is cool.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Do you ever do the thing where it's like if
they're celebrating ah, and you get back to your hotel
room like an hour and you're like, I'm so alone.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
I liked it.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
When people were liking me, they were yelling.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
It is a weird thing where you're just sitting there
eating room service nachos, watching something on.

Speaker 8 (40:24):
The streamer, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
It's a little different.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
You know, like you're going from these taking your bows
in front of this theater and now you're like, yeah,
i'll take can I get extra cheese?

Speaker 2 (40:34):
It sounds like you're like enjoying life, Like you're smiling
when you're talking, and that doesn't always happen with all
artists and performers. You can kind of tell they're just
kind of fighting through something. Oh yeah, I feel like that.
Hopefully you found this new part of a film in
your life. Does everybody come out to you and go,
why aren't you on the show anymore? Is that the
most annoying question ever?

Speaker 8 (40:51):
Full time? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, yeah, sure, And what do you say to.

Speaker 8 (40:55):
Them, I'm not on it anymore.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Do you ever come across yourself? Do you watch yourself?

Speaker 8 (41:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (41:01):
I mean it's on now and again, I mean it's
I see things like in airports, you know, like it'll
be on the show and stuff and that people will
realize that's always so funny.

Speaker 8 (41:08):
But they're like, oh, what.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
It's on airplanes, Like I'll be waiting on the line
to go to the bathroom or something and I'll see somebody.
I'll see me on somebody's screen and they're laughing and
then they look over and it's me and they're like what.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (41:18):
And I'm like, yeah, I'm just going to the bathroom. Well, yeah,
it's it's been good. I mean.

Speaker 7 (41:22):
The biggest thing people want to know is like, oh, well,
you're still friends with the guys because it's such a show.
And I'm like, yeah, we were friends before, we're friends after.
We've been friends, you know, thirty, we're just not friends
from work anymore.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
So you guys have any questions for Joe maybe, I
mean just working with friends for so long and we've
all been together like a lot of years. Yeah, so
we started really young together. But was there ever any
conflict that y'all had to navigate?

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Always, always, you know, comedy is hard by committee too,
you know, but we always worked it out. We would
always have an open mind. There was always a sentence
we could say to each other. Where I remember there
was like a specific punishment I wanted to do where
I wanted. Sal always gets in his own mind and
he's like very fun to watch, like if you manipulate
all his neurosis. And I was like, let's make a
punishment where Sal doesn't know he's being punished and continually

(42:06):
thinks he is and isn't is and isn't As I can,
he'll unravel. I said, it'll be so fun we could
do and nobody, nobody was in on it. And I
remember me and Q were talking and I just looked
at him and said, I'm gonna do it. It's gonna
be funny, and he goes okay, and that was it.
And we've said that sentence to each other a bunch
of times, just like, trust me, it's going to be
funny and well. And we always knew we'd be able
to make and if somebody had some confidence in it,
we did it. So that would be like the sentence

(42:28):
that would be like, guys, you know, because it's everybody's
show too, right, you can't be like you can't do
this on your show like that. That was always weird,
but we always most part agreed. We had worked together
for so long before that we get your own voice.
It was kind of like a one voice.

Speaker 8 (42:40):
Kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Being friends for that long though too, the hanging out
because y'all are working together so much. Then it's like,
would you all ever be like, hey, you want to
grab dinner for fight in it?

Speaker 2 (42:47):
It would be so funny when we'd see each other
out in the wild.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
We had the saying see you in twelve hours because
we literally there's one time where I saw it.

Speaker 8 (42:53):
We saw each other for.

Speaker 7 (42:53):
Thirty two days in a row, like in a row,
like you don't see your family that might. It was crazy,
like we had a tour, we had our cruise, then
we went on a tour. We had the show back
to filming, then we went on a tour and it
was like insanity. And then I remember there's somebody's it
was like a wedding or something, and we all had
to go to somebody's wedding. Somebody's getting married from the
show on the production team, and we all went to
the wedding and we were.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Like saw each other at a wedding.

Speaker 7 (43:14):
We're like, we were just talking about bits of what
we could do with the wedding. I'm like, guys, could
we not think about like how we're gonna best we
hear at this wedding.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Eddie, lunchbox, anything for Joe.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Yeah, I could. He mentioned a cruise real quick. So
we've been trying to talk Bobby into doing a Bobby
Bone show crew.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
You love it. What's that like?

Speaker 7 (43:29):
Going on vacation with your crazy fans at seas for
six days?

Speaker 8 (43:33):
So so fun?

Speaker 2 (43:34):
I get motionsick though, don't go Yeah I tried, I tried. Yeah, alright.
Motion sickness is kind of like no, that's like the
thing that just sits in here. Yeah, and no thing
you can do.

Speaker 8 (43:43):
Everybody tarts with the stupid like ear patches and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Wristbands, ear patches, butt plus watched The Horizon. I don't
know you're talking about the consult your physician, different different groove,
different groove, Morgan.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Yeah, I want to know if you guys ever ran
into any legal problems when you were doing these jokes
or punishment.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
Something had to happen, because some of those go horribly wrong,
I would imagine.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (44:05):
Actually it played in our favor once because we had
gotten a letter from the city.

Speaker 8 (44:08):
We did this bit where we were just doing a
stupid thing down by the UH.

Speaker 7 (44:13):
By the UH one of the official buildings downtown and
out front it had these huge statues, and we made
Sal start playing a competition of got your nose, So
you had this the nose always had to get bigger.
So you start with a baby, which is weird to
do to somebody's baby, and then you do it to
an adult, which is even weirder. And then Sal was like,
there was this huge statue and he climbed on this
statue and he was like, got your nose whatever, and
it was like a huge thing.

Speaker 8 (44:33):
We got a letter from the city.

Speaker 7 (44:34):
They had seen it, and they sent a production We're
having a meeting and their production manager comes in.

Speaker 8 (44:39):
He's like, hey, we just got a letter. We have
to you know, we got to find from.

Speaker 7 (44:42):
The city about this trespassing and they had seen a
thing that you know, because it's a landmark building, and
blah blah blah, and they left. The next day, Sal
wasn't in and I was in with everybody. The showrunner
comes in and he goes, hey, don't worry, we got
that thing sorted.

Speaker 8 (44:57):
I was like, no, we didn't know, we didn't, we didn't.
Sal's in trouble.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Just leave it.

Speaker 8 (45:03):
So then we started this whole campaign up that Sal
was facing.

Speaker 7 (45:07):
A five hundred thousand dollars fine and needed to go
to a dissertation, like to sit down with a judge.
And we posed this whole thing downtown they have the
where they film NYPD Blue and all that they have,
like these fake courthouses. We rented one out, got extras,
made somebody as an actress, and used all these hidden
cameras that we had never used before. There was like
a lipstick cam in a water bottle, like all this

(45:27):
high end stuff, and made Sal sit through this thing.
And then a couple of months after that, we had
our one of our sets rated by Homeland Security and
they rolled up like a movie like whooa like, and
they go up to Sal and eventually he turns around
and the woman who was the judge was like, gotcha,

(45:47):
and he just melted. It took about a year and
a year and two months for it to play out,
which was really really fun.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
That's why.

Speaker 7 (45:55):
Yeah, and he could his mind just exploded. He's like,
how did I not get this? You know it was
his day off when he went for the dissertation.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
I was working. I didn't get paid that day. Like,
it really was funny.

Speaker 7 (46:06):
How rich did you guys get basic Cable, not very
I don't believe that. Yeah, no, no residuals, nothing like that.
The movie helps you get paid the residuals on the
written movie, which was cool, but uh, Basic cable, you
don't get any.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
The special is messing with people. You can search for it.
It's on YouTube now and Joe is all over So
how do you do you say? Gott it got my
accent in your accent.

Speaker 8 (46:28):
Everybody says Gotto. Yeah it's Gatto.

Speaker 7 (46:30):
So it is Gatto, gat got gat Ghatto, Gotto, Joe Gatto.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
See, okay, I get, I get.

Speaker 8 (46:37):
Gotto, Gaeto, Gatto.

Speaker 7 (46:40):
You know it gets it goes all over the place,
but Gatto, Yes, Gatto.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (46:44):
You got it. Bobby boons.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
All right, you guys could go to Joe Gatto Official
Gatto Yes, Joe, now that feels weird. Yeah, Joe Gatto
official dot com to see all of his dates in
a lot of the cities that are shows in. You're
all you're basically just following us wherever we are. Show is.
You're all all over the country. Congratulations and thank you
for coming and really appreciate the time. This is great
and next time I'll not pee I'll just hold it.

(47:10):
I'll ply it to people really bad. I'm like, I'm
not gonna go to the bathroom Joe the bathroom shoes.

Speaker 8 (47:14):
I came in and I'm just gonna talk to these
fine folks.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Joe. Get to see man, get to see there is
Joe g addat everybody, Thank you, GUV. Guy wins lottery.
So jam's Philip ags He claimed five hundred thousand dollars
and the lunchbucks. Explain what the drawing is because it's
Lucky for life drawing. Is that if you lose a
scratch off, everybody goes in, they draw another name you
can if you lose.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
There's a second chance on most lotteries where you scan
the barcode and you're entered into something and I guess
it's just a drawing and they draw a random one.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
You win. So at million bucks. What's it called set
for life? Yeah, Lucky for life. Oh lucky. So a
second person was also a winner, but a lottery officials
said that the winner hadn't come forward yet. So you
have one winner five dollars. Oh no, there's a second
winner who hadn't come forward yet. What's up?

Speaker 4 (48:02):
What do you think is happening. Then they're going to
inform the second person. Sorry, the first one came forward.
You don't get your money.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
No, it turns out because two people want it. Turns
out the second winner was also the guy who won
the first one. He bought two lottery tickets. There I
both pulled. No, that's rigged. There's someone helping him double
the money. Well, yeah, because you want twice two tickets,
he says, he always buys two lottery tickets so we
can double his prizes. He didn't climb the second prize
right away because he had misplaced that ticket. Fox four

(48:30):
k C. The first guy came forward with him, but
there was also the first guy won the second one
million dollars.

Speaker 5 (48:35):
Amazing lucky for life, that's yeh, super lucky for life.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Thoughts. I feel like someone helped him out. Someone rigged it.
Don't you think if you were going to rig it,
you wouldn't do it that hard. You just do the
first one and you don't do the second, and you
like the best person who keep robbing banks even though
you're close to getting caught. It's like, you know, you
got away with it so many times, and you kind
of just chill now Yeah, did you ever watch How
to Be a Bank Robber? Yeah? I like that. That's good, right,
it's pretty good. That's awesome, it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I tried.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
That was pretty good. Play me in voicemail.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Number four, I just love your cash. I just want
to say that I'm a homeless man. At least you
show every single one religiously. I just want to say hi,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Scuba. Is are a phone number with this guy?

Speaker 9 (49:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Find it. I don't know much about him, don't know
where he's from. He's really homeless. I mean he says that.
What we know is the voicemail that he left. I mean,
if he's a listener and he's homeless, like to help
him out in some way if we can, love to
try to track that down, and then let's do one
more voicemail here him with number five.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
I was calling just to see if we could get
a few updates. One is Lunchbox's car. I was wondering
what's going on with that? The next in Scuba Steve's
possible little job chain and group um without Scuba, although
we will miss you greatly. And number three is Eddie
Chicken deal with the grocery store chain. I know the

(50:00):
chickens didn't want to work out, but he said he
was working on something else, kind of secret, and I
was just wondering if we could get an estate on me.
Thanks so much, love the show.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Fifteen second updates Lunchbox your car go, Oh yeah, it's
still dead. I think it needs a new engine. It's
sitting in front of my house. Okay, scob to Stea
fifteen second update. Absolutely nothing's happened. I'm still to stand
some wading to see what can happen. It could happen
this year or January of next year. Eddie. Fifteen second
up date.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
We have a meeting scheduled with Kroger at the end
of October, at the end of this month, and I'll
give an update after that happens.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
That's crazy. Okay, thank you guys. It's time for the
good news.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Ay.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
So, with hurricanes impacting a lot of people, there is
a need for relief and water, and there's some beer
breweries that have put a focus on canning water and
getting it out to people instead of canning beer per
usual in Charlotte, Charleston and even Denver. Such as the
power of people coming together and prioritizing humans over profits.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, because again they're not making money on beer, like
they're just doing water to help.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yeah, and I mean they're paying their employees like go
do this and get the water out there, distribute it
all of their efforts.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
I feel like this first happened when I heard of it,
it was a katrina, the katrina where the started happening
like for the first time, or was it like a
tornado or something after that. But it's like in the
last five or six years, this has really become a thing.
Even like the Anheuser bush plants would do this when
it got real bad and they would go like, all right,
we're shutting it down and we're not making beer. They
take the beer labels off though, right, that's not insane.

(51:30):
You just no, you don't stick in the beer cans, Okay,
they don't stick to the bear Yeah. Yeah, that's just
one part of the process. It No, Yeah, I would
be confusing one part of the process and the whole
thing is putting in the labels on the cans. So
you just don't do that part of the process. Yeah.
Good story, that's what it's all about. That was telling
me something good. And that is the end of the

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