July 28, 2025 • 46 mins
Stephen welcomes American producer, entrepreneur and creator/host of the long-running live theater series 'Beacher's Madhouse' Jeff Beacher to discuss Jeff's health transformation, entertainment, business, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Stephen Jake car ahead us to the promise letter.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Jumpo, get blue Cock just the guy comment. Hi, Welcome
to the Stephen J. Klueback Podcast. And as always I
bring some of my great friends along, and today I
got one of a very very special friends. Oh jump Beacher, Jeff.
(00:37):
Let me ask a questions. I mean, current events, Coldplay
get Out? Do you have any co playing WANs? Like,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
That was funny. I was like, I so, as I
saw a little the little video meme of it, I
thought it was a joke. I'm like, this is a joke,
because that's for real, and then it's not. It was real.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is a real dead It's like, hello, divorce attorney.
Yeah not good bad, bad night for both of them.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It was meant to be.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You know, so, Beacher, you've had such an illustrious career.
You know, we knew each other, but we didn't know
each other for like fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, I don't know. I it's I'll just say
because it speaks highly of you in front of you,
which is one of one of the annoying things in
life when you have to do this. But because I
love I love you so much, and I love you
hearing it, but I have to say it all the time,
like you're you were a king, You're a god in
Las Vegas, and I, you know, had my show and
(01:40):
we were just kings moving in different paths. And and
I'm so grateful that the last couple of years we
became so close, you know, like and we also are
grateful that we didn't meet in Vegas during those days.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
If you and I met in Las Vegas when we
were there, we'd both be dead. But it's like, also
it's a dead we say dead, No, we'd be dead
because how long would it take? One night, two nights,
one weekend, a couple of weekends.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's just so wildly random because he was such a
legend from everything you do, your whole Vegas legacy, I
mean everything from your company to all all the things
you created, from the Tourism Board, the Sports Commission, like
you're the boss of Vegas. Like it was just how
we never.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Know you were the boss of vaudeville shows. I mean
everyone went to Beecher's Madhouse. It was fun doing some
crazy ass shit we had. It was I mean, come on,
who in their right mind comes up with an act
of acts This is like P. T. Barnum on steroids.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I mean I've been referred to PEZ Barnum depends like
the New York Times are rolling Stone, you know, best
showmen in the strip. I've been called a lot of things.
But yeah, like I'm the PT. Barnum of our generation.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah you are. I mean I've been.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I've been back alive too. You took a ten year
hiatus do a little tech work, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well you took a ten year hiatus and save life.
You saved your life. I mean, we could so much
to talk about. I mean you you had a reincarnation.
We all have kind of in business and life. But
that's how we met. We met in the most we
met in the most unique ways. We are on this
text exchange where nobody knows each other's text number. A
(03:26):
group chat of people that wanted to get mentally and physically,
but we didn't. I did not know.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I knew. I put the text together, Christopher Schwarzenegger, like
it was it was a people.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was your happy healthy tech. It was like, who
is it is?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Everyone on that text? Got healthy?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Is that everyone did?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Everyone lost weight? Got healthy? Some people extreme weight, you know,
talking about extreme weight what you Well, this was it
was that text change weight. Did you lose two hundred
and fifty four fifty to sixty? I never really know
because like when you're in that, when you're more of
(04:11):
the obese, it's it's a mental thing. Like people always
ask me, like what'd you do? What was your Like,
how'd you lose the weight? I did a thousands?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You got to show a picture of Jeff. I mean,
as this is so remarkable.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
To the shot. So it was, uh, I mean, you
know the big The number one thing I did is
I fixed my brain. And when I fixed my head
and I started making good decisions. Yeah, then that's how
it was.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's all mental. It's everything in life is disciplined.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But the way I train people to lose weight is
I get them whatever trick I use, whether it's exercise
or whether it's stop soda, stop bread, I get people
into the dieting to working out losing weight. I tell
them the mental part last, because no one wants to
hear that. You know, it's meant like no one when
you're in that mental tornado, you don't want to hear
that's the.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Problem right now because you haven't acknowledged what the problem
is yet Yeah, and we've all gone through it. Yeah.
So any way, who's successful in life pays a price. Yeah,
And when you pay a price and you achieve certain things,
you have to reinvent yourself all the time. You even
reinvented yourself. I mean, what was it you lost two
hundred and fifty approximately two hundre fifty pounced. Yeah, so
(05:14):
you went through not just the weight loss surgeries.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh my god, I mean I had multiple surgery. I had.
I've probably been in the hospital ten times at least,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Had who'd you do the work?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But all over the place?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right? You went to the best to the best.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, but it was you know.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But most people can't keep it off because I've had
so many friends that have had gastric bypass or they
they've had a band and they just why.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You know, you know me as a friend, but to
your fans and my fans and people listening like that
don't know us, all right, Like I keep my word,
and I love my friends. My friends really really good
to me and they always have been. They've they've made
my career right. And the group of friends that took
me that I could we call it the Fat Intervention.
Gave me the fat Intervention. The fat Yeah, it was
(06:03):
October twenty fourteen on the face of the MGM. Biggest
hotel in the United States, is still the Globe or
the United States? Definitely the United States.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, it's five thousand and five rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
They have over seven thousand the towers. Yeah, well they
you know, they like right number one in the world,
right face of the biggest hotel in the world. And
I was over four hundred pounds and October twenty fourteen,
as I'm running these shows, I had to punch out
and I went to my health place and my friends
gave me the fat Intervention. And little Donnie rest in Peace,
(06:35):
was a famous little person from the show who is
the greatest human being of all time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You've talked about him a lot, you cared about him.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean everyone does. He loves Everyone loved him.
He was he was the hard and soul he.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Goda showed Donnie Donnie's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Just Donnie gets a five montage epic photos from singing
with Miley Cyrus on stage, going on tour with Joe
Jonas to be performed every night with Britain Spears The Guys.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So you know, I did tell you know, my dad's
sister was handicapped, and she went to school and they
called with dwarfs. At the time, they didn't say little people.
So I grew up with an aunt who was not
supposed to survive past thirteen years old. And she liveded
like eighty three tough. Name's Gloria, and she should take
(07:24):
us out. And she had pedals different in her car
and everything risen up and tough, I'm telling you. And
she went to school with you know, all little people with.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
With Donnie and I we were you know, as you said,
I kept reinventing myself. So like I went from like
the hard rock the early Vegas two thousand and two,
three years, you know, till the recession. Every went on tour,
so I had to constantly the tour was every month.
There was a reinvention, like what sized room, what kind
of show? What changes it to? So Donnie, we always
(08:01):
had to put a show on to make the show
the show behind the show is. So Donnie would play
every character. He would we put we had the pedals
in the my escalade were put up. So he was
my driver, and he would wear a tuxedo with Lapels that's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
In the show for No, he's he's a'm joking because
you know, joke around hardly, you know what's inspirational.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, but he would literally play, so that would be
one role and then sometimes played he'd be my assistant.
He carried the silver suitcase like he was.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I mean, did they ever play like fake Elma?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
He did everything, I mean literally wore. Michael Jackson, he's done,
he's done. Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The little people in the show and the stars right,
Like when people use little people in shows, it's degrading
and they do a lot of what you did. We
don't do this. They are the show, like the impersonators,
they're performers.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
They're having so much fun. Everyone's having fun on your show.
I've gone to your shows and people are just lit.
They're lit and it's amazing, just amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So little we met his nickname Matt McCarthy. We called
him last Night's dog passed Away. No, he's the other
star for anyone that doesn't know of Beatures Mass the
other one of the He's been with us since day one,
almost but he has dog passed away. So with Michael
Bay Dinner and we're talking about you, and we call
him like, let's go we Mat because his dog died
(09:33):
and he was really sad. This guy is only one speed.
You've hung. Have you met we Mat? I mean know
you've met briefly?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, yeah, cute video, little video like yeah, he's there's
no human I've met several leagues.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Both of us have met several hundred thousand people sitting
like this dinner, two dinners a day, three dinners a day,
two or three lunches, you know, like we've we were
we ran Vegas for decades, right, like that was our job.
That was our job. And I have never and I've
met a lot, you know, millions of people have been
to my show, and there's nothing like Matt McCarthy. This guy.
(10:15):
This guy wakes up in the morning. It's like it's
like it's it's the and he just doesn't stop and
the and people like, oh, that guy's on drugs. He's crazy.
I know, No, that's just what he is. He just
wakes up, he goes ah and he just doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And like, well they think we're like whacked out all
the time, so we don't stop.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But he he like when we were on tour. He'd
be like this talking dog. He just doesn't stop. Like
it's like a It's like a drug for me. I
love it. I'm like I can't get enough of this guy. Like,
and he's so cool. Like the biggest stars in the
world will call and be like, yo, we met come
to this competizing Yeah, bro, you know I'm just chilling.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm good Vegas, you know, Like he doesn't come to LA,
but he's just like to end the story on him,
like we're on this tour bus, I'll never forget it.
And I'm talking to him. He's like right right, right, right,
right right, Yes, that was great and just fell asleep
sitting up and just turned off. I'm like, did he
(11:13):
just turn off?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Is is the hoppiest, craziest, wildest, nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What's the craziest story you had in your shows?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I mean there was no just give me give me
top two, but let me.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Let me explain crazy, like what goes on today with
like the influencers or like mister Beast. What mister Beast
is his big things he does you know every month
and all this I did ten of those a day.
You know, ten things a day to make the Mortons
laugh and my bosses that are on the hard rocket,
or to make the cast laugh. We just did it
for fun.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
We didn't have social media in two thousand and three.
Was there, but I didn't care. It's like my space,
you know. It was like who cares? Now, it's everything right.
It was a completely different world. And then I just
had I don't know why, even when social media started
coming online, and like the later years of the show,
I just had this this thing like no cameras, no cameras,
(12:12):
and it wasn't like I just I didn't because cameras
never capture the energy in that room. The energy in
the room versus what video shows. Just two different things.
You know, when you when you're surrounded with you know, celebrities,
beautiful people, everyone's having fun. There was Here's a fun fact.
I had two insurance claims, you and you're mister stats man.
(12:35):
Two insurance claims in twenty years of doing shows, and
they were both from a stilt walker that one one
stepped in someone's foot and one knocked over a beer
bottling and cut an old lady. Unfortunately, that was my
Allly insurance claims.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Did you ever get in a thousand plus events, right,
millions of people? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Did you ever get?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Because because that the energy every show where it was
a small, large theater, anywhere in the globe, it's just love, happiness.
I'm there.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So we operated a base for a long time. And
do you ever get that three am phone call.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Which one Donnie and and Bush or no?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, that would you accept the collect call from Clark
County Detention Center?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It would be I get I get calls.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Who's on the end of the phone tonight? You know
when bailing out when I was in New York.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You know, I'm really close with all the top comedians
of the world. Yeah, it was just because when I
came up, my show started as a comedy show on Broadway.
That is so funny. So I did phony phone calls
and I I started producing a show off Broadway. I
started doing stand up. As you know, we'll tell everyone
the story. I started doing stand up and I'm a
(13:48):
couple of weeks into it, and I was just I
needed bigger these little tiny rooms. I'm like, first, let
me start my own little tiny room. So I booked
a room on off Broadway and the second show, it
was thousand people online literally to get into a two
hundred person room, celebrity pack. The whole thing. It was
just a couple of comedians, one little person, a DJ,
(14:10):
a couple dancers. It was just the hottest thing in
the City's two thousand and two New York right right.
And a couple of days after to get a call
from the head of Matt of Radio City and he's like, hey,
Jeff Beecher, Joel Parris, head of Radio City Music, and
I'm like, yeah, yeah, I hung out with There was
a prank. I thought it was like a comedian pranking
called again, hung up again right well, the third time,
(14:32):
I'm like, all right, listen, I can tell you I
get it. This is this is real. And then I
literally went from a tiny room to the paramount of
the Garden and that was it, and then my careers
were and then from that I got my theater on
the Supper Club on forty seventh the Broadway and then
Broadway for a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So you're big, you do practical jokes, you ever, like,
you know, give out the Domino's pizza number in New
York or something, like that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
But I mean, I had this a joke grown up
with the best. I wish I want practical jokes, but
I've come.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You want to, I've got a good one. What can
Somebody had me on my phone? So people call me
all the time to fix their problems and it gets
a little much.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Hey, I've only done it a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
No, I know, but you haven't really, you haven't really
abused the system. But uh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
By the way, it's crazing about you. We're not going
to mention those little few little issues and they weren't mind.
But whatever, when you get that call, it is you were.
It's as our relationships blossomed over the last couple of years,
it's like.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You just I'm always there, four seven my friends.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Every everyone. That's what I love, one of the one
of the one of the many things I love about you.
Everyone in your world, everyone in your orbit, You're just
You're always there to help and you're always giving learning, teaching,
and it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So during eight o nine, you know, people, it was
just the natal who hit show for everybody that was broke.
We weren't put I kept telling everyone went I broke,
and everyone said, you're broke. Cluebec because I guess everyone
was broke theoretically, and you know, we'll see who can
go back from the dead. But it just got to
(16:15):
a point where I just I came up with a
number to give somebody when I just couldn't answer their
questions anymore, so I would forward them this number. I
want you to read it. I came up with this.
It was just amazing. So I said, you know, you
need to call the wizard, and they go who I
just called the wizard? Just I got this number and
it's this is the number if you guys can see it.
(16:37):
But once you read it, what was his tame? No?
No read the number?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
One eight eight eight seven six four three four six eight.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, you know and numbers translate into words, right letters,
So what what what does that translate into?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
One eight eight? You are an idiot? That's that's that's
the early two thousands of joke.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Wasn't really two thousand jokes out. All the kids wouldn't
figure it out. I didn't understand what.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They turned off the podcast right now, like boomers.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What's your best practical joke?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't, I mean, I my whole literally Steven when
you ask what's the best, there's no one best.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I mean, I played one on you.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh that was funny.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Oh I got you? And Jeff Ross did I get you? Guys?
Tell everyone what the hell I did to you?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I think you tee it up and I'll tell my.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I know is they were trying to get me on
a joke and they couldn't get me. So I said, okay,
they came down to my Cabo house.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Steven's Stephen's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You're a big deal, so he flew down to my cab.
I'm kind of a.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Big deal to so so so.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But to get you, it was pretty good. And Jeff Ross.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We're bicking up each other, and so, you know, I'm like,
you talk about security and we're talking about He's like,
You're like, oh, how do you I'll you stop the airport.
I'm like yeah, I'm like, just have him check my
clearance levels. Relaxed, buddy, and like you thought you were.
And it was a big swing and we go through
the airport. Everything's fine, and we're driving and we get
pulled over and like I thought.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was a joke. You got pulled over at Cabo.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I thought it was a joke. But the way that
the way they did it was so funny. I mean
it was so real, Like I'm like it was real.
This isn't a joke. And then because there's this thing
that I have, my driver's license that gets questioned all
the time, if the if the I can't even get
rid of it, we'll call it it's just a joke.
But it does come up and I'm like uh and
(18:39):
they're like, oh yeah, this this this idea is not
checking out right now. And this happens in the airport's everything.
I'm like, no, it's it's it's like we're gonna have
to check your bags. And I'm like, uh, oh no,
tell them what happened.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So you come through the airport, you go through clearance,
you go through customs, you're getting off the tollway Cabo
and all of a sudden, there's like two federales pull
you guys over in the suv. Yeah I do with
lights on.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I thought something.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And you're in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, I really you got me good. Like I was
like literally first I thought it was a joke, and
then then I'm like this is freaking real.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And then were you sitting in your pants?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I did, I really did. And it's like it was
such a good prank because I knew you were gonna
do something, and it's still got me.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I was freaking was freaked out too.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I showed him Rosses bags, So.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Definitely the we was in there. The week was in
those bags one Zero's and my glos. It's that guys.
So you lost all this weight. This is so, this
is remarkable. I still have to focus on this because
you've got this health company you're working on now. I'm
so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I mean, thanks buddy.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's it's unbelievable the things that you're doing. We'll talk
about that. But because we're both into the health and
longevity and we're learning, we're learning from each other and
this is a new world. I mean, young y.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Health is a it's AI is a disruption, yeah, you know,
and wellnesses are right behind it. Willnace suppose is it
six and changed trillion? In two years, it'll be at
nine trillion, they're projecting.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's amazing. Yeah, so you lost all this weight and
it's still this. I gotta focus back on this because
I have so many friends that have had surgeries. They
try to lose weight they always boomerang back. You did not.
You did not boomerang back. And you know what, I
what was the first thing that that popped up when
(20:36):
you lost all this weight?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I'm gonna give you a video to Q two and
uh October twenty fourteen, before I went to my health
retreat called Hippocrates the Okaytitute, and before the famous boogie
before no, it's not this is raw. You're even raw
being in this is like, it's not boogie, it's not bogie,
it's not Taco bell anyway, before the famous fat intervention
(20:59):
as I call it. But now what a PC world
would be? Uh, like, you know, overweight intervention with the
fat intervention because.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's brain health.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I made a video. Yeah, and I'll give you this
video too.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Cut a video and just went like that is that
what popped up?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'm on the theater, I'm on the stage at the MGM,
and I walk out and I'm massive. I don't know
what weight I was for something, and I just I'm
like and I like this, and I go, I'm gonna
lose two hundred and fifty pounds. I'm gonna save my life,
and then I'm gonna teach everyone else to save theirs
anyone that has this problem. I go, I'm gonna go
(21:36):
start this journey. And I walk off the stage and
you just see my blow. I took off my shirt
to like show off the blubber. Yeah, and it was
just like like it was a different person, that was
a character. That was a character. It wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But what did you discover? You had all this weight loss?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It's it's never ending discovery. I'm still learning.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Really, Yeah, have you found it yet?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Which is it?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm just curious. Curious minds want to know.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
What my penis? Yes, I found that. But there's an
article in the New York Post from many years ago
about that. Tell me about that?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
What was York Post about your opinion?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
They called me and like, we know we want to
do uh, you know, you know your really fun guy interview?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Would you do?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Would you would you talk about like you know, like
losing weight, gaining weight, you know, sex or penis. I'm like, yeah,
I go, but I want to make this like it
has I forgot what I've made the title, but it
was like like he lost the weight, but he gained
back his band. I don't remember what it was, but
I'm the purpose of the article. Yeah, I mean, because yeah,
(22:41):
you lose your penis like it's this no joke, like
every thirty pounds it disappears, you lose an inch like
it just it's real.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
This this is this is lost an inch when you
lost all the weight? What did you gain back?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I don't know tell people.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I don't like the break. I'm not I'm not talking
about that. Okay, do you have yelp reviews on I know,
just listen. It grew back.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I want to know you have references.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It grew back.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It grew back.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It grew back. And and I did this article, but
not for the comedy. This wasn't part of one of
my no. I did this because I knew as a
fat person, I told us and I told this in
the article Normal six. I told this in the article Stephen,
I told I wanted to tell the truth to people
that are we tell the truth right now.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I am hard, hard, hard truth hard.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Let me let me say it. I'll say what it
was because when I was obese, I couldn't even have
sex with people, right, so I'd be like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know, how about yourself?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do other things? Yeah, we do, we do other things
about to get that dirty, but we do other things.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
What's dirty, it's it's in the article. What's in the.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Article that I would lie and say I had sex.
I took up with a lot of a lot of females,
you know, very beautiful ones, but I just wouldn't have sex.
I felt comfortable with my skin. I know that. And
that's why I did the article. Because I wanted couples
at home that are both over weight, both and having sex.
I wanted them to feel sure and understand, like, yo,
(24:04):
you're not you guys aren't having sex and talk about it.
And one of the coolest things ever was just I get.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I get.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I'm on the way to Craigs one night. I like,
I missed my flight. I'm in this Uh you know
I went through my like douchey phase with the Ferraris.
You know we all do. I'm in this red Ferrari.
Beat your license plate. I'm booking down. I blow the
stops on and I get pulled over as usual and
the cops like, uh, license registration. I'm like, oh, I
(24:33):
didn't have my anything on me. I'm like, officer, listen,
I just lost the flight. I'm running to Craigs right
now to go meet and he goes and he's looking
at me like this guy's the biggest d bag in
the world. And I go, listen. I go, I go, listen, officer.
I know my idea, but you can google me. I go,
(24:54):
and my name's on the license plate. I don't have
any red stress. I go. My names on my license plate,
like you know, you can see it. So the guy
who's face was so.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Disgusted, then he plays he dead no, but I still like,
but he was.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The guy was so disgusted. And he walks back and
he doesn't and he comes back and he goes, are
you the Beacher? And I'm like yeah. He's like, I
read the article and I'm like, and I just had
an article and Variety. It was like awesome article by
like the little people and everything. And I'm like a Variety.
And he's like, nahing about your dick. And I'm like
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and I'm like, oh cool. And he goes back to
he goes Beacher, he goes the entire office, he goes
everyone in the precinct. We all read it. We send
it to everyone. He's like, you're a good dude, and
he and he understood why I did the article.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
She the douche with a dick.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He understood, he understood why I did the article, and
that meant the world to me. I'll never forget that.
He's like, he's like, thank you very much for that.
I'm like, you're welcome, and that was great.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's cool. Yeah, you are always off every day.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And the reason why I know every day I love
that article because when someone tells me I just got it,
I go, who said it to you? Then I know
that that's it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You know it's the police officer.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, it's it's it's it's like someone send it to
me to like, oh look what he did, like and
a smart person reads it, they're like, what a great guy.
Bad people send it around to do.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We have this in common. We are both unapologetically all that.
But that's what the world needs. I mean that in humor.
It's you know, it's part of why I'm doing what
I'm doing today, why I'm I'm running for office, because
I not only know what to do, but you just
always have integrity. You know, integrity.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I you know, when I was a kid, a lot
a lot like a lot, like like why the logical
I just I didn't know I was adopted. I was
mentally screwed up, and I did it for years. I
would like write down my lives like it was just elaborate, crazy,
like I was keeping track of him. There was no phone.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
How many people know you're adopted? I mean, you know everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I mean so like I don't like I think it's
in my bios.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, I found out when I was thirteen. I think
that's probably the year when trauma that I was told
by my sister on the front set. I'll never forget
about was standing because it's like a mental like you're
like what like it was like you got beat up,
like punched in the face start times. Not that it
was a bad thing because my parents were the greatest.
(27:23):
I got adopted to the greatest film in the world. Yeah,
it's just your your whole brain's like you thought one
thing and then something else and you're thirteen years old.
I told it.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I asked this question about my friends and we I've
not asked this of you, but a lot of the
folks that come on the show, And if you had
one day on planet or to be with somebody, George Washington, Aristotle, Plato,
anybody that's dead, that'll be dead. Who would you want
(27:56):
to spend the whole day with, think about it, one
or two, one person.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
So I'd want to do I'd want to do my
dad one more day.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Your dad, Yeah, well tell me about your dad.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He was just a great man and why and he
had cancer. My parents both died of cancer, okay, And
it's very just a little sad. So it took the
ship when the hard rock, like Peter Moore's used to
be like Elvis style, beat your Elvis style, like like
less less is more, you know. And that's how I
(28:27):
was trained to do these big grand shows. So I
would do like eight weeks of shows, then I do
eight weeks off, eight weeks on, eight weeks off. So
it's a spectacle. It's a thing you get to come to.
It's not on every day. All the other shows would
be every day. It's boring. So everyone flying for the
shows from all over the world, and it was you know,
you were there. It was the most talked about about,
you know, the thing in Vegas at that time. And
(28:51):
the first it was two thousand and four and it
was my first year. I'm like, I'm just learning. There's
no blueprint to creating the show. By the way, right,
there's no formula to creating wild organized chaos in the
hard rock, which is also no formula to Vegas a
cool hotel in a hotel. At the time, none of
(29:13):
the hotels, as you know, had nightclubs or you know,
pop in restaurant. They mister chows and nobody. They didn't
have the cool restaurants from around the world. It was
just hotels that made a lot of money from gambling.
It wasn't hospitality based. So having a cool hotel that's
also unheard of. Right, So anyway, so much going on.
My brain's like I'm I'm a kid in a candy store,
(29:36):
like I'm in a playground. I'm having fun. Every day
is a joke. Everything's just a black I have the
best time in my life. And my dad did cancer.
So it was the end of two thousand and four
and it was my first year my dad came to
this show, which I was so happy. My mom died.
My mom passed away. Is the reason why I went
to Vegas. My mom passed away and she was really
(29:59):
was really said, like I like ran away from it
and like I didn't even realize I was doing this
another thing which I'll just throwing now. Every time someone
very special to me died, it gained a hundred pounds
ish and lost it. So when I lost the weight,
I realized, like it's obvious when you're looking at it,
but when you're in the tsunami, you don't realize. And
then every time someone died, I gained a lot of weight.
(30:21):
We'll get back then in a second. So my dad
was dying of cancer and I was supposed to go
spend the month with him. So I finished the series
of shows and I remember the remember the Newlyweds with
Nick Lasche and Jessica Simpson that yeah, and Nick hole yeah,
And he was like, no, the Oridge the og and
he was like yo, He's like we uh, Like, we're
(30:43):
coming in this you know it's Vegas next weekend, can
we do? I'm supposed to fly home that week go
see my pops. And he wasn't supposed to die. He
died of heart attack doct from the cancer that he had.
So and he's like, we're coming in on a film.
I'm like, yeah, come to my show. I'll put it
in another show. I'm done, So we extend the show.
We're all excited. The Sleberties is coming in, It's gonna
(31:04):
be filmed. It's so stoked I do it. I mean,
I am pumped. Where in like the magazines are a
big deal then where in every US weekly, you know,
every single pop culture magazine. And I'm so sick to
fly home to my dad on Wednesday. So that was Friday.
A couple of days later, I'm flying home to my
(31:25):
dad spend a month with him because he's dying of cancer.
The day I'm leaving on the flatmate sister called me
and she's like, our dad died. I mean, it was
like boom. And I was so pissed because I was
so excited to go home and spend that month with him.
But I did it, Pops. You know, I'm the youngest
headliner in Vegas history. Did every I'm like And it
(31:48):
was when one thing was so epic when just like
going through his stuff, I found a folder and he
would never talk to me about my press and like media,
you would never be like you're for some reason, he
was always proud of me, like you're the best great.
He had a whole hit. Every article he had highlighted
yellow my name, and he had every single thing cut out.
It was really cool, Wow a whole.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I was like, oh man, what would you do with
your dad if you could spend a day with.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Just catch up, thank him again, you know, apologize for
everything that I did as a crazy kid. I mean
I was crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You can what would you say?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Just a lot love? What would you say, I have
a lot of stop from the beginning and go just
go through it all. I would show him appreciation like
now new Beacher, like everyone always says, you're the like
when I was Showman Beacher or when I turn on
Showman Beacher. Now that guy's the funnest, greatest guy. You
want to you want to hang with you know, you know,
(32:43):
might not want to hang with him for a month
or a year, but you want to hang with him
for an hour or a day. Like he's a fun guy.
It's a character. And I grew up as that character,
you know. And now I'm I'm I'm I'm an adult.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm you know, So what would you show your dad? Now?
You the adult? Beeature? Because you're sensitive now you're emotional.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yelled me about it, but you.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Know I don't yell at you about it.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I don't mean.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I've not yelled at you. But you've called you a times.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yes, No, I mean I am sensitive, but it's like,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I just.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I wouldn't tell him one thing. I would just I
would give it. Just thank you, thanks for everything. I mean,
he adopted me, give me the greatest life. They're incredible parents,
the best parents. Tell me to love, tell me to
be a good person. You know, I mean, you don't
he I am who I am saying?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Is my dad? It's great. Yeah, yeah, it's funny. Most
people say one love their parents. It's funny. I asked
this question so many times. And it's so interesting because
we're doing a survey now and we've got a pretty
good sample size, and you would be shocked at the
(34:04):
consistency of the answers that the people have not said
what they really want to say to, usually a dead parent,
a mom or dad.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah, no, it's great, and this so we learn glad.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm tracking human because I always they always think about
that too, like, am I human?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I don't know. I have a lot of friends that
don't think you're human. They don't think you're human. You're
do some very unhuman things. Yeah, it's genius. It's genius.
You are one of the greatest marketers ever.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You know people you do.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I love people. And the other day I found on
my report cards from high school, and I just remembered
something which was I missed.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Who would keep all their report cards?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I that never missed a day of high school zero zero.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You were days, never sick.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Never, You're never really sick. I would go in, I love,
I loved. I was obsessed with walking around being beacher.
I'd be like, I was going, hey, hey, I was promoting,
I was selling T shirts, I was doing whatever. I
never missed the day high school.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Even though my cool friends you were that dumbass nerd.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, no, but I wasn't a nerd. That's the other
time you were not a nerd. Homecoming king.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You were homecoming king, Homecoming king.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Baby. I was cool middle school, high school.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I was would you like pay everyone off for the vote? No?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I did go around to the home rooms. So I mean,
so you.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Were soliciting votes. Yeah, bullshit, I'm calling you right now.
You were soliciting votes because it was not a unique just.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Because I'm smarter than everyone. Yeah, I walked around to
every home when they were voting and I said, hey,
vote for me, vote for me. No one's ever done that.
Was walking all right, sure, beature, but I won sit.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You were like Ferris Bueeler.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh no, it was Bears Bueler on crack. I mean
his one day, it was my every day. I was like,
and I was, but I was in school every weekend.
In the beginning, like in middle school, they were really high.
Math was incredibly high. And then I just stopped doing everything.
They were like I was. I remember my report.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Showed up every day.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I showed up every day. But I remember my report
card was like it was impossible to not it was
impossible to graduate with the numbers. If I got one
hundred to the last quarter, which is the highest you
can get on everything, I still wouldn't average up to
passing grades. And that was going to be. So I
got the report card that someone whoever moved up all
(36:45):
the numbers and then they made it so I got
sixty five averages because they didn't want to suspend me
and leave me behind, get me out of school.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
No, do you know why they did that? Probably to
get me out of school because they were tired of you. Yeah,
because they usually you expended all someone.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Usually a crazy wild guy was like on drugs or
a drug dealer. Okay, I did none of the above.
I was just social. So what the hell will we
do with this guy? We can't keep them here again,
I'm ranking in a couple grand a week back then,
that's like making fifty grands.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
What were you making money doing?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I was selling T shirts, so like I had, it
started with one school started my school. So I'd make like,
whatever's going on there was like a war. So I'd
make a scud missile with the logo of the of
the bulldog in the high school and make it something funny.
And I'd go around to everyone and literally just walk
around school and be like, get buying his shirt, fifteen bucks,
give me five dollars, sign here and make him sign
(37:40):
the five dollars, pay for the shirts. And then I'd
make ten dollars a shirt. And I would do that
rins a repeat, rents repeat. Then I'm like, oh, I'm
gonna teach people to do just other schools. So I
drive I just drive up to schools, walking in who's
the cools kids school? Like, who's the biggest nerd in school?
I go of the nerd? I go you, you guys
are gonna be friends, and would just put people together.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
So cool and nerd were the same.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Then, well I made him cool. I made everyone cool.
I'm like you guys hear the cool Merid I was
the coolest. Cool is just the game. Cool is just
the game. And I would explain to them, you guys
can make money. You can do this. This is what
I'm doing. You can come to do a party. Let's
find the house whose parents are away this weekend. Let's
find the house. We'll truge five dollars on it. Get
a couple of kegs.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
You're a promoter, Yeah, you're still a promoter.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I promoted well. I don't like the word promoting. I
get very mad, like in interviews would because promoter and
producer is the difference of multiple zeros, multiple zeros producer.
I'm a producer to produced a lot of things. But
when I was a child, I'll give I'll give high
school years promoter awards. But yes, that's where I learned
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a lot of my skill set.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What's your best skill?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
There's so many, as any true great egomaniac would say,
I don't know. I mean my best skill socializing.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I mean I just acknowledge an egomaniac.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I was making a show.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
No you're not. That was absolutely true, and that was.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
You know, it's only fresher because last night I went
to my friend Colleen Camps.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Your name drop all the goddamn time. She's such a
name drop friends of names. I went up with Michael
Bay last night, you know, my colleing Camp and Paris Hilton,
and he's a little we man. And then I grew
up with these You grew up with person I was.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I grew up. I moved to the city when she
was eighteen popping off, you know, like when she was
on her skyrocket. We met her, we became close friends. Actually,
Nikki Paris never remembered my name, and me and NICKI
got really close, and NICKI would like bringing to the show.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I bailed Nikki out of problems. We don't talk about problems.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
This is a positive show. And uh, yeah, I grew
up with them, and uh it's yes, especially because of
my friends. Yeah, so my one skill set on socializing.
I love people, that's it. But I don't turn to
you know, it gets exhausting sometimes you gotta you know,
sometimes rest.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You've got a lot of great things coming ahead, and
you're I'm really lookingward to see what's happening in your
future because I know a little bit about it. We're
gonna hear about it soon because it is going to
be big news.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I mean it's simple stuff in general. Like, and I'm
back in the entertainment game, right. I'm like, had an
incredible tech consulting run, and I'm back in the entertainment.
A year ago, we launched Beacher's Mad House. It was,
you know, three shows. We did it with Netflix. We
had you know, Whisky Leaf had performed. You had everyone
from Paris and Nikki to the Kardashians. Had seventy eighty
(40:37):
celebrities there, small little tiny room.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Beautiful beachers back beachers back.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Then we did Super Bowl. That was we had. We
had our buddy Ephron, We had a lot of people there.
Cardi b performed in the middle of Super Bowl. Boom
again another you know, all of Hollywood shows up. I'm like,
this is incredible. I love everyone supporting me.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I will always be there. Trappee net you, thank you always.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
And then the last show is it was we had
Snoop performed, Paris, Nikki, Kelly, we all walked in the
stage emceed Snoop came out performed forty five minutes that
this new artist Sexy read like it was just in
these shows for you. For those that don't know, show
the video. The very it's a small, intimate, two three
(41:23):
inches person. I think legally it's one hundred and fifty people.
Maybe there's a little more in there, but it's it's
a very intimate, cool theater.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Well, we're glad Beacher's back, and thanks for coming today.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Thanks for being on my podcast Stephen shake Luback on
iHeartRadio and wherever else it plays.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
And uh, you have to read your book. You have
to read your book. It's a it's a muster.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I have to read my book.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
No, I mean telling the people I wrote my book.
I'm telling I'm telling the fan.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Idiot, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I'm telling the fan. Before we go, let's talk about
you for a second.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
It want us to wrap up because you know, but
I want to.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I really I really want to, just like get a
couple minutes in you running for governor because but because
I believe in it so wholeheartedly, like I you should
be governor and I've been I've never backed to political candidate.
I've been friends with them, many of them over the years.
I've never put work into it. I never supported, never pushed.
(42:22):
This is going to sound really bad. I never even
voted to this year. And I only voted because my
friend asked me to vote, and I never voted it.
The only reason I didn't want to vote because you
get Jerry duty, like when you're on a thing. So.
And I always lived in hotels for twenty years. Another
fun fact, you know, I lived in hotels and I'm
a home so. But you're the first person that I'm
actually I believe in and I know will save California.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Thank you. What You've talked for a lot of our
friends and what do they think? I mean, you've heard
various opinions California.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I like when you you articulate much better than I do.
I like you know me and my uh not sophisticated words.
But you know California is a country like it. When
I was in tech and I took a break from
Sucond Valley for a little bit because I just love hospitality.
I went to work for governments and do do tourism
for governments. Right, And I mean you know this, and
(43:17):
you know I looked at the country's GDPs and I'm like, oh,
tech companies that I work with, you know VERNB it's
it's a larger company than this country. If you look
at the countries like companies, then.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
California is a country four point one trillion dollar and
California needs.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
To be run like a business by a business leader
like you like it's it's one of the largest countries.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
I've never had more fun. You've watched me study and
do what I'm doing. I've never had more fun in
my life. But I feel comfortable taking the case.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
It has to happen like it has to happen, like
there's no.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Like Like there's no other candidate that comes close.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
There's no one that can do what you do. You
run multi billion dollar businesses and in Vegas there's no
harder market. And the time we were in vag all
over the world, yeah, running out of Vegas. There's no
other harder time and a harder business to do than
what you did in Vegas. And it's incredible and and
you're and you're you're just your knowledge and your work
(44:19):
you've already done with the government, like people don't even
understand the brand USA, the tourism board for the United
States that you ran, that you created, Like it's it's impost.
Things you've done are impossible, not just like good ideas,
impossible ideas to do and impossible ideas to execute. And
you did and they're still running and you've been gone
(44:40):
from them for what years? And they're still running and
thriving and promoting America.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Like I know when to leave, to to create something
and walk away and head it over to others. All
these careersts, these politicians don't know when to walk away.
They're failed leaders and they're all compromised. Uh no I
Q no EQ. But they don't when to walk away,
you know, they don't know when to go on to
something else.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
It's sad the word compromised. I understood that. It's like
like I never built out a marketing company with hundreds
of employees because I always felt that I would be
doing a disservice to the people I work for, Like
you only want me working on one or two projects,
film working for twenty people. I'm compromised, right, Like, so
that's why my personal ethics always kept me focused. And
(45:25):
you're you're not compromised, and you know how to run
a business, and you know that Hollywood's Hollywood and the
sizzle and the sexiness that people love la for needs.
You know, I don't know film money to come back here.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
You know that's all about topic. We talked about it
for I mean, it's just there's so many things like that,
the great exports California that we can crow about, and
we layer on performance and results. But again, thanks for.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Bringing here, well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Thanks for having your Dick gro So. That's great you California.
Get a clot.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
See the club, kiss the California. Set the shut hair,
This is your cat. See the coming little Baus through
set the clo
Stephen Jake car ahead us to the promise letter.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Jumpo, get blue Cock just the guy comment. Hi, Welcome
to the Stephen J. Klueback Podcast. And as always I
bring some of my great friends along, and today I
got one of a very very special friends. Oh jump Beacher, Jeff.
(00:37):
Let me ask a questions. I mean, current events, Coldplay
get Out? Do you have any co playing WANs? Like,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
That was funny. I was like, I so, as I
saw a little the little video meme of it, I
thought it was a joke. I'm like, this is a joke,
because that's for real, and then it's not. It was real.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is a real dead It's like, hello, divorce attorney.
Yeah not good bad, bad night for both of them.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It was meant to be.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You know, so, Beacher, you've had such an illustrious career.
You know, we knew each other, but we didn't know
each other for like fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, I don't know. I it's I'll just say
because it speaks highly of you in front of you,
which is one of one of the annoying things in
life when you have to do this. But because I
love I love you so much, and I love you
hearing it, but I have to say it all the time,
like you're you were a king, You're a god in
Las Vegas, and I, you know, had my show and
(01:40):
we were just kings moving in different paths. And and
I'm so grateful that the last couple of years we
became so close, you know, like and we also are
grateful that we didn't meet in Vegas during those days.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
If you and I met in Las Vegas when we
were there, we'd both be dead. But it's like, also
it's a dead we say dead, No, we'd be dead
because how long would it take? One night, two nights,
one weekend, a couple of weekends.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's just so wildly random because he was such a
legend from everything you do, your whole Vegas legacy, I
mean everything from your company to all all the things
you created, from the Tourism Board, the Sports Commission, like
you're the boss of Vegas. Like it was just how
we never.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Know you were the boss of vaudeville shows. I mean
everyone went to Beecher's Madhouse. It was fun doing some
crazy ass shit we had. It was I mean, come on,
who in their right mind comes up with an act
of acts This is like P. T. Barnum on steroids.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I mean I've been referred to PEZ Barnum depends like
the New York Times are rolling Stone, you know, best
showmen in the strip. I've been called a lot of things.
But yeah, like I'm the PT. Barnum of our generation.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah you are. I mean I've been.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I've been back alive too. You took a ten year
hiatus do a little tech work, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well you took a ten year hiatus and save life.
You saved your life. I mean, we could so much
to talk about. I mean you you had a reincarnation.
We all have kind of in business and life. But
that's how we met. We met in the most we
met in the most unique ways. We are on this
text exchange where nobody knows each other's text number. A
(03:26):
group chat of people that wanted to get mentally and physically,
but we didn't. I did not know.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I knew. I put the text together, Christopher Schwarzenegger, like
it was it was a people.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was your happy healthy tech. It was like, who
is it is?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Everyone on that text? Got healthy?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Is that everyone did?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Everyone lost weight? Got healthy? Some people extreme weight, you know,
talking about extreme weight what you Well, this was it
was that text change weight. Did you lose two hundred
and fifty four fifty to sixty? I never really know
because like when you're in that, when you're more of
(04:11):
the obese, it's it's a mental thing. Like people always
ask me, like what'd you do? What was your Like,
how'd you lose the weight? I did a thousands?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You got to show a picture of Jeff. I mean,
as this is so remarkable.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
To the shot. So it was, uh, I mean, you
know the big The number one thing I did is
I fixed my brain. And when I fixed my head
and I started making good decisions. Yeah, then that's how
it was.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It's all mental. It's everything in life is disciplined.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But the way I train people to lose weight is
I get them whatever trick I use, whether it's exercise
or whether it's stop soda, stop bread, I get people
into the dieting to working out losing weight. I tell
them the mental part last, because no one wants to
hear that. You know, it's meant like no one when
you're in that mental tornado, you don't want to hear
that's the.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Problem right now because you haven't acknowledged what the problem
is yet Yeah, and we've all gone through it. Yeah.
So any way, who's successful in life pays a price. Yeah,
And when you pay a price and you achieve certain things,
you have to reinvent yourself all the time. You even
reinvented yourself. I mean, what was it you lost two
hundred and fifty approximately two hundre fifty pounced. Yeah, so
(05:14):
you went through not just the weight loss surgeries.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh my god, I mean I had multiple surgery. I had.
I've probably been in the hospital ten times at least,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Had who'd you do the work?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But all over the place?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right? You went to the best to the best.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, but it was you know.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But most people can't keep it off because I've had
so many friends that have had gastric bypass or they
they've had a band and they just why.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You know, you know me as a friend, but to
your fans and my fans and people listening like that
don't know us, all right, Like I keep my word,
and I love my friends. My friends really really good
to me and they always have been. They've they've made
my career right. And the group of friends that took
me that I could we call it the Fat Intervention.
Gave me the fat Intervention. The fat Yeah, it was
(06:03):
October twenty fourteen on the face of the MGM. Biggest
hotel in the United States, is still the Globe or
the United States? Definitely the United States.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, it's five thousand and five rooms.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
They have over seven thousand the towers. Yeah, well they
you know, they like right number one in the world,
right face of the biggest hotel in the world. And
I was over four hundred pounds and October twenty fourteen,
as I'm running these shows, I had to punch out
and I went to my health place and my friends
gave me the fat Intervention. And little Donnie rest in Peace,
(06:35):
was a famous little person from the show who is
the greatest human being of all time.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You've talked about him a lot, you cared about him.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, I mean everyone does. He loves Everyone loved him.
He was he was the hard and soul he.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Goda showed Donnie Donnie's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Just Donnie gets a five montage epic photos from singing
with Miley Cyrus on stage, going on tour with Joe
Jonas to be performed every night with Britain Spears The Guys.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So you know, I did tell you know, my dad's
sister was handicapped, and she went to school and they
called with dwarfs. At the time, they didn't say little people.
So I grew up with an aunt who was not
supposed to survive past thirteen years old. And she liveded
like eighty three tough. Name's Gloria, and she should take
(07:24):
us out. And she had pedals different in her car
and everything risen up and tough, I'm telling you. And
she went to school with you know, all little people with.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
With Donnie and I we were you know, as you said,
I kept reinventing myself. So like I went from like
the hard rock the early Vegas two thousand and two,
three years, you know, till the recession. Every went on tour,
so I had to constantly the tour was every month.
There was a reinvention, like what sized room, what kind
of show? What changes it to? So Donnie, we always
(08:01):
had to put a show on to make the show
the show behind the show is. So Donnie would play
every character. He would we put we had the pedals
in the my escalade were put up. So he was
my driver, and he would wear a tuxedo with Lapels that's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
In the show for No, he's he's a'm joking because
you know, joke around hardly, you know what's inspirational.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, but he would literally play, so that would be
one role and then sometimes played he'd be my assistant.
He carried the silver suitcase like he was.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I mean, did they ever play like fake Elma?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
He did everything, I mean literally wore. Michael Jackson, he's done,
he's done. Michael Jackson.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
The little people in the show and the stars right,
Like when people use little people in shows, it's degrading
and they do a lot of what you did. We
don't do this. They are the show, like the impersonators,
they're performers.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
They're having so much fun. Everyone's having fun on your show.
I've gone to your shows and people are just lit.
They're lit and it's amazing, just amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So little we met his nickname Matt McCarthy. We called
him last Night's dog passed Away. No, he's the other
star for anyone that doesn't know of Beatures Mass the
other one of the He's been with us since day one,
almost but he has dog passed away. So with Michael
Bay Dinner and we're talking about you, and we call
him like, let's go we Mat because his dog died
(09:33):
and he was really sad. This guy is only one speed.
You've hung. Have you met we Mat? I mean know
you've met briefly?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, yeah, cute video, little video like yeah, he's there's
no human I've met several leagues.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Both of us have met several hundred thousand people sitting
like this dinner, two dinners a day, three dinners a day,
two or three lunches, you know, like we've we were
we ran Vegas for decades, right, like that was our job.
That was our job. And I have never and I've
met a lot, you know, millions of people have been
to my show, and there's nothing like Matt McCarthy. This guy.
(10:15):
This guy wakes up in the morning. It's like it's
like it's it's the and he just doesn't stop and
the and people like, oh, that guy's on drugs. He's crazy.
I know, No, that's just what he is. He just
wakes up, he goes ah and he just doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And like, well they think we're like whacked out all
the time, so we don't stop.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But he he like when we were on tour. He'd
be like this talking dog. He just doesn't stop. Like
it's like a It's like a drug for me. I
love it. I'm like I can't get enough of this guy. Like,
and he's so cool. Like the biggest stars in the
world will call and be like, yo, we met come
to this competizing Yeah, bro, you know I'm just chilling.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I'm good Vegas, you know, Like he doesn't come to LA,
but he's just like to end the story on him,
like we're on this tour bus, I'll never forget it.
And I'm talking to him. He's like right right, right, right,
right right, Yes, that was great and just fell asleep
sitting up and just turned off. I'm like, did he
(11:13):
just turn off?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Is is the hoppiest, craziest, wildest, nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
What's the craziest story you had in your shows?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I mean there was no just give me give me
top two, but let me.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Let me explain crazy, like what goes on today with
like the influencers or like mister Beast. What mister Beast
is his big things he does you know every month
and all this I did ten of those a day.
You know, ten things a day to make the Mortons
laugh and my bosses that are on the hard rocket,
or to make the cast laugh. We just did it
for fun.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
We didn't have social media in two thousand and three.
Was there, but I didn't care. It's like my space,
you know. It was like who cares? Now, it's everything right.
It was a completely different world. And then I just
had I don't know why, even when social media started
coming online, and like the later years of the show,
I just had this this thing like no cameras, no cameras,
(12:12):
and it wasn't like I just I didn't because cameras
never capture the energy in that room. The energy in
the room versus what video shows. Just two different things.
You know, when you when you're surrounded with you know, celebrities,
beautiful people, everyone's having fun. There was Here's a fun fact.
I had two insurance claims, you and you're mister stats man.
(12:35):
Two insurance claims in twenty years of doing shows, and
they were both from a stilt walker that one one
stepped in someone's foot and one knocked over a beer
bottling and cut an old lady. Unfortunately, that was my
Allly insurance claims.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Did you ever get in a thousand plus events, right,
millions of people? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Did you ever get?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Because because that the energy every show where it was
a small, large theater, anywhere in the globe, it's just love, happiness.
I'm there.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
So we operated a base for a long time. And
do you ever get that three am phone call.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Which one Donnie and and Bush or no?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, that would you accept the collect call from Clark
County Detention Center?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
It would be I get I get calls.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Who's on the end of the phone tonight? You know
when bailing out when I was in New York.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You know, I'm really close with all the top comedians
of the world. Yeah, it was just because when I
came up, my show started as a comedy show on Broadway.
That is so funny. So I did phony phone calls
and I I started producing a show off Broadway. I
started doing stand up. As you know, we'll tell everyone
the story. I started doing stand up and I'm a
(13:48):
couple of weeks into it, and I was just I
needed bigger these little tiny rooms. I'm like, first, let
me start my own little tiny room. So I booked
a room on off Broadway and the second show, it
was thousand people online literally to get into a two
hundred person room, celebrity pack. The whole thing. It was
just a couple of comedians, one little person, a DJ,
(14:10):
a couple dancers. It was just the hottest thing in
the City's two thousand and two New York right right.
And a couple of days after to get a call
from the head of Matt of Radio City and he's like, hey,
Jeff Beecher, Joel Parris, head of Radio City Music, and
I'm like, yeah, yeah, I hung out with There was
a prank. I thought it was like a comedian pranking
called again, hung up again right well, the third time,
(14:32):
I'm like, all right, listen, I can tell you I
get it. This is this is real. And then I
literally went from a tiny room to the paramount of
the Garden and that was it, and then my careers
were and then from that I got my theater on
the Supper Club on forty seventh the Broadway and then
Broadway for a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So you're big, you do practical jokes, you ever, like,
you know, give out the Domino's pizza number in New
York or something, like that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
But I mean, I had this a joke grown up
with the best. I wish I want practical jokes, but
I've come.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You want to, I've got a good one. What can
Somebody had me on my phone? So people call me
all the time to fix their problems and it gets
a little much.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Hey, I've only done it a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
No, I know, but you haven't really, you haven't really
abused the system. But uh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
By the way, it's crazing about you. We're not going
to mention those little few little issues and they weren't mind.
But whatever, when you get that call, it is you were.
It's as our relationships blossomed over the last couple of years,
it's like.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You just I'm always there, four seven my friends.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Every everyone. That's what I love, one of the one
of the one of the many things I love about you.
Everyone in your world, everyone in your orbit, You're just
You're always there to help and you're always giving learning, teaching,
and it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
So during eight o nine, you know, people, it was
just the natal who hit show for everybody that was broke.
We weren't put I kept telling everyone went I broke,
and everyone said, you're broke. Cluebec because I guess everyone
was broke theoretically, and you know, we'll see who can
go back from the dead. But it just got to
(16:15):
a point where I just I came up with a
number to give somebody when I just couldn't answer their
questions anymore, so I would forward them this number. I
want you to read it. I came up with this.
It was just amazing. So I said, you know, you
need to call the wizard, and they go who I
just called the wizard? Just I got this number and
it's this is the number if you guys can see it.
(16:37):
But once you read it, what was his tame? No?
No read the number?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
One eight eight eight seven six four three four six eight.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, you know and numbers translate into words, right letters,
So what what what does that translate into?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
One eight eight? You are an idiot? That's that's that's
the early two thousands of joke.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Wasn't really two thousand jokes out. All the kids wouldn't
figure it out. I didn't understand what.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
They turned off the podcast right now, like boomers.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
What's your best practical joke?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't, I mean, I my whole literally Steven when
you ask what's the best, there's no one best.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I mean, I played one on you.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Oh that was funny.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Oh I got you? And Jeff Ross did I get you? Guys?
Tell everyone what the hell I did to you?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I think you tee it up and I'll tell my.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I know is they were trying to get me on
a joke and they couldn't get me. So I said, okay,
they came down to my Cabo house.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Steven's Stephen's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You're a big deal, so he flew down to my cab.
I'm kind of a.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Big deal to so so so.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But to get you, it was pretty good. And Jeff Ross.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
We're bicking up each other, and so, you know, I'm like,
you talk about security and we're talking about He's like,
You're like, oh, how do you I'll you stop the airport.
I'm like yeah, I'm like, just have him check my
clearance levels. Relaxed, buddy, and like you thought you were.
And it was a big swing and we go through
the airport. Everything's fine, and we're driving and we get
pulled over and like I thought.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It was a joke. You got pulled over at Cabo.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I thought it was a joke. But the way that
the way they did it was so funny. I mean
it was so real, Like I'm like it was real.
This isn't a joke. And then because there's this thing
that I have, my driver's license that gets questioned all
the time, if the if the I can't even get
rid of it, we'll call it it's just a joke.
But it does come up and I'm like uh and
(18:39):
they're like, oh yeah, this this this idea is not
checking out right now. And this happens in the airport's everything.
I'm like, no, it's it's it's like we're gonna have
to check your bags. And I'm like, uh, oh no,
tell them what happened.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So you come through the airport, you go through clearance,
you go through customs, you're getting off the tollway Cabo
and all of a sudden, there's like two federales pull
you guys over in the suv. Yeah I do with
lights on.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I thought something.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
And you're in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, I really you got me good. Like I was
like literally first I thought it was a joke, and
then then I'm like this is freaking real.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And then were you sitting in your pants?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I did, I really did. And it's like it was
such a good prank because I knew you were gonna
do something, and it's still got me.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I was freaking was freaked out too.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I showed him Rosses bags, So.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Definitely the we was in there. The week was in
those bags one Zero's and my glos. It's that guys.
So you lost all this weight. This is so, this
is remarkable. I still have to focus on this because
you've got this health company you're working on now. I'm
so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I mean, thanks buddy.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
It's it's unbelievable the things that you're doing. We'll talk
about that. But because we're both into the health and
longevity and we're learning, we're learning from each other and
this is a new world. I mean, young y.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Health is a it's AI is a disruption, yeah, you know,
and wellnesses are right behind it. Willnace suppose is it
six and changed trillion? In two years, it'll be at
nine trillion, they're projecting.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's amazing. Yeah, so you lost all this weight and
it's still this. I gotta focus back on this because
I have so many friends that have had surgeries. They
try to lose weight they always boomerang back. You did not.
You did not boomerang back. And you know what, I
what was the first thing that that popped up when
(20:36):
you lost all this weight?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I'm gonna give you a video to Q two and
uh October twenty fourteen, before I went to my health
retreat called Hippocrates the Okaytitute, and before the famous boogie
before no, it's not this is raw. You're even raw
being in this is like, it's not boogie, it's not bogie,
it's not Taco bell anyway, before the famous fat intervention
(20:59):
as I call it. But now what a PC world
would be? Uh, like, you know, overweight intervention with the
fat intervention because.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
It's brain health.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I made a video. Yeah, and I'll give you this
video too.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Cut a video and just went like that is that
what popped up?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'm on the theater, I'm on the stage at the MGM,
and I walk out and I'm massive. I don't know
what weight I was for something, and I just I'm
like and I like this, and I go, I'm gonna
lose two hundred and fifty pounds. I'm gonna save my life,
and then I'm gonna teach everyone else to save theirs
anyone that has this problem. I go, I'm gonna go
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start this journey. And I walk off the stage and
you just see my blow. I took off my shirt
to like show off the blubber. Yeah, and it was
just like like it was a different person, that was
a character. That was a character. It wasn't me.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But what did you discover? You had all this weight loss?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
It's it's never ending discovery. I'm still learning.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Really, Yeah, have you found it yet?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Which is it?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm just curious. Curious minds want to know.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
What my penis? Yes, I found that. But there's an
article in the New York Post from many years ago
about that. Tell me about that?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
What was York Post about your opinion?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
They called me and like, we know we want to
do uh, you know, you know your really fun guy interview?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Would you do?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Would you would you talk about like you know, like
losing weight, gaining weight, you know, sex or penis. I'm like, yeah,
I go, but I want to make this like it
has I forgot what I've made the title, but it
was like like he lost the weight, but he gained
back his band. I don't remember what it was, but
I'm the purpose of the article. Yeah, I mean, because yeah,
(22:41):
you lose your penis like it's this no joke, like
every thirty pounds it disappears, you lose an inch like
it just it's real.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
This this is this is lost an inch when you
lost all the weight? What did you gain back?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I don't know tell people.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I don't like the break. I'm not I'm not talking
about that. Okay, do you have yelp reviews on I know,
just listen. It grew back.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I want to know you have references.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It grew back.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It grew back.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It grew back. And and I did this article, but
not for the comedy. This wasn't part of one of
my no. I did this because I knew as a
fat person, I told us and I told this in
the article Normal six. I told this in the article Stephen,
I told I wanted to tell the truth to people
that are we tell the truth right now.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I am hard, hard, hard truth hard.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Let me let me say it. I'll say what it
was because when I was obese, I couldn't even have
sex with people, right, so I'd be like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know, how about yourself?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Do other things? Yeah, we do, we do other things
about to get that dirty, but we do other things.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
What's dirty, it's it's in the article. What's in the.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Article that I would lie and say I had sex.
I took up with a lot of a lot of females,
you know, very beautiful ones, but I just wouldn't have sex.
I felt comfortable with my skin. I know that. And
that's why I did the article. Because I wanted couples
at home that are both over weight, both and having sex.
I wanted them to feel sure and understand, like, yo,
(24:04):
you're not you guys aren't having sex and talk about it.
And one of the coolest things ever was just I get.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I get.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I'm on the way to Craigs one night. I like,
I missed my flight. I'm in this Uh you know
I went through my like douchey phase with the Ferraris.
You know we all do. I'm in this red Ferrari.
Beat your license plate. I'm booking down. I blow the
stops on and I get pulled over as usual and
the cops like, uh, license registration. I'm like, oh, I
(24:33):
didn't have my anything on me. I'm like, officer, listen,
I just lost the flight. I'm running to Craigs right
now to go meet and he goes and he's looking
at me like this guy's the biggest d bag in
the world. And I go, listen. I go, I go, listen, officer.
I know my idea, but you can google me. I go,
(24:54):
and my name's on the license plate. I don't have
any red stress. I go. My names on my license plate,
like you know, you can see it. So the guy
who's face was so.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Disgusted, then he plays he dead no, but I still like,
but he was.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The guy was so disgusted. And he walks back and
he doesn't and he comes back and he goes, are
you the Beacher? And I'm like yeah. He's like, I
read the article and I'm like, and I just had
an article and Variety. It was like awesome article by
like the little people and everything. And I'm like a Variety.
And he's like, nahing about your dick. And I'm like
(25:30):
and I'm like, oh cool. And he goes back to
he goes Beacher, he goes the entire office, he goes
everyone in the precinct. We all read it. We send
it to everyone. He's like, you're a good dude, and
he and he understood why I did the article.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
She the douche with a dick.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
He understood, he understood why I did the article, and
that meant the world to me. I'll never forget that.
He's like, he's like, thank you very much for that.
I'm like, you're welcome, and that was great.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's cool. Yeah, you are always off every day.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And the reason why I know every day I love
that article because when someone tells me I just got it,
I go, who said it to you? Then I know
that that's it.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
You know it's the police officer.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
No, it's it's it's it's like someone send it to
me to like, oh look what he did, like and
a smart person reads it, they're like, what a great guy.
Bad people send it around to do.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
We have this in common. We are both unapologetically all that.
But that's what the world needs. I mean that in humor.
It's you know, it's part of why I'm doing what
I'm doing today, why I'm I'm running for office, because
I not only know what to do, but you just
always have integrity. You know, integrity.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I you know, when I was a kid, a lot
a lot like a lot, like like why the logical
I just I didn't know I was adopted. I was
mentally screwed up, and I did it for years. I
would like write down my lives like it was just elaborate, crazy,
like I was keeping track of him. There was no phone.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
How many people know you're adopted? I mean, you know everybody.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I mean so like I don't like I think it's
in my bios.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, I found out when I was thirteen. I think
that's probably the year when trauma that I was told
by my sister on the front set. I'll never forget
about was standing because it's like a mental like you're
like what like it was like you got beat up,
like punched in the face start times. Not that it
was a bad thing because my parents were the greatest.
(27:23):
I got adopted to the greatest film in the world. Yeah,
it's just your your whole brain's like you thought one
thing and then something else and you're thirteen years old.
I told it.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I asked this question about my friends and we I've
not asked this of you, but a lot of the
folks that come on the show, And if you had
one day on planet or to be with somebody, George Washington, Aristotle, Plato,
anybody that's dead, that'll be dead. Who would you want
(27:56):
to spend the whole day with, think about it, one
or two, one person.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
So I'd want to do I'd want to do my
dad one more day.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Your dad, Yeah, well tell me about your dad.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He was just a great man and why and he
had cancer. My parents both died of cancer, okay, And
it's very just a little sad. So it took the
ship when the hard rock, like Peter Moore's used to
be like Elvis style, beat your Elvis style, like like
less less is more, you know. And that's how I
(28:27):
was trained to do these big grand shows. So I
would do like eight weeks of shows, then I do
eight weeks off, eight weeks on, eight weeks off. So
it's a spectacle. It's a thing you get to come to.
It's not on every day. All the other shows would
be every day. It's boring. So everyone flying for the
shows from all over the world, and it was you know,
you were there. It was the most talked about about,
you know, the thing in Vegas at that time. And
(28:51):
the first it was two thousand and four and it
was my first year. I'm like, I'm just learning. There's
no blueprint to creating the show. By the way, right,
there's no formula to creating wild organized chaos in the
hard rock, which is also no formula to Vegas a
cool hotel in a hotel. At the time, none of
(29:13):
the hotels, as you know, had nightclubs or you know,
pop in restaurant. They mister chows and nobody. They didn't
have the cool restaurants from around the world. It was
just hotels that made a lot of money from gambling.
It wasn't hospitality based. So having a cool hotel that's
also unheard of. Right, So anyway, so much going on.
My brain's like I'm I'm a kid in a candy store,
(29:36):
like I'm in a playground. I'm having fun. Every day
is a joke. Everything's just a black I have the
best time in my life. And my dad did cancer.
So it was the end of two thousand and four
and it was my first year my dad came to
this show, which I was so happy. My mom died.
My mom passed away. Is the reason why I went
to Vegas. My mom passed away and she was really
(29:59):
was really said, like I like ran away from it
and like I didn't even realize I was doing this
another thing which I'll just throwing now. Every time someone
very special to me died, it gained a hundred pounds
ish and lost it. So when I lost the weight,
I realized, like it's obvious when you're looking at it,
but when you're in the tsunami, you don't realize. And
then every time someone died, I gained a lot of weight.
(30:21):
We'll get back then in a second. So my dad
was dying of cancer and I was supposed to go
spend the month with him. So I finished the series
of shows and I remember the remember the Newlyweds with
Nick Lasche and Jessica Simpson that yeah, and Nick hole yeah,
And he was like, no, the Oridge the og and
he was like yo, He's like we uh, Like, we're
(30:43):
coming in this you know it's Vegas next weekend, can
we do? I'm supposed to fly home that week go
see my pops. And he wasn't supposed to die. He
died of heart attack doct from the cancer that he had.
So and he's like, we're coming in on a film.
I'm like, yeah, come to my show. I'll put it
in another show. I'm done, So we extend the show.
We're all excited. The Sleberties is coming in, It's gonna
(31:04):
be filmed. It's so stoked I do it. I mean,
I am pumped. Where in like the magazines are a
big deal then where in every US weekly, you know,
every single pop culture magazine. And I'm so sick to
fly home to my dad on Wednesday. So that was Friday.
A couple of days later, I'm flying home to my
(31:25):
dad spend a month with him because he's dying of cancer.
The day I'm leaving on the flatmate sister called me
and she's like, our dad died. I mean, it was
like boom. And I was so pissed because I was
so excited to go home and spend that month with him.
But I did it, Pops. You know, I'm the youngest
headliner in Vegas history. Did every I'm like And it
(31:48):
was when one thing was so epic when just like
going through his stuff, I found a folder and he
would never talk to me about my press and like media,
you would never be like you're for some reason, he
was always proud of me, like you're the best great.
He had a whole hit. Every article he had highlighted
yellow my name, and he had every single thing cut out.
It was really cool, Wow a whole.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I was like, oh man, what would you do with
your dad if you could spend a day with.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Just catch up, thank him again, you know, apologize for
everything that I did as a crazy kid. I mean
I was crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
You can what would you say?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Just a lot love? What would you say, I have
a lot of stop from the beginning and go just
go through it all. I would show him appreciation like
now new Beacher, like everyone always says, you're the like
when I was Showman Beacher or when I turn on
Showman Beacher. Now that guy's the funnest, greatest guy. You
want to you want to hang with you know, you know,
(32:43):
might not want to hang with him for a month
or a year, but you want to hang with him
for an hour or a day. Like he's a fun guy.
It's a character. And I grew up as that character,
you know. And now I'm I'm I'm I'm an adult.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I'm you know, So what would you show your dad? Now?
You the adult? Beeature? Because you're sensitive now you're emotional.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yelled me about it, but you.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Know I don't yell at you about it.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I don't mean.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I've not yelled at you. But you've called you a times.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yes, No, I mean I am sensitive, but it's like,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I just.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I wouldn't tell him one thing. I would just I
would give it. Just thank you, thanks for everything. I mean,
he adopted me, give me the greatest life. They're incredible parents,
the best parents. Tell me to love, tell me to
be a good person. You know, I mean, you don't
he I am who I am saying?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Is my dad? It's great. Yeah, yeah, it's funny. Most
people say one love their parents. It's funny. I asked
this question so many times. And it's so interesting because
we're doing a survey now and we've got a pretty
good sample size, and you would be shocked at the
(34:04):
consistency of the answers that the people have not said
what they really want to say to, usually a dead parent,
a mom or dad.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah, no, it's great, and this so we learn glad.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I'm tracking human because I always they always think about
that too, like, am I human?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I don't know. I have a lot of friends that
don't think you're human. They don't think you're human. You're
do some very unhuman things. Yeah, it's genius. It's genius.
You are one of the greatest marketers ever.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You know people you do.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I love people. And the other day I found on
my report cards from high school, and I just remembered
something which was I missed.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Who would keep all their report cards?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I that never missed a day of high school zero zero.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You were days, never sick.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Never, You're never really sick. I would go in, I love,
I loved. I was obsessed with walking around being beacher.
I'd be like, I was going, hey, hey, I was promoting,
I was selling T shirts, I was doing whatever. I
never missed the day high school.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Even though my cool friends you were that dumbass nerd.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, no, but I wasn't a nerd. That's the other
time you were not a nerd. Homecoming king.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You were homecoming king, Homecoming king.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Baby. I was cool middle school, high school.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I was would you like pay everyone off for the vote? No?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I did go around to the home rooms. So I mean,
so you.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Were soliciting votes. Yeah, bullshit, I'm calling you right now.
You were soliciting votes because it was not a unique just.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Because I'm smarter than everyone. Yeah, I walked around to
every home when they were voting and I said, hey,
vote for me, vote for me. No one's ever done that.
Was walking all right, sure, beature, but I won sit.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
You were like Ferris Bueeler.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh no, it was Bears Bueler on crack. I mean
his one day, it was my every day. I was like,
and I was, but I was in school every weekend.
In the beginning, like in middle school, they were really high.
Math was incredibly high. And then I just stopped doing everything.
They were like I was. I remember my report.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Showed up every day.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I showed up every day. But I remember my report
card was like it was impossible to not it was
impossible to graduate with the numbers. If I got one
hundred to the last quarter, which is the highest you
can get on everything, I still wouldn't average up to
passing grades. And that was going to be. So I
got the report card that someone whoever moved up all
(36:45):
the numbers and then they made it so I got
sixty five averages because they didn't want to suspend me
and leave me behind, get me out of school.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
No, do you know why they did that? Probably to
get me out of school because they were tired of you. Yeah,
because they usually you expended all someone.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Usually a crazy wild guy was like on drugs or
a drug dealer. Okay, I did none of the above.
I was just social. So what the hell will we
do with this guy? We can't keep them here again,
I'm ranking in a couple grand a week back then,
that's like making fifty grands.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
What were you making money doing?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I was selling T shirts, so like I had, it
started with one school started my school. So I'd make like,
whatever's going on there was like a war. So I'd
make a scud missile with the logo of the of
the bulldog in the high school and make it something funny.
And I'd go around to everyone and literally just walk
around school and be like, get buying his shirt, fifteen bucks,
give me five dollars, sign here and make him sign
(37:40):
the five dollars, pay for the shirts. And then I'd
make ten dollars a shirt. And I would do that
rins a repeat, rents repeat. Then I'm like, oh, I'm
gonna teach people to do just other schools. So I
drive I just drive up to schools, walking in who's
the cools kids school? Like, who's the biggest nerd in school?
I go of the nerd? I go you, you guys
are gonna be friends, and would just put people together.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
So cool and nerd were the same.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Then, well I made him cool. I made everyone cool.
I'm like you guys hear the cool Merid I was
the coolest. Cool is just the game. Cool is just
the game. And I would explain to them, you guys
can make money. You can do this. This is what
I'm doing. You can come to do a party. Let's
find the house whose parents are away this weekend. Let's
find the house. We'll truge five dollars on it. Get
a couple of kegs.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
You're a promoter, Yeah, you're still a promoter.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I promoted well. I don't like the word promoting. I
get very mad, like in interviews would because promoter and
producer is the difference of multiple zeros, multiple zeros producer.
I'm a producer to produced a lot of things. But
when I was a child, I'll give I'll give high
school years promoter awards. But yes, that's where I learned
(38:41):
a lot of my skill set.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
What's your best skill?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
There's so many, as any true great egomaniac would say,
I don't know. I mean my best skill socializing.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I mean I just acknowledge an egomaniac.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I was making a show.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
No you're not. That was absolutely true, and that was.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
You know, it's only fresher because last night I went
to my friend Colleen Camps.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Your name drop all the goddamn time. She's such a
name drop friends of names. I went up with Michael
Bay last night, you know, my colleing Camp and Paris Hilton,
and he's a little we man. And then I grew
up with these You grew up with person I was.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
I grew up. I moved to the city when she
was eighteen popping off, you know, like when she was
on her skyrocket. We met her, we became close friends. Actually,
Nikki Paris never remembered my name, and me and NICKI
got really close, and NICKI would like bringing to the show.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I bailed Nikki out of problems. We don't talk about problems.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
This is a positive show. And uh, yeah, I grew
up with them, and uh it's yes, especially because of
my friends. Yeah, so my one skill set on socializing.
I love people, that's it. But I don't turn to
you know, it gets exhausting sometimes you gotta you know,
sometimes rest.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You've got a lot of great things coming ahead, and
you're I'm really lookingward to see what's happening in your
future because I know a little bit about it. We're
gonna hear about it soon because it is going to
be big news.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I mean it's simple stuff in general. Like, and I'm
back in the entertainment game, right. I'm like, had an
incredible tech consulting run, and I'm back in the entertainment.
A year ago, we launched Beacher's Mad House. It was,
you know, three shows. We did it with Netflix. We
had you know, Whisky Leaf had performed. You had everyone
from Paris and Nikki to the Kardashians. Had seventy eighty
(40:37):
celebrities there, small little tiny room.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Beautiful beachers back beachers back.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Then we did Super Bowl. That was we had. We
had our buddy Ephron, We had a lot of people there.
Cardi b performed in the middle of Super Bowl. Boom
again another you know, all of Hollywood shows up. I'm like,
this is incredible. I love everyone supporting me.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
I will always be there. Trappee net you, thank you always.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
And then the last show is it was we had
Snoop performed, Paris, Nikki, Kelly, we all walked in the
stage emceed Snoop came out performed forty five minutes that
this new artist Sexy read like it was just in
these shows for you. For those that don't know, show
the video. The very it's a small, intimate, two three
(41:23):
inches person. I think legally it's one hundred and fifty people.
Maybe there's a little more in there, but it's it's
a very intimate, cool theater.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Well, we're glad Beacher's back, and thanks for coming today.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Thanks for being on my podcast Stephen shake Luback on
iHeartRadio and wherever else it plays.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
And uh, you have to read your book. You have
to read your book. It's a it's a muster.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I have to read my book.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
No, I mean telling the people I wrote my book.
I'm telling I'm telling the fan.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Idiot, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I'm telling the fan. Before we go, let's talk about
you for a second.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
It want us to wrap up because you know, but
I want to.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I really I really want to, just like get a
couple minutes in you running for governor because but because
I believe in it so wholeheartedly, like I you should
be governor and I've been I've never backed to political candidate.
I've been friends with them, many of them over the years.
I've never put work into it. I never supported, never pushed.
(42:22):
This is going to sound really bad. I never even
voted to this year. And I only voted because my
friend asked me to vote, and I never voted it.
The only reason I didn't want to vote because you
get Jerry duty, like when you're on a thing. So.
And I always lived in hotels for twenty years. Another
fun fact, you know, I lived in hotels and I'm
a home so. But you're the first person that I'm
actually I believe in and I know will save California.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Thank you. What You've talked for a lot of our
friends and what do they think? I mean, you've heard
various opinions California.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I like when you you articulate much better than I do.
I like you know me and my uh not sophisticated words.
But you know California is a country like it. When
I was in tech and I took a break from
Sucond Valley for a little bit because I just love hospitality.
I went to work for governments and do do tourism
for governments. Right, And I mean you know this, and
(43:17):
you know I looked at the country's GDPs and I'm like, oh,
tech companies that I work with, you know VERNB it's
it's a larger company than this country. If you look
at the countries like companies, then.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
California is a country four point one trillion dollar and
California needs.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
To be run like a business by a business leader
like you like it's it's one of the largest countries.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
I've never had more fun. You've watched me study and
do what I'm doing. I've never had more fun in
my life. But I feel comfortable taking the case.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
It has to happen like it has to happen, like
there's no.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Like Like there's no other candidate that comes close.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
There's no one that can do what you do. You
run multi billion dollar businesses and in Vegas there's no
harder market. And the time we were in vag all
over the world, yeah, running out of Vegas. There's no
other harder time and a harder business to do than
what you did in Vegas. And it's incredible and and
you're and you're you're just your knowledge and your work
(44:19):
you've already done with the government, like people don't even
understand the brand USA, the tourism board for the United
States that you ran, that you created, Like it's it's impost.
Things you've done are impossible, not just like good ideas,
impossible ideas to do and impossible ideas to execute. And
you did and they're still running and you've been gone
(44:40):
from them for what years? And they're still running and
thriving and promoting America.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Like I know when to leave, to to create something
and walk away and head it over to others. All
these careersts, these politicians don't know when to walk away.
They're failed leaders and they're all compromised. Uh no I
Q no EQ. But they don't when to walk away,
you know, they don't know when to go on to
something else.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
It's sad the word compromised. I understood that. It's like
like I never built out a marketing company with hundreds
of employees because I always felt that I would be
doing a disservice to the people I work for, Like
you only want me working on one or two projects,
film working for twenty people. I'm compromised, right, Like, so
that's why my personal ethics always kept me focused. And
(45:25):
you're you're not compromised, and you know how to run
a business, and you know that Hollywood's Hollywood and the
sizzle and the sexiness that people love la for needs.
You know, I don't know film money to come back here.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
You know that's all about topic. We talked about it
for I mean, it's just there's so many things like that,
the great exports California that we can crow about, and
we layer on performance and results. But again, thanks for.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Bringing here, well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Thanks for having your Dick gro So. That's great you California.
Get a clot.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
See the club, kiss the California. Set the shut hair,
This is your cat. See the coming little Baus through
set the clo
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