My Standup Promoter - Andy Levitt

Daniel talks theaters, tour buses, and type 2 diabetes with his longtime promoter, Live Nation's Andy Levitt.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So like the first time I booked a proper tour,
I was like, let's do it for just two months.
That doesn't seem long. Sixty days, but I go. But
I don't want any nights off, So sixty days, sixty shows.
But then it started selling well and so we did
two shows every night, So one hundred and twenty shows
in sixty days.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Pasha Tosh show up, Tosh Show Show Tosh Show Eddie,
you hit him with a hoodie? Who I'm fired up today?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Why are you fired up?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
The fans of this show that want it both ways
are driving me insane when people get upset about the
money I spend on something. A few weeks ago, it
was I mentioned how much it costs to line my
drawers throughout my house. I know it's absurd, okay, but

(01:14):
I think it's interesting to share with you the real numbers.
So if I'm gonna share with you the real numbers
things cost and what I get paid for things, because
I think that's very interesting and I think you would
like that information, then I need you not to be like, oh,
I can't log I believe somebody was learning does what

(01:37):
it's what it is. It's not your world. It's relative.
But you don't get it both ways. Either I'm not
gonna tell you the numbers, or I'm gonna tell you
and you'll just be like me, Holy shit, that's crazy, right.
I think that's fair.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
They're gonna ruin it for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
You're gonna ruin it for everybody. Just enjoy that. It's
a world you'll probably never be a part of.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Let's be clear. I know where I came from. I
moved fourteen times before I was twelve years old. Then
when I was twelve years old, I moved to Florida, Titusville, Florida.
Our home cost around seventy five thousand dollars. Three bedroom,
two baths, four kids, two parents, great home. They owned

(02:28):
it for thirty years ish and then they sold it
for ninety two thousand or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I killed it.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh my goodness, what a huge return on investment. That's
what you get in Florida. So I grew up in
that world. I appreciate, you know, everything that I've received.
But you know easy by the way, I got so angry, EDDI,
you're gonna like this. We're going to talk comedy now, Okay,

(02:57):
Like every other comics podcast. I brought my calendars from
back in the day.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh it's great.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh man, I found them. So we're going to go
through my calendars. This is so you can see what
I was making and where I was. This is back
in nineteen ninety eight. All right, I was at Loonyes
in Colorado Springs from the twenty third through the twenty seventh?
Would you make for five nights? Two shows a night?

(03:27):
I made a total of four hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
And then on the thirtieth, which was Yam Kapor, I
have a note to call Bobby Jewel down there. That's
the owner of Side Splitters in Tampa, Florida. He was
a comic slash comedy club owner. Then in October the
seventh through the eleventh, then was at the Zanies in Nashville, Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right, what'd you make there?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
I made five hundred dollars for a week of work.
The following week I got to I was in Tennessee
staying in Tennessee. So I'm in Tennessee for two weeks.
Then I was at uh Comedy Catch in Chattanooga. Guess
how much I made for that week? Four hundred and
fifty dollars. Not friends with that person. Don't remember who

(04:14):
it was, but I remember that at the end of
the week he gave me a stern talking to and
told me that I need to stop making jokes about
some of the other people that work there. I forgot
who it was.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Who's the funniest.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Man in America? What was his name? Oh, Dick Gregory,
Dick James Gregory, James James Gregory. I remember making fun
of him on stage and the club owner pulled me
aside and said, don't you ever make fun of him.
November nineteen ninety eight. Oh, I was doing a run,
a run of creative gigs. Okay, so now, creative gigs
they were the comedy zones. They were in the Southeast.

(04:50):
You would do one a night in a different venue.
One night you wouldn't get paid, and they're like, just
don't worry about it. And the next night you would
do a show at a different club, you know, one
hundred miles away, and they're like, this club would overpay
you three hundred and fifty dollars. That'll make up for
the night before. So they would just like rob one place, yeah,

(05:12):
and the other place. I just don't worry about it.
But I was making one hundred and fifty night. I
was in Hickory, North Carolina. Then I have a note here. Well,
I say it like Hickory, like that comedian John reap
Our Fred John Reap. I have a note here. They
did not pay me. The check bounced. Then I was

(05:33):
in Columbus, Mississippi. I went to Miami for the fifteenth
and sixteenth of November nineteen ninety eight. Then I was
in chapel Hill, North Carolina on the eighteenth, Harrisburg on
the nineteenth, Charleston, West Virginia on the twentieth, and twenty first,
for a grand total of three hundred and fifty dollars.

(05:55):
Here's a big one. December nineteen ninety eight, I was
at Uncle in Davy, Florida. I was the MC. The
middle act was Greg Hahn. The headliner Doug Stanhope.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh wow, uh huh, fun week?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Would you make four hundred dollars? Four hundred dollars man?
I was living it up.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I also made an appearance December seventh. I popped into
comedy Traffic School oh and did a surprise set. You
know that is, guys, when you'd get a ticket you
could go to traffic school, but in Florida they would
have comedy Traffic School, which was taught by comedians that
had failed. But some of them were my friends, so
they'd be like, Hey, come by, I have to teach

(06:36):
for four hours and you can just do a set
in front of these people. It's just miserable. Then I
was off to Macon, Georgia, heading to the Comedy House
Theater the fifteenth through the twentieth. Got to stay in
the Shoneyes in so I had a free hotel room
and made for six nights a total of four hundred
and fifty dollars.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
New Year's Eve nineteen ninety He ate bonkers. Huh, that's
a good gig. Joe san Felipo, owner of that club.
It was in three D's, which was Dennis Scott's restaurant.
He was with the Orlando Magic at the time. Oh man,
guess what they paid me?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
No clue, they didn't. Oh they didn't.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Didn't make it, didn't pay me. Well. This one's sad.
January nineteen ninety nine, From the fifth through the tenth,
I was in Side Splitters in Tampa, Florida with John Pinnett.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Oh, rip, what'd you make?

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Five hundred total? But he probably gave me a few
extra bucks. Oh. The twenty seventh of January nineteen ninety
nine was the first time I performed in Los Angeles.
I flew out to do a show at the Melrose
Improv Nice. Uh huh, no money, so like, get off

(07:59):
me when I fucking tell you what stuff cost? Check
this out. April nineteen ninety nine, got to do a
show on the fifteenth for e my first like television.
I was doing some wild on thing. I don't know
what it was.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
You get the money in there for that.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
A couple hundred bucks seven No, it says seven hundred dollars.
Seven hundred dollars they paid me. That's pretty good. April
nineteen ninety nine, the twenty fourth I opened for the
Beach Boys. What do you think the Beach Boys paid
me in nineteen ninety nine to open for them? Two
hundred and fifty dollars Speech boys. Yeah, well, this is

(08:40):
a big date. June first, nineteen ninety nine. Guess what
I did.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
June first, nineteen ninety nine. I think a college gig.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Nope, moved to Los Angeles. What yep? And got to
do a show that night, hosted an open mic night,
got paid ready for it? Yeah, seventy five bucks. First
night in la I made seventy five bucks. Yeah, this
is not bad. That's not bad at all. Nop same month,
back to Florida. On the twenty fifth and twenty sixth

(09:10):
of June nineteen ninety nine, got to open in Melbourne
for Larry the Cable Guy. Okay, yep, two hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
God, what's happening?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Two hundred bucks. August nineteen ninety nine, August fourth through
the eighth, Tulsa, Oklahoma open for Todd Glass.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Okay yep?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Five fifty six hundred bucks. Yeah, Todd made sure I
got paid. I'm gonna I'm not gonna stop. I'm gonna
go through this. This is this is good stuff. What's
the Imperial Palace?

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh, that's a casino in Vegas. What was probably a
couple of them, but.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
It was this one I think is in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Track I made for eight show. It appears eight shows,
seven hundred bucks. That's not bad if I'm in a casino,
because you know I won on the tables. Also on
the twenty first of that month, I had my cable

(10:05):
installed between ten and two.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Uh, that's big.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
I want to know what I paid for that? No, no, no,
that's not written on here. October nineteen ninety nine, October fifth,
I shot Comedy Central's premium Blend Who. That was the
beginning of the relationship that blossomed into one of the
greatest TV shows the network had ever put on the air.
South Park.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I opened for Todd Glass on the twentieth of October
nineteen ninety nine. Guess what I got paid? Fifty dollars.
How about that? Okay, here's a big gig. Nineteen ninety nine,
November twelfth, I was at FSU. They were going to
pay me five thousand, five hundred dollars. I said they
were going to. They canceled me before I flew out.

(10:57):
Would have been my biggest show today. Canceled.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's a big one.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, it's stune, God, it's stung. Oh. Here New Year's
December nineteen ninety nine. I'm opening for Lewis black back
at Uncle Funny's. Did five shows, got one thousand dollars.
There you go, Yeah, chut ching. I'm not done, guys,
I'm not done. Year two thousand January the twenty fifth

(11:24):
through the thirtieth, I'm opening for Dave Chappelle with Cap City.
I'm in Cap City in Austin, Texas show. Yep. Guess
what I got paid for that week? Eight hundred bucks
because I got to headline the first two nights because
Dave doesn't would never do a full week. Oh, I
did a college in Georgia, Columbus State. Got one thousand,

(11:48):
three hundred and ten dollars negotiated. That's stupid, That's so dumb.
I can't stop doing this, guys. I'm gonna go the
whole way through. Oh, here we go, Sacramento Punchline February
two thousand, the twenty third through the twenty seventh. I'm
opening for Dave Hotel. Huh. That was a big deal

(12:09):
for me. I was excited. Fifty How much did I
get paid? No, five hundred dollars plus accommodations.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
But that was where my you know, my love of
Tahoe started because I would drive over to Sierra Tahoe
every day. I would snowboard and then drive back and
do the shows at night, all for a week at
the Best Western at the Punchline there. I had a
free hotel room and I got five hundred dollars. So

(12:37):
don't And that's only twenty four years ago. The guys
get up my ass because I pay too much for
an airstream renovation. April fourth, two thousand, I have a
pitch at MTV A little Did I know then that
they were going to say no to me for the
next decade. Oh, this is exciting. May two thousand, where

(13:03):
am I New Zealand?

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (13:05):
For two weeks I get paid four thousand, four hundred dollars.
Guess what They decided to only pay me two thousand,
two hundred dollars after I did the shows. Yeah, he
still owes me. I'm sure he'll make right. Ah one
of my favorite places to perform. Perform there with Eddie

(13:28):
open for Eddie there. This wasn't the week that I
opened for you, but I was May twenty fourth through
the twenty eighth in Appleton, Wisconsin, working for Cliffy, working
for Cliff and Pat.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Don't make short, Pat, I won't.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Pat was working there at that time. They had a
pitch on the twenty first in June with MTV again
with rod Asa again passed on me, always passed on me.
Eh probably made the right choice. I can't stop this man.
Oh August two thousand, from the eighth to the thirteenth,

(14:03):
I was at Catch a rising star in Reno, Nevada.
There you go, my first time in Reno back then,
oh man, eight hundred and fifty bucks. They treated me right, Yeah,
and I guarantee I won on the blackjack table. My
first weekend in Las Vegas was October two thousand, the
sixteenth through the twenty second. That is a long that

(14:24):
is seven days. That is seven days, fourteen shows. Guess
what I got paid? Eight fifty twelve hundred dollars plus
room Riviera, yep, at the Riviera. I refused to stop
doing this.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
They brought it on themselves, Daniel.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
They brought on themselves completely act like, you know, to
act like I was born with a silver spoon in
my mouth. All right, let's get into this episode. I'm
no longer putting hundreds of thousands of miles on my
nineteen ninety one Honda Civic SI black hatchback with the
moonroof bass cannon for one hundred bucks a night. Okay, Now,

(15:04):
I got jets and tour buses full of dogs and kids,
and today's guest is always there making sure Team Tosh
keeps on perring like a kitten. Enjoy Pasha, my guest today,

(15:25):
has spent time on the road with almost every famous
comic you can think of. He's seen me perform live
over sixty thousand times and is the only person I
enjoy seeing backstage because he has my paycheck. Please welcome
Live Nations VP of Comedy Touring aka my promoter, Andy Lovett. Andy,
how are you?

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Things are good doing? All right?

Speaker 1 (15:46):
This is a big get for me having you on
the show. Andy. Do you believe in ghost I do not?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay, but real quick, I'm shocked that most comics say
that the Comedy Store is haunted and they've always had
these experiences.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Nothing's haunted in the Comedy Store is just dirty. That's
just the sound of seamen sticking to your feet as
you walk through. Let's start with some simple stuff. You
grew up in Baltimore. I know you're a big sports fan.
Colts are Ravens Ravens. Do you pronounce it Baltimore or Baltimore?

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Baltimore?

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Lobster Crab Crab is the Wire the greatest television series
of all time.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's up there Breaking Bad is up there too. I think, Okay,
are you sick right now? I'm not.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I always accuse Andy of being sick. I don't for
whatever reason. Whenever he's on tour with me, I'm like,
are you sick? And He's like, no, I'm not. I'm
just getting over something. I'm not contagious. I'm like, God,
damn it.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
There was one time I was pretty deathly sick on
the road.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, but you weren't in my bus. You know you
were in. That was a baller move I had. I
had two buses, one for the openers, or as I
like to refer to them, the riff raff. All right,
we'll get into Please describe to our listeners exactly what
your job entails, because even I'm a little in the dark.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Here, the biggest things are just like routing the tours,
which I really enjoy. So it's kind of putting the
puzzle together of how the tours come together, what cities
they want to be in, what cities that common want
to be in a what day, and routing it out
be is it ten shows, thirty shows? And then it's
negotiating the deals with the artist representatives, and then it's
making sure the tickets sell so the artists can make

(17:31):
as much money as possible. We can make as much
money as possible, and then it's it's uh, it's followed through,
follow following through with the show all the way to
the end, making sure that the show goes smoothly from
the moment you or the artist walks into the building
until they exit the theater.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
And sometimes you're actually even just with the artists throughout
the entire tour.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, we you know me personally, and you know Live
Nation Comedy. We really try to be as hands on
as possible and you know, take care of the artists
as much as possible.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
And so for people listen it. So you work for
Live Nation and you basically only handle comics that can sell.
What's the smallest venues that you're dealing with.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
We do shows in some clubs that have like four
hundred seats or so okay, and we also have comedy clubs.
You know. We have the Punchline in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh huh, and that's owned by Live Nation.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
The Punchline in Philadelphia, the Punchline in Sacramento as well.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
My first experience with the Punchline was in San Francisco
was such a big deal to get it, and I
got like you get like a shit week when you're
first getting there. It was like a Thanksgiving week, and
me and Sean Rouse went up there. Rip to Sean,
he's dead. He was an amazing comedian and he just

(18:51):
like literally blew me off stage every night, like he
was so much better than me.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I hung out with Molly actually a few weeks ago.
She says, hello, by the way.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Ah, Welly's a wonderful woman up in San Francisco with
tattoos of Dave Matthews and lyrics on our artist. That's
right now this interview you were I don't know if
you were hesitant. I certainly know your boss Jeff was,
because you're privy to such information about artists, and they're

(19:20):
just like making sure that you can't talk about people.
So at times I'll allude to things and you can
just shut me up if I'm going down the wrong band.
But let's start from the beginning. How did you get
into promoting comedy and booking comedy.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I went to college at American University in DC. Is
that a good school, I'd say so. And I was
a broadcast journalism major. So I thought I was going
to go down that track and wanting to be sportscaster.
But I just started going to tons of concerts at school,
like just you know, music shows, some comedy shows, but
more music shows, and just started befriending some of the

(19:56):
bands that were playing there and they were up and
coming bands, and then got involved in the college radio
station and really just started being involved in the music
side of things. And then there was a programming board
on campus which helped bring bands and comedians to school
basically using the school dollars.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
What people don't know about these campus activity boards is,
like you said, you're an eighteen year old and all
of a sudden, you're getting to play exactly with budgets
that are so much larger than anybody ever really knows,
exactly like what it costs to bring real entertainers to school,
and then they give you, I mean, what kind of
budgets were your school's letting you play.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
We had a pretty healthy budget when we had half
a million. I think it might have been a little
less than but for the whole course of the year,
you had the program something in the fall, so you
just couldn't blow it on one event. No, I know,
but yeah, overall it was like budgeting and yeah, we
could get a big show in the fall, big show
in the spring, that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
But you know, I'm in the Naco Hall of Fame.
I didn't know that, but well I am. So that's
these organizations that book entertain hainters into colleges, and I
did a ton and ton of colleges. I remember once
talking to my good friend Nick Schwartz and outside of
the Melrose improv This is when we're kids, and I
was like, I'm doing about one hundred colleges a year

(21:14):
and he's like, oh, I'm doing about six. And I go, oh,
what you gotta do more? I go, I go the
money's so good. He's like yeah, I know, but like
I don't. And then I was like, well, I'm getting
like fifteen hundred a show, and he's like, oh, I'm
getting like twelve thousand, and I was like, oh, you're
I was like, oh, Nick is so much smarter than
I am. He was doing six shows a year for

(21:37):
twelve thousand a pop. I was doing one hundred for
fifteen hundred.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Anyway, So yeah, so I got involved in it with
d in DC that way and then you know, fulfilled
my major and did all my requirements. But I really
kind of got turned off by the whole journalism side
and all that and just wanted to get into the
entertainment side. And when I graduated, I was like, well,
this is fun. Let's just I don't want to get
a real job. And then I kind of morphed in
the real job and just kind.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Of do you feel like you have a real job now?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
I do. Yeah, I mean, but I enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
But you don't know, you no longer love it?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
No, no, no, I still love it. I tell my
friends like when an athlete retires, like they know it's time,
Like it's still fun for me. So I know if
it's like going.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
What are you going to go to next?

Speaker 2 (22:18):
I don't know. That's yeah, but I still love it.
I still love it. Stressful days at times, but I
still love it.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
You've got some good comedy friends.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Absolutely, yeah, that we're you know, just I think people
don't realize like how how many people are involved in
making a show happen, So like just friends within the
office and the venues and marketing, ticketing, production, So it's
you know, you become you become friends with all these
people because you're just around them.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
And some of them some of them not friends, some
of them borderline hostel.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Things can get things can get crazy, sometimes stressful situations.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
But because you're dealing with entertainers that come from all
walks of life. I walk off stage, you're there. I
actually refuse now to even take a settlement sheet. I
might just email me like the Moneies get wired. Yeah,
but there are still these performers that want a briefcase

(23:14):
full of cash.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
There's yeah, I mean I think it's a little probably
not as common anymore, but some.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
People, but it still happens, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
More on the music side, i'd say, oh really, yeah,
I think so.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
But there's there's definitely a few comics that are like, no, no,
give me you know, six figure amounts in cash after
I get off stage, and then they're just it's just
crazy to me. Yeah, And there's been times where you
didn't have the cash? No, or is that not true?

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Not true?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, how many people have mistaken you for the talent's accountant?

Speaker 2 (23:48):
You know, it's probably happened a few times.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
So so one tour I did. When you get to
the level of needing your expertise. It's like it's a
big deal. And comics career you go from comedy clubs
to theaters. And so once I got to that point,
I was like, oh, this is going to disappear any moment.
Little did I know that I'm bulletproof. But so like

(24:15):
the first time I booked a proper tour, I was like, Okay,
let's do it for just two months. That doesn't seem long.
Sixty days, but I go, but I don't want any
nights off, So sixty days, sixty shows. But then it
started selling well and so we did two shows every night,
so one hundred and twenty shows in sixty days.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
It was crazy. Do you remember Julie that we had
out on the road for She was.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Trying to fly to every city every day commercially and
it wasn't working. So then she's like, I'm just going
to run an RV And she was just driving behind
her bus and an RV. I guess, and should have
I invited her on the bus? Is that what I
should have done?

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Probably? Yeah, we still talk about it to this day.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I mean, I didn't know protocol.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, it's fine, it's I mean, there's no right answer.
But it was it was a lot of dates.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Well, I remember she had got one of her friends
to like drive the RVY and she was trying to sleep,
but like an RV is not meant for like sleeping
and going ninety miles an hour down the highway.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
And it wasn't her fault. But then I think like
the RV that they rented somehow got like infested with
bugs or something like. It was just so it just
became like a nightmare of a thing.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
That was the same tour that my manager Christie Smith
ended up breaking rule one on the tour bus o.
Well yeah, because she and she blamed it on the lobster,
but we all ate the same lobster rules. And then
all of a sudden she was just blowing up the bathroom,
flying down the highway. Oh, I was disturbing. Hey did
I push you in the ocean Halifax?

Speaker 2 (25:48):
No, that I think you pushed Andrew. I vividly remember
like that those days in Halifax.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
So I remember Halifax too, And I here's what I
remember that we that we I remember crapping my pants
on a hike that I remember, But also I remember
we asked you to take a photo as we called
you shaky Andy, because yeah, you were trembling.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I was trembling, and I was like, and then you
later found out, Yeah, that was the shortly thereafter, I
found out I had a lot of other symptoms, and
I found out that it's type two diabetic, and my
blood sugar was just completely out of kilter at right
a moment. So so everybody's making fun of me, and
then I realized that was the condition that was causing that.
Now I'm reversed in, very healthy.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
But what you're telling me is that my mocking yes
saved your.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Life exactly, exactly. Yeah, but that day was crazy because
I remember we went on that hike and I was
so out of shape and just everything that I just
looked like you would have thought it was like a
death march or something. And I gave I gave Pete
a picture that I found from that day, Oh Man,
of me, you and full Sharon at.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Full Sharon, good dude, good stuff. The big college tour
that you and I did. Everyone was worried about you
because you were deathly sick. The whole time you needed
to leave, You're like, listen, I am going to die.
So you left, and then you brought this other guy
aboard that dressed like a Would you describe how he dressed.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Like casualfari casualfari?

Speaker 2 (27:22):
This guy like he's still doing his thing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
He His diet is concerning too.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I'm not sure about his diet weekend.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
He only would eat it raising canes. Have you ever
tried stand up?

Speaker 2 (27:36):
I actually have never tried it, But I did write
a lot in college, and I never had the balls
to give it a shot.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
So you have a journal.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
I wish I still had it. I had it.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Give me that journal I could get at least five
new minutes out of it.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I had, I had five minutes at the time, but
I just never went with anything.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Has Louis c k ever masturbated in front of negative
on a tour bus? Does Kevin Hart have to sit
in a child's seat?

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I don't work on Kevin's tours. I can't answer it.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Were you in charge of making sure Dimitri Martin had
an easel on every show.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's on his rider? Yes, if if in fact it's
part of the show, then yes, we had to make
sure it was there.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
How's my rider is very.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Uh, You're one of the more simple riders out there,
which is great in terms of like hospitality needs. It's
actually become like a kind of a joke. But it's funny.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
What's the what's the joke?

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Oh No, it's just like there's not a lot on there.
It's like for the longest, for all the years we've
born the it's like bottle of water and a candle. Yeah, well,
now a scented candle. And it's very very important that
the candle is like a good.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Candle, right, it can't be a fucking glade.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
You're like TVs or no.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
No, I want like a locally made nice candle, and
then I collect I use him in the green room
and then when I get uh, when I get home,
I have a whole stack of candles from from being
on tour, and I don't have to eye candles because
that's annoying.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh yeah. On the previous tour, I remember like all
the cities of just trying to make sure everybody had
a nice candle. We want to, you know, to make
sure some places like it was harder to find like
a nice candle shop, so we would like, you know,
we would find a place and then just like buy
them out. Tell Andrew Lantuck back in the day. If
you like get just buy twelve of them.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
You know, that's a stupid Well. Now here's another thing
that a lot of people don't know about artists is
they can put whatever they want in their rider. The
artists themselves are paying for it, like it's coming out
of an expense. Correct. So it's like people always say, oh,
can you believe they wanted a tiger backstage or whatever
the nonsense is. It's like, well, yeah, I don't want

(29:44):
to pay for that, so yeah, I'll have some water
and a candle and some celery.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah, the veggie tray was kind of an added that
got added.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's not even for me. That's because if if Todd
Glass or somebody's with me got it, they freak out.
Which comedian has the worst fan base?

Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, I can't answer that.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Drawid Carmichael opened for me. We were in Hawaii together. Yeah,
so we ran in a beautiful house in Hawaii right
on the beach for a few days, I don't know,
a week. He never once left his room.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, I recall that too. Is I love Gerard, But yeah,
that was kind of the strain that was, like, enjoy Hawaii,
you know.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
We never made He did enjoy it, I know he did.
We never saw him. He never came out of his room.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
You And there was also actually when we did it,
when we did Maui, he was on stage crushing opening
and there was, like I'll never forget, there was like
a fight that broke out in the theater, like somebody
was got thrown off the balcony. It was crazy.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
I have had a few fights breakout in the audience
during my shows, and I have I've gotten to a
point my career where like I don't even care. I
don't even want to acknowledge it. I'm like, whatever, I'll
just keep talking to the people.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
That are in the front. Yeah, let's to deal with it.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, but security is garbage for the most part at
these venues. I was on stage at one time and
somebody stormed me on the stage and no one ever
stopped them.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, they finally did. But luckily I don't think that
person was coming the leg hurt you in any way.
He's just a crazy person.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
But yeah, so will you negotiate with my agent? By
the way, do you do you enjoy negotiating with Stacy?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
She she can be hugh. She can definitely be tough
at times to make my life a little crazy, but
we get along well.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
So is there actually any hostility toward her ever?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
No, I mean sometimes it gets it gets Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Do you have to tell her, hey, knock it off
and let's just talk about me personally because you're allowed to.
If she's like demanding this and you're like he's not
worth are you yelling like he's not worth that?

Speaker 2 (31:45):
No? No, I don't. I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
How do you haggle? How do you haggle her down?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I just know it's it's just trying to state the
facts of what I believe in. The risk involved and
all that.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Stuff is there is there a lot of risks with me.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Putting up the expenses and all that.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
So I try to stay in my lane. No, totally
in venues. I'm not trying to play things that I
can't sell my you know people, I have said this before,
but like, I try to stay in the fifteen hundred
you know, maybe at the max forty five hundred seats.
That's my sweet spot because I don't want to do
a lot of promotion. That's really it. What's your favorite

(32:24):
cities to work in? Well? I guess.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Cities and theaters. I guess, but like I love Chicago.
Chicago Theater is an amazing theater.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
It's too big, the ceilings are too high.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
I still like it.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
It is pretty.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Seattle, the Paramount I like a lot, the Masonic, and
San Francisco. I like the Bay Area. The Bay is great.
The Ryman in Nashville is cool too.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I love the Ryman.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's a good Yeah, that's a great theater. I mean,
just the intimacy and it feels cool. Yeah, the Mother
Church they call it.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
I mean these theaters are some of them. The older
they are, the more beautiful they are, the more despicable
backstage is and and anyone over six feet tall is
going to have their head just blasted off over and over.
I never care about these the like I don't go
to sound check.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I just but there are certain theaters that you had
a did like Radio City mean anything that you know. No,
so some people have like the bucket list of venue.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
No bucket list. Yeah, and also like whenever they want
to like give me a tour of the theater, like
oh we need to, We'll bring you back down to
the basement and what's the Georgia one the Fox there Fox, Yeah,
don't they They like they brag about having like the
first air conditioner.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
They had an air conditioner before the White House.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Right, But it's because it's in Georgia. We's hot.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
What's the worst market in America to celtickets?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
And that's a tough question. I think it depends on
who the artist is. And I'm always a proponent though,
of the colder the venue or the colder of the market.
That's when you should be there when it's freezing, like
people like in you know, Duluth, Minnesota, only have x
amount of like sunlight and nice weather. So I think
something might sell better there in February than it would

(34:08):
in August.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
You one of the greatest comics stand up performing Brian
Reagan is a good friend of yours.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah, the best.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
You travel with him constantly.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
I used to do still work with him, but I
used to be on the road constantly.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, every venue for six six years. Yeah, sixty shows
plus a year.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, definitely more than sixty, probably seventy eighty.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
That's a lot.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
It was a lot, but it was I mean it
was a great life experience and cool to travel all
fifty see all fifty states Canada, and it was really
cool to see all the venues because if you see
the venues, then you kind of know, all right, this
comedian might work here, this comedian might not work here.
This venue is good for this reason, this venue is
not good for this purpose, that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Did Brian like like you as a person or no?

Speaker 2 (34:52):
I think so. I think you'll have to have him
one next No, I don't have comics on that.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Okay, all right, you were you were on the road
with Brian Reagan and audio issues.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well, when you do as many shows as we've done there,
you know every once in a while there's gonna be
a faux power two. But yeah, I was doing a
show with Brian and Fargo, North Dakota.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Which a lot of people think is like like a
tiny city, but it's the largest city in North Dakota.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Agreed. I think it's completely underrated. It's a cool town.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, I have no issue with it.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, we're doing the show, sold out show and Dennis Reagan,
his brother, is opening and Dennis goes on stage to
start the show and he does a few lines, but
then all of a sudden, the mic cuts out, So
Dennis just immediately walks off.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
And Dennis got a little bit of an attitude. It
probably wasn't thrilled, not.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
At all yet. Okay, So Dennis walks right off stage.
So Brian's like, we need somebody to like go out
there and just keep talking to make sure it works.
You know, we can't have this happen again. So kind
of like all eyes appeer on me. So I go
out this is your big break. I go out there
in front of all these people and I just say,
all right, we're just gonna I'm gonna keep talking to
make sure we can fix this. And I just start

(36:00):
saying the alphabet and I get to maybe the letter
like I don't know Q or P, and I just
at that point got a little stage fright and freaked
out and I just couldn't remember the alphabet at that point.
And then everybody just starts cracking and then it just
becomes like, you know, chaos a little bit, and I'm
getting pretty flustered on stage. I don't even remember what
I did, but it was pretty embarrassing. And then I

(36:21):
get off and we fixed the issue. We get back
out there and Brian jokes saying, thanks everybody for their
patience and then thanked busting me for not knowing the alphabet.
And then Brian got off stage, because Brian comes off
then does an encore, And I said to Brian, I'm like,
literally the only thing keeping the show going right now
is this little fan here. So I'm like, go out

(36:43):
and do your pop tarts bit as quick as possible.
Let's get get the fuck out of here. You know,
he's got a few bits that the encore in summer
longer than the other. If you really do spelling bee,
w'd be there seven minutes.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Oh yeah, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
So I'm just like, we got to get to get
out of here.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
You were to Bill Cosby's first comeback show. After all
the rape allegation is true or false?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
No? False?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Would you have any interest in promoting a tour with
Cosby and Hannibal Burst together? No? No calling it like
both sides. Do you work outside of the US?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yes? I think that. You know, that's becoming more and
more of a business now, you know, with Netflix and
streaming platforms and comedy specials in general. It's just yeah,
things are becoming just more universal now.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
No, it's so much you have to travel so much
farther but you did.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
You did some shows Abraad, We did Australians. Yeah, but
that was only so I could watch tennis. And there's
a lot of people that do that. They build a
vacation out of it. That's the way that that's the
way to do it.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
No, I refuse to travel anywhere on my own dime. Right,
do you take vacations?

Speaker 2 (37:49):
I do. I've been a lot better about it over
the past few years.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
And you're taking some crazy trips.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Yeah, like in December when the business kind of slows
down a little bit, I kind of try to get
away and do cool, cool shit it. I guess I
did Patagonia one year.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
How did you do in Patagonia? Where you did? You
do some big hikes?

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, huge hikes. Yeah, Toros del pay nationally.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Because I mean Califax reminder that we walked a half
a mile and he almost die. Yeah, much healthier. Now
let's talk about COVID. There were no live shows.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah, it was pretty pretty Narl.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Did you did you go, Oh my goodness, my career
is over.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
I mean, I think we all knew we were going
to come back, but we just didn't know when how.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Much did Live Nation lose dollars that year.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
No idea, no idea billions, I have no idea, but
like I mean, I think I think the company did
an incredible job trying to take care of as many
people as they could under the circumstance.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Did you do like, what are those dumb like zoom
stand up shows?

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Well, I did one of them. Actually, I booked a
Zoom comedy show and I booked Tom Poppell on and uh,
he actually did fairly. He did better than I thought
it was going to be. But it was weird to
just see people in the boxes just like laughing at
this that he was doing from like his living room,
you know. But we we did do some shows. I mean,
we helped produce all the Chappelle shows in the Cornfields

(39:07):
that he did in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
And you and Chappelle drove not a tour bus, right
in a minivan.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
It was one of his first shows back and.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Back, meaning after he kind of quit kind of the
entertainment business after Comedy Central show, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, some time went by and then he decided he
wanted to play the Filmore in Detroit, very cool theater.
I said, He's going to do that show, and then
he was going to do three in Toronto. So I
went to the show. Everything went great, and then I
was like, all right, i'll see you tomorrow in Toronto.
My flight gets in at like eleven am or whatever,
you know, and he's like, whoa, I'm driving tonight. So

(39:45):
I thought, you know, you're coming with me, and I'm like,
this is kind of crazy. So at like one point
thirty in the morning, two in the morning, we literally
get into his minivan and he drives for it.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Nice. Was it nice minivans?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:58):
It was all right, yeah, let me see he eats
town and country, I think, so, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Four and a half five hour drive to Toronto, but
about that last hour it was really rough. We were
both pretty exhausted. So once we got the Toronto, the
shows great shows. Kind of the funny story that happened
that in Toronto you're not allowed to smoke in the venues,
and Dave smokes on stage, as many people know, and

(40:24):
the venue was like, you can't smoke on stage. The guy,
the general manager of the venue told me that, and
I kind of was like, well, you have these sold
out shows with Dave Schappelle's you's just got to deal
with it, and he didn't like that too much and
was like, no, I don't think you understand. It's like
provincial wall here, like you know, the health the equivalent
of the Health Department could come in, shut the show down,
find you as the promoter. So I then realized the

(40:47):
gravity of it all and we kind of explained the Dave,
you really can't smoke on stage, like it's pretty serious.
Then the next morning I get a phone call that
David walked to the mayor's office asking why you couldn't
smoke on stage?

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Did he get the mayor?

Speaker 2 (41:01):
He got the mayor, and the mayor was like, I'm
glad you're here, but you cannot smoke on stage. So
he didn't smoke on stage. Then the irony goes a
few months later, sadly that mayor was the mayor that
smoked some other things. He's a crackhead and he has
since passed away, which is said, but.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
That part is sad, Yeah, But the part about the
crackhead telling the guy you can't smoke.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
A cigarette, the irony there is pretty would have.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Dave been allowed to smoke crack on stage?

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Probably? No, I think everything is off any version.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, yeah, I always give my I guess something, but
you don't.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Really.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Nothing in my house is something I think you would want.
But I still have a few things. This I want
you to have. This is this is unused. These are earbuds.
They're they're made to Christy Smith. They have her name,
the cheap motherfucker at Comedy Central that like took over

(41:56):
after like he fires everybody and gets rid of every show.
This was the parting gift he gave to Christy Smith
for my show of thirteen years right, and he did.
They didn't even give it to her. They sent it
to me, and I've never given it to her. But
I'm gonna so now you have some earbuds. Yeah, or

(42:17):
maybe I'll go along to a Christie and you know,
don't give it to her. It's neat that you have Christy.
And then this is just an old photo of me
as a kid with jay Z.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
As a hilarious that's this is hilarious. I just thought
that'd be Nice'll go in my office. Yeah, I have
an old picture like this of me and doctor j
that I have to show you. Okay, I'm like up
to his knee.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
I will happily put that on my desk, Give me, Dodger,
get this off my desk. I don't want it's on
my table. You toured with Bill Murray? Is he the
coolest motherfucker alive?

Speaker 2 (42:48):
He's like. I was a little nervous at first, and
then I'm like, this guy is literally the greatest personal nerve,
Like he is right, it's just everything about it. It's
like a unicorn, Like, it's just it was awesome.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
What was his show like?

Speaker 2 (43:01):
So the concept was I had heard that he was
classical music, right, it was a bunch of stuff. I
had heard that he was doing these shows and that's
clinical music. And he doesn't have an agent or manager,
which I.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Really knows, like the landline that you call, you leave
a message and if he's interested, he'll call you back.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yes, I'm like, all right, how am I gonna? Like?
Who's doing this show that he's doing? So I found
out he was tied the two classical musicians and the
agent was out of Germany.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
So I called.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Germany just one number, yeah and just explain my yeah exactly,
and explain what I do and if there was any
more shows available, and she was like, oh, the timing's amazing.
Look we're having trouble finding venues in two cities, okay.
And I thought she was going to say, like Topeka,
and she's like, well, we can't find venues in San

(43:49):
Francisco and Seattle. Oh my god. And I'm just like
this is like this is so easy, this is unbelievable.
Uh huh. So we booked the I booked the shows.
It was a few classic, classically trained, incredibly talented classical musicians,
so a combination of like classical music, storytelling, poetry, some singing.
Bill has a great voice, so he did some contemporary

(44:12):
songs covered like a Van Morrison song, John Prime song,
just insane, just unbelievable, and like you see, like we
deal with comedians all the time, but then you see
like the talent of a classical musician, it's just mind boggling,
you know, it's different a little bit, just a little bit.
So I did one show with them in Seattle. I
didn't even like was nervous, Like Bill had some friends there.

(44:34):
I didn't even really talk to him that day. But
then did one more show in San Francisco and everybody
kind of like warmed up through each other and then
we just became this like unit and they did about
maybe twenty shows, and I did about fourteen of them,
including London in Scotland. So yeah, the last time I
saw him was in London. Great show. Then went to

(44:54):
the Chiltern Firehouse was which is just this like epic,
very famous bar that you kind of need to be
asked there, invited in, and you just had a They
did Bill just get to walk in? I mean we
didn't have any trouble getting in. I mean maybe he
maybe he gave the heads up or something, but they
gladly let us in. But yeah, just a great night
there and then kind of you put me in a

(45:15):
taxi back to my hotel, thank me. And I haven't
seen him since.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Did he pay for the taxi?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
I don't think so, I paid for it.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Do you hate some of these YouTube stars that can
sell tickets? Are you getting to that age where you're like,
oh shit, these younger performers. I have no interest in
listening to them? Or do you? Are you like? No,
it's good too? No, I like it.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
I like it too. I mean, if they can sell tickets,
it's worth looking at. I mean there's a lot of
artists that you might not have the like personally.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
When I was a kid, and he's like to see
a stand up comic and a large venue. There's like
two comedians and Steve Martin, I don't know somebody else,
But now it just seems like there's so many comics
that are at the level of performing in larger venues.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Totally right? Larger venues and just smaller venues. I mean
there's the days of all right, you got to putting
your time at the club and do that is kind
of you know, I think I think there's a lot
of artists where they might become big and then the
fans might they just might want to see them in person.
It might not even be about the material. They just
want to have that moment with them.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Huh. What other shows are they doing besides stand up? Well,
what do they do live?

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Sometimes it's sometimes it's stand up. Sometimes it's like sketch
or improv or where you know, or podcasts are going
live now too, I mean that's.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Do you promote live podcast?

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (46:32):
So it's just like you imagine how horrible this would be.
There's an audience in front of us.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Yeah, yeah, people would be paying to see me seeing you,
But yeah, who's.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
The next big superstar, comedian, tough to say. I never
can pick it. I like people tell me, like, who
do you think?

Speaker 2 (46:49):
I'm like, are there any comics now that you like
a lot?

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Though?

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Or I like them all?

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (46:56):
I mean I can get into im. I'm I'm a
big there's room forever everyone. But no, there's some great ones.
I know Andrew Schulz's camp or big fans of yours
and one of his openers, Mark Gagnon, very funny comic.
He's from the Orlando area, so like you're like his
you know, Orlando, Florida. Yeah, man, that wasn't that was?
That was some tough sledding back then.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, it is kind of weird that there's tons of
comics from Florida, though, it's like it's just I don't know,
it's just like an anomaly of just other like you know,
Larry the Cable guy.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
I mean, Mitch Hegberg really started in West Palm too. Yeah,
even though I know he's from Minia.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Carra top always Scott.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
He love him.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
He makes me laugh so much. I think I told
you this. I saw him once at the Vegas Airport
and I'm like, oh, that can't be carrat top.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
What he had a hat on his head, carrat top
with his shirt with an arrow pointing.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I just like couldn't believe. I'm like this guy, like,
why is he like he could clearly just private or whatever.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
And of course he's he's worth one hundred million easy.
You know, his social media presence is is so sexual.
I find that disturbed. He was.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
He was in one of your videos for a while,
your intro videos on stage.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yeah, me and him doing this Selena Gomez. Yeah, that
was pretty I was that was a second, but I
was in character. I was pretending to be Selena. Now
we can't talk about certain things, but there are a
few performers that you've worked with in your life that
when they and knock on wood that it's not anytime soon,

(48:27):
but hopefully it's before this podcast stops. Me to think
when they pass away, that you'll come back on and
we'll have some discussions about them. Fair enough, Okay, that's
good to know. People at home they can just guess like,
oh my goodness, who could this positively be? All right, Well, Andy,

(48:48):
I'll see you back on the road. Thank you very
much for being on the show. Thanks for having me
my pleasure, Pasha, and not about I want to thank
Andy Levitt for being on the show Live Nation. They
get things done, Carl. Do you enjoy Andy Levitt? He's

(49:09):
a good man. Every time he sees you on the road,
what does he do? Huh? He tossles your hair just
a little bit, just like that. We like Andy. We
appreciate what he does to make tour life way more enjoyable.
Anything I want on the road, he gets it done. Hummus,
it's in my green room, Celry. What you like carrots?

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (49:32):
You loved carrots. Speaking of food, I got a little
egg on my face for this story. My wife bought
a bag of hard boiled eggs for our daughter, thought
maybe there'd be a quick little snack for her, and
she didn't want to eat them. And I'm like, I
love a hard boiled egg, you know, a little salt

(49:53):
pop it in delicious? Right, Carl? Okay, but how many
hard boiled eggs you really want to eat?

Speaker 2 (50:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
This is a big old bag of hard boiled eggs,
and a bag of hard boiled eggs sounds disgusting. Kept
snacking on them? Hey? You know, one week turns into
a couple months and there's still a handful of hard
boiled eggs left in there. And I keep looking at
the expiration date every time and it says as like
says mid May or something. I'm like, either a great,

(50:23):
they're still good. Carly's like, what are you doing? You
can't eat those? I like says mid May, it says
expires or idem say expire said sell by mid May. Right,
So I'm fine. The last hard boiled egg. After a
dozen or so of these things over a three month period,
I realize that it's yes, Uh, you know, they expire

(50:45):
seven days after you open the bag. So whatever. I'll
be honest with you, My stomach handled them every time
I open it. The whole room would, but hey, what
are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Well?

Speaker 1 (51:03):
My stomach handled it. That's all that matters. The Goat
premieres in two days. Guys. There'll be three episodes available,
but currently you can see the very first pilot episode
the first episode on YouTube. God, Amazon, you are confusing, whatever,
don't forget to check out Boyswearpink dot Com, the hottest

(51:26):
toddler line out there. My tour Come see Me and
all the fun cities Louisville Detroit, Columbus. I don't know
what we're gonna do in Columbus. I tell you what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna blow the roof off of
that venue when I perform my jokes. Speaking of unwatchable,

(51:48):
another one of my kids' bedtime stories. See you next week.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
When to pilot time. A deep deep out, a big
big ty what some little little orion? But they what
he did? Ham hot doss ham? He they what he
didn't ham? But they said it? What what? Turkey meatballs?

Speaker 1 (52:17):
All right, well, hold, let me say so there's three
there's three lions in a cave and they wanted ham.
But their favorite thing is turkey meatballs, hammaidballs, Ham meatballs,
turkey meatballs.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
Okay, go on, sorry, Okay, now we do another story.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
That's the end of the story.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
Another story.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
That story is garbage.