Inside Thoughts Episode 5 Ft Josh Wolf

Comedian Josh Wolf talks with Nick about performing standup with his son, sharks, and becoming a Canes fan

Episode Transcript

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Speaking. I should not have madeit to the rest of us. Check
check check we live, baby,what's going on? I hope you're having
a good week. I got acool interview for you after I get done

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talking about you know nothing. JoshWolf hilarious comedian. He's been around for
a long time, but he's beenblowing up on TikTok, so I got
to talk to him. I gotthat for you after. Um, how
are you doing. I hope you'redoing good. I just uh doing this
podcast. Just got back from thegym because I'm getting the games. Man.

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Oh, we getting swollen for thesummer. That's what we're doing.
Man. I just the thing aboutthe gym that I don't like, and
I know, like some people enjoythis aspect of it. I hate when
people talk to you at the gym, you know what I mean. I
get like some people that's the onlytime they get to be outside. And

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especially you know, if you're anadult or a young adult, it's tougher
to make friends when you get olderbecause there's no more structure, like you
always made friends in grade school,and then in college you're doing this same
stuff. Jobs get a little differentbecause not everybody's your same age and he'd
be like, hey, you wantto go get a beer later. They'll

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be like, I'm fifty two,I got a family of four. No,
I don't want to go get abeer after work? Well, what's
wrong with you? I gotta wakeup early. I don't want to hang
over, so I get you gottafind, you know, different places to
make friends as a young adult.But just don't talk to people at the
gym if they get their headphones andyou know what I mean, all right,

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I really like it bugs me becausewhen I go to the gym,
that's my time to just I gottatalk like all the time during the weeks.
And when I go to the gym, like no talking, just listening
to some music. It's me inthis weight that I gotta get up.
Okay, I'm just focusing my bodyand my body as a temple. Okay,
that's It's basically what I'm going intowhen I'm at the gym. But

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some people, man, they justthey see a couple of times just give
them my head nod and I'm like, oh, this person is gonna come
talk to me. And I'm surelike they're nice people. I just I've
been burned before. Because it's neverjust a one off conversation. You can't
just be like, hey, how'sit going. Yeah, yeah, Laker
game was crazy. Yeah, Ihope Lebron gets this fifth ring. That'd

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be awesome. Man. And thenevery time you go to the gym,
they talked talk to you. Likewhen I was living in Texas, went
to the same gym, same timeall the time, and I was like
at the free weight section walking overthere, and out of the corner of
my eye I see Batman, Likesome dude was dressed up as Batman.

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And my first thought was, noway, somebody's dressed up like Batman at
the gym. And then my secondthought is I'm an idiot, was'm
Batman? Where are they? Soafter I get dumb with the dumb thought,
I turned in look and next toBatman is Catwoman. Like this lady
with Batman had the mask on,like the cat mask and a tail at

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the gym. So curiosity got thebest of me. I was like,
I have to go talk to thesepeople. Why are they dressed up like
this? And I walk over andthe guy had he was like super text
and like, Hi, buddy,how are you doing? But his wife
had the weirdest accent. It waslike she was Norwegian from Norwegia or something.

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I've never heard this. Assa like, hi yah, how you doing?
He can get didn't get the Durgannever heard that accent before. So
I was like, Hey, Idon't mean to bother you, but why
are you dressed up as batman andcatwoman at the gym? It is seven
o'clock in the morning. What areyou doing? And they looked at me
like I was the They were like, well, buddy, see up at

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the front, they're doing this thingwhere this whole month they're celebrating the anniversary
of this gym being open. Soevery week of this month you can dress
up is something different, like lastweek with Star Wars and his wife's button
in And what about this sprinkle day? He was like, and then there
was a sprinkled day and she waslike, and what about the out there
space day? She was like,maybe I already said star Wars. And

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I just kept going back and forthtalking about all the days that you could
dress up at the gym, andI'm like, okay, I've been here
for like three minutes, longer thanI wanted to be over here, and
they were like, well, hey, man, just check up the front.
Maybe you know we could coordinate.I get your phone number, we
could dress up together. And I'mlike, no, I appreciate y'all letting

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me know, but I don't wantthat to happen. And then every time
I came to the gym and sawthem, they came over and talked to
me for like twenty minutes, andit messed my work up, my workout
up, and I was just like, you know what, I'm not gonna
talk to people anymore at the gymbecause then they know you. I will
never forget those people as long asI went. But that's why I don't
talk to people at the gym anymore. It's like, I'm just I'm going

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in there for me, man,I get it. It's my it's my
way to decompress. I'll tell youwhat, Man, if you look at
the news for like longer than fiveminutes, either get anxiety or anger.
I'll be like, well, ourtop story today, more people have died,
you know, my god, thisis this is how I'm starting my
day off. Right. Like,I started regressing and just watching like old

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TV shows that I've already watched somany times. But I get it now,
Like my mom used to do that. When I was a kid.
She always watched Andy Griffith, youknow the It's the Andy Griffith Show starring
Andy Griffith with Don Knots, andevery episode was some like the moral lesson

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of the week. It's like Opietook a nickel that was aunt bees,
ain't bees? And Andy Griffith wouldbe like, now, oh, was
that nickel yours? No, gee, Goalie, I'm sorry, Paul,
I won't take a nickel anymore.And that was the whole episode. At
the end, like Barney would throwOtis a town drunk into jail, like,

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now, Otis I told you tostop drinking. I'm sorry, man,
and then they would hit the laughtrack and that was the end of
the episode. And my mom usedto watch it. He's just on loop
all the time. And I waslike, don't you want to watch something
new? She was like no,I just like living in my own world
watching Andy Griffith. And I waslike, Okay, that's weird. But
then I got older and I getit now because the news is terrible put

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you in a bad mood. SoI started like regressing back to watching South
Park for the million time, becauseit's always good to just have it,
like the old South Parks where theywere just coming up with stupid ideas like
Erica, I'm gonna grow out andme a beefcake beefcake, and then there
was a far joke in there.It's funny. Also rewatched Justified Timothy Oliphant

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ali Fant. I don't know howyou say. His last name's got a
weird last but the whole show it'sso stupid. It's like good guy with
a cowboy hat coming in to hisroots of Harland, Kentucky to stop crime,
and he knows all the criminals.Can the regular US Marshall stop those
criminals? No, only railing Givensand he walks in. He's like,
don't make me have to shoot everybodyin here, and then he ends up

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shooting them and they're like, whydid you do it? He was like,
it's Justified. That's every episode andit's so stupid. But I love
watching it because it's just good guyalways wins. Don't have to worry about
the news, you know what Imean. It's on Hulu and I do
watch Hulu every once in a whilejust to remember what watching cable TV was

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like, because I'm not paying forthe super free Hulu or whatever the hell
it is where it's like, oh, negative commercials, you won't see any
We'll even throw more of the showin there. We'll give you a director's
cut. We have negative commercials andsuper free Hulu TV. I still got
the one with commercials, and thecommercials are so bad. Like I love

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when I see a good commercial,because that's kind of how I try to
think. I'm like, all right, well, what are they doing here?
This off the wall idea? ButI remember it and now I want
to buy the product because it wasso good. I'm like, Okay,
that's good commercial. But Hulu justruns some awful commercials and they always run
like if you're watching like one TVshow, they just run the same two
ads basically. So like the firstone that kept playing was Earnest Loan Service

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for student loans, and it's likethis whole girl talking with her mom.
She's like, Mom, I wantto go to college, but I can't.
The mom's like, well, it'sokay, you can go to college
because of Earnest student loans. Andtheir whole thing is like we're Earnest,
We're trustworthy. We want you.It's like, yes, you will.

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You're a student loan service. You'recreating crippling debt for everybody in society because
the rule is you got to goto college if you want to be successful.
So at eighteen years old, we'regonna put you in one hundred thousand
dollars of debt and then you'll beworking the rest of your life. You
won't have time to think about otherthings for other people. You'll just have
to keep getting money to pay thoseoff. Love Student loans Man. The

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other stupid commercial that they play ona loop was what was it for?
Like hymns? But it was theychanged it. It's not hym's like Man
products, it's hers Woman Products andKristen Bell forgetting Sarah Marshall walks in like
all stressed and flustered, and shehas all of her different coping mechanism personalities

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in the room with her and shewalks in. She was like, well,
anxiety is high. What do wedo? Girls? And they go
to each individual personality and it's like, why don't we stay busy and work
and she's like no. The otherone's like, let's benji and not think
about anything. She's like no,And then the one's like, let's go
for a jog, and she's like, no, I know what to do.
Let's take a pill. Here's anew hers depression pill, because having

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anxiety is okay, and so istaking pills. And it's like, no,
a couple of those things, theother coping personalities, they had the
right answer. You got anxiety,stay busy. An idle mind is the
devil's playground, or whatever that oldsaying. Guess, if you're freaking out
about stuff, go go accomplish something, create something, do your job better.

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Or if you're freaking out, gofor a jog. You know.
And then every once in a whileit's okay to just benee the whole pizza.
You're fine. But what you shouldn'tdo is every time you have a
bad thought, Oh no, I'mhaving a scary thought. Let me reach
for a bottle of pills so thatit creates something in my head that it
needs it all the time, andthen I'll be okay, I'll never have

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a bad thought. I'll just beall pilled up. Man. I say
that as I'm about to throw ina Zen Winter Dream six percent pouch.
Not having a bad thought, I'mjust havn't had one in like two hours.
My body needs it because I ama slave to nicotine. I'm also

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have crippling addictions social media. Ilove what people post on social media.
It's like they have nobody in theirlife that is watching their stuff on social
media, going are you doing?Okay, maybe let's not post that,
you know what I mean, becauselike if you post something wild, if
you actually have friends, they'll shootyour attacks and be like, hey,

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take that down. What are youthinking? Don't do that? Yeah,
you look crazy? Take it off. You don't. Okay, if you
got a problem, let's talking aboutit right now. Just vent it out.
But what we're not gonna do istweet out a bunch of things or
post sad Instagram stories. So maybethat one person that made you said will
look at them and they'll feel guiltyabout what they did to you and they'll

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come back into your life. Becausethat works all the time. Right,
Just next time, if you're havinga freak out or something bad's good,
like some didn't go your way,you're sad or mad, don't talk about
it on social media. Okay,just don't do it. You look like
a crazy person. But I dolike reading your crazy thoughts. So on

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one hand, I want you to, you know, be better and don't
post it. But on the otherhand, if you're going to post it,
I'm going to enjoy looking at itwhile I'm taking So. I saw
this Instagram story on ig It wasa pole and the question was in an
adult relationship, when would you movein with your significant other? And here

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were the choices. Six months,a year, a year and a half,
or less than six months. Now, to me, that is a
crazy short amount of time. Allthose answers, crazy short amount of time.
Like you've only been going out withsomebody for a year and a half
and you're like, okay, let'smove in together. I don't know how
crazy you are yet. I've justgotten used to you taking ships in the

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same place as me. You justgot comfortable enough to do that because you
don't fire. Yeah you don't fart. Everything that eats farts, but you
definitely don't. It's fine. Wejust got comfortable with that, what like
eight ten months in and now youwant to move in together. Absolutely not.
I think this is why the divorcerates so high. Everybody wants everything
to happen so quick. Know,somebody for like, date somebody for like

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three years before you even start havingthat move in conversation. I know,
wife's expensive right now you want tosplit the bills, But just take it
slow because if you're doing all thisstuff because you're like, oh, I
want to be married, guess what, life is long and you have the
rest of your life to live withthis person if it works out. Take
it slow, though, because it'sa lot worse doing it quick and then

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moving in and y'all break up andnow you got to figure out, well,
whose name is still on the leaves? And I'm not gonna pay you,
Like, don't just don't do it. Just wait. But here are
the responses. Six months had twentytwo percent of the vote, one year
had forty eight percent of the vote, a year and a half had twenty
four percent of the vote, andthe less than six months vote had six
percent, which I'm glad that wasthe least voted on part. But also

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the six months less than six months. People who hurt you, do you
not get hugged enough. You don'tneed to move in with somebody. Don't
even know how crazy somebody is reallyuntil like three months in, like they'll
start showing signs, but then theystarted getting a little more comfortable after three
months. Don't rush to do Lifeis long. You know how many tuesdays

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you got left where you wake upyou like it's not Friday yet. You
know how many more of those yougot? A lot, dude, So
just take it slow. You'll getdivorced less because you'll get used to their
stuff and it won't bug you asmuch and you won't think, well,
we got into this quickly, leavequick. It's like, now, let's

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let's figure out if we like beingaround each other until we die. But
I want to get married so Ican posted on Facebook like all my friends.
Most of your friends are gonna bedivorced in about five years. Okay,
you'll be going to their divorce partytoo. Just do your own thing
and relax. Life is long,Okay, life is sure, yellow.

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Life is long, man, wife'salong like when you're in the moment,
when you look back, you're like, oh, ten years ago, seeing
like yesterday. No, it doesn't, you're forgetting all those tuesdays you woked
up. You woke up and you'relike, man, you gotta hangover.
Hate my job, I gotta gosmile to my boss's face, and then
I gotta go home and really justdon't have that much money to do anything.

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So I'm just gonna go home andwait until the next day, and
I'm gonna watch Andy Griffith while I'meating dinner. Wife's long, bro,
take it one step at a time. You don't need to just hit wife
goals all the time because you seepeople on social media doing it. But

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I've been invited to so many weddingsand I want it to be mine.
Okay, wait, they we've beengoing out for six months. I want
to move in together. No,I think you need to go to therapy
and figure out whatever that neediness partin your brain is, because obviously you're
just trying to bring more things intoyour life to cope with the whole that
is there. Did your parents yellat you when you were a child?

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Hey? Also, if that's yourlife and it works, I don't care.
I'm rooting for you. I'm justsaying, you notice certain problems with
society and maybe we could just,I don't know, fix them a little
bit by slowing down, not worryingabout what everybody's doing on social media.
Run your own race. Okay,Life's not a sprint. It's a marathon.
Okay, if you have anxiety,don't reach for that pillbottle. Go

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do some push ups. Okay,all right, I gotta let's go do
the headline of the week. Thecraziest story that I've seen so far this
week, an influencer makes an AIgirlfriend version of herself and rakes in more
than seventy thousand dollars in a week. Wow, I am jealous of how

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this person makes money. Twenty threeyear old influencer whatever her name is,
has more than one point eight millionfollowers on Snapchat. On Snapchat, we're
following people on snapchat. Snapchat islike how the mob would communicate. Now
if the mob needed to communicate,Like the messages aren't saved, send a

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quick picture like eight busch, Igot the body. I did that thing
that you need me to do,and it's gone. It's not gone forever
because it's up in the cloud orthe internet whatever. But snapchats for sneaky
stuff. And one point eight millionpeople are following this girl on Snapchat.
That's weird. So it says she'sconnecting with that many people and it can

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prove to be difficult. I betso. She came up with a way
to connect with her followers, especiallythe lonely ones, and made some money
off them at the same time.Who the roft this? She came up
with a way to connect with allof her followers that are sitting in their

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mom's basement and make money off thembecause they're stupid. So she created an
AI chatbot designed to be an AIgirlfriend, one that her followers would pay
one dollar per minute to engage with. Okay, so we're reverting to the
naughty telephone lines back in the day. You call one of those numbers talk

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dirty too. I know I sawa Seinfeld episode on it, but I'm
sure you paid money. Okay,you paid money for it, Nick,
Did you call it number? Absolutelynot. Thousands of hours were spent getting
her AI to sound like her andmimic her personality. That's a good business
investment if you can afford it.During a beta test of the AI Girlfriend,
she says she made more than seventygrand in one week, and she

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thinks the immersive AI experience could eventuallybring in as much as five million dollars
a month. I am so jealousof how this girl makes money. So
she thinks her chatbot, which shesays is a way for her to reach
all her followers could cure loneliness.Okay, putting a positive spin on it,
The AI will never replace me,she said. The AI is simply

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just an extension of me, anextension of my consciousness. Okay. What
it really is is you're taking advantageof lonely horny guys. That's what it
is, because lonely horny guys aresome of the dumbest people on the planet.
I'm actually I'm getting sick of thembecause let me say this, I
don't care if you're horny. Okay, I get horny too. It's a
thing that happens. But first ofall, there's certain times in the day

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to be horny. Horny business hoursOkay. It's from when the sun goes
down till about two in the morning, if you're out at the bars,
okay, because after that you justseem thirsty. Or if you're sitting off
horny text or being a horny fromlike four to six in the morning,
people think you're a serial killer.Okay, you're You're definitely like one two
steps away from putting somebody in thetrunk of a car. Don't do that,

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but now it's becoming my problem becauseof stuff like this. There's so
many lonely, horny guys that peoplemake fake profiles to try and get money
out of them, and like,dude, I'll get all these friend requests,
Like You'll You'll be sitting on yourphone and you get a ding and
you're like, oh, got alittle bit of serotonin come in my way
because somebody likes something that I did. And then you look and it's this

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obviously fake profile of this girl withshe just she's got fat titties. Okay,
that's what like, there's no otherway to say it. And you'll
go look. You'd be like,this is obviously not a real person,
but you look because it says youhave mutual friends, and you'll be like,
who the hell in my friends?With it as friends with this obvious

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fake profile. No, see,it's like one of my buddies. And
I'm like, what are you doing? You idiot? My god? Sorry,
I was hearty. She want cotlike what, don't be that sad
and lonely man talking to a robot. Just go. I was gonna say,
go talk to people at the gym, not me. I'm just saying
like there's other ways to cure yourloneliness. Because I know social media is

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connected as we are, we're stillfar apart because nothing is like reel in
front of you. Human beings cravethat person to person conversation. We need
it. But this, this fakestuff is getting out of here. I
wonder, Look, this is mebeing egotistical. I wonder how much money
I could make if I did theAI s. It's definitely not five million

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in a month, but I betyou I could. I could pull off
like a like a Walmart Greeter salaryif I met an All right, well
maybe someday, Maybe someday. Needbecause girls don't get as lone way and
horny as guys do. So justI'm saying, if if you're getting down

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that bad, just don't do it. Go for a walk or take a
hymns or her pill wash away theanxiety and feelings of loneliness. There we
go, All right with that?Get Josh Wolf on here. Hey,
it's Josh wolf All right, what'sgoing on? Josh? I'm Nick?
Hey, Rick? How you doing? Man? No Nick like Saint Nick,
not Rick like Rick and Morty.Nick. Listen, dude, Saint

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Rick, You've never heard of him, but that dude was a faller.
Yeah, I think he had ameth problem. Saint Rick. That was
sat Nick Matthew Cousin. Yeah,I appreciate you taking the time to talk
to me. Bro Um, Idid see um you're from Boston. Are

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you a hockey fan by chance?Yeah? That was a rough. That's
rough, okay, I just I'vehad the opportunity to bust your balls about
the Bruins, you know, havingthe best one of your season of all
time and you know the bad butwhat are you gonna do? Can I
tell you something that's funny is thatI was on a tech thread with some
of my friends you know who grewup around there, and normally I would

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be, you know, upset thatmy team lost, but the tech thread
was so over the top funny.They were so over the top upset that
I was almost happy that the Bruinslost, just to read that tech thread.
That was like, you guys haven'tlost your mind, but you know,

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Boston sportsmans are intense. I guessthat's the word. Intense is a
nice way of putting it. Iwould have said insane, but yeah,
yeah, so so it was reallyvery humorous, like I'm at I'm at
an age where I don't live orguy, when I was a younger,
dude, I lived and died withevery win and loss right and now and

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my friends is still live there,They definitely still do. I don't be
your wife. That's that's why Itell there's other things happening. That's right,
all right, But I just wantedto ask if you're gonna be a
Caynes fan since you know you're gonnabe a Good Nights this weekend, you're
gonna be an honorary Caynes fan orwell, let me ask you a question.

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If I say yes, you're gonnasell any more tickets? I think
it might help a little bit.Ye, then yeah, man, go
kne What do we talk about?Bad? Smart man right there? But
uh so you're gonna be a goodNights this weekend. How's how's your tour
been going? Like? Are yougetting into the middle of it? Or
is this we starting up? Whatare we going towards? Here? This

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is my new hour? Um,I don't know honestly how to quantify beginning
middle end because it'll just depend onwhen I'm tired of do in this hour
and want to put it on tape, but I would say it's probably somewhere
in the middle if I'm guessing,and it's the most fun I've ever had,

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if I'm being honest, the mostfun I've ever had doing stand up.
I toured my son. Now,you know, so many of my
jokes were about my son, rightthat he started coming with me, and
he tells embarrassing stories about me beforeI go on stage, and then we
do you know, I do myset and then we do like a Q

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and A for people who you know, they've always had questions about jokes that
I've told or anything like that.So he and I stand up there,
do a Q and A, andI end with part of a fifteen minutes
of music, which has really beenlike next level. It's a show man.

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It's a full on show. Iwas about to say that, don't
sound like a regular comedy show.Now it's a it's a full on because
you're getting an hour my stand up, right, so it's not like no
one's getting cheated, but you're alsogetting my son. You're getting to especially
for the people who are fans ofmy comedy who have heard stories about him,
when he comes on stage, theyfeel like they know him, you

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know, right, and so theyget to ask all the questions that they
wanted to ask through the jokes wheresome people just ask you know, what
it's like touring together, or somepeople ask him, they ask parenting questions,
they ask a wide range of questionsand but they're really a lot of

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people are there because they love thefather's son relationship. Well, I mean
it's a crazy dynamic. I know, Like I saw the Armenian gang joke,
which is beyond who areas? Solike now, I mean you got
to be withving the dream Dude,you're doing stand up, you're playing music,
and you get to do it withyour son. It's so you know,

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we did it sold out tour ofAustralia New Zealand and they kept adding
shows and kept putting me in biggervenues and I was just so blown away.
And I've been doing this a minute, man, So I'm very grateful
and I'm cognizant of how blessed Iam right now to be not still be

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able to do what I'm doing,but to be able to do it my
youngest son. Um, you're kids, man. No, I haven't put
one pass a goal yet. Soyeah, dude, you listen, you
you got to pull the goalie.If you're still playing with a goalie,
dude, you're doing it. Josh. I'm not to the level where I

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can afford a kid yet. Soyeah, I still got to play with
the goalie in the game yet,bro. Got it. But you know,
I understand. I read a statisticthat parents spend ninety three percent of
their time with their kids before theage of eighteen. That's crazy, and

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so to be able to do thisnow is like it's a it's bonus time,
you know. So it's been it'sbeen really cool. Um, it's
really reinvigorated my stand up and mylike just my creative juices. So yeah,
it's it's and on top of that, without a doubt and not not
just saying it because I'm talking aboutit, it's the best. It's the

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best hour and twenty hour and ahalf that I've ever put out there,
because it's, like I said,it's a complete show. It's a little
bit of everything, but all ofit's funny. Right, So you're just
like hitting your prime or you're livingin your prime right now. It feels
like it, man, I meanoutside of you know, the way my

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body feels going, I'm old.Besides that, if it feels like my
prime, well do that's awesome.So I wanted to ask you because,
like you said, you've been doingit a while, but I want to
know how TikTok has affected your careerbecause I check, what do you got
like one point four million people followingyou on TikTok? Yeah? So is

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that just a great advertising tool.Do you see it as something that's getting
you bigger venues or is it away to kind of just keep doing what
you're doing. I mean, it'syes to all that. It's yes to
all that. I had some friendsof mine who a couple of years ago
when I was I was early onputting comedy specials on YouTube. I was

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one of the first people who waslike, what am I doing right?
Like this is and I had friendsof mine who are around my age were
like, you're giving away your content, You're for free. They were like,
say goodbye to your career. Iwas like, I don't think you're
doing it right. Yeah, you'renot understanding advertising and ticket salesman. Yeah,
because that's how that's where this isright now. And so it's a

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combination. I wouldn't say just TikTok. You know YouTube and honestly, dude,
Facebook, when people left Facebook,I first all my chips in.
It's still the biggest platform in theworld. And there's you know, a
certain age group slash demographic that Facebookhits right on the head. And those

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people happen to be, you know, a huge part of my fan base.
You know, that's awesome. Sois your son kind of like pushing
towards being a comedian or is hejust kind of enjoying what he's doing right
now hanging with dad. Yeah,I think he's enjoying what he's doing.
He definitely wants to get do entertainmentstuff, and I don't know if that
means more influencer type things. Idon't think he wants to do stand up

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like the way I have. Buthe's definitely these stories about me or they're
I mean, there's nobody else whocan tell him beside him or my other
kids or you know, my wife, right, and so it's really it's
a really really cool And he evensays, you know, my dad's been
embarrassing me and telling terrible stories aboutme since I was fifteen. I think
it's time I told someone about him, and it's just a great way to

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open the door. And he's gotsome good ones. Man, this one
when he's coming a minor fire storyright now that it is so embarrassing,
Well, I know people are goingto be excited to go go Good Nights
a weekend and catch that. Yeah, it's it's it's great and we do
meet and great after show. Idon't. I don't charge from my meet

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and greets. I know some peopledo. I do not. And then
at the end of every weekend,so Saturday Late I give away my guitar.
At the end of every weekend,so Saturday Late Show, Jacob and
I both signed a guitar and handedaway. When I signed to a city,
I go to a local guitar stop. I just find a local one.

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I like to put a little moneyback into, you know, wherever
I am right by a guitar becauseI'm done such a pain to travel with
it. I buy a guitar andthen Saturday Late Show. You know,
by the end of the show,I have a good idea of who I
want to give it to, andJacob and I sign it and give it
away. That's crazy, man,you got a cool life. Bro,

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I will tell you that it's beenthe last couple of years that has allowed
me to really take a bird's eyeview of it and understand how lucky I
am, and like also take alook at some other people in my community
who take comedy so serious, right, because it's not supposed to be.

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Listen, man, I take myjob very seriously, right right, But
the comedy. If you're looking fora show with social, socially conscious insight,
and you know political views, don'tcome to my show. But if
if you are looking for a turnyour brain off, let's listen to some

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silly stories and last relatable material.It's not vanilla, you know what I
mean. I'm not this isn't it'sthis, and it's not a show for
a thirteen year old. These areadult stories. But if you are in
for it, you know that's whatit's going to be. It's gonna be
a legit. My favorite comment here, my two favorite compliments. Ready,

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it felt like I was sitting inthe audience listening to a friend of mine
tell me some stories in my livingroom. That's my absolute favorite one because
that's what I'm going for. Andtwo, that was so much fun.
Those are the two best ones,man, and I hear them every weekend
because when I go on stage,those are my two goals. Those are

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the when I hear it, I'mlike, good, that's those are my
exact two goals. Is for youto feel like you and I are friends
and I we're at your house andI'm just telling you a story because that
is my Honestly, I would tellyou maybe the biggest change in my act
wasn't material. It was about fiveor six years ago. I made a

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small change in my delivery where Iwas like, I'm just gonna start talking
to like I talk to my friends, because that's really what I want them.
I wanted to feel like you madewith people. Yeah, it made
such a difference. So it's beena great time. Man. That's awesome.
Man. Well, I'm I'm happyI got to talk to you because

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it seemed like a cool dude.I know you're gonna kill it this weekend.
I got one more question I wantedto ask you because it was one
of those things where I was like, I've seen Josh Wolf somewhere before out
of context, but I didn't knowwhere. And I remember watching Shark Week
like when, yes, how didyou get a show on Shark Week.
Did you just walk up the Discoverychannel and go, hey, I love

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sharks when we talk about them.How did that happen? You really want
to know? Okay, So wewere auditioning and everybody was everybody and the
mother hosts comics, every video auditionfor this because it was it was a
live talk show, right okay,called Shark after Dark. And the guy
named Craig Ferguson, his company wasproducing the you know the guy right used

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to hostal Is show. And sowe were supposed to interview somebody. He
was supposed to do it like adry run, do a monologue that you
wrote, and they would put itinto prompter there and then you would sit
down and you would ask somebody youhad to write the questions. You would
ask some questions. Well, midaudition, the pomps are broke for my

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monologue, and so I just improfitright, And then the same thing with
the I was having. There weretechnical difficulties during the interview, and so
I just do it. I'm acomic like that doesn't throw me. I
do live shows all the time.Things go wrong and you still have to
do the show. And I endedup getting the gig over. When I
tell you everybody was auditioning. Iwas doing it just because I was like,

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well, nobody's they're not high,they do look at this list of
right, let me just go tryand do it. Yeah, And Craig
Ferguson said, it's a live show. When the prompter broke and you didn't
go, hey, the prompter broke, or you didn't break the monologue,
or you didn't say hey, let'sjust wait for that to come up,
and you just did it. Youwere the guy. He was like,
right, He was like right awaythat there's such a huge sign that you

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were the dude for this because it'sa live show. Something might go wrong.
Right. You can't go up thereand poop your pants at the slidest
inconvenience because the crowd doesn't know anything'swrong. Not only that, man,
there's no such thing as everything wentperfect. Whose life is like that?
Yeah? Zero people? Right,So you just have to be like,

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yo, there's no such thing asperfect, because it's called life. Right,
And I'm just gonna go with what'shappening because I'm still here doing this
crazy amazing job. I'm still Istill get to do this for a living,
so like, I don't. Idon't lose sight of that. And

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I'm like, I really don't losesight of how lucky I am to be
able to do this job that peopleare still coming out to see me.
Like, I don't lose sight ofany of that, dude. So honestly,
okay, when I'm on stage,I think about this every time I'm
on stage, which I look atand this is why it doesn't matter to

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me how many people are sitting infront of me, because I look out
and I think to myself, youknow, I know who's on my list
of people that I would leave myhouse to go see. Right, it's
a small list. Yeah, Sothe fact that I'm on anyone's list,
I never is so humbling that itdoesn't matter if there's two people in front
of me, because those two peoplemade plans, bro right, you know

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what I mean. It's not theirfault that there's only two people or two
thousand. It's humbling that you leftyour house to come see me, and
so that that kind of stuff Inever recite them on purpose. Yeah,
that's I mean, that's incredible perspectivebecause it's easy to lose sight of that.
But that's that's pretty cool man.Ye dude, it's great. It's

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I'm very lucky. I'm very lucky. Well, hey, I appreciate you
taking the time to talk to him. You want to give one more Go
Canes just so you can bump upthe ticket prices and people can put you
on a list of people. Theygot to weave their house to come see
Go Canes. Everybody gone. Moneycould money, So could money, So

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could money.