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(00:00):
Hello, Oh Rex, it's TJ. Hey, TJ. How you doing
this one man? Really good?Thanks for like doing this with me?
Oh you kidding me out? Thanksfor yeah, thanks for having TJ Miller
on your shows. I know it'sreally hard to talk to huge celebrities that
everybody loves to fund people to findpeople that like that, like Peanut Butter.
(00:21):
What is it like for you tobe one of those individuals, an
actor comedian that honestly everybody everybody likes. I mean, what is that?
You know, I've got like apolarized audience where like half the people hate
me and they let me know.You. On the other hand, everybody
that I talk to seems to loveyou. Yeah, it's interesting. I
feel like I hear that. Buton the Internet, everybody like wants to
(00:44):
say terrible things. And that mightjust be the Internet, but I really
do almost every interaction I have withpeople, ninety nine percent it's people being
really nice to me. And inreal life, if somebody doesn't like you,
they just they're too You know,these there's keyboard warriors who want to
say, you know, awful thingsabout you. Oh this guy's terrible,
(01:07):
somebody said, you know, isthat weasel from Deadpool and the other guy
said get one hundred pounds ago orso. It's like they would never say
that in real life. And soI just try and kind of remind myself
that. But I think anybody ofnote, any celebrity, is going to
yourself, myself, anybody is goingto have sir. I've always said it's
(01:30):
better to be polarizing than neutralizing,right, better to kind of have people
have strong opinions value rather than justgo yeah, fine, exactly. Yeah.
I've heard him. I've heard himon the radio. He's fine.
You know, I wouldn't really tunein. Better to have people say I
tune in every single day and thenhave a small portion of the audience say,
you know what, I think thatguy's the worst. He just steams
(01:53):
my beans. I think that's fine, he my beans. To bring that
back, hey, you know thatalong with that's so fetch I've been trying
with that so effetched for a whileand nobody's embraced it. But now that's
so fetch. Well, I Idon't know if you actually remember me or
(02:15):
not. I got to open yeah, and uh in Corpus, like we
did what five or six shows andUh. You know, one of one
of the greatest compliments was, youknow, looking up and seeing you actually
laugh at the stupid things that Iwas saying. And uh and for sure,
and that was huge, man.But you you're one of those people
(02:35):
where you get up there and youalready have such a favorable crowd. Do
you ever feel like, you knowwhat, I could almost phone this in
and have a great show because therethere is such a TJ. Miller support
and with the hot sauce, Imean, people are bringing like their own
hot sauces and whatnot. How didyou end up with peanut butter and hots?
(02:58):
Explain that to everybody? Okay,well, I do You're corrected,
you're sort of an assumption of sayingor just did in sort of thing?
How did that happen? I thinkthat I think for me it was the
hot sauce kind of came out ofthe blue. It just was half instance
(03:19):
that I was recording a Musinx commercialin Yeah, because I used to see
the musin X booger, and Iwas recording a musin X commercial in the
middle of Indiana because I was visitingmy mother in law and they need it.
And I actually went to this guy'sbarn who had a recording studio there.
(03:42):
Yeah, and after the record Icome out and he goes, he
goes, oh, hey, Igot to tell you that was so funny.
I go, thanks, man,I appreciate that. He goes,
no, but like those are neverfunny, and that was really funny.
Oh, thank you, and hegoes, you want to see my pepper
pat And I never heard a manask me that before. But I'm an
(04:04):
open guy. You know. Youknow that from my twenty twenty four I'm
into it. Yeah. And soit turns out he made his own hot
sauce, and about a year laterhe called me and said, would you
like to would you like to collaborateon a hot sauce? And I thought,
yeah, I love hot sauce.Because he knew that I was kind
(04:25):
of a pepperhead. Yeah, andso we made a hot sauce together,
three different flavors of hot sauce.Are you allowed to bleep out curse words?
Yes? I can bleep it out. Yeah. Okay, So we
have Chipotle TJ's choice Chipotle, andit's smoky with some real heat because Chipotle
sauces sometimes are that hot. Andthen one called extreme gangster heat, which
(04:48):
is sorted tabasco done right, andthen my favorite, which is intense ghost
pepper type shit hot sauce. Andthe thing about that for me, The
thing about that for me was Ijust really wanted to have, you know,
a hot sauce that was really hot, really hot, but it wasn't
(05:11):
a gimmick. I wanted you tobe able to taste the ghost pepper,
and he just he knew how todo that really. And so after the
hot sauce started going so well,I decided to make peanut butters because I
love peanut butter. I thought,okay, well, why don't I try
making peanut butter but without curse wordsin the title so kids can still have
it? Yeah? Right, Andso I reached out to you know what,
(05:35):
You're right, I've never thought aboutit. It's kids don't eat hot
sauce, but they do eat peanutbutter. Wow. I can't. Yeah,
I never never thought about that.That's crazy. When you send this
stuff to print, I'm sure theprint's going. You want me to print
ghost pepper hot sauce, the underwearstaining hot sauce. I'm supposed to print
(05:58):
this for a label. You can'tdo you can't do peanut mother for the
kiddies, for the kiddos, that'sso funny. I've really never Oh my
god, that's really really fun Idon't know why, but that never really
occurred to me. I think ifI think, if you bring it up
on stage, it'll be hilarious.Also tell you the truth, because yeah,
(06:23):
I actually that was a real laugh. That wasn't like a DJ laugh.
My father used to say. MEused to go, actually, I
am writing that down. PBI.My father said, TJ, you have
a face for radio. That usedto be one of his jokes all the
time. But you've got a greatradio voice. And uh. And so
(06:46):
I thought to myself, let's dopeanut butter without the cuss words. And
I found this like family business.Uh it's actually his name is John Weed.
The name is Weed, so thatkind of makes sense. And they
were making really cool, weird peanutbutters that their kids had come up with,
(07:10):
and I reached out and they werebig fans. So now I have
my own line, which is darkchocolate coconut that's for the ladies. Nice.
And then of course we got tohave sort of Peb and Jay feel
so cherry chocolate is real dried cherries, milk chocolate, and honey roasted peanuts,
and then I'm my favorite is toffeecrispy with toffee rice crispies and milk
(07:36):
chocolate, and so they're just unlikeanything else, and they are so so
delicious, and so people just lovethem. And then you know, almost
as a joke, but it's alsoit runs in my because I love peanut
butter. So I have a jokeabout George Washington Carver. It was on
my Comedy Central special, and thename of my first Coy album, my
(08:01):
all audio comedy album is Smooth PeanutButter. It's really, I don't know,
special to me because as a kidgrowing up, I used to listen
to comedy albums. That's a bigthing. I don't know if you were
into sort of hearing comedy albums,but everybody from Steve Martin to Bob Newhart
to somebody who's reminded me recently saidwell, their favorite was Adam Sandler had
(08:22):
sort of a bunch of skits andand and I think the name of it
but it was go boy and toldit's really and all that stuff. And
so I really really have have beensuch a fan of comedy albums growing up,
and so I'm hoping that now someaspiring comedians might say, you know,
holy smokes, like if this guycan do it, I can,
(08:45):
you know. And so Smooth PeanutButter is streaming on Spotify, Apple,
Amazon, Serious XM is spinning it. So it's everywhere and it is seriously
worth a lessen and it's called SmoothPeanut Butter with TJ Miller exactly right,
And tell me about the crowd Sorcerertour because and by the way, all
(09:07):
the all the merch, Like,if you want to get your hands on
the peanut butter or the hot sauce, can you just go over to TJ
Miller does not have a website dotcom, Yes, which is brilliant.
Which is brilliant. TJ Miller doesnot have a website dot com. You
can get it on Amazon dot com. Because I know that people tend to
be lazy, but yeah, forsure, I I direct everybody there.
(09:31):
You got to get the I mean, the peanut butter is so delicious and
the hot sauce is great. SoI really say to people, like just
google TJ Miller, Hot sauce orpeanut Butter you get on Amazon and get
it right away. A fun albumbecause it's a mix of improvisation and written
jokes and then you know, storiesfrom my life and that's really fun too
(09:54):
if you see me live on mytour. Yeah, The Crowdsaucer two is
kind of about sort of like outsourcingthe shows, because if an audience member
yells and then out, I'm goingto deal with it. If I noticed
something crazy, I'm going to talkabout it. If I, you know,
have feelings about the city I'm in, I'm going to bring those up
and hear what the crowd has tosay about it. So it's really really
(10:15):
fun in that respect, and thenit's also kind of just really fun stories.
For My favorite story right now fromthe album is that I used to
have a Razor scooter. Yeah yeah, in college and I thought, oh
my god, it's so cool.It's a foldable scooter. I can get
to class on time and really quickly, and so you know, this is
great. I can do a coupleof tricks on it. I could do
(10:37):
a spin round and it was socool. Then I went to a party
there was this really cute girl andI kind of walked up to her gathered
my courage and said, hey,I think you seem cool. I want
to introduce myself. I'm TJ.And she goes, oh, yeah,
you're the Razor scooter guy in thatAnd that was the last time I the
(11:00):
road Raiser scooter. So it's justit's fun stuff like that. So it's
a great It truly is it trulyis just a great, great, great
like album filled with all kinds ofstuff that is me. And and that's
I mean. The other thing isI have a bunch of stand up comedy
specials on my on my YouTube channel. I've got a professional special, Dear
(11:20):
Jonah, and then one called theSpokane Special, which is all Spokane.
I ripped an hour about Spokane inSpokane, cut it down to thirty seven
minutes. If you don't live inSpokane, you don't get the references.
Yeah, but it's still really funny. And then I improvised one hundred percent
(11:41):
improvised special from the Stanley Hotel inColorado, which was the inspiration for The
Shining, the movie The Shining.And then I've got a crowd work special
from Springfield, Missouri, which isso funny because they're all on math.
So it's for me, it's it'sit's kind of fun because I've got so
much stand ab out there on aso much on my channel, which is
(12:01):
you know, YouTube at TJ Miller. But the really really fun thing is
to have this album. It's thefirst time I've really done an audio album
on an independent label and it's justgreat. So this is an actual it's
an actual I mean, you're goingto produce actual album albums, you know
what I mean, like Vinyl,are you are you going that far with
it? Or yes? Really yeh, yeah, that's tough. I'm going
(12:22):
to wow And those are those arenot available yet because it takes a while
to press them. But yeah,that's the plan is that I'll have you
know, limited edition like four hundredor something like that. Oh cool.
But yeah, of those four hundred, I definitely am hoping that somebody I'll
send you one. I've got nowhereto go on. That'd be fantastic.
The new stand up comedy album SmoothPeanut Butter. And you're also on tour
(12:46):
with the crowd Sorcerer Tour. Everythingyou need to know you can visit TJ
Miller does not have a website dotcom and find a date near you.
I hate the fact that we've alreadyblaze through like fifteen minutes here, but
you've got to move on to otherother other radio guys right there, other
(13:07):
lesser Yeah, I'm going to askyou, ask you a bunch of dumb
questions. What do you like bettercomedy or movies? What's your favorite movie?
That's exactly right, that's exactly whatI just I just was answering those
questions, like twenty minutes ago.That's so funny that you said that.
But yeah, I hope to getdown the corpus Christy. Is that Is
(13:28):
that club still open? Yeah?Yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
it's Mesquite Mesquite Street Comedy Club.It's still still there, same same guy
Brandon, you know, running theplace. But I gotta get down there,
and if I do, I've gotto get you on stage with me
again, because that was really fun. Well, man, I was chuckling
it up. Man, I wasgive me a holler. Anytime that you
(13:50):
just wake up in the morning andsay I want to be on the radio
with Rex. I like that onthe radio with Rex. It's Christy Sex.
I want to be on the radio, man, enjoy your interviews.
There's some other DJ out there withhis heart beating really fast, staring at
his phone right now. So I'mI gotta let you go. Man,
(14:11):
enjoy the rest of it. Talkto you soon.
Hello, Oh Rex, it's TJ. Hey, TJ. How you doing
this one man? Really good?Thanks for like doing this with me?
Oh you kidding me out? Thanksfor yeah, thanks for having TJ Miller
on your shows. I know it'sreally hard to talk to huge celebrities that
everybody loves to fund people to findpeople that like that, like Peanut Butter.
(00:21):
What is it like for you tobe one of those individuals, an
actor comedian that honestly everybody everybody likes. I mean, what is that?
You know, I've got like apolarized audience where like half the people hate
me and they let me know.You. On the other hand, everybody
that I talk to seems to loveyou. Yeah, it's interesting. I
feel like I hear that. Buton the Internet, everybody like wants to
(00:44):
say terrible things. And that mightjust be the Internet, but I really
do almost every interaction I have withpeople, ninety nine percent it's people being
really nice to me. And inreal life, if somebody doesn't like you,
they just they're too You know,these there's keyboard warriors who want to
say, you know, awful thingsabout you. Oh this guy's terrible,
(01:07):
somebody said, you know, isthat weasel from Deadpool and the other guy
said get one hundred pounds ago orso. It's like they would never say
that in real life. And soI just try and kind of remind myself
that. But I think anybody ofnote, any celebrity, is going to
yourself, myself, anybody is goingto have sir. I've always said it's
(01:30):
better to be polarizing than neutralizing,right, better to kind of have people
have strong opinions value rather than justgo yeah, fine, exactly. Yeah.
I've heard him. I've heard himon the radio. He's fine.
You know, I wouldn't really tunein. Better to have people say I
tune in every single day and thenhave a small portion of the audience say,
you know what, I think thatguy's the worst. He just steams
(01:53):
my beans. I think that's fine, he my beans. To bring that
back, hey, you know thatalong with that's so fetch I've been trying
with that so effetched for a whileand nobody's embraced it. But now that's
so fetch. Well, I Idon't know if you actually remember me or
(02:15):
not. I got to open yeah, and uh in Corpus, like we
did what five or six shows andUh. You know, one of one
of the greatest compliments was, youknow, looking up and seeing you actually
laugh at the stupid things that Iwas saying. And uh and for sure,
and that was huge, man.But you you're one of those people
(02:35):
where you get up there and youalready have such a favorable crowd. Do
you ever feel like, you knowwhat, I could almost phone this in
and have a great show because therethere is such a TJ. Miller support
and with the hot sauce, Imean, people are bringing like their own
hot sauces and whatnot. How didyou end up with peanut butter and hots?
(02:58):
Explain that to everybody? Okay,well, I do You're corrected,
you're sort of an assumption of sayingor just did in sort of thing?
How did that happen? I thinkthat I think for me it was the
hot sauce kind of came out ofthe blue. It just was half instance
(03:19):
that I was recording a Musinx commercialin Yeah, because I used to see
the musin X booger, and Iwas recording a musin X commercial in the
middle of Indiana because I was visitingmy mother in law and they need it.
And I actually went to this guy'sbarn who had a recording studio there.
(03:42):
Yeah, and after the record Icome out and he goes, he
goes, oh, hey, Igot to tell you that was so funny.
I go, thanks, man,I appreciate that. He goes,
no, but like those are neverfunny, and that was really funny.
Oh, thank you, and hegoes, you want to see my pepper
pat And I never heard a manask me that before. But I'm an
(04:04):
open guy. You know. Youknow that from my twenty twenty four I'm
into it. Yeah. And soit turns out he made his own hot
sauce, and about a year laterhe called me and said, would you
like to would you like to collaborateon a hot sauce? And I thought,
yeah, I love hot sauce.Because he knew that I was kind
(04:25):
of a pepperhead. Yeah, andso we made a hot sauce together,
three different flavors of hot sauce.Are you allowed to bleep out curse words?
Yes? I can bleep it out. Yeah. Okay, So we
have Chipotle TJ's choice Chipotle, andit's smoky with some real heat because Chipotle
sauces sometimes are that hot. Andthen one called extreme gangster heat, which
(04:48):
is sorted tabasco done right, andthen my favorite, which is intense ghost
pepper type shit hot sauce. Andthe thing about that for me, The
thing about that for me was Ijust really wanted to have, you know,
a hot sauce that was really hot, really hot, but it wasn't
(05:11):
a gimmick. I wanted you tobe able to taste the ghost pepper,
and he just he knew how todo that really. And so after the
hot sauce started going so well,I decided to make peanut butters because I
love peanut butter. I thought,okay, well, why don't I try
making peanut butter but without curse wordsin the title so kids can still have
it? Yeah? Right, Andso I reached out to you know what,
(05:35):
You're right, I've never thought aboutit. It's kids don't eat hot
sauce, but they do eat peanutbutter. Wow. I can't. Yeah,
I never never thought about that.That's crazy. When you send this
stuff to print, I'm sure theprint's going. You want me to print
ghost pepper hot sauce, the underwearstaining hot sauce. I'm supposed to print
(05:58):
this for a label. You can'tdo you can't do peanut mother for the
kiddies, for the kiddos, that'sso funny. I've really never Oh my
god, that's really really fun Idon't know why, but that never really
occurred to me. I think ifI think, if you bring it up
on stage, it'll be hilarious.Also tell you the truth, because yeah,
(06:23):
I actually that was a real laugh. That wasn't like a DJ laugh.
My father used to say. MEused to go, actually, I
am writing that down. PBI.My father said, TJ, you have
a face for radio. That usedto be one of his jokes all the
time. But you've got a greatradio voice. And uh. And so
(06:46):
I thought to myself, let's dopeanut butter without the cuss words. And
I found this like family business.Uh it's actually his name is John Weed.
The name is Weed, so thatkind of makes sense. And they
were making really cool, weird peanutbutters that their kids had come up with,
(07:10):
and I reached out and they werebig fans. So now I have
my own line, which is darkchocolate coconut that's for the ladies. Nice.
And then of course we got tohave sort of Peb and Jay feel
so cherry chocolate is real dried cherries, milk chocolate, and honey roasted peanuts,
and then I'm my favorite is toffeecrispy with toffee rice crispies and milk
(07:36):
chocolate, and so they're just unlikeanything else, and they are so so
delicious, and so people just lovethem. And then you know, almost
as a joke, but it's alsoit runs in my because I love peanut
butter. So I have a jokeabout George Washington Carver. It was on
my Comedy Central special, and thename of my first Coy album, my
(08:01):
all audio comedy album is Smooth PeanutButter. It's really, I don't know,
special to me because as a kidgrowing up, I used to listen
to comedy albums. That's a bigthing. I don't know if you were
into sort of hearing comedy albums,but everybody from Steve Martin to Bob Newhart
to somebody who's reminded me recently saidwell, their favorite was Adam Sandler had
(08:22):
sort of a bunch of skits andand and I think the name of it
but it was go boy and toldit's really and all that stuff. And
so I really really have have beensuch a fan of comedy albums growing up,
and so I'm hoping that now someaspiring comedians might say, you know,
holy smokes, like if this guycan do it, I can,
(08:45):
you know. And so Smooth PeanutButter is streaming on Spotify, Apple,
Amazon, Serious XM is spinning it. So it's everywhere and it is seriously
worth a lessen and it's called SmoothPeanut Butter with TJ Miller exactly right,
And tell me about the crowd Sorcerertour because and by the way, all
(09:07):
the all the merch, Like,if you want to get your hands on
the peanut butter or the hot sauce, can you just go over to TJ
Miller does not have a website dotcom, Yes, which is brilliant.
Which is brilliant. TJ Miller doesnot have a website dot com. You
can get it on Amazon dot com. Because I know that people tend to
be lazy, but yeah, forsure, I I direct everybody there.
(09:31):
You got to get the I mean, the peanut butter is so delicious and
the hot sauce is great. SoI really say to people, like just
google TJ Miller, Hot sauce orpeanut Butter you get on Amazon and get
it right away. A fun albumbecause it's a mix of improvisation and written
jokes and then you know, storiesfrom my life and that's really fun too
(09:54):
if you see me live on mytour. Yeah, The Crowdsaucer two is
kind of about sort of like outsourcingthe shows, because if an audience member
yells and then out, I'm goingto deal with it. If I noticed
something crazy, I'm going to talkabout it. If I, you know,
have feelings about the city I'm in, I'm going to bring those up
and hear what the crowd has tosay about it. So it's really really
(10:15):
fun in that respect, and thenit's also kind of just really fun stories.
For My favorite story right now fromthe album is that I used to
have a Razor scooter. Yeah yeah, in college and I thought, oh
my god, it's so cool.It's a foldable scooter. I can get
to class on time and really quickly, and so you know, this is
great. I can do a coupleof tricks on it. I could do
(10:37):
a spin round and it was socool. Then I went to a party
there was this really cute girl andI kind of walked up to her gathered
my courage and said, hey,I think you seem cool. I want
to introduce myself. I'm TJ.And she goes, oh, yeah,
you're the Razor scooter guy in thatAnd that was the last time I the
(11:00):
road Raiser scooter. So it's justit's fun stuff like that. So it's
a great It truly is it trulyis just a great, great, great
like album filled with all kinds ofstuff that is me. And and that's
I mean. The other thing isI have a bunch of stand up comedy
specials on my on my YouTube channel. I've got a professional special, Dear
(11:20):
Jonah, and then one called theSpokane Special, which is all Spokane.
I ripped an hour about Spokane inSpokane, cut it down to thirty seven
minutes. If you don't live inSpokane, you don't get the references.
Yeah, but it's still really funny. And then I improvised one hundred percent
(11:41):
improvised special from the Stanley Hotel inColorado, which was the inspiration for The
Shining, the movie The Shining.And then I've got a crowd work special
from Springfield, Missouri, which isso funny because they're all on math.
So it's for me, it's it'sit's kind of fun because I've got so
much stand ab out there on aso much on my channel, which is
(12:01):
you know, YouTube at TJ Miller. But the really really fun thing is
to have this album. It's thefirst time I've really done an audio album
on an independent label and it's justgreat. So this is an actual it's
an actual I mean, you're goingto produce actual album albums, you know
what I mean, like Vinyl,are you are you going that far with
it? Or yes? Really yeh, yeah, that's tough. I'm going
(12:22):
to wow And those are those arenot available yet because it takes a while
to press them. But yeah,that's the plan is that I'll have you
know, limited edition like four hundredor something like that. Oh cool.
But yeah, of those four hundred, I definitely am hoping that somebody I'll
send you one. I've got nowhereto go on. That'd be fantastic.
The new stand up comedy album SmoothPeanut Butter. And you're also on tour
(12:46):
with the crowd Sorcerer Tour. Everythingyou need to know you can visit TJ
Miller does not have a website dotcom and find a date near you.
I hate the fact that we've alreadyblaze through like fifteen minutes here, but
you've got to move on to otherother other radio guys right there, other
(13:07):
lesser Yeah, I'm going to askyou, ask you a bunch of dumb
questions. What do you like bettercomedy or movies? What's your favorite movie?
That's exactly right, that's exactly whatI just I just was answering those
questions, like twenty minutes ago.That's so funny that you said that.
But yeah, I hope to getdown the corpus Christy. Is that Is
(13:28):
that club still open? Yeah?Yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
it's Mesquite Mesquite Street Comedy Club.It's still still there, same same guy
Brandon, you know, running theplace. But I gotta get down there,
and if I do, I've gotto get you on stage with me
again, because that was really fun. Well, man, I was chuckling
it up. Man, I wasgive me a holler. Anytime that you
(13:50):
just wake up in the morning andsay I want to be on the radio
with Rex. I like that onthe radio with Rex. It's Christy Sex.
I want to be on the radio, man, enjoy your interviews.
There's some other DJ out there withhis heart beating really fast, staring at
his phone right now. So I'mI gotta let you go. Man,
(14:11):
enjoy the rest of it. Talkto you soon.
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