“Is this what happens when you die, you hear a toilet flush?” with David Pressman

David Pressman can keep you in stitches, but he’s also great to have a heart-to-heart with. Put on your chill and come listen in as we talk about:

Losing eighty percent of pancreas
Diabetes
Therapy
Malts 
Fave foods of his past
Living with dad post-surgeryand their wonderful relationship
Vegas 
Pappy Parker fried chicken
Staying friends with exes
His shyness 
The love for his mom
Dropping out of high school
Only child
Sherman Oaks Galleria

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Episode Transcript

Unknown (00:08):
Welcome to courage under the stars with Michael
Vieyra. That's me, I am MichaelVieyra. Here I speak off the
cuff with people that I findinteresting, where you're going
to sit in a darkened room andjust allowing you to eavesdrop.
I tell my guests, no politics,no religion, but otherwise, I
don't care what we talk about aslong as it comes from the heart.

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I hope even just a small part ofit resonates with you. Some of
it will, some of it won't. Andthat's okay. But I'm just glad
you're here. I really do loveall of you. And thanks for
coming. Let's get this thingstarted. Huh. I was saying when
you walked in that you lookreally healthy. But I gotta

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imagine that, like everybody,you have a guilty pleasure fast
food meal that you go to fastfood meal.
Well, you know, because of thediabetes, I don't get as much
fast food anymore. So it's morelike burgers with lettuce wraps.

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Get out. So you're really takingcare of yourself. I'm
trying. I'm trying. I mean, whenI eat the other stuff, I just I
feel like when I cheat I feellike crap.
Yeah. Okay, so that's helpful.
Yeah.
But I'll go to Shake Shack.
I love it. After all that. Oh,but I'll go to Shake Shack. I

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mean, it's a burger with alettuce wrap. Oh, gotcha. No
bread. Yeah, he got all theveggies in and out the same
thing. Oh, in and out. Even inand out. Rabbit burger is still
delicious.
Yeah. It's really, it's so good.
And sometimes I have thesecravings for it. And I'll go
like in the middle of the nightand get him.
What was your, your wake up todiabetes scare what made you

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realize oh, shit, I better takecare of this.
Well, it's how I got diabetes,which was a few years ago, many
years. I mean, not many yearsago, like eight years ago, I was
having these terrible stomachpains. And I avoid doctors
because I don't trust them. Mymom was sick for a while. And I

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never liked the doctors that shewas getting advice from and that
were helping her. So I didn'tsee anybody about these stomach
pains. And one, I just thoughtthey were a gas. So I would like
take a gas X pillwhere you get in gas from it.
No, but But it had that painit did in the cast X pills or

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whatever pills I was taking.
helped. And then one night itwas really bad. And I went to
Cedars Sinai. Yeah. They told meOh, yeah, you have gas. I was
like, Okay, well, that's realbad gas. I'll just take some
pills. So I would say a yearwent by. And I this pain started

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happening again. And it was bendover screaming and pain. And I
was terrified. But I was stilltoo scared to go to the doctors.
And I went up to my buddies, mybuddy Mike, my buddies Michael's
house. And he said, You gotta goto the doctor. I was like, okay,

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okay, I'll go, I'll go. And Iremember I went up there and he
was too drunk. He was drinkingat home, and he was too drunk to
drive. So we we took an Uber,down to the emergency room. And
I was just in a lot of pain, andthey wouldn't give me anything
for the pain until I saw adoctor and there was a long line

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to see the doctor. Finally I sawthe doctor. And all I can really
remember is they took x rays.
And it was like a red lightstarted flashing and I was
rushed into the emergency roomon machinery, a red light
started flashing it just Yeah.
And then there was like a lot ofbuzz and they said, Well, you

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got to work we have to performsurgery right away. I asked what
was wrong and there was therewas a gallstone went to dry and
went into the bile duct of mypancreas about a 3% chance that
was going to happen. Yeah. Andjust started doing terrible

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things to my pancreas. So Iremember my best friend showed
up and I remember hugging her.
My dad who was an actor, he wasdoing a play he couldn't get
there in time. And I rememberthem reeling me into the you
know the operating Room. And thelast noise I heard it sounded

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like a toilet flushing. Okay.
And I was like, oh god, is thisit? Is this what happens when
you die? You hear a toiletflush, right? Because that's
pretty sadsome sort of indicator. Yeah.
And I woke up and they had toremove 80% of my pancreas. And

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the pancreas is what createsinsulin, right? So I got
diabetes from that. So I havenow 20% of my pancreas left no
gallbladder. And I was in thehospital for about total of
three weeks to operations. Andit was fucking hellish. And I

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was unbearably depressed.
They're just freaking out in thehospital bed. And they knew how
upset I was. So I, they gave meyou know, the strongest drugs? I
forgot what it was called. But Iremember, I was having
conversations with people thatweren't in the room. And
hallucinated? Yeah, I washallucinating. And, you know, my

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dad, God bless him. He cameevery single day. Yeah. And then
I, I left the hospital I lostabout, I would say, baby pounds.
I was down to like, 130, the manlooked really bad and looked
really sick. And then Irecovered at my dad's house for

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a couple of months. And we juststarted arguing all the time.
And it was just, I can't do thisanymore. So I just, I went to my
own my place and for a year, Iwas really good. Because my doc,
my diabetes doctor said to me,Oh, for sure this is gonna go
away, you're gonna be diabetesis gonna go away, you're gonna

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be fine. So as long as you youknow, stick to the diet and do
the right things. So for a year,I was really diligent knowing
that this was going to go away.
So I went to the doctor after ayear. And he was like, You know

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what, this isn't gonna go away.
So, I was like, but you said forsure. Are doctors supposed to
say for sure? Yeah. So I justreally kind of spiraled and just
got depressed, and then was notas good about, about my diet and
exercise and stuff. And now, youknow, it's been a few years and

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I'm, you know, I've gotten usedto it, but I always was afraid
of needles anyway, you know,every night I have to stick
myself with a needle forinsulin. Yeah. And I'm still not
completely used to that. Oh,wow. Okay, it's still kind of a
bummer. So I have to like, youknow, like, psych myself up for
it. Right. So, yeah, that's my,that's my really fun. Hospital

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story, sickness story.
David, where does that leave younow? That's pretty heavy stuff.
Um, yeah, it was really rough.
For a while? Well, I mean, acouple of years, I was in a real

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deep depression about it. As Isaid, I've gotten more used to
it. I'm certainly glad that I'malive. My doctor was actually
also friend of mine, when one ofthe doctors told me afterwards

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that there was after the firstoperation, that there was a 70%
chance that I was not going towake up from that, too. And even
when I was in the hospital bedright after the operation, my
dad's My dad also had to takecare of my my mom had Ms. For a

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long time, Omar and sue that hadhis hands full. Yeah. And I but
that was part of the guilt whenI wanted to. When I recovered it
at his home. I felt terriblebecause he spent so many years
recovering, I mean, helping her.
She died 15 years ago, and thenat kind of had to go through

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that with his son. And I mean,he's a hero, but I just I just
felt horrible being there. And Ijust remember seeing my mom go
through that. And towards theend, you know, I was in and out
of the hospital and I alwaysvowed I'm never going to be in a
fucking hospital I hate it here.
And then there I was, and thatreally bad really added to my

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depression and freaked me out.
David, what did you do all thisstuff? There's so many questions
for you. But right now I'm gonnago to what did you do? How were
you seem like you're in a goodstate of mind. Now? How did you
overcome the depression?
So I went to a therapist.
Actually, after the first year,I was really avoiding going to a

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therapist. I didn't want to Ididn't. I've had therapy before,
and it never really did anythingfor me. But I was referred to
this short shrink therapist.
Yeah. And she was reallyhelpful. She was great. And

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going there, I just went thereonce a week, but just going
there and talking with her abouteverything. And it. It really
helped. Because I didn't want toburden anybody else.
You didn't want to talk to yourfriends about it. Not really,
I just didn't want to be thatguy. Just I felt like I was

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being annoying. To be honest. Ididn't want to like
that is tough. I fullyunderstand it. But that is a
it's a tough position to putyourself in.
Yeah, no, I realized that now.
Yeah. And I actually have a lotof good friends that were
actually really, really helpful.
But I think it also helped totalk to someone that didn't
really know me very well, at allactually.

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Seems always seems to be Yeah, Ialways feel like we're gonna get
it's always easier to talk tostrangers. Oh, yes, for sure. Is
your friends because it'stheirs. I don't know. There's
just nothing at stake withstrangers.
No, she was also veryattractive. That always helped a
lot. Yeah,I said a nice figure the whole
thing. For sure.

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So yeah, that's what really gotme through it. And just, you
know, it's just time I guessit's such a cliche, time heals,
and it really has. Isn't thatfucking cliche that at the time
you hear it when you're in it?
You literally like whoever said,Go fuck yourself. Absolutely.
And then later you realizegoddamn time does heal.

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It really does. It's, it's, it'samazing. Yeah, I know. I
remember people saying any sortof cliche to me and I was like,
you can go fuck yourself. Reallygo fuck yourself.
When I was deep in my bullshit,I had a relative say to me, Hey,
honey, everything's gonna beokay. And I was like, how would

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you? Why would you say that?
What convinces you thateverything's gonna be okay,
because there's nothing on myradar that says that. Yeah, no,
I was always someone said that.
To me. It's like, No, it's notlook at me. Nothing is okay.
Yeah. And I really was convincedthat I was, I mean, like, I was
gonna stay at that really sicklyweight. And then I you know, I
gained a little bit of weight.

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I'm still fairly skinny. But Iguess that was the best thing
that came out of it. I looked Ilooked decent now.
Yeah. Because one of the thatwas one of the first things I
said to you is how amazing youlook, because you don't look
emaciated. You look healthy,right? Is that you're doing or
is that just the way it endedup?
I mean, it's a little bit. Imean, it's it's hard to gain

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weight. But it's I've been doingmore exercise, and I've been
trying to be more athletic anddoing stuff like that. There are
a lot of hikes and shit likethat. And yeah, I think it's
just kind of a little bit ofwhat I've been doing, but also
just, that's how it turned out.
And I'm so grateful because Ididn't want to be like 130 for
the rest of my look like.

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Yeah, cuz even before I couldprobably kick your ass, but even
now, I'm just like, Oh, I couldtake Pressman. He's a little
wisp of a man.
I'm pretty confident that Icould kill you.
I take everything back that Ijust said. David, it's awesome
that that you're alive. First ofall, what's going on? Why are

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there consequences now to thefact that you only have 20% of
your pancreas?
I mean, the biggest consequencesdiabetes, I guess that's really
it.
Just that you have it? Yeah.
Okay, but you can manage thatwhat you have been doing? Yes.
It's not like okay, you're deadnow because you only have a
piece of pancreas.
No, and I remember asking mydoctors does this mean like, I

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can get pancreatic cancer mucheasier. Yeah, that's my thought.
They're like, No, not at all.
though. I feel if I ever did getpancreatic cancer it would be
over in about a minute. There'snothing there. There's nothing
there. Okay, so yeah, hopefullythat won't happen for a while if
it ever does.
Are you mad that you now havediabetes? Oh, yeah. No, it's

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I'm mad. Yeah. It's it's superannoying. But, you know, I guess
the trade off I didn't die. So Iguess that's good.
We talked about earlier you andI were discussing about myself.
And I was telling you that I'mfully at peace with my abilities

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disabilities. Are you at peacewith the fact that you have
diabetes?
That's a good question. I mean,sometimes I am, I think for the
most part I am. But there's sometimes where I'm by myself and my
place and I'm like, I get a whyme kind of attitude. But I've

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gotten a lot better with that.
Where does the Wi Fi come from?
What sort of limitations areexactly that would make you
think thatI mean, I used to really like
food. I know this is gonna soundreally, like trivial, but I just
loved food and excited to beable to eat anything and
everything. Yeah. And now, Ican't. I can't like go to the

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movies need Whoppers. I used tolove Whoppers. Wait, everything
stops there. Whoppers was yourconcession food of choice at the
movies. I love Whoppers and it'sjust silly. No only 12 year olds
like water so your sillyWhoppers is the best and Red
Vines. Okay. I can't even reallyhave popcorn. That's that's a

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bummer. Yeah, so I think maybemore than why me was just like
it was much more prevalent whenI was in the hospital and could
barely move. And that first yearit was just it was so hard to

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walk. I got so exhausted all thetime. And I really thought this
is what my life's gonna be. Soit was that was why me every day
and my poor dad had to I mean, Iwas fucking crying every single
day.
Emotionally crying. No, yeah.
David, I'm sorry.

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But it would still be nice tohave some Whoppers I'm gonna go
back to I'm gonna get keepsaying Whoppers.
I think it's more of the wordusage that you like more than
the taste of the silly chocolateitself. How
do you not like malt? It's it'sthe malt flavor. It's
that's ridiculous. Do you knowwho gets malts? Little kids?
Listen, if I had a choicebetween a shake, and a malt Oh
is maltyou're not completely wrong.

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Okay, thank you. You're welcome.
What when I was a kid might if Iordered a shake or a malt, my
parents would make the waitressput an egg in it. Was that a
thing? Or is that just myparents being weird?
I'll tell you what. I don't knowthat it was a thing but man, it
sounds like a deliciousaddition. Little protein in

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there.
A little bit of that goo justkind of sounds good.
Oh, do I love goo?
Yeah, that's that's where thediabetes comes up.
So much godelicious. All right. So that
being said, we started at thetop asking what's your favorite
so you still got there's somedays when you go to Shake Shack
and you leave the bread on oryou go to McDonald's and you get

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the whatever? So what's thatmeal?
Do you know that? I don't youknow, it's pizza is what I do.
Yeah, pizza is my is my bigcheat on love it.
So you have a sense it is acheat. There's got to be only
there's got to be a go to placewhen I want that cheat. Where
does it go to vetoes okay toknow vetoes. Yeah, yeah. That's

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That's my plate is kind of closeto me. And yeah, I really think
it's great.
So my recommendation is farvastly different from vetoes.
But you've probably been andthat is I like little Tony's
Wait, little Tony's is that inthe valley, or am I completely
wrong?
Yeah. Over there off. What likeLankershim and oh, yeah,

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I haven't been there in ages.
Yes, I can go there. I likeit. But I've sent people there.
And they're like, that's justgreasy and no good. And it's
like, well,I love it. No, that's old
school. I would like that, Ithink. Yeah, yeah. Also onion
ring, some big onion rings.
Do you ever do the tower at RedRobin may sound silly, but

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they've got some pretty greatonion rings there.
I haven't done it since I gotsick. But yes, I have done it.
See, that was the good thing Iguess about getting diabetes.
When I turned 50 It was like atleast I had 50 years of eating
everything and whatever it was,and so I remember what it tasted
like at least I got to knowthat. I just miss a lot of it.
Yeah. Yeah, well, the greatthing is, honestly, is that you

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do miss it, because that meansyou're taking care of your shit.
Yeah. And I, you know, I haveasshole friends that taught me.
Oh, yeah, you know, the right infront of me and they say,
doesn't this look good?
Or come on? We're going to soand so come on you can have
something Oh yeah, exactly.
Yeah. That's horrible. Yeah,terrible enablers, I was
surprised at your story ofhanging with your dad, when you

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had to go there for a few monthsafter the operation that you
guys ended up fighting after alittle while now I'm not
surprised on one end because youspent enough time with anybody
you're going to end up arguing.
But I would say of all the loveaffairs that we're forced to
look at on social media, yourseems to be the most true with

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your dad. So what happened? Howdid it get to a point where
you're, you're arguing so muchwith this man that you seem to
idolize on social media?
Well, so I was a horrible,horrible patient, horrible. So
he had every right to, you know,raise his voice to me or get

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annoyed with me. And that mademe super angry. But I knew that
I was always in the wrong. Nowalso, he's a real stickler for
the rules. And sometimes Iwanted to bend the rules, and he
wouldn't let me do it. And wejust, and also, as I mentioned
before, I didn't want to bethere when he had to take care
of my mom for so long. I didn'twant to have you felt guilty. I

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did. I felt really I felt reallyguilty. I was like, I can't do
this to him. And I know howscared he was when he came to
the hospital every day. Yeah.
And at that point, I could havetaken care of, I was able to
take care of myself. So I wenthome.
What did he invite you ininitially? Or did you ask to

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come over?
He initially invited me in and Ithought I really needed that.
Because when I first gotdiabetes, I had to give myself
three shots a day. And I wasscared about it. I didn't know
if I was doing it. Right. I wasalso so depressed like this is
my life three shots every day.
Really? Yeah. Yeah, I justwanted to get out of his hair

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really. And I wanted him. Iwanted him to believe that I was
going to be okay. On my own. Idon't know if he actually did
believe that. But it worked out.
And yeah, I mean, we're superclose.
David, I would bet I could bewrong. But I'm throwing this out

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there. That when we're relegatedto having to go to our parents
house for length of time for anyreason. There becomes that
moment where you feel like thelittle kid again, and he's the
parent, and you've kind of lostthe relationship that we've
built as adults. And now I'm 10years old again.

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That is for sure what happenedfor sure. There he was taking
care of me this you know, 50year old man. And also he's he
was like, late 70s. Then he's nospring chicken. Bad that he was
he was really like, runningaround trying to make sure I was
okay. And what would go to thepharmacy and get me stuff and

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you don't need to be doing this.
Andwere you relatively immobile or
can you get from bed to theliving room?
I could get to the bed to theliving room. But I was I felt
like a nine year old man. Justtrying to walk. Yeah. That was
open pain all the time. My backwas just killing me. It was it
was a dark, dark year for sure.

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And now are you in a position? Idon't know if you want to play
kickball at the family reunion.
Are you able to? Yeah,I've been playing pickleball
recently. Shut up.
Look at you, man. Oh, howawesome is that? It's it's
great. It changes your wholeperspective. I would hope not
what pickleball the ability toplay pickable Yeah,

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I mean, I'd like that's, I wasalways fairly athletic even
before and so I'm just glad thatI'm able to do that. Yeah. Now I
might get little little tired. Alittle faster. Yeah, but that's
also you know, I'm I'm 56 I'mall this pocket. So it's I'm
justI do you look better than me
because I'm 56 and I feel likeyou look great. I think I look a

(24:26):
lot better. Yeah, you know, whenpeople ask that they actually
misleading you to not say thethe negative thing.
I like to be honest, because oneof the things that happened when
they removed a lot of mypancreas and
I should have taken this out forsure. Um, now you really do look
amazing, dude. I appreciatethat. Yeah, I mean, you knew I

(24:49):
wouldn't say you lookedunhealthy before but maybe Okay,
sure. Maybe you did lookunhealthy before. And now it's
just like, Who's this fresh fitdude who's 50 Six. Good for you.
I know I need to you need towork my Tinder account.
II. I think Wait, is that theguy one or the CO ed one?

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No, that's the grinder is thatdon't pretend you don't know
what that is.
You don't know all of mysecrets. I don't care who you
are. David. I want to touch onsomething that that always
fascinated me and I'm glad Ihave you here to talk about it
but it is your dad. I meant whatI said when you go on social

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media sometimes you see peoplewaxing high their love for
somebody. And you're just likeGood lord, shut the fuck up
already. You buy your socialmedia love the hell out of your
dad. He's an idol to you. If Ihad to describe it. How I see it
on your social media. Numberone, is that true? And number

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two, how and how did he get tothat level?
Oh, by the way, yes. He is myidol. He's my hero. Yeah. We
were not always that close. Youknow? And I was stupid teenager.
I did not enjoy him. Okay. Also,he's not my birth father.
Get out. Yeah. How about that?

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Always love knowing stuff. Whendid when did he take you in?
So my parents my mom and mybirth father they divorced when
I was five. And then my birthfather died when I was 14. My
mom remarried Larry my now dadwhen? I guess seven years old.

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So he's been around. He's He'sbasically my father. He raised
me he matter of fact, tea. In mymy real name is David. Yet a gar
off. That was my birth name.
Now, I don't accept that. But goahead. Yeah, Debbie
had a scarf. So my dad in my 20she officially adopted me. We
went to thatdidn't meet you till you were
14.

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No, he, no, he was the was atseven years old. I would say I
skipped ahead. And my my dad, mybirth father died when I was 14.
So yeah, so I remember I was theoldest kid in the court getting
adopted by like years. And nowthat I became officially David

(27:27):
Pressman. But when my mom passedaway 15 years ago, we became
super close these last 15 years.
So we've become really, reallyclose. And I you know, I see him
I talked to him. Every day. Isee him as much as possible, you
know, yeah. He has more energythan most people. I know. He

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just turned 83. He's stillworking. And,
and your dad, you should know,because we've never talked about
him. You and I. But I know whohe is. He's a what I would call
a famous character actor. Sure.
And I mean, that's got to be akick for you. Just to have that

(28:15):
in your life, especially sinceyou're an actor as well.
Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, my momwas. My mom was on a soap opera
for a long time. Oh, yeah. Ididn't know that. Yeah, my
grandparents were actors, thewhole thing. So yeah, and I saw
what everyone went through, andI still wanted to do it. Yeah.

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Though, for a moment. I wantedto be a cop. They taught me
how far did you go? Justthinking like, oh, just thinking
about it,but really wanting to I was
like, very time of my life. Iwas very anti drug and I wanted
to get the drug off drugs offthe streets.
Yeah, I went as far as the pretraining academy.

(28:59):
Oh, you did? Yeah. Oh, well,yeah. I think that I would have
been a corrupt cop terrible.
I think detect some things youdon't have to be truthful with.
Yeah, sorry about that. Butdetective like I love like, I
watch any of those shows, youknow, the first 48 all that. I

(29:19):
remember going to Vegas with mygirlfriend at the time and I all
I wanted to do was the CSIexperience. So so much what is
that I was bad. Because it criesa couple of crimes and you got
to solve them. No less,like, actors playing dead bodies
in the room type of thing.
No. They just there's likesetups and clues and there's
rooms and stuff and you got tofind that you get a little they

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tell you there's like a host andthey tell you what happened or
what what what went on.
I want that really bad. How muchwould something like that cost?
That was I think it might havebeen $50 Oh my god. That's
nothing. No, it was pretty good.
And my girlfriend and I solvedboth cases. Good for you. We
became detectives. It was veryexciting. And then we broke up.

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Yeah, Icouldn't stand her. Yes, she
was the worstare you? Are you a Vegas guy in
general?
I, I Oh, yeah. I love Vegas. Andactually, I went back a month
ago for the first time. Youknow, since I got sick. Yeah.

(30:25):
And it was a blast. I was alittle harder to stay up late.
But yeah, I went with a fewfriends and did all the Vegas II
things. And it was really fun.
David, what'sthe difference? Because I know
there's a difference for me. Butwhat's the difference between
Vegas at 25 years old? And Vegasnow?
Well, I think I mean, you don'twant to go to a pool party.

(30:47):
Yeah. That's the biggest point,right? Yeah. You
don't want to go to a poolparty. You know, you just don't
maybe want to be up all nightpartying. Think that's what it
is. You just get real. You getsuper tired. You count the next
day. If you're there a weekendand you go big on Friday.

(31:07):
Saturday has just ruined youdon't bounce back. Couldn't do
it. No. You need to sleep allday. Maybe go into like this
asana somewhere.
If you can get out of bed. Yeah,exactly. I think for me now,
dinner and a show. And some sortof game blackjack or poker.

(31:28):
Right. And then bed. That's goodfor me.
Yeah, that that we did. I didn'tdo the show. And we kind of went
we kind of went hard. We kind ofwent. We were kind of acting
like we were without the poolparty. But we were acting like
we're young people. And it wasrough. It was a rough drive. I'm
the only one that drove therebecause I don't enjoy flying.

(31:51):
scares me. Oh,I didn't understand. You're a
big baby.
Yeah, I'm a big baby. Alsoplanes are unsafe. But anyway,
so I tried drove it. Yeah. Andyou're in control? Sure. It's a
nice little, you know, littleroad trip.
As a matter of fact, all thejokes aside, I prefer the drive
to Vegas, instead of the flight.
I think it's beautiful. It'sbarren. But there's something

(32:11):
wondrous about it. EspeciallyDavid, I hope you'll agree and
have done it. But I would ratherleave at 11pm and get that
Starry Night drive all the waythere.
Absolutely. But that is alsosomething harder to do when
you're older. That's Oh, I thinkthat's the young person's drive.
I get you get tired. Okay. Butyes, I agree. Yeah. And also you

(32:37):
avoid the traffic and all thatstuff. Very true.
Except one day, I was cominghome early morning. 5am. From
Vegas to LA. Oh, wow. And thethere's a torrential downpour at
the time. And there's only onecar ahead of me one car. And he
hydroplaned into a bout fourcircles. And I had to dodge him.

(33:05):
In order to live. Yeah. Yeah. Sothat was exciting. That does
sound exciting. Especially youknow, when you're over 40 It's
like, whoo, this happened.
Do you ever stop and beautifulBaker, California.
When I used to want a deliciousbun, boy, yes, for sure. But now
that that Oh, and then I wouldvisit when they were Bob's Big

(33:28):
Boy. Because I'm also a fan ofthe big boy. But now it's
something non salacious. I don'tknow what it is. But now I don't
stop there.
Bob's Big Boy is wonderful.
Yeah, I do miss Bob's Big Boy.
Yeah, I used to enjoy pappyParker's fried chicken. That
Bacchus fried chicken. I don'tknow why you have to say it
like,wow, that was the commercial if
you have any knowledge.

(33:50):
I mean, I thought this big boy.
I didn't know you're doingcharacter work. Or other
exacting David. Okay.
I loved Pepe Parker's friedchicken.
It's wonderful. I think theystill have it probably right.
I think they do. As a matter offact, I'm
gonna have to go get some. Yeah.
Can we go after this together?
Or do you have to go somewhere?
Oh, that's a very good question.
Oh, no, I might be going to seea movie.

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Wow. I don't like the way itjust popped into your head as an
excuse to get away from diggingme.
Actually. I will know. As soonas this is over. I will text and
see if I have to go to thismovie. If not. I'm down for
pappy Parkersburg fried chicken.
David who? Who do you hang outwith like, Who's the one on the
who's the maybe movie? And whoyour friends that are go to

(34:36):
like, oh yeah, I hang out withso and so. The movie is
a friend of mine named Avi talyou know who I hang Randall
Slaven? Yeah, you know Yeah,Matt 11 You know MATLAB damn
okay, you're still old school.
It's all the old Cesar all yourboys. There's some new my best
friend Noel is my ex. Okay. Um,But let's talk about that. How

(35:00):
did that delve into? Where weare a couple. And now we're not
a couple, we're just really goodfriends.
So, I mean, I think we did itaround 13 years ago, and it was
for a little less than a yearand we just leave, we fought a
lot. That wasn't fun. And I'm aguy, that's friends with most of

(35:24):
his exes. I know, a lot ofpeople don't do that. But I'm
like, they never end terribly.
And there was a reason you wentout with them in the first
place. Let's be friends. So no,well, we broke up as sad, you
know, and a couple of months.
And a couple of months later, wejust started hanging out, going

(35:45):
to lunches and stuff andfriends. And she just, she's the
best friend I've ever had. She'sthe closest friend I've ever
had. She and her sister, Laura.
They're both TV writers. Bothvery talented. And yeah, without
them. I don't know. They reallyhelped save my life during all

(36:06):
that.
Oh, wow. That's awesome. Yeah.
David, you and her arecomfortable when you end up in
relationships with other people.
She's married now with two kidsand her husband super cool. And
I hang out with the kids as muchas I'm, you know, like the
honorary uncle to the kids. It'snice. So yeah, that's great.

(36:29):
That's awesome. I had one likethat. We're not friends anymore.
But. But yeah, it was nice tokind of go go for a while as
friends and even into hermarriage. It's a good feeling to
be able to do that.
Yeah, I don't know. I would bereal honestly, I would be lost

(36:50):
without her. So I'm very gladjust in my life,
nurse. When I met you, you youcame across shy at first, and
then you started making jokes.
And it's like, oh, okay, I seewho this guy is. But I still
don't deny that, uh, you know,I've only hung with you in

(37:13):
person a few times. And today,of course, but you still strike
me as somebody who's innatelyshy? And my way of course,
no, I'm shy. Especially when Ifirst meet people, or in a
group.

(37:34):
It's weird to be an actor, butlike, one of my biggest fears is
public speaking. So like, juststanding up there, and I have to
stand up there and be myself. Idon't like that one bit.
sneezing, it's not COVID.
Alright, I'm back. Yeah, I thinkI'm sure I think it takes a

(37:58):
while for me to, you know, letloose so to speak. I really have
to feel pretty comfortable.
It's funny because yourconfidence in your humor is
super high. And it's odd. Thatthat doesn't translate into who

(38:20):
you are in social settings.
Yeah, that's actually that'sgood point. I don't even know
how to answer that.
Okay. Do you feel confident whenyou're when you're not in social
settings when you're behind acomputer?

(38:42):
We know it's, we mean, behindthe computer just by myself.
But no meaning when you'reexpressing yourself on social
media? Yeah, I feel much moreconfident. Yeah. And it shows
when you read your stuff,whatever it is. It's like who is
this guy? I want to know thisguy. And then you meet him. And
it's like, he's still great tomeet. He's still awesome. But

(39:03):
he's okay. This guy's much moredemure than
Yeah, I mean, I remember, youknow, during COVID As you know,
there was a lot of zoom pokerthings. Yeah. And I was invited
to a few and I would I wouldrarely speak. I just like, I
just I don't know, these people.
I don't think they'll enjoy me.

(39:24):
Wow, maybe they will find what Isay funny. So I'm gonna hold off
and it would take me a longtime. I would I would have to
hear someone like say somethingthat I thought was funny or it's
something that I maybe I wouldsay or a subject that I could
relate on or it's you know,something dark, make fun of. And

(39:45):
then I would chime right in, butI'm pretty Yeah, I'm pretty
sure.
Where does that come from?
I don't know. You know, Iremember even back in the day,
like if I would have to up Myparents would take me to see a
show. I remember one time myparents took me to Cirque de la

(40:06):
was when it first came out herewas on the Santa Monica. Yeah,
years ago. And we got there forsome reason so early that we
were sitting there in thestands, and the guy who's the
clown guy comes up to me and waslike, he wanted to this whole
bit with me this whole thiswhole shtick, yeah. And I was

(40:26):
super nervous. And I was alreadystarting to sweat. But I said,
Yeah, I would do it. And Icouldn't enjoy the show, because
I was just waiting for thespotlight to come on me. And
they had to do this bit and Iwas terrified. I hated it. I
remember going to like aShakespeare play was midsummer
Midsummer Night's Dream, I thinkwas summer Night's Dream. I
can't even say it. I shouldn'tMy dad loves Shakespeare, he

(40:50):
would get so upset with me.
appropriately. So yeah. Andthere was like one of the
actress came in the audience andstarted up like, you know, talk
to me and I just wanted to cry.
I just, it was it's really hardand even, I guess Falcon
auditions. Sometimes I wouldjust get super nervous and just

(41:11):
sweat almost like Albert Brooksin broadcast news. It was like I
was Yeah. I don't really havethat much. self confidence. I
should improve that.
Well, should now but yeah, couldyou and would it be nice? Of

(41:33):
course it would.
It's certainly gotten better. Asthe years have gone on.
Yeah. But I don't know. Italways struck me as odd because
it's.
You're so acerbic and quick ononline, and then when you meet
you, you're so quick and quickonce we get to know you. Yeah.

(41:55):
But it is odd. It's like wait,this is the guy that says those
hilarious things.
I will say that if I've if I'mdrinking it, it happens a lot
quicker. Sure. Confidence. Ofcourse. Yeah. That's the that
the truth enabler. Yes. Allright. I'm drinking also lowers

(42:18):
my blood sugar. And I wastalking to my doctor. And I
said, So when I'm eatingsomething bad. I'm gonna drink a
few drinks. And it really helpsthat my doctors like whatever
works. Really? Yeah.
So I want that doctor is like,Hey, Doc Hershey bars are really

(42:39):
good. Okay.
Yeah. And just have a couple ofvodka sodas with it.
Yeah. So that is weird though.
David, because booze is supposedto raise your sugar.
Well, I asked him asked to talkto that. And he said it works
differently with with differentpeople. Okay, I got the lowering
the blood sugar. I mean, notwine. If you could drink wine.

(43:01):
That's just sugar. That's bad.
But I didn't know that wine isworse than booze. Yeah, it's a
lot of sugar. Alot of sugar in that. Yeah.
Okay, but I can vodka soda oreven like tequila soda, and when
I'm eating something shitty, andthat really helps. Okay. All
right. I don't record this isnot I don't recommend this for

(43:22):
people listening. Maybe at home,I don't want people to eat badly
and then just start drinking abottle of vodka.
You are going to start someepidemic and it's going to be
called the Pressman principle ofhow people have died because
they started drinking when theyhad diabetes. I'm torn because
I'd like to have something namedafter me. I totally understand

(43:44):
that. Yeah. All right. Um,Pressman. Tell me about your
mom, I know she passed when youwere younger. 15 years ago. What
was your relationship like?
I was very close to my mom. Imean, she was the best she she,

(44:06):
she was sarcastic. I got mysarcasm from her. She taught me
how to play poker. Now she mylove for the Dodgers is because
of her. And we are close and shegot MS. When I was 18. And it
was her decline was pretty fast.
And her decline. I also had myown decline, you know,

(44:41):
when you felt yourself go downwhen she was going down? Yeah,
like really a depression and Iremember was at when I was 2425.
And I had this recurring job onthe Newhart Show. And it was an
awesome job and I got peoplewanted to do other things with
Be I have a lot of opportunitiesand I just couldn't have cared

(45:03):
less. My motivation was zip. Iblew off a lot of, you know,
auditions, and I gotta just, Iwas just so sad seeing my mom
like that. And my mom had thebest attitude about it. I never
saw or heard her complain onceand I couldn't believe it.
Because if that was happening tome, because at one point, she

(45:25):
couldn't walk, she couldn't doanything. Yeah, I would say
throw me into a volcano. I can'tlive like this.
That's a pretty extreme exit.
Yeah.
Well, I would think it'd befast. Because of the lava. Yeah,
the lava. Okay, right. It'sjust, I don't know if you saw
the movie volcano, but I sawpeople, they just write like
that they die.

(45:46):
Tony Jones is such a good actor.
Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah.
So yeah, she. Yeah, when I thinkI was prepared for when she was
when she died. Because she wasso sick for so long. And I knew
that at the time. It was close.
But it was real difficult. Thatwas real difficult.

(46:14):
You know, I'll share with youthat when my mom passed, but 10
years ago or so. You know, weknew it was coming. And I was
just telling my cousin, one ofthe great things that I had with
her passing is we had a chanceto talk about it before well
before it got dire. You know,how do you feel? Are you ready

(46:39):
to go? Yada, yada, yada. And soby the time she went, yeah, it
sucked. And there were tears.
But at the same time, I don'tknow why just, I felt like okay,
well, we talked about this andwe're okay.
I was just, my sadness came fromthat I would not be able to, you

(47:04):
know, spend time with heranymore. There's also a part of
me like, she doesn't have tolive like this anymore. And
that's, yeah, no, that's I thinkthat's good. I didn't just
didn't think there was any kindof life. Yeah. So in that
respect, I think it was I wasonce a glad that she died. But I

(47:26):
was I was more P I was moreexcitedly getting out of it.
Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, she wasshe was she was everything to
me. I just, I love her and Imiss her still a lot.
You mentioned some great thingsthat I think a lot of actors
might relate to, in that, youknow, she represented she, she
helped me with my humor. She Shewas funny. She took me to all

(47:51):
the theaters, all the plays. AndI don't even know if she knows
it, but she helps called me intowanting to be an actor and treat
choose the creative path that Ihave. So I do love her for that.
Absolutely. Yeah, there's noquestion there. Just comment.

(48:14):
Okay.
Thanks. Thanks for sharing that.
You're welcome. I just wanted totell you
knows I mean, like my dad, hedoesn't enjoy sports at all he
could has no idea what poker isreally. And so I mean, I don't
know what would I have if my momwasn't around? Well, would I've

(48:37):
I don't know. That would havebeen a real a real jerk I mean,
I guess I'm a little bit of ajerk but you're kind of dumb
Yeah. No.
Does your would were you go intoDodger games way back in the day
when you were a kid? Yeah. Soyeah, you're old school like me.

(48:59):
You've been aroundto Steve guard Yes. Oh my God
say Lopes Russell,forget about that was my
introduction. Dusty Baker was myfavorite player. Oh, man. I
don't know where he comes in thelineup, but it's probably a few
years later, but we're allmondesi was my favorite. Oh,
absolutely. Yeah.
What an arm on that guy. Oh, myGod. Yeah. Unbelievable.

(49:22):
The the Vin Scully passing I wasa little surprised by I knew how
old he was. I thought he hadactually died years before he
had actually died. And, and yetstill as a piece I am with the
understanding of death. I wasstill affected. Yeah, that that

(49:42):
definitely brought me to tears.
And immediately I thought of mymom, because, you know, sure.
Vince Kelly so much listened tohim together and but he was the
voice of my childhood. I mean,yeah. And he was like, He was
the best to use just the bestis amazing. One of our mutual
friends, David Arnott, heintroduced me to an audio file

(50:09):
of somebody daring Vin, to reada grocery list. And, and you
know, with the promise thatit'll be just as good as
anything else. And God Damn,it's awesome. And you know, of
course, you can totally pictureit. You're gonna want a dozen
eggs and a liter of milk.

(50:32):
Just so good.
It's so good. He'sso good. Yeah, he will
definitely be missed.
The great thing I love about thepretty bad pretty much a general
when people mentioned then andthe Dodgers is dad playing them
on the radio in the garage, whenthey're, you know, when you're
working. Oh, right.

(50:54):
I totally that's that's what itwas. Yeah. My dad never played
Vince Collie. No, you know, hedidn't know me. Oh, God. It was
my mom that was only playing VinScully. But also the Vince
Collie. Like he had so manyiconic calls that he called
Henry Aaron's the recordbreaking home run. Yeah. In

(51:15):
football. He called the catchthe sport and yeah. I mean,
that's pretty amazing.
Yeah, he's good. Yeah. I used todo an impersonation of Ross
Porter. Ooh. And right. You kindof want to hear that, right.

(51:35):
Yeah, Iwould like that. But no, it's
it was never good. I think in mymind, I was just like, convinced
that it was decent. But yeah,you don't even want to hear it.
That was just a good tease.
That's outrageous. I reallyshouldn't have brought it up.
Yeah. You should edit this partout. Well,
sometimes I leave things in justso I can get some words in.

(51:56):
Okay. Good.
We're just chillin. Yeah. Whatelse you want to talk about?
I'm thinking, okay. David, myparents were big on the spanking

(52:19):
slash beating up. Where were youon that level with your parents?
There was none of that. Okay.
There was. My dad would maybeground me and then five minutes
later, my mom would unground Ijust drove my dad.

(52:39):
Well, yeah, it makes me mad.
Yeah.
Yeah, there wasn't much of that,though. I was also a pretty this
might be hard to believe I was apretty good kid. Like can cause
that much even. The only theworst thing I did was dropped
out of high school and myparents were out of town. Wow,
there were you forced to goback.
I was not they just they sat medown. They said get a job and

(53:00):
take the GED. So I did that.
Why? Whatdo you mean? Like they knew you
weren't going to go back? Sookay, well, you better do this.
Then.
It was it was halfway through mysenior year. I just couldn't
take it anymore. They went outof town to bow the country,
actually, for a couple of weeks.
And as I am I can't do thisanymore. I hate it. And yeah,
and I think I had it because mymom also didn't finish high

(53:21):
school. So I had a littlebackup.
Yeah, you're right. But David, Ithink we all hated high school
to some level, even though Idon't think I would ever leave
it. But what was so bad about itthat you were just done?
I didn't like the teachers. Iwasn't doing well. All my really

(53:41):
close friends graduated a yearahead of me. Girls didn't like
me. I was like overweight withzits. I was like, I gotta get
out of here.
So you went to a carnival? Iwent to a carnival. Yeah, so you
could be accepted?
Oh, yes, I did. I fell in lovewith the bearded lady. Yeah. And

(54:02):
we made love.
She's got to be so sweet. Iwould imagine.
So sweet. Yeah. It might be adifferent podcast, but it's
Yeah, I have some stories.
You know, I have a weird thoughtthat with you that. I see
similarities. Like number one. Idon't even know what you do. I

(54:22):
don't know if you're a full timeactor. I don't know if you're a
part time actor. But I thinkwhat I want to ask you is this
growing up, we wanted to beactors. That's what we were
going to do. And that's what wepursued ultimately. Did you
succeed are you that? Or do youhave regrets that you should
have done something else? Whereare you now mentally with where

(54:44):
your life is as far as career?
I mean, whenever I'm notworking, I'm always thinking I
should have done something elsebecause being an actor can be
really difficult. I've managedto be an actor and not I had to
do something else. I think also,it's helped that I am single

(55:07):
with no children. I think if Iwas married had kids, I might
have thought about having to doa little something else besides
acting, but you know, it's,there was always lean years.
I've been doing a lot ofanimation stuff recently. That's
kind of cool.
You're talking voices. Yeah.
Awesome, dude.

(55:29):
Voice over stuff. Yeah. Sothat's fun. That's a whole new
thing for me. But I mean, I loveit. I've always loved it. I
don't know what else I wouldhave done or will do. I think
I'm a lifer. I'm always gonna dothis.
And that's a good point to maketo that. Is it? Is there a worry
about? Retirement? How long canyou carry? What you're doing

(55:51):
now? And if it stops? How willyou survive retirement?
Well, I can't say I don't wantto stop but I retirement would
be tough. You know what? I don'tthink I can ever retire. Thanks
for depressing me. I just haveto keep doing this to try to
make money. You know, and just Iguess, maybe just take my

(56:14):
pension? I don't know. Oryou could be a greeter at
Walmart. No, yeah, I could dothat. Can you practice? Are you
right now? Just say hi to me.
Hi. Welcome to Walmart. That'snot bad. Dude. If I was a man, I
will manage her at Walmart. Iwould hire you.
Okay, well, that's that'sListen, that's food for thought.
I would have to get a job as amanager at Walmart first.

(56:38):
So don't you have anyconnections to Walmart?
I don't. You might want to stickwith the voiceover stuff.
I don't know why you broughtthis up
in the first place. Sorry, man.
I'm cool. Do you? Do you havebrothers and sisters and does
your does your dad Larry. Doeshe have any other kids besides
you?

(56:58):
No. to both. I am an only child.
And my dad they? Yeah, my mydad, my mom. They'd never had
another kid. Or they I thinkthey tried and they couldn't do
it. I don't know. Maybesomething's wrong with my dad's
semen.
Which happens a lot ofinformation.
Sorry. You can edit that partout? No, yeah. Only child.

(57:23):
Did you like that? Growing up?
When I was younger, I think Iwould have enjoyed maybe having
a brother or a sister I hang outwith actually even now it'd be
kind of cool to have a brothersister. But no, it's not
something that I think about.
There was a lot of perks aboutbeing an only child. You got all
the attention. Yeah, you know,little spoiled.

(57:46):
Which would make me think andI'm I'm just a dude throwing out
words, but it would make methink that you would be more
would be less shy. Because youhad so much attention as a kid.
Yeah, didn't work that way.
Didn't work that way. Now. Didyou feel shy as a kid?

(58:07):
I think I felt shy or when I gotin my, my, my teen years, I
think, like around 1617 I gotreally self conscious when you
had all those hits. I thinkthat's what it was all like when
I was was heavy and had zits. Iwas just like, even now. When I

(58:28):
look in the mirror, I squint alittle bit. For what just
because I'm like, Oh, I don'twant to look at myself. I can't
I just can't do it. Who is this?
Who is this monster? Isn't thatfunny? And I like when I can
never watch myself. If I'm on TVor something. I always have to
do it through like my hands likethe little sliver through my
hands.

(58:50):
That's fucked up. I'll tell youa little secret. I guess I'm
telling everybody. But you know,I'm very confident guy. I don't
know if you pick up on that. ButI'm confident and I think I'm
handsome and charming. The wholenine yards. And then David, I
look in the mirror. And I'mlike, What the fuck? Who are you
fooling Jesus?
No, no, you're a handsome guy.

(59:12):
No, I appreciate that. I'm notlooking for that. But I
appreciate you saying that. ButI feel like we were saying the
same thing. It's like sometimesI just look in the mirror and
I'm like, Oh my God.
Yeah, it's tough. The agentprocesses and great. That's,
that's very true. That's notgreat. But at the end of the
day, yeah, I'm notgood. I like that attitude.

(59:33):
Yep. Got to ya. Got to how areyou with you? So I know you know
well is now your friend. But sowho do you have? Are you dating?
I am not dating anyone?
Are you Lauren? Do you missthat? Or do you wish you had
somebody right now?
I don't really. I'm, I've gottenused to being single. I enjoy

(59:57):
it. I like being able to do WhatI want to do what I want to do
it and yeah, like I have friendsof mine who want to set me up
but I'm like, No, I don't Idon't want that.
You don't want to be set up. Youjust don't like the blind
element. Yeah, it just makes meall of it makes me

(01:00:17):
uncomfortable. After everythingwe talked about today, I would
agree that you're not ready tomeet somebody blindly. Yeah,
don't do that. No, you need todevelop a friendship and then
realize, hey, let's kiss.
Yes, that um, yes. I should havedone that with you. By the way
years ago. I appreciate that.
But I yeah, I don't all my pastgirlfriends have always most of
them come from being friendsfirst.

(01:00:41):
So yeah, that's neat, dude.
I like that better.
Yeah, it's rare. I'm onlysitting here thinking, I can't
recall just meeting someone.
There was one girl that I'vemet, that we just instantly
looked at each other. We'relike, yep. But other than that,
no, I knew somebody we hung out.

(01:01:02):
I'm somebody within what I justtalked about how charming I am
and whatnot. You have to get toknow that. I think candidly. And
honestly, you're not going tolook at Michael Vieyra. And
think I'm going out with thisguy. You got to get to know
Michael Vieyra. And then you'regoing to say, Ah, I'm going out

(01:01:24):
with this guy.
Yeah, sure. Makes sense. Yeah,it does.
Yeah. Like I would say this,David and not in any, not in any
way for humor. I look at you andI'm thinking Oh, okay. He I know
David, he looks good. But Idon't want to date him. But when
I get to know you, and we talk,you are definitely somebody I
would hang out with all thetime.

(01:01:46):
I'm, I'm fairly cool. Yes, youare. I'm a good hang. Yep. Yeah,
I'm fun to hang out with. Idon't know if I'm fun to date.
Oh, what's the difference? Whydo you change? I
just think I think I may be alittle difficult. You have
expectations. It's not that Ijust like, I like being I like

(01:02:08):
having buy myself time. And Ilike to be able to maybe, Hey,
maybe I want to go to this, thisparty by myself. And if you're
in relationship, you can alwaysdo that.
David, I fully understand whatyou're saying. But I don't know
why you're not ready to make thecompromise with the
understanding that you're inthat relationship and she wants

(01:02:29):
to go with you. Yeah, I don'twant to do that. Damn. You're
stringent. Yeah, no,I am stringent.
I don't know what that means.
But I felt like it would fit thesentence appropriately.
Stringent is a good word. Okay.
That reminds me of the wordstripe. Stripe X medicated.
You're usedto use the boy god yeah. The
severed you wipe your face andloaded with dirt. Yeah,

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exactly. I don't actually knowwhere you're from. Are you not
from you're not from California.
Born and raised. Okay. Yeah,what's wrong?
And the great thing is David,I've lived all over LA County
from West Covina all the way toSouth Redondo Beach. And And

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yes, I am an elitist. I madesure to say South Redondo Beach
as opposed to North RedondoBeach, right. It's literally
like the other side of thetracks. But yeah, it was
awesome. I lived one block awayfrom the ocean. And you could
hear the waves crash at night asyou go to sleep. That was

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awesome.
That does sound nice. Yeah. Igrew up in Sherman Oaks. Ah.
When you grew up in ShermanOaks, how exciting was it for
you? When Fast Times atRidgemont High came out?
I mean, I used to go to thatmall all the time. Yeah. I
played in that video arcade. Iwent to Paris pizza. All of it.

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Yeah.
You went to the movie theaterthere. Yes. Fantastic. Yeah. I
just thought man, that wouldhave been exciting. Because I
know at that point, we were allgoing to malls as kids at the
time. You even had a bit of thatin Commando. What do you mean
Schwarzenegger movie? Oh, yeah.
He was swinging from the raftersin that.
That's right. Well, that was theSherman Oaks Galleria was the

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place to be. Yeah. Yeah, thoseare those are fun times. It's
not like that really anymore.
At no attack. That's totallydifferent. More disappointing. I
wouldn't even call it a wall.
But yeah, Idon't know what that is.
All right. Well, we may bewinding down but I'm okay with

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that. But I just want to makesure you're not going to leave
here crying that you didn't askme but the thing was,
I don't know what thing but youknow, I don't I think you know,
talking about mom and thesickness that was that's been
what's most prevalent. Yeah. SoI don't have much besides

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Do you? Are you fulfilled David?
Do you feel like I know you justjokingly said I don't have much
but are you fulfilled or do youwish there was more in your
life?
I wish my I wish the career wasbetter. I wish I was busier,
busier in what way?
I mean, I wish I was working.
Well got it more work. Yeah.
But besides that, I feel I feelpretty fulfilled. I've had a

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pretty, pretty great life.
Actually, I've gotten to do alot of cool things and meet a
lot of cool people. And so I'mhappy for that. I just have to
remember that sometimes when Igo into like a real like, little
bit of a spiral like, Fuck thefuck am I doing with myself?
True. So but yeah, I thinkoverall,

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always find that that presentmoment where you are presently
it changes everything, for sure.
All right, well, I wish you thebest. I hope that you end up
marrying the bearded lady thatyou met at the carnival.
She She is avoiding my my calls.
David. I know. I'd say no. Idon't want to get into it. Lose

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your expectationthat she's going to be fucking
awesome, dude.
I tried to shave her and shewouldn't go for it.
Totally makes sense. Man. Youcan't change people. No, I
know. Let them be who they are.
I know the beard. Lady shouldhave a beard.
I mean, it's in the name. No, Iknow. I understand that. No.
Thank you for having me. Thishas been a blast. Actually. I

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really enjoyed thisdude. I loved it. And if you
ever want to do it again for anyreason, I'm down. Oh, for sure.
All right. Do me a favor. TellAndrew to take us out.
Tell Andrew to take us out.
Yeah. Hey, Andrew, take us out.

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