#49 - CORN!!!! - (Johnny Corn) - #NotAboutUpod

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2 ladies and gentlemen, once again, thank you for joining us
I know another what's going to be another great episode of Not
about you podcast. My name is Jamal Harrington, I'm
one of the host and unfortunately right now our
other hosts aren't here. Marianne and Romeo, they've just

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went through a 25 day cruise andthey're probably tired.
So I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that if
they kick in, they kick in. If they don't, no problem, but
welcome back Marianne and Romeo.They've actually did the last
episode that we did. They were actually and I

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believe, oh, French Polynesia. So I'm pretty sure they're just
like tired as hell. I'm also tired as well.
I just got back from North Carolina.
A wonderful weekend, such a great time.
But I am not here alone. So that that that's a good thing
with me is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, I

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could say very funny comedian A3789.
He's been doing this for for three decades from the Bay Area.
Please welcome our friend JohnnyCorn.
Ladies and gentlemen, you caughtme.

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Oh, so welcome to the show that I know this is your first time
on here, John. I know you know, you and I have
been Facebook friends for God knows how long, but long time
I've, and this is, I think this is our first time actually
interacting sort of face to face, even though you're on the

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other side of the coast where the weather is rainy and wet.
But nonetheless, you're here. Let me ask you, you've been
doing this, you've been doing comedy for 30 years.
I know a lot of comics has been doing it for a while.
How has it between now and when you first started?

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How have how have you been able to evolve as a stand up comic?
Because comedy has changed over over the decades, you know, and
a lot of people have come and gone and added stuff to the game
and how are and and you're stillhere, which is always good.
How how has it changed and what changes did you like?

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What changes did you did you like our our surprise?
You know that are like, oh wow, this is a thing and it's
working. What's your thoughts on that?
Well. There's so much to go over on
that one because we're talking about decades of of things, but
I actually started out doing stand up comedy.

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Actually, that story is pretty funny because I didn't start out
doing comedy the way that most people do.
I was actually, I do impersonations and, and I was
doing an impersonation of the regulars that were, I was
working in a kitchen in a restaurant as doing
impersonations of different regulars that were there.
And the, the manager, I would dothis and, and the owner and I

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would do this pretty much every day.
And, and so people are like slicing, going like, and then
one day everybody was like all of a sudden doing busy work.
And I'm like, oh, crap, he's behind me, isn't he?
And so I turned and sure enough,and I'm going like, all right,
well, I'll pack my knives. I get it.

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I'll. I'll go.
And he goes like, no, no, I justwant to see you in my office.
So no, no, OK, OK, I'll, I'll meet in your office.
Thought he wants some discretion.
And. And so he said, you you know,
you're funny. You should be a comedian.
And I said to him, I I see what you're doing here.
That's funny. I appreciate it.

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I, I, I promise not to do it again.
No, no, no. You you should be a comedian.
The stage out there will create a show for you.
And that's essentially how I gotinto it.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
So I didn't exactly do the open mic stuff and all that stuff at

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the beginning. I did later, but I didn't do it
my first time. And that was back in 87, this
month, in 87 actually. And so I did impersonations of
different people, including who was president at the time.
And I had this bit. And keep in mind he was
president of the United States at the time.

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And I, I did this bit. BDSM Ronald Reagan.
Oh wow, yeah. So you you could do go ahead.
I was going to say it. So you can do Ronald Reagan,
'cause I'm like thinking back in1987, I'm like, who's president
back then? Which was Reagan, which was oh
man, so you OK? Only easy, Only easy.

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I'm going to smack that ass. Going to smack that ass.
And it went on from there. And then later on we had Bill
Clinton and he, he was a godsend.
I was in radio by that time and that's kind of a funny story
too, because I was working, doing stand up and the person
that was eating there at the restaurant was going like, have

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you ever thought about being in radio?
And that's kind of how that whole thing, like I said, if I
wrote a story of my entire life,nobody would believe it, but
that's what happened. So, so Bill Clinton all did not
sexual relations with Hillary and that's kind of, you know, I

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did that. But things evolved.
And so I went into radio for a while and then I stopped doing
stand up for a while because I was doing radio.
I couldn't really do both 'causeI was actually overnight and
then eventually I got like from 7:00 to midnight and I can't go

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out and do stand up if I'm in the studio doing a show.
So I didn't do it. And so I took a break from there
and then I went back to it and Igot in a lot of trouble for
being political back when I cameout against the Iraq War before
we went in. And so I had a hard time getting
stand up gigs at that point in time.

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And so up until that point I wasa psycho cow.
That was my stage name. And so I kind of evolved, you
know, with the times and the times change, you have to change
with it. Exactly.
Well, yeah, and, and I know the song.
It's I Can Talk Forever. Oh, no, that's, that's the idea.
Like we, I, I want to know. That's why I asked.

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And it's just like 30 years, youknow, it almost sounds like you
were asked to do this. You were asked to do that.
It was almost like you were discovered.
And then when people found out you had talents, you are like
even more discovered, you know? Yeah, the 90s was a good decade
for me. It was a really good decade.
And then everything kind of I fell out of favor for a while.

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As things do, you kind of do this and then like that.
And then my second wave was actually probably with the
advent of social media, believe it or not, because I was out
there doing the grind and the whole thing.
But I was acting in some movies at the time and I had been doing

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that and really had taken kind of a break from doing stand up
comedy, went back into it and the whole thing.
My following is called The Love Army.
And and I didn't claim the name,but now in these times, it
actually makes sense. I mean, now it makes sense.
But and I got into, you know, how I got into acting is my

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wife. You know, they felt I'm not.
I mean, I I live probably. Do you know where Santa Cruz is?
Oh, yes, yes, OK. Like right on the right.
Is it like right off the coast of?
Yeah, that's right. It's a bunch of surfing over
there. And yeah.
And so I'm I'm on that same highway, Hwy. 17.

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I'm actually on the other side of the the hill there and in a
city called Campbell. Campbell, CA.
And so I drive up to San Francisco 'cause that's where
the comedy scene is, San Francisco, Oakland.
I go down to Los Angeles, I go to Las Vegas, I go up to Oregon,
Washington. And so I'm basically West of the

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Rockies. I'm pretty decently known east
of the Rockies. Nobody has a clue who I am and
but my my wife saw this advertisement And so she shows
me on the on her phone. She says they're they're casting
for Steve Jobs. I'm like, well, that's nice.

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And I'm not an actor. And she goes, no, you don't
understand me. You are going to try out for
this. Oh, so she practically made you
do it? Yeah, she made me do it.
And I was like, OK, well, happy life, happy life.
I I was like, whatever. And I didn't get it.
But what I did get was being an extra in that movie, and that

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was fine with by me. I was figuring like, I'll just
do this until it dies down and it didn't you.
Know no that that's a good problem to have.
Yeah, You know, the last movie II was in is actually a Bollywood
movie and it's not out yet there.

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There's some distribution thingsthat they're handling, and I
can't talk much about it except that the name of the movie is
Sweatpants, and it is East and West kind of have two different
pot lines going together, separate pot lines, and then
they kind of join together into,you know, 'cause it's all

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related. And so I'm actually plan a guy
that's not as he seems. I mean, a white guy in a
Bollywood movie, it's just like,you know, what is you?
Gotta believe it's me. You know, are you visiting
indie? Like, yeah, it's, it's funny,

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'cause like it has some pretty big Bollywood stars in it and I
had no idea who they were. And maybe that was a good thing
because I didn't think anything of it.
I, I, I keep pounding on my, my computer.
So that's why I was doing that. So I gotta I talk with my hands.
So did you? Did they fly you out to you to
shoot it or? No, actually that part was my

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part was filmed in San Jose, so it's filmed right here in the
Bay Area. So I'm like, OK, well, that
works. Yeah.
And I, I had done another movie with this director.
I love working, working with her.
Renu is she's a force of nature.She she kind of creates her own.

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I mean, yeah, she's she's amazing.
And I did a movie years ago withher called A Doctor by Heart.
And nobody outside the Indian community knew what the story
was, a biopic. And nobody knew who had seen

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this movie, unless you're East Indian.
And then they knew. And I got recognized for that.
So it's kind of interesting. So I didn't ask you a question
here, no. No, you kind of you actually did
actually. Well, you know, I think Speaking

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of movies, which is something that we we always talk about
movies on this show or movie lines or like movie parts.
What is your favorite movie? Or actually, let me rephrase.
That I was asked that. Because I, I hate asking that
question. And every time I ask that
question, like, no, that's not what you meant to ask.

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What's the one movie you could watch over and over and never
get tired of? Well, there's a few of them.
Nothing I've been in. OK.
Kidding, kidding. No, but actually Die Hard.
The original Die Hard. I watched that around Christmas
time over and over and over and over, and I just love it.

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And I inherited a couple boys when their mom passed away, and
we used to watch it together, and then now they're grown and
you know all that. So, yeah, my wife and I became
bonus parents and, you know, 'cause their father's still
around, But, yeah. And then great dictator Charlie

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Chaplin. I've been talking that.
OK, I've never seen that one. Oh, it is very relevant for
what's going on now. Really OK.
And, and I mean, and Speaking ofthat, I mean, we are, boy, the
times that we're in today, you know, it's, it's very, very, you

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know, I've, I've, I've always been saying since we've been
going through the dark days, thedark times, embrace the chaos.
You know, it's I don't what I've, what I don't do is, you
know, I mean, I go online and I do, I mean, I post about comedy,

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I post about shows, what have you.
I try to steer clear of the getting involved in a political
argument only because I've neverchanged anybody's mind about
something. And they've never changed my
mind, you know, So it's just like, what's the point?

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But I as I'll be getting ready to go to work and, you know, I
always like, oh, let's see if anybody left me, you know,
somebody left me the overnight messages or whatever.
And I would like go through the go through my, my wall and just
be like, oh, yeah, we're still arguing about this.
So, yeah, we're still talking about this and it's almost like

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more. So a lot of people want to feel
seen. A lot of people want to, you
know, argue over which side has the best, which, you know, has
the best grass, if you know, so to speak.
You know, our side is better because of this.
Our side is better because of that.
And somebody who kind of rides the middle of it looking on both

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sides of the fence on my thing is you say you're this, but
you're not. You say you're you know, and and
and it goes for it's both sides,you know, whether you're
Democrat or Republican, you know, but we know that
Republicans and they they they boast that we are the peaceful,

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non hating side. But yet the young Republicans
come out with a it's been leakedthis, I don't know if you've
heard of this, but they're the text messages that were very
racist. Very.
I mean, I read some of this and a part of me thought like, no,

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this is probably like an AI, youknow, thing.
And then when I dug a little deeper that I wanted to, I'm
like, oh, we're watermelon people.
OK, I've never heard, you know that that that's a new. 1 Yeah
well, and that that actually that's been happening and the

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other one that was they're making Holocaust jokes yeah I
mean all the way around it, it'sjust bad and all people see the
immanity in each other, you know, Irish backgrounds and you
know the the one thing I learnedabout the Irish thing is that

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both sides need to want to stop before anything changes Yeah,
they. Yes, you know, I, I, I, I kind
of feel like there is a civil war, but it's more like it's
online. But then it, it's, it's worse
than that. But it's just, you know, I, I

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recently took a trip down to North Carolina and you know, I,
I sometimes on the show, I make friend of the South, but that's
just me kind of just having my jabs.
I used to live in the South. And I will say this, though, the
one thing that I could say aboutthe South that is very, very
serious for the most part, especially in like the Virginia,

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I'll say Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, that
Southern hospitality thing. It's.
Real. It's very real.
It's, it's one of those things where it's like, I kind of feel
like every time I go visit, likethose three states that I named,

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they're like, oh, you're from New York.
And they, you know, treat me like I'm about to Google their
state. Like I'm about to like, not
Google their state, but like, like send them like a writer
review, you know, like, hey, go here because of this, this,
this, this, this. You know, I recently was in

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North Carolina this past weekendfor a wedding.
And I had encountered a lot of people while I was there before
and during the wedding. And it was just one of those
things where I was like, I'm hanging out at Duke University.
I'm having, I'm having a, a beer.
I'm, I had like a, not a long flight, but I'm just like a long

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trip from the airport to downtown Durham.
And I'm just like, I just want to drink before I check into my
hotel. And I, I go in and I check in
and you know, there's this very beautiful lady behind the
counter and I'm like, hi, my name is Hayden Harrington.
I'm here to check in. And, you know, we're kind of,

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we're going, you know, we're bantering back and forth a
little bit. And I, I said, you know what?
You don't sound like you're fromhere.
Where are you from? And you tell me she's from White
Plains, which is north of where I live.
And I'm like, oh, that's interesting.
And she asked for my ID, And I just hand her my ID and it has a
Brooklyn address on it. And, you know, she's like, oh,

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you're, you're from, you're fromwhere I'm from.
And I'm just like, well, White Plains is kind of like not quite
the five boroughs, but we know you exist, you know, and you
know, I'm like, let's, let's notget carried away.
Like White Plains, like, you know, no one's vacation in the
White Plains, whatever. And but I, you know, I'm like,

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look, I'm just giving you a hardtime.
And, you know, she talks about like, how much she loves Durham,
how much she loves North Carolina, how she's like, you
know, New York is always going to be there.
I go back and I visit every oncein a while.
But when I'm done with New York,I I like to come home.
I like to sleep in my bed. I have a dog.
I have a backyard. You know, like I have, like, it

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was like she was bragging. I'm like, you have all these
things that, you know, we have astoop.
Yeah. Well, yeah, that's I don't even
have that. I have like.
This wall, this wall, that wall.I have one yeah well, I'm
missing a well, well, no, there's a wall there too.

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Hey yeah, I, I live in a you know, The thing is rent is very
expensive. I'm under rent control here and
so that's one of the things likeand I have the four O 8 area
code and I don't know if this isa thing over there, but like if
you have the old area code that means something and it's like

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it's a phone number. Yeah, but yeah, and and it's and
over here. I mean, I know what the rent's
like over there in the Bay Area.It is just how do you guys do it
and not work for Microsoft or Google or whatever?
It it it, it, it does amaze me over here.
It's almost like if they could rent out a like a porta potty

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and call it a studio apartment and sell it to you for like $800
a month, they'll do it. If it would if it was legal,
they will do it. Oh, there's kind of pretty much
how it is here. The San Francisco Bay Area is
the second highest rent in the country.
Second two. Guess where?
Yeah. Yeah.

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New York. Yeah.
I got to tell you about New York, though.
I've done stand up. Not recently.
It's been several years, but in every state around New York.
I've never stepped foot in New York.
Really. So you've been, so you've been
to Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, I I assume

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Pennsylvania you've done. Yeah, but it's the other side
of. Pennsylvania, yeah.
Even though, Yeah, even though, yeah, even though it's not.
You got Jersey in the way. You, you know, West of that you
would have Pennsylvania. And yeah, those are the, I mean,
those are the states that are surrounding us.
I mean, unless you want to count.

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I mean mad. There's Massachusetts.
Which I have not been. OK.
I've not been to Massachusetts. I've not been to New York.
My wife, though, I, I got to saythis too.
When her family immigrated to the United States from Guyana,
they settled in in Jamaica, LongIsland, and so and.

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So Jamaica, which is that's a section in Queens and you say
Long Island as well, OK. And, and Long Island, yeah, I
mean, I met both, but Jamaica primarily and the.
So when her family came to the United States, they settled
there. And then her dad got a transfer

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with United Airlines to San Francisco Airport.
And so that's how they ended up in California, which I'm
grateful for because. Yeah, but so she has family in
New York and she spent a decent amount of time there and then
she moved from one world class city to San Francisco, another

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world class city, I mean. I mean, I'm pretty sure nothing
really changes as far as that goes.
I mean, as far, I mean culture wise.
So you're, you're dating a Guyanese woman.
That's that's why I used to I used to date a Guyanese.
I used to date a Guyanese women.Yeah, yeah, wonderful people.

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Their women are very beautiful. I'm Kirby and myself.
So but that that's very I'm I'm I'm looking at you.
I'm like, wow, you date a Guyanese woman.
Good for you. Way to way to step your game up.
Well, what I'm saying. You're you're married, Actually,
yeah, you're married. I'm sorry.
I keep saying dating. I don't know why you're married.
People actually get married. Yeah.

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Yeah, well, and, and it's funny because like when Donna's dad
found out about Donna's, my wifefound out about the two of us.
And his whole thing was she's incollege, she shouldn't be dating
anyone. She should be on doing her
studies. She should be concentrating on
school and not have a social life.

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And that was, you know, very strict.
And so, and he was a mechanic now when he was with American
Airlines, he was a mechanic for them as well, but he worked on
aircraft and that sort of thing.And then he ended up working
for, it's a long story, but he ended up working on cars as
well. He he had this 65 T bird and he

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was always like doing stuff under on it.
Donna's gets a phone call when he found out about me and says,
bring him. You bring your boyfriend here
right now? And so we were both in class.
And so when she got the message,we had answering machines.
We didn't actually have cell phones.

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And so when she heard that, she's like, Oh my God, Oh my
God. And so we drove up to Concord,
CA, which is at that time, probably a little bit over an
hour drive. Now it's a lot more than that
because we have so much more traffic and that whole area's
built up. But in fact, then it wasn't as
pulled up and we pulled in and she darts out of my Dodge Dart,

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right. She gets out of my car, She
runs. Hey, mom, mom, mom.
And Donna's dad's in the driveway working on his T bird
with the hood up and his glasseslike this looking out the side.
And so I'm, I remember thinking about say something, say
anything, John, open your mouth,say something.

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And so it's a 65 Chi Burke. He said, yeah, you have the
curved back seat in the siding strangle.
Yeah. 390V8 Yeah. So you have what, Karger on
this? And he goes, no, I put a Holly
in. OK, great.
And so by the time Donna came back out, we were working on the
car. Oh, so that's how you guys
bonded? That's how we bonded, yeah.

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We worked on a lot of cars together.
Oh, so and and and you're, so doyou.
You're a mechanic. Mechanic, comic actor.
What do you not do? Well, I don't know yet.
Yeah, I'm I'm trying to figure it out.
Like I just put you put, I, I just put you putting like a
stethoscope over your shoulder and like, oh, I'm not a doctor.

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But I played one on TVI. Believe that actually.
Actually I did not on TV on in amovie.
I was in a a Halloween movie where I played the doctor in the
movie and I got killed off. How many movies have you been in
in your so far? Like how many movies do you
think? Well, OK, so if you include me

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as an extra on there, then it's I lost count.
If you are talking about ones where I actually have lines.
And there's this one movie whereI never had a line in the entire
movie was all. It was basically a silent movie,
if you can believe that. I was a firefighter and but I

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take some pretty weird movies. When I look at it, I go like,
this is strange, cool. I'm in.
And that's basically been my career.
That's why I make fun of myself too, because I've been in so
many horror movies, really bad ones, that I actually played
myself in a horror movie. You played yourself in a horror

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movie. Yeah, a friend of mine is a
little budget one, but I was basically the entire thing was
we're basically making fun of mycareer, you know, and I, you
know, I, I, I was a, a serial killer, as it turns out, you
know, statistic. And that's why I'm in so many of

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these anyway. But I'd say probably about a
dozen movies. OK.
And maybe a little bit more thanthat, I doubt.
And not all of them are on IMDb because some of them are pending
and are not up yet on there. But that will be that will
change whenever they get around to it.
Are you one of those type of people who actually watches the

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movies that he's done? Are you one of those or?
Absolutely. Really.
OK. Yeah.
Oh, I'm, I'm like, oh, I'm pretty good in this, huh.
OK. You know, it's funny because I,
I, I was, I was fiddling with myphone and I found all these

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videos of me doing comedy from, I've been doing comedy for 14
years now. And I found all these videos and
like recordings that I've had that were in the cloud and I'm
just sitting back and I'm watching them and I, I watched
like three of them and, and someof them are like, you know, open

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mic sets, But then there was some while I was doing 10 minute
guest, a 10 minute spot or you know, stuff.
And it's like I look at them andthen after a while I'm just
like, OK, only listen to see if we know what jokes I haven't
told in a while or, you know, just kind of see how my comedy

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has changed from, you know, way back when to now.
And then once I, I sometimes I get to a point where it's just
like, OK, I'm tired of my voice.I can't look at myself.
I'll resume later. Like for me, like I could only
handle so much of myself before.I'm just like, OK, I've seen

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enough. And and that is that you, you.
Oh, go ahead. I yeah, you go.
Ahead. Oh, no, I mean, I, it's just
like you have to live with you. So it's kind of like I, I drive
me nuts when I'm not looking at myself in the mirror and just
going like, oh God, I have such a crush on me.

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I mean, I'm like that. I'm like that too sometimes, but
it's just like, you know, I, I or how much that you've.
Gotten. I I get why some actors they,
they don't look at themselves and there's like, yeah, I was
there when I did it. We're moving on to the next
thing. And you know, that's sort of

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where I mean, I get the mindset of it, but at the same time
we're like, I have to look at these video.
I don't have to look at these videos, but I'm like, I want to
look at these videos. So I could see what I've
improved on. And because we're as comics,
we're very harsh critics of our own, of our self.
We're harsh critics of our art. Does anyone that's not I mean
like comedian wise? I mean, if if you want to be

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better, if you want to, you know, if you want to rise and
succeed, you're only going to beas good as you allow yourself to
be. So if you know, if you're a
comedy that go up on stage and you just you know, your face
hits the dirt and you don't and you're not aware of it and you
come off thinking, Oh my God, I killed but you didn't.

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That's almost like, OK, you still got dirt in your eyes and
you're delusional. But there's been times where I
get up on stage and I'll come off and I'll feel like, wow,
that was awful. And I would immediately know
why. Sometimes it'll be because maybe
I maybe I was too tired or maybethey didn't like my jokes, which

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still, you know, that's a thing.There's I can do a bad set.
I, you know, and, and sometimes when I do do a bad set, I, I,
it's something that I watch overand over again.
I kind of torture myself being like, OK, how can we make this
better? I like this joke, but I don't
want to throw this joke didn't work.

(32:50):
I like it. I don't want to throw it away.
I kind of feel like there's nothing that you can't make
funny if you just give it time. But it it's just, I'm one of
those guys that I will feel myself doing a set, whether it's
an open mic or what have you. And then on the way home, I'll
look at it and then I'll just close my eyes and just listen to

(33:12):
myself because I'm just like, let me just listen to myself and
just see where I should make my tweaks, you know?
Right, right. Well, and the one thing I do,
and I don't know if you do this as well, but something I do
recommend to pretty much everybody that's a comedian and
I, any comedians out there, The one thing I didn't have the

(33:33):
benefit of but you do is it was too expensive to record.
So it's very 'cause like keep inmind VHS camcorder when I
started that was over $1000 and that's in 1980s money.
OK, so do you go $1000? Well, on my yeah, no, no, it, it

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was very expensive. I found my first stand up
performance recently 'cause we borrowed a a camera from the
school to record my first set and it, it's a Betamax and I
can't find anyone. I can't.
I don't know if it's. Any good anymore?

(34:16):
But I'm like, OK, VHS, yes, but you know, I don't know if I'll.
Ever see that? But the Betamax tapes are like
way shorter. Yeah.
And I used to own a Betamax backin the day and I thought three
people. Yeah, I when it where I met God.
I remember when the Betamax cameout and we had like maybe 5

(34:39):
movies on it, and the movie thatI watched the most on it,
believe it or not, I had BeverlyHills Cop.
Oh, see. Now that it, you know, that
might be worth something. Now, nowadays you, you can
record yourself, it's digital, so you can put it in your
computer or or just watch it later on your tablet or whatever

(35:01):
the case may be and or bring your phone.
I mean, I, what I do is I actually have a dedicated camera
for it, so I can get high resolution.
I can, it's a whole thing, but for most people, just take your
phone or or tablet or whatever and record yourself.
And then you can be in the high in the moment where you're, you

(35:22):
have that adrenaline going and the whole 9 yards.
Wait a day, then watch. You're absolutely right.
And so and then but try to see it with a critical Lance.
OK, this, this landed, this didn't, but this landed the
other day. And this is what I do is I'll

(35:42):
look at that recording and I'll look at when it landed and see
if my delivery is different or if it's the audience, because
sometimes it is the audience. But if it it, but did I say it
differently or just like, and then I kind of tweak it that
way. The other thing is I have a
DDADHD and I have a really hard time concentrating sometimes.

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And so I, for example, in 80, no, that's not true.
In 2016 when Trump was running for president the first time, I
actually California legalized pot the same day that Trump got
elected. Tells you how we were going to
get through this era anyway. Yeah, right.

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Just popped into my head there. But the what I did was I started
talking about Donald Trump and then somehow it turned into the
Maple syrup cartel in Canada. And that's what you get for
reading your phone before you goon stage, right?

(36:46):
But yeah. And so I go.
I have this whole bid on the Maple syrup cartel in Canada.
This is the most Canadian thing I've ever heard of.
With the Maple syrup cartel. Yeah, yeah.
Do you know about them? I'm not familiar with them
actually, but that, but it sounds like that's something
that they would have. Well, they have a strategic

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reserve of Maple syrup in Canada.
This is true. You can look this up not right
now 'cause we're in a little conversation, but it is true.
People can DuckDuckGo it and seeit, but they have a strategic
reserve of Maple syrup in the United States.
We have a strategic reserve of oil, Maple syrup oil shows the

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difference in our priorities. Cause in Canada all they're
after is just a really good breakfast and that's that.
It's like, I did that joke. It just kind of came out of my
mouth. And then I'm like, oh, that hit
what, what was it? And then you can go back on the
recording and go like, all right, and you have it recorded.
So you remember what you said. So if it hits, if it lands there

(37:56):
and you can add it on to the figure out a place to put it.
Yeah, you'll the the arsenal of material that one may have, you
know, but you're right about waiting a day because sometimes
it's like you want to let that you know, especially if it's if
you're like having a questionable set, you don't want

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to like, OK, I had a rough, I had a rough outing and then you
want to like jump back into it. You like let my nerves get
better, let me relax, let me have breakfast, have a drink,
have a smoke, have a whatever before I return to this and then
kind of analyze it, you know, and that's what I find myself

(38:37):
doing like you're you're definitely right.
Sometimes I'll wait a day, sometimes I'll wait two days,
especially, especially when it'sa joke that I am super happy.
I mean, I write jokes all the time, but sometimes if I have
like my third cup of coffee of the day, which sounds like me
and I and I and the idea pops inmy head and I'm just like

(39:00):
laughing because I'm like, therecould be something there and I
actually write it down. I'll be on the train and I'll
just write down this very long thought about this premise that
popped in my head, and I'm not. And I'm like an English teacher.
I'm just like, OK, what do we not need in this joke?
We don't need to describe this. We don't need this.
We don't need this. So it's just like, I love

(39:23):
creating a joke. It's like creating, I don't want
to say it's like creating a child because I'm not like, you
know, when I write a joke, there's not like placenta all
over the place. And but my jokes not crying, you
know what I'm saying? It's not, you know, like my
significant is not coming up to me being like, Oh my God, this
is a good. This is going to be a great
joke. What are we going to call it?
Like there's none of that. It's just, you know, I sit there

(39:46):
and I'll write a premise and I'll fully write out a joke.
And when I'm done, I can't wait to like go to an open mic.
I, you know, I practice it at myoffice or whatever, but I can't
wait to go to an open mic and tell this joke because this is
something that I thought was funny.
And it's not like something thatI'm just like, oh, I need to

(40:08):
write a joke a day. So I'm just, you know, getting
my quarter and I'm like, no, I want to write something that I
want to tell. Over and over again and every,
no matter what state I'm at, no matter what, you know, venue I'm
at, people are laughing, you know, and that's the job.

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Well, and that's the job and it's a very good job because
think about there are a couple things that comedians do 1 is
people have a really hard life. They've had the stress of the
day. They may be going through
something for health wise. I went through something very
recently. Other people may be doing that
or they may be having a problem with a relationship or the work

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or whatever. And for that 90 minutes or
however long the show is, they get their mind off of it.
And it's good to get your mind off of it and you're providing
that service and. Exactly.
Right. The other thing is that it's not
less for us and you know, to kind of express ourselves in in

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a way that is a truth telling. So if you are doing something
political, which I used to do satire all the time until satire
became reality. And so you're kind of
exaggerating things that are actually true and and you know,

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it's been my world view. Now I worked to stand up about
getting older, having a bunch ofwomen in my life, three older
sisters. I was older boy.
And the the one joke goes, I have three older sisters and and
you, you know what that means. Hand me downs.

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Yeah. And and then I go through the,
that's usually how I started about my sisters.
But yeah, I'm #4 my brother's number 5, just right behind me.
But I was #4 and I was named John after both of my, my
grandfathers, both were John Patrick.
I became John Patrick. Yeah, a little trivial.

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I, you know, I, I try to be verycareful whenever I'm telling
Joe, especially when I'm on the road.
I remember I was in Mobile, AL for the first time.
I was down there headlining downthere and having a great time.
You know, jokes are landing and I kind of go political for a

(42:49):
little bit. You know, I'm like, gosh,
there's just Trump joke that I want to tell you guys, but I
know where I am and you guys aregoing to.
And they were chanting tell it, you know, and it was almost kind
of dumb on my part because I'm like, why would I say something
like that and then not expect them to be like, well, we want

(43:10):
to hear it, you damn Yankee. You know, and they didn't say
that they're a bit more nicer than that.
But I told the joke. It was a very, it was like a
very mild Trump joke. And when I told it, to my
surprise, they actually, you know, they, they clapped and

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they cheered and then subsequently they chanted De
Santis, de Santis de Santis. Because I was doing, I was in
Mobile, AL, not too far from thePanhandle of Florida, which is
very different from South Florida.
Like the Panhandle of Florida iscountry.

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It's yes. Country so and I was like I
don't have any jokes on you know, Ron de Santis.
I and this was when DeSantis andTrump were kind of having a
little spat. Yeah, Rhonda Santos was like
well you live in Florida. I must be doing a great job as
governor if you're in my state. And I was like wow, that's a

(44:18):
diss of all disses. But it was just it was it was
around that time and you know it's just they they and they
took it very well. I thought it was going to, I
thought it was going to go like way worse than that.
And I'm like 15 minutes in to my45.
So I'm thinking I might be able,I'll probably leave this show

(44:40):
and, you know, half hour, you know, early then I'm supposed to
put in the work. But yeah, no, they, they took
the joke. They thought it was, you know,
for the most part they were funny.
The joke was funny. So it was just like, but I try
to kind of steer clear of it because, you know, if people,

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people don't want to hear I, I kind of feel like they don't
really care about the whole political thing for the most
part. Like you say, people get a, they
want to get away, you know, and that's.
That's one of the reasons why mystand up is not real political.
I am, but my stand up is not real political.
Yeah. And people are surprised by
that, but it no, it I did satirefor a while.

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I do impersonations. I haven't done.
I'm working on. Do you know what quantum leap?
Yes, there's well, there's the show, and then of course,
there's the the remake. Yeah, I.
Don't know, I've never seen the remake.
I didn't even know it existed until recently.
Yeah, they did the remake, whichI I have not seen any of the

(45:46):
remake, but I have seen like oldepisodes of older episodes are,
are way better. I think it's only because it's
one of those things it kind of reminds me of The Terminator.
It was a movie that was like wayahead of its time.
I kind of feel like Quantum Leapwas one of those shows that was
way ahead of its time as well. I would say the same thing goes
for Max Headroom for those. There, there's not enough

(46:08):
seasons of that show in my apology.
You know, I'm I'm always leave them wanting more.
And that's one of the reasons why I like when I produce and I
haven't produced comedy in a little while.
It shows with other people on itbecause I had been in ill health
and so that took a lot of my energy.

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But when I did, I'd always keep the show 90 minutes Max because
you always want to leave them wanting more.
You don't want to wear out the audience, leave them wanting
more. And that's kind of what Max
syndrome was like. But I'm working on a bit right
now and I didn't mean to cut youoff.
I I I just realized I did. No, no, no, that's fine.
No, it's it's OK. Like I said, we're having a

(46:50):
conversation. There's going to be a little bit
of, you know, you're going to have a thought and you're like,
Oh my God, what do I, you know? Sometimes say the thought out
loud, it's not like I'm not listening, it's just like, oh,
that came out of my mouth. Yeah, well, I mean usually on
the show and I know I'm like pushing the 4th, 5th and 6th
wall down. It's like we would have you

(47:10):
know, my Co hosts you and then another guest.
We'd have like 4 guests. Well not 4 but like 4 people on
here. And it's like everybody has a
thought and everybody wants to share it.
So we kind of like, you know, but it's just too yeah, I have
not done A1 on. I can't I can't think of the

(47:30):
last time I got a one-on-one episode and I really wanted to
meet you, which is why I'm like,I'm not I'm not going to cancel
this because because I I took a nap before, like I just came in
from work. I took AI took a 30 minute power
nap. I watched a movie, took a nap 8.
And then I thought to myself, you know, you, you sent me

(47:53):
messages about like, hey, is this thing still going to
happen? You know, kind of checking in
and whatnot. And I thought to myself, it
would be shitty if I was like, you know what?
Not because I'm thinking while I'm napping, you're getting
prepared. Like you're sitting in your
seat. You look comfortable.
I didn't want to be like, OK, I'm going to reschedule this.

(48:16):
So I was again, I was like, no, we're going to do this even
though I haven't done a one-on-one in a while and it's
going to be fun. It's going to be, you know, what
are we going to talk about? Who knows?
But you know, I wanted to definitely because again, we've
never really met before and it'salways good to speak to,
especially a comic who's been doing this and not just stand up

(48:41):
comedy, but you've done quite a bit in your, you've done a lot
of entertaining based on what you've shared with me.
And you know, those who are listening, you've, you have a
lot of, and you also have a lot of insight.
I did not know you've been, you did comedy that long.
So that's why when you said, youknow, and before we started

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recording that you've been doingit for almost 3 decades.
I'm like, wow, for the most part, there's wisdom there.
Well, yeah, and I just wish the people would listen to me
sometimes, you know, Like I knowwhat I'm talking about.
You're running over your punch, let punch breathe.
You know, stuff like that. I can actually help people if
they would let me, but they don't because I find of course

(49:25):
I'm older and, and more laid back now, but I, I look at these
young guys and I can tell the people that have performed for a
long time and the ones that are new, there's the ones that are
new. There's two things they do.
They go, they go really fast andthey go right through the punch.

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And if they don't let it breathe, they go on to the next
one. And so by the time people
realize, oh, that was the punchline, they're on to the
next it it. Yeah, there's that, but.
I think it's working. I think that I think that's
because it's nerves. They are, they don't know how to
pace yet, you know, and those are like Lord things that they

(50:07):
can learn once they, you know, of course, keep doing mics and
what have you. But I, yeah, I, I was at an open
mic the other day and it was like, there's a guy walking up
and down the hall reading, you know, from a notebook, trying to
like, he's nervous as shit. And then he goes up and he does
what was supposed to be 5 minutes.

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He does it in 2 1/2. And he was like these these are
and and mind you, like you said,like a speed demon.
He didn't give the audience a chance.
I mean, the audience was laughing, but by the time the
laughter was done, he's already midway to his next joke and got
and and we don't even know if hetold like a one liner between

(50:50):
that, you know, right. Just.
Firing off these jokes. Yeah, well, and, and I think
comedy is pretty universal. Doesn't matter if it's East
Coast, West Coast, what have you.
And I'll tell you a Robin Williams story in a minute, but
but for what I because I didn't want to forget this.
You know, what I'm working on right now is I'm working on a

(51:13):
routine, although I don't. And This is why I talked about
Quantum Leap is Barack Obama as Sam Beckett going into my body.
And then of course, I have the Starship Enterprise and Captain
Kirk and the two of the math conversation back and forth that
is not completely written yet, but but basically just real

(51:37):
short. He's like, well, here's the
thing, leaps into Johnny Corn's body.
Oh my God, his life's a mess. And that's basically as far as
I've gone so far. Now, the Robin Williams story.
Yes, my last name's Corn. And there's a comedy club in San

(51:59):
Francisco called Cobbs. Oh yes, I'm very familiar with
that. I was performing there.
And have you ever been? No.
I've driven, ridden past it a few times.
I've never I had the pleasure ofactually performing there, but I
know of it. Well, and if you're in the Bay
Area, what have you, let me know.
I don't drink anymore, but we can have a coffee or whatever or

(52:24):
we you can drink and I'll just have like a non alcoholic or
alcohol removed beverage, you know, some months.
And hey, so essentially what happened was I was at Cobb's.
I was, and Robin was known for just in San Francisco just kind

(52:44):
of appearing at shows as moral support for the comedians.
Or sometimes you do a set and sometimes it would be he's just
working on new material and the whole thing.
And so he never knew when he wasgoing to pop up.
And he's he popped up a couple times, never really had a chance
to talk to him all that much up until this point.

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But the first time I ever met him, I was in the middle of my
routine. I was doing the the thing and I
actually turned because there's only one way on and off the
stage there. OK.
Normal stages usually have stairs on both ends.
They had stairs at one end, right.
So you get on and off the same way.

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And I turned like, God, he looksa lot like Robin Williams.
He, he would be a great impersonator, right?
And so I finished in my routine and they didn't give me the
light or anything short. I did the time I was supposed to
do. I get off and he turns to me and
says, yeah, good job, good job. And and I'm, oh, that's cool.

(53:47):
And then, you know, thank you. And I'm walking off and the
announcer, the the MC for the show, the host goes like we have
a real treat for you guys. You know who's here in the
building right now for your entertainment?
Robin Williams and I turn out what and you know, it's it's

(54:10):
kind of like that, like almost like whiplash.
I had whiplash for a week. It was like what?
It's so Fast forward. Oh Lord, a good 789 months.
Something like that. I don't really remember.
I was doing a show at another comedy venue in San Francisco
and San Francisco Challenge parking's always a challenge.

(54:32):
Allow for like 3 years. If I could avoid driving in San
Francisco, I do. I take the train, I'll take.
Bart, You take the Bart. You're familiar with Bart?
Yeah, Our subway is Bart. Yeah.
And so, but they don't, they nowgo to San Jose, but they didn't
at the time. And I even then I have to drive
there. Really.
Yeah, well, that's a whole story, 'cause I'll get to.

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OK, So what happened is when barwas put in there, they actually
had each county vote on it. And this is back in the 60s.
And so San Jose at that point intime was agricultural and
they're thinking like, hey, who's going to come here?
So they didn't vote for it, but the rest of the counties did.

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And so they got all built right back when there's no land, it
was all farmland, right? And so then they do Bart, it
started, it stopped in Fremont, went through Oakland, all the
way around San Francisco and then Daly City.
And so it kind of like was like a, a question mark in a way.

(55:38):
If you look at the way the Annapolis, well, and then San
Jose developed and became the center of the universe for all
things tech and rent, rent went like straight up.
And we have all these I, I got to the point where people say

(56:00):
like, where are you from? And I said, San Jose, no, no,
where are you from? And I said, well, are you
talking where I was born or, or where I where I spent my
childhood or, or what? Yeah.
Where where did you, how long have you been in San Jose?
They said, oh, over 50 years ago.

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Well, are you in tech? No.
Why are you here? And I get that sometimes.
And I'm like, I was here first anyway.
I mean, I remember I visited. I visited.
I've been in the Bay Area like 4-4 times actually.
And the last time I went to San Jose, I went there for a

(56:41):
football game. Well.
Santa Clara, Oh, Santa Clara, yeah.
Yeah, it was the Giants was visiting the 49ers and me and a
good and me and a friend of minefrom high school, I flew in from
Seattle, he flew in from Austin and I got a hotel like right
downtown and there the actually it was about 3 blocks away from

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I believe the it's called the Improv.
I think you guys have the improvwith that.
So it was. A big walk away.
From there and the time that I was there, Dionne Cole was was
there for the weekend and we so and the airport, the San Jose
airport is not that far from downtown.

(57:28):
It's oh, really damn close. It's scarily close to downtown.
So, you know, that's why they don't have like skyscrapers or
whatever, because it's in the path of the airplane.
It's been to the airplane. So I, I remember, I remember
landing at the airport being in downtown like like that, the,

(57:50):
the driver of the Uber that was getting me to my hotel, we, we
passed like a string of cars that were parked in a taxi, like
a taxi stand. And I was like, I was like, how
is it legal for all these cars to be parked here?

(58:11):
And the guy tells me, oh, these cars belong to people who work
in tech that cannot afford to live in an apartment.
And I was like, get the fuck outof here.
And he was like, it is very expensive here.
And I was like, OK, I live in New York.
I mean, I lived in Seattle at the time, but I mean, I lived in
New York Once Upon a time as well.

(58:31):
I'm like, look, I'm, I'm from New York.
I know what expensive rent is. I know it's expensive around
like, you know, here, but it couldn't be that bad.
And he was, and he was telling me like, look, these guys are
going to move their cars at around like a certain time so
the taxis could go, but they're going to go to Google or
whatever tech place that they'reworking at.

(58:52):
They're going to take a shower and they're going to go back to
work. They live in their cars, so I'm
like, OK, you know what, whatever.
I went on Craigslist just and then you guys have a place
called what Sunnyvale? Yes.
And I was looking at a one bedroom apartment, not even

(59:14):
looking like I was like there was a one bedroom apartment that
I saw that was listed and it was$5100 a month.
And I was like, that's I was like, no, that's Pulser.
And then I started looking even more kind of digging while I'm
getting this ride and the rents there.
I'm like 51. And I was like Sunnyvale.

(59:38):
And he was like, Oh yeah, that that makes sense, you know?
So he's like, yeah, that right around that area is very high.
You know, he's like, if you planon living here, you better be
even if you work at any of theseplaces, you still wouldn't be
able to afford to work there. I mean, to to live there.
And I got to kind of see that for myself because even though

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these folks are living in their cars by the airport, they get a
food stipend, they get to shower.
I'm sure pretty sure these places have gyms in the
facilities as well. So Oh.
They got everything. You.
Yeah. So, you know, and I was like,
Dang, this is like really expensive.
And then I'm like walking arounddowntown and, you know, it's

(01:00:21):
pretty nice. It's very, very expensive.
Yes, and it's funny because eachcity in the area pretty much,
and I'll tell you 49er story in a minute, but there are three,
like you have San Francisco, youhave Oakland, and you have San
Jose. And people think about the

(01:00:42):
touristy stuff in San Francisco.Well, I actually have spent more
time in, I mean, I've spent a lot of time in San Francisco,
but it's usually going to a comedy show or whatever.
I didn't even ride a cable car until I was, oh, in my 30s.
You know, I've never been to Alcatraz.
And so it's 'cause like, I know it's there and I can go there.

(01:01:05):
I can buy tickets and go. It's like the Statue of Liberty
with me. Yeah, see, and and people don't
well, it I was Winchester Mystery House is not that far
from where my where I grew up and my entire childhood never
went to the Winchester Mystery House and didn't go until I

(01:01:25):
started dating Donna. And then we went there on a date
together, you know, But yeah, Oakland, I think it's one of the
most underrated cities in the Bay Area.
I agree. Yes, I love Oakland and I was
there many a time with the Oakland A's.
I think the city's gotten a really bad rap.

(01:01:47):
Yes they have bad areas, but every city has bad areas.
I kind of feel like Oakland. I mean, I like Oakland.
I've been to Hayward, Lake Merritt over there.
Oh yeah, Lake Merritt's awesome.Oh, Lake Merritt's amazing.
I, I was, I was doing a show andthen the one of the people that

(01:02:08):
were at the, the audience members was like, yeah, I'm from
Oakland. I'm like, oh, I used to, you
know, I used to hang out at LakeMerit.
I used to, there's a few bars around there that I, that I
can't get AT. And she was, and then this was
she's like Oakland stocks. And I'm like, OK, but you, you
say you're from there. You live there.
She's like, no, no, I don't evenlive there anymore.

(01:02:28):
Like I'm from Oakland. But she was like, I moved, you
know, I moved across the Bay to San Francisco and, you know, and
I'm just like, well, you know, the last I was on Market Street,
you know, while I was over there.
And it's like, you know, it kindof reminds me of, you know, it's
a mess like that part of it. And like, it's a huge mess.

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So it's like, I mean, I'm not. And I'm not shitting on San
Francisco. I like San.
I like the Bay Area, you know when I can afford to go there,
you know what I mean? Right.
Well, that's that's it, yeah. You know, it, it, it, they make
it, it's almost hard to go over there and spend.
I mean, you could spend a weekend there and be fine.

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But if you're like, I'm going togo spend a week in the Bay Area,
it's like you better have, you better hope that somebody backs
up a Brinks truck with another Brinks truck for you to do stuff
because it's, I mean, it's you know, and, and just like New
York, NY is, is expensive too. But if my friends come over to

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visiting from wherever, come to New York, I'm like, Hey, look,
I'm going to take you to places where where we go, you know, you
know, you know, it's like usually when I go travel, I
don't like going to places that are tourist traps.
It's like, look, I want to eat where you guys are eating.
Because I know if I eat somewhere downtown where they're

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just like, oh, you're visiting, you're going to spend, you know,
$200 for a meal. I'm like, no, I don't want to do
that. I'd rather go spend.
Oh, there's some holes in. The wall there, yes, that's what
I like. I like hole in the wall places
where I, I don't want to be around a bunch of other tourists
because what are they going to tell me about your town?

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All they could tell me is what they've done.
But if I'm hanging out with somebody like you or my friends
over in the Bay Area, I get to, I get to meet people of that
kind. I get to meet Bay Area people,
you know, not some, not somebodyfrom Ohio that's visiting.
That's just like, that's going to get just as lost as I am

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walking around downtown San Francisco, downtown Oakland,
downtown San Jose. So that I want to be where when
I say the people, where the natives are.
That's why I vacation. And yeah, that, no, there's
something to be said for that. And I, my brother and I used to
spend a lot of time because we're not like where we grew up.

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It's just over the mountain and then you're in Santa Cruz.
So we used to watch the surfers and the surfer girls and go to
the boardwalk and all that. And we'd we'd get over to the
hit on the surfer girls as teenagers and just get just
brutally rejected. It was fantastic now, but now

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San Francisco 49ers, I was actually in a commercial for
them that was filmed actually inthe stadium when it first
started. That was not my first time
there. How?
About you said Levi's. Levi's.
Levi Stadium, Yeah. And so the first time I was ever
at Levi Stadium, my mom said, hey, my church is going, would

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you like to tag along and on my chance to check out a new
stadium. OK, so I did.
I'm not much of A churchgoer, but you know, my, my mom is very
religious. And so she, she went well, she's

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pushing 90 now. But when she was, he had strong
Irish woman, right? It's like.
Yeah. But her and her church friends
went over there and God tour thewhole thing went into the locker
rooms, went into like where the sky boxes are and all the all
the stuff. So I got to see that before it

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actually opened to the general public.
And so that I thought was prettycool.
And then about two months later,the Niners weren't playing yet.
It was the offseason and I got to do a commercial for them.
And so I was a maniac in a like a maniac fan like.

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OK, so a fan, yeah. A fan.
Yeah. And I was a complete lunatic in
this thing. And there's something about
seeing yourself. Well, there's two things I'll
say about this. Seeing yourself in a commercial
where you're really big because they.

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I eventually saw me on the 49er screen the.
Jumbotron. Like the Jumbotron, I mean the
commercial. And I'm thinking to myself,
that's the one time I did this, Don't recognize me.
Yeah. But also I get really annoyed
with myself because I watch YouTube a lot, Reaction videos.

(01:07:42):
I'm heading into the reaction videos because I know most of
the songs that these people haveno idea what they are because I
grew up and they were around andso seeing the young people, I
think it's fantastic. But I, I get really irritated
when a commercial of mine comes up before the video I actually
want to see. So that really irritates me.

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But anyway, I did I if if anyone's out there and they want
Johnny Corn to be their spokesperson, I'm plugging
myself right now. I mean, I'm offering my
services. As as you should.
This is this is what you know, This is why we have you, you

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know what I'm saying? So it's like definitely promote
yourself. Definitely.
You know, you know what, it's funny when I, when I Speaking of
your name, Johnny Corn, I know that's your stage name.
I thought the first thing that came to mind was maybe it was
like Johnny Corn because you're from like Kern County and like,

(01:08:49):
you know, down over there by Bakersfield, CA or something
like that. I thought that's why you, you
know, and I'm just like I. Can tell you that story.
You know, have you been to Bakersfield?
I've been. I've performed in Bakersfield,
I've performed in Fresno. I've performed actually down in

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Los Angeles quite a few times. The last time I was there was
for a movie premiere that for a movie I was in and kind of, I'll
get back to that one in a minute, but no, I'll do that
now. Why change subjects?
And so they had the red carpet and, you know, hi, hi, hi, go

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in, watch the movie, see the movie.
I'm a peripheral character in this movie.
So I'm not, I mean, I'm in it, but I'm not a major star.
And they had the major stars in the center, 'cause you do press
after that. And then they have all the
different people that are in themovies on this long table.

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And I was at the very, very end and I thought they'll never call
on me. So I'm just kind of like just
staring into really kind of justdaydreaming and the whole thing.
And then they asked me a question.
I'm, I'm sorry, could you repeatthe question, please?

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So anyway, so that that happenedjust popped into my brain, but
that actually did happen. And actually that's what the
same producer that's doing sweatpants, the movie that I'm
in now, she was the director forthat movie.
I have the tendency of using thesame being with the same
directors a lot. OK.
So what? Oh, my name, My name.

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My my real name is Wally Fingerhead.
Kidding, kidding, that was. I went to get you real.
I'm just, I'm just like, wow. And your mom lived to be 90, and
that's the name she gave me. I'm like, wow, Wally.
Now my my real name is John Nalte.

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So John Patrick Nalte, very Irish and and my mom, when I
it's Christmas time, she gets methis doll where it's called the
Joey doll by Fisher Price where you can, and you can Google
this, it actually exists. We can tie the shoes.

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He had a removal jacket and it'showever old I was at that time
when you learned to tie your shoes.
So what 2829 we'll say like 5. And so I said to her, you know,
I have it. Actually, I can grab it in a
minute. I still have it to the States
right there. Oh, really?

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But Joey Dollback was surprised.And so I said, Mom, can I name
him Joey? Do I have to call him Joey?
And she goes, like, no, dear, you can name him whatever you
want. So great.
I'm going to name it after my two favorite things, me and
Corn. It shows the mentality of me at
that age. Right.
And so I have three older sisters.

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Well, they ran with that. Yeah.
So from that point on, I was Johnny Corn.
And so, yeah, so it's basically a tip of the hat to my sisters.
Is, is really what the name is My sister Mary, who has done
some acting as well. She not, not her primary career,

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she was a a teacher, but she's actually here and there as well.
But she said well, 'cause at thetime I lost the rights to my
previous name, the Cycle Cow, because I didn't think to
copyright it or. Trade.
Or any. And I got it's a whole legal

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thing anyway, So what? And it happens I need to come up
with a new name. I come up with a new routine.
Anyway, so she goes, how about Johnny Corn?
So I ran with it and there you go.
And actually, if you want, I cango grab that real quick.
Yeah, I would. I want to see what that looks
like. OK, hang on one second.

(01:13:02):
Hi, Shall we try? My cat's right over there
sleeping somewhere. So if you hear.
Yep, that's. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be
right back. Stay tuned.

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And there he is. So here.
And by the way, I can't see a damn thing.
So here is Johnny Corn. Nobody has.

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I've never shown this in to anyone.
Well, people in the apartment, Yeah.
Here's Johnny Corn. Oh wow, yeah.
Has the the shoes that you can tie.
I lost the jacket somewhere along the way and I put some
hair on them and a cap and I made them into a slash because I

(01:14:05):
was a big fan of slash And so I thought, well, that would be.
I made them into a shrine at onepoint.
OK. Oh.
And so, but yeah, so that's Johnny Corn and now that I've
done that. So I kind of felt like we just
had like 2 guests on the show. 1was like 1 knew better than to
speak. Just stay still.

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And you know, nice little JohnnyCorn.
Wow, that that is. That is something.
Yeah, and my wife married me anyway.
Well, I mean, you're a very talented young man and love
knows no bounds. So.

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Well, that's. I, I, I knew well, OK, I
shouldn't say this. Oh, I'm going to say this
because it's true. The first date.
And I've posted about this on Facebook and and you're one of
my Facebook friends on there. And by the way, if anyone wants

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to, I get very political on on Facebook and I try to like
write, write down, like tried tobe the voice of reason where I'm
trying to state my point of view, but try to stay.
I don't know how good a job I dowith it.
It's I think, I think you do well.
The thing is, I think you do a pretty good You do a good job of

(01:15:34):
just you know, and you know whatI want to say facts.
You very good at putting out facts, but I like the fact that
you put like A and it and it's not just, I mean, we've had I
have a lot of friends on there that they just, it's as
comedians, you got to just make jokes and laugh, you know, and I

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take and I take a lot of I mean,I, I, I remember posting up
whenever people like days after,not even during the
inauguration, But it was just like, there was a lot of there
was just so much anger around. And I feel like as comedians,
our job is to just be like, hey,we're going to get you through

(01:16:22):
this, you know what I'm saying? Well, so, yeah, so it's just
like, you know, and again, there's some people who are not
going to think what you say is funny or people that tell you
stuff like you watch too much, you know, liberal media.
What? It doesn't matter.
Right. Well, there, there are certain

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people. Oh, go ahead.
You're going to finish. Your No, yeah, I was just going
to say it. It doesn't matter.
It's as comedians, if we see something, our job is to
basically spot the line and thendeliberately cross it, as George
Carlin would say. You.
You, you see the line and you deliberately cross it.

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And you not only do deliberatelycross it, you see that other
you, you draw more lines and youkeep crossing that and it's
like, you know it it. That's what gets us through the
time. So like I said, embrace, embrace
the chaos, laugh, make fun. It's going to be OK.

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It'll be all. What people don't realize when
and The thing is, I try to stay,I mean, I'll state my opinion
the whole thing, but if someone else has a different opinion,
then I, I try to say, well, it'sdialogue.
Let's have dialogue. I say that all the time.
Let's have dialogue. And so if anyone wants to follow

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me, it's Johnny Corn on Facebookand you're welcome to chime in
as long as you're not obnoxious.You know, like a couple people I
had to ban, I just had to block them.
And just like, no, no, no, no, no, but it as long as you, but
they're welcome to do that. But my, my thing is, we've been

(01:18:07):
through, here's what people haveto realize.
We've been through worst times. Civil war comes to mind where we
literally broke up as a country.We got, you know, they tried a
divorce and it, you know, 'causethings were just not working
out. We had 1968 and in 1968 you had

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Martin Luther King assassinated,you have our RFK senior
assassinated. You had all sorts of chaos in
the streets. You had a lot of just civil
unrest and you know, in the 70s we had like long lines with for

(01:18:49):
gas. And I don't know how it was in
New York, but nationwide, actually internationally, there
was a shortage of gasoline. And So what they used to do is
they used to have a green flag in California and, and each
state probably did something similar.
They had a green flag and green flag at the gas station meant
that you had gas and if you didn't have the green flag, you

(01:19:13):
didn't have gas, right? Or maybe it's vice versa.
And then you take the last digitof the license plate and if it's
an odd number you can get your gas on odd days if it's even
number you get your gas on. Even days.
There's rationing, their gas lines, double digit inflation.
We had just gotten out of Vietnam and Vietnam 68.

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Vietnam is when everything escalated there.
So like I said, 68 but but the after effects of that 'cause
then he had in wanna say 747374 he had Watergate and and that
whole thing around. I might be off on the air, but

(01:19:56):
you had to run that time. So he had all this unrest, you
know, and people don't realize we've been through turbulent
times before. We've gotten through it.
We went to that time. But The thing is, I'm old enough
I remember this. A lot of people are too young to
remember this. And so there's lessons from

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history that we can take that it's, to quote Billy Joel, great
New Yorker. Good old days weren't always so
good in Tomorrowland, bad as it seems, or something like that.
The good old days weren't alwaysgood Tomorrowland bad as it
seems, right? So it's forgivenessing.

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Yeah. But that's actually a really
good phrase. You know, Peter Tork, to quote
one of his songs that he wrote. Yeah.
We were born to love one another.
It is something we all need. It is, I kind of feel like based
on all the things that you've talked about though, like, you

(01:20:59):
know, the Vietnam War and, and what have you.
Yeah. And, and again, those were times
that I mean, we're still here, but the country is still here
for the most part, you know, and, and you're right, we have,
you know, from the Great Depression all the way up to
now. I mean, there's been, you know,

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I mean, we even went through a pandemic, like, I mean.
Once in a century pandemic in our lifetime.
Yeah, so, and even even that gets a lot of, you know, people
still, well, I didn't get the, Ididn't get the jab and this
that, whatever. Again, it's like it's not enough

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that people that we've actually gotten past it.
You know, you come on a train inNew York, you're going to see
you're going to see people wearing masks.
There's people still wearing masks.
And again, I don't blame them. But if I was to take a picture
of your average train car here in New York and with people with

(01:22:01):
those who are wearing masks and I post it up, you're going to
have some people being like, Oh my God, you guys are still
wearing masks. Like, what's the deal with?
You know, there's a lot of mask shame.
Like still five years after the fucking pandemic.
Like, I'm like, you know, peopledied of this thing, right?
You know, like people. Like hundreds of thousands.
Of people. Of people, my friends have died.
So the the my. And that's just like whether you

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believe that, you know, you didn't want to take the, the,
the, the, the vaccines or whatever.
OK, OK. And that's fine.
That it's you could do whatever you want Here in New York, they
sort of forced us to take it if we wanted to keep working, you
know, did I agree with it? No, but you know what I would

(01:22:50):
have? I I need my I need it at the
time I needed my job. I don't want to be unemployed
because. And on top of that, what, what's
the worst case scenario? It kills me.
OK, my bad. I didn't see it killing people
while I was here in New York. As a matter of fact, while
people were taking it, I was bidding my time waiting for any

(01:23:12):
kind of waiting for any kind of like symptoms or something like
that. You know, if people were like
knocking out, you know, after taking the visor vaccine, I'm
like, all right, note to self, I'm not going to take it and
they can't force us to take it, but they did.
I did it, you know, and I'm here.

(01:23:34):
I, I feel good. I I even took the booster.
Yeah. And nothing happened.
Well, you know, there are a couple things with this too, is
that one of the things that I had done on social media is I
said very recently, actually a couple months back, is that I
got my flu shot and and my, I got my flu and COVID shot

(01:23:57):
vaccine today or shot today, something like that.
Didn't mean it to be a politicalthing.
Just hey, I did this, I went over to Walgreens, got this, you
know, and that became one of themore most political posts that
I've ever had without it trying to be political.
You know, I'm just saying this is what I did today is my

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mindset anyway. But I'll I'll point out that the
last big pandemic that we had before this was the Spanish flu.
And there's this really good book called More Deadly than
War. And in this book More Deadly

(01:24:40):
than War, I read it right beforeCOVID happened, as fate would
have it. So I kind of knew what was going
to happen because the trajectorywas almost exactly the same as
it was with with it. And the reason why they called
More Deadly than War is because more people died of the Spanish

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Flu then died fighting in World War 1.
Now that's more deadly than war,right?
And in that book and in things that had happened is that they
talk about the anti mask brigadeand people refusing to wear
masks and the whole thing. Well, what happens 100 years

(01:25:25):
later, the exact same thing. It's got to be something about
human nature or something. I don't know.
I, I was on a different trajectory though, because I had
actually, I was in a really big international commercial.
My career was going like this in20/19/2019, 2019-2020 hit and

(01:25:46):
then I had, I was driving my carand I had an aneurysm and hit a
pole. And so I spent most of 2020 in
the hospital and then after the hospital rehab and after rehab,
I was in the apartment unable togo outside.
Now, not because of COVID, but because I was rehabilitating.

(01:26:11):
I had a nurse and, and physical therapist, occupational
therapist, all these things that, but it was in the
apartment, 'cause I, I couldn't,I physically couldn't leave.
And so my experience for 20/20 was completely different than a
lot of people. And so they're like, well, you

(01:26:32):
don't know what it was like. Yeah, but you don't know what it
was like for me either. So it's kind of like I, I don't
know. So I didn't actually get exposed
in the worst of it because I wascompletely isolated and it
wasn't on purpose. It was because I was recovering
and. And my career went, yeah, I, I

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feel like a lot of people, I mean, for the most part, we all
had like the same experience. We have to be locked inside.
If you are a you, if you are a essential worker, you're able to
work this out, Whatever. I mean, it, it, it, it, it was,
it was crazy, you know, but at the same time, you know, with,
like you said with the, the bookabout Spanish flu, people not

(01:27:18):
wanting to wear a mask and like,even, you know, today they don't
one, I guess my, my theory was, OK, people don't want the
government telling them what to do.
Therefore it's my, you know, there's my body, it's this, it's
that. But at the same time, it's like,
OK, but this is not, it's not just people dying in this

(01:27:40):
country. It's all over the world.
You couldn't fly anywhere if youI had a had friends who were
stuck in stuck in Canada, friends were stuck in Italy that
were on vacation. That was like, we couldn't come
back. They had to stay there for a
while. Not, you know, some countries

(01:28:00):
were handling it better than we were.
But at the end and and it was just, you know, it was it, it
was a mess. I mean, I think we could all
agree it was a mess, but at the same time, you know, people were
like, well, they came up with a vaccine too fast.
I'm not putting it in my body, but I'm just like, now is it
because of who's in the White House now?

(01:28:24):
Or is it because, you know, it, it it was, it's just like, if
this person tells me to do it, I'll do it.
But if this person that I don't like who doesn't align with my
political affiliation, I'm not going to do it.
Well, it doesn't make much sensebecause like we had Operation
Warp Speed and that was under the Trump administration trying

(01:28:44):
to get this virus under control by coming up with a, a vaccine
and they did it in record time and the whole thing.
And, and you know, tip that to him for, for doing that, even
though he doesn't want to take credit for it now.
But that was under his administration, administrating
the vaccine after it was developed and the whole thing

(01:29:06):
that fell under Biden. So it's both parties, right?
And so I don't understand why like, you know, also nobody,
well, I shouldn't say nobody. Very few people were alive
during the Spanish flu epidemic.That was a lie for COVID.
They're, you know, 'cause they're 100 years apart, right?

(01:29:29):
So it's like a, we have, we didn't know really exactly how
to react to this. There's lessons that can be
taken from it, but people can't really use like the Biden
numbers for the first two years or so because the, the, the, the
economy is closed and it was closed under Trump before that.

(01:29:51):
And so there's all this and we had supply chain issues.
We had all of this stuff that was going on.
And so once all that stuff, the dust settled, no, the whole
thing. Then take those stats and
compare them to, to now or to before COVID.
But you can't really take the Trump numbers or the Biden
numbers for the time that COVID was, you know, locked down and

(01:30:14):
all that stuff, or we'll say a year for the recovery after
that, after everything opened upagain.
I and I, I argue this point withpeople and and you know, no, no,
you're wrong, you're wrong. OK, I'm wrong but.
All right, well, I mean, but my,my is OK if if you're wrong,

(01:30:38):
what's what's the right, what's the right response?
You know. If you're if you're going to
tell me that I'm wrong about something, OK, fine, correct me.
You know what I'm saying. Let me know what, what part of
my facts that I'm putting out there.
What, what, what's the, where's the, I don't want to say it's

(01:30:59):
the lie because I don't think ifyou're telling facts, you're
lying. You're you're basing it off
stats and what you're reading orwhat not.
But it's like, where's the, where's the disconnect?
You know, and some people they, it's just like, oh, the
disconnect is I'm not going to do your homework for you.
OK, Then you're just, you're just, you're just being petty at
this point. You know, you're not trying to,

(01:31:20):
you're not trying to get me to understand really where you're
coming from. You're just mad because you feel
that I am poking fun. You know which, No, I mean, this
is, this is a serious matter. There's a time and a place for
that, you know, for the jokes and all that.
But if, you know, there are times where I will say something

(01:31:40):
like, you know, case in point. And I know we're kind of like
shifting up like this whole Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show.
Oh. God, that thing, yeah.
Which I feel is the most dumbestthing to argue over because it's
just like if you've seen the last 10 Super Bowls, I don't

(01:32:04):
know, like halftime shows were pretty dope.
Halftime shows were pretty good.And and even before that, like
after the Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake thing, I think I
stopped watching the Super Bowl halftime show like a couple of
years. And then they made it.
There was like an announcement and I'm like, oh, this person is
doing it. OK, I'll, I'll check it out.

(01:32:24):
But it's like, it's not that bad.
I love that people think that Bad Bunny's going to get
deported or something like that,even though he is an American
citizen. Yeah, it's, you know, it's.
Just like. Some people that are arguing
against him have not finished fifth grade.

(01:32:45):
You know, geography, history. They, they don't, they don't
know. They just see him and they're
just like not on ITV and, and again, I don't care.
My thing is as a black man, I live in America.
I don't care if you're a racist.I really don't like it's, it's,
it's never bothered me. I grew up around racist people

(01:33:07):
and it and it's just, you know, just tell me you don't like the
halftime show because Oh well, people, Metallica should be in
it. Like really Metallica?
Here's A and here's A and here'sa thing that I've even the
halftime show. First of all, they're not
getting paid to do the halftime show.

(01:33:27):
That's. Right, that's.
Right. You know, so, so they're not,
they're not making, if anything,they probably would get their
flight taken care of and probably get their hotel taken
care of, but they're not gettinga, they're not getting a
$5,000,000 check after the fact.They're not getting that.
They're getting exposure maybe, which is weird because you know,
when Eminem and Doctor Dre and Snoop Dogg did it, they they did

(01:33:52):
it because the Super Bowl is in LA and they're the epitome of
LA. You know, even though even
though Eminem is from Detroit, he was, you know, Doctor Dre
found him and you know, thanks to Doctor Dre, he's got the
recognition. But it's like they don't get
paid to do this. So I'm just like, so why

(01:34:13):
Metallica? I mean, I don't know if you
remember Nabster, they, I get the shit out of them.
So why would they do the Super Bowl for free?
Like I, I don't understand that.Like why?
I mean, yes, they're home, you know, San Francisco or the Bay
Area for that matter, you know, but so I'm like, I don't
understand that. And then you, we want Kid Rock

(01:34:33):
to do it. Kid Rock, I'm sorry, is he is
the trailer trash of America. You know what I'm saying?
It's like he's not, he's not. I don't want Chris Rock.
I'm sorry, Kid Rock representing.
He doesn't represent America, you know, I mean, he represents
a not so good part of America, you know what I'm saying?

(01:34:56):
So it's just like when people throw these ideas out, I'm like,
what? What's the common denominator?
Oh, they're white men, or a group of white men versus one
guy who what he he dresses. He dresses in like cake overalls
and sings songs in Spanish. And you know what, there's been

(01:35:16):
songs in other languages that have been big hits in the United
States in the 1980s, we had Falco, who had Rock Me Amadeus,
Vienna, Callings Sound Music. He had a bunch of hits in the
80s and he sang in German. He had Richie Valens, who's
singing in Spanish. Well, it depends on which song.

(01:35:38):
Sometimes English. And he did La Bamba, which is
the way he's best known for. That's in Spanish.
Yeah, we have Selena. My and yes Selena, my thing is
like, do I know Bad Bunny's music?
Not particularly well. I.
I can't. I cannot name one hit song.
I can't name it. Right.
But The thing is that like what people are not realizing is he

(01:36:02):
may not be your taste, but doesn't mean that people don't
like him because otherwise we'd never would have heard of him
and he wouldn't be on the Super Bowl.
So and he wouldn't be. You have so many like the amount
of like streams that that he that people downloaded of his

(01:36:23):
music has been like as phenomenal.
He's a global phenomenon. And again, like I said, I, I
know of him. Again, I don't know, you know,
and I don't know any of his songs, but but at the same time,
just because, like, just becauseyou've never heard of them
doesn't mean he's not crushing. And, and you know, most of these

(01:36:46):
people who've never heard of them that are just like, well,
I'm, I'm going to turn the channel during the halftime
show. It's like, OK, well, you know,
you never leave your house anyway.
Like, you know, you don't, you're, you're, you're stuck in
that little echo chamber where you know, you don't, you don't
venture out probably outside of your own state.
So of course you're not going to, you know, this whole bad

(01:37:06):
Bunny thing is is going to, you know, is, is a, is a stick in
your in your car. Well, and, and The thing is that
I, I want to hear a different music, a different taste because
like, just cause I've not been exposed to it doesn't mean that
I won't like it when I'm exposedto it.

(01:37:27):
And you just have to have an open mind with it.
Now, my musical taste primarily is, well, the music I grew up
on, but you're also, but I, but also jazz.
I'm, I'm heavy into jazz and, and I big bands and back when I
was a musician, I, I was more into the big band thing than you

(01:37:52):
rock or pop or anything of that nature just shows that you're,
you know, your influences now groups.
I mean, I, we're talking 60s you, you could talk about CCR,
Monkeys, Beatles, Beach Boys, Temptations, you know, you can

(01:38:15):
go back a decade earlier with, with Chuck Berry or later in the
70s, eighties, You know, that's kind of my, what I grew up on
was, was that because back in those days when I was growing
up, they played on, on broadcastradio, on FM radio, they'll play

(01:38:38):
music from the 50s, sixties, 70s.
Like it would be a mismatch of, of different eras.
I'm kind of grateful for that because it gave me a perspective
on music that I don't think you would have now because
everything's streaming and oh, you like this type of music,

(01:39:00):
It's going to play that and not,you know, I'm, I'm not saying
the times are better when I was growing up.
It's just different. And when I my first musical
instrument that I ever played was a trombone and.
Same here. Yeah, I played trombone and then
that led to a baritone. And so I played those two for a

(01:39:25):
while. And then my brother plays drums.
And so I learned how to play drums and had a jazz band for a
little while and just, they all just didn't get along with each
other. So I I was like, OK, now what?
Right. And that's essentially my music

(01:39:46):
career lasted that one. But now have you done stuff like
like Dinner Theater Mystery? Theater.
No, I, I have. I've attended them, but I've
never been a part of that. I've I've been to a couple of

(01:40:11):
them. They're actually pretty fun.
Well, I, I used to act in in that first time and I the other
people get absolutely, the otheractors would get really
irritated with me 'cause I veer off script royally because I
thought it would be funny. Oh.
Like a like a improv. I'd I'd improv theater, Yeah.

(01:40:31):
And yeah, I've done a lot of like improv stuff too.
So it's kind of like my wit is, I mean, I've, I've slowed down
actually. My brain needs to go way faster.
Well, you've seen you. You have, you have man, you've
done a lot. I feel like I've learned a lot

(01:40:51):
about you. I know I'm going to continue
learning about you because again, we're faced with friends,
so I'm always going to pretty much see your post or anything
like that. Let me ask you this, do you
have, because we're going to wrap up in a few minutes, but do
you have any? We know you're on Facebook.
Are you on Instagram? Do you have any upcoming shows

(01:41:13):
that you're doing around the BayArea?
Promote that. Let the let our listeners know
where they can find you. Well, I am on.
I have two Facebooks. I have the professional Johnny
Corn Facebook. I also have Johnny Corn me an
individual. Now you can follow me.

(01:41:34):
I want to pro on my personal page.
I'm out of people. I can't add you as a friend
because I'm out of room for that.
But if you want to follow me, that's great and I appreciate
humble. Brag.
Well, yeah, yeah. You know what happened was when
I started my fan base, I said I'll never get to 5000, and

(01:41:55):
that's kind of how that the whole thing started.
But but they can do that. I'm I'm on Instagram and a lot
of stuff that I post, I didn't do X when it became X.
When it's Twitter, I do have an account there.
I don't post all that often there, but I do have a couple

(01:42:15):
shows coming up in December. 1'sgoing to be actually in
Sunnyvale. It's going to be very close.
You know, you were talking aboutSunnyvale earlier.
So I, I will be there and that information's pinned to the top
of my page. Both of my Facebook pages.
I am on TikTok, but I just went on and I haven't posted anything

(01:42:36):
yet. I mean, I, I, I don't know what
to do yet. Like how do when I say that I
know how to use the app, what I'm saying is I don't know what
to do to introduce the world of TikTok to me.
Like you know that that sort of thing.
So but I'd say the best way is Johnny Corn and it's probably

(01:43:01):
Facebook if you want easy accessto the information cuz I pin it
to the top. Instagram is another way.
And when the shows get closer, most of these are in December.
I actually, it's weird with the holidays because you have
Thanksgiving, then Christmas andNew Year's and all that stuff.

(01:43:23):
So I this time of year I don't tend to do a whole lot because I
have other things that I'm doingwith, you know, family and you
know, that sort of thing. But OK.
So I'll, I'll do that. San Juan Batista, I'm going to
be in as well. And I might be in Capitola,

(01:43:44):
which is over by Santa Cruz, butI have to firm that one up
still. OK.
Usually before we end, we have asegment that we do, it's called,
it's called basically we call itwhat are you binge watching?
And yeah, so it's just like, andwhat I'll do is I'll start first

(01:44:08):
so you can kind of like get an idea of what we're what we're
doing here. So and then believe it or not,
our listeners, they kind of, youknow, they're just like, oh,
wow, you're, you're checking this out.
And we usually get feedback on that.
But what I have actually been binge watching lately is I've
just finished the first two seasons of Nurse Jackie, which

(01:44:30):
is on Netflix now. It's, you know, Edie Falco.
She plays like this nurse who juggles different relationships
while she's married and has kidsand she's a pill popper and it's
it's you know, it's a it's a dramedy as like it's a medical

(01:44:52):
dramedy. Very funny, very good.
I like Eddie Falco, you know, wewatched her on The Sopranos, of
course, very good show. I I recommend it.
It's very it it's very funny. I just finished the 4th season
of Mom and that is yeah that is all.

(01:45:16):
I have been binge watching actually two shows this time.
Well, with me it's a little bit different because I've kind of
gone into the past, did start watching and and it's HBO as
well as Netflix. And I cannot tell you the titles
of either one, but, you know, 'cause I'm really bad with

(01:45:37):
names. But, you know, usually, you see,
Donna and I moved in together inthe early 90s and that's about
the time I lost control of the remote.
And so I'd, I'd watch her. She's watching and I have the
remote right here, ha, ha. But no, I, I've been, you know,

(01:46:00):
I've been watching recently is the old Carol Burnett Show.
Yes, that's actually on Toby. Yeah, and awesome.
Well and you know they have stars of that time that are on
their with skits. It's only 1/2 hour show and I
watched it as a kid but I have adifferent perspective now

(01:46:24):
looking back and watching it nowas an adult than I did as a
child. And then I the original Bob
Newhart Show, which took place in where he's the psychiatrist
and takes place in his hometown of Chicago.

(01:46:46):
And I actually I'm on TV, by theway, when show when, but.
You finish watching yourself. Yeah, I watch.
Oh, I watch myself. If, if I could look at myself in
the mirror, I'd, I'd spend about2024 hours looking at myself in
the mirror. I'd have to just tear myself
away. I'm just that.

(01:47:08):
Could I? I don't even have a good place
where that's going right? It's just sometimes like, how do
you abort? How do you abort?
How do you get out of this? And he can't because jump.
Out of that plane with that backpack.
There you go. Oh, my dad used to say, like my

(01:47:29):
dad had dad isms and I don't know if every dad does, but like
a lot of the times that I remember with TVI had to love
watching TV growing up. And so some of the stuff I'm
binge watching now were stuff I saw when I was a kid.
And we had this TV and then we had this car like rug, like it's

(01:47:52):
a round rug or Oval rug. And my siblings to myself, we
would get popcorn, get popcorn, and we'd sit on on the when
we're real ill, we'd watch that TV.
And so a lot of those shows thatwe watched as a kid that I still
remember to this day, we're watching it again, me as an

(01:48:13):
adult. And it's like, I kind of
remember that episode, but I kind of don't because it's been
that many years. So it's kind of good.
Hogan's Heroes. I've been watching that.
Quincy for a medical drama. Well, he's an Emmy goes around
solving crimes because Lord knows why I you aren't police

(01:48:34):
doing that. I don't know that's kind of
their job. But OK, if your corner that goes
out solving crimes, then you know have at it.
I that didn't make any sense. The original Magnum Pi with Tom
Selleck. With Tom Selleck, yeah.
I mean, I never saw that Brona. Yeah, these are classic shows

(01:48:57):
here because it's just like sometimes I'll watch like some
of these old school shows and I just it it's more like
nostalgia, you know, I. Thought of it for me.
You know, like I was watching Hunter for a drive, you know,
and I would watch that and I'm like, wow, this guy, you know,
used to be a football player. Then he became an actor and and

(01:49:19):
it's just like I grew up watching this show and you know,
between Hunter and Knight Rider and it's just the nostalgia
like, wow, you used to never be like back in the day you could
smoke in the airport. Now you got you got to smoke
outside of the airport. So every time I see like, you
know, stuff like that, I'm like,wow, remember back in the day

(01:49:40):
when you get to do that and now things are so regulated
differently. So that's why I kind of watch a
lot of these old like when I watch The Golden Girls.
Oh yes. It's, it's just like, you know,
I'm, you know, Golden Girls designing women.
Believe it or not. Say what you will about these

(01:50:00):
shows, they're actually hilarious.
Back then, you know, the writingwas so good.
I mean, the acting was good. Like all these shows here again,
they're sitcoms, but they found a way to make these situations
just just crazy funny. There's another show that I'm

(01:50:23):
watching one day at a time. Oh gosh, I I was singing the
theme song earlier today becauseit's stuck in my head.
Coincidence, I know. But and and you know, one thing
I will say about Hunter is his car that he has most of the
seasons, yes, is a 1977 Dodge Monaco.

(01:50:44):
I took my driving test in that exact same car, same color, same
everything. Oh, really?
OK. Yeah.
So that's that's my time to Hunter.
So every time, no. He has.
So every time you see it, it's like, again, nostalgia.
Yeah, and the, the story with mydriving test is I don't know how
they do it in New York, but in California they take you on the,

(01:51:07):
the actual city streets and you they say turn left here, turn
right here, go this way, do you know, and change lines do this.
And one of the things that was required at the oh, is it the
same over there? OK cool 'cause they always show
on TV where they have the like laid out in the parking lot.
And no, they, they, they actually have like, they have

(01:51:28):
like a even like a little thing on the car that, you know, you
know, a student driver kind of athing.
So yeah, they do. They pretty much do it the same.
Here. It probably, it probably is even
worse here because you're stuck in traffic half the time.
But you know, it's it's the sameI, I.
Purposely took my driving test in Hey Don in the middle of the

(01:51:51):
podcast. My wife just walked in.
I'm so, but anyway, turn off, turn.
And then they wanted me to parallel park the car.
And so I went to and so we couldn't find a space long
enough and kept circling around,couldn't find this car's like
2-2 area codes. It's, it's that big.

(01:52:14):
And so this is, do you know how to parallel park?
I'm like, yeah. And I wanted to show you.
I was so proud of it. I've been practicing and the
whole thing and goes like, well,I'm up against the next
appointment. So you you passed, you know, and
so that's kind of how, how that went.
But yeah, that car in in Hunter.I actually drove 1360884 barrel

(01:52:38):
car. I'm sorry with with cars, I can
go on forever. One thing I always do is I I
post a lot about cars. Like there's not right there.
Yeah, but yeah. And then the and then the cat is
right here. Nope, I hear, I hear it.

(01:53:01):
Yeah. I've been, I've been around cats
all weekend, so it's just like I've been petting cats and
getting their fur all over me. So yeah, I love cats anyway, so
it luckily it works out, but I'ma.
Cat person. What's the name of?
What's? What's the cat's name?
Well, she's gummy. Or gummy beef girl.

(01:53:22):
OK. Or elderly Princess.
What? What else are you?
Hey, you cat. OK.
And depending. But yeah, she's what, 15 years
old? Oh wow.
OK, she's she's an old gal. Yeah, she's an old gal and I'm
looking right at her. But yeah, it's, it's funny

(01:53:43):
because like I, she's like the mellowest cat in the universe.
And I talk about her taking overthe country and world domination
and all that sort. It's because she she sleeps.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in her.
Lap so. Well, this is it has been our

(01:54:08):
show. That's about our time again.
Special thanks to you Johnny forappearing.
Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, that's our
show. Again, you may have seen Johnny
in a lot of movies in a Bollywood movie coming out.
So, you know, say that one more time.
Sweatpants is the name of the movie.

(01:54:29):
Short pants. Sweatpants.
Sweatpants, sweatpants, ladies and gentlemen, coming out soon.
So that has been our time, ladies and gentlemen, thank you
very much. That has been our show.
And one more thing, ladies and gentlemen, in this dark time,
please take care of each other. And that's it.

(01:54:50):
Just take care of each other andwe're out.
Have a good one, everybody. Have a great tomorrow.

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