Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
My man Murr.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How you even buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's James Murr Murray. He's coming to the Stress Factory
h Bridgeport on December thirteenth. You know, I'm on vacation.
It's it's like Thanksgiving. I get a text and it's like, Hi,
my name is Nicole. I work. I work for Murr
who he's coming to the stand up comedy show. And
(00:22):
I received your content. You know another radio guy, guy
I know from Z one hundred, and said contact this
guy Vinnie. And it's like I responded to Nicole. I'm like,
Murr is my man? Me and him and d me,
him and Brad Meltzer. Why is it he contacting me himself.
She didn't, she didn't even dignify that with a reply.
She's like, I'm glad you're so enthusiastic. She flew right
(00:47):
via it. Brr.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
She goes, you know, I'm having dinner with Meltzer tomorrow night.
I shows this weekend in Florida, and uh, while may
O see him and say hi the family. So we're
gonna be drunk tomorrow night. I was dialing drunk well
because I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, yeah, you send me a great picture. He's got
a new book coming out, what the viper I think
is coming on.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm gonna be the the what do you call it,
the guy that the moderator of the book launch in January.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
He and I'll tell you a funny story, a little
uh hot hot take here, But Meltzer is on an
episode of Jokers next season, new season stars January fifteenth,
and one of the first episodes he's in. And then
punishment against me. It was like he did like the
cover reveal for his new book coming out in January. Yeah,
and uh and it was like it was like forty
of his most die hard fans. There's super literary types
(01:36):
in New York City in a bookstore and I was
embedded in the audience in disguise. And the whole punishment
was during his book reading, I had to eat three
one pound lobsters from a bag, a Duffel bag, and
and you know the smell of lobster and butt drawn butter,
and they in the middle of the audience, they're all
creddence the library and I'm eating full lobster tales, three
(01:58):
of them with my bare hands. It was pandemonium. I
got physically thrown out of his book reading by his fans.
It was one, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That is fantastic. I can't believe you're gonna be hanging
with him tomorrow night too, Murr. I got to tell
you this. I've got a book myself coming out in
the spring, and I reached out to Meltzer. He's such
a good dude because I've been with him since the start.
I've been doing my show about fifteen years. I had
him on like right out of the gate. I asked him,
you know how hard it is you've written a few
books when you ask the contacts you've made for the blurb.
(02:29):
And I'm like, I'm I'm going to go to Meltzer
for the blurb. I'll tell you wrote. He wrote me
back within minutes. He's like, you got it, buddy, Just
tell me when.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
He's just he's blurbed every book. I've written nine books.
Now he's blurbed everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah. Yeah, he loves you and he loves Impractical Jokers,
Which is what season?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
My god? Two hundred three hundred I don't know. New
season stars January fifteenth on TBS. Yeah, the first episode
coming up, Style loses and we made him go through
a haunted house while on the phone with Spectrum Cable
trying to cancel his cable service. It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It's just you're living the most tremendous life, you know.
I went to the Stress Factory website just to make
sure I had all the info in front of me
for Murr from Impractical Jokers being there on December thirteenth,
which is.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Just a gril twelve and thirteen. There two days.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, so you got two chances. And
I love it the photo they are using of you.
You have on a Michael Bolton shirt that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't think imn right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, I go way back with Michael Bolton. Where
did you get that? This is a tremendous shirt you're wearing.
Do you know him?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Do you know what I do? He was supposed to
be on an episode of Jokers last year, yes, and
then then something came out with scheduled and he couldn't
do it last second. But we have a punishment made
for him, so I'll be damned if we're gonna get
him on next seas.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah. Well he's had his health issues too, I do know,
But that Michael Bolton shirt is jamming and I see
the meet and greets here, that's a very reasonable price
tag on the meet.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And greets to get I'm not hard to meet man,
come out with Yeah, tell me now.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
As far as what's this new set all about? Like,
is there a name to the show.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Called the Errors Tour? Because the first half of the
show is stamn comedy. I took about some like the
most embarrassing errors of judgment I've made in my real
life because of Impractical Jokers. It's a lot of fun.
They're all real stories for my life. And the second
half of the show is all in profit, make it
up as I go. I do. I play two games
with the audience. One is I borrow three audience members
cell phones and I start texting from their phone on
(04:43):
their behalf and then we all deal with the consequences.
It's so much fun. And the final thing I do
on stage is I play in Practical Jokers Live, meaning
I choose much from the audience, put an ear piece
in their ear, send them ount of the streets of Bridgeport, Connecticut,
and then we watch on screen while live on the spot,
with no permission whatsoever, they have to do and say
what I tell him to. It is outrage. It's like
(05:04):
washing TV show up in live.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's taking people out onto the streets of Bridgeport. Did
you did you hear the story mer last year? Like
they arrested a guy for cannibalism on the streets of Bridgeport.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That was actually my show. I made a guy do it,
and he did it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That's not even the guy was quoted as saying, they're
like you you ate. So he was quoted as saying,
the eyeballs tasted like oysters.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Maybe I'll send the audience member out to a suburb.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, yeah, I love it. I get what you're doing too.
You say, The Errors Tour, that's a little little rift
there like eras it's am I right, a little Taylor
Swift in there.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
A little bit not quite as big venues, you know,
like she you know, but I'll get there. I'll get there.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, But I mean it's a nice nod. It's a
great name for a show, the Errors Tour, because it
does conjure up for those who know, you know, I
y k y k h. That's great, off man, You're
you're still doing it. It's unbelievable. Another book coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Or what soon soon? But we just made a movie
based on one of my books. That's the next thing
I'm doing. So my fifth book, Don't Move, got turned
to a movie, comes down in a few months in theaters.
The movie is done. It's in the movie is Rob Wriggle,
T Paine, Rust the Rapper in his premiere, his debut
lead role in a movie. Tom Kavanaugh, Tom kapannall whoves
(06:26):
up in Connecticut. Actually, there we go.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, Tom Kavanaugh from the Flash and from.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The Flash you a millionaire rather yeah, yeah, and yeah.
So the movie's done. It's based on my book Don't Move.
That comes down in just a few months. It's really
really scary, man.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I got to keep my eye out for that because
I am I am the movie review guy for the
ABC affiliate here in Connecticut for WTNH. I do movie
they actually filmed me I am seeing on television and
I've been doing movie reviews for like eight years now
of any penn at the movies, So I'll make sure
I give some love to that one. That sounds like
a great cast too, man, it's a.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Really interesting cast. Yeah you're yeah, it's very fun. So
I'll get to another book next year.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, that sounds great, man. But I mean, and
the books aren't even comedies, which is what I initially
expected you. You're really a very creative guy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Uh well, I don't think Jokers is a comedy. Jokers
is a horror horror TV show. Like I've gotten four
prostate exams on TV. My nipples peers, I've gotten a
catheter putting me. I had a vibrating you know what
put in my backside by method. Man, you know this
is horror. It is like Saw rumor has it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You were like, let's do another take. I don't feel
like we really captured it. I heard you wanted subsequent
takes of that hour.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We actually I made him shoot for six hours. It
was as well.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
My kids are now twenty two and nineteen and they
can still do like four hours of that friggin show.
They could do that show practically. It's on for hours
at my house.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah. We uh, we always joking at We air from
eight am to eight pm. Yeh, every to eight am
the next day, every day, nine days a week.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah. Well, God bless you man, And you're a talented guy,
and you're a nice guy. You never unfollowed me once
we followed each other on social media. Yeah, I'm a
lot like a lot of people, you know. I'll give
you a follow and then slowly and quietly, three days later,
it's like, yeah, they dropped meeting.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know, anybody there, I'll be there December twelfth and thirteenth.
Products out at the Stress Factory. Get your tickets at
merlive dot com. We'll go to the Stress Factories website.
It's so much fun there.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It is MERR. Continued success and give Meltzer my best
tomorrow night, please.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Will you, buddy?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, please do see Thank you,
My man Murr.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How you even buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's James Murr Murray. He's coming to the Stress Factory
h Bridgeport on December thirteenth. You know, I'm on vacation.
It's it's like Thanksgiving. I get a text and it's like, Hi,
my name is Nicole. I work. I work for Murr
who he's coming to the stand up comedy show. And
(00:22):
I received your content. You know another radio guy, guy
I know from Z one hundred, and said contact this
guy Vinnie. And it's like I responded to Nicole. I'm like,
Murr is my man? Me and him and d me,
him and Brad Meltzer. Why is it he contacting me himself.
She didn't, she didn't even dignify that with a reply.
She's like, I'm glad you're so enthusiastic. She flew right
(00:47):
via it. Brr.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
She goes, you know, I'm having dinner with Meltzer tomorrow night.
I shows this weekend in Florida, and uh, while may
O see him and say hi the family. So we're
gonna be drunk tomorrow night. I was dialing drunk well
because I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, yeah, you send me a great picture. He's got
a new book coming out, what the viper I think
is coming on.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm gonna be the the what do you call it,
the guy that the moderator of the book launch in January.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
He and I'll tell you a funny story, a little
uh hot hot take here, But Meltzer is on an
episode of Jokers next season, new season stars January fifteenth,
and one of the first episodes he's in. And then
punishment against me. It was like he did like the
cover reveal for his new book coming out in January. Yeah,
and uh and it was like it was like forty
of his most die hard fans. There's super literary types
(01:36):
in New York City in a bookstore and I was
embedded in the audience in disguise. And the whole punishment
was during his book reading, I had to eat three
one pound lobsters from a bag, a Duffel bag, and
and you know the smell of lobster and butt drawn butter,
and they in the middle of the audience, they're all
creddence the library and I'm eating full lobster tales, three
(01:58):
of them with my bare hands. It was pandemonium. I
got physically thrown out of his book reading by his fans.
It was one, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That is fantastic. I can't believe you're gonna be hanging
with him tomorrow night too, Murr. I got to tell
you this. I've got a book myself coming out in
the spring, and I reached out to Meltzer. He's such
a good dude because I've been with him since the start.
I've been doing my show about fifteen years. I had
him on like right out of the gate. I asked him,
you know how hard it is you've written a few
books when you ask the contacts you've made for the blurb.
(02:29):
And I'm like, I'm I'm going to go to Meltzer
for the blurb. I'll tell you wrote. He wrote me
back within minutes. He's like, you got it, buddy, Just
tell me when.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
He's just he's blurbed every book. I've written nine books.
Now he's blurbed everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah. Yeah, he loves you and he loves Impractical Jokers,
Which is what season?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
My god? Two hundred three hundred I don't know. New
season stars January fifteenth on TBS. Yeah, the first episode
coming up, Style loses and we made him go through
a haunted house while on the phone with Spectrum Cable
trying to cancel his cable service. It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It's just you're living the most tremendous life, you know.
I went to the Stress Factory website just to make
sure I had all the info in front of me
for Murr from Impractical Jokers being there on December thirteenth,
which is.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Just a gril twelve and thirteen. There two days.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, so you got two chances. And
I love it the photo they are using of you.
You have on a Michael Bolton shirt that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't think imn right.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, I go way back with Michael Bolton. Where
did you get that? This is a tremendous shirt you're wearing.
Do you know him?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Do you know what I do? He was supposed to
be on an episode of Jokers last year, yes, and
then then something came out with scheduled and he couldn't
do it last second. But we have a punishment made
for him, so I'll be damned if we're gonna get
him on next seas.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah. Well he's had his health issues too, I do know,
But that Michael Bolton shirt is jamming and I see
the meet and greets here, that's a very reasonable price
tag on the meet.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And greets to get I'm not hard to meet man,
come out with Yeah, tell me now.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
As far as what's this new set all about? Like,
is there a name to the show.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Called the Errors Tour? Because the first half of the
show is stamn comedy. I took about some like the
most embarrassing errors of judgment I've made in my real
life because of Impractical Jokers. It's a lot of fun.
They're all real stories for my life. And the second
half of the show is all in profit, make it
up as I go. I do. I play two games
with the audience. One is I borrow three audience members
cell phones and I start texting from their phone on
(04:43):
their behalf and then we all deal with the consequences.
It's so much fun. And the final thing I do
on stage is I play in Practical Jokers Live, meaning
I choose much from the audience, put an ear piece
in their ear, send them ount of the streets of Bridgeport, Connecticut,
and then we watch on screen while live on the spot,
with no permission whatsoever, they have to do and say
what I tell him to. It is outrage. It's like
(05:04):
washing TV show up in live.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He's taking people out onto the streets of Bridgeport. Did
you did you hear the story mer last year? Like
they arrested a guy for cannibalism on the streets of Bridgeport.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
That was actually my show. I made a guy do it,
and he did it.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
That's not even the guy was quoted as saying, they're
like you you ate. So he was quoted as saying,
the eyeballs tasted like oysters.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Maybe I'll send the audience member out to a suburb.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, yeah, I love it. I get what you're doing too.
You say, The Errors Tour, that's a little little rift
there like eras it's am I right, a little Taylor
Swift in there.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
A little bit not quite as big venues, you know,
like she you know, but I'll get there. I'll get there.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, But I mean it's a nice nod. It's a
great name for a show, the Errors Tour, because it
does conjure up for those who know, you know, I
y k y k h. That's great, off man, You're
you're still doing it. It's unbelievable. Another book coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Or what soon soon? But we just made a movie
based on one of my books. That's the next thing
I'm doing. So my fifth book, Don't Move, got turned
to a movie, comes down in a few months in theaters.
The movie is done. It's in the movie is Rob Wriggle,
T Paine, Rust the Rapper in his premiere, his debut
lead role in a movie. Tom Kavanaugh, Tom kapannall whoves
(06:26):
up in Connecticut. Actually, there we go.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, Tom Kavanaugh from the Flash and from.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The Flash you a millionaire rather yeah, yeah, and yeah.
So the movie's done. It's based on my book Don't Move.
That comes down in just a few months. It's really
really scary, man.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I got to keep my eye out for that because
I am I am the movie review guy for the
ABC affiliate here in Connecticut for WTNH. I do movie
they actually filmed me I am seeing on television and
I've been doing movie reviews for like eight years now
of any penn at the movies, So I'll make sure
I give some love to that one. That sounds like
a great cast too, man, it's a.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Really interesting cast. Yeah you're yeah, it's very fun. So
I'll get to another book next year.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, that sounds great, man. But I mean, and
the books aren't even comedies, which is what I initially
expected you. You're really a very creative guy.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Uh well, I don't think Jokers is a comedy. Jokers
is a horror horror TV show. Like I've gotten four
prostate exams on TV. My nipples peers, I've gotten a
catheter putting me. I had a vibrating you know what
put in my backside by method. Man, you know this
is horror. It is like Saw rumor has it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You were like, let's do another take. I don't feel
like we really captured it. I heard you wanted subsequent
takes of that hour.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We actually I made him shoot for six hours. It
was as well.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
My kids are now twenty two and nineteen and they
can still do like four hours of that friggin show.
They could do that show practically. It's on for hours
at my house.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah. We uh, we always joking at We air from
eight am to eight pm. Yeh, every to eight am
the next day, every day, nine days a week.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah. Well, God bless you man, And you're a talented guy,
and you're a nice guy. You never unfollowed me once
we followed each other on social media. Yeah, I'm a
lot like a lot of people, you know. I'll give
you a follow and then slowly and quietly, three days later,
it's like, yeah, they dropped meeting.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
You know, anybody there, I'll be there December twelfth and thirteenth.
Products out at the Stress Factory. Get your tickets at
merlive dot com. We'll go to the Stress Factories website.
It's so much fun there.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It is MERR. Continued success and give Meltzer my best
tomorrow night, please.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Will you, buddy?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, please do see Thank you,
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Are You A Charlotte?
In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.