March 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Comedians Darren Carter and Daniel Lobell talk comedy, how having families have changed our lives, growing up in New York, touring the USA and much much more! Fun episode with a funny guy. Thanks for listening!
The song is Never Gonna Feel Like That Again - Kenny Chesney
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Pocket Party.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Previously on the Pocket Party podcast, Darren was watching Little
House on the Prairie and it got too exciting, so
he slowed it down by watching The Waltons.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Everybody listening to Derek Carter. We all know he's.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
The party Starter.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So if you want to listen to a podcast, free
listen to a Pocket Party Pocket Pocket Party. They're wrong
and we're back. Everybody. It's Darren Carter, the Party Starter.
Thank you for listening to the Pocket Party podcast. Do
(00:45):
me a favor. No matter what platform you're listening to,
go over to YouTube and give this episode a like
and a comment. It does help the algorithm. I love
what you guys are doing. And if you want to
show any other kind of support, go to my cameo
and get a video and I'll do a personal shout
out to you. I'm available on cameo and today we're
gonna be calling Danny Lobel. Daniel Hello, speaking Hello. This
(01:12):
is Darren Carter, the Party Starter, Darren.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Carf But it stops it. It is me Robert Bender
the end.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh no, my arch nemesis, we meet again. I love it.
Where in the world is Daniel Lobel on this beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Day, I'm sitting in a parking lot because that's how
i like to spend my time, sitting in parking lots.
And the Gora Hells. It's beautiful here. I love Agora Hells.
And my family is all having lunch in a place
called Pizza Nash, which is in this I don't know
(01:56):
strip mall. I guess you'd say where the parking lot is.
And Pizza Nach is a top notch pizza restaurants and
Agra Hills. I love it. And then we are going
to the outlets in Cama Real. Oh nice, and I'm
going to pick up some new shirts to perform in
because I'm not satisfied with my on stage shirt selection.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Dude, I get it. By the way, Danny is one
of the He's credited as being one of the first podcasters.
He's from New York. He's done a ton of things.
He's had documentaries about him. He's hung with Jackie Mason,
He's gotten shout outs, he's friends with you know, he was,
I guess friends with George Carlin and and a ton
of people. He's got a lot of comedy background, experience
(02:42):
and credentials. That's the what I'm looking for.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And then thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
He was single for the longest time and then he
got married and now he has three children, all under five,
five and under.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, you know, since the pandemic, I just went crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You're like, I'm gonna get my life together.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I me just have a ton of children a short
amount of time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's wild, right, Like you did you ever live alone
or did you have roommates? I mean, I know everyone's
had roommates, but did you ever live by yourself?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, and I did. I had an apartment in Brooklyn
which was just me for a while, so that for
very long though, Yes I had a roommate before that.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Imagine. Yeah, it's got to be a trip, right to
go from being by yourself to like married and then
having one, two, three children. So now it's a house
full of kids, and it's.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
The Bible the best. I didn't spend a lot of
time on my own, and my whole life, I've barely
spent any time on my own, but having the kids
was a big shocker.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I had my buddy Jamie Lissou, who's doing terrific. He's
such a funny guy, and he was on our podcast
recently and I said to him, and Jamie's known me forever.
I had an apartment in Times Square back when I
was a younger man and I was a crazy guy,
and we would have a poker game at nights for
comedians and we'd all get completely way. Jamie and I
(04:01):
were amongst the ones who were the most wasted, and
we'd always lose our money and to the least wasted comics.
But so we were reflecting on those old days. And
now we're married. I mean, he's uh, I think he's
divorced and now with a girlfriend. But he has a family.
I have a family where you know, I'm not I
(04:23):
wouldn't say I'm sober, but I'm I rarely and barely
ever drink. He's sober, and so like, we've really changed
a lot. And I said, Jamie, last time you came
over my place in LA I had no kids, and
now I've got three kids. And that was six years ago.
And he said, what do you guys? Did you guys
(04:46):
start shipping when the door closed or something? He goes, yeah,
you know, he was. He was funny about it, but
he was like, it's like, yeah, a lot, what a
big change has gone on here? You know, since.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I know I'm listening to the episode. Actually it's funny.
I was listening to it yesterday. It was so good man.
He's you guys are all so quick, you and Mark
and and Uh you were at that time. You said
you were having the you were in the apartment in
Times Square and you were renting out the living room
and you know, you're talking about poker and he goes, yeah, right,
he goes remember that, Jamie, And he goes, yeah, I
raised you that alarm clock. Like he's just pointing it
(05:22):
stuff in your It was funny. He's like, Now when
I go to Vegas, I see science, it's things I
used to do. Drinks, girls, you know, like, yeah, man, that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Was He's always been funny. Now I'm glad to see
he's like taking off and he's selling out shows. And
please got soumed by us as well that we should
be selling out packed out houses every day like he is.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You're on your way, man, you're getting those shirts. You
know what I do. And when I go to those
outlets that you're talking about, there's a restaurant there called
Cracker Barrel, and I love going to Cracker Barrel. You
know what you should check out Cracker Barrel, even just
for the store, like in the front of the of
the When you first walk into Cracker Borough, it's like
walking into a time machine. They have all this like
Americana products and just it's just awesome. I don't know
(06:11):
if you've been to a Cracker Barrel lately or ever,
but have you ever been.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
To once one? I once went to one. It was
like twenty years ago, so maybe I'm due to one
up for a reup.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, I check it out. You'll see it in a
new light now that you're a family man and you
have children. I mean they have to have like a
little like toy section in the back like for children,
and there's like a lot of like just wholesome gifts,
like you know, here's a checkerboard or you know. I mean, yeah,
it's pretty cool. I mean, dude, this is Anyone that
listens to the podcast knows I love Crocker borrough you guys.
(06:40):
I found out that they actually sell cologne at Cracker Barrel.
I bought my last bottle of cologne at Cracker bro.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So back when I was the youngster again. I used
to for eight years on and off. I was one
of Ralphie May's opening acts, you know, Yeah, the late
great Ralfie May, who I anytime I get a chance
to tell sing the praises and tell people who might
not be aware of him, you know, because there's new
generation of people like go on YouTube and look him up.
He was. He was a legend. He was so great,
(07:09):
and he he was the first guy who really gave
me a shot and the last guy nobody ever did
ever since then. Not true, some people have, but I mean,
but certainly Ralphie was the first one who saw something
in me and was like, I'm going to take him
on the road and I'm going to help you develop
into a real comedian. And so when I was on
(07:32):
the road with Ralphie, we were, you know, in America,
as he'd call it. Not now I'm on the coasts.
We're in a real America day of the bail yeah
and uh. And we would go to places and that's
where I got to see all these kinds of chains,
like cracker barrel, and he took me to my first
bud Ruckers. I like, I have all these like all
these big American chains all in my mind are associated
(07:56):
with Ralphie, you know. So like anything that's feel like
very American, and like, uh, you know, I was, you know,
I live in LA and I'm from New York, so like,
you know, these aren't real America, as Ralphie would say,
Like you know, I saw real America with Ralphie and
like so like any anytime there's like a you know,
(08:17):
a big kind of yeah, you know, chain place, it's
probably somewhere I went with Ralphie, you know, dude.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Happy memories. I remember when my wife when we found
out she was pregnant. I remember I did some shows
out and I flew to Kansas City, rented the car
and did him in the middle of Missouri. And I
remember I have a very strong connection to Cracker Barrel
because I was going to Cracker Barrel and I was
just and then the music's playing because they usually play
country music, and I'm and it's all a lot of
(08:45):
country music is talking about family and growing up or
memorabilia or remember this or remember that and or I'm
gonna be And at that time, there was a song
by Kenny Chesney and I don't remember the name of
it right now, but it was but basically the lyrics
were talking about how he's gonna how he got his
you know, his girl pregnant, and he was scared at first,
(09:07):
but now he's but in the song, he's like, now
I'm looking at a boy who looks just like me,
and I'm throwing them a ball and he's throwing it
back and it's the best, the best thing I've ever done.
And I was just like, man, it was just so
I always have these very strong memories of going to Crackerbrough.
But it's funny, you.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And I are both dead. So that kind of thing,
Like you, if you don't have kids, when you hear that,
I don't know how that hits you. But like once
you do have kids, it's like, really, you hear that,
and it's really powerful. I mean, I never wanted to
have kids. For most of my life. I was just like,
I'm never doing that. It looks like a nightmare. I
look back, and you know, I had a good childhood
(09:48):
in many ways, but in some ways it was a
bit chaotic, and I would be like, Okay, I don't
want to go through the chaos again. I've done it once,
so I'm not doing it again. And then like you know,
you meet the right person and then it feels right
and you're like, Okay, I think maybe I could do this.
It's like you're, you know, like you're walking up to
the edge of the diving board here, really scared, but
then you jump, yeah, and it's really fun when you
(10:09):
hit the water, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So yeah, and that's just on the honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, I'm going to take some dives like three times.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, the triple Indy yeah, uh yeah. But I mean, like,
you know, having kids was one of the biggest surprises
in my life inasmuch as that it's just so much
fun really, like I just did not expect. Yeah, it
can be a bit of a drag sometimes, and so
you know, so they're screaming and you have a headache
(10:43):
and you're like stop that, you know, and you're like,
I didn't want to be the parent who's yelling, and
now I don't know what else to do, I know.
But but the thing is, humanity wouldn't have gotten to
the point where we're in twenty twenty five and people
still are being born if it wasn't super you know.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I remember some before I was, I remember he was.
It might have been either before we had a kid
or maybe when she was pregnant. I remember talking to
another comic that was a father and I go, yeah,
I go, isn't it like more stressful? And he goes, no,
he goes, the stress is in the world. As soon
as I come home and close that door and I'm
with my babies, that's where I'm like at peace.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And I'm like, oh, okay, that's a good way of
putting it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I remember hearing Chris Rock once in an interview talking about,
you know, at this point in his life he had
little kids at home when and he was saying like, oh,
it's so hard to leave my kids and go out
and do stand up at night because everything in your body,
nature and his force is saying be home and protect
your family and cuddle with those kids. And you have to, like,
(11:48):
it's like walking out of a magnetic force to leave
the house from those kids, because you want nothing more
than to be in that magic, quiet like room cuddling
up with them. And it's like, yeah, I get that.
It was one of the nicest things I've ever heard
Chris Rock say in an interview, like sweet, sweet, Wise,
that's cool. That's a great, sweet thing.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I love it, man. I want to move on to
our next topic. I saw you performed recently at the
ice House Comedy Club, and I want to ask you.
Have you been to the ice House just the renovation?
Do you know the old ice House or was this
your first time? And what are your what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I've only been I've only played the ice House twice,
this most recent time and before the renovation about thirteen
years ago, and both times a very funny Asian comedian
named Jimmy brought me out. The first time it was
Jimmy Yo Yang and this time it was my buddy
(12:46):
Jimmy Shen. But I think that's funny that only Asian
Jimmy's bring me to the ice House.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
That is cool. Yeah, both funny guys. And may may
maybe Jimmy Shan will get on that same trajectory of
selling out the LA Forum, you know with ten thousand people.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I mean, yeah, that'd be cool. I mean, Jimmy, you know,
Yang is doing great. But it's I just it dawned
on me when I was at the ice House. I'm't
been here for thirteen years, and for some reason, it's
always Asian Jimmy's to get me to come out here.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It looks beauty. That's funny. It looks beautiful now. It's
I mean, I'm I was very familiar with the Ice House,
so I'm like in my mind, I'm like, oh, right,
when you open the door, like there's the box office.
And then but now you go there and you're like, oh,
there's the restrooms. What they added restrooms to where the
box office.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Was, Like, it's totally different than how I remember it.
It's like very fancy now and it's like it's it's
a got a vibe. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It's so cool. You did you guys? Did you hang
up in that VIP room that watches the showroom with
the with the double pained glass.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
No, I saw it, but I didn't go in it.
But I do want to give a quick shout out
to my buddy Jimmy Shin was really funny man. He
killed it at the ice House. He was he was terrific.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
He's really good, Yeah, really good. He's really good. He was.
I think he's really involved in I think AA or
in A or something, and he talks about it on stage,
and he's got a great story about his comedies, like
how he wanted to be liked and wanted to be accepted,
and then he kind of got into like, you know,
drugs and I guess selling drugs and something like that.
(14:26):
But man, he's really he says it really funny, really good,
and he's uh. And he does like a like a
thing on Mondays, like motivational Mondays or something, and does
testimonial videos to help people out. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah. I just had him on the podcast with me
and Mark and we talked a lot about all that stuff,
and he's got some great stories. Man, he's really, he's
been through a lot and he's uh, he's you know,
as they say, Andy frame plan through seventeen miles.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go for it? Why not?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And he came out clean on the other side. That
is a terrible impression, but that's a good quote for
what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Right, Oh yeah, what was that from that movie with.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
A Sashank redemption?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's right, and swam through. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Sometimes I can do a good impression, but you.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Do do good impressions. You know. Guys, listen to this.
Can you you know I love hearing you do this.
Can you show him a little of the Chinese violin
or whatever that instrument is? It? Sounds like you're in
a Chinese restaurant when you do it.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I think he's warming.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That was good. It was where the phone was cutting out,
like the first five seconds. It was almost like it
didn't grasp what you were doing. Can you show him
a little of the trumpet? Oh yeah, watch check this out,
you guys. Well you know what it's. It's cutting out
(16:21):
the trumpet. Well, it's cutting it out. It doesn't You'll
never make it in this world man, the internet. You
have this beautiful talent that cannot be broadcast. That would
be sad. You guys live, but there's no recordings of it.
We can't broadcast.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I always wanted to be like one of those guys, like,
you know, you have to see him live. There's no
other way to see what he does, you know. But
nowadays you kind of I guess you have to put
stuff out there on social media to make it. But
for a long time I was really resistant to that
because I always feel like stand up comedy, so it's
like the best as a live art for him, and
(17:01):
like it's exciting to like go and see someone live
and not know anything about what they're gonna do. And
just be you know, that's how I used to experience
stand up for the most part, like you know, people
would do like late night sets, but it wasn't he
didn't have, like, you know, such a great understanding of
who the comics were on the lineup until you saw them.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I know, I was watching this comedian the other night
and I thought, he's so funny. It's like it's but
it was. It was a lot of like stuff about
his children and being at the park and now he
lives in a neighborhood with a very nice neighborhood with
like you know, foreign people like from Taiwan and Singapore
and you know, and and and he described how this
this woman like you know, waved at him and and uh.
(17:44):
Basically the premise of the joke was he ever somebody
ever talked to you and broken English and you just,
without thinking you talk back to them and broken English
and you feel so stupid. And he did. It was
so funny. She's like waving at him, and she's like
she's like, I gary mom, and then you like, oh,
I leave, my mom, I leave. But the way he
did it was so freaking funny, and and it was
(18:05):
just killing and it was just he did it. You know,
even her wave was broken, like he did like this
weird stutter kind of wave, and and I thought, this
is really funny in this room, but it might not
translate like on social media. How Like social media usually
things are like dirty or quick, and I don't know,
it's different. It's like a different animals. Sometimes I feel, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Have a story I tell about, like it's a similar
kind of idea, but like how I meet people on
their language level, you know. So I have a story
about being in a taxi in Scotland and as a
Muslim driver. And as soon as he like starts talking
to me, I start taking the same kind of pauses.
I start catching his rhythm of the way he's talking. Yeah,
(18:51):
he's like my friend. I'm starting to say my friend.
You know. It's like it's like now all of a sudden,
I don't relate to people as my friend. But as
soon as he's saying my friend, I'm like, okay, my friend.
And I started and you start you start adopting their frequency,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I think so especially for guys like us who are
comedians and we do impressions and we learn to mimic
and kind of get the sound and all of a sudden,
we're taking on that. You know, I totally think when
I go to Canada and then I come back after
a week, I'm like, come back with like a different
sort of like or even when I go to Texas
or wherever, I'm like, what am I doing?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, this guy's the story I tell is the true story.
But the guy was starting to basically convert me to
Islam in the car. He thought I was Christian. And
he's like, my friend, you pray five times a day,
my friend. And I'm like, my friend, I must be honest.
I do not pray five times a day, but I try,
(19:49):
my friend, I try, you know, yeah. And he's like,
you must not eat pork. It is a filthy animal,
my friend. And I'm like, my brother, you know, it's
a brother. Brother, now now we're brothers that he goes, brother,
you must not eat pork. It's a filthy animal. So
I'm Jewish, you know, so I already don't eat pork. So
we're on the same page there. I'm like, yes, yes, brother,
(20:09):
I agree, it is a filthy animal. I noticed this too.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That would be kind of is it? Would it be?
You know what country were you guys in in Scotland?
Is it would it be strange to am I? I mean,
I'm not Jewish, so I wouldn't known, but just my
gun instinct would be like if I'm in the back
of someone's car and I'm told them and they're Muslim
trying to get me to convert, and I'm Jewish, I'd
be like, I don't know if I want to tell him.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I would just know I didn't want to tell him
I'm Jewish. Now I play it.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Neutral and just be like, can I ay man, I
have a great day, you know, or something.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Like there's so few Jews in Scotland. You know, my
mom is a Scottish Jews. But the number of Jews
in Scotland is so few that the likelihood that they
would even assume you're Jewish is you know, he assumes
you're you know, you're a Catholic or Protestant here in Scotland.
You know, it doesn't so like in a way like
it's a little bit of a relief from me because
(21:00):
I don't know if you heard, but there's some tension
between the Jews and exactly. You know, I have Muslim friends,
but I mean even they're like, hey, they're like, don't
trust every Muslim. I'm like, yeah, you don't need to
tell me, you know. It's like they're like some of them,
some of them hate Jews. I'm like, thank you, thank
you for telling me that.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, my Muslim friends told me. They're like, listen, we're
cool with you, we like you, but just so you know,
not every Muslim. I'm like, no, I know.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You're like, yeah, I'm getting inkling, my friend, I'm getting
an inkling. Did you I believe I looked on Wikipedia earlier.
I don't you never know how accurate that is it.
Did you grow up in a house with the fort
there was four brothers? Four brothers? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very There are some things on the
Wikipedia of my Wikipedia page they're not accurate, which I
think it's funny, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Mind it makes me look a lot younger. It's uh
because there's a famous soccer player named Darren Carter and
he was born in nineteen eighty three. So sometimes on
good places and they're like they're like, oh wow, you
know you look good and you know, like going wrong
and they're like, so you're married, and I'm like, if
you look if you did the math from when I
was supposedly born and when I got married. I'm like,
(22:12):
I would have got married at fourteen? Are you guys crazy?
Like you know? But but yeah, so did you grow
up in? Was it a funny household? Were you guys
funny like your dad funny? Your mother funny and a
lot of humor.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yes, it was a funny household. My grandmother, my my
dad's mom is probably the funniest, and my my mom's
dad was very funny. My dad could be funny a
lot of the times, but a lot of the humor
would have come out of just him being stressed.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
To be honest, Yeah, yeah he was.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
He was like he's always been a very you know,
get stressed. So you know, he gets very anxious and
wound up and in situations that you don't normally expect
that so uh, that sometimes would lend itself to humor.
Like you know, one time, my brother Sam and I
(23:10):
were loaned a car by around random stranger. He gave
us his escalade for the night, nice and it was
filled with cash and cigars. That's reason to be stressed.
He's like, go have fun, boys, go have a good
time to do for you what nobody ever did for me.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So I'm sorry, but was this guy drunk or something
or just in a good mood or was he high
or just a normal guy that was just happy.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That sounds crazy, No, he was, Yeah, it was. So
that was a situation where my dad should have been stressed,
but he took it so crazy, Like because we went
by the house to pick up my other brother and
he's like, where'd you get this escalade voice? And then
they're like, oh, somebody just lend it to us. They're
like community trust. He's like, what's that? He said, that's
what's missing from from communities, he said, where people just
(23:56):
trust each other. He gave us some and cigars. He's like,
what the hell? Boys? What the hell? He starts screaming,
I'm gonna have a heart attack. Scream to my mom.
Are they're giving me a heart attack?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
My boys?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
They're idiots?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Oh, I know, because what if it was like the
mafia or something. I'm looking at it from your dad's
perspective now, like, what if it's a mafia? See, even
when I asked I was the guy drunk? Like that
doesn't sound normal. Nothing's free in this world. There's strings
attached Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So they made me. They made us return the escalator.
And the funny thing is when we returned it, we
had to go to the guy's apartment because we had
his address and knocked on the door and like he
was scared too, because his wife didn't know that he
loaned out the escalator. He's like, what are you doing
so early? I told you to go out and have
a fun night on the town, like our parents won't.
(24:49):
They're like why. He's like, what did you tell your parents?
Of course they're not gonna like this. And then his
wife is in the background, like who are you talking to.
He's like, nobody, nobody, it's they knocked on the door
by accident. He's like, she doesn't get community. He trust
either boys.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
He's like, but welcome to the Soprano family. There's something
over here, you know, a Camela. I'm making some friends
with the Naghborook kids.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Camela, there's kids. And what time.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Did you grow when you were in New York? Did
you grow up around those kind of guys, like those
Italian kind of like like we see in the TV
shows in the movies.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Oh yeah, a lot of guys like that. And my yeah,
I grew up in Long Beach, Long Island, so it's
a lot of Irish and a lot of Italians.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
WHOA, oh, you know what's funny that Wikipedia, I think
you said you were from Queens.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'm originally from Flashing Queens, but I spent most of
my childhood and Long Beach, Long Island, removed when I
was about six.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Long Beach, Long Island. No, No, there's a there's a
frequent guest on the podcast here called John Doresta, and
I think he's from I know he's from Long Island.
Did you guys grow up near each other's towns at all?
Or is he from a different part or do you know?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I think we talked about it when he was on
my podcast. I don't remember what part is. He's not
fun Long Beach though, but yeah, I think he's a
nasau kathy guy.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean I always consider myself a queen's boy because
those were, like, you know, those are the years that
for me from one to six, Like you know, then,
I was always like a queen's boy living in Long Island.
But you know, I always felt like I was a
flushing kid, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
See, it's funny. I'm from out here, So I don't
know the difference between the neighborhoods. I kind of picture,
what is Queens more like blue collar, like like a
like an archie bunker or something.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, I mean, I guess like King of Queens kind
of tries to portray Queens a little bit, you know,
with Kevin James, and like Long Island is much more suburban.
It's just like it's much more spread out. It's I
don't know, I mean, like Queens, we lived in an
apartment building.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It was like my grandparents were in the same apartment
complex and me and my parents and my great grandmother.
It was like, you know, family, it was like you
know the old tenements, you know, and and that's uh.
And then I'd go outside and the benches were filled
with old people. And it's called the Mitchell Gardens where
I grew up. And they the old people used to
(27:24):
call me the Mayor of Mitchell Gardens. I used to
come and crack them all up on the benches as
a little kid. You know. It's like my first performing
was like for these old people on benches, and you
want to hear something funny, is like turns out that
Ron Jeremy grew up across the hall in the same
Mitchell Gardens tenements as as my dad, and I never
knew it until I was producing Ralphie May's podcast and
(27:47):
Ralph and Ron Jeremy came over and we just wound
up talking and it turned out he's like, he's like,
where are you from? And like Flushing. He's like, I'm
from Flushing and where Mitchell Gardens. Yeah, I'm from Mitchell Gardens.
What building this build? I'm from that building? Like you're
kidding me. He's like, what apartment this one? He's like,
what are you talking about? I grew up across the hall.
Who's your father? I'm like Richard. He's like what d
I grew up with him? And they're like, oh, my dad.
(28:10):
I'm like, I'm here with your old neighbor Ron Jeremy.
Do you want to say hi? My Dad's like no,
he's a pervert. I'm like he says hi. He says hi,
that's all like that kid, he was a snotty kid.
I'm like, no, I my dad says him, you do
the best.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's funny, man. That sounds fun It sounds like a
like it could be a nightmare, Like if like everybody
knows your business, like the gossip part, like oh, they
know he can't do anything out there. But it sounds
also very welcoming, like when you go home, you're like,
you know, oh, there's every there's my you know, you
know all your neighbors, you know everybody. Like growing up,
I knew my neighbors like I could. You know, I
(28:48):
grew up in a culta sac in Fresne, California. I
can picture each house. I can picture pretty much each
neighbor and all the neighbor with the kids. But now
I don't even know. And in fact, my friend he
grew up in Torrance, California, like a really kind of
a beach town. He said the same thing. Like he
grew up, he knew all the neighbors, he said, but
you know what happens is a lot of the neighbors
they died, they leave their house to the kids, the
(29:10):
kids rented out to strangers, and then now you get
like some riff raff from the neighborhood. And he said,
it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
No, even in Long Beach, renew all our neighbors. It's
just not like that. The internet is telling my wife,
I really I'm still kind of hoping that the Internet
goes away. I don't think it's going to happen, but
you know, it might hurt my whole business, but especially
with podcasting. But I I feel like the Internet has
really destroyed the fabric of humanity, Like everybody used to
(29:39):
have to interact so much more. And now, you know,
I was talking about this with my wife, and I
think it's funny. Like remember when like all the big
box stores came and we'd all be like, we have
to support small business. Yeah, you know, we don't want
to see these mom and pop shops closed. But then
they would close because like the Targets and the bed
bathroom beyond and all these would come and they would
(30:00):
chimes the whole neighborhood to change the whole community. And
all these stores that had so much character and you
knew the people there, and you know, they all went away,
and you're like, ah, man, yeah, I really miss that,
you know, But now all those big box stores are
closing because of Amazon. So now I feel like, you know,
you go to you know, like Marshalls and you're like
supporting small business.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, yeah, I'm supporting small business. So I'm going to
Walmart later and yeah, yeah, no, Super Walmart is the
big one, but I go to the normal Walmart. That's
a small business. But you're right though. It's when I
was a kid growing up, there was a place called
Arthur's Toy Store, and I want to say there was
maybe two or three Arthur's Toy stores here in this
(30:43):
valley and it was great, man. I could walk in.
It was a former grocery store, and it used to
be a grocery store. But you'd imagine like a whole
big grocery store. That's an like the whole thing is
a toy store. I mean, that's how huge. It was,
like a like a grocery store out here, like like
your Vaughan's or your or your Ralphs or whatever. So
that you'd walk in and it was Arthur's toy store
(31:04):
and hanging from the ceiling was a giant, huge stuffed gorilla.
It was amazing, and I just remember going up and
down the aisles and it was just of course I
was a kid and I just loved it. And then
as I got older, I remember going into a Toys
r US and it just wasn't the same at all.
Maybe well also because I was older and I also
(31:24):
realized like everything toys r US was and compartmentalized and
organized by brands, you know, like, oh, this is our
Tonka toys, these are our Hasbro, this is our you know.
And I don't know. I didn't notice it as a kid.
I just felt like there was it was all scattered and.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Right and that toys your USh is gone too, So.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And then I got to go too.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You yeah, oh oh, can we do one last thing?
I want to unless you got to go go you
got time for a more thing.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I got too nice because my I okay wife has
timely agreed to watch the kids, and now she's like
time has expired. You got a kid?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Well on the other side of having kids.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Well, we'll keep it real quick. You guys. Check out
this podcast. It is called We Think It's Funny. It's great,
it's hilarious. So I found this book. It says nineteen
thirty six, remember when? And so this has taken us
back to nineteen thirty six. Check it out. In February
of nineteen thirty six, the first Social Security checks were
mailed out. That's how long ago. Now check this out.
(32:30):
There's a price thing here if I can find it.
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna hurry now. Okay, here we go.
Cost of Living nineteen thirty six, Danny, did you know
in nineteen thirty six you could buy a house for
how much do you want to say you could buy
a house for nineteen thirty six?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
How much?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Three thy nine and twenty five dollars?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'll take you two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Average income was seventeen hundred and thirteen dollars, a new
car seven hundred and eighty. Your average rent was twenty
four dollars. Wow, a movie ticket twenty five cents, gasoline
ten cents, postage stamp three cents. That's crazy. Oh, how
(33:15):
much do you do? Do you have any idea what
egg prices are? Now?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
How much are they? Well?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Now I want to say they're like eight nine or
ten dollars. My wife is saying they were about a
dollar a piece. I need that joke. Where I go,
she goes make sure they're not broken, because that's a buck,
and if it's more than one, it's a buck. Buck.
But back in nineteen thirty six it said eggs were
eighteen cents.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Wow, eighteen you know something. Yeah, the chickens still cost
at the exact same amount to make them.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, I know, Danny was great. Thanks for taking a
small part of your day. We'll do it again. I'm
gonna be recording a lot of podcasts this week. I'm
up at the farm. I'm here. We're having a good time.
And get back to your family and tell them let's.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Do a part Yeah, let's do a part two later
in the week or thing.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You got it, buddy, take care, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Let Anyboddy, thank youbody, see you bye.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Look at that. You made it all the way through,
Darren Carter Pocket Party with Danny Lobel. That was fun.
Thanks for hanging out and spending part of your day
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(01:12):
is Darren Carter, the Party Starter, Darren.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Carf But it stops it. It is me Robert Bender
the end.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh no, my arch nemesis, we meet again. I love it.
Where in the world is Daniel Lobel on this beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Day, I'm sitting in a parking lot because that's how
i like to spend my time, sitting in parking lots.
And the Gora Hells. It's beautiful here. I love Agora Hells.
And my family is all having lunch in a place
called Pizza Nash, which is in this I don't know
(01:56):
strip mall. I guess you'd say where the parking lot is.
And Pizza Nach is a top notch pizza restaurants and
Agra Hills. I love it. And then we are going
to the outlets in Cama Real. Oh nice, and I'm
going to pick up some new shirts to perform in
because I'm not satisfied with my on stage shirt selection.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Dude, I get it. By the way, Danny is one
of the He's credited as being one of the first podcasters.
He's from New York. He's done a ton of things.
He's had documentaries about him. He's hung with Jackie Mason,
He's gotten shout outs, he's friends with you know, he was,
I guess friends with George Carlin and and a ton
of people. He's got a lot of comedy background, experience
(02:42):
and credentials. That's the what I'm looking for.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And then thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
He was single for the longest time and then he
got married and now he has three children, all under five,
five and under.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, you know, since the pandemic, I just went crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You're like, I'm gonna get my life together.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I me just have a ton of children a short
amount of time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's wild, right, Like you did you ever live alone
or did you have roommates? I mean, I know everyone's
had roommates, but did you ever live by yourself?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, and I did. I had an apartment in Brooklyn
which was just me for a while, so that for
very long though, Yes I had a roommate before that.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Imagine. Yeah, it's got to be a trip, right to
go from being by yourself to like married and then
having one, two, three children. So now it's a house
full of kids, and it's.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
The Bible the best. I didn't spend a lot of
time on my own, and my whole life, I've barely
spent any time on my own, but having the kids
was a big shocker.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I had my buddy Jamie Lissou, who's doing terrific. He's
such a funny guy, and he was on our podcast
recently and I said to him, and Jamie's known me forever.
I had an apartment in Times Square back when I
was a younger man and I was a crazy guy,
and we would have a poker game at nights for
comedians and we'd all get completely way. Jamie and I
(04:01):
were amongst the ones who were the most wasted, and
we'd always lose our money and to the least wasted comics.
But so we were reflecting on those old days. And
now we're married. I mean, he's uh, I think he's
divorced and now with a girlfriend. But he has a family.
I have a family where you know, I'm not I
(04:23):
wouldn't say I'm sober, but I'm I rarely and barely
ever drink. He's sober, and so like, we've really changed
a lot. And I said, Jamie, last time you came
over my place in LA I had no kids, and
now I've got three kids. And that was six years ago.
And he said, what do you guys? Did you guys
(04:46):
start shipping when the door closed or something? He goes, yeah,
you know, he was. He was funny about it, but
he was like, it's like, yeah, a lot, what a
big change has gone on here? You know, since.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I know I'm listening to the episode. Actually it's funny.
I was listening to it yesterday. It was so good man.
He's you guys are all so quick, you and Mark
and and Uh you were at that time. You said
you were having the you were in the apartment in
Times Square and you were renting out the living room
and you know, you're talking about poker and he goes, yeah, right,
he goes remember that, Jamie, And he goes, yeah, I
raised you that alarm clock. Like he's just pointing it
(05:22):
stuff in your It was funny. He's like, Now when
I go to Vegas, I see science, it's things I
used to do. Drinks, girls, you know, like, yeah, man, that.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Was He's always been funny. Now I'm glad to see
he's like taking off and he's selling out shows. And
please got soumed by us as well that we should
be selling out packed out houses every day like he is.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You're on your way, man, you're getting those shirts. You
know what I do. And when I go to those
outlets that you're talking about, there's a restaurant there called
Cracker Barrel, and I love going to Cracker Barrel. You
know what you should check out Cracker Barrel, even just
for the store, like in the front of the of
the When you first walk into Cracker Borough, it's like
walking into a time machine. They have all this like
Americana products and just it's just awesome. I don't know
(06:11):
if you've been to a Cracker Barrel lately or ever,
but have you ever been.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
To once one? I once went to one. It was
like twenty years ago, so maybe I'm due to one
up for a reup.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, I check it out. You'll see it in a
new light now that you're a family man and you
have children. I mean they have to have like a
little like toy section in the back like for children,
and there's like a lot of like just wholesome gifts,
like you know, here's a checkerboard or you know. I mean, yeah,
it's pretty cool. I mean, dude, this is Anyone that
listens to the podcast knows I love Crocker borrough you guys.
(06:40):
I found out that they actually sell cologne at Cracker Barrel.
I bought my last bottle of cologne at Cracker bro.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So back when I was the youngster again. I used
to for eight years on and off. I was one
of Ralphie May's opening acts, you know, Yeah, the late
great Ralfie May, who I anytime I get a chance
to tell sing the praises and tell people who might
not be aware of him, you know, because there's new
generation of people like go on YouTube and look him up.
He was. He was a legend. He was so great,
(07:09):
and he he was the first guy who really gave
me a shot and the last guy nobody ever did
ever since then. Not true, some people have, but I mean,
but certainly Ralphie was the first one who saw something
in me and was like, I'm going to take him
on the road and I'm going to help you develop
into a real comedian. And so when I was on
(07:32):
the road with Ralphie, we were, you know, in America,
as he'd call it. Not now I'm on the coasts.
We're in a real America day of the bail yeah
and uh. And we would go to places and that's
where I got to see all these kinds of chains,
like cracker barrel, and he took me to my first
bud Ruckers. I like, I have all these like all
these big American chains all in my mind are associated
(07:56):
with Ralphie, you know. So like anything that's feel like
very American, and like, uh, you know, I was, you know,
I live in LA and I'm from New York, so like,
you know, these aren't real America, as Ralphie would say,
Like you know, I saw real America with Ralphie and
like so like any anytime there's like a you know,
(08:17):
a big kind of yeah, you know, chain place, it's
probably somewhere I went with Ralphie, you know, dude.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Happy memories. I remember when my wife when we found
out she was pregnant. I remember I did some shows
out and I flew to Kansas City, rented the car
and did him in the middle of Missouri. And I
remember I have a very strong connection to Cracker Barrel
because I was going to Cracker Barrel and I was
just and then the music's playing because they usually play
country music, and I'm and it's all a lot of
(08:45):
country music is talking about family and growing up or
memorabilia or remember this or remember that and or I'm
gonna be And at that time, there was a song
by Kenny Chesney and I don't remember the name of
it right now, but it was but basically the lyrics
were talking about how he's gonna how he got his
you know, his girl pregnant, and he was scared at first,
(09:07):
but now he's but in the song, he's like, now
I'm looking at a boy who looks just like me,
and I'm throwing them a ball and he's throwing it
back and it's the best, the best thing I've ever done.
And I was just like, man, it was just so
I always have these very strong memories of going to Crackerbrough.
But it's funny, you.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And I are both dead. So that kind of thing,
Like you, if you don't have kids, when you hear that,
I don't know how that hits you. But like once
you do have kids, it's like, really, you hear that,
and it's really powerful. I mean, I never wanted to
have kids. For most of my life. I was just like,
I'm never doing that. It looks like a nightmare. I
look back, and you know, I had a good childhood
(09:48):
in many ways, but in some ways it was a
bit chaotic, and I would be like, Okay, I don't
want to go through the chaos again. I've done it once,
so I'm not doing it again. And then like you know,
you meet the right person and then it feels right
and you're like, Okay, I think maybe I could do this.
It's like you're, you know, like you're walking up to
the edge of the diving board here, really scared, but
then you jump, yeah, and it's really fun when you
(10:09):
hit the water, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
So yeah, and that's just on the honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
You know, I'm going to take some dives like three times.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, the triple Indy yeah, uh yeah. But I mean, like,
you know, having kids was one of the biggest surprises
in my life inasmuch as that it's just so much
fun really, like I just did not expect. Yeah, it
can be a bit of a drag sometimes, and so
you know, so they're screaming and you have a headache
(10:43):
and you're like stop that, you know, and you're like,
I didn't want to be the parent who's yelling, and
now I don't know what else to do, I know.
But but the thing is, humanity wouldn't have gotten to
the point where we're in twenty twenty five and people
still are being born if it wasn't super you know.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I remember some before I was, I remember he was.
It might have been either before we had a kid
or maybe when she was pregnant. I remember talking to
another comic that was a father and I go, yeah,
I go, isn't it like more stressful? And he goes, no,
he goes, the stress is in the world. As soon
as I come home and close that door and I'm
with my babies, that's where I'm like at peace.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And I'm like, oh, okay, that's a good way of
putting it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I remember hearing Chris Rock once in an interview talking about,
you know, at this point in his life he had
little kids at home when and he was saying like, oh,
it's so hard to leave my kids and go out
and do stand up at night because everything in your body,
nature and his force is saying be home and protect
your family and cuddle with those kids. And you have to, like,
(11:48):
it's like walking out of a magnetic force to leave
the house from those kids, because you want nothing more
than to be in that magic, quiet like room cuddling
up with them. And it's like, yeah, I get that.
It was one of the nicest things I've ever heard
Chris Rock say in an interview, like sweet, sweet, Wise,
that's cool. That's a great, sweet thing.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I love it, man. I want to move on to
our next topic. I saw you performed recently at the
ice House Comedy Club, and I want to ask you.
Have you been to the ice House just the renovation?
Do you know the old ice House or was this
your first time? And what are your what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I've only been I've only played the ice House twice,
this most recent time and before the renovation about thirteen
years ago, and both times a very funny Asian comedian
named Jimmy brought me out. The first time it was
Jimmy Yo Yang and this time it was my buddy
(12:46):
Jimmy Shen. But I think that's funny that only Asian
Jimmy's bring me to the ice House.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
That is cool. Yeah, both funny guys. And may may
maybe Jimmy Shan will get on that same trajectory of
selling out the LA Forum, you know with ten thousand people.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I mean, yeah, that'd be cool. I mean, Jimmy, you know,
Yang is doing great. But it's I just it dawned
on me when I was at the ice House. I'm't
been here for thirteen years, and for some reason, it's
always Asian Jimmy's to get me to come out here.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
It looks beauty. That's funny. It looks beautiful now. It's
I mean, I'm I was very familiar with the Ice House,
so I'm like in my mind, I'm like, oh, right,
when you open the door, like there's the box office.
And then but now you go there and you're like, oh,
there's the restrooms. What they added restrooms to where the
box office.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Was, Like, it's totally different than how I remember it.
It's like very fancy now and it's like it's it's
a got a vibe. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It's so cool. You did you guys? Did you hang
up in that VIP room that watches the showroom with
the with the double pained glass.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
No, I saw it, but I didn't go in it.
But I do want to give a quick shout out
to my buddy Jimmy Shin was really funny man. He
killed it at the ice House. He was he was terrific.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
He's really good, Yeah, really good. He's really good. He was.
I think he's really involved in I think AA or
in A or something, and he talks about it on stage,
and he's got a great story about his comedies, like
how he wanted to be liked and wanted to be accepted,
and then he kind of got into like, you know,
drugs and I guess selling drugs and something like that.
(14:26):
But man, he's really he says it really funny, really good,
and he's uh. And he does like a like a
thing on Mondays, like motivational Mondays or something, and does
testimonial videos to help people out. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah. I just had him on the podcast with me
and Mark and we talked a lot about all that stuff,
and he's got some great stories. Man, he's really, he's
been through a lot and he's uh, he's you know,
as they say, Andy frame plan through seventeen miles.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go for it? Why not?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And he came out clean on the other side. That
is a terrible impression, but that's a good quote for
what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Right, Oh yeah, what was that from that movie with.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
A Sashank redemption?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's right, and swam through. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Sometimes I can do a good impression, but you.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Do do good impressions. You know. Guys, listen to this.
Can you you know I love hearing you do this.
Can you show him a little of the Chinese violin
or whatever that instrument is? It? Sounds like you're in
a Chinese restaurant when you do it.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I think he's warming.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That was good. It was where the phone was cutting out,
like the first five seconds. It was almost like it
didn't grasp what you were doing. Can you show him
a little of the trumpet? Oh yeah, watch check this out,
you guys. Well you know what it's. It's cutting out
(16:21):
the trumpet. Well, it's cutting it out. It doesn't You'll
never make it in this world man, the internet. You
have this beautiful talent that cannot be broadcast. That would
be sad. You guys live, but there's no recordings of it.
We can't broadcast.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I always wanted to be like one of those guys, like,
you know, you have to see him live. There's no
other way to see what he does, you know. But
nowadays you kind of I guess you have to put
stuff out there on social media to make it. But
for a long time I was really resistant to that
because I always feel like stand up comedy, so it's
like the best as a live art for him, and
(17:01):
like it's exciting to like go and see someone live
and not know anything about what they're gonna do. And
just be you know, that's how I used to experience
stand up for the most part, like you know, people
would do like late night sets, but it wasn't he
didn't have, like, you know, such a great understanding of
who the comics were on the lineup until you saw them.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I know, I was watching this comedian the other night
and I thought, he's so funny. It's like it's but
it was. It was a lot of like stuff about
his children and being at the park and now he
lives in a neighborhood with a very nice neighborhood with
like you know, foreign people like from Taiwan and Singapore
and you know, and and and he described how this
this woman like you know, waved at him and and uh.
(17:44):
Basically the premise of the joke was he ever somebody
ever talked to you and broken English and you just,
without thinking you talk back to them and broken English
and you feel so stupid. And he did. It was
so funny. She's like waving at him, and she's like
she's like, I gary mom, and then you like, oh,
I leave, my mom, I leave. But the way he
did it was so freaking funny, and and it was
(18:05):
just killing and it was just he did it. You know,
even her wave was broken, like he did like this
weird stutter kind of wave, and and I thought, this
is really funny in this room, but it might not
translate like on social media. How Like social media usually
things are like dirty or quick, and I don't know,
it's different. It's like a different animals. Sometimes I feel, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Have a story I tell about, like it's a similar
kind of idea, but like how I meet people on
their language level, you know. So I have a story
about being in a taxi in Scotland and as a
Muslim driver. And as soon as he like starts talking
to me, I start taking the same kind of pauses.
I start catching his rhythm of the way he's talking. Yeah,
(18:51):
he's like my friend. I'm starting to say my friend.
You know. It's like it's like now all of a sudden,
I don't relate to people as my friend. But as
soon as he's saying my friend, I'm like, okay, my friend.
And I started and you start you start adopting their frequency,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I think so especially for guys like us who are
comedians and we do impressions and we learn to mimic
and kind of get the sound and all of a sudden,
we're taking on that. You know, I totally think when
I go to Canada and then I come back after
a week, I'm like, come back with like a different
sort of like or even when I go to Texas
or wherever, I'm like, what am I doing?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, this guy's the story I tell is the true story.
But the guy was starting to basically convert me to
Islam in the car. He thought I was Christian. And
he's like, my friend, you pray five times a day,
my friend. And I'm like, my friend, I must be honest.
I do not pray five times a day, but I try,
(19:49):
my friend, I try, you know, yeah. And he's like,
you must not eat pork. It is a filthy animal,
my friend. And I'm like, my brother, you know, it's
a brother. Brother, now now we're brothers that he goes, brother,
you must not eat pork. It's a filthy animal. So
I'm Jewish, you know, so I already don't eat pork. So
we're on the same page there. I'm like, yes, yes, brother,
(20:09):
I agree, it is a filthy animal. I noticed this too.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That would be kind of is it? Would it be?
You know what country were you guys in in Scotland?
Is it would it be strange to am I? I mean,
I'm not Jewish, so I wouldn't known, but just my
gun instinct would be like if I'm in the back
of someone's car and I'm told them and they're Muslim
trying to get me to convert, and I'm Jewish, I'd
be like, I don't know if I want to tell him.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I would just know I didn't want to tell him
I'm Jewish. Now I play it.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Neutral and just be like, can I ay man, I
have a great day, you know, or something.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Like there's so few Jews in Scotland. You know, my
mom is a Scottish Jews. But the number of Jews
in Scotland is so few that the likelihood that they
would even assume you're Jewish is you know, he assumes
you're you know, you're a Catholic or Protestant here in Scotland.
You know, it doesn't so like in a way like
it's a little bit of a relief from me because
(21:00):
I don't know if you heard, but there's some tension
between the Jews and exactly. You know, I have Muslim friends,
but I mean even they're like, hey, they're like, don't
trust every Muslim. I'm like, yeah, you don't need to
tell me, you know. It's like they're like some of them,
some of them hate Jews. I'm like, thank you, thank
you for telling me that.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, my Muslim friends told me. They're like, listen, we're
cool with you, we like you, but just so you know,
not every Muslim. I'm like, no, I know.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
You're like, yeah, I'm getting inkling, my friend, I'm getting
an inkling. Did you I believe I looked on Wikipedia earlier.
I don't you never know how accurate that is it.
Did you grow up in a house with the fort
there was four brothers? Four brothers? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very There are some things on the
Wikipedia of my Wikipedia page they're not accurate, which I
think it's funny, but I.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Mind it makes me look a lot younger. It's uh
because there's a famous soccer player named Darren Carter and
he was born in nineteen eighty three. So sometimes on
good places and they're like they're like, oh wow, you
know you look good and you know, like going wrong
and they're like, so you're married, and I'm like, if
you look if you did the math from when I
was supposedly born and when I got married. I'm like,
(22:12):
I would have got married at fourteen? Are you guys crazy?
Like you know? But but yeah, so did you grow
up in? Was it a funny household? Were you guys
funny like your dad funny? Your mother funny and a
lot of humor.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yes, it was a funny household. My grandmother, my my
dad's mom is probably the funniest, and my my mom's
dad was very funny. My dad could be funny a
lot of the times, but a lot of the humor
would have come out of just him being stressed.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
To be honest, Yeah, yeah he was.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
He was like he's always been a very you know,
get stressed. So you know, he gets very anxious and
wound up and in situations that you don't normally expect
that so uh, that sometimes would lend itself to humor.
Like you know, one time, my brother Sam and I
(23:10):
were loaned a car by around random stranger. He gave
us his escalade for the night, nice and it was
filled with cash and cigars. That's reason to be stressed.
He's like, go have fun, boys, go have a good
time to do for you what nobody ever did for me.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
So I'm sorry, but was this guy drunk or something
or just in a good mood or was he high
or just a normal guy that was just happy.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That sounds crazy, No, he was, Yeah, it was. So
that was a situation where my dad should have been stressed,
but he took it so crazy, Like because we went
by the house to pick up my other brother and
he's like, where'd you get this escalade voice? And then
they're like, oh, somebody just lend it to us. They're
like community trust. He's like, what's that? He said, that's
what's missing from from communities, he said, where people just
(23:56):
trust each other. He gave us some and cigars. He's like,
what the hell? Boys? What the hell? He starts screaming,
I'm gonna have a heart attack. Scream to my mom.
Are they're giving me a heart attack?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
My boys?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
They're idiots?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Oh, I know, because what if it was like the
mafia or something. I'm looking at it from your dad's
perspective now, like, what if it's a mafia? See, even
when I asked I was the guy drunk? Like that
doesn't sound normal. Nothing's free in this world. There's strings
attached Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So they made me. They made us return the escalator.
And the funny thing is when we returned it, we
had to go to the guy's apartment because we had
his address and knocked on the door and like he
was scared too, because his wife didn't know that he
loaned out the escalator. He's like, what are you doing
so early? I told you to go out and have
a fun night on the town, like our parents won't.
(24:49):
They're like why. He's like, what did you tell your parents?
Of course they're not gonna like this. And then his
wife is in the background, like who are you talking to.
He's like, nobody, nobody, it's they knocked on the door
by accident. He's like, she doesn't get community. He trust
either boys.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
He's like, but welcome to the Soprano family. There's something
over here, you know, a Camela. I'm making some friends
with the Naghborook kids.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Camela, there's kids. And what time.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Did you grow when you were in New York? Did
you grow up around those kind of guys, like those
Italian kind of like like we see in the TV
shows in the movies.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Oh yeah, a lot of guys like that. And my yeah,
I grew up in Long Beach, Long Island, so it's
a lot of Irish and a lot of Italians.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
WHOA, oh, you know what's funny that Wikipedia, I think
you said you were from Queens.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I'm originally from Flashing Queens, but I spent most of
my childhood and Long Beach, Long Island, removed when I
was about six.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Long Beach, Long Island. No, No, there's a there's a
frequent guest on the podcast here called John Doresta, and
I think he's from I know he's from Long Island.
Did you guys grow up near each other's towns at all?
Or is he from a different part or do you know?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I think we talked about it when he was on
my podcast. I don't remember what part is. He's not
fun Long Beach though, but yeah, I think he's a
nasau kathy guy.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean I always consider myself a queen's boy because
those were, like, you know, those are the years that
for me from one to six, Like you know, then,
I was always like a queen's boy living in Long Island.
But you know, I always felt like I was a
flushing kid, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
See, it's funny. I'm from out here, So I don't
know the difference between the neighborhoods. I kind of picture,
what is Queens more like blue collar, like like a
like an archie bunker or something.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, I mean, I guess like King of Queens kind
of tries to portray Queens a little bit, you know,
with Kevin James, and like Long Island is much more suburban.
It's just like it's much more spread out. It's I
don't know, I mean, like Queens, we lived in an
apartment building.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
It was like my grandparents were in the same apartment
complex and me and my parents and my great grandmother.
It was like, you know, family, it was like you
know the old tenements, you know, and and that's uh.
And then I'd go outside and the benches were filled
with old people. And it's called the Mitchell Gardens where
I grew up. And they the old people used to
(27:24):
call me the Mayor of Mitchell Gardens. I used to
come and crack them all up on the benches as
a little kid. You know. It's like my first performing
was like for these old people on benches, and you
want to hear something funny, is like turns out that
Ron Jeremy grew up across the hall in the same
Mitchell Gardens tenements as as my dad, and I never
knew it until I was producing Ralphie May's podcast and
(27:47):
Ralph and Ron Jeremy came over and we just wound
up talking and it turned out he's like, he's like,
where are you from? And like Flushing. He's like, I'm
from Flushing and where Mitchell Gardens. Yeah, I'm from Mitchell Gardens.
What building this build? I'm from that building? Like you're
kidding me. He's like, what apartment this one? He's like,
what are you talking about? I grew up across the hall.
Who's your father? I'm like Richard. He's like what d
I grew up with him? And they're like, oh, my dad.
(28:10):
I'm like, I'm here with your old neighbor Ron Jeremy.
Do you want to say hi? My Dad's like no,
he's a pervert. I'm like he says hi. He says hi,
that's all like that kid, he was a snotty kid.
I'm like, no, I my dad says him, you do
the best.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
That's funny, man. That sounds fun It sounds like a
like it could be a nightmare, Like if like everybody
knows your business, like the gossip part, like oh, they
know he can't do anything out there. But it sounds
also very welcoming, like when you go home, you're like,
you know, oh, there's every there's my you know, you
know all your neighbors, you know everybody. Like growing up,
I knew my neighbors like I could. You know, I
(28:48):
grew up in a culta sac in Fresne, California. I
can picture each house. I can picture pretty much each
neighbor and all the neighbor with the kids. But now
I don't even know. And in fact, my friend he
grew up in Torrance, California, like a really kind of
a beach town. He said the same thing. Like he
grew up, he knew all the neighbors, he said, but
you know what happens is a lot of the neighbors
they died, they leave their house to the kids, the
(29:10):
kids rented out to strangers, and then now you get
like some riff raff from the neighborhood. And he said,
it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
No, even in Long Beach, renew all our neighbors. It's
just not like that. The internet is telling my wife,
I really I'm still kind of hoping that the Internet
goes away. I don't think it's going to happen, but
you know, it might hurt my whole business, but especially
with podcasting. But I I feel like the Internet has
really destroyed the fabric of humanity, Like everybody used to
(29:39):
have to interact so much more. And now, you know,
I was talking about this with my wife, and I
think it's funny. Like remember when like all the big
box stores came and we'd all be like, we have
to support small business. Yeah, you know, we don't want
to see these mom and pop shops closed. But then
they would close because like the Targets and the bed
bathroom beyond and all these would come and they would
(30:00):
chimes the whole neighborhood to change the whole community. And
all these stores that had so much character and you
knew the people there, and you know, they all went away,
and you're like, ah, man, yeah, I really miss that,
you know, But now all those big box stores are
closing because of Amazon. So now I feel like, you know,
you go to you know, like Marshalls and you're like
supporting small business.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, yeah, I'm supporting small business. So I'm going to
Walmart later and yeah, yeah, no, Super Walmart is the
big one, but I go to the normal Walmart. That's
a small business. But you're right though. It's when I
was a kid growing up, there was a place called
Arthur's Toy Store, and I want to say there was
maybe two or three Arthur's Toy stores here in this
(30:43):
valley and it was great, man. I could walk in.
It was a former grocery store, and it used to
be a grocery store. But you'd imagine like a whole
big grocery store. That's an like the whole thing is
a toy store. I mean, that's how huge. It was,
like a like a grocery store out here, like like
your Vaughan's or your or your Ralphs or whatever. So
that you'd walk in and it was Arthur's toy store
(31:04):
and hanging from the ceiling was a giant, huge stuffed gorilla.
It was amazing, and I just remember going up and
down the aisles and it was just of course I
was a kid and I just loved it. And then
as I got older, I remember going into a Toys
r US and it just wasn't the same at all.
Maybe well also because I was older and I also
(31:24):
realized like everything toys r US was and compartmentalized and
organized by brands, you know, like, oh, this is our
Tonka toys, these are our Hasbro, this is our you know.
And I don't know. I didn't notice it as a kid.
I just felt like there was it was all scattered and.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Right and that toys your USh is gone too, So.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And then I got to go too.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You yeah, oh oh, can we do one last thing?
I want to unless you got to go go you
got time for a more thing.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I got too nice because my I okay wife has
timely agreed to watch the kids, and now she's like
time has expired. You got a kid?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Well on the other side of having kids.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Well, we'll keep it real quick. You guys. Check out
this podcast. It is called We Think It's Funny. It's great,
it's hilarious. So I found this book. It says nineteen
thirty six, remember when? And so this has taken us
back to nineteen thirty six. Check it out. In February
of nineteen thirty six, the first Social Security checks were
mailed out. That's how long ago. Now check this out.
(32:30):
There's a price thing here if I can find it.
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna hurry now. Okay, here we go.
Cost of Living nineteen thirty six, Danny, did you know
in nineteen thirty six you could buy a house for
how much do you want to say you could buy
a house for nineteen thirty six?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
How much?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Three thy nine and twenty five dollars?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'll take you two. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Average income was seventeen hundred and thirteen dollars, a new
car seven hundred and eighty. Your average rent was twenty
four dollars. Wow, a movie ticket twenty five cents, gasoline
ten cents, postage stamp three cents. That's crazy. Oh, how
(33:15):
much do you do? Do you have any idea what
egg prices are? Now?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
How much are they? Well?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Now I want to say they're like eight nine or
ten dollars. My wife is saying they were about a
dollar a piece. I need that joke. Where I go,
she goes make sure they're not broken, because that's a buck,
and if it's more than one, it's a buck. Buck.
But back in nineteen thirty six it said eggs were
eighteen cents.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Wow, eighteen you know something. Yeah, the chickens still cost
at the exact same amount to make them.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, I know, Danny was great. Thanks for taking a
small part of your day. We'll do it again. I'm
gonna be recording a lot of podcasts this week. I'm
up at the farm. I'm here. We're having a good time.
And get back to your family and tell them let's.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Do a part Yeah, let's do a part two later
in the week or thing.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You got it, buddy, take care, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Let Anyboddy, thank youbody, see you bye.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Look at that. You made it all the way through,
Darren Carter Pocket Party with Danny Lobel. That was fun.
Thanks for hanging out and spending part of your day
with us. And I hope you guys revisit and check
out some of my other episodes on the Pocket Party.
Thanks guys. Remember I'm available on cameo and if you
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Lets me know your care have a great day and
we'll see you soon. Don't hurt nobody, be careful.
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