Josh Robert Thompson (Encore!) EP 317

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Everybody's to Derek Carter. He knows the part start. So
you want to do a podcast for free? Listen to
a pocket Party, Pocket Party?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh yeah, so you that party in your ears.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
This is Morgan Freeman and you are listening to one
of the most important podcasts ever made in the history
of podcasting, the Pocket Party Podcast, with my good friend
Darren Carter.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
M everybody listens to Derek Carter, and we all know
he's the party Starter. So if you want to listen
to a podcast, listen to a pocket Party, My party.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
They're wrong, all right, all right, all right. This is
Matthew McConaughey and you are locked into the Pocket Party Podcast.
You feel that warm sensation in your pocket, that's a party.
Here's my buddy, Darren Carter here.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Well, hello there. If you're a first time listener, I
really appreciate you listening to this podcast, the Pocket Party Podcast.
I'm your host, Darren Carter, the Party Starter. You may
have seen me on Netflix Show Times. I have four
comedy albums out Shady Side. The next album is called
That Ginger's Crazy, The next album is called Stay at
Home Stripper, and my brand new one is called The

(01:52):
Party continues, and I have a great guest today. This
guy's a voice over actor and comic and actor, and
guy's amazing. Man. It's really cool to have him on
the show. And you heard the Morgan Freeman. Oh my gosh,
how great is that? I mean, I do a Snoop Dogg,
but I mean, you know, it's still comical. It's like

(02:13):
when I'm doing it's like, yeah, what's cracking this? I mean,
I got you know what I mean. But he can
freestyle and improvise and do that character like man, Next level,
next level. Shout out to rems Mike Bagak, Lee Meyerhoffer Ce, Sir,
thank you so much. Party. If you have not joined
the Pocket Party Podcast club on Facebook, we're out there

(02:36):
and that's a great place for us to kind of
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things that inspired us from the podcast or things we
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(02:58):
A quick review. Literally take you five seconds, and it'll
help give this podcast more exposure. Big shout out listen.
If you need boxing lessons, get the Darren Carter Friend
Special from Manny. Just hit me up ask me about it.
It's a north Ridge good to go. My website is
Darrencarter dot com. You'll see all the dates I'm coming
to North Carolina, Clovis, California, Reno, all kinds of good stuff.

(03:23):
So I won't take your time up too much. We're
gonna do a shout out real quick to Caesarjesus Garcia,
Caesar Haesus Garcia, and also Wendy Lewis.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
I'llbeit Sacramento Tommy t Sacramento Tommy Teas in December, so
check me out there. As usual, you can always see
me on YouTube Darrencarter dot com and go to YouTube
once again. Let's get into it. Short intro, probably the
shortest intro I've ever done, because I really want you
guys to enjoy this podcast as you're listening to me.

(03:55):
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someone that has an Apple Phone, its brobab your phone
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(04:15):
You know, I love this podcast, and then for the review,
be like it's great, super simple, super short. All right,
And as always, if you give a review, I will
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could put like, hey, I did a review, give me
a shout out. My Instagram is blah blah blah, my
Twitter is blah blah blah. Whatever it is. All right, guys,
let's get into it. We'll see you soon.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Bye Pocket Party.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
And we're back. That's right, guys, very special guest. I
love this guy, man. I heard him on the radio. God,
it must have been ten years ago, maybe longer, and
you would do these great voices and I was like,
who is I even know? And I was like, that's
a real person. You would, I mean, dude, it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, I'm sorry that your guests couldn't be here, Darren.
I appreciate you having me on the show.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Oh man, what a treat to have you on here.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
I know that you're excited to have this other food.
But he's apparently stuck in traffic, you know how it is.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, yeah, especially in La Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
At midnight midnight. Yeah, you know what I mean. So
thank you for having me. I don't know much about
you or what you do.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
I'm a comic and I boxed during the day. I'd
love to have you narrate that, so you do you know,
I'd love to do that when I'm jumping rope and whatnot.
What's your name? Darren Carter? Darren Carter, the party Starter.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Aaron Carter pummeled away at the at the bag. What
do they called a bag?

Speaker 5 (05:37):
A sack, heavy bag?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Double N bag? Why they call it double N bag because.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, there's the what imitates the body and then the head.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And I understand, okay, but you haven't seen anybody that
look like that. It's just one long It's just like
a long string bag. You never see the person that
looked like that for I never have. I don't think
that's real. I don't think that's actually preparing you to
kick someone's ass.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Plus the bag doesn't hit back.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
So there's Darren Carter pummeling away at the double N bag,
thinking about his hopes and dreams once he was the rooster.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I do remember, that's right. I remember you when you
had hair.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
I know these feathers have been plucked.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
They called you the rooster because it was shock red hair. Yes,
and that was way back in the early days, young
Darren Carter. Yes, trying his best to tell those jokes
night after night, going to multiple clubs, and during the
day pummeling away at that double sordid edged bag with
the two with the head and the body and the bullshit.

(06:36):
Sometimes a speedbag some and sometimes a speed bag.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
And not one thing I do impresses anybody. Maybe the
jump rope, if they're just if they're like the wife
of one of the boxers. Maybe not, even though I can't.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I'm trying to keep it together.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Oh hey, sorry, hey, oh well, I guess I'll just
go sit over here in the corner by mister Freeman.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm just gonna go sit over.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Here, Academy Award winning actor, make me sit in the corner.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I guess my ass Darren Carter.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
Boxing.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Wow, that's right. I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Wow, I just got roasted.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Dude. You're you're a great at comedy, and you're pretty
good at jump rope.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I've seen your Instagram. Yeah you're jumping rope a lot.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Man, I'm telling you, man, I I got into it
about three years ago. I said, I said, you know
what I want to like, really, I want to make
myself better. I want to motivate other people. And I
got into a thing. I don't know. It might have
been there was just a time I just felt I
don't know if it was after.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
One of the big no no, no, sorry, I didn't
know where you go.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
It might have been after one of these big like
school shootings or just something crazy it happened, and I
just felt like people were the downpoint and and and
and I said, you know what, I'm gonna do what
I can do to make myself better and happy. What
can I control? You know? And so I would do it.
I would put I would put, I put like I'd
write one hundred sit ups fifty jumping jacks, and I

(08:03):
would tweet it or I'd put it on Facebook, and uh.
And I noticed like people would respond to that. They
were like, dude, I you know, like I feel like
a fat piece of shit when you put that, Like
it made me want to go out and do something.
And I'm like, you know what, thank you a positive way. Yeah, yeah,
they seen it, but did they'd either be like you.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Made me feel like shit. Darren so Orn lost a
lot of followers that Dade stop. His manager said, stop,
wi Derek, you got to stop posting these these inspirational things.
You're making people feel bad. Just do comedy. Stop with
all the weight training. This isn't good for you morale. No,
that's good man. I actually it inspired me.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Thank you. You'd be so surprised, like, like, I know
it is a little bit divisive, but it's not, you know,
it's not crazy to but but there are people that
scroll and they see that and they're like, screw him,
you know. But at the same time, but but I
get private messages from people that are like, how can
I start?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
What do I do?

Speaker 5 (08:55):
Or thank you for putting that out there. And also
in the beginning, I gotta be honest, you know, like,
and I still not where I want to be or
need to be. Somebody was like a couple of people
were like, you need to like you should be like
in better shape if you're going to post this kind
of People are always saying I'm just like, I'm just
gonna do it. Who cares, I'm just gonna do it?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, why don't you wait until you have six six
before you do that? I know there's always that guy.
I know, that's my guy, Derek. Oh that's my inner voice. Oh,
it's always like, hey, what are you doing? You made
a show to bad, No one's going to buy it.
What are you doing jumping jacks for on Instagram? That's dumb.
Take your top off at least or something like that.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
I know, you know it's funny because I do see
like you put the mic a little bit closer.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Sorry, that's right. Oh I like that.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I felt like I was blowing out the go ahead. No,
you're good, because please go sit back there. This is
very weird.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Some people are like in there. I had a guy
hit me up. He's like, he's like, yeah, I got
my volume cranked up as lot as it goes. I
can't hear. I know because sometimes the guests like, like
when they call in, I think, right, because do you
have people call in? Yeah, I'm loud, but I got
to figure out a better way to do it. Oh yeah, yeah,
you know.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
It takes a while. Man. When I was doing my show,
I used to do my show, my podcast live on
Facebook with all these lights and the microphone and a mixer,
and so I'm running all that at the same time,
we'll take a phone calls. Wow, I'm never going to
do that again.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
How did you do the phone calls with them?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, Darren, let me tell you. I use Skype, and
what you do is you take a USB cable and
you run it from your laptop into a mixer.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
Okay, now what you're gonna do? Then I could because
I looked it up on YouTube. Left, I looked up
on YouTube. Ttatorial you need to have this quarter inch
and an eight in or whatever?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
The heck?

Speaker 5 (10:31):
No, man, I have that wire. I bought that wire. Yeah,
but I don't know if I didn't think it was
any better than the way that I'm doing it.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
If you had a little tiny mixer, that would be
ideal because then you can run everything into it. Welcome
back to tech Talk. I'm Josh Robert Thompson. My guest
is Darren car Darren.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
Hi, we want to know how to take a phone call. Yeah, let's.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I got Hello, Hey, guys, how's it called? Oh we
got a caller. We got a caller Darren on tech Talk.
Go ahead, call her. Yeah, I got for so I
love your show.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh, thank you, hey rams, Rams, we got a caller.
Can you hear this call of Rams is the one
that completes the guy that he's the guy I love Rams.
He listened to every single show and gives updates. He
is he's a helpful guy.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
He's a helpful guy.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
But at the same time he's he's not he likes
to bust balls to He's like, he's like, yeah, that
one guy was so positive it made me suicidal.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I was like, fuck, it sounds like my fans. Yeah,
it's not being so positive. It's weird.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Where the fuck did you guys record that one that
sounded really lame?

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Were in a garage? We're in a dumpster? Maybe we were?

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Maybe we were.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Anyway, I'm telling you, I'll tell you off the air
how to do that. I don't want to.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah. What I was gonna say real quick though, is
I as I would hook up my phone to a
Bluetooth speaker and then take that second mic and just
put it right up to the Bluetooth speaker.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, and that was the original technique.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah there right, it works.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Look, you don't need to know I bought the most
expensive mic overkill for a podcast. Yeahman, TLM forty nine.
You don't need that. Read that down, folks, write that
down the Noyman TLM forty nine, silky smooth. It's gonna
make your shows sound better.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
You know what I did today, This is hilarious. I
mean to make it sound like I'm working harder to
impress my wife.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
I started getting really technical with her, and then she
just didn't. She's like, I go, yeah, you know, this
guy hit me up. He's like, how do I do
a podcast? I'm like, well, here's what you got to have.
You need an H four and Zoom Pro. You need
some Xcelery cables. You got to get the Surf fifty
eight microphones. Yeah, the wind scream makes you get the
wind screen. You want to get an SD card, but
nothing over four. You don't really need anything higher than

(12:36):
for megabitees because you're gonna format it. And I could
tell she was just like, you know what, Darren, you're
not You're not impressing me.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Just she has she ever said to you, she ever
just said to you. Yeah, you know what, there, I
really don't care.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yeah, yeah, straight up say that is the worst thing
I know.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
People, because I get the same way about like movies
or or I'm a real audio file and a video file.
So I'm like, you know, I got one of the
last plasma TV's ever made. It's the Panasonic VT fifty
and it's got those really true rich black colors. You know,
they stopped making those about five years ago. And if
you're gonna get a soundbar Bowers and Wolkens good, it's
pretty pricey, but you're gonna get pretty. People don't care.

(13:13):
They just I don't care, Josh, unless they're into that too.
Must they're into it, and then they get really excited, like,
oh my god. Like I'm a Halloween fanatic, like Halloween
is my Christmas. So every year I do a massive
display in my front yard, but only one day. I
can only do it one day because in my neighborhood,
all that shit would be gone if I left it all.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
I had this kid walked by once and looked at
my window and I had Frankenstein's Monster in the window,
and I swear to God, he said to his friends,
if there goes Shrek right there. So that's that's the
neighborhood that I'm Wait a minute, hey, right there goes
Shrek's not so buffer night. What's up man, Shrek? What's up?
Or another guy would walk by and be like, you
got some nice equipment, some nice lights. It looks pretty good.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
Man.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'm just gonna circle back awkwardly every five minutes or so.
What's up, bitch, what's up? Full? What's up? Suckers? Anyway,
I'm really into Halloween.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
So I was, don't you think LA is like the
best place for Halloween? As far as like, well, here's
what I mean, like like Burbank because I live in Burbank. Yeah,
and I mean like these people are in the Tuluca
Lake area their bank. As far as like the behind
the scenes, like the people that probably like build sets,
because these these yards are crazy.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Talking about it. You must live near Rick Baker probably
Rick Baker one of the great makeup effects guys of
all time. I mean these yards or Bob Burns. You
remember Bob Burns. He and his wife would have they
would turn their whole house into a massive Halloween show.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Oh wow, there's one that's in like they do that
with Christmas. The whole yard. And there's like right apps
now that they you can app And I said, download
your up and listen to music as you watch our
front yard.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
Yeah, you walk around and listen to all the old
Thai classics. There's a lot of that halloween stuff, but
the geeky talk is the tech talk. I met a
guy that was selling, uh, he was selling camouflage netting.
So he was selling just halloween props masks. But I
was more interested in what he had hung up behind

(15:12):
his display, which was camo netting.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
I said, I said, excuse me, sir, I interested in
some of his masks, probably or maybe a fake arm
or a leg. No, no, sir, I'm would you like
maybe a fake knife or some blood?

Speaker 5 (15:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I want that camo netting. Where did you get? Whereabouts?
Did you get the camo netting? This guy got so
excited as it. No one had ever asked him. Oh,
I am interested. I could probably get you three hundred
yards for it. Now they don't ship it until next week,
but let me get your name in your email address.
And you know there's different types of camera.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Oh it was.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
It was a jaw into it. He was excited.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Did you did you want to? Did you end up
buying some camo.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Ne No, because I immediately went on Amazon and found
it for like, you know, three hundred dollars less. Thanks
a lot, buddy, I still got you a good deal.
It's it's from a very special place. They throw it
right off the train. And it was like this guy
was like a Neverenning story bookstore. This is like some
magical old man. But it's the same thing you're talking about.
Once you you meet somebody that's interested in the same thing.

(16:16):
But there's a lot of those guys that are like
they'll talk your ear off, man, and even you or
I will get but even I'm like, I gotta go, Yeah,
I can't hear anymore about.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
And that's what's great about like YouTube or whatever. You
could just like look it up for yourself and then
when you're done with you, oh yeah, okay, and I'm
gonna go watch some Metallica videos or whatever.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
That's And that is a little insight into the life
of Darren Carter.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
That's right when he gets bored with Camo netting, let's
watch a Bruce Springsteen concert from eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Still cam netting Uptown girl, and then he switches back
over to the Camo netting. Dude. You can learn everything
on YouTube, Like I I rent this house in Silver
Leg I've been there for almost seven years and I
fix everything there for the landlord.

Speaker 5 (17:00):
I love it. You could just do anything, or you
fix it for the landlord. I mean it's like you're like,
let me just try it.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Like you know one of those outside air conditioning units,
that big, massive ones. I fixed it. Oh wow, I
just needed a It was like called a someone's gonna
correct me capacitor or a condenser. I don't know what
it's called. That's not what it is. I'll let them answer.
But but I fixed it. It was like twelve bucks.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
And I surprisingly didn't the electrocube myself.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
That's great. You know what's funny. We stripped We were
trying to unscrew something from one of my son's toys,
and uh, we stripped the screw you know, because you
turn the screwdriver too much. And I'm like, and so
it's the next day. My wife was like, let's see
if you can try it, Darren. We try to and
I go, I go, we should go on YouTube and
see what to do. And she's like, I already did.
If you strip a screw, put some tape, say, if

(17:48):
you put some tape in it in a way to
kind of grip that table somehow grip it.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
But I wish i'd have known that I was putting
in security lights in my backyard because the old ones
said fried out, and whoever installed it ten years prior
had stripped both of the screws completely. So I took
a drill and I actually drilled a hole through the
top of the screws and then broke them in half.
Oh this is like an hour long. I'm not there,

(18:14):
Come on, you, son of a bitch. My neighbors are like,
what are you doing? Man? There? Shrek right there? Will
you stop it anyway? But I almost elect to cute
it myself. You're learning a lot about me, and really
we're helping people learn about how to do things at home.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Dy Diy, my son's eleven. He's on the internet today.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Kid's amazing, by the way, this kid, I mean, I
see your Instagram stories. What a what a performer.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
This kid is Little Loston Carter. He listens to every episode,
so he'll be hearing this.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
In a few weeks. Oh well, I'll just be sure
and clean it up then. Hi, Austin, Hey Austin, how
you doing, buddy? Sorry about all that other stuff. Josh
has had a few too many to drink. But take
it from your old uncle josh Pal life is good
and then one day it's just not. You know, he

(19:07):
keep playing the piano in grocery stores or whatever your
dad makes.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
You do in Costco?

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yeah? We took him to Costco and he played the
song by Camilla Cabella. Yeah, Havana right.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Does he do it often though? Is it like a
regular Oh?

Speaker 5 (19:21):
He plays every single day. He gets up in the morning,
he plays and he plays. No, no, no, can you
imagine he's working more than I am?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Sir? Can you please get out of here with your son.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
We're gonna go to the Guitar center now as guitar
He's played there too, Is he really Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Did all the people that work there just look at
him very smugly and have nothing to say? Or they
were they okay with it?

Speaker 5 (19:46):
No, they were One guy came over and encourage. He
goes like whoa because he because he'll play like the
you know, the Imperial.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
March from start start Yeah, John Williams.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah, he'll play some of that.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
That's cool.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Then he'll go from that to so it's kind of
like all the Star Wars nerves. Yeah, when he was like,
oh man, oh no, he's trying to break a record
now he he there's like I guess they're called meme songs. Yeah,
like and I may be wrong about this, but it's
something like I guess it would be like, you know,
never gonna give you up, you know, like that's part
of a meme, right right right and then so so

(20:20):
like he's put he found all these different songs are
popular in that genre, like if they're on the internet
and he's trying to play like a whole bunch of
them in like two.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Minutes, so and then do a video of that.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
I don't even know if he wants to do a
video right now. He's just like getting you know, trying
to do it.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
You got to get this kid on tour.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
This is no it's pretty cool, Darren.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
You got a cash cow right here with this kid.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
He said that he goes, Mom, if we ever, he goes,
if I ever, how do you say it again? If
I'm ever broke and hit hard times, it's cool to
have a skill. I can go to downtown Burbank and
play the instruments for money.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Wait, he's already thinking ahead. He has hard times.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
You know, if I'm if I have a hard time,
I'm not able to sell my pilot. And I'm forty
three years old and I'm eating Ramen noodles and the
check stopped coming in. I'm just saying, that's a hypothetical, Darren. Yeah,
I'm saying no, I know, no, I don't.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Let's get into that r Let's do it, okay, Josh
Robert Thompson. It's amazing. Like I said, I heard him
on the heard you on the radio ten eleven years ago.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Conway and Steckler, Conway and Stuck Conway and Steckler, the
great Tim Conway Junior hey Man.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Yeah, and and then you were on the Whitman and
Conway and Whitman right, Conway, Howard Stern like all these
great things. Yeah, you even did Arnold and it was
fake Arnold. I think did in the La Times think
it was a real phone call? It was.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
It was Joe Scarborough had a show on MSNBC. I
called in, Yeah, I called in saying I was going
to blow up the moon.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
Oh wow, I got to get rid of the moon.
It's useless, get rid of it. Nobody needs it anymore.
We've got fire and electricity and torches.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's a matter of it. You'll blow it up, so
he was going to have some policy and to blow
up the moon when he was governor. Yeah. But but
the thing I said that was so damning. And again
this was on Howard Stern.

Speaker 9 (22:07):
I said, you know, the moon regulates the menstrual cycle
of the women. So if we get rid of the moon,
no more PMS, the more bitching and whining, America would
be safe again.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
And it's just right.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
So Joe Scarborough's I know you're coughing.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah, well, like I had a cold last week from
flying and I'm like, it's getting over it. But when
it's the worst and when you made me laugh right there,
I was like, damn, I got me. Good Darren Cardinals.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
I want you guys to know he almost passed away
during the show, got lightheaded. We're all on alert during
this episode that you may pass away.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
When you did your Arnold, Like, it's not like your
typical you know comedian that will be like, get down, everybody.
It's like, you do the voice, where's his speaking voice?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, it's been a while since I've done it, so
it's a little rusty. But yes, that was the thing
that sort of caught on in the beginning was one
of little guy talks like him Like I pranked Fox News.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
That was the big one something I thought the LA time.
Didn't they write something about it or no?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
It was it was FOXILM Friends. It was Fox and Friends.
The Regular Guys was a show that oh okay here
in La Yeah. Actually they were out of Atlanta and
they put me on the air with Fox and Friends,
pretended that I that they were Arnold's people. Put me
on the air. They bumped Arianna Huffington for Schwarzenegger, and.

Speaker 9 (23:23):
It's me talking about policies. Well, you know, I'm going
to be in New York talking about are you gonna
run for governor? Well, I don't want to talk about that,
you know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
But they talked to me for about five minutes on
the air until they sort of started to figure out
that it wasn't really Arnold. And then that's what caught
the attention of Gary Delabate over at Stern Show. And
then I did that for years. I was on that
show for years, wow, doing all the you know with
George Taka, the famous hey now yeah oh that became

(23:54):
that voice actually became sort of the inspiration for the
Jeff the Robot what I would play later on on
the Late Late Show with Ferguson, because he talked like
this and new he was like Snagglepuss and uh uh
George de ka ooh in your pens. It was one
of his ridiculous phrases. But that's how it started, man.

(24:16):
Was you know I moved out here from Cleveland, like
in ninety five, No way, Yeah, and that's funny.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
I came here in ninety five.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Also really from where?

Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah? Well at that time, I grew up in Front
I'm all I know. Yeah, I came from the east
Man was in Sherman Oaks, Newark goes to the one
third World exit. Yes to Bob's Big Boy is on.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
The move here and Milton EATI is that?

Speaker 10 (24:42):
What is?

Speaker 5 (24:42):
What's the Milton the inspirational love it? Marky Billboard is
that's the best. I love those.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
We're talking about Burbank folks, for those of you that
don't know what we're talking.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
About, beautiful juntown Burbank.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
And there was a very nice establishment, Milton Needies. It's
been there for years and I used to take my
suits there, the ones that I designed, the Joning Carson
suits with the padded elbows. You remember these I do
Edward members this. Yeah, of course have you have you
been drinking ed? All right, it's fine. Maybe we'll get
them a cot or something, maybe five stars, all right,

(25:14):
maybe well there's maybe someone needs to take a nappy pool. Anyway,
you get off Pass Avenue and there's there's Milt meeting.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
But I'm all from California though, born and raised in Fresno.
They've been in the Bay Area for a while. They're
in San Diego for like a like all the you know,
briefly each each town and then and then I moved
to La and uh in ninety five ninety five.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah, my demarcation. The way I know that is because
when when I got here, this movie called Toy Story
had just come out.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
That's how long ago that was at the l capy
ten Toy Story and I'm like, what's this. I had
a go tee and a Jurassic Park T shirt tucked
into my jeans with my white sneakers. That's what I
looked like when I got here, and I was ready
to take on the world.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
And did you grow up doing voices out there in Cleveland?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah? Man, and you were like used to call into
college radio a lot in high school as Johnny Carson,
like I was fifteen doing Johnny Carson because he had
just retired in Yeah, I remember that because I loved
I loved that show. We all loved that show, and
so I'd call up as a bitter Johnny Carshon. I'm
not doing anything. I just see what you guys are.

(26:19):
But I was fifteen, so I was like Johnny Carshon fun.
But they loved it. It was a show called brain
Rot Radio Theater and it was a late night college
talk show on Thursday nights, and I call in it.
I have all the tape still, I recorded it, and
it was so much fun mass Isn't that cool?

Speaker 5 (26:36):
I called into the Doctor Demento show, did a Michael
Jackson impression. I got a T shirt out of them.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Isn't that the best?

Speaker 5 (26:42):
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
See, now, that's a magical era that we can never replicate.
And that's what I miss because there was a group
of us. We never met each other, but there was
a group of us in the Cleveland area that called
into that show every Thursday as different characters. There was
a guy named Henry Horsepoop. There was the paper boy,
there was pig Man. It's big man, you know, and
we would all just go on party lines and they

(27:05):
put us out on the air.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
You know radios. Man, I don't know what if I
don't you know, I don't know if it's doing. It's
not what it was. No, it's not at all. It's
like maybe there's some markets, maybe some stations, but I
mean overall, I think, yeah, like the.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
One show I know, the Woody Show, which I was
on The Woody Show I think is on ALTS ninety
three something. I don't know, it's a big it's a
big show. They're doing really well. They're actually getting picked
up in other markets.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah, oh cool.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I was really happy for them. I realized, like really,
I'm trying to do insult them. Was like, you guys
are getting pick up in other markets. I didn't know
there are any markets left. But I grew up listening
to a Prairie Home companion. I used to go see
that show live. Wow, that's a beautiful day my hometown.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Of like web, we're gone.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I just walking through the snow and I can feel it.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Of couse, I forgot my shoes, hot cross buns.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I let you a little hot crush Buns. You got
Joe and the Banjo Boys. What are you gonna play
forrest Fellas? It's always that kind of beautiful melon great.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
I would listen to I haven't listened to it in
a while. But is it still on?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, it's a new They got a new host now
because I touched the small of woman's back and I
got fired because of course you can't do that sort
of thing. Now you have to be careful to wear
gloves or spacesuit. Now he retired, actually Garrison Keiler retired,
and now there's a new guy in Chris. I want
to say, his name is Chris tile. I got his

(28:27):
name wrong. I thought their lame is terrible. But but
I love that show, like a great show.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
But that's the thing. See that now what I even
listeners are like that. I might, but it's like now,
if I'm on a long drive, i'd listen to podcasts.
I might still listen to Serious.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I still do yeahs to Howard.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
I don't because I'll have it in my car.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh, I see, I.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Don't know, like my buddy has Serious here. I don't know.
If you could do it on.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Your phone, you could do the app D you know
she'd download the shows and then take over you go.
I know, you know the best show to listen to,
tell me is the Pocket Party podcast. That's right with
Deren Carter right now, this is the Pocket Party Podcast.
I like to do the fake bumpers on my podcast.
I would make I would pre record fake bumpers.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
Oh, tell us the name of your podcast?

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, the first version of it was the Joshing Around Podcast.
But I got really embarrassed when people had asked me
what the show is called, and I would say, well,
it's called a Joshing Around, And then I always get
this look like, okay, what do you have seventy year
old vaudevillian. Yeah, you know, my name's Josh and it's
joshing Around. What do you guys think? But it's an
improvised you know. I'd do all the voices, and but

(29:32):
I would have these bumpers that would that would are
station IDs show IDs that would make fun of me.
But I'd be the announcers. So I'd say, you're listening
to a guy who still still pays rent at forty
three years of age. Here's Josh McMichael's. And he'd always
screw up my last name, and then I would say
it's actually it's actually Josh Robert Thompson. Nobody cares, here's Josh,

(29:57):
here's Jason McManus. No, it's it's Josh Robert Thompson. So
I'd be having this conversation with myself. But I love
that radio voice. I love like my guy. I have
a k log which is my fake radio station that
only plays Kenny Loggins. So that guy will be like, uh,
you know, uh, We've got a complete block of four

(30:18):
hour block of Kenny Loggins coming up. We like to
call it the log jam. Right here, here's some danger zone,
here's Kenny, and then always play danger zone. Always just
hit it and go right into it. That's it. Danger zone.
Traffic out there is pretty rough. You might say it's
a danger zone, here's Kenny. Just anyway to go into it.
Love those guys like Rick D's and all those guys, man.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
I love it Rick Do. I ran it him at
the airport once in Bourbank. Did you really very nice guy,
Darren Carter? Name dropping? Yeah, that's right, airport.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Did you embrace him? Did you have a conversation?

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Yeah, I talked him for a little bit. He was
really nice.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
So Thank you so much, Durn You're such a great guy.
Shadow Stevens good friend of mine. Really. You know Shadow Steve,
I know his name.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
I know he used to do a ton of commercials
in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
For like Circuit City or Fred he was Fred Raided
and they were for Federated. But he was also the
center square on Hollywood Squares. Wow, when John Davidson, where
does his voice sound like? Oh, he's very very buch
shadows Steven's it's Shadowed. Because he was the announcer on
The Late Late Show. He would always say, you know,

(31:18):
it's the Late Late Show, brought to you by Anderson.
So we'd always make jokes with him that in the
middle of a real conversation with him, you know, he'd
be talking to you, well, Darren, you know, I really
enjoy doing radio and this conversation is brought to you
by bes Quick. You don't have to you don't have
to do that. Shadow. But he's such a nice guy.
He's such an amazing guy. He's always working on something.

(31:40):
He's he's one of the legends. He actually took over
American Top forty from Casey Cason, who he did it
for a while.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
I listened to that. This last weekend, I was driving
up to uh north of Frosnoupe, to a little town
called Turlock. Oh, Turlock, shout out to the Turlock.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, you get some good good crack up there, some
good meth in turnlot as far as far as you know.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
My cousin lives there. And I told the story on
last week's podcast, And but it's true, though, Man, I
gotta tell you real quick. Get up the freeway and
I'm looking for Jimmy johns Oh, here's one, And I
call my cousin. I go, this actual Jimmy John's area
looks pretty nice, but when you get off the freeway
looks a little I go, how is this Turlock? He goes, Oh,
that part of town's kind of sketchy. So I go
to my hotel and he goes, oh that. Oh oh, man,

(32:23):
you're at the too sketchy part of town. But the
rest of the town is beautiful. And then we end
there's whatever another part of town is sketchy, right, And
then finally we're driving towards the gig and I see
this big beautiful building on the left. I go, oh,
it looks like we're getting to the nice part of town.
And then as we get closer that building was the
police station. Yeah, it's like, oh.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Man, you're gonna love it here. You're never gonna leave. Darren, Yes,
slowly dying on this program that is pretty nice.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
Wasn't gonna tell you about Turlock though, as I was, Oh, yeah,
listen to Casey Casey right on the seventies channel and
they're doing all the reruns. Yeah, it would be like,
you know, like that actual date. It would be so good. Yeah,
it would be wild, right, it'd be like October fourth,
it'd be like October fourth, nineteen seventy one.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Coming in at number two. It's Duran. Duran here's real. Yeah,
Like he was so incredible. This guy actually knew him actually,
uh actually got to spend a little bit of time
with him.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
He was such a lovely guy. He was always so
excited to hear about what I was working on, because
by that point he had become rather frail. So but
on the days when he was coherent, he would like
to hear my stories about working in the studios. Josh,
what did you do today? And I was like, well,
I did the voice of, you know, some character on

(33:42):
Family guy.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
And that's great. I miss being in the studio.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, Scooby Doo, right, Scooby. Yeah, he was shaggy, shaggy
like whoa Scoob? And he was he was He was
a Robin on the Batman and Robin animated series. How
would what were some I think it sounded pretty much
like shaggy I mean no and that. But he actually
told me. I don't know if if this is true
or if I'm remembering this correctly, but Casey Casey told

(34:06):
me that one of his first radio jobs was doing
as a very little kid, was doing a voice on
the Lone Ranger radio series.

Speaker 10 (34:13):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
It's like, wow, dude, you've been like this guy. This
is another one of the great legends of radio broadcasting.
You ever met Larry King or oh I did on
the Late Late Show? Have you met Larry No, He's amazing.
This guy's still going, still going, this guy even though
he's off seeing it or whatever.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
You Yeah, I'll still see him pop up on something.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
What is it Aura, Aura TV or something? Remember four
either are just making up radios. There was Ciso or Aura.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
Yeah, we'll be right back after this on Aura TV.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
And then it's like now, we're on Hulu. It doesn't
matter what is he like, gotta be ninety almost, you
know what.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
That's the thing. You gotta find what you love and
just do it, you know. And sometimes that can be
frustrating because what you want to do you got to
answer to someone and they want won't let you do
what you want to do. And that's what sucks about
show business. At times.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
It can be hard.

Speaker 11 (35:04):
Man.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
I mean, you've had a nice run. But then I
was saying off air, I remember I had this great
experience when I was in Canada. I follow you and
I saw that you were like, hey, I just posted
this podcast and it was great because all I gotta
do is hit play like boom. It was right there,
and like that was right when I think things started
to change where you didn't have to do like fifteen
steps to listen to a podcast, right. I was like,

(35:25):
I was like, oh, it's right there. That was it,
and it just came through my Bluetooth speaker, filled up
the whole hotel room.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
It's pretty great.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
And it was great and you were telling some wonder awesome,
funny stories like you always do.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
And I'm trying to take that that's good to hear.
That's good to hear because I'm trying. I'm sort of
came on this show because it's so positive, right, you're
so truly though. I found your Instagram to be inspirational.
I knew you from I would go see you do
stand up at I think it was Jay Davis's right.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
That's right, used to tell your hair, I think, right,
I like dark black.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
I was like goth as hell. Yeah, I had like
emo hair. I was like, that's the guy that does
their voices, like this goth kids.

Speaker 11 (36:02):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I don't know what I was doing. And it was
like in my mid thirties. I was going through some
like everyone's like, what are you eighteen? No, just do
what I want, mom, shut up. Yeah, man, I was
wearing creepers. I was like a closet goth dude. I
was going to goth clubs and I don't know what
I was doing.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
That'd be funny to see just this goth kid and
then like doing these Yeah yeah, I'm.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
A golf caids me Johnny Garson. But then he's got
a red tie. He's type my stretchy pants. I say,
guy doing but I but you know, but I finally
sort of you know, you get to know people sort
of when you watch their That's the weird thing about
social media is you gotta be careful what you put
out there. But my thing is, I did the Late

(36:43):
Late Show for eight years.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
He said, you'd watch me do comedy, and they watching
my Instagram being positive.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, well, I'm saying, yeah exactly. I did The Late
Late Show for eight years and then the last last
year was pretty good. But the two years before that
were really rough for me. You know. I just you
were just talking about showbiz and how it can be rough.
I just didn't know how to handle when a show ends,
everyone loses a job. I'm nothing special, but I just didn't.

(37:10):
I really thought like The Lately Show was going to
be the springboard or the launching pad for me, and
then when it didn't happen, I got really upset. So
like the show ended and you're like, hey, so everyone
must know that I'm the robot. Like we had no
idea you were the robot, you know, but I had.
I made a pilot before the show ended. I took
some of my money, all my money, and made a

(37:31):
really amazing TV pilot with a group of incredibly talented people.
And I'm so proud of that show, and we're still
kind of shopping around. But I just got really depressed.
You know, I got depressed and I was drinking a
little bit. But the thing that the mistake was I
went live doing these live broadcasts. Now, part of that

(37:54):
actually built an audience because there were a lot of
people that identified with the depression, and in a weird way,
they loved that I was being candid about these things.
So it actually was good because I still get messages
from people saying, you know, you've helped me. You get
the same thing people say you motivated me, or your
comedies helped me through tough times.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
Rams is doing push ups now.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, hey, Darren, I wonder if you could send me
your shorts when you're done with them. Excuse me no,
but it was deeply moving to me. I actually Chris
Delia just talked about this on his show, his podcast,
and he got really emotional about it. Because I didn't
really think that my kind of comedy would change people's lives.

(38:36):
But what I'm saying is you just don't know who's
listening out there and how you are affecting their lives.
So I had to really turn myself around because I
didn't want to do this negative thing anymore. A lot
of my stuff was negative and combative. It's a bad look,
you know. And it was all new to me. When
you're putting stuff out into the world like that, all

(38:57):
this social media stuff, it's all new. But you got
to really be careful about how you present yourself, you know.
So I'm in the right now. The last year I've
been doing the self improvement thing. See.

Speaker 5 (39:09):
Yeah, so what happened?

Speaker 2 (39:10):
You just you took some time off, took some time off.
I said, I've had it. I don't want to be
this guy anymore. I need to sort of just recharge,
you know, because well, I think a lot of us
are in a hurry to get the views and the
likes and go viral and NonStop promoting, and it gets
you know, I can't get It's like, okay, but what

(39:31):
am I really doing here? What is it I want
to do? And I like telling stories that podcast. I
like telling stories, and people like the stories. So now
I'm ready to take those on the onto the stage because,
like dude, just because the audience is in it, Like
this show, it's in the pocket, it's in the palm,
of your hand. But it's not the same as being

(39:54):
in front of a live audience because there you can
see them engage their reaction and feel their energy, where
as online you forget there are people watching, so you
just start saying all kinds of ship and then you go,
I probably shouldn't have said that. Yeah, And so that's
kind of one of the reasons. One of the other
reasons I came on here was just I felt like,
you know, maybe it's time to start dipping my foot

(40:16):
back into the water a little bit because I really
miss it. I love being on stage. I love doing that.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
You know, you've been doing it for creative I remember
I saw you performing I think in this room. Yeah, yeah,
right this room.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah, just dicking our flappers right now, yeah, flappers and
Burbank and beautiful Burbank. Can get off five an Olive Avenue. Yeah,
I turn left and you can park it the Ashley
Furniture if at chafterur hours any walk yeah. Always people
always tell me that, Okay, you can do a show, Okay,

(40:50):
you can do set, all right, just park it Ashley Furniture,
just like what.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
And walk down?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
What kind of racket is this? Parket seers they're closed.
It's an abandoned building. Nobody cares. Yeah, I was here, man.
And you know, the last show I did was at
the Improv, Hollywood Improv, and that was the first time
I felt free to just talk. I had this new
method of just go on stage and talk about one thing,

(41:20):
because that's usually what I would do in these live broadcasts.
Just talk about one topic and exhaust it five minutes
or ten what have you got time, and then come
back and do it again.

Speaker 5 (41:30):
What would be a topic I wonder if I could
even do that.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
I would talk about working at Blockbuster Video.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
Oh did you work there?

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well?

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
People would love those stories. Yeah, you know, just like
the one night I got so angry I was a
manager at Blockbuster Video.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
You know a lot about movies. Then, Oh yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
I'm a movie I'm a movie freak.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
Because that's the thing I I you know, I told
you last I came out of a podcast. I was
a guest on a punch Drunk sports over at All
Things Comedy and when we it's a two hour podcast
and I was thinking, like, all right, so as we're done,
I'm gonna go get something to eat. And it's the
minute the thing ended and the door open, the next
podcast is walking and they're like, Darren, our guest hasn't
showed up. We talk about movies were called comedy film nerds.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
This is like out of This is like out of
a movie. This is like a mel Brooks movie.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
They're like, well, what do you know? I don't know
that much about movies. You're like that's okay, of course,
and I'm like, oh shit, and they're like.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
What movie were bro?

Speaker 5 (42:25):
Yeah, They're like, what movies have you seen? And I
literally it was almost like I couldn't even think of one.
I was like, uh, I saw Captain Underparts with my son.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
I saw I saw Captain EO back in ninety eighties. Yeah,
I saw. Did you say? You messaged R called your wife?

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Yeah, check my geenie quick? What what movies have I seen?

Speaker 2 (42:43):
She sends you a cheat sheet?

Speaker 5 (42:44):
Yeah, yeah, cheat sheet. And then they were but they
actually liked it because we ended up talking about because
I actually liked the new die Hard or not the
New Diehard, the new we don't talk about no, no,
the new death Wish with the oh Bruce will Yes,
yes that's the one I said, because I remember the originals.
But at the same time, I kind of wanted to
like go to a theater, eat some popcorn with somebody,
and like just just watch them, you know, till that's everyone.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
People get so worked up about movies now, like look,
I saw The Mummy with Tom Cruise. Everybody was it's terrible.
You get My ritual is every Sunday. Every Sunday, I
go to a matinee. I get a hot dog. It's
a lot of night trains. You gotta be careful. And
I get a beer. You get one beer and a
hot dog. And I sit there and I watch a movie.

(43:28):
And I'm watching this Mummy, and I thought, this is
like a movie that was made in the eighties. There
was a company back in the eighties called Cannon Films,
and they made shit. They made like heat Masters of
the Universe with Dolph Lundren. Anytime you saw the Canon logo,
you knew that you were in for a disaster, but

(43:49):
it was gonna be really entertaining. But this felt like
a movie from the eighties that had been unearthed.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
And it was so entertaining.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
It wasn't the greatest film, but I thought, this is
what it's about. I mean, you went and saw Death
Wish with Bruce Willis the remake and you enjoyed it.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Yeah, it was entertaining. My party goes I need to
do because I want to see a movie or something.
I go, you know, I'm doing comedy set the laugh Factory.
Afterwards we'll go to the Glendale like Americana. Yeah, and dude,
it's great there and I love it, and I'm like,
we know what we're walking into.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
There's never anybody there. By the way, folks, if you know,
go to this movie theater. It's like how many tickets?
Uh too? Okay, what the movie? I'm gonna go see
The Predator? Okay, one the Predator. They're not clean out yet,
so you wait, you want Celantro and your popcorn?

Speaker 5 (44:34):
What?

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yeah, it's like, dude, there's nobody there. Yeah, go to
whatever movie you want, you know what, Just go see whatever.
Like I love.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Here's what I like. I like a good movie, of course.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
Like I like a movie where I'm like, wow, like
I really enjoyed. Uh Like like you know, I really enjoyed.
Was uh Daddy's Home Too? Did you do Daddy's Home Too?

Speaker 2 (44:59):
With melg Yes, this is so funny this movie.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
Yes, that is so funny.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
This movie.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
I loved it. I like Daddy's Home and I like
Daddy's Home.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Too, Honestly, man Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell together they
did a movie called The Other Guys. Okay, did you
ever see that one? Brilliant?

Speaker 5 (45:19):
I haven't seen that one.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
They're they're great together. I mean they should just you know.
Will Ferrell and John c Riley are great together. They
did Step Brothers. Now they got the Holmes and Watson
coming out. The Sherlock Holmes movie looks very funny. Actually,
the trailer looks pretty bad, but I'll still go see it.
Think about that, Will Ferrell, I actually want to, because
we all go through this. By the way, I'm talking

(45:42):
about it on a very smaller scale about my career
and how sometimes things don't work out and you got
to just come up with a new plan of attack.
Here's Will Ferrell and Jim Carrey went through the same thing.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
You know.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Will Ferrell has had a string of box office bombs,
and he's kinda it's because ten years ago this guy
was on top of the world, and it's weird to
see that. Yeah, I just saw that movie he made
it called The House where the mother and father open
up a casino to try to raise money to send

(46:14):
their daughter to college. And I kept avoiding it. I'm like,
I don't want to see it is so outrageous, it's
so dark.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
I loved it.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
I loved it.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Man, have you seen what's exciting to see now? I'm
thinking White Boy Rick? Yeah, with.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Matthew McConaughey. Man, I mean that movie, White Boy Rick.
It's a great movie. I mean I haven't seen it.
I mean I did the movie, but I haven't seen
the final cut. But I hear it's good. Filming it
it was great. I had a mustache I think in
that movie, and and a leather jacket and it cracked
a lot, so we had to do a lot of adr.
That's where you go in and replace dialogue because of

(46:54):
all the cracking of the leather.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
But it's a great I think it's a great movie.
I don't know it's you're just in it. I'm in it.
I was there, But I don't know if it's good.
But I just think you should see it. If it's out.
I think it's out, is it.

Speaker 5 (47:09):
Yes, because I heard somebody say that it was out. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
No, I'm on the Screen Actors Guild. Am I allowed
to say that? Yeah? The voting committee.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
Oh oh, I think I am too, are you? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I get those little don't screw it up, bro.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
I know, don't screw it up on I get those DVDs.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
I saw Black Clansman, Spike Lee's movie. Wow, that was amazing.
Was it good? Yeah? Spike Lee one of my favorite
films ever made Top five my top five. Number five
would have to be Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
Powerful movie. And what's crazy about that movie is that

(47:43):
was nineteen eighty nine, and that was really about all
these different races in the hottest summer in nineteen eighty
nine in Bedstye.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
Brooklyn, stay black?

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Right?

Speaker 5 (47:55):
Is that the phrase?

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Yeah, that's one of the guys that says stay black.
And then Joe uh god, there's all I'm drawing a
blank hare but uh when Danny I yellow.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
Don't think I've never seen the whole movie. I little pieces,
but I know, like, I think Joey des always says
stay black, and I think that's from that movie. And
then there's a Buddy mcgert, one of the trainers at
the two time world champion at the boxing gym. He
always tells people to stay black, no matter who they
that's his thing, no matter what me I walk in,
Stay black black. Okay, that's good though. I think that's
a good thing to do, especially now. I think you

(48:29):
should do that.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
I stay because you're a straight we're straight white man. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's over someone stay black. You disagree, Yes, I will
whatever you say. Hey, man, hey stay black? First of all,
you know, Darren, how you doing? Man? Very good? Darnelle Jenkis.
I love your stuff. Man, you get up there to
do the party, start of stuff. You know, you're always
doing it.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
You know what I mean, trying to you get it? Man,
you know the grooves, that party.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
You got to stay you're black.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
It's a podcast. I'm still bringing up the flashlight.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
You're still doing that?

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Man?

Speaker 5 (49:01):
Is that is that the same Uh?

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Is that the same flash that you hear all the musical? Yes?

Speaker 5 (49:06):
No, no, this might have been replaced.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
You change the batteries on it.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
Yeah, I do off. You have to change batteries on
that flash but once every four months.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yeah, man, I love when you do that.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
Or you know, I like my like my women like
I like my I like my women like I like
my shoes, no strings attacked.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
See you just you just you pull that out the
air man. You have some prep though in the in
the in the chamber, right, yeah, like give me. I
like my women like I like my tacos, tacos full
of my terresa. See that in your latinos in the
audience say oh like that, you know, and then you know,
I like my women like I like my sandal wood.

Speaker 5 (49:48):
I like my women like. I like my sandal wood.
Ooh smooth, smelling good.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
See this, don't talk about man.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
I don't even know what sand wood is.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
No, but you did it. Yeah, here's the here's I
love Darnell Man.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
It's a good voice. Man, do all these characters. I
used to write down all my voices. Yeah, when I
was like nineteen, and it was really cool. Do you
do that still? Do you write down all your voices that.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
You can do? I have have I have what I do?
I used to do so I used to record.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Sometimes I asked me if I heard an interesting voice
in public, Like I was at a restaurant or something
and I heard someone, I would say, I have a voice.
It was really weird. I'm a voice actor. You do
you mind say a few things in my recorder and
then I'd have it on file like that's weird old
man voice.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
And they would be cool with it. But I guess
I can. I don't know what about this, you know,
like everyone's PC now.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
And that's what they thank you. This is exactly what
I talk about.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
What's going on now with this?

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Well, Hank Azaria, who is on The Simpsons. Yeah, last
year or earlier this year, he was on I don't
know what show he was on, was it anyway, one
of the one of the shows, and he was talking
about how he was he would step down as the
voice of a poo or no, I don't know if
he has. And I realized that I'm a straight white

(51:03):
man and I'm not supposed to talk about this. But
I got scared because I thought, well, I do Darnell,
and that's a real guy that I knew growing up
in Cleveland. I would take the bus downtown to Cleveland State.
I like you, there's like a kind of a whistle
that you want, there's a whole you know, hey man.
I remember he was in a bus stop, walking to
the bus stops right dead of winter, and this guy
walks in with like yellow jaundiced eyes and like he's

(51:25):
missing a tooth and he leans up. It's like one
of those glass enclosures a bus stop. It's like twenty
below zero, February, dead of winter, Cleveland, Misery. I'm waiting
for the bus. I'm just freezing to death. This guy
starts banging one of his feet against the side of
this bus stop and he says to me, how's it

(51:46):
feel to be in the last days of living? And
I said, what does that mean? That that's what I
sounded like back like ninety four? And he says, what
you wanted to me? And that was how I met
Darnell Jenkins. If you could just hold off on this
for like a week because I got finals, I don't
give a shit what you got, mother, Buttom and then

(52:08):
I got to know this guy a little bit. It
wasn't a friend of mine, but it was just this
weird guy that would come in there. But then was
he threatening or just just talking? I just think he
was just baby. I don't even think he knew that
I was there. I don't think he really was living
in this plane.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
You recognize your voice. I'm calling in doing Johnny Carson that.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Hey, man, did you call it? The Cleveland State Radio
and Johnny Carlson, I knew, I knew you you all right? Man? Yeah,
that's the world. This is the Find Days of Living
Good cardon how you get in here?

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Man?

Speaker 2 (52:38):
He's funny as shit. So but I do this Darnell.
And then so for my TV pilot that I made Darnell,
I was like, well, I can't do blackface. I can't
do like Robert Donny Junior makeup. So I had He's
a puppet. He's like an alien puppet. He's a Boglin.
If you remember these puppets from the eighties. Boglins were

(52:59):
these who puppets their eyes move. So I have one,
and I'm like, let's just make Darnell this guy and
it looks just like like a Darnell. I'm a crafty
little alien man and he always wants to have sex.
It's just funny because he's a little tiny guy.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
So then I have Snorky Lopez, who's the Mexican raccoon.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
What the fuckers is me?

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Snorky Yay? What's going on?

Speaker 5 (53:19):
Everybody? People love Snorky?

Speaker 2 (53:22):
And then I have doctor Singer Dick. Hello, I am
doctor sinder Dick.

Speaker 6 (53:27):
And right now we are on a podcast and I
want to walk Darren through a meditation. I know that
you are very sick, right because you were flying recently.

Speaker 5 (53:36):
Yes, getting over cold.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Well, when we get a.

Speaker 6 (53:39):
Cold, what happens is, and I'll tell you, is the body.
You're opening yourself up because you are on a plane.
You are opening yourself up to all of these different
diseases because you're stressed. When you're on the plane. Remember
you are thirty forty I don't know how high, but
you are floating in the air. Allow that sensation to

(54:02):
begin from your tools and go up into your scrotum
and hold it there in your scrotum for thirty forty minutes.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
You feel better?

Speaker 5 (54:11):
You feel it now, I do, of course you do.

Speaker 6 (54:14):
And now I've just taken you through one of the
first relaxation exercises.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
So doctor cinder Dick is a puppet. Yeah, But then
I started thinking, can I am I allowed to do this?

Speaker 5 (54:26):
When you would take it? Did anybody ever give you pushback?

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Like?

Speaker 5 (54:28):
Oh, never, that's good there?

Speaker 1 (54:30):
What?

Speaker 2 (54:30):
No?

Speaker 11 (54:31):
No?

Speaker 5 (54:31):
I mean, I mean like the executives are people trying
to buy their show?

Speaker 2 (54:33):
They weren't like, no, the ones one thing we had
to do, we absolutely had to do. And my friend
Robert Thompson no relation, and he's starting to do stand
up around. He's a very funny kid. He wanted to
do and it was all improvised. The show was all improvised.
So one day I said, I'm gonna bring all my
friends to this theater and you're gonna each have five

(54:53):
minutes to do whatever you want. It's a variety show
called Ogre with Gary the Oger. It's flamboyant, you're a
trash ogre. Hey, guys, let's scare the Ogre. He's wearing
like a vest and no shirt. It's really ridiculous show anyway.
So Robert says, I'm gonna do this old vaudevillian that
doesn't know it's the modern age, and I'm gonna do

(55:14):
a couple different things on step but i'm gonna tell
you what they are. Well, he comes out, he's got
his back to the camera action. He turns around, he's
in full blackface and he's doing Mammy. You know, he's
doing Al Jolson. Well, I was like, okay, it was

(55:34):
very funny and weird, but I said, all right, let's
have a cutaway to one of our puppets reacting. We
gotta have people reacting in horror to this, just so
we want the audience to know we're not on board
with this. Well, I ended up cutting it out because
it was like, is it funny? No, let's get rid
of it. I figured that one we can get rid of.

(55:56):
But the other characters stayed in and nobody ever had
a problem with it. In fact, when I was, I
performed at the store comedy comedy comedy store.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
Yeah, I like to go.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
We like to call the store Ralph's. When I was
over at it was Albertson's. Pretty good deals over there.
Have you seen the people that go into Albertson's that's
not good? Wiggly That's where I was. Josh will be
performing at the Pigley Wiggly Thursday at seven.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
What's that grocery store chain that's out there in like
the southeast, like Florida and all that everywhere out there.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
I thought it was. I thought it was Pigley Wiggly.

Speaker 5 (56:30):
No, No, there's another one. I forget the name of it. Whatever. Yeah,
but I I was.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I usually do a lot of improv too on stage.
I know that's like frowned upon in the I don't
know what the attitude is with the comics, but they're like, yeah,
you just this isn't a set, Okay. I just went
up there and made shut up. But I kind of
like when you're forming an act, I feel like, well,
I I have an idea, but how am I gonna
I have to throw it out there? But I started
doing my darnel and there was like a lot of

(56:59):
black folks there.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
I loved it absolutely.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
That was really funny. Man, you did you did grow
up in Cleveland. One guy was like, I know, I
know you did, Man, I know you did. And I
was like, okay, because you know, I'm like, but I
think most people are okay.

Speaker 5 (57:11):
So we were talking about that backstage tonight at the
laugh Factory. Yeah, one of the comics uh was saying,
how usually it's other people being offended on behalf of
the people that are.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Even there, you know what I mean, Like it depends
on what you're saying.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it would be like, you know,
he's a Jewish comic, and he was like saying, like,
you know, somebody, you know, white might be like that's
offensive for the people.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
You know, that are the Native American behalf or yeah yeah,
yeah kind of thing as opposed to like, you know,
like we don't don't care. Yeah, I get and so
I feel like we talked about this before the show.
Is it just kind of just do your thing? You know,
like it's so easy on social media. There's a lot
of noise in people telling you.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
Yeah, and there's a comic you know, like you said,
you gotta be you know, just be funny. You know,
I think the thing is to be funny, and and
you know, if you get too wrapped up into like
being afraid to like what am I gonna say? Oh
my god? Yeah, you got to look at it from
a comics perspective, not like you know, right, like you're
not trying to run for office.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Well that's what That's what tripped me up. I think
for some reason about a year ago, and I think
I let all of the social media criticism get to me,
and I got really afraid and insecure as a performer.
So I stopped. But now I'm like, no, no, yeah,
you gotta it's gonna be messy, you know, like you're
never gonna You're never gonna get up there. Nobody goes

(58:32):
up on stage right away with these ideas, and it's
perfect every time. You're always working on it. You're always
you're always working on it.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
Yeah, you know what's Yeah, I was just gonna say
that one more thing to that point. Yeah, yeah, I'm
a friend. He went on a date in New York
City with this twenty four year old girl who's he said,
she's like, all right, yeah, she's like this twenty four
year old Chinese girl that's like really like I think,
like wealthy, like her father's paying for apartment and blah
blah blah. Right, but she's really like what's happening now
with like the PC culture? And she told him like

(59:02):
later on, you know, after they had a couple of drinks,
she's like, Okay, that thing you're doing when you're like
talking like other people, like uh yeah, it's not really
like don't do that, okay. That's like because he was
saying how he's like white and he went to like
Japan and Korea and Malaysia, and he was telling her
about his experiences and he was talking like the people
when he would like tell the story I see. And
so she was like, yeah, yeah, don't do unless that

(59:24):
you're doing a white person's voice, don't do voices of
other And he's like, but I'm just telling you how
the guy talk when they were like you know whatever.
So it was like I was like, oh my god.
Like so just know that there are some people a
little small. There are the audience that might be in
the audience that are like, but you can't what I do.
I like my women like I like mine. I actually
had like some I was in Pasadena, I think, and

(59:44):
this woman yelled out, I like my women like I
like my you know, people yell out yeah, suggestions and
she goes misogyny not able to take a fucking joke?

Speaker 2 (59:55):
All right, everybody. That was Darren Carter, Thanks Darren Ooh
he's so sorry about that. Guys, thanks for coming out
to the ice House annex. What do they call him
that room? Now? It's called stage two, Is that right?
That's a better name, dude, to be called ice house Dudex.
Sounded like, you know you were held back a couple
of years in school, Josh in the annex, what are

(01:00:16):
you working on? Dommies? Shut up?

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
All these rooms have that huh like like flappers. This
is the you who room? Yeah, what's the it's the Lab,
the Improvin's the Lab what that was? Always the lab?

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Though?

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
What was it called before? I don't even remember it was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I liked the Lab before when it was tattered and yeah,
that was like, Yeah, Bob, who's the guy that used
to do he used to do you'd go and just
tell stories he hosted. Ah, he's a comedian. I can't
remember his last name, but Bob Newhart, Bob Newhart, that's
what it was, Josh, you doing Bob no heart anyway,

(01:00:48):
I liked. I like that kind of place.

Speaker 5 (01:00:50):
You're so talented. If I threw some people, do you
think you could make an attempt at doing their voice?
And I won't go crazy because I don't know references. Yeah,
I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna try to trick you folks.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
I apologize in advance.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
All right, let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
Because sometimes I'll be telling a story, yeah, and somebody
like you do such a good and I'm like, dude,
I don't really do that. And but just in the
moment I'm telling the story and it sounds like the person.
But if someone were to say George Carlin.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
And would you, I mean, I I've never done George Carlin.
But my first impressions of George where he would be like,
you you have to go.

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
Where the people.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
There's a there was a rhythm to the way he
would talk.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
It'd be funny if you had to be a piece
of if you had to be a piece of paper,
like nine voices. Let me see, I'm just gonna throw
out some names.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Good Darren say these. That actually brings up a good
point though about and you were talking about you know
that girl on the date saying don't do that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
But I'm gonna give you white people.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Yeah, but there's a there is no but there's I
didn't get the voice perfectly, but but what I did
get was the musicality of it. Every everything with these
voices has a musicality to it. Now. I grew up
in Cleveland until I was eleven. I lived in predominantly
black neighborhoods. I went to a mostly black school, inner

(01:02:13):
city school. And you're a homeschooled that's right, man, Amen,
you know, I know you know. Man. Heard what's up? Josh?
What's up?

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Well? You where you stay?

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
Shit?

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Me homeboys?

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
Sick man, damn no man.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
I remember, like in nineteen eighty four, we were right
in the pocket of the breakdancing. I love that era
boombox and a piece of cardboard and yeah, yo, check
this out man, look at his white boy.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
Man. What was your what was your favorite rap song
back then? Do you remember?

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
I had an album called I had it I still
have it on vinyl called Laugh Attack, Rapping and Grooving,
and it had the member of the guy that would
sound like the duke. He was the rapping duke. Yeah,
well I'll tell you Pilgrim and then he did, and

(01:03:10):
then it was slick Rick. Slick Rick was the one.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
Lottie actually looked that guy up recently, the John Wayne
rappers guy. I think now he's I think he does
corporate gigs really and does that character.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
He's still out there, I think. So that makes me happy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
But Lotty Dotty dead Fly, it's a tough man. Remember
that dude that was the one man rapping duke, the
rapping duke. Uh, Lottie Dotty slick Rick, Right.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
We don't bother nobody. Yeah, those are I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Mean that was like fat boys, absolutely fat boys. That
was I mean, that was like old school right in
the beginning of that. Yeah, was like.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
How about the message I love the message that was
a message was the Furious five Grandmaster Flash.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Yeah, I remember. Now, later on, I remember Jamboni Zamboni,
like the thing on the ice. You ever heard of
zambo You think you think a guy on a zamboni
secretly sings it that way to himself Zamboni. Honey, it's
not Zamboni. Yes, so that it was Mark jam on it. Yeah, remember,

(01:04:30):
But then but then later on was Rico Suave Gerardo.
That's when things Rico. Yeah, the light groove is in
the heart. Right, I'm too sexy, right, said Fred?

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
Oh yeah, it started getting too sexy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Yeah, and then we were all like, okay, maybe we
need to pack it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:52):
It hurts.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
I'm a model, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
Oh man, But when when uh hammer came out and yeah,
Ice came out? Yeah, like that was.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Remember Vanilla ICE's movie Cool as Ice? Yeah, you ever
watched that movie zero Go with the Hero. If you
watch it now, especially in the me Too era, it
is the rapiest, most frightened this guy is. She's on
a horse. There's a scene where this girl is a horse,
he's horseback riding, and Vanilla Ice decides, I'm gonna hop

(01:05:23):
this fence on my motorbike and basically cause her to
fall off of this horse. And then later he shows
up in her bedroom. Yo, I came to get my
diary like she has his diary for some reason. I
don't know what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
There was a lot of stuff. It's predatory, bro, And
that's the thing, especially when you compare now to like
things were back then. Yeah, Like I think Molly Reenwald
came out and was like, hey, you know some of
the plots for my movies?

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Oh really?

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Oh well yeah sixteen Candles No, No, Breakfast Club. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
I mean there was things that happening like in those movies,
remember like the guy like you know they say no
means no. But in the I'd be like in the
boombox in the driveway. Yeah, I'm not a stalker, but
I will not give up.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Yeah. John Cusack was holding the boombox above his head
and say anything, I told you to leave. If I
did that, I'd be in jail. Get out of here, Billy.
I love you. You can't do that anymore, bro. You
know that you can't do that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
No, are you no with the are you are you married?
Are you single? Do you do you think about the
family or do you that'd be funny for like, yeah,
the name for fifteen years Darren.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
Yeah you know, yeah, No, I'm in a relationship. Oh
you are, yeah, yeah, yeah, I uh yeah. It's you know,
it's weird because I don't get too much into it.
But yeah, I I try to keep that stuff private
because there's a lot of weird people out there.

Speaker 11 (01:06:47):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Yeah. I used to be a little bit more public
about it, but now I just I don't. I don't
post stuff about it. I don't get into it, you know,
because I have a lot of weird.

Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
People out of the show business. No, that's good. No, yeah,
but you know that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
You know, it's tricky with it's tricky with this this industry.
I mean from the sense that when I when I
work on stuff, I get real tunnel vision, Like I
get I'm like a mad scientist when I when I
go into the studio, I like editing, and I like writing,
and I like getting into characters and stuff. So it
takes up a lot of your you know you, I mean,

(01:07:24):
you have a son and you've got a family, right
and so you but you're all over it. I mean,
you're performing every night but this.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
Is what you do. This is yeah, this is your thing.
And also when I go out at night, like it
kind of gives my wife a chance to like chill
do her thing. And you know what I mean, because
sometimes shook it up early and go do her thing,
and then I'm and then by the time she comes back,
I'm like, you know, in front of the computer, you know,
and then then she's like, okay, are you what are
you And I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go to the
gym now. And then but then, like you know, there's
some days where you're just like.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Do you have any gigs tonight? Can you, like, can
you please go do a gig exactly? Can you call
someone or they probably a spot open for you. Just
bump somebody, Please.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
Go bump somebody. You You'll do a podcast to fucking
go do something.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Yeah, at midnight the Flappers, how how long have you
been married?

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
Twenty one years?

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Oh my god, twenty I know.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
I got so lucky. Like today she made fajitas and
I'm like, I have a lucky at that you made,
mad bro.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
I got so lucky, you know, she made fahidas.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
She did love I love the grocery Run I'm like,
oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Words are so funny that when you find that the
word choices, I mean, it makes it's everything when you're
doing a bit. Yeah, there's just certain words that are
it's just gold Man. You say fahiitas, that's funny to me.
That's a joke to me already. I'm so lucky man,
she makes me fajidas. That's it. End of thing, I know.
But you have a style of comedy, you have a

(01:08:45):
certain I mean everybody I like. What I love about comedy,
what I love about it is that everyone has their
own voice. I found that recently. It feels like, and
this happens every now and again. You've seen it. You've
seen the phases of comedy come and go after a while.
It seems like a lot of people have the same voice. Yes,
how do you know it's hard to get you made.

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
Yeah, they go through their Yeah, I made my own voice. Yeah,
like of what I think is funny, what I want
to do, what I want, And sometimes even that changes,
Like tonight I was a little bit more low key, right,
well a little, but I know I can turn it
on and like bring it up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
But people know you most I saw people here today
filing out. They're like Darren Carter, the party starter. Everybody
knows that that mean that says something like Dane Cook.
I saw him. It was actually I made. I saw
him at the improv in the show I was doing,
and I just watched him work out something for twenty
minutes and I was blown away. I was like, yeah,
this guy really tells the story, you know. But he

(01:09:41):
went through his thing. You know, he was on top
of the world. But that was a whole other era
of comedy. You know, you were there when it was
like two thousand and four. Ye, that's when comedy came back. Yeah,
I think.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
People look big. His album sold ninety four thousand copies.
Ninety four thousand copies.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Remember that he had the big the side of the building,
HBO building and whatever. But that was when comedy. They
always talk about this every ten years and it's like
comedy's back, and now nobody cares about comedy. Comedy's always yeah,
it's always there.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
But there are certain people that like that are big,
that are big, right, Like I saw some of the
openers for Joe Rogan, Like Joe Rogan's big, and all
his openers are big. Like one of the guys. Tony Hinchcliff,
he pulls out of the comedy store and you would
think it was Joe Rogan's car, I mean his own.
I mean, this guy is doing great. Yeah, a full
on sponsored tour with like Red Bull and like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
He's amazing his roasts are. You know, the first time
I met Tony Hinchcliff, I thought, oh god, I don't
know if I want to do comedy. He didn't mean
anything by this comment, but I was getting off stage
and he looked at it. I'd never met him before,
and he said, yeah, fun up there. I was like,
what does that mean? That was all in my head? Yeah,
fun up there. He has a certain way of talking.
He does so if you don't know him, and he's admitted,

(01:10:52):
I'm like, you think this guy's fucking with me. This
guy's getting in my head right now.

Speaker 5 (01:10:56):
It's almost like a wrestling character. I think he likes wrestling.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
Yeah, it's like he's psyching you out. Yeah yeah, yeah, funny.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Or or just like a like I heard him say something.
Once you lock into that right then then you're like, oh,
I like this guy. Yeah. I heard him say one
night it was funny. The way he is somebody goes
it's probably a year ago, and this is I think
knowing like hit all this big stuff coming up. They go,
h how do you say it again? They go, hey, Tony,
how's it going? And he kind of had to smile
in his space. He goes it's He goes, oh, I

(01:11:25):
forget exactly what he said, but it was great though.
He was just like, you know, like it's going so well,
but you'll think I'm just bragging or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
You think I'm just bragging.

Speaker 5 (01:11:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
He does that show with Brian Redband. Yeah, you know
that kill Tony. My buddy goes Buddy Robert Thompson goes
on there all the time. He's a funny guy. This kid,
This kid reminds me of.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
I think if you went on there, they'd be like,
you do you would kill and then they'd be like, okay,
now what what's so do you work during the day?

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
What do you do?

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Let's you know, they want to know more about your life, right,
kind of like bring comedy out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Yeah, is that a show? I mean yeah, I don't know.
I always thought about going on that show, but I
already went on Brian's Brian Redband had his own show
for a while. They were doing it over at the
Ice House. Yeah, out of that studio. Had a great
time doing that. But I feel good. This is good man.
I'm happy to do this because I'm ready to. I
feel it's like you to come back.

Speaker 5 (01:12:21):
So you say come back where you like a little?
You say you're going to depressed. I had to go.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
I started going to a therapist, which I hadn't done
for years, and it's the best thing I've ever done.
I just knew. You know, you said you said you
could just tell that you said something. You wanted to
start working out again and getting in shape, but you
could feel that the world. Yeah, because the last couple
of years, I mean, yeah, the world has gone crazy. Yeah,

(01:12:47):
and everyone sold you can feel it. Yeah, just yeah,
so you feel this way, feel that way, and I'm
just like, you're gonna do let me, let me try to.

Speaker 5 (01:12:54):
Yeah, it's anything. It's almost And you could go on
Twitter and rate good morning, and then someone else is
gonna be like, what's so good about it? And who
do you you know? And I'm just I don't like that. Right.
Even today, like my friend posted some picture of himself
with he was wearing glasses and and his new pair
of glasses. He was out in the woods and and
then there was like, uh whatever, like he goes, he

(01:13:17):
to me they look like safety goggles, like he was
on a shooting range. And so I wrote that, like, hey,
look like you're in a shooting range. And then he
wrote back like what does that mean? And I was like,
I was like no. I was like, well, you know,
because you're outdoors, and like you have that circle because
his face there was like a circle around his face
like a scope. Got it? And then what do you
what do you mean circle? People are?

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
People are ready?

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
Everyone's ready there, I know they are. And I was
just like why do I even comment? I don't know.
I don't I should have just been like cool glasses.
Usually that's what I do.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
I got in a fight with the guy today.

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
I'm not even trying to fight. I was just trying
to know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
But he, you know, he's he's in his head about
something else. He has nothing to do with the glasses.
What do you mean the glasses.

Speaker 5 (01:13:57):
Kill you?

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Shoot you?

Speaker 5 (01:13:59):
He looks like is in a shooting rango.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Yeah, you come to a shooting radio show, you.

Speaker 11 (01:14:04):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
I was just commenting on your yeah, No, today I
got I got in a fight with a guy on Twitter,
which I haven't done for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:14:12):
Oh no, I never never do that, but this, but
this was so this sucks this guy. You guys go
back and.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Forth a little bit. But then I deleted all of it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
Yeah, and he's like, I'm going to make an example
of you, and I'm just like, okay, don't do that. Yeah,
but you. But I had I had to learn that
because it's all public. It's all public, public fighting, you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
Know, it's all public. And my podcast I went back
and recut. I re edited all fifteen episodes because I realized.

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
More than fifteen episodes, don't you well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Seventeen Maybe there's seventeen or something like that. But I
went back and recut them, every single one of them,
and most of them it would go from ninety minutes
to like a half hour. I cut it down to
a half hour. I got really good at knowing when
it's like in comedy, it's like you got to censor
yourself or you know how to self edit, you know
when it's not working. Yeah, but what I cut out

(01:15:01):
was all the stuff where I was complaining about not
selling my show and talking about the late Late show
and how blah blah blah blah blah all noise. I
got rid of it. I had this new attitude. I said, no,
we're getting rid of all that shit. Keep the funny,
leave the rest, because people are gonna find you for
the first time, maybe ten years from now, someone that

(01:15:21):
doesn't know you. They're gonna hear your podcasts and they're
gonna go, this guy's an asshole because they don't know you.
That's their first impression of you. So now I think
that way about everything. I'm gonna just think with no
one knows who I am, and this is how they're
being introduced to you. So just you know, interesting, but
keep try to keep it positive.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
So being a positive you were going through that dark period,
very good. If someone's going through a dark period right now,
what what's some advice you could say to pull themselves
out of it? How do you get out of it?

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Honestly, one of the most simple things is to call
a friend. You know, I get so wrapped up in
I could do it myself, and I'm just gonna be lone.
It's not gonna help man. Go for a walk. I
saw some of your instagrams and you were right. What
do you guys doing. Get outside, go for a walk.
That's the simplest thing. Because you move the body, you

(01:16:09):
get fresh air. It will change your mind. Scientology Scared.

Speaker 5 (01:16:15):
A very special pocket party podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
You know what, that's for part two. We'll save that
for part two. Because I did scientology you did for
about five years.

Speaker 5 (01:16:22):
No way, you really did.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
I buried the lead. Wow, we're gonna save that for
part two. I got stories, But no, I'm saying, you know,
and by the way, let me say this, A lot
of the people at the Celebrity Center amazing people. These
the people that work there, they the same thing we're
talking about is what they want for people. It's just that,
you know, you got to write them a check for

(01:16:44):
you know, fifty grand. But my point is, now, what's
fifty grand?

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
Darren?

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
You're a wealthy man. You should go over there and
get this getting the sauna for a year. Tell me
how you feel. But yeah, in therapy, man, don't don't
be a lot of people a lot of pride I
come from. I'm a Catholic family, alcoholic background, a lot
of pride. I don't need to I can tough it
through this. Myself. Yeah you can't, man, I was drinking.

(01:17:10):
I'm not an alcoholic, but when I found when I
was drinking, I would get really angry and I didn't
like that and I didn't like how I was presenting myself.
But it's okay, by the way, it's okay. People have
moments in their lives where they go through things. The
problem with social media is they never forget. They're always like,
we're never gonna don't worry about it. Ignore it. You

(01:17:32):
gotta ignore it, especially if you're a performer. It's like this,
This is my final example. Imagine if you were on
stage doing a set and you could suddenly during your set,
read the thoughts of every single person in the audience. Awful, terrible.
That's what doing those live broadcasts was like, because you'd
see these comments, you suck, you failed, you're no good,

(01:17:53):
your eyebrows are weird. What you get it? Five head? Wait?

Speaker 6 (01:17:57):
What yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
And then you just it's just a it's a constant
storm of negativity and you need you need to cut
out any person in your life, any of that bad energy.
You got to try to cut it out. It's not easy,
but that's my advice. Honestly, you know, if you're a creative.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
Person, just do what you do.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Man, Like, don't worry about the views and the likes
and the retweets and am I going to go viral?
Am I going to be a YouTuber? Just create to create.
That's the biggest advice I can give. Remember when we
were kids, I had to remember what it was like
to call into that college radio show. We didn't have
the Internet. I made shows in my basement. I used
to do Johnny carson Tonight Show, wear a bald skull

(01:18:37):
cap and put Barbasol white shaving cream to make Johnny
Carson's hair. I still have these videos of me interviewing
my little cousins that wasn't for YouTube, because there was
no YouTube.

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
That was just for us for fun.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Yeah, so you got to remember that if you can
get back to that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:52):
You're right. I remember, like my buddy and I his
name is Lewis. I would uh, I would basically do
a podcast backah in like eighty three, you know, like
but it was just him. It was for me. It
was like like I'd go home and have a tip
recorder and I would pretend that I'm doing a radio
show and voices and little scenarios and sketches, and then
he would do it too, and then we would trade
tapes and it was fun. I love it, like, let's

(01:19:13):
see what he came up with. The hell here what
I came up with the next day we'd meet up
and be like that was so funny when you do,
because I would try to do stuff like like, hey, Louis,
I'm in your room now. Nope, I'm over here by
the lamp.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
So he's sitting there listening to it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:28):
Yeah, imagine the tape you gave ye and imagining that
I'm actually in you know, like like I'm running around. Nope,
I'm under the bed here. I Am just kidding. And
so he really got me with that, Darren, you know me.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
He was like, you were in the room. Man. I
did that to my cousin Bobby. He had a Teddy
ruxman that was the talking Teddy Bear. And the way
it worked is you put a cassette. You had to
buy the cassette. I remember that. But the thing is
you could put any cassette in there and the mouth
of mood. So I would record stuff and scare the
shit out of him. Yeah, Hey, Bobby, let's watch Teddy
rut Hey, Bobby, it's Teddy. I could see you. I

(01:20:03):
know what you did, Bobby, and he would start crying.
He was you much younger than me. He'd run to
his mom, what are you guys doing? Teddy was telling
me terrible things. But we did the same thing. My
buddy and my buddy, Matt and I. Matt Matt Lodi
who lives in Cleveland. He's a he's a great writer.
He's the nickname is Stealer Matt. He's a radio personality.
He's written a bunch of books about the Steelers. Guys.

(01:20:25):
It's amazing. It's like, I'm so proud of them. But
we would trade mixtapes, but not the regular kind. We
would cut in like little little clips of TV show
dialogue in between the songs. We try to make our
own mixes so we you know, we have all these
albums we made for nobody us. And that's what I'm
trying to say is really remember the pure creation.

Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
I just remember that on one of those tapes where
I was like Lewis, it's you know, and I'd be like, Hey,
who's that? Hey who the focus is? What's going on?
I would do these crazy voices and I would be like, Louis,
I'm over here by your lamp, and I remember this
girl she wanted to hear the vent the new Van
Halen album, which I had the bootleg copy of, and
oh I got it, let me give it to you.
And I gave her that tape by accident. So she

(01:21:10):
said that she went home and was getting ready to
play like pan Emma, and all of a sudden it was, Hey, Louis,
I mean behind your lap and I'm doing comedy. She
said that was so she goes.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
It was I.

Speaker 5 (01:21:21):
I was so embarrassed. I went home. But she liked it. Yeah,
she said, she brought her whole family into To this day,
this girl still goes to my comedy show. She brings
her husband. And then whenever I'm in the frozen clothes area.
By the way, I did Chicos Friday after Thanksgiving and
Saturday after Thanksgiving did Chicos. But ye, adding on when
you're listening to this, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Hey I went there. You weren't there.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
Behind this lamp. Yeah, but I remember my I remember
my stomach just dropped because I went home that night
and after I gave Louis, I gave her the tape
of what I thought was And when I hit play
to hit so yeah, and I'm like, oh fuck, I
gave her the wrong tape. I gave her that. Oh
my god. I was so embarrassed. Oh no. I also
got in trouble one time for like, I went around,

(01:22:09):
I'm gonna be a day in the life of Darren
And this is in ninth grade. And I went around
and I taped kids and they said horrible off of course,
cursing all kinds of stuff. Yeah, shut up, Bob, Yeah
that guy, I mean, just awful stuff. And then and
then my uh, yeah, I got busted because there was
this kid I wasn't supposed to hang out with. And

(01:22:30):
my mom was like, what was that, And yeah, what's
on that tape? What's on that tape? And then of
course she played it and I was like, oh, She's like,
I'm gonna play this for the preacher. I'm gonna play
this for your grandparents preaching. I'm gonna play it for
like I was so grounded. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
Now, Darren, I understand that you were I'll do my preaching. Now, Darren,
I understand that you were involved. You were in collusion
with these boys. You went out there talking nashty talk.
Now that's not godly. Man. Shut the door for a minute. Man,
you went a little whiskey. Man, I'll give a little nip. Man. Listen,
let's edit that shit out.

Speaker 11 (01:23:03):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
All right, tell your mother there was a mistake. Okay,
I'll take the heat for it. All right, You're a
good kid. Open the door again, man, And that's that's
all I'm gonna say about this. I wish it was
like that the hell out of here, Darren, You stupid kid.

Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
Don't never. I know that was like dummy. I remember thinking,
like dude, I just I busted myself. I wired town myself.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
And like, dude, it's so scary though, when you get
busted like that as a kid. Yeah, like you think
your world is, your life is over. I know your
life was over at that point, but then you know
you're fine, and then now you're doing this, and.

Speaker 5 (01:23:31):
Now they're probably doing it now. Then now these kids
are probably like filming themselves and their moms and you
know or whatever see it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
But yeah, but now it's they put it on YouTube
and they get million dollar contracts.

Speaker 5 (01:23:39):
Exactly what I did. I just got my ass and
that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Yeah, I played a Fortnite for six hours. The other
day I made ten grand. What I know, I played
Fortnite and I lost. You play this game Fortnite, I've
played it. Yeah, man, I've never won. I haven't won yet.

Speaker 5 (01:23:53):
It's so addicting. I guess it is.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
It's just I just I get so angry at these kids,
you know, But I would go on. I go on
sometimes I'm thinking about doing this next year on what
is it Twitch? That's the live streaming. So I'm gonna do.
I think I'm gonna do this. It's my channel is
gonna be called I Suck at Fortnite. It's gonna be
me playing Fortnite but doing voices. So like Morgan Freeman. Yeah,

(01:24:18):
so because sometimes I'll go on and I'll put on
my headphone.

Speaker 5 (01:24:21):
Yeah, video games and done voices, and you get a
following during.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
The kids they're laughing, all right, and I'll be like,
all right, kids, everybody look alive.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
We're gonna drop in here on this island. Now, don't
be stupid. Now, if somebody finds a scope gun, give
it to me because I know how to use it.
I know the rest of you idiots don't know how
to do shit.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
They be like, what the hell, who's this? That's Morgan Freeman.
Now let's look alive.

Speaker 5 (01:24:40):
People.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Looks like Jenkins is in trouble. Somebody helped Jenkins quick,
get him a band aid. I mean, he's a very
intense game, dude. These kids are very serious about it.
They come right up to you to kill you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:51):
I just saw in England they said a lot of
divorces are happening because of because a Fortnite.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
Yeah, is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:24:56):
Yeah, I'll thought, well, I'll can't come to in a
honey because I'm playing Fortnite. I've got I'll get to
the end and build a fort That's why it's called Fortnite.
You build a big four out of different materials wood
or steal or concrete, and then you get up high
there and you shoot the bloke and then you win

(01:25:18):
the game. I can't win the game if I'm eet
and you're pudding.

Speaker 2 (01:25:24):
I want the divorce. Alright, that's fine, more time for
me to play Fortnite. It's the stupidest game, dude.

Speaker 5 (01:25:31):
You can't have any pudding if you don't eat me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have pudding.
And then you can't play Fortnite. I like Fortnite. It's
fun for me. I could walk off Steam.

Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
Do you play like? And also I heard like some
kids are playing like four or five hours a day.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
It takes first of all, one game, playing one round
of Fortnite, it's like half hour.

Speaker 5 (01:25:53):
Wow, you can't. And they said, like you can't pit
parts in the game, so people know they have to
use the restroom.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
And you can tell too, because you walk up to
a guy that'll just be standing there. You're like, I
think this guy walked away, and didn't you just start
hitting them with the pickaxe or you shoot him with
the gun, and then I feel bad. I don't know
if I just took a leak and feel bad. Sometimes
people they have different They.

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
Come down to the final what's the closest you've made all.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
The time, I'll get it'll be down to me and
one other guy. He's good shot in the head.

Speaker 5 (01:26:21):
And then what happens if you win? Like I made it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Yeah, that's it, and that's you did it and that's it. Yeah,
then you get an extra, You get an extra you know,
get a sticker or something, you get a badge. I
don't know. Yeah, kids, you want to bet hey little
Joshi one fortnight. I about that he gets a little
stick of for.

Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
You take like a screenshot or something.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
I guess it feels so dumb. I know. I just
want to play Mario three, dude. I put on Super
Mario three and remember when you could be a little
raccoon and fly around. That's all I need. Man, The
games are it's too much, dude.

Speaker 5 (01:26:52):
The game I play is online chess. I like to
play with my iPad and Chest. I know it's not
even a supercomputer game, right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
That's amazing on your vict twenty, on your Commodore VIC twenty.

Speaker 5 (01:27:02):
No, I got the I got the iPad mini, but
it's it's oh yeah, yeah, it's the apps Chest dot com.
But it's chess.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
It's live in real time and yeah to do the
one minute games and so it's like you actually it's
like an adrenaline rush, like you're like trying to make
your move so fast, like but it's against someone else, yes,
live people around the world, and like they could talk show.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
I've done that with Uno, have live Uno. It's just
very weird. Uno is the best man's Like, you know,
I used to play with my parents.

Speaker 5 (01:27:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Yeah, draw two, reverse back to me, skip you, draw four,
change it to red Uno, skip you. It's a lot
of really aggressive that's.

Speaker 5 (01:27:37):
Live like you do that live path, like with strangers
like around the world.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
Yeah, man gets intense. Man, you can't talk to him.
I wish you could have like a little speaker. What
the hell is it? You cheat? You're cheating, man? But yeah,
Uno and uh and then Contra Contra was probably my
favorite old school game. That was one of the old
side scrollers where you just you just have a gun
and you just shoot things. It was like Alien at Rambo.

Speaker 5 (01:28:01):
I miss those games, like I played Space Invaders the
other day with my sound and it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
Game Galago was the other one I love, like the
Space Box. Just shoot, that's all you gotta do. You know.
Fortnite is like you gotta you gotta hide in a building.
I get scared, man, And then it starts raining, and
then you can hear people walking around circlet. You hear
a guy out there, like, what is he on the
left or right side? Is the outside the door?

Speaker 5 (01:28:27):
I got no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
I think we're gonna they're kicking a sound.

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
How's your night going?

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Pretty awesome after hours at Flappers.

Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
How's your energy level? Yeah, that's right, Flappers after Flappers
after DNNK. Let me let me ask you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
This is Mark.

Speaker 5 (01:28:45):
Can I say your name? This is Marcella sometimes she
manages here.

Speaker 11 (01:28:49):
Hi guys, yay.

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
Our first female voice ever heard of?

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
I think? So?

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
What a misogynist broadcast. Thank you for bringing some class
to this show. Somebody's got to do the especially in
this modern eraw night after Dark.

Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
So how long have you been here today? How many
hours do you think?

Speaker 11 (01:29:08):
It seems like forever? Maybe twenty, I don't know. It's
a slave driver, that's what happens.

Speaker 5 (01:29:13):
Yes, long you're running on fume sound? Do you drink coffee?

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
I do.

Speaker 11 (01:29:16):
I'm actually going to spend the night and just wake
up in the morning and keep it going. Like why not?

Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
Have you ever spent the night at Flappers?

Speaker 11 (01:29:24):
I think I'd be scared too.

Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
No, no, because even during this podcast. No, but there's
noises that go off.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Yeah, what's going on there? What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:29:31):
The movie theater upstairs?

Speaker 11 (01:29:32):
I think it's ghosts.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Okay, just just used to be you just send.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Any bar and grow.

Speaker 11 (01:29:38):
Ghost of the Macaroni Barn.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:29:41):
Could I hear you do a little voice? Ay, you're
listening to the Pocket Party podcast called it. I've never
that'd be cool if you did this.

Speaker 11 (01:29:50):
You're listening to the Pocket Party podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
That's great. Really, I'm going to learn how to edit that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Yeah. Once you learn how to extract that, it's gonna
really good.

Speaker 5 (01:30:01):
Yeah, do that one more time. You're listening to the
Pocket Well, here's market Freeman. Can you please tell your more?

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Uh, you're listening to the Pocket Party podcast.

Speaker 11 (01:30:16):
You're listening to the Pocket Party podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
That's what I'm talking about. See that sounded good. That
was real good. Morgan Freeman like that, where's that party starting?

Speaker 11 (01:30:30):
In my pants?

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:30:32):
Your pocket? I'm like trying to point.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
Darren was pointing at his It was almost as pocket.
I mean, in your pants was really the only way
to get folks. I was going to say, in your pocket,
say pocket in your what you're gonna cut all that out?
I know this is I'm so sorry. No, no, no, no,
it's the pocket I know because we're gonna have pockets everywhere.

(01:30:59):
Pocket party it's you know, you put the phone in
your pocket, it's a party.

Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
Well your pocketless?

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
What do you do?

Speaker 5 (01:31:05):
What do you keep your stuff when you're out and about?
Oh yeah, in the little I'm learning a lot. That's
why women have to carry purses and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Yeah, well you got it like a giant bag of
all your studio right there.

Speaker 5 (01:31:18):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
So you do your own show, the the pant Pantsless
Party Podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:31:25):
I guess the Pantsless Party.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
Or no, no pocket pockets, Party in the Pants. That's
a whole different show. Welcome back to the Party in
the Pants with Darren Carter. You know what's going to happen?
What are we talking about today? Darren?

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
This one I'll do solo?

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
Yeah you will. Everybody clear the room. I don't know
what's happening. All right, Well, end to the show.

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
I want to. I want to Marcella. We'll leave in
a little bit. Thank you so much. I'll be out
of here. Thank you. That was thank you. I want
to ask you this before we go. Do you have
any words of wisdom for our younger listeners or people
going through a dark time or something, just anything you've
learned in life? You want to Yes, what do you got?
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
Don't be hard on yourself. We have a tendency to
be very hard on ourselves specifically, particularly as creative people. Look,
when you're making stuff, it's not going to be perfect
on the first or second or third. Try do your thing.
Stay focused, but just remember that everything else is noise,

(01:32:33):
you know, and it's really hard to tune out the noise,
especially with with social media the world that we live
in now. It says a lot of noise, man. But
don't worry about it. Just create. Just create to create.
That's the biggest thing I can tell you. Get back
to just making things to make them. Don't worry about
what people are going to think about it. Don't worry

(01:32:54):
about that. Just do what you want to do, and
I guarantee you you'll be much happier. You'll be broke,
but you'll be much happier. Also, don't spend your own
money on your TV pilot. That's really what I came
here to say, Darren. Don't take like seventy grand for

(01:33:16):
argument's sake of your own money.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
Yeah, and put it in a pilot.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Don't do that. You could, you can, but don't.

Speaker 5 (01:33:24):
Don't.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
Don't do that. Just get someone else to give you
the money.

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
By the way, As on a positive note, we raised
the fans came out and droves, and we did a
crowdfunding for my pilot. We were supposed to raise twenty
five thousand. We ended up raising fifty one. And I
only say that because I really thought we were only
going to raise like a grand Wow. And all of
these people had heard my stories doing these live broadcasts

(01:33:52):
about depression and struggling in the business, and it actually
had the opposite effect. It didn't make them leave. It
made them stay because they saw some and that was
more human and more open.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
Okay, you need to be a regular in my podcast
and go to therapy and just just get depressed, and
that way I can build my following.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
So here's what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
How bad was it this week?

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
Here's what I gonna do. Yeah, I'm gonna go get depressed.
I'm gonna go on a bender for like a week.

Speaker 5 (01:34:17):
Yes, do it for the podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Then I'll do therapy and then come back. I'll be like,
I'm okay, I'm all right. That was my That was Rick.

Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
You could do an alternating weeks. You just a ship
week where you come onsh what time?

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Fucking Okay? I love Rick.

Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
No, I want you to talk to Rick I do.
And I want you to stay healthy and and keep
your healthy mind and do what you're doing physically, you know,
keep you know, get you know, eating right, exercising and
and you know what I mean. I do, Man, enjoying the.

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
Sunshine, getting out more. I'm gonna get back on stage.

Speaker 5 (01:34:52):
Your big Halloween's coming up, Halloween Halloween.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
I just started building all the props that I have
to have to pre build and get everything ready. I
gotta fix Saw the little gears. When I take him
out of the box, I'm like, oh, welcome back, Pinhead, Hello,
zombie friend, Hello, talking Tree, Hello Josh. Happy to be back.
And then I drink and talk to all my friends.
Darren just kidding. Man, great to see it, man.

Speaker 5 (01:35:16):
Thank you very much. Thanks for being on the show. Man.
I really appreciate it. And uh uh, where can people
find you?

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Just go to the j RT show dot com. T
H E j R T Show dot com. That's right,
that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:29):
You will be back. I'd love to have you back.
I'll come back, brother, it'd be great, man. I'd like
you so much. Cool Pocket Party podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Perfect, great dude, was it like six hours?

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
Yeah? That was that was great. Hey, Rodney, I'll see
you later. The guy from Cleveland? Was his name? Rodney?

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Was that the guy?

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
What's the guy's name that you were in the Darnell?

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
See it?

Speaker 5 (01:35:51):
Darnell?

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Sorry, man, I don't know what you're talking about. Take
care of men. I was like, Rodney, please.

Speaker 5 (01:36:01):
We did it man all the way through. Isn't that
guy quick?

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
Gosh?

Speaker 5 (01:36:03):
So many good stories, so many good voices, Like when
I'm sitting there in front of him, I'm like, this
voice is coming out of his face. This is amazing.
This guy's a true talent and we'll have him back.
You guys, thank you for listening, and I hope you
gave it five stars in a review. And if not,
can you go do it now?

Speaker 4 (01:36:20):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
I want to give you a shout out on next
week's episode. I really really appreciate you guys what you're doing.
And I'll tell you, like my boxing coach said, all
right now, don't hurt nobody. All right now, don't hurt nobody,
and then when I leave, be careful, have a great week,

(01:36:42):
don't hurt nobody, and be careful. Everybody listen to Darren Carter.
We all know he's the party starter.

Speaker 8 (01:36:54):
So it you want to Listen to a podcast for free.
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Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
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