March 19, 2025 • 49 mins
Comedians Darren Carter and Mike Black talk fires, movies, ice cream, parking, first jobs, wardrobe, standup comedy and much much more! https://linktr.ee/DarrenCarter
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And today we're gonna call my buddy Mike Black. He's
always fun to have on the podcast. He's a regular
at the Comedy Store and he's a hilarious guy. He's
been in TV, he's been in movies, he's opened up
for big time comedians, and he's one of my favorite
pals to talk to on the Pocket Party podcast. And
(01:21):
you guys are going to get to know him right
now as we call him mister Mike Black.
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Yay, we did it, We did it.
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Speaker 3 (02:02):
Man. Dang, So how is your night tonight? I know
you were running around doing the same.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh yeah, I was just going to Target and I
was I was getting out of my neighborhood because there's
a building. I don't want to say exactly where I live,
but I'm very close to a fire station, which is
fortunate because the same building has caught fire nearby us
like four times, and I'm starting to think the fire
(02:27):
chief is doing it just to keep everyone getting practiced
or something. But like, I'll go outside and you smell
kind of like a burnt hickory thing whenever it happens,
and I'm like, oh, that building's on fire again. That's
not good. You know, you put my mask on and stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Burnt hickory, it seems like it would smell good, but
not in that situation, like the inner Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeahs like, no, no one's having a barbecue today, like
everything everything in my area would be like Asian cuisine barbecue,
so it wouldn't be you know that s secific sort
of rural woodsy smell.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, yeah, that burnt hickory.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Hey, it's most like a building built in nineteen twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, that's exactly what that aroma is. And uh And
people will go out and they'll smell it and they'll
just stand there and they'll go fire, and I go, yeah,
put a mask on. That building is full of chemicals.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh my gosh. I know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I remember one time my wife and I were playing
tennis like twenty years ago, and there was a lot
there was some like a forest fire and where we're like, well,
that's way over there, you know, it's like thirty miles
away Magic Mountain, like over there somewhere. But then the
ass started coming towards us, and next thing, you know,
it looked like snow was landing on the tennis court.
And I'm like, maybe we should stop doing this right now.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, have you seen it? Yeah, Like
in the last year, I would say most Los Angeleanos
have become a lot more of a fire experts than
they were, you know, a year ago. We've all like
suddenly become fire expert, know how, like oh, you would
(04:08):
think high wind would help in a fire, you would
like blow it out.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, like a big birthday candle.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And like the firefighters talked about it. They were like,
we'd be fighting a fire and containing it and embers
would fly over our heads and the next thing we know,
We've got fire behind us. Dang, you know, and so
they would literally be getting surrounded by fire.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's funny like, uh, last week, I I don't know
of those weird nights, you know when you have like
a little bit of a like it's a slight headache,
not too much, but just a little bit of a headache.
And everyone went to bed and uh, this is around midnight,
maybe twelve fifteen, and I was like, man, my head
kind of hurts.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I don't really you know, i'd been Oh that's what
it was. I just flew back from Texas.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You know, when you have like two hours of sleep
and then you're sleeping on a plane and then you
land and you're just tired. And so I had like
this weird, like borderline headache and with not a lot
of sleep, and then around one am, the smoke alarm
goes off, like in our building, and.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It was just like just like for like a solid hour.
It was like.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Just non stop. Man in the fire department came and
they fixed it and everything and it's all good. But
still I didn't really sleep that well that night.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know, well, yeah, with the fire alarm going off.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, because you yeah, nobody tells you, hey, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You just assume, like, all right, the fire department came,
they went, okay, I guess we're good.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, It's it's real annoying. I have a neighbor who
they have one of those like deep bass and sinks,
and it's right next to my like right across the
wall is my bed, and whenever they turn it on,
it's super old plumbing, so it'll just go and only
(05:49):
I can hear it. I guess to them it's got
a big deal. But I've never met a person who
craves Los Angeles tap ware as much as this person does. Yeah,
because they are on that thing all day and all night,
turning it on and off.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You know, you're like, yeah, yeah, my son could probably
tell you what key it is.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's f sharp crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I posted something today on x I saw that there's
this ice cream store in New York City. They're trying
this idea for a business, and it's like Russian roulette.
It's like you go in there and like it's a you,
I guess, you spin a wheel and you get a
mystery ice cream and you go and they choose the
ice cream flavor for you, Like you go to the
next window and it's like what will your ice cream be?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And you you never know? So what are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Man? For me, the worst one would be gum because
it has like a whole pieces of those old like
quarter being gumballs, like the miniature gumballs. Yeah, they're hard
frozen because they're in ice cream and so like you
fight into it or anything and it's not soft. It's
(07:01):
suddenly you've got this hard ball of ice of gum
in your out. That's the flavor that if I gambled,
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Because you're like, I could get cookies and cream, or
I could get rum raisin.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah I could, yeah you know what I mean, or
like peppermint. Who wants peppermint?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, you're like I could get a pralines and cream,
or it could be Cherry's Jubilee bar.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, I'd rather just get the ice cream that I
want to get, Like I get ice cream so rarely
that like, let me just go get my own ice cream.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I don't need them pulling any surprises.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think ice cream's not something I'm wanting.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, Like in comedy we do that every now and then,
Like when you and I go down there at the
comedy store on Mondays, it's like, all right, here's the
paid regulars. Put your name in this bucket. We're gonna
take names out at random, and we never know if
you may go first. You might go second, you might
go third, or you might go last. You might go
three hours from now one in the morning. You're like,
that's enough of the gamble, you.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Know, that's that's all the gambling I want to do.
Yesterday for Saint Pat, I wore my lucky green suit. Yeah,
and I got the last number, the last spot that
there was to get, and I was like, lucky, my ass.
The suit sucks, like f this suit. Yeah, that's the
last time I kill a leprechn for his clothes.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I saw.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I think it was a photo you posted on your Instagram. Mike,
Mike Black is back.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh, Mike Black is back.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Mike Black is back. Yeah, yeah, I still think of
your old one. And then I'm like, that has been
like four years, five years now. You probably haven't had
that one, but yeah, Mike Black is back. And I
was like, that's a cool looking suit, man, it looks sharp.
Did you have to get it tailored or did it
fit perfect?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah? Uh, it fits perfectly actually, And uh I got
that as a kind of a hand me down sort
of gift from Steven Glickman who kind of got in
good shape and so a lot of things didn't fit him. Anymore.
And he was like, here, take it, and I was
like cool, And I'd had it for a while and
I thought, you know what, I'm going to try on
(09:06):
those pants and see if it works for Saint Patrick's Day.
And the whole thing fits great. So it was terrific. Now,
under the red neon lights at the comedy store, it
looked purple instead of green. So I look like Lex
Luthor holding shareholders eating or something.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
They're like fail. You're like, no, no, come out here
in the light. You'll see what I'm going for.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm going for the Saint Patrick's Day vibe.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, people were pinching me and slapping me around and stuff,
but it all worked out.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But yeah, I saw how you could pick your ice cream,
choose your own, you know, you have them choose the
ice cream for you.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm like, I would not do that, Like I want
to get what I want.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They're like what Baskin Robbins has thirty one flavors, but
they're like a thousand crappy flavors out there. Oh yeah
that you know, Like, I don't know if you know
about these, but they're ice cream that are based on
different flowers.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Eh, really like lavender.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, lavender is one of them, and they taste terrible.
They don't taste like I don't know what they think
lavender is supposed to taste like, but it's too accurate.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It tastes like, Yeah, it tastes like paint or something,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
My wife and I we were in the mood for
because of Saint Patrick's Day. I wanted to I was
in the mood for something like a mint chocolate chip
or something green, like a green ice cream with a yeah,
something I grew up on, Like, you know, let's get
some of that green, you know ice cream. And I
don't know if it's because they don't use food coloring
anymore like they used to. But my wife says, it's
(10:42):
kind of hard to find green ice cream like you
used to.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
You know, which one was my favorite and it's not.
It seemed green to me when I was a kid,
but it's not really. It's more it's almost like a blue.
But I really liked Dakori.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Ice Hmmm, that sounds refreshing.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That was like a lemon lime sort of play. It's
a great summertime sort of ice cream because it's more
like it's not like a cream. It's more like a sorbet. Yeah,
you know, like a fruit sort of thing. But it's
really really good. And I didn't understand that it's meant
to be like done with booze. When I was a kid,
(11:22):
I was like, I'd do like I want dacre ice
and like, okay, kids.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
We got a future alcoholic.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah. They were like, we don't have any rum or anything,
and I'm like, no, it's just the way it is, finny.
But like, I had it again recently and I was like, oh, yeah,
this would be amazing with alcohol, but I didn't do it,
but it was it would be a great mixer.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
There was an ice cream that it's right across from
Canters on Fairfax, next to the Dime Bar, and my
buddy took me there and there was like I forget
what it was called, but it was like some kind
of HONEYCN peanut butter.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It was like they said, to the most popular flavor,
And I see why it was so good. The first
spoonful I had, I thought, is this like just straight
up peanut butter?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's cold? I mean, that's how good it was. It
was so good you gotta try it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sometimes I'm telling you that, and then they encourage you
to try different samples. And most of the ice cream
was good, but nothing beat that ice cream. That ice
cream was so good. If you like peanut butter, that's
the one to get.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I do. I'll tell you I did. It was like
a resort, like a golf resort with Craig Shoemaker, Great
Craig Shoemaker a long time ago. Oh nice, and they
he was like, come do this resort. It'll be fun.
It's all the food is all you can eat. He
knew exactly how to like sell me on it. And
(12:47):
I was like, oh, crazy, that's all you can eat.
So I get there and what I guess Craig didn't
know and I didn't bother to tell him, is that
I'm not really into seafood at all. And it was
all seafood. It was just wall to wall seafood and
nothing else, like no potatoes or anything, like no sides
(13:08):
or anything. So I was like, oh that that kind
of sucks, but you know, and I'm like, you know,
not so bad. But I look over and this lady
was like, you're not eating anything, and I was like, no,
I'm not really a seafood guy and she goes, oh, well,
we have a whole dessert booth. And I look over
(13:29):
and there's the saddest god kid in the world who
got stuck work in the dessert booth and they've got
what they're taking is those like ice cream cookies, like
the family you know where they're They've got two cookies
and some ice c a bunch of different ice creams there.
And so I go over and I was like hey,
(13:51):
and the kid was like whatever, and I was like, yeah,
I know what is if if you had to pick,
what do you think is the best ice cream sandwich
to get? And he goes, well, nobody wants it, but
the best thing you could possibly put together is two
peanut butter cookies with the salted caramel ice cream, and
(14:13):
I make it. Make that for me right now. Whatever.
So he made it and it was awesome. I've never
had that combination again since, but I'll remember it for
the rest of my life. I was like, that was
if I ever have those items together again, I'll do
(14:34):
that again because it was so good. What is your
favorite ice cream that you've ever had?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I gotta say the first time I experienced cookie dough
ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I couldn't believe it that it was that good.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, I was like, this is delicious, like a cookie
dough ice cream. And I also like cookies and creams,
but the cookie dough, like a cookie dough ice cream,
is so good. There's also another one that I like.
Whenever I go up to the farm up there Fresno.
There's this place and it's called Superior Dairy. They make
their ice cream there. It's been around for one hundred
(15:07):
years and they do this this maple bar ice.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Cream that's so delicious. That's another one that's really good,
maple bar. But normally, yeah, I would say cookie dough.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I'm pretty much good with all ice cream, even the
weird ones, you know, like like like, well, not too weird,
but like a pistachio, if it's done right, yeah it can.
It can be pretty good, maybe because I fool myself
thinking that it's healthy because it has the word pistachio
in it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But you know, well, and sometimes it's like if you're
just if they hit you in the right mood, you're like, yeah,
pistachio sounds really good right now. Yeah, you know, I'll
tell you a thing for me that's important. That I
didn't really think about before is presentation. Oh yeah, Like
(15:52):
if you present an ice cream, it doesn't have to
be the best ice cream, but if you present it well.
Like the big example that I'm thinking of right now
is when I was a kid, Basking Robins had a
whole like lower display area just for kids to look at,
and they would have like the different ice cream cakes
that were like they had cakes like Spider Man or
(16:16):
Barbie's Car or whatever, and they were all these to
look at ice cream cakes. But next to those, they
would have ice cream cones served upside down and with
frosting and stuff. They would make them look like clown.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Oh yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
The home part was the clown at and I thought
that was the greatest thing that had ever happened in
the world. I was like, I gotta have the clown.
And they're like, it's just vanilla. Hey, I don't give
a shit, And the look at that thing, it's amazing.
It's the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I may have told you this, but I'm gonna say
this again for all the listeners, all the new listeners.
My very first job ever in my whole life, I
worked at Baskin Robbins. That was my first job. I
told remember those make those clowns. I know exactly what
you're talking about. Now, this is this is.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
A that's why we're a friend exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He's like, there's the clown maker. This sounds this is
one of these days.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
One of these days there and is going to get
all these hints I've been making clowns.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Hey, clown, make me a clown.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That would be the most demoralizing thing after work some
rich kid's birthday.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And dude, oh, I know, you gotta do comedy, clown clown.
You gotta wear your green suit, and then you gotta
do comedy, and then you gotta.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Go serve people ice cream. Oh my gosh, this sounds
like a joke, but it really happened. But I did
turn it into a joke. The way that I say
it on stage. If I ever say this part is
I go uh. I worked at Basking Robbins. I got
fired for licking my fingers, which is true.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And then every now and then I'll punch the joke.
I'll make it up me like I was twenty six,
but I was literally sixteen years old when I did that.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And I didn't even argue with them.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It was the manager's wife. She said, you were seeing
licking your fingers and I was like, that sounds like something.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I would do, which that's me. That's definitely.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah. Now I don't think I licked my finger. I remember.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I do remember like the ice cream melting kind of
going down my arm, you know when you like hold
it up, and I probably licked my arm, which, like
an idiot, I would never do that. But this is
back in the eighties, and I don't know. I was
young and didn't think about anything.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It was a different time. Everyone was on.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Cookin, everyone was doing cocaine, licking their own arms at
the ice cream store.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But yeah, it was uh. I remember one of the
things that was weird.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Speaking of weird people, I remember this one dude came
in with like groceries in each hand and he wanted samples,
and he wanted us to grab a little spoon and
then stick this little spoon in his mouth, like like
he wanted to lean forward and have us feed him.
And I was like, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Comfortable with that. Dude.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I was like, nah, I'm only getting three dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, that sounds like a trick. That sounds like he
was doing that to trick you into doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah. Yeah, And then I remember there was our manager used.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
To uh, he had a station wagon and he would
sit in his station wagon and spy on us with
the binoculars because this is before, you know, cameras were
everywhere this back of the eighties, so so to watch
his employees, he would like have binoculars and just spy
on us. But then that sometimes the customers would tell us.
They'd be like, hey, there's a guy out in the
green station wagon with pinoculars watching you guys, And we're like, yeah,
(19:31):
that's mister Martin, our boss.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh fuck, I know, I know, but yeah, I remember
that was like.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It sounds like a real creep.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, he fired me, man, lick at my fingers. I
remember they had an employee meeting and no one told
me about it, and then I was like, and then
when he told me, he's like, that's because you're no
longer an employee.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yikes. Yeah, but dude, that was the best.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
J verse saying I saw you in your car licking
your finger exactly, Hey, you jerk.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, my wife got an interesting flavor of ice cream
the other day because we wanted that that green. But
nothing's green though. But we got one called Glacier Mint
Moose Tracks Glacier Mint Moose Tracks. And I gotta be honest,
it wasn't that good. But it's ice cream, so you're
(20:27):
gonna eat it, you know what I mean, Like, there's
no way, there's no way. I'll just be like, well,
I'm not gonna eat it. It's right there. Are you
still there?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Do I?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I mean I had a little bit of mint in it,
and it had a little bit of cookie, and uh,
it was good, but it wasn't It wasn't my favorite.
Well I didn't have to have bowl after bowl of it.
I mean I did, but I didn't have to.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, but I didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think, yeah, it sounds awful.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
It was just like you know, I was like, I'll
stick with the normal one bowl of ice cream. Hey,
I got something for you, man, So I found this book.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
By the way, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Actually before we get to the book, you and I
talked earlier today on the phone. There's something about I'm
staying on a farm right now, and I've been here
it'll be seven days on Saturday, and then I go
back and I just start doing my comedy again at
the laugh Factory, in the Comedy Store and all that
on Saturday night. I don't know if you're around Saturday night,
but I'll be at the comedy Store. But I'm at
(21:31):
the farm. And there's something about I don't know, Man,
After a couple of days up here, like I.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Time seems different. Like in La I have no problem
staying up till midnight, one in the morning, two in
the morning, two thirty, but here I usually start shutting
it down and getting a little drowsy around like ten
ten thirty. And last night I was in bed like
a little after eleven.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You know what I mean. Are you still there?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Let me a call back, Yeah, let me call you back.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I think what happened is I was connected to the
Wi Fi, and I think that's making it weird because
I am out in the boonie. So we're gonna try
Mike Black again.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah. Now I'm on the normal Lake Verizon SILL service.
There should be a lot better.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Hello, sir, Yeah, that sounds a lot better already.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You know what it is, man, I goofed up and
I was on the Wi Fi and the WiFi is
very spotty out here in the boonies, so I apologize.
So now we're on the We're on Verizon.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So we're good.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Okay, Yeah, it just sounds much much better and I
can actually understand what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You played along good, though, It's like you know, I'm like, yeah,
creepy guy manager binoculars like yeah, creepy yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I fought the good fight as long as I could,
but eventually it was just like you blacked out where
I couldn't hear anything at all, and I was like,
I gotta say something.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I was doing a little rant about how we talked
earlier on the phone. How like time seems different like
out here, like in La I have no problems say
up till one am, two am, three am, But here
I'm starting to get drowsy at like ten o'clock at
night because there's nothing to do, and I just I
don't know, it's I think this is how people are
supposed to live really, right, Like the sun goes down,
and usually the sun like in the old days before
(23:17):
like the big cities came in, right, the sun would
go down, and you probably I would imagine, like you know,
you might read by campfire or lamp or something, and
then eventually like just go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, like once you've fought off all the wolves and
milk the goat and you know, bailed the hay and
kick the shit you yeah, lot.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Because like think about that, like if the sun goes
down at seven oh seven, you know, there's still light
a half hour after that, so seven point forty. Then
let's say you take a bath and eat. Now it's
like eight thirty, and then you might read till nine
thirty and then you're just like asleep by ten.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah. I mean, I guess you could dance by the
campfire or something if you really wanted to, but you know,
for the toasts of marshmallows or something. But yeah, it's
pretty much done.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But cities there's like light everywhere, like you know, so
you're just you don't even really feel like you know
it's night, but you look out the wind there's like
bright street lights and the you know the way that yeah,
you know what I mean, like the way the let
the city lights bounce off the chemtrails at night.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So it's like it's sight. It's constantly a reflective you know.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well and there's actual stimulus too. There's like other people.
Like part of why I was running late tonight was
because there was a traffic jam getting back to my
place at nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You know. Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You know I was like, Oh, I forgot that the
ten Freeway is going to be all jammed up because
it's nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, that's true. There's like a lot of stimulus. There's
other people. There's anxiety, like am I going to get
a parking spots? I got to get there before, you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Know what I mean, all that stuff like, yeah, that's
half of my day is going Am I going to
get a parking spot?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Gosh?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I know, like somebody offered me a really good gig
last week. It was in Beverly Hills, and I'm trying
not to It's hard man like, but I don't you
because you want to get your answers, but you don't
want to be annoying. Like my I had questions like
I wanted to know how is parking, especially in Beverly Hills,
Like basically, are you going to valid do they validate?
Or do I have to find street parking? Or like
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is it crazy? Like are there like four spots and
that's it. I mean, how is it?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I only asked one to thank you. I'll be there,
Thank you so much. Private gig, Beverly Hills. How is parking?
And he said valet or street parking? And I wanted
to say, do they validate?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
But I said no, let's just keep it moving. This
guy's a big time.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Producer and and yeah, you know he does stuff, and
the fact that he thought of me, and you know,
you don't want to be too much of a pain,
you know, And then then they might think every time
I call this guy, he has a million questions, you know,
which I do.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I usually do have a million questions.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So yeah, but it's like if you answer vaguely, expect
to follow up questions.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's like, yeah, I get that it's street or ballet,
but how is it is? What I asked, like, yeah, yeah,
what is the parking like on the street? What is
it like at Ballet?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So what see? Now, I know you feed the meter
till nine pm, then you're good after that. But just
read the sign in Casers construction, because I did. I
put money in the meter and then I kept putting
money and then it wouldn't take it, and I was like,
what's wrong. Oh, okay, I don't have to do it
till nine. But then I looked and there was a
giant sign that said, must move your car by ten
pm otherwise it will be toad we have to do.
(26:33):
We have to do crane work like they had, they
had the big craney.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And I was like, I like this sign explains that
the whole plot of what was happening.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, And it was hilarious because, uh I when I
went in there and I told him, I asked if
I said, I got to get out of here, you know,
I have to be out of here by like nine,
nine thirty at the latest.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And then other comics were like, yeah, I got a
spot over here. I got a spot. One guy had
to leave.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It was fay Man More, he had to go to
the comedy store, Sulima all had to be at the
laugh Factory. And I didn't want to like tell them
there's a crane it's gonna move. My car is gonna
get towed.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
You know, Look at Darren Go, He's wrecking off to
his next gig. His next gig is saving his car.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, exactly, fall I got nothing going on, guys, I
just don't want my car to get impounded because I'm
too cheap to do with the valet like y'all.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Dude, is Darren in a New Marble movie or something?
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, I've got to Save the City nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, Darren Carter versus the Wrecking Ball.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh, so I found this book and it's a nineteen
thirty six Remember when a nostalgic look back in time
and it tells you all the things that happen in
nineteen thirty six. So I want to ask you a
few things. Here we go, all right, okay, nineteen thirty six.
How much do you think a house would cost in
nineteen thirty six?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Where? H or?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Doesn't it just these are just blanketed Yeah, you're right
it probably.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I would say, on average in America, probably shoot thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
This says three thousand, nine five.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Ooh that's I was. I got a real good deal.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I think my grandpa bought his house after World War Two.
I think he bought his house in Fresno, and I
think it was I want to say, like twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, that'd be a a great deal.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now, Yeah, it was like a two bedroom, one bath
house back then, and then he had converted the garage
and made.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
It like a three three a third bedroom.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, and you think that like, oh, it's just a
good deal because of the monetary difference, right, Yeah, it's
a good deal because of the quality. Like he probably
had like a cast iron cub. Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, you're right, a lot of those houses.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, and like a house made out of oak or
some shit, you know, like steel and oak.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh yeah, or what was that that sent you said
earlier in the podcast, asked, cedar wood?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Or it's yeah, like something that's just indestructible pretty much.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, like like a real solid You're right, because sometimes
you go to you know, you'll, you'll, I'll be on
the road and they'll put me up at some place
and I'm like, this seems kind of cheaply made, like
they did it really fast, and they didn't, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I remember one time I was at an apartment, but.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
If we made the whole thing out of dry wall,
I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I was doing sit ups once at an apartment we
lived in years ago, and and just maybe because I
was on my back and I'm looking up and I'm
like wow, like all the different tole.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Recks, they're not really level.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Like there's so many things that are that they didn't
they didn't even think about like that. I remember that
one there was an uh like a smoke alarm that
was looked like a bell and it was against it
and I thought they didn't even take the time to
put the words like properly, like as a display. They
looked like they were just like like they might have
carried like the first three apartments and then they were
just like just hand it to me, slap it out,
(29:54):
like the words were upside down, and I was like,
they do not care about this.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
They just want to get it up.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, this guy said this was about sex.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm quoting him. He said, you know you talked about
when you're young, you want to get it up, get
it in, get it off, get it out.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Sure, that's what that was their construction policy.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Get it up, get it in, get it off, get
it out. Next, get it up, raw hide, rawhide.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
All right, Like uh yeah, they like, my place is
an old, old building, but they've read like different people
have owned it and renovated and ship like that, and
I have and I didn't notice it for like the
first year I lived here. But in the kitchen area
is a bell that they just painted over that was
white and so so I was like, why did they
(30:45):
paint over this bell? And then it dawned on me.
I was like, Oh, that's the doorbell that doesn't work.
They just they painted it stuck so it could never work.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well, well, that's kind of good. You don't want prankers
coming by, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
No, I'm thinking about getting one of those doorbell cameras.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Ooh, that'd be good. You could do that. You could
totally do that.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Those are Yeah, they're pretty cheap, and uh, it'd be
good to have if you get any sort of deliveries
in the city. It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I remember when I was a kid, my buddy Jimmy
lived in the next neighborhood over and i'd go to
his Cult de Sac and I remember one time I
was ringing his doorbell. He had like a music This
is a big thing in the seventies. You'd have these
musical doorbells. You could program them or I.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Don't know how they did it, but oh yeah, you'd press.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah that was one of them.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, that was one of them, right, and then you'd
press it or I'd be like yeah right, so he
you know, I went to his house at three o'clock
and uh, he didn't answer. But I was just having
a blast just ringing that doorbell.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Like dun dune.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Did I ring it again, and it's kept doing it.
Probably did it for like as long as I don't know,
five ten minutes. And then eventually I started seeing a
silhouette coming towards the stained glass front door, and I'm like,
oh wow, and open the door was his father. Apparently
he'd been home with a hangover, and he's like and
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he's like, Darren, if somebody doesn't answered the door the first.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Time, go away.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And my dumb ass was playing with the doormall for
ten minutes. It was actually really fun, but that was
so scary when I because I didn't know anybody was home.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
He's just thinking about each shot he had the night before.
Oh jesus, I know, Oh, better be Darren Carter. I
know it's Darren Carter. I just know it in my bones,
Darren Carter ringing that doorbell.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay, nineteen thirty six, average rent twenty four dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Oh yeah, I could live a bath.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
That wou'd be nice, right, they haven't.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Basically be a millionaire finer.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh my gosh, okay, movie ticket now. See, I don't
go to the movies that often, so I'm not really
sure what movies cost now. I want to say even now,
I would be shocked, because I.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Do say back then it was like a nickel, you'd
be disappointed.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh it's higher than a nickel.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Uh, twenty five cents.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yes, exactly twenty five cents. They were good movies though,
back then, nineteen thirty six, good movies. Yeah, so they're yeah,
because how much are movies now? Like, I'm gonna guess, Like,
let me just guess, can I guess? If I were
to go like the.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Least expensive, i'd probably go during the day.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I think mattinees are like not that expensive, but I
don't know, is it going to be at least fifteen bucks?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I haven't done a mattinee in a long time, but
at the average price right now is about seventeen fifty
in Los Angeles for a movie. But they do have
mattinee Tuesdays at a lot of places, and then it
can be as low as seven bucks.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Oh okay, now that I would do, yeah, because I
don't like seeing a movie and I paid a lot
of money and I'm not really like, don't you know
what I mean, I'm not like blown away by the movie.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'll tell you what I do a lot. And LA
is one of the few places in the world where
you can do this. There's a website called art Houses
La dot com. Uh, let me see, Yeah, I think
that's the name of I want to make sure. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And arth Housesla dot Com.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah, and they do. They tell you about all the
theaters in LA that aren't showing new movies. They're showing
like classics. Oh okay, and those you can see cheap.
Oh no, it's revival Houses dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Sorry, revival Okay, forget the art Houses La dot com.
That don't use that one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Right, use Revivalhouses dot Com. And that's pretty much just
for La. But it shows you by the hour what's
playing in LA that's not at.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
A new movie.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So like today, I'm just looking at it right now.
Today they had Twin Peaks, Yeah, Twin Peaks Firewalk with Me, Honora,
which is kind of out of theaters. Hitchcock's Anatomy of
a Murder High Rulers, Charlie's Angels from the year two thousand.
(35:29):
These are all just playing at random theaters and it
has links on like where to get tickets and stuff
like that for each of them. Starship Troopers which was
a great movie, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, that same
Hitchcock movie again and again. Good Fellas was playing The Proposal,
Moon Moonlight, Kingdom, Night of the Comet, which was a
(35:53):
crazy movie. The Rule of Jenny Penn I've never heard of,
Wild at Heart, David Lynch movie was playing. So yeah,
and that's just a couple of them, the ones that
are going on, and most of those movies are going
to be like ten bucks or less depending on the theater.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, see like a real like the solid movie where
you're like, that's going to be good, you know, especially
I guess seeing it in the theater would be cool. Like,
you know, we got Netflix, and we didn't have Netflix for.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
A long time.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
We got it again and and it kind of made
reminded me a little bit why I get a little
bit frustrated because I'll put in like Bill Murray and
there's like I don't see Bill Murray on there. They'll
be like there'll be movies that are like it. Like
if you like Ghostbusters, you might like Goats, ghost Seeker,
Outers or something, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
No, w Yeah. Netflix has kind of become like the
temu of you know, movies. They're like, we don't actually
have the movie, but we have a lot of things.
So yeah, like I'll what I'll do is I'll go
on Amazon Prime a lot Amazon Video, because they may
not have a movie in their streaming catalog, but they
(37:00):
do have access to it, and so if they don't
have it, you can purchase the movie through there and
play it on their thing, and then you've got it
in your library forever. Like I really wanted to watch Highlander.
It was a great action movie from the eighties with
(37:21):
Sean Connery, and they didn't have it, but they had
the option that They're like, it's available to rent or buy.
Do you want to do that? And I was like,
I'm just gonna go ahead and buy it, yeah, and
I've just got it whenever I want to watch it.
So I did that for a few I did, Like
I got a couple of them at once. I got
like that one Terminator, Aliens Ready Player one, which I
(37:45):
thought was a really fun movie. Oh and I got
die Hard because I always want to watch that around
Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Oh yeah, so it is Christmas movie. I guess it
is to me.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I mean, like, I know a lot of people get,
but it's pretty squarely a Christmas movie. It's about a guy,
you know, trying to reunite with his family at Christmas time,
right yeah, and he has all these obstacles, like the
biggest obstacles you could possibly have for that to happen.
(38:17):
And then it literally ends with the building explodes and
all the bear bonds that the bad guys were trying
to get come raining down, but it's all white paper,
so it literally looks like a snowfall at the end
of the movie. And it ends with the song let
it snow playing. Oh yeah, I don't see how it
(38:41):
could get more Christmas e than that and still be
an action.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Movie, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
And in fact, Christmas sort of saves the movie because
if they didn't have a gift wrapping station on that
floor that he was on at the end, he wouldn't
have had that Christmas themed gift wrapping tape to tape
the gun on his back. The tricks the last two
guys and kill them.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Oh good point.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So there it literally ends with a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
So it's like, yeah, it's a dark, violent movie for sure,
but it's also very much a Christmas movie.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Do you like seeing modern movies that come out every week?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I try to, you know, like I don't always like them,
but I feel compelled to see him.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
No, I still I was gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Like our buddy Fraser Smith, he's back on the radio
in La ninety five ninety five point five KOs and yeah,
they play his show Sunday night ten to midnight. Maybe
mentioned to him, Hey, I want to be the movie guy.
I see movies all the time. If you want anything
about movies, I can. I can, you know, call in,
I can come in. Oh yeah, you know, let them
(39:52):
know like.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
That you're that you love because you do. You love
movies and you know a lot about them.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
And that's a really good idea. And I go out
all the time.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yeah, say, if you want to do it, just like
a quick segment, we could do that, you know what,
just you know.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah, I could even yeah, yeah, there's a lot of
stuff there's Uh, that's a really good idea.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I'll talk because I know with his comedy because I
help him, you know, with his comedy every week, writing
comedy for his stand up and for his radio. He's
always asking like what you know, Like okay, do you
have anything on this this latest movie? And I have
known nothing about the latest movies, so I usually can't.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Help him in that. But I mean, but that might
help make his show fresh where it's like every week, man,
you know, you could you know, go yeah, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Just just that's such a good idea that I want
you to cut it out of this episode because someone
will steal it. Okay, but that's a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
But no, you're the guy though, and he knows you.
You you guys see each other every Monday. Yeah, and
before before we go, I gotta I gotta compliment you, man,
I love you. I love it your new opening.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
But I love the opening I saw it today on
Instagram or TikTok where you go up on stage and
you said something about the reason you were late.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Do you remember what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, because I was a runner up at
a hot dog eating contest. That's not even my opener.
It's just there were two guys from Australia in the audience,
and you know, sometimes if you come in early just
to kind of get the lay of the land, like
what's going off the room? I heard ledbrry Don Barris
(41:23):
was hosting, and he asked, he was like, what do
you guys think is the weirdest thing about America since
you've been here? And one of them goes night it's
all the hot dog eating contests. There's a lot of
hot dog eating contests. You guys are faced with hot dogs,
and so I was like, Okay, I'm gonna run with
that and you know, talk about that. But now I'm like,
(41:48):
I ended up doing about like four minutes on what
it's like being a hot dog eater professionally, and I
was like, that's actually a fun little bit that came
out of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Really.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I thought it was funny because you're a big guy
and it's like a quick, little funny thing.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
And then it's like because you say, oh, yeah, my
dad helped train me when I was a kid, and you.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Know, yeah, and I look like a professional hot dog eater.
Like I was like, oh that they're gonna believe it
is the funny part, you know, and uh but yeah.
And the thing a funny thing I noticed when I
talked to them. A hundred times out of one hundred
that I have talked to Australian people in the audience,
(42:29):
I've asked them, have you ever even heard of a
bloomin onion? None of them know what I'm talking about.
They're like, what is it? They have no idea what
aion is. Yeah, and out Back Steakhouse has sold us
all this bill of goods. Oh, it's the most authentic
Australian cuisine. They'd never even heard of it.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, that's awesome man.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Well, on that note, I want to say, Mike Black,
thanks for joining us on the Pocket Party podcast.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And oh yeah, and we're both gonna be at the
store this weekend. I'll be there Friday and you're gonna
be there Saturday.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Yes, sir, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah, come see us and say hi.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
That's cool man. And you know, I adapted started wearing
bolo ties in a little bit more like western gear
about a year ago. I've been wearing it and I'm
kind of making my mark on the scene now doing that.
I wonder if you could be wearing like some cool suits,
if that's something that you're gonna they.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Start getting getting becoming a bit more. I used to
be more of a clothes horse than I am now,
but start wearing different suits and stuff like that, I
need something to jazz it up.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
I think it looks good because it's like it's like
a character.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I know this sounds silly and it's totally out of
your thing, but I could totally picture you. Don't you
do a joke about looking like an unpainted rodeo.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, yeah, I do. And I an unpainted off duty
Rodeo cloud off duty. But like the other day, for
the greens that I was wearing, I didn't have a
belt for it. So I went to Target and I
bought some suspenders. Yes, and I had just a T
shirt on and suspenders on these crazy green pants. And
(44:10):
I looked in the mirror and I was like, Yep,
Judy rodeo clowns, that's.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
I think that, especially nowadays, it everything being so visual
and like in almost how kill Tony, you know, is
making stars out of people that just started. But like,
but I noticed a lot of them are characters, you
know what I mean, Like this person is you know whatever,
like he's got a mullet and he runs around like
why not, dude, go back to that character?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
A fun vibe. And you know what I was. I
don't know if it was you and me talking about
this or it may have been someone else, but I
was talking about how in the heyday of the comedy
that I grew up on in the eighties, it comedy
and professional wrestling was we're both doing the same sort
(44:55):
of thing where they had these very strong characters.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Like for every Hule Cogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper, there
was Emo Phillips and Father Guido Sarducci. You know what
I mean, these guys that were just like full on
characters that they were committing to.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
It's a great observation.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Yeah, they were very character right, like Sam Pays and
you had the beret and the trench code and.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah, and then on the other side it right, and
you had like Brett the Hipman Hard or Jake the
Snake Roberts. They were all very much these big, larger
than life sort of characters.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
You know, I'm telling you that.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
That's a fun vibe to bring back.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
It's like, Okay, so a body of mine he started
comedy and not that long ago, like less than ten years.
And I don't know if you guys met each other yet.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Arian Azizzian, Oh yeah, great, great, great guy.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
He right's pretty clean and he does a lot of
like one two liners, one liner, two liner, you like
that kind of thing. And he he broke his You say,
broke your teeth. Now, what do you say, were you.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Cut his teeth? Yeah, he broke us. He got punched
the mouth by he broke.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
He broke his teeth.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
But for ten years he worked behind the scenes at
the Comedy Magic Club, and he also did podcasts with
big time comedians and whatever. So he's always looked up
to like just good comedians and you know whatever. So
but so now when he hits these shows, he's dressed up. Man,
he's got like the Western shirt and he's wearing.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Like the belt buckle. And he said that, he goes.
I feel like because a lot of.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
The younger comedians now or whatever they are, whatever age
group they are, they're going up there with like ripped
jeans and a hoodie and they're trying to look all cool.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
He goes, But they all look like that, he goes.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
So when I go up there with my brand spanking
new Wrangler jeans and my whatever, my my coat, that's.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
You know, my pent what do you call it? Uh? Whatever?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
The Pendleton coat. It's where he looks like he just
came from veiled Colorado. It's like people look at him
like he's a star, like he's somebody you know. And
it's and I think that's half the battle is just
hitting this day. He's looking like you're you know, you're
there to put on a.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Show, Darren Cautter.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
It always makes me think of you when I think
of the term the clothes makes a man. I told
this to Elvis. I tell this to you. You are
a star. Be afraid, don't be timid. Let everyone know
what a star you are. That's why I wanted the
next show. A helmet like Evil Canievel, a big kid,
(47:26):
a feather boa and elf boots. That's Darren Carter the
party Stata.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
That's right, colonel, We're going to start parties. I'm gonna
dress for the job I want, not the job I have.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
That's exactly right, And I'm going to get ninety nine
percent of merchandising.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
It's going to be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Hi, man if it wasn't for you getting nine percent,
I wouldn't make my one percent, So it's all good
in the hood.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
That's exactly the way to look at it. I love
Darren Carter, I love Elvis.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
That's why I come back from beyond the grave to
help promote Darren Carter.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
The party is data.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
That's right, Colonel, work makes a dream work. You know.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
I'm not a victim. I'm a victor. And now thank
you so much for joining the Pocket Party Podcast. With
one more finger with five we're a fist.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Good damn right, PCB my friend.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Taking care of business in a flash. All right, Mike
Black again knocks it out of the park. I apologize
for having a little bit of.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Sound issues in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
I think I can edit a lot of that and
the hopefully Yeah, it wasn't that bad, but it was
my dumbass left the phone.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
On Wi Fi instead of sell service. So it's my apologies.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
We'll get it next time, for sure.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
That's right, guys, thanks again for joining us on the
Pocket Party Podcast. Mike Black, love your body. We'll talk
to you soon and thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Have a great night. Bye bye you too.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
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Speaker 3 (49:25):
All right, you guys, have a great rest of your day.
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A Pocket Party. Pocket Party and we're back, episode number
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Thank you, Cindy. That's right, Cindy in Michigan, Thank you.
And today we're gonna call my buddy Mike Black. He's
always fun to have on the podcast. He's a regular
at the Comedy Store and he's a hilarious guy. He's
been in TV, he's been in movies, he's opened up
for big time comedians, and he's one of my favorite
pals to talk to on the Pocket Party podcast. And
(01:21):
you guys are going to get to know him right
now as we call him mister Mike Black.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Here we go. Oh yeah, it's ringing, it's ringing, it's ringing,
mister Mike Black.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yay, we did it, We did it.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, Yes, I was giving some shout outs to some
supporters and if there's anybody you'd like to give a
shout out to, and that would be a great time
to do it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh to all the great listeners, everyone who's commented, especially
on any of the posts that we've done, or any
of the little little promos or anything like that. Anytime
you share those or like them or whatever, it really
helps out a lot. So anyone who's done anything like that,
we really appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Man. Dang, So how is your night tonight? I know
you were running around doing the same.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh yeah, I was just going to Target and I
was I was getting out of my neighborhood because there's
a building. I don't want to say exactly where I live,
but I'm very close to a fire station, which is
fortunate because the same building has caught fire nearby us
like four times, and I'm starting to think the fire
(02:27):
chief is doing it just to keep everyone getting practiced
or something. But like, I'll go outside and you smell
kind of like a burnt hickory thing whenever it happens,
and I'm like, oh, that building's on fire again. That's
not good. You know, you put my mask on and stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Burnt hickory, it seems like it would smell good, but
not in that situation, like the inner Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeahs like, no, no one's having a barbecue today, like
everything everything in my area would be like Asian cuisine barbecue,
so it wouldn't be you know that s secific sort
of rural woodsy smell.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know, yeah, that burnt hickory.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Hey, it's most like a building built in nineteen twenty three.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, that's exactly what that aroma is. And uh And
people will go out and they'll smell it and they'll
just stand there and they'll go fire, and I go, yeah,
put a mask on. That building is full of chemicals.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh my gosh. I know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I remember one time my wife and I were playing
tennis like twenty years ago, and there was a lot
there was some like a forest fire and where we're like, well,
that's way over there, you know, it's like thirty miles
away Magic Mountain, like over there somewhere. But then the
ass started coming towards us, and next thing, you know,
it looked like snow was landing on the tennis court.
And I'm like, maybe we should stop doing this right now.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, have you seen it? Yeah, Like
in the last year, I would say most Los Angeleanos
have become a lot more of a fire experts than
they were, you know, a year ago. We've all like
suddenly become fire expert, know how, like oh, you would
(04:08):
think high wind would help in a fire, you would
like blow it out.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, like a big birthday candle.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And like the firefighters talked about it. They were like,
we'd be fighting a fire and containing it and embers
would fly over our heads and the next thing we know,
We've got fire behind us. Dang, you know, and so
they would literally be getting surrounded by fire.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's funny like, uh, last week, I I don't know
of those weird nights, you know when you have like
a little bit of a like it's a slight headache,
not too much, but just a little bit of a headache.
And everyone went to bed and uh, this is around midnight,
maybe twelve fifteen, and I was like, man, my head
kind of hurts.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I don't really you know, i'd been Oh that's what
it was. I just flew back from Texas.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You know, when you have like two hours of sleep
and then you're sleeping on a plane and then you
land and you're just tired. And so I had like
this weird, like borderline headache and with not a lot
of sleep, and then around one am, the smoke alarm
goes off, like in our building, and.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It was just like just like for like a solid hour.
It was like.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Just non stop. Man in the fire department came and
they fixed it and everything and it's all good. But
still I didn't really sleep that well that night.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know, well, yeah, with the fire alarm going off.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, because you yeah, nobody tells you, hey, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You just assume, like, all right, the fire department came,
they went, okay, I guess we're good.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, It's it's real annoying. I have a neighbor who
they have one of those like deep bass and sinks,
and it's right next to my like right across the
wall is my bed, and whenever they turn it on,
it's super old plumbing, so it'll just go and only
(05:49):
I can hear it. I guess to them it's got
a big deal. But I've never met a person who
craves Los Angeles tap ware as much as this person does. Yeah,
because they are on that thing all day and all night,
turning it on and off.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You know, you're like, yeah, yeah, my son could probably
tell you what key it is.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's f sharp crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I posted something today on x I saw that there's
this ice cream store in New York City. They're trying
this idea for a business, and it's like Russian roulette.
It's like you go in there and like it's a you,
I guess, you spin a wheel and you get a
mystery ice cream and you go and they choose the
ice cream flavor for you, Like you go to the
next window and it's like what will your ice cream be?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
And you you never know? So what are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Man? For me, the worst one would be gum because
it has like a whole pieces of those old like
quarter being gumballs, like the miniature gumballs. Yeah, they're hard
frozen because they're in ice cream and so like you
fight into it or anything and it's not soft. It's
(07:01):
suddenly you've got this hard ball of ice of gum
in your out. That's the flavor that if I gambled,
I know.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Because you're like, I could get cookies and cream, or
I could get rum raisin.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah I could, yeah you know what I mean, or
like peppermint. Who wants peppermint?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, you're like I could get a pralines and cream,
or it could be Cherry's Jubilee bar.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah I know.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, I'd rather just get the ice cream that I
want to get, Like I get ice cream so rarely
that like, let me just go get my own ice cream.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I don't need them pulling any surprises.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think ice cream's not something I'm wanting.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, Like in comedy we do that every now and then,
Like when you and I go down there at the
comedy store on Mondays, it's like, all right, here's the
paid regulars. Put your name in this bucket. We're gonna
take names out at random, and we never know if
you may go first. You might go second, you might
go third, or you might go last. You might go
three hours from now one in the morning. You're like,
that's enough of the gamble, you.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Know, that's that's all the gambling I want to do.
Yesterday for Saint Pat, I wore my lucky green suit. Yeah,
and I got the last number, the last spot that
there was to get, and I was like, lucky, my ass.
The suit sucks, like f this suit. Yeah, that's the
last time I kill a leprechn for his clothes.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I saw.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I think it was a photo you posted on your Instagram. Mike,
Mike Black is back.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh, Mike Black is back.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Mike Black is back. Yeah, yeah, I still think of
your old one. And then I'm like, that has been
like four years, five years now. You probably haven't had
that one, but yeah, Mike Black is back. And I
was like, that's a cool looking suit, man, it looks sharp.
Did you have to get it tailored or did it
fit perfect?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah? Uh, it fits perfectly actually, And uh I got
that as a kind of a hand me down sort
of gift from Steven Glickman who kind of got in
good shape and so a lot of things didn't fit him. Anymore.
And he was like, here, take it, and I was
like cool, And I'd had it for a while and
I thought, you know what, I'm going to try on
(09:06):
those pants and see if it works for Saint Patrick's Day.
And the whole thing fits great. So it was terrific. Now,
under the red neon lights at the comedy store, it
looked purple instead of green. So I look like Lex
Luthor holding shareholders eating or something.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
They're like fail. You're like, no, no, come out here
in the light. You'll see what I'm going for.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm going for the Saint Patrick's Day vibe.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, people were pinching me and slapping me around and stuff,
but it all worked out.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But yeah, I saw how you could pick your ice cream,
choose your own, you know, you have them choose the
ice cream for you.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm like, I would not do that, Like I want
to get what I want.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
They're like what Baskin Robbins has thirty one flavors, but
they're like a thousand crappy flavors out there. Oh yeah
that you know, Like, I don't know if you know
about these, but they're ice cream that are based on
different flowers.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Eh, really like lavender.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, lavender is one of them, and they taste terrible.
They don't taste like I don't know what they think
lavender is supposed to taste like, but it's too accurate.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
It tastes like, Yeah, it tastes like paint or something,
you know.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
My wife and I we were in the mood for
because of Saint Patrick's Day. I wanted to I was
in the mood for something like a mint chocolate chip
or something green, like a green ice cream with a yeah,
something I grew up on, Like, you know, let's get
some of that green, you know ice cream. And I
don't know if it's because they don't use food coloring
anymore like they used to. But my wife says, it's
(10:42):
kind of hard to find green ice cream like you
used to.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
You know, which one was my favorite and it's not.
It seemed green to me when I was a kid,
but it's not really. It's more it's almost like a blue.
But I really liked Dakori.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Ice Hmmm, that sounds refreshing.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That was like a lemon lime sort of play. It's
a great summertime sort of ice cream because it's more
like it's not like a cream. It's more like a sorbet. Yeah,
you know, like a fruit sort of thing. But it's
really really good. And I didn't understand that it's meant
to be like done with booze. When I was a kid,
(11:22):
I was like, I'd do like I want dacre ice
and like, okay, kids.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
We got a future alcoholic.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah. They were like, we don't have any rum or anything,
and I'm like, no, it's just the way it is, finny.
But like, I had it again recently and I was like, oh, yeah,
this would be amazing with alcohol, but I didn't do it,
but it was it would be a great mixer.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
There was an ice cream that it's right across from
Canters on Fairfax, next to the Dime Bar, and my
buddy took me there and there was like I forget
what it was called, but it was like some kind
of HONEYCN peanut butter.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
It was like they said, to the most popular flavor,
And I see why it was so good. The first
spoonful I had, I thought, is this like just straight
up peanut butter?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's cold? I mean, that's how good it was. It
was so good you gotta try it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sometimes I'm telling you that, and then they encourage you
to try different samples. And most of the ice cream
was good, but nothing beat that ice cream. That ice
cream was so good. If you like peanut butter, that's
the one to get.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I do. I'll tell you I did. It was like
a resort, like a golf resort with Craig Shoemaker, Great
Craig Shoemaker a long time ago. Oh nice, and they
he was like, come do this resort. It'll be fun.
It's all the food is all you can eat. He
knew exactly how to like sell me on it. And
(12:47):
I was like, oh, crazy, that's all you can eat.
So I get there and what I guess Craig didn't
know and I didn't bother to tell him, is that
I'm not really into seafood at all. And it was
all seafood. It was just wall to wall seafood and
nothing else, like no potatoes or anything, like no sides
(13:08):
or anything. So I was like, oh that that kind
of sucks, but you know, and I'm like, you know,
not so bad. But I look over and this lady
was like, you're not eating anything, and I was like, no,
I'm not really a seafood guy and she goes, oh, well,
we have a whole dessert booth. And I look over
(13:29):
and there's the saddest god kid in the world who
got stuck work in the dessert booth and they've got
what they're taking is those like ice cream cookies, like
the family you know where they're They've got two cookies
and some ice c a bunch of different ice creams there.
And so I go over and I was like hey,
(13:51):
and the kid was like whatever, and I was like, yeah,
I know what is if if you had to pick,
what do you think is the best ice cream sandwich
to get? And he goes, well, nobody wants it, but
the best thing you could possibly put together is two
peanut butter cookies with the salted caramel ice cream, and
(14:13):
I make it. Make that for me right now. Whatever.
So he made it and it was awesome. I've never
had that combination again since, but I'll remember it for
the rest of my life. I was like, that was
if I ever have those items together again, I'll do
(14:34):
that again because it was so good. What is your
favorite ice cream that you've ever had?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I gotta say the first time I experienced cookie dough
ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I couldn't believe it that it was that good.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, I was like, this is delicious, like a cookie
dough ice cream. And I also like cookies and creams,
but the cookie dough, like a cookie dough ice cream,
is so good. There's also another one that I like.
Whenever I go up to the farm up there Fresno.
There's this place and it's called Superior Dairy. They make
their ice cream there. It's been around for one hundred
(15:07):
years and they do this this maple bar ice.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Cream that's so delicious. That's another one that's really good,
maple bar. But normally, yeah, I would say cookie dough.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I'm pretty much good with all ice cream, even the
weird ones, you know, like like like, well, not too weird,
but like a pistachio, if it's done right, yeah it can.
It can be pretty good, maybe because I fool myself
thinking that it's healthy because it has the word pistachio
in it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But you know, well, and sometimes it's like if you're
just if they hit you in the right mood, you're like, yeah,
pistachio sounds really good right now. Yeah, you know, I'll
tell you a thing for me that's important. That I
didn't really think about before is presentation. Oh yeah, Like
(15:52):
if you present an ice cream, it doesn't have to
be the best ice cream, but if you present it well.
Like the big example that I'm thinking of right now
is when I was a kid, Basking Robins had a
whole like lower display area just for kids to look at,
and they would have like the different ice cream cakes
that were like they had cakes like Spider Man or
(16:16):
Barbie's Car or whatever, and they were all these to
look at ice cream cakes. But next to those, they
would have ice cream cones served upside down and with
frosting and stuff. They would make them look like clown.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Oh yeah, I remember.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
The home part was the clown at and I thought
that was the greatest thing that had ever happened in
the world. I was like, I gotta have the clown.
And they're like, it's just vanilla. Hey, I don't give
a shit, And the look at that thing, it's amazing.
It's the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I may have told you this, but I'm gonna say
this again for all the listeners, all the new listeners.
My very first job ever in my whole life, I
worked at Baskin Robbins. That was my first job. I
told remember those make those clowns. I know exactly what
you're talking about. Now, this is this is.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
A that's why we're a friend exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
He's like, there's the clown maker. This sounds this is
one of these days.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
One of these days there and is going to get
all these hints I've been making clowns.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Hey, clown, make me a clown.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That would be the most demoralizing thing after work some
rich kid's birthday.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And dude, oh, I know, you gotta do comedy, clown clown.
You gotta wear your green suit, and then you gotta
do comedy, and then you gotta.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Go serve people ice cream. Oh my gosh, this sounds
like a joke, but it really happened. But I did
turn it into a joke. The way that I say
it on stage. If I ever say this part is
I go uh. I worked at Basking Robbins. I got
fired for licking my fingers, which is true.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And then every now and then I'll punch the joke.
I'll make it up me like I was twenty six,
but I was literally sixteen years old when I did that.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And I didn't even argue with them.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It was the manager's wife. She said, you were seeing
licking your fingers and I was like, that sounds like something.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I would do, which that's me. That's definitely.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah. Now I don't think I licked my finger. I remember.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I do remember like the ice cream melting kind of
going down my arm, you know when you like hold
it up, and I probably licked my arm, which, like
an idiot, I would never do that. But this is
back in the eighties, and I don't know. I was
young and didn't think about anything.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It was a different time. Everyone was on.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Cookin, everyone was doing cocaine, licking their own arms at
the ice cream store.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
But yeah, it was uh. I remember one of the
things that was weird.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Speaking of weird people, I remember this one dude came
in with like groceries in each hand and he wanted samples,
and he wanted us to grab a little spoon and
then stick this little spoon in his mouth, like like
he wanted to lean forward and have us feed him.
And I was like, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Comfortable with that. Dude.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I was like, nah, I'm only getting three dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, that sounds like a trick. That sounds like he
was doing that to trick you into doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah. Yeah, And then I remember there was our manager used.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
To uh, he had a station wagon and he would
sit in his station wagon and spy on us with
the binoculars because this is before, you know, cameras were
everywhere this back of the eighties, so so to watch
his employees, he would like have binoculars and just spy
on us. But then that sometimes the customers would tell us.
They'd be like, hey, there's a guy out in the
green station wagon with pinoculars watching you guys, And we're like, yeah,
(19:31):
that's mister Martin, our boss.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh fuck, I know, I know, but yeah, I remember
that was like.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It sounds like a real creep.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, he fired me, man, lick at my fingers. I
remember they had an employee meeting and no one told
me about it, and then I was like, and then
when he told me, he's like, that's because you're no
longer an employee.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Yikes. Yeah, but dude, that was the best.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
J verse saying I saw you in your car licking
your finger exactly, Hey, you jerk.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, my wife got an interesting flavor of ice cream
the other day because we wanted that that green. But
nothing's green though. But we got one called Glacier Mint
Moose Tracks Glacier Mint Moose Tracks. And I gotta be honest,
it wasn't that good. But it's ice cream, so you're
(20:27):
gonna eat it, you know what I mean, Like, there's
no way, there's no way. I'll just be like, well,
I'm not gonna eat it. It's right there. Are you
still there?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Do I?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I mean I had a little bit of mint in it,
and it had a little bit of cookie, and uh,
it was good, but it wasn't It wasn't my favorite.
Well I didn't have to have bowl after bowl of it.
I mean I did, but I didn't have to.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, but I didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I think, yeah, it sounds awful.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
It was just like you know, I was like, I'll
stick with the normal one bowl of ice cream. Hey,
I got something for you, man, So I found this book.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
By the way, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Actually before we get to the book, you and I
talked earlier today on the phone. There's something about I'm
staying on a farm right now, and I've been here
it'll be seven days on Saturday, and then I go
back and I just start doing my comedy again at
the laugh Factory, in the Comedy Store and all that
on Saturday night. I don't know if you're around Saturday night,
but I'll be at the comedy Store. But I'm at
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the farm. And there's something about I don't know, Man,
After a couple of days up here, like I.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Time seems different. Like in La I have no problem
staying up till midnight, one in the morning, two in
the morning, two thirty, but here I usually start shutting
it down and getting a little drowsy around like ten
ten thirty. And last night I was in bed like
a little after eleven.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
You know what I mean. Are you still there?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Let me a call back, Yeah, let me call you back.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I think what happened is I was connected to the
Wi Fi, and I think that's making it weird because
I am out in the boonie. So we're gonna try
Mike Black again.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah. Now I'm on the normal Lake Verizon SILL service.
There should be a lot better.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Hello, sir, Yeah, that sounds a lot better already.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You know what it is, man, I goofed up and
I was on the Wi Fi and the WiFi is
very spotty out here in the boonies, so I apologize.
So now we're on the We're on Verizon.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So we're good.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Okay, Yeah, it just sounds much much better and I
can actually understand what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You played along good, though, It's like you know, I'm like, yeah,
creepy guy manager binoculars like yeah, creepy yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I fought the good fight as long as I could,
but eventually it was just like you blacked out where
I couldn't hear anything at all, and I was like,
I gotta say something.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I was doing a little rant about how we talked
earlier on the phone. How like time seems different like
out here, like in La I have no problems say
up till one am, two am, three am, But here
I'm starting to get drowsy at like ten o'clock at
night because there's nothing to do, and I just I
don't know, it's I think this is how people are
supposed to live really, right, Like the sun goes down,
and usually the sun like in the old days before
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like the big cities came in, right, the sun would
go down, and you probably I would imagine, like you know,
you might read by campfire or lamp or something, and
then eventually like just go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, like once you've fought off all the wolves and
milk the goat and you know, bailed the hay and
kick the shit you yeah, lot.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Because like think about that, like if the sun goes
down at seven oh seven, you know, there's still light
a half hour after that, so seven point forty. Then
let's say you take a bath and eat. Now it's
like eight thirty, and then you might read till nine
thirty and then you're just like asleep by ten.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah. I mean, I guess you could dance by the
campfire or something if you really wanted to, but you know,
for the toasts of marshmallows or something. But yeah, it's
pretty much done.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But cities there's like light everywhere, like you know, so
you're just you don't even really feel like you know
it's night, but you look out the wind there's like
bright street lights and the you know the way that yeah,
you know what I mean, like the way the let
the city lights bounce off the chemtrails at night.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So it's like it's sight. It's constantly a reflective you know.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well and there's actual stimulus too. There's like other people.
Like part of why I was running late tonight was
because there was a traffic jam getting back to my
place at nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You know. Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
You know I was like, Oh, I forgot that the
ten Freeway is going to be all jammed up because
it's nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, that's true. There's like a lot of stimulus. There's
other people. There's anxiety, like am I going to get
a parking spots? I got to get there before, you.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Know what I mean, all that stuff like, yeah, that's
half of my day is going Am I going to
get a parking spot?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Gosh?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I know, like somebody offered me a really good gig
last week. It was in Beverly Hills, and I'm trying
not to It's hard man like, but I don't you
because you want to get your answers, but you don't
want to be annoying. Like my I had questions like
I wanted to know how is parking, especially in Beverly Hills,
Like basically, are you going to valid do they validate?
Or do I have to find street parking? Or like
(25:21):
is it crazy? Like are there like four spots and
that's it. I mean, how is it?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I only asked one to thank you. I'll be there,
Thank you so much. Private gig, Beverly Hills. How is parking?
And he said valet or street parking? And I wanted
to say, do they validate?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
But I said no, let's just keep it moving. This
guy's a big time.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Producer and and yeah, you know he does stuff, and
the fact that he thought of me, and you know,
you don't want to be too much of a pain,
you know, And then then they might think every time
I call this guy, he has a million questions, you know,
which I do.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I usually do have a million questions.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So yeah, but it's like if you answer vaguely, expect
to follow up questions.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It's like, yeah, I get that it's street or ballet,
but how is it is? What I asked, like, yeah, yeah,
what is the parking like on the street? What is
it like at Ballet?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So what see? Now, I know you feed the meter
till nine pm, then you're good after that. But just
read the sign in Casers construction, because I did. I
put money in the meter and then I kept putting
money and then it wouldn't take it, and I was like,
what's wrong. Oh, okay, I don't have to do it
till nine. But then I looked and there was a
giant sign that said, must move your car by ten
pm otherwise it will be toad we have to do.
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We have to do crane work like they had, they
had the big craney.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And I was like, I like this sign explains that
the whole plot of what was happening.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, And it was hilarious because, uh I when I
went in there and I told him, I asked if
I said, I got to get out of here, you know,
I have to be out of here by like nine,
nine thirty at the latest.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
And then other comics were like, yeah, I got a
spot over here. I got a spot. One guy had
to leave.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It was fay Man More, he had to go to
the comedy store, Sulima all had to be at the
laugh Factory. And I didn't want to like tell them
there's a crane it's gonna move. My car is gonna
get towed.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
You know, Look at Darren Go, He's wrecking off to
his next gig. His next gig is saving his car.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, exactly, fall I got nothing going on, guys, I
just don't want my car to get impounded because I'm
too cheap to do with the valet like y'all.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Dude, is Darren in a New Marble movie or something?
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, I've got to Save the City nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, Darren Carter versus the Wrecking Ball.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh, so I found this book and it's a nineteen
thirty six Remember when a nostalgic look back in time
and it tells you all the things that happen in
nineteen thirty six. So I want to ask you a
few things. Here we go, all right, okay, nineteen thirty six.
How much do you think a house would cost in
nineteen thirty six?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Where? H or?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Doesn't it just these are just blanketed Yeah, you're right
it probably.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I would say, on average in America, probably shoot thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
This says three thousand, nine five.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Ooh that's I was. I got a real good deal.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I think my grandpa bought his house after World War Two.
I think he bought his house in Fresno, and I
think it was I want to say, like twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, that'd be a a great deal.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now, Yeah, it was like a two bedroom, one bath
house back then, and then he had converted the garage
and made.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
It like a three three a third bedroom.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, and you think that like, oh, it's just a
good deal because of the monetary difference, right, Yeah, it's
a good deal because of the quality. Like he probably
had like a cast iron cub. Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yeah, you're right, a lot of those houses.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, and like a house made out of oak or
some shit, you know, like steel and oak.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh yeah, or what was that that sent you said
earlier in the podcast, asked, cedar wood?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Or it's yeah, like something that's just indestructible pretty much.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, like like a real solid You're right, because sometimes
you go to you know, you'll, you'll, I'll be on
the road and they'll put me up at some place
and I'm like, this seems kind of cheaply made, like
they did it really fast, and they didn't, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I remember one time I was at an apartment, but.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
If we made the whole thing out of dry wall,
I know exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I was doing sit ups once at an apartment we
lived in years ago, and and just maybe because I
was on my back and I'm looking up and I'm
like wow, like all the different tole.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Recks, they're not really level.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Like there's so many things that are that they didn't
they didn't even think about like that. I remember that
one there was an uh like a smoke alarm that
was looked like a bell and it was against it
and I thought they didn't even take the time to
put the words like properly, like as a display. They
looked like they were just like like they might have
carried like the first three apartments and then they were
just like just hand it to me, slap it out,
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like the words were upside down, and I was like,
they do not care about this.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
They just want to get it up.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, this guy said this was about sex.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm quoting him. He said, you know you talked about
when you're young, you want to get it up, get
it in, get it off, get it out.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Sure, that's what that was their construction policy.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Get it up, get it in, get it off, get
it out. Next, get it up, raw hide, rawhide.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
All right, Like uh yeah, they like, my place is
an old, old building, but they've read like different people
have owned it and renovated and ship like that, and
I have and I didn't notice it for like the
first year I lived here. But in the kitchen area
is a bell that they just painted over that was
white and so so I was like, why did they
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paint over this bell? And then it dawned on me.
I was like, Oh, that's the doorbell that doesn't work.
They just they painted it stuck so it could never work.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well, well, that's kind of good. You don't want prankers
coming by, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
No, I'm thinking about getting one of those doorbell cameras.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Ooh, that'd be good. You could do that. You could
totally do that.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Those are Yeah, they're pretty cheap, and uh, it'd be
good to have if you get any sort of deliveries
in the city. It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I remember when I was a kid, my buddy Jimmy
lived in the next neighborhood over and i'd go to
his Cult de Sac and I remember one time I
was ringing his doorbell. He had like a music This
is a big thing in the seventies. You'd have these
musical doorbells. You could program them or I.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Don't know how they did it, but oh yeah, you'd press.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah that was one of them.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, that was one of them, right, and then you'd
press it or I'd be like yeah right, so he
you know, I went to his house at three o'clock
and uh, he didn't answer. But I was just having
a blast just ringing that doorbell.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Like dun dune.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Did I ring it again, and it's kept doing it.
Probably did it for like as long as I don't know,
five ten minutes. And then eventually I started seeing a
silhouette coming towards the stained glass front door, and I'm like,
oh wow, and open the door was his father. Apparently
he'd been home with a hangover, and he's like and
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he's like, Darren, if somebody doesn't answered the door the first.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Time, go away.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And my dumb ass was playing with the doormall for
ten minutes. It was actually really fun, but that was
so scary when I because I didn't know anybody was home.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
He's just thinking about each shot he had the night before.
Oh jesus, I know, Oh, better be Darren Carter. I
know it's Darren Carter. I just know it in my bones,
Darren Carter ringing that doorbell.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay, nineteen thirty six, average rent twenty four dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Oh yeah, I could live a bath.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
That wou'd be nice, right, they haven't.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Basically be a millionaire finer.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh my gosh, okay, movie ticket now. See, I don't
go to the movies that often, so I'm not really
sure what movies cost now. I want to say even now,
I would be shocked, because I.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Do say back then it was like a nickel, you'd
be disappointed.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh it's higher than a nickel.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Uh, twenty five cents.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yes, exactly twenty five cents. They were good movies though,
back then, nineteen thirty six, good movies. Yeah, so they're yeah,
because how much are movies now? Like, I'm gonna guess, Like,
let me just guess, can I guess? If I were
to go like the.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Least expensive, i'd probably go during the day.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I think mattinees are like not that expensive, but I
don't know, is it going to be at least fifteen bucks?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I haven't done a mattinee in a long time, but
at the average price right now is about seventeen fifty
in Los Angeles for a movie. But they do have
mattinee Tuesdays at a lot of places, and then it
can be as low as seven bucks.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Oh okay, now that I would do, yeah, because I
don't like seeing a movie and I paid a lot
of money and I'm not really like, don't you know
what I mean, I'm not like blown away by the movie.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'll tell you what I do a lot. And LA
is one of the few places in the world where
you can do this. There's a website called art Houses
La dot com. Uh, let me see, Yeah, I think
that's the name of I want to make sure. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And arth Housesla dot Com.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah, and they do. They tell you about all the
theaters in LA that aren't showing new movies. They're showing
like classics. Oh okay, and those you can see cheap.
Oh no, it's revival Houses dot com.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Sorry, revival Okay, forget the art Houses La dot com.
That don't use that one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Right, use Revivalhouses dot Com. And that's pretty much just
for La. But it shows you by the hour what's
playing in LA that's not at.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
A new movie.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
So like today, I'm just looking at it right now.
Today they had Twin Peaks, Yeah, Twin Peaks Firewalk with Me, Honora,
which is kind of out of theaters. Hitchcock's Anatomy of
a Murder High Rulers, Charlie's Angels from the year two thousand.
(35:29):
These are all just playing at random theaters and it
has links on like where to get tickets and stuff
like that for each of them. Starship Troopers which was
a great movie, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, that same
Hitchcock movie again and again. Good Fellas was playing The Proposal,
Moon Moonlight, Kingdom, Night of the Comet, which was a
(35:53):
crazy movie. The Rule of Jenny Penn I've never heard of,
Wild at Heart, David Lynch movie was playing. So yeah,
and that's just a couple of them, the ones that
are going on, and most of those movies are going
to be like ten bucks or less depending on the theater.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, see like a real like the solid movie where
you're like, that's going to be good, you know, especially
I guess seeing it in the theater would be cool. Like,
you know, we got Netflix, and we didn't have Netflix for.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
A long time.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
We got it again and and it kind of made
reminded me a little bit why I get a little
bit frustrated because I'll put in like Bill Murray and
there's like I don't see Bill Murray on there. They'll
be like there'll be movies that are like it. Like
if you like Ghostbusters, you might like Goats, ghost Seeker,
Outers or something, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
No, w Yeah. Netflix has kind of become like the
temu of you know, movies. They're like, we don't actually
have the movie, but we have a lot of things.
So yeah, like I'll what I'll do is I'll go
on Amazon Prime a lot Amazon Video, because they may
not have a movie in their streaming catalog, but they
(37:00):
do have access to it, and so if they don't
have it, you can purchase the movie through there and
play it on their thing, and then you've got it
in your library forever. Like I really wanted to watch Highlander.
It was a great action movie from the eighties with
(37:21):
Sean Connery, and they didn't have it, but they had
the option that They're like, it's available to rent or buy.
Do you want to do that? And I was like,
I'm just gonna go ahead and buy it, yeah, and
I've just got it whenever I want to watch it.
So I did that for a few I did, Like
I got a couple of them at once. I got
like that one Terminator, Aliens Ready Player one, which I
(37:45):
thought was a really fun movie. Oh and I got
die Hard because I always want to watch that around
Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Oh yeah, so it is Christmas movie. I guess it
is to me.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I mean, like, I know a lot of people get,
but it's pretty squarely a Christmas movie. It's about a guy,
you know, trying to reunite with his family at Christmas time,
right yeah, and he has all these obstacles, like the
biggest obstacles you could possibly have for that to happen.
(38:17):
And then it literally ends with the building explodes and
all the bear bonds that the bad guys were trying
to get come raining down, but it's all white paper,
so it literally looks like a snowfall at the end
of the movie. And it ends with the song let
it snow playing. Oh yeah, I don't see how it
(38:41):
could get more Christmas e than that and still be
an action.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Movie, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
And in fact, Christmas sort of saves the movie because
if they didn't have a gift wrapping station on that
floor that he was on at the end, he wouldn't
have had that Christmas themed gift wrapping tape to tape
the gun on his back. The tricks the last two
guys and kill them.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Oh good point.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
So there it literally ends with a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
So it's like, yeah, it's a dark, violent movie for sure,
but it's also very much a Christmas movie.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Do you like seeing modern movies that come out every week?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I try to, you know, like I don't always like them,
but I feel compelled to see him.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
No, I still I was gonna tell you.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Like our buddy Fraser Smith, he's back on the radio
in La ninety five ninety five point five KOs and yeah,
they play his show Sunday night ten to midnight. Maybe
mentioned to him, Hey, I want to be the movie guy.
I see movies all the time. If you want anything
about movies, I can. I can, you know, call in,
I can come in. Oh yeah, you know, let them
(39:52):
know like.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
That you're that you love because you do. You love
movies and you know a lot about them.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
And that's a really good idea. And I go out
all the time.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yeah, say, if you want to do it, just like
a quick segment, we could do that, you know what,
just you know.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah, I could even yeah, yeah, there's a lot of
stuff there's Uh, that's a really good idea.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
I'll talk because I know with his comedy because I
help him, you know, with his comedy every week, writing
comedy for his stand up and for his radio. He's
always asking like what you know, Like okay, do you
have anything on this this latest movie? And I have
known nothing about the latest movies, so I usually can't.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Help him in that. But I mean, but that might
help make his show fresh where it's like every week, man,
you know, you could you know, go yeah, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Just just that's such a good idea that I want
you to cut it out of this episode because someone
will steal it. Okay, but that's a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
But no, you're the guy though, and he knows you.
You you guys see each other every Monday. Yeah, and
before before we go, I gotta I gotta compliment you, man,
I love you. I love it your new opening.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
But I love the opening I saw it today on
Instagram or TikTok where you go up on stage and
you said something about the reason you were late.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Do you remember what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, because I was a runner up at
a hot dog eating contest. That's not even my opener.
It's just there were two guys from Australia in the audience,
and you know, sometimes if you come in early just
to kind of get the lay of the land, like
what's going off the room? I heard ledbrry Don Barris
(41:23):
was hosting, and he asked, he was like, what do
you guys think is the weirdest thing about America since
you've been here? And one of them goes night it's
all the hot dog eating contests. There's a lot of
hot dog eating contests. You guys are faced with hot dogs,
and so I was like, Okay, I'm gonna run with
that and you know, talk about that. But now I'm like,
(41:48):
I ended up doing about like four minutes on what
it's like being a hot dog eater professionally, and I
was like, that's actually a fun little bit that came
out of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Really.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I thought it was funny because you're a big guy
and it's like a quick, little funny thing.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
And then it's like because you say, oh, yeah, my
dad helped train me when I was a kid, and you.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Know, yeah, and I look like a professional hot dog eater.
Like I was like, oh that they're gonna believe it
is the funny part, you know, and uh but yeah.
And the thing a funny thing I noticed when I
talked to them. A hundred times out of one hundred
that I have talked to Australian people in the audience,
(42:29):
I've asked them, have you ever even heard of a
bloomin onion? None of them know what I'm talking about.
They're like, what is it? They have no idea what
aion is. Yeah, and out Back Steakhouse has sold us
all this bill of goods. Oh, it's the most authentic
Australian cuisine. They'd never even heard of it.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah, that's awesome man.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Well, on that note, I want to say, Mike Black,
thanks for joining us on the Pocket Party podcast.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
And oh yeah, and we're both gonna be at the
store this weekend. I'll be there Friday and you're gonna
be there Saturday.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Yes, sir, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah, come see us and say hi.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
That's cool man. And you know, I adapted started wearing
bolo ties in a little bit more like western gear
about a year ago. I've been wearing it and I'm
kind of making my mark on the scene now doing that.
I wonder if you could be wearing like some cool suits,
if that's something that you're gonna they.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Start getting getting becoming a bit more. I used to
be more of a clothes horse than I am now,
but start wearing different suits and stuff like that, I
need something to jazz it up.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
I think it looks good because it's like it's like
a character.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
I know this sounds silly and it's totally out of
your thing, but I could totally picture you. Don't you
do a joke about looking like an unpainted rodeo.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, yeah, I do. And I an unpainted off duty
Rodeo cloud off duty. But like the other day, for
the greens that I was wearing, I didn't have a
belt for it. So I went to Target and I
bought some suspenders. Yes, and I had just a T
shirt on and suspenders on these crazy green pants. And
(44:10):
I looked in the mirror and I was like, Yep,
Judy rodeo clowns, that's.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
I think that, especially nowadays, it everything being so visual
and like in almost how kill Tony, you know, is
making stars out of people that just started. But like,
but I noticed a lot of them are characters, you
know what I mean, Like this person is you know whatever,
like he's got a mullet and he runs around like
why not, dude, go back to that character?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
A fun vibe. And you know what I was. I
don't know if it was you and me talking about
this or it may have been someone else, but I
was talking about how in the heyday of the comedy
that I grew up on in the eighties, it comedy
and professional wrestling was we're both doing the same sort
(44:55):
of thing where they had these very strong characters.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Like for every Hule Cogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper, there
was Emo Phillips and Father Guido Sarducci. You know what
I mean, these guys that were just like full on
characters that they were committing to.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
It's a great observation.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Yeah, they were very character right, like Sam Pays and
you had the beret and the trench code and.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yeah, and then on the other side it right, and
you had like Brett the Hipman Hard or Jake the
Snake Roberts. They were all very much these big, larger
than life sort of characters.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
You know, I'm telling you that.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
That's a fun vibe to bring back.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
It's like, Okay, so a body of mine he started
comedy and not that long ago, like less than ten years.
And I don't know if you guys met each other yet.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
Arian Azizzian, Oh yeah, great, great, great guy.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
He right's pretty clean and he does a lot of
like one two liners, one liner, two liner, you like
that kind of thing. And he he broke his You say,
broke your teeth. Now, what do you say, were you.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Cut his teeth? Yeah, he broke us. He got punched
the mouth by he broke.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
He broke his teeth.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
But for ten years he worked behind the scenes at
the Comedy Magic Club, and he also did podcasts with
big time comedians and whatever. So he's always looked up
to like just good comedians and you know whatever. So
but so now when he hits these shows, he's dressed up. Man,
he's got like the Western shirt and he's wearing.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Like the belt buckle. And he said that, he goes.
I feel like because a lot of.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
The younger comedians now or whatever they are, whatever age
group they are, they're going up there with like ripped
jeans and a hoodie and they're trying to look all cool.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
He goes, But they all look like that, he goes.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
So when I go up there with my brand spanking
new Wrangler jeans and my whatever, my my coat, that's.
Speaker 3 (46:45):
You know, my pent what do you call it? Uh? Whatever?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
The Pendleton coat. It's where he looks like he just
came from veiled Colorado. It's like people look at him
like he's a star, like he's somebody you know. And
it's and I think that's half the battle is just
hitting this day. He's looking like you're you know, you're
there to put on a.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Show, Darren Cautter.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
It always makes me think of you when I think
of the term the clothes makes a man. I told
this to Elvis. I tell this to you. You are
a star. Be afraid, don't be timid. Let everyone know
what a star you are. That's why I wanted the
next show. A helmet like Evil Canievel, a big kid,
(47:26):
a feather boa and elf boots. That's Darren Carter the
party Stata.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
That's right, colonel, We're going to start parties. I'm gonna
dress for the job I want, not the job I have.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
That's exactly right, And I'm going to get ninety nine
percent of merchandising.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
It's going to be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Hi, man if it wasn't for you getting nine percent,
I wouldn't make my one percent, So it's all good
in the hood.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
That's exactly the way to look at it. I love
Darren Carter, I love Elvis.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
That's why I come back from beyond the grave to
help promote Darren Carter.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
The party is data.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
That's right, Colonel, work makes a dream work. You know.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
I'm not a victim. I'm a victor. And now thank
you so much for joining the Pocket Party Podcast. With
one more finger with five we're a fist.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
Good damn right, PCB my friend.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Taking care of business in a flash. All right, Mike
Black again knocks it out of the park. I apologize
for having a little bit of.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Sound issues in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
I think I can edit a lot of that and
the hopefully Yeah, it wasn't that bad, but it was
my dumbass left the phone.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
On Wi Fi instead of sell service. So it's my apologies.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
We'll get it next time, for sure.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
That's right, guys, thanks again for joining us on the
Pocket Party Podcast. Mike Black, love your body. We'll talk
to you soon and thank you.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Have a great night. Bye bye you too.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
You made it all the way through on the Pocket
Party podcast. I want to thank you guys for listening
and do us a favor. I know I said it earlier,
but leave a comment on this no matter what you're
listening to. If it's Apples, Spotify, go to YouTube and
find this episode and leave a comment. And if there's
something you liked, leave a little timestamp. Those timestamps are good.
You know where you put, like twenty one minutes three
(49:08):
whatever you should highlight, and then it'll jump right to
that part of the podcast.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
And if you want to get.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
A personal videos shout out from me, I'm available on
cameo and it's easy to find me. Go to my Instagram,
you'll see my link tree. You'll see my cameo link
right there. Or just go on cameo and search for me.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
All right, you guys, have a great rest of your day.
Don't hurt nobody. Be careful.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
Everybody listen to Darren Carter. We all know he's the
party starter. So if you want to listen to a
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