Joe Gatto Reveals Why He Left Impractical Jokers + Talks New Comedy Special 'Messing With People'

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Alright, we're good.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You like go.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Busting with the boss, hanging with the fans, betting on
a game, no moment's gonna tell us would.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Not be.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
We're here just drinking beer and making Nando Baby. I'm
hanging with the feelers, busting with the boys.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Bro Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to busting with the boys. For
three hundred and sixty five days, we've talked about it,
we've mentioned it. We've gone through a grueling winter, a
beautiful spring, and a brutal summer, and now finally the
day is upon us where we get to walk in
and know that it's pop. Pumpkin spice lattes are now

(01:03):
a thing. Going to haunted houses are now a thing.
All the things you did as a father, it could
have been a bad thing. You could change it during
the holiday season. And it all starts with Spootober was
a bad dead good. Get fucking spooky. Kids don't like you.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
Good, Let's get fucking spooky. The more spooky you can
get during the fall, the better the opportunity to take
on the holiday season and send twenty twenty four out
the ass and take twenty twenty five buy the balls.
And this is when it starts right here and right now,
as the ghouls, goblins, inspectors rise for thirty one days

(01:38):
of fright and we get to enjoy every single day
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
As those leaves fall and.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
That weather breaks, you know you're on Busting with the
Boys and it is officially spooked Ober yea.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
This episode is brought to you by Chevy Silverado. Well,
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Welcome Busting with the Boys, episode ninety sick.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
October is officially it's officially here here.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
If you are here for the first time, let me
introduce myself. My name is Taylor Curtis Lawan. Sitting to
my right is William Earl Compton, the third. We are
your two hosts of Busting with the Boys. If there's
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boys in the back sitting there having a good time.
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Speaker 6 (02:50):
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Speaker 2 (02:58):
Does you have one? Yeah? I love it?

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Right, Yeah, I'm obsessed with it. But I would, I would,
I would, I would set up that point. Yeah, leaves
me speechless. This big, bad black machine, the ZR two
Chevy Silverado, that is what the boy has. Last week,
Taylor and I were kind of talking about trucks and
he went peeking in the comments and saw, thankfully you

(03:23):
guys left comments there is a ZR two package in
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They have eight different cameras, fourteen different angles and views.
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(03:46):
I swear to God, this is the best truck on
the road. And that is a Chevy Soverado.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
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Chevy Silverado between twenty eight, two, twenty and twenty twenty two.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
I think it's is it twenty twenty and twenty twenty
two or twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's probably all of them, but twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
You can fact jacket right at jdpower dot com.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
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eight cameras, fourteen dars.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
Just a fleet of Silverado's, Yes, and.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
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and it runs that good. Amen.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
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Speaker 2 (04:45):
US Ootober as well.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
How fired the fuck up are.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
You dude that. To be honest, here, literally last night
I got home and I saw my kids and they're like, Dad,
two more sleeps. That's what they said, the first thing
they said to me. They got Dad, two more sleeps
and then hugs. So my kids are fully invested in Spootober.
We're literally gonna go to Michael's today. As soon as
I'm able to leave this shop, I'm gonna go pick

(05:09):
my daughter up at school and We're going straight to Michael's.
I told her two hundred dollars, Yeah, two hundred dollars
spending on whatever you want to decorate your room. I'm
to decorate, and so we are going to get after it. Now.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
That's when I started building the foundation for real.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
You're at the perfect time to a store.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
Like here's how we started embracing the spooks.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's very, very slow, but sure the pumpkin. You get
her excited about the pumpkin. That's the first step, and
then you just slowly in a greate more and more
spooked over stuff. Now when being seven, she's like that,
I want scary stuff in my room, and I'm like, honey, no,
so you think you do, you think you do, But
it changes everything.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
When you just lay there up late at night and
start thinking, you start playing these games in your head.
Could this thing come alive? Could something pop out of
the closet. Yeah, it's a whole different ballgame.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Or not that detailed, or not that detailed for a
specific reason, because the kid's imagination is incredible. But you
ever fired up. If you are joining us for the
first time, go ahead, sit back, relax. I'm gonna tell
you all the rules of Spootober. If you're here consist instantley,
you already know the rules, but go ahead and get
a pen and a pen and a note pad out
because we're gonna tell you everything. Listen.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Four key rules to Spooktober.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
The first rule is it's no longer October. It's Spootober
from here on out. If you're going to talk about
this month, add a spook to the tober, call it Spooktober.
That is what you're doing. The next step and you
achieving Spootober Nirvana is going to be put something spooky
on every single day. Now, that sounds like a very
tall task because there's thirty one days of fright. It

(06:30):
doesn't have to be festive, festive, festive, Festive have to
be a horror film. If you are my age, if
you're thirty three or Will's age thirty five, you're you
remember watching Disney Channel and Nickelodeon and every single day
there are the TV shows that were on. There was
always themed Halloween stuff going on. You pop that on
for ten minutes. Maybe guess what you did it? You've

(06:51):
You've been gusting with Spootober for that day. It's just
a daily check. It's like making your bed, getting in
a workout and making sure you do a couple of
things every single day. Pops up it on for twenty minutes.
Now while take the time put on that spooky movie.
Get yourself a little scared when you turn the lights
off at night, because that's good for the soul. You
need that. That is great for the soul. The next
thing you're going to do and the journey to Spootober

(07:11):
Nirvana is going to be enjoy something fall festive every
single week. And it could be a pumpkin patch. It
could be as simple as you go into your local
coffee shop and get yourself a seasonal beverage. It doesn't
have to be the be all end all every single day.
That's exhausting. We don't want that. Spooktober doesn't need to
be something where it's like I can't believe I have

(07:31):
to do this because we've been there before. We've been there.
You get over to you get to Spootober eighteen and above,
you're like, bro, I'm kind of like ready, you know
the whole thing. So just integrate it where you need to,
but make sure you get in the seven days. You
get a little something in there. For me personally, my
wife and I if this Thursday or Friday, we can

(07:52):
get a little banged up and we're gonna go to
a hunted house, and that's just to me. That is
like the the the core dude, just being a little
straight and talking yourself into being scared.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
And the final rule will Compton decorate. You have to
decorate your house. Whether it's on the lawn with the
house inside the house, doesn't matter, whether you just have
a few pumpkins out front, one pumpkin out front. You
gotta do something to bring out the theme of the year,
and that is Spooktober. Those are your four rules. That
is how you execute with the boys. We need to
be talking about it on socials. We got to keep

(08:23):
each other accountable, keep each other in check, and let's
have a phenomenal spooky season this year. And it's a
big year for Spooktobe right, and people already selling the
commons and merch too. That's not a rule, but our
merch this I don't know if this was last year,
the year before. We usually have some fun merch every
year for Spootober. Those will be up on the site.
We had new merch drop today as you're listening. So

(08:44):
if you go to a store doop barstool sports dot com,
click on the brand Busting with the Boys, it should
be right right out there at the top, somewhere on
the first page. But our new Spooktober merch is out.
Embrace the fucking spook with the Boys because it's again
it's a massive month. It's our favorite month. And this
is how you fully buy into Busting with.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
The Boys, fully buy it. And Geez did an incredible job.
He sent me a couple of uh merch items that
we're putting out there, and it is. It's awesome. The
thing I'm wearing right now, this Spootober Dad sweater, the
one that G's also wearing. It's my favorite, My all simple,
favorite simple, and this. I will literally run this sweater
into the fucking ground for the next thirty one days.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
I personally I love this. I love the orange and
I also loved the purple one that we've had in
the years past. I love kind of colors that bring
out the fall.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Don't forget about the sleep of the newspaper one of
you with the Michael Myers moro. We got to round that, Yes,
I started didn't get enough love?

Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yeah that was when was that? That was like three
years ago? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Right?

Speaker 6 (09:44):
The Michael Myers mask on just standing in public? Yeah, yeah, yea,
we might think get that one.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah. I was at party City a couple of weeks
ago with my wife and I did I found a
Michaels Myers mask in the corner and I just kind
of started doing that to her. Yeah, in the hall somewhere.
She just like, wouldn't be I was zero help whatever
we were trying to. But I also saw a couple
of comments I'm gonna get with coop our graphic designs
guy about movies watch list thirty one days. So after

(10:10):
we get done with this episode, I'm gonna go and
type a couple of movies up and we'll make sure
to get that out this week for you, hopefully by tomorrow.
Hopefully by tomorrow would be absolutely fantastic as you want, man,
but god, it's here. Do the do the boys want
to say anything about Spootober? Do you guys want to
get anything going? Mitch is holding microphone up. Do you

(10:33):
just want to talk about how fired up you are
about Spootober? And also the lights? Incredible? Incredible?

Speaker 7 (10:39):
Yeah, I mean, as you can see, Sherman and I
we're pretty dialed in to this. Uh spootover?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Are you guys dressing up every week?

Speaker 7 (10:46):
Yeah, we're gonna try and we're gonna have an outfit
or a costume.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I love that for each week.

Speaker 7 (10:51):
Right now, I'm a football players.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You can football player?

Speaker 7 (10:57):
What would you like?

Speaker 8 (10:59):
As you can tell, I am a pirate. I am
paying homage to the og pirate Mike Leach, the inventor
of the spread offense, ORC and rips in the chat.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Can we plan on the other four boys to wear
some costumes this week? This month?

Speaker 6 (11:15):
For sure?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah? Oh wow? All right, buying into the spook got
gotta dive right in?

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Should we dive into this massive weekend of NFL football?

Speaker 2 (11:24):
We just watched. Absolutely. I had to pull up the
All twenty two this week and catch up because it
was a long way.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
The boy might be dusting off the old Redskins jerseys
because Washington has a squad Daniels. Jaden Daniels is nice
and nice enough to where he might be getting himself
into the MVP talk at some point if he keeps
this up. Because I want to say, his completion percentage
is like, what was it eighty two, eighty four or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's insane.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
The highest completion percentage was one hundred game minimum, like
over Tom Brady, Peyton, Manning, Drew Brees, Like, legit, bro,
he's nice, he's him. They've had and I forget what
it is, like sixteen it was either sixteen or fourteen
consecutive scoring drives, which is like a record. They've only
punted like one time three in the last three games, Bro,

(12:12):
I think they've only punted one time.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, that's well. I get so worried about Jaden Daniels
just because of RG three.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
For sure.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
But the way this kid can spin the man, he
can be off balance like and he just flicks the
wrist and it is a piss missile bro like he
is very good because a couple of weeks ago, I
want to say they were they were one in one.
I forget who they were about to play. Who they
played two weeks ago? It wasn't the Bengals. Bengals was
last week?

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Last week was the Patriots. No, can you bring up
their schedule? Sure?

Speaker 6 (12:47):
Yeah, but a couple of weeks ago, it was like,
I want to say they were.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
An underdog Giants.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Yeah, the Giants, And and you're sitting there and you're
seeing how bad the Cowboys played. You're seeing that the
Eagles are they're one and one as well, like the
inspiration in locker room, like, hey, you know, the division
is obviously wide open. There's not like a true front
runner in the NFC East right now, they pull off
a win against the Giants and they go into the
Bengals and it's the same situation. It's kind of like
they could have a massive game here because everybody knows

(13:14):
how the Bengals start very slow and Joe Burrow starts slow,
and you see how well they played against the Bengals
thirty eight to thirty three, beat them at Sinci. Then
they go to Arizona, right they go to Arizona, and
I know, yeah, when I was on the Pro Football
Football Show, my whole thing with Big Kat was like
it's like you want to pick them, but at the
same time, you want to see how they handle winning

(13:36):
because you got a brand new quarterback. They haven't started.
They rarely start this way to where they're like two
in one going on the road to Arizona, and Arizona's
like a spicy team with Kyler Murray and everybody else.
But you want to see, like how they handle winning
because that organization's always been usually like a five hundred
ball club. There's always been a cloud over them anytime
we would get out ahead, like you drop.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
One, you drop two.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
But the way they fucking beat the shit out of
the Arnold's forty two to fourteen at a Z after
going into Sincy on the road and beating them at Sensey,
it's like, Yo, Washington could be for real.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
This year, like a jail contender this year or a playoff.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
I think, so, I don't see why not. It's like
Jaye Daniels again, we're talking about him. He's playing at
an MVP level, not like Offensive Player of the Year,
not like hey, he's the best rookie quarterback. Like right now,
he is fucking spinning the rock. And I'm telling you,
you know how the locker room can be. If you
have a hot fucking quarterback, you always got a shot.
And you know he can run. He's like he can

(14:31):
run like fucking Michael Vick. Yeah, but uh yeah, I
think that they're a real contender this year. It's like,
legit Washington is up right now.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's crazy to me that this Jaden Daniels kid, that
video that came out when he was leaving as U Yeah,
yah yah yah, you bitch ass crack, go ahead and
go yeah out of here. We don't need you anyway.
The locker room does what he does, wins the Heisman,
and now this like the kid just lives with a
chip on his shoulder.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah continues, and he is a genetic specimen. I'm telling
you should you should get some of these highlighted throws
that he has. Like he's like unbalanced and it's very
he's got the quickest release. He can kind of be
in a very uncoordinated spot and he just I mean,
rockets bro.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Puts a dime out there. It is impressive. Man, I
hope they can continue it because that kind of story
to me is awesome, especially a team like Washington that
just needs they need something.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, they need something, and the district gets fucking hype
now that they have a good team and they got
a quarterback like this about it. They're about it, Bro,
I'm telling you that place is gonna be on fire.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
I feel like the NFC East is just that is
like the media mecca for the NFL. Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Eagles seem to be like they're in trouble.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, yes, absolutely, And but Baker Mayfield all the same
playing the Eagles this week seems like he's the fucking man.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
Yeah, he bounced back. Did you see the Tom Brady
tape on the Leadership He was like, Hey, they want
me to come in, like basically bring the juice like
rig Night, And Tom Brady had the comment on his
commentary of like, you know, his his stress was not
having Super Bowl rings, Like it's not about having fun.

(16:02):
You're coming into work, You're coming in to get something done.
Like that's the mentality of a champion spoken like a
true goat. Yeah, like a true goat. What's your what's
your take on?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Like him?

Speaker 6 (16:11):
I don't think he's taking a shot at Baker's leadership style.
I think he was just talking about it from his perspective.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I have to I saw I read the quote. I didn't.
I didn't see him actually saying it. It would have
to I would have to see like his tone of
voice when he's saying it, because yeah, I feel like
Tom is the type of guy that like will joke
around and have a good time with his boys, but
the minute like anybody comes at him, he's like he
kind of comes off as like a sensitive cat, like
he doesn't want if he's in the locker room, everyone's like,
you know, Tom, You're like this, I'm about winning, That's

(16:37):
what I'm about. Yeah, So it's kind of he fallows
back at a single time. There's more than one way
to skin a cat, right for sure. You can have
fun styles out there, get after it. I think you
see a big difference in Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes.
Like Patrick Mahomes obviously has great leadership and he's got
an elite talent level, but they seem like they have
a little more fun at Kansas City than you would watch.
When Tom Brady was at the Patriots for twenty years,

(16:58):
or in Tampa Bay for a couple of years. He
was when they won a super Bowl. So you know,
if I'm Baker, I'm taking everything personal because you just
you continue to you know, you were the first overall
pick in Cleveland. Took him to a playoffs, they said, okay,
that's not good enough. He bounced around a little bit.
Now he finds a home in Tampa Bay, and he's
really just lighting it up. If I'm Baker and it
wasn't meant as a shot, I'm still taking as a shot,

(17:20):
Like now I have a vendetta against the goat and
I'm gonna put him wrong as well.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
I could see it just being water off his back.
I mean, he he understands the spot he's in. He
understands the locker room as well as anybody else. He's
obviously the quarterback. He knows the juice that he brings.
So I'm sure if he hears that, I could easily
see it just being like, yeah, you understand Tom is
saying the comment that he is, but he's saying it
from Tom's world, and obviously you can't argue Tom's world.
He's got what seven Super Bowl rings, eight super Bowl rings.

(17:47):
But knowing Baker like he could, I mean, he understands
the post of the locker room better than anybody.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
He understands his role.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
I think he's completely comfortable in knowing that the way
he's doing is is totally like his way, you know
what I mean. It's so at the point that there's
a lot of different styles of leadership and everything else.
You got, like an older team, there could be some
times where you're around the same thing every year. You
lose a little bit of spark, you lose a little
bit of fun because of just the veteran mentality that
can kind of like sink into the place. And knowing

(18:15):
that Baker's kind of got that youth to him, that
fun where he talks shit, he's a little more savvy
about it. He puts your shoulder into somebody. He knows
that like that can ignite. Like then when you're a vet,
just in the monotony of professional football year in and
you're out day in and day out, you kind of
like see it and it kind of brings like that youth,
that youthism back to you on just having fun playing
the game.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
The thing I love about Baker Mayfield is that being
a first overall pick and then being widely seen as
like a bust after the whole Cleveland thing, Like if
you think he was gonna take Cleveland, make him super
Bowl team over and over again. Right then he leaves
and has to go a bunch of different places. But
Baker hasn't changed him at all. Right, He hasn't like
tried to become something he's not to get away from
the the comments of like, oh he's you know, maybe

(18:54):
a distraction, he's a little too much about himself, those
types of things. He's just continued to be him and
just allowing us to show like, hey, you can act
this way and still be the fucking.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
Exactly because you'll never I mean, there's no video evidence
of Tom Brady hitting like the gritty or hitting some
dance in front of the team and the team going nuts.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Like Baker's just got a difference. I think goes all
the way back to Oklahoma. Yeah, as a freshman circled
out doing the dance. Dude, it's cool too, like and
pivoting from that, like you's seeing a guy like Sam Darnold.
I was gonna say, Sam is like not near the
friend of the show, friend of the show. But he's
not near like the personality that Baker Mayfield is. But

(19:30):
I'm sure like he had to go through the same
like type of like mental trials and tribulations that Baker
went through as well, with everybody kind of shitting him.
He get him getting drafted to a big media market,
everyone kind of being like this guy, this is a guy.
Now He's like, no, he's not our guy. He's dead
to us. Carol Goes finds a home at the Vikings.
The Vikings draft to quarterback with maybe the future best
quarterback of all time.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
We also spent time with Sam fran too. He's just
like the backup. He never got an opportunity behind Bro,
so he's just.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Been sitting and stewing and and anytime you're like if
you're viewed as a big time player and then all
of a sudden, everyone's like, you're actually not a big
time player, you're a bust. You can just have a
good back up sit in the shadows for that many
years and to come out and play the way he
is and before and oh with the Minnesota Vikings is
and still keep that mental my favorite story yeah right
now and still like keeping that mental fortitude of like,

(20:18):
you know, I can still do this shit.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
I think he's with you know. This is a great
example too of being in the right situation right, coaching
too right. I mean, obviously you never want to see
anybody get hurt, but sometimes when you're a backup, like
when somebody gets hurt, that's your opportunity to come in.
And when JJ McCarthy went down, I don't think anybody
was crowning the Vikings as being a contender yet because like,
all right, rookie quarterback, let's see how he does, high
praise and everything else. It'll probably take a year he

(20:40):
goes down. Vikings are completely counted out of the conversation
in the NFC North with the Viight or with the Packers,
the Bears, the Lions. They're kind of like that. No
one's even talking about that, right, And here it's a
great division too, right, right, And for Sam to be
in that spot with that staff, you got Kevin O'Connell,
who's like a quarterback whispered also coach phenomenal, head coach

(21:01):
Wes Phillips, who's the OC. They've all came from that
webbing of Shanahan McVeigh, all that stuff, And for him.
This is a great example of just kind of being
in the right situation, the right opportunity, coming about keeping
that mental fortitude about you and taking advantage of your
fucking opportunity. He is playing tremendous Like he's somebody I
think he's got eleven touchdowns to three interceptions. He's truly
somebody that could be in the MVP conversation because everybody's like,

(21:24):
you know, they might drop one this weekend. They've handled business,
they can throw the ball well, they can run the
ball well, and they're playing great defense because flora is.
They're in the second year with Flora's system, Like he's
obviously showing that he's He's always been an incredible coordinator,
had his laps as a head coach down in Miami,
But it seems like the Vikings are like finding their
swing and they truly they could be the guys in

(21:45):
the NFC.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, Flora' has always done a great job of getting
his defensive lineman to be penetrating defensive lineman and just
messing up run games. Yeah, over and over play action
passes like he just kills it.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Imagine imagine a year of like the Buccaneers, the Washing
Commanders and the Minnesota Vikings are the three teams in
the NFC that.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Would be insane.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Imagine those three quarterbacks being up for the m v
P exactly, just crazy. That's the comeback story of the
year right there. Well, obviously Jane he's not coming back.
But Baker he got his big bag. He's still playing
very well. But can there be like, could Sam Darnold
be a comeback player of the Year, just based on based.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
On yesterday, Like do you have to be injured or
sick or injured? What's the deal?

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Speaking of Joe, Anthony Richardson goes down and dude, we
were we were talking about the Titans for you. Anthony
Richardson goes down, and you know, half of the coaching
staff was like, Joe was going in there.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
Yeah, you know that, like you know Flacco going in
what he did with the Browns last year. That everybody
in that locker room, everybody, everybody likes Anthony Richard wants
him to play.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Well.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
He was the first he was their first run draft back.
He was hurt last year. The front office everybody wants
him to he's there right because he's there as a
first rounder. He's there as like your franchise quarterback. But
you know, even when he goes down and you have
somebody like Flacco on the roster, you know, everybody's kind
of just fired up because it's like, Yo, let's watch
Joe spin it again. And they might be a better
football team now with Joe Flacco under center because Anthony Richardson,

(23:19):
as much as much of a high ceiling that he has,
there are intermediate throws and stuff that he you know,
everybody kind of talks about his accuracy a little bit.
With Joe, the entire playbook pretty much opens now because
he's been in systems, he's been He's he's cut his
teeth in this game for so long. Like he knows
everybody's playbook. You know, he can take shots, intermediate passes,
run game. He doesn't have the legs that Anthony Richardson does,

(23:42):
But you got a guy who can legitimately make you contender,
and you get a win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, who
has the best the best defense in the league maybe
the Vikings do, but one of the best defenses in
the league, and to beat their ass by the way too.
I did pick and I did bet on the Colts
really just want to you've had you had a big week. Yeah,

(24:04):
oh obviously we'll get to college football.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
But I had a big week in college the Colts.
Literally the only thing that like the book closes on
when Anthony Richardson is out and Joe Fly who goes
in is the RPO. After that, it's like you can
literally sling it and Anthony Richardson like he's still got it,
like you said, a lot of ceiling high, like a
very high talented individual. And you see like these kind
of circus throws off his back foot early in the season,
but then you go watch the entire game and it's
like he's kind of missing it here, missing it there,

(24:28):
but you can see it in those couple of throws
and held go, holy shit, this guy could be a guy.
I think he could just set his feet, step into
his throat and have like accuracy on the regular place
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Speaker 6 (26:16):
Speaking of struggling, Michigan struggle a little bit against Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
We had we had a bad fourth quarter. We had
a bad fourth quarter. The boys were up twenty four
to three. Oh, I was, yeah, I was. We were
watching the game together. Yeah, we're up twenty four to three.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
They got an onside kick, very questionable off side penalty.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
A lot of different calls could have got in a
lot different ways that game. I'm very happy that the
Brown jug as it should be, stays in and arbor, Michigan.
Great ball game.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
Throw out the records, throw out the talent.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
We are the brown ball team to not throw the
ball in the entire country. Yeah. No, one runs it
better than us, consistently better than us. This Mullen's kid
might be a Heisman Trophy candidate, might be Heiden Trophy
behind Travis Hunter. Right now, I'm just saying it's a
good ball club up there in A two. We're doing
good things. And a couple of weeks ago, a lot

(27:07):
of boys back there and over to my right, we're
talking a little bit about Michigan, saying they're going to
struggle this Minnesota is gonna be a problem. They weren't
even a problem. It was nothing good, that was nothing
the entire time. Oh no, being ten and one going
into the game, very alive. Yeah, man, but the scoreboard

(27:28):
doesn't tell. And also they don't ask how, they ask
how many? Sure? Right for sure? Because we could literally
say the same thing about Georgia. Alabama. Gee, yes, except
what do you mean, dude, the frozen tundra. Those boys
are built different in Minnesota. Alabama was stomping that ass
against Georgia, and then all of a sudden they let

(27:48):
Georgia come back. Lord, Georgia takes the lead late in
the game. Seventeen year old kids said, let me go
and put the crimson tight on my back.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
That game was incredible. Ryan Williams could play in the
NFL right now. I'm seventeen years old. It's insane, dude.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
The kid, as a freshman in high school, qualified for
the six A Alabama state championship in the one hundred
meter and the two hundred meter. He is a specimen.
He is him.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
When he caught that one like back shoulder and stopped
on a dime, made two defensive backs like not linebackers,
not de lineman run into each other. Yeah, other athletes
stop and start and excel and go score like his
ability is incredible. And then that one over the middle,
that deep one over the middle that was bouncing and
to keep his coordination and catch the ball like Ryan

(28:33):
Williams is insane. And then his trolling job. Did you
see his troll with beating Georgie. He put a profile
picture of Michael Vick like holding the puppy. Like having
that type of pro troll mentality at the age of
seventeen is iconic. Like he's building something extremely special. All
my stock I am in on Ryan Williams.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, for him to catch that seventy five yard bomb
from Jalen Milroe, do a half spin freeze in the
air and you see him look back like where are
they at? Then spin back. He was literally defined gravity.
It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
And Jalen Milroe learn to throw. I mean he's like
out running sec defenses like to the sideline, walk in
the tightrope very quickly and just accelerating like he is
insane as well, and he can throw the ball very well. Yeah,
Alabama looks tough. Alabama looks tough. I was surprised to

(29:31):
see Georgia come back and get the lead back and
everything else because you guys started fast and looked like,
oh you had dude is like step on their throat.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
But that game was I mean, that was a classic. Yeah,
I think, I.

Speaker 9 (29:42):
Mean, obviously it doesn't matter how but you got the dub.
I think the one thing we learned was like you
just can never let off the gas, especially when you're
playing Georgia.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, like or Minnesota one hundred percent.

Speaker 9 (29:54):
Like Minnesota or Georgia, same difference, but there was I've
obviously watched it two three times since then, but there's
a couple of drives where you're like, you know, you
can't be greedy, but you're like, man, if we could
have just scored on this one, like you could have
put them away not knowing what's coming, but insane atmosphere
like it just you know, I love seeing coach get

(30:15):
fired up on a p I call and like you know,
the team just rallies around him. But yeah, I mean,
you couldn't ask for a better first quarter.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Who's the quarterback for Georgia was his name, Carson Beck?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Carson Beck. He had a couple of miscues too, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
Because they were they were coming back, like that game
was all yeah, sure.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
Once they started taking their shots, it was like all right, fuck, yeah,
let's just yeah, of course, he's.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Like I almost I almost cashed out on my five
leg parlay because that game was so close. I had
like two fifty on this five leg parlay. It was
Nebraska to win, Michigan to win, Alabama to win, Kansas
State to win, and Notre Dame to win.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
So Alabama was the last game.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, and I put two fifty on it to win,
like sixteen to fifty, and the cash out was flirting
around one thousand dollars, one thousand and forty dollars, and
I was flirting with it because I didn't know how
that game was gonna go.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
But all the boys are like, no, you have to
run a couple of guys. That's not true. A couple
of guys.

Speaker 6 (31:14):
Couple guys.

Speaker 9 (31:15):
Yeah, but it was like you should have won more
than what you won.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Right, Well, when Georgia scored late, scored late on like
really quick, willly fast. I looked at Will was like,
that's perfect for your parlay. That's exactly. Yeah, that was
the closest margin of ver though.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
I think the it was almost like a pick him
where Bamar was favored by two or something like that,
Like Michigan had a bigger one, Nebraska had a bigger
spread to cover. But I and I just I just
chose money lines, like I didn't pick them covering right
because you guys didn't cover.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
No, we didn't. We were covering until the end. Yeah,
Georgia of the North, Georgia of the North Minnesota. That's great.
That's a good call.

Speaker 7 (31:52):
Ge.

Speaker 8 (31:53):
You all haven't seen it the uh that final Ryan
Williams play. Did you all see the Japanese comings?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
No?

Speaker 8 (32:01):
On that it's crazy. Play makes a play, It makes
a play that much better.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
They just losing their minds.

Speaker 8 (32:07):
Oh, losing their minds. What they say, like, well, can
we play the audio? We can't play. We could maybe
put it in posts play clip now, but it makes
it that much better.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
They went crazy.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
Hey, big bounce back, Big bounce back, win from Nebraska
handle business Purdue. It was closer for a second. Pridue
is up on It's like three to oh. I think,
what was zero zero going in a half? Seven seven punts,
three missfield goals. I mean, guys, we've had some special
teams woes in the in recent years, Like I mean,

(32:46):
if we, if we, I'm just saying I never want
to go after a college kids for missing field goals.
But that is something you just you know, we gotta
get We have to get corrected because he obviously lost
us the game by now making that game winning field
goal against Illinois. Then you go in you still got
the yips carrying over into Purdue, and you missed the
two field goals in the first half. Like Brett Mahart

(33:08):
just got hired there as like the consultant to coach kickers, Brett.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
We need to have that ship right.

Speaker 6 (33:14):
But but nonetheless, big win. I think what twenty eight
to ten, massive fourth quarter for us. We finally woke
up Dan Raila's first game on the road. It was
Nebraska's first game of the year, first game on the
road this year.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
We got a big one.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
We got a big one with who I think we
got Rutgers this week, Rutgers in Indiana, both teams undefeated.
Indiana is nice, man, Big is becoming solid. Yeah, we
have a solid middle class in the Big Ten because
Rutgers undefeated, Indiana's undefeated. Indiana does look really good. What's

(33:50):
the line right now for Rutgers Nebraska? Yeah, I'm not
sure USC knuck one out. Wisconsin was in their ass, bro,
but then they just came alive and second half.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah yeah, I mean Wisconsin really had them on the
ropes and they could not put it together. It would
have been great to see like USC just go completely
defeated an all pay ten players. Right, Hey, welcome to
big boy Paul right, welcome, But fickle man, he hasn't
really putting it together in Wisconsin at all. I know
he needs to get that going. We had some stuff

(34:22):
going on with the Wi FI. Man, it is tough
out here, hey, JP.

Speaker 6 (34:26):
South Carolina is looking a lot better the way Kentucky's
been playing upset over Old miss which nobody's saw coming.

Speaker 10 (34:33):
People are refusing to give us our credit for that
win too, which is wild, like and nobody is talking
about it was It's always a fluke, like, Oh dang,
how did South Carolina beat him that bad?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Maybe we've beat him that bad because.

Speaker 10 (34:47):
We're really good.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
Maybe you guys actually have a squad, might have actually,
lu So, I would have preferred to play Ole Miss
if Ole Miss was undefeated, because I always love handed
teams their first loss.

Speaker 10 (34:59):
Sorry in advanced Garrett in Obama. Yeah, but we'll go
ahead and bury Oh missus playoff chances. Yeah, Beemer, tell
the team bring the shovels because it's over and we
would be spreading dirt on the rebels.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
But yeah, dude, just poetically murdering a team right now.

Speaker 10 (35:19):
It's it's looking nice if we got our quarterback and
running back back and we get a dub over Oh Miss.
I do love the time of year. We're playing Alabama
because they have Tennessee right after us, and we are
definitely a team that they could probably overlook.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Right So I like.

Speaker 10 (35:36):
Where we're at right now.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
You're in a good spot.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Gotta beat Ole Miss.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Jack. You gotta be feeling good with Tennessee. Man, they're
in the top five now, yeah, yeah, number four right now.

Speaker 11 (35:45):
It's just nice to have a stress free weekend. We
had the bye week and the Titans obviously played yesterday
Monday night. But to not have a Saturday and Sunday
just stressfest. It's it's beautiful. It's like you remember what
the weekends are like. We've only been in this for
a month five weeks now, so but it's nice. We
got some rest going into Arkansas. Playing in Arkansas, I

(36:06):
feel like they always kind of play pretty tough nose ball.
So every game moving forward, you know, you just got
a oh and oh so. But I was happy to
see Bama win for the reason because October nineteen, third
Saturday in October, when Tennessee and Alabama play, Texas and
Georgia also play.

Speaker 6 (36:24):
So the fact that Georgia.

Speaker 11 (36:25):
Is now one loss team you want, you want to
be in that primetime slot, especially for US. Yeah, we
want to have the biggest possible energy going into that game.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
But JP saying it might not even be the case
because the game Cocks might be slide one in on Alabama.

Speaker 11 (36:41):
Who knows, who knows? I mean, Texas too kind of looked.
They didn't look bad by any means. The final score
doesn't I feel like reflect the game they had against Michigan.
But Mississippi State is undeniably bad, and I was kind
of shocked that Texas had them what was like fourteen
to seven and the going yeah, six, seven and a half,

(37:02):
and obviously they turn on the Jets. But uh, I'd
love to see a Texas loss too before we go
in the next few weeks. Well, yeah, it's nice to
have a little bit of confidence. But the Titans on
Monday Night, historically we are awesome against the Dolphins on
Monday Night were three and one. So this would be

(37:22):
the most hilarious and classic Titans event to go when
we've had some embarrassing losses in the last few weeks
and then go in and take care of business. But
I don't know it'll happen.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
It's so weird, huh. I just feel it was the
yips a little bit.

Speaker 11 (37:37):
He does have the yips right now, and especially now
our only primetime game of the year, when like he's
under a microscope, which I almost feel for the kid,
because any small mistake he's gonna make is going to
be just blown out of proportion, whether it's just fight
or not. But if he makes one just dumb play,
he's a meme again, and it's.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Just a snowball effect.

Speaker 11 (37:58):
So we need one clean game from him where he
just plays well, stays in the pocket. Hopefully the old
line can protect him enough. And on the on the
grand stage, hopefully kid a fucking win.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah. I talk about guys that are taking shots left
and right, and PF is getting destroyed on Twitter right now,
and I just know how that boy feels. Nicholas petite
foreir the right tackle for the Titans. It's listen, brother,
you see this clip. I've been there. Just keep fighting
through their friends, just keep treasure through the mud. It'll
get better, I promise. That is the worst feeling in

(38:31):
the world to have everybody against you. You're gonna be
a right though. A couple of things do we talked
about last week's podcast, like Nicholas needs to just clean
up a couple of things. From a technique standpoint, it's
the easiest thing to do and keep the confidence, which
is the most difficult thing to do.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
I actually have a bone to pick with you. Jack
going into it says, we've obviously been talking Tennessee and
college football because you look at k State taking care
of business after old boy put the burrito in his ass,
and then you got Florida State. He hasn't he hasn't
eaten his shit yet and they're still an oh, but
I'll do that after I read this DraftKings ad. Because,
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Speaker 2 (40:07):
And the Titans need a win tonight, dude, they need
a win otherwise. Joe Flack on the Colts, c J
Stroud the Texans?

Speaker 6 (40:17):
And then La Jack, have you done anything to make
amends with that Titans loss last week? And here's the
only reason I ask. Here's the only reason I asked.
I know, but here's the only reason I ask. The
Florida State. You know that curse of the kid not
eating the poop?

Speaker 2 (40:33):
There?

Speaker 6 (40:34):
They still suck and hauls.

Speaker 11 (40:36):
Fall for me at this point, the Titans lose, so
I have I have other things that.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
And who's a team with the burrito in their ass?

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Just your I don't know. I forget who it was?
Boston College?

Speaker 2 (40:49):
No, not Joe. What's up?

Speaker 1 (40:52):
How are we doing?

Speaker 6 (40:52):
Brol We got you saw you got your spot.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Who's who's the burrito? Cur Ta?

Speaker 6 (41:08):
Kansas State? Hey Jack, Kansas State? The burrito curse happened
where he said he'd shove a burrito up his ass.
If they lost last week, he shoves a burrito up
his ass. They end up beating the hell out of
Oklahoma State.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
So that's the only reason.

Speaker 6 (41:19):
I asked if you've made amends, because it seems like
this curse stuff is real.

Speaker 11 (41:23):
So do you want me to kill myself to amend
this curse?

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Said?

Speaker 11 (41:29):
You do that, but the Titans as much as the
next guy.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Let's give you some context.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
I got I got it, you got it. You want
me to murder him?

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yeah, Unfortunately has to be self inflicted for Jack to.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
Jack said, if Malik Willis and the Green Bay Packers,
Malik Willis used to play here. He said, if Malik
Willis and the Packers beat the Titans, he will kill himself. Really,
the Packers won, So not that we don't want Jack
to actually love himself.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, nobody's saying that, but we are saying you said it.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
But of your word. There are curses out there.

Speaker 6 (42:02):
Florida State they lost their very first game and somebody
on the internet said that they would eat some dog
ship if they lost. He never ate the dog shit.
They're still winless. Kansas State they lost a couple of
weeks ago, and the curse out there was I will
shove a burrito in my ass if we lose. They lost,
he shoves the burrito in his ass. They beat the
ship out of Oklahoma State this week. So I'm trying

(42:24):
to ask Jack if he's doing anything to break this
curse because of the Titans losing. I do feel like
all eyes will be on Jack to help.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
The curse being broken.

Speaker 11 (42:32):
With me being publicly hating Will Levis again, look.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
At this, that's a guy a burrito in a person's ass.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
That's a perfect way for all the people listening on
the show. Joan, what do you think that is a
full double meat?

Speaker 1 (42:51):
That burrito was actually pretty insane. That didn't shake out, just.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Tightly wound, tightly wound burrito.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
You want perfect for him to come in on some
prank stuff like that, of course, I mean this is
the guy who's an icon.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Well, I want to be clear, I've never seen the
real never once.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
Let me be clear.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, man, thanks for happy, This is awesome.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Glad have you so you're in town your tour right now?

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Yeah? I was in Chattanooga last night.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (43:17):
How was that so fun?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, really good? I got my let's get into a
tour just kicked off. So that's on touring with the
brand new Hour. It's it's been fun man.

Speaker 6 (43:25):
This one's dropping tomorrow. So what spots are you going to?

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Here?

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Nowhere? Here, I'll be back through. But ok yeah I
have I'm I'm in different you know, it's a country
wide thing, so I'm going everywhere.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Where you go.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Next, next is uh, let's see what's next? Next is oh,
actually next weekend is Memphis. I'm in Memphis, and then
I'm in Saint Louis, Lawrenceburg and one more show and
I forget where. But it's Joe Gatto official dot COM's
got all the places.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
Joe gattoo Official.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Not Joe Gatto dot Com. I don't know that guy.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Okay, I get after him.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
He's ibably showing Burrito's places they shouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, it sounds you have a great team around you
to be like, I really don't know where I'm going.
There just taking me to go. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Have you noticed it's been doing doing what you do now?
In practical jokers? What has been the hardest transition for
you in.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
This being by yourself? For sure?

Speaker 7 (44:16):
Right?

Speaker 2 (44:16):
You know?

Speaker 1 (44:16):
With your you're with your friends all the time, and
that was the hardest part. So I started stand up
three years ago with my first tour, and that was
the biggest thing. I've been performing live my whole life.
But just to be on stage by yourself and be
responsible for the full sixty minutes, that's like, you know,
that's a big change.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (44:32):
Yeah. I have a squad with like production and everything else,
to where you kind of know what's coming to you.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
In a microphone. It's pretty interesting. But the cool thing
is that you're like able to when it sucks, it's
your fault, but when it's great, it's your fault too.
Like you don't have to share any exaccolade. So you
come off stage sometimes like, wow, that was a really
great show. So yeah, that that part of it was
really fun.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Has comedy always been something you've been interested in?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
It was always a side gig, It was always a
side hustle for a long time. Me and the guy started,
you know, you know, decades ago at this point. But
I I always just did it for love of just
making people laugh. And and then I got the opportunity
to quit my day job and I took the leap,
and I'm glad it. I'm glad it panned out.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Well. Was the day job?

Speaker 1 (45:11):
I was selling high end baby gear and baby furniture
for a company called Giggle. That's right. Yeah, I was
a salesman the rich moms selling all yeah, all the
baby bjorns, those baby carriers and all that stuff. You know,
the bugaboo chill and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
So I did.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
I did that and during a two week I took
my vacation to film the pilot. My two week vacation. Yeah,
and then when we got the series, I was I
went for a six I said to the CEO, I'm like, yeah,
I got to take a six month hiatus. And she's like,
so you're quitting. I was like, no, hiatus.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I need the option to come back if I need.

Speaker 7 (45:44):
I know.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
She's like, well, no, I can't leave your job empty
for six months. Good luck to you. It panned out,
so I'm not back to selling baby stuff yet.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Yeah, no, doubts still working out. So you feel you
go take a two week vacation, you film this pilot.
How long do you have to wait for this pilot
to come out when you're still just selling baby stuff? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (46:00):
It was pretty quick. Actually, they made the decision real quick.
It was only I think about a month and a
half maybe two months. The pilot wasn't super hard to edit.
It kind of made itself like we knew the structure
of it. You know, we didn't get we didn't have
a lot of money, so we didn't film that much. Yeah,
just filmed enough to make the pilot and it was
pretty quick. And then the offer came real quick, and
it was like, okay, what are gonna do. You're gonna

(46:20):
quit your job. And I was the only one that
had to quit because Saloed owned a bar and you know,
a comedy venue at that point, and he was bartending
and doing that so he could do overnight. Q was
a fireman. He would do his twenty fours and come
and film. And Murr worked for the production company that
ended up producing the show.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
So it was just like so I.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Was the first one I had to like. I was
like all in. I was like all right, I'm I
was like, guys, this has to work.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
On the boys, right.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
But it was good because I always had an affinity
for production directing, so I was able to jump in
in a different capacity and learn all that and do that,
which was I liked arguably as much. Yeah, being in
front of the camera.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
So did Mr approach the production company with the idea
or how did the idea?

Speaker 1 (47:00):
MURR was in like development stuff and he was realizing
that they were there was an itch for like a
new type of prank show, and we didn't want to
do a prank show. We make people feel bad, and
we're like, you know what, why don't we just do
embarrassment comedies always? Allright? I made these guys laugh anyway,
like sal and you know que and all. They would
hate to be an elevator with me or like the
subway because I knew we're in a closed space. I
was just gonna act the full and you're gonna have fun.
So the doors would shut. They would just turn beat

(47:22):
red and starts sweating immediately because they knew I was
gonna start doing something. So we just like, let's just
do what we do and we filmed this is a
real with our iPhones. Times Square just went through and
that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
That's awesome. And you do notice my wife and I
went through a phase of just watching that show endlessly
at night, literally laughing like out loud to each other.
And you noticed that you personally like, and this is
a math, compliments are the most shameless of the flame
you were you were willing to really go above and beyond.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yeah, I just didn't. I always did that like anyway.
So it really wasn't the good thing about the show
for me. And I'm not an actor. I wouldn't act.
I never had. I never wanted to be in front
of the camera. I was able just to make my
friends laugh, be me. I had fun with it, and
then we were able to build all these weird characters
and do all this fun stuff. So it just became
like a playground, you know. So it's funny because people like, oh,
it's like just hidden cameras and no, there's so much writing, producing,

(48:10):
production that went into it, developing of all these characters' ideas, writing,
But we wanted to keep it looking like you just
went up there and.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Yeah you did stuff.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
But then stuff happens. We're like, you have all this
thing planned out. This woman walks in with a huge
hat and you're like, okay, well I'm gonna have to
get that hat on me. You know, it always out
of the window. It just happens. That was the fun
part of it too, was there.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Ever, what was like the couple of Top three moments
where you're like, I really do not want to do this,
but I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Early on, I remembered like, you'll find your role, right,
and I all knew when they were getting to punishment,
it was always more fun to make them laugh and
own it, and I would always be able to get
through it being able to be like, oh, this would
be better if I just go buck wild. So once
I figured that out, I was like, Okay, this is insanity.
I remember one of the first punishments we did ever.
It was we were doing strip high five in Union Square.

(48:58):
So me and Marty is just stupid thing. We both lost,
and we had to get high five from people as
they walked in, and if they didn't high five you, you
had to take something off. The first guy was naked loses, right,
So it's me and Marie and we're just sitting there
and you had to pick your people. And I was
just like Martin was like, high five, you know whatever,
and I was just I just came out with like
a different enerines like here it is up top, let's
do it like if you were in my right. But
then eventually it started like a crowd formed and we

(49:20):
started going and we were down to like underwear to underwear,
and I said to the show and I was like,
what I said? Oh, I said, I said, we can't
get naked here. He goes, yeah, he does. Don't worry.
I said, we have a permanity. He goes, no, don't don'try.
So they had like a car running on the side.
I was like, Oh, this is really fun that we're
gonna do it this way. So we did it. MR
ends up losing whatever, you know. So I run over
and I just like, pants on whatever. He grabs his

(49:41):
junk and he jumps in the car and leaves and
they're gone, you know. So it was just such a
weird thing. I was like, okay, so I like that.
I like being owning it and doing it, but there's
just sometimes you don't want to do it. We're in
a Mets game and they were just they had no
cind of guard. They had me call them Jeter. I
kept calling them Jeter, and he was throwing the balls
into the crowd to the kids signed yeah, and I
they made me he was in on it, and so

(50:01):
he kept throwing it into me and I had a
fanny pack, and I kept stuffing them in and they're like,
you can buy money Bay, you can buy money Bay,
and dude, everybody the parents are going nuts and it's
one woman. For some reason. I talked to her and
to give me your kid. She was had this two
year old toddler. She was always I want one for
my son so you could grow up. Message. I said, oh,
give we go get a feel. She gives me her
son and I'm holding this guy. Guy was like for
the kid, for the kid, throw me. I give it

(50:22):
back and I put the fanny pack and the ball.
My fanny pack is like you can buy it on eBay.
She lost her ship. She melted down screaming at me
like I was like, yeah, crazy, she lost it. It
was crazy. Yeah. She's like we had a blur and
her kid, but like the whole place stopped, like you
heard her throughout the place and in my ear like

(50:45):
you have the ear piece and you know that right there,
that moment you normally, I say, what are we gonna
do here, fellas? And it's dead quiet. Nobody knows what
to do. So I'm like buy myself. And I'm like, uh, okay,
you can buy it. On eBay. So, yeah, it's crazy.
You see how on Sweat it was a rough one.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah? Is there sit in the Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:04):
I had just sit in the moment.

Speaker 6 (51:05):
Is there a prank that you guys had that never
got aired?

Speaker 2 (51:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (51:09):
I mean for the most part we would know what
would work or whatnot. There was a couple that we
wanted to do that sometimes the network just didn't get.
It became this thing of lore. It was called Bust
to Tampa where we would change a handcuff a guy
at the Grand Central station you know in in uh
the Port Authority in New York to a bus that
was going to Tampa and he had to go to Tampa.

Speaker 7 (51:27):
And it was it.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Like and the network was like, okay, what's the punch?
Was like, You're on a bus to Tampa, Tampa, and
like we don't get them, like it's great, Like you
end up the dam Like what happened? You're like, you
can't leave the bus And it just didn't get it.
And it was like it became the thing that every season,
the first punishment in every packet to our executive was
bust to Tampa. You get the guy on the bus
that and then in the pilot packet, like we had

(51:52):
to submit like ideas, and we never pulled it off
because we thought it'd be too mean. We want to
interrupt the wedding and just like realize you were at
the wrong wedding, Apollo, and leave. So the moment you
get ahead, I'm sorry you're not Marie, and then go.
But we didn't want to ruin somebody's day. That's like
such a big moment. It never It felt good on paper,
but it felt wrong. And that turned into Sal becoming
the best man at one and we wrote upon We

(52:13):
wrote him interrupting the speech for the best man speech,
and we wrote the speech for him and he had
no idea what it was and he just thought it,
oh and it was this big Italian running in Jersey.
He got totally like that was rough.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
So as you guys are like transitioning into like a pilot.
No one knows who you guys are. You guys are working,
you're selling baby stuff. You had a fireman like everyone's
kind of doing their own thing. How hard did it get?
Once the show really got traction to not be seen
and people be like, aren't you the guy?

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Yeah, Well we got lucky because they bought a lot
of episodes before we even aired. Oh yeah, so we did,
like I think we did like sixteen episodes or something
like that before we even hit air. Like they saw
they saw the pilot and then they ordered the first episode.
They ordered that what it was six maybe or something,
and they saw the first episode we submitted and they
said we want more, and they bought it, like the
full season's which was without it airing. Saw that it

(53:00):
was like light in a bottle and really fun. So
we're like, okay, great, so here we go. And then
it was on True TV, you know, which nobody knew. Yeah,
Channel one million, Basic cable. Nobody's singing it, you know.
So we were just like in New York City too,
which was an ally because there's so many people. You know,
if half the city knows you, four million people don't,
just like for somebody doesn't. And then we kind of
are like forgettable looking. We're kind of like normal looking,

(53:21):
kind of ash guys blend, and you were able to
see if somebody knows you were not you know, we
talked to people for ten fifteen minutes before we even started,
just to see if they were the right kind of person.
You get one shot at it. You want to make
sure it's going to be a good person. So we
just sit on a park bench and start bullshitting. See
if they're how interactive they are, See if their eyebrows raise.

Speaker 6 (53:39):
You know, were there any moments like as the show's
like growing and taking off, like obviously the four of
you go in on this production element, were there ever
growing pains between you four?

Speaker 2 (53:49):
For sure?

Speaker 6 (53:50):
Like business wise, is it all starts to creep in.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
It takes off like that? Right? We had been working
together for years together, so we had kind of had
a one voice when it came to comedy for the
most part, have outliars and different things. It's you know,
some people are a little bit darker, you know, but
all kind of aline aligned into our brand r you know,
so that wasn't hard. But then when you have the
like specific ones. I remember where we just came up

(54:12):
with this line. We're like, trust me, I'm gonna I
want to do it because it's everybody's show. So like
we would talk everything out, we'd all try to get
it to the right place. But I remember there was
this one punishment where sal has a mind that self
implodes like he's got super Alata nerat neurosis. I was like,
it'd be kind of fun to mess with Sal so
much that he thinks he's getting punished but he's not.
But he is, but he's not, but he is. And
I said, and he will have a mental breakdown on camera,

(54:33):
will be so fun to watch. And I pitched it
and everybody's like, no, I don't know if it's gonna
work whatever, blah blah blah. We got to the network,
I don't know. And then I was talking with Q
and we're going back and forth, and I just said
to my said Q, I'm gonna do it. It's gonna work,
trust me. He goes fine, and that was it, and
that became the line like I'm gonna do it. It's
gonna work, trust me. Like that was it because he's
the three other funniest guys, you know, like, of course
we're gonna give it a shot. And it's also everybody's show,

(54:54):
so who are you to say no?

Speaker 2 (54:55):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
So then we just started doing that, and then I
remember the moment of that punishment in where Sal's mind
started going crazy and you saw it, and Q stopped
and he just turned to me and gave me a
hug and said, you're a genius this day.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
That's gonna be the best thing.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
That was one of my favorite punishments ever because it's
so personal too, like that's the one like that one
who worked with any other friend, Like you do things
just for Q that you know are gonna be Q
was gonna crush. Yeah, And when you're in it too,
you're like, oh man, this is so bad, but I'm
so proud of them.

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Speaker 6 (55:45):
I felt amazing because I remember pulling Taylor to the
side like, Hey, I'm gonna tell you a really big secret.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
No I didn't. You didn't say it like that. I
think I thought, no, no, no, I've never I've never tried
Baha blasts before.

Speaker 6 (55:55):
But the way I was going into it, I was like, man,
I'm really gonna sound stupid knowing I've never tried Baja
blast because how everybody talks about it.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
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it absolutely. Let's see a mountain where the weather is
always perfect and your friends are ready to hang a
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your things you have to do for Spooktober. How do
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(56:23):
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Caffeine free mountain dew. The mountain is calling. You should answer,
Grab your friends, grab an ice cold mountain dew wherever
refreshing beverages are sold, and say it together. Boys do
the de nice was so like obviously you watch things

(56:45):
like Jackass and like bamb mar Jay are growing up
and you can kind of realize, Okay, Steve bo is
always gonna be the guy that pukes. BAM's afraid of snakes.
Like you kind of figure out everybody's like quirks and personalities. Yeah,
what can you give me the three other guys? Like, oh,
I can get them with this, this and this, like
these are the things.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
All all evolved because the more you do with the
thicker skin, you get right with anything, you know. But
in the beginning, it was very like, you know, Murder
was like a little bit of a schemer. He always
try to find work at angle and it normally failed,
which was fun to watch. Q was just very guy,
a guy's guy, you know, So he would get away
with a lot of like just being like very like

(57:19):
came across very blue collari Oh, like he came across
like very friendly as a friend, like quickly easily. Like
it's like, oh I get this kind of guy. You know.
You kind of remind you like of a neighbor, you know.
So we would go into that. Sally just had so
many things wrong with him, like he was afraid of
stuff and like he's afraid of cats. So we just
used that so much and but like he was trauma thing. Yeah,

(57:42):
and it was just so stupid. The ideas we came
up with that was so easy and dumb. Like we
had this big we rented this thing Benjamin Cat, and
we rented a we rented a cat suit and we
would make it pop up and chase him and he
knew it was a person, but he would be like
he play it up, like we get away from it,
and it would just be fun to annoy him, you know,
stuff like that. And then for me, it was more
just like they just wanted to see me just cause

(58:05):
a havoc. Like it was just like put him in
a place where he's gonna just make it awkward for
everybody and just come out clean. Like so the bigger
the scene that was always like my kind of thing.
It was like, if we got to make a scene,
it's gatto, you know.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
You know, So have you always been a guy that's
like completely comfortable with being in the uncomfortable?

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Always?

Speaker 1 (58:22):
No, No, Well it happened. I remember a moment like
I was I have an older sister. I have two
older sisters, but I had one I didn't get along with.
And it was we were at Bella Vita, which is
this big Italian restaurant in Staten Island for Easter Sunday,
packed with all these Italians. My parents were smokers at
the time, and this is when you could smoke in restaurants,
but they had the room that you had to go
in by itself with the door shut. I have to
go to the bathroom. Me and my sister go through
this pack place. I don't see the step and I

(58:43):
fall hit hard. One of those at the place goes ooh,
and my sister's like laughing, going ah, and the whole place.
And then I popped up and went ta da and
everybody started laughing and clapping, and I was like flipped
off my sister and I was like, all right, this
is cool. I had to be embarrassed, and that was
like definitely a defining thing at like eleven twelve years older,
I was like, Okay, maybe I'm overthinking this thing. And
then I just started being more comfortable with not being

(59:05):
caring what people think. Not in a way where like
I don't care what you think, but more like people
are gonna think what they think, right, it doesn't matter,
you know, not the defensive type. Some people have a
defensive side of that. I don't care what you think.
It could be interesting.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
People just want to be cool.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Yeah, I feel like I don't care what people think,
you know. Yeah, it's it's it's not necessarily the right
way to live, you know, but if you are comfortable
and be like this is me and I just did it,
Like I was always comfortable with my weird body, Like
I've always very, very comfortable on the dance floor when
I shouldn't be. I didn't mind being a spectacle. I
was an icebreaker all the time when I was out
with my boys, Like there's a you know, a group
of girls, you know, just send me in. It didn't matter.

(59:39):
All my friends were really good looking too, so it
was really funny. Was always like the funny, okay looking guy,
like like, oh look at this guy. I got supermodel
friends over the like it was so fun. So I
was just that kind of person and then it just
became my personality.

Speaker 6 (59:50):
Yeah, what do you miss most about the impractical Jokers?
Isn't well, because you guys are all still good friends.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Yeah, working with friends, I was just with cute And
in Vegas we had to we went to the Imagine
Dragon's Gala and we were We actually ended up ended
up having to host it because one of the hosts
plane couldn't get out of La So ten minutes for
it starts, they're like, hey, could you guys host? This
was like a two thousand person Gala at the Wind, Like,
could you guys host this with Joel mchaleba Like yeah, sure,

(01:00:16):
So me and Q got up there and messed around.
It was really fun. But those kind of things are
great when you're boys with you. Like, I wasn't scared
of that at all. We have Q, you know, just
get it up there and do it. But the script
was already written for her, so we were like trying
to like make a bit out of it. It was
really interesting. But yeah, I just you know, we're we're
still best friends. We were friends before it friends after
we're just not friends from work anymore. That's the biggest
thing you mess working with you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
Yeah, how hard was that approaching that conversation to like, hey,
this could be the end or the breakup or yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
I mean in the final chapter, it's what you imagine.
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Yeah, it's hard.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
It's hard, but it was open arms kind of thing.
You know. We're all boys, so it's like this is
this is what it is for each other. So yeah,
we'll get we'll get through it and you know, continue
to support each other. You know, they have when we
do when they do their shows. I go out when
I have my show sometimes they come out, you know,
when they have their solo shows. I go to sal show,
I go to merg show, pop on stage, say hi,
we're in the same town. You know. The hardest part

(01:01:08):
is like appointment friendship now right, like I never had
to experience that. You saw your friend. We see each
other forever every day. So now it's like we gotta
try to make time to see each other, go to
each other in go to dinner like that, especially when kids. Yes,
I got my two kids, which is a big part
of it, you know, and now that takes a major
focus of my life. That's part of the reason, you know.
So it's like I got this family dynamic I'm dealing with.

(01:01:30):
So do you have a You got two girls, a
boy and a girl. Girl and girl perfect year old girl.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Perfect.

Speaker 6 (01:01:36):
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some girl, dad merch.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Oh oh nice, that's sick. I love that. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
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Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
That's awesome. This is your merch.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
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Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
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Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Girls, you're just dad. Yeah, I'm just okay. We girls.
I have a I have one girl, another girl on
the way. Oh, so you gotta give the us appoint
don't know how to have a had We had Randall
Cobbin here he's like to the left, to the right
in the middle ribs, and I'm thinking to myself, I
don't think I have that kind of talent, Like you're
talking about six different pumps. I don't have that in me.

(01:02:12):
It's tough, though, man. Yeah, it's I want a boy
so bad. Yeah, I want one so bad, but I
don't think I'm ever gonna get it.

Speaker 6 (01:02:19):
Yeah, I have girls going for a third and risking
that it's a girl, and then you're just surrounded by
four women.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
I was that my uh my, I have two older
sisters and they didn't find out really yeah, and then
my he didn't know till the doctor was his his.
They became friends. He delivered all the children. They were
you know, it's statnayn growing up everyone knew each other.
So he, uh he helped me. The story goes, he
held me to the back and you know, my dad
was standing by my mom's head and he just went, ah,

(01:02:48):
there they are the family jewels.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
And he turned me around like I'm sure he lost
his mind. He was so fun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
He snuck into their delivery room in scrubs because they
were like it was a situation where they didn't want
anybody in there. And he was like, oh, it's my wife,
and they're like, oh, you know, well, don't worry. You
could and he just put scrubs on and he came
in and my mom was like, is this a doctor,
goes sh it's me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
It's me. Did you get your your humor from your father?

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
And I'm the perfect mix of all them. My dad
was an assassin. He would say something just loud enough
that you could hear it, and when everybody was when
you were laughing, and everybody's like, what are you laughing at,
He's like, I don't know, Like he was like one
of those guys. Yeah, my favorite sorry about my dad
doing that. He was in it was in Atlantic City
back in the day, and he's with these two gangster
types playing craps and he's on one side of the
table and there's this woman on the other side and
she's rolling and the two gangs of guys are smoking

(01:03:35):
cigars and she's having a good roll and the guy's like,
come on, come on, you broad, let's do it, you know,
come on you ugly, you know, and they're making like
fun or whatever, and she rolls whatever, and you know,
my father just stops and he says to them, he goes, guys,
could you stop talking about my wife like that? No shit?
And they mount jaws open and he hysterically, I'm just knna,
come on, lady, let's do it. And he just hung

(01:03:56):
out with these two half a gangsters all night because
he just made them, which is good. And my mother
was like the complete opposite center attention lit up the room,
which it came in, batshit crazy, and uh, that's me too.
So I'm the mix. I think of all the absolutely
five foot nothing spark of life she was. She was great, man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Yeah, that fires me up.

Speaker 7 (01:04:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
When you no, I was going to pivot to his YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
I Love how Last because I was about to pivot.
I was done with that ship. Yeah, checking the boxes,
Yeah right, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
I was going to pivot to his a new special
on YouTube, Messing with People People. Yeah, can you give
us some background on that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Yeah? So I, uh, when I started my tour, Joe
Gatto's Night of Comedy, you know, I did it for
two and a half years. You know how it is
when you work on something so hard you don't want
just to go away. So you know, I was like
proud of it, and I was like, I want to
put it out here for the people. So I filmeddn't
put it on YouTube, and uh we did what eight
hundred pound goerrella. Those guys are great and it was
fun because in that like I get to talk a
lot about me more so like fans. When you're on stage,

(01:04:57):
you get to share the spotlight, you talk about twenty
five minut it's just yours. But then it's just like
when you could really dive in about you, about everything
about Like I realized how messing with people is in
my core and I just tell I'm a storyteller. So
I just told all these stories and link them together.
And then how my kids now are? You know, I
realize that with my kids, I'm a role model, which
could be dangerous. I talk about my mom and stuff,

(01:05:19):
and you know, it's fun. It's just like it's a nice,
a nice way to weave together a little bit more
of me. And now my new tour is more of
like the personal side, Yeah, more personal of it. And
then let's get into a tour. I start like you
do a lot of reflection, right, so when I separated
from my wife. It was the first time I've lived alone.
I was an apartment by myself, forty seven years old,
first time ever living alone. I always live with roommates,
my parents, her or whatever, you know. And then you

(01:05:40):
like sit there and you're like, wow, you really start
like reflecting a lot, you know, Yeah, and you're just
sitting there and you're thinking about it. And I always
think about how do people become the people they are?
And the only journey you know is yourself, you know,
like you've been there for every minute of you Right,
So then I just started, like the new hour I'm doing,
let's get into it. I really break down how do
I how did I become this loud, boisterous, crazy dude
when I was When I was a kid, I was

(01:06:00):
such a geeky, nerdy, math loving, you know, making tests
for my father when it came home from work, kid,
you know. So it's really just a weird way to
get through it all. So that's what my New Hours about.
And it's a deeper dive and it's it's it's really
fun to reflect on that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
It all started with falling on a step at an
Italian man That story into the APT I really thought
it's gotta.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Be you know, Yeah, it's not. That's that's a part
of the shame gene stuff that goes, you know. But
I talk about, you know, being a geek. I was
like a real og back in the day, original geek.
I was like super nerd. I like loved fantasy stories.
I used to creative write. I watched the movie Willow.
I don't know if you guys know the movie Willow.
I saw the movie Willow back in the day. It
was like a Lord of the Rings light before they
had like special effects, like all puppets and stuff. Voukilmer

(01:06:43):
was in it, and it was like a thing that
just like sparked all this weird creativity in me, and
I started writing short stories reading them. I did magic.
It's like my parents and stuff. It was really weird.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
You still do a little bit of magic.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
I got good tricks. Yeah, I got a good card
trick that that's easy for everybody to learn.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
And we got to get a card trick. We gotta
get car I love.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Yeah, magic's fun.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
We had doctor O's on the bush really and it
was he's.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Not a doctor, he doesn't have yeah, yeah, doctor.

Speaker 12 (01:07:11):
And then and then.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
I thought he meant, oh, yeah, you put a doctor on.
I thought he got a pH d.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Yeah, yeah, we had to clear that up for no
problem I had.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Uh, I was I found myself at a dinner with
David Blaine.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
How was that dude?

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
A dude? It was so funny because there's also a
moment where we're all just chilling. It was at a
it was at somebody's house that we're all mutual friends with.
I had never met. David had his daughter with him,
and he just nonchalantly takes a deck of cards out
of his inside pocket, like you just we're all literally
just talking about something else, like we're doing like a
movie or so, and then he's like clinkling, and the
whole place just stops and he just starts going whatever.
And I had never met him, and I'm just sitting

(01:07:46):
across from him, and he starts talking. He's like, Okay,
could you sign this card? Whatever? And he and he
puts it in back in the deck and he starts
talking about it because you remember what the card was.
I was like, yeah, you know, he's seven of hearts.
He's like okay, and then he opens the deck. He's like, oh,
it's not here. He goes, where the where could it be?
I'm like, I don't know. He goes, I noticed you
have a nice watch, and I said, yeah, could you
turn your wrist over? And I turned it over and
it was folded inside the wrist of my watch.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Like how the fun does he do that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
He never touched me, never, never even looked at me.
I was across the table from I said, going, I said,
get out. I said get out, I get away from me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
And it was so crazy. He was so but it
was so funny because when he was talking regular and
you were talking out with him, like with him, he
was like he was like, it's like, hey man, so
good and he was like think of a number, Like
he just got in the zone. It was there was a.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Like in a kitchen.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
It was it was it was Harrison Ford Harrison. He
kicks him of his kitchen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Yeah, and he like cuts open in his range.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
That's like, how does that?

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
He's got to have people go and play somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
He was by himself, was him and his door, unless
he's got his daughter work in the angle almost like
in the you know, the in the markets, they had
like the monkey that steals.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
The dude, he's gotta be Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Specially he's a hell of a showman.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Man. It's incredible, and the hit that tone too. I'm
seriously like, hey guy, hey, good to meet you.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Taking out the Cards, which is the most.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Wild movie you could do at a party ever, unless
you're David Blaine.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
I know, was the mental Yeah, and then it just
invests it. If he missed it, it'd be like, dude,
we just had a nice meal.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
You save it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Everything up, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
He did something to us. It was doing birthdays and
different things throughout the calculators with a calculator, and then
we pulled out one hundred dollars bill.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
And it was a serial number.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Yeah. First he did cards and then he did the
serial number of that and it was like pull a
random dollar bill out. It was crazy, sane man, insane.

Speaker 6 (01:09:29):
Brought one of our guys from the other side over
and then guests basically said his his pin code for
his ATM card.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
Oh, now make some that's a nice side hustle.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
The magic thing is so funny. Yeah, this is him
just absolutely blowing our minds.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
You got to wear a suit when you do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
When you're business right, always.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
Got to always do that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Your big suit guy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
I throw on a suit every now and again. I
clean up nice.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Us, I worked at Nordstroms, so I was in the
men's retail, so I know I'm a little bit of
a fashionista. Thank you for asking. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
I just wanted to get to know you as much. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
That was the next bullet point. It was like, so
you got me to shoot that shoot is great? There
that's they had to actually put pants on me because
I I did the shoot without pants. Oh yea yeah, yeah,
because I was like, you know what, because we were
That was one of our first photo shoots ever, and
the guys were so nervous and we had never done
anything like this. It was a full thing, and we
walked down every I felt there was so nervous. I
just came out the dressing room without pants and they

(01:10:24):
were like and everybody started laving. We had a good time,
and then they were like, could you go, uh, could
you go put pants on? For one? I was like sure,
And that's the picture they used me with pants on.
But yeah, that's one of my favorite jackets. If you
scroll the left there that was at the movie premiere.
The golden jacket over there that I got on the
other ye see it right there, that gold jacket. That's fantastic.
Look at that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
That's got to be expensive.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Nor Strum, No, you know what I bought that Like
that was like a like a thrift store. I got
it like I'm a deep discount shopper. I love a
Nordstrom rack. I don't really hit the nord Strum. Yea,
I go to the rack. I love it a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Racks got the best, the best elections you can if
you can sift through the bullshit.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
You have to get through the bs. Yeah, sometimes it's
just not worth it. But when you find a diamond
in the rough, Oh that jacket, it doesn't fit me anymore.
I was at my fighting weight back then.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
It seems like you simmed up little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
I did a little bit. I'm a I teeter totter. Yeah,
I was my fattest. I was it I think twenty five.
And that was like season three when we just switched
the high definition cameras, and I was.

Speaker 6 (01:11:13):
Like, you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Switch it up, because if you see, it's the first
couple of seasons. We don't give a ship what we
look like we're wearing like what we rolled out of
bed in and then it's like, oh, this is where
people see us. Okay, we got to start doing something.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
I started doing a little bit because I heard when
we were getting ready for this episode the I.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
Am really chubby.

Speaker 7 (01:11:30):
See that?

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Look at that?

Speaker 7 (01:11:31):
What did you google?

Speaker 1 (01:11:31):
And bring up us side by side of him fat
Joe and.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Joe before and half.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Look at that face. I look like job of the hut.
I look like my neck is made a plate. That's
all I got all day, all night sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
That's all you can see. It's mesmerizing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
It takes you away, like tell everybody, I'm the hottest
from here.

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Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Back to the Fright. What was Yeah? Because I saw
I heard about you had a situation with Nira Circus.
We had like almost cardiac arrest.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Yeah did, Yeah, almost died on television. They had to
wheel me out at the end like weekends at burning
to say goabye, like I was underneath getting oxygen. So
Nitro Circus date we did. They wanted to do a
live thing at one hundredth episode. It's live TV. It's
a one hundredth episode. So we're gonna do this obstacle
course and make you guys do all these stupid stunts. Okay,
let's do it fun.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
We saw it. I'm so curious, like how you earn.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Don't know why we did. It's so off brand. It's
not our thing. We're not physical. I dressed up by
catin Captain Fat Belly. I was like, let's make it.
Let's make it a thing. So I go out and
the first time I go, they make it to uh.
We get to the bike course, the mini bike thing
like when they were training us, cub broke a rib,
like he got rolled over. Really yeah, they rolled a
thing rolled over on them.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Those guys are just psychos.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Yeah they're not. It's like it's so so weird. But
they got this partnership with them.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
So we do it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
We start and the thing, the mini bike doesn't start
and the clock's ticking. It's live TV and they're like, go,
go go, and I'm like it's on. So I try
to push. It's too heavy. I'm like f it, I'll
just run. So I run the mini bike course and
I'm in no sort of shape to run. It's like uphill,
this divots and then I just so I basically end
up running this whole course. And the last thing of it,
which is so fun, is we we had three doors

(01:13:47):
that you had to jump through with our faces on them.
Two of them are locked one is it right? So
I decided to run and jump. See they're behind us there,
and I would yell and jump and I would jump
and I would go hi oh and hit the doorn't
slide down. I did it on purpose, and I was like, oh,
that'd be funny. And I was like all right, and
I was like the second one, I was like all right,
and I'm like stumbling out the steps and I get
out of half a Highoh, I'm like heyo. I hit

(01:14:10):
the door and when I hit the floor, I like
kind of blacked out for a minute. And I was
like I either could get up and have a heart
attack on live television or I could just lay here.
So I just call time out and they go to commercial.
And when they try to get me to my feet,
I can't stand and I'm like, oh, it's like something
really wrong here. And I just was like heaving, like right,
So they pulled me in underneath the bleachers. They had
like a med station, and they pulled me in and

(01:14:32):
I go underneath and they hooked me up the oxygen
and they give me an ivy to fill me up
with some fluids. I'm like singing stars. They like give
the whole thing there, and now everybody else is going.
So everybody else is going. It's the end of the episode,
and the producers coming They're like, hey, could you you
gotta you know, come out, and everybody's got to see you. Okay,
and I'm like I'm not okay. So they like wheel
me out of the last shot. They like it's like
weekend at Birdies. I'm like, eh, like Joe's okay, I'm

(01:14:54):
like yeah, And then they put me in the ambulance
and I went to the hospital for check.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
It was so so bizarre.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
So ended up being like the medical reasoning.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
It was just like fat, yeahha should not be trying
to run a quarter mile at top speed and the
captain fat belly spandex.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
I'm sure it was. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Was going, but I was just not in you know,
any shape. It was actually you know, it was built
for like people who were in shape, but I had
a hard time because you're supposed to be on a bike.
I was supposed to run that much, I wrote ran
a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
So is it the last time you dealt with n circus?

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Ever?

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Yeah? Ever?

Speaker 6 (01:15:31):
Ever?

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
It was good though, because like we did it, and
as you get more into it, more established, it could
be like, no, that's not right. So the next time
it was time for like they wanted to do something else,
we were just like no, no, thank you, we do.
But there was also so much turnover at the network.
I think we had in my tenure. I think there
was five different presidents of the network, so everybody just
came in. It was just like, leave jokers alone. It's

(01:15:53):
doing its things. So it was kind of just like
a wild West situation, which was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
That's got to be a great feeling. How familiar are
you with Nitro, Circus and Travis great guys.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
We hung out for a weekend at their ranch to
train towards how to use all the stuff, which was fun. Uh,
super down to earth guys, really cool. I had a
great experience with them.

Speaker 7 (01:16:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Uh, they do what they do very well, and it
wasn't for us exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
One of the Taylor's icons. Yeah, I'm obsessed good on it.
But there was a if you can pull us up showman.
But there's like a an X ray of Travis Pashana's
entire body and it's like the most destroyed thing you've
ever seen in life. He said, like twenty seven surgeries,
multiple knee replacement. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
He was telling to some horror stories and stuff. But
I was like, and I asked him. I remember we
were talking. Q was obsessed with him. When Q got hurt,
like we ended up just hanging out and talking to him,
and he was like why did you do Uh? He's like,
why do you why do you do it? And he
just said it's because what I do. I was like,
that's such a badass answer. What I just used to?

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
So that white shoulder up there all the little.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
Way off, Yeah, hips don't lie look at that. It's crazy. Yeah,
could you Matt oh Man, he's gonna that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
You know what though, like did you imagine such a
dense and.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
And like this is the worst pain in the.

Speaker 6 (01:17:11):
Camp barstool shattered my toe on the first base bag
playing softball, playing and it was purple black like it was.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
In the NFL. And he got hurt playing softball and
it was brutal.

Speaker 7 (01:17:21):
I know, I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
I still finished though.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
There you go. Who's needs to those.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Probably Travis's is that Travis? He had he had one
man there was so they had like Nina Circus one, two,
and three that came out when I was in middle school,
and there's one of Travis hitting this step up which
is like you go off a ramp, but you land
higher then you you took off and he like just
endos his bike.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Which is the front wheel coming up and you just
familiar with.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Yeah, he just like like scorpions himself and I think
that's when he broke his steamer. It was like the
most insane and he just the guys just fucking doing
but the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Nerve to do that right, just they have like toddler,
you know that, like they don't know, zero.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Fear, just kind of lean over and I wonder if
I fell.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
I'm with my family where my daughter were in Turks
and Keicos on vacation and my daughter goes dad watches.
They had like a pool, like a little rock.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Pool was good.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
She climbed up on a rock and did her front
flip into the pool. I was like, oh my god,
I said to my I said, that's so cool. I
was like, you knew she knew idea that she goes
no and I was like, well, we're bad parents, and
she was like it's fun. I was like, all right,
do it again, just not doing flips off the rock
and I'm like, it's crazy, like no fear to do it.
It's so fun. I know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
I wish we all kind of had that still, because
being a kid and not being afraid of things is
the best.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
That's it. They made me break tables with my body,
which was a fun one. Whenever gets to use my
body as a comedic weapon. It was always fun. So
they did this one where I was the manager and
they planted ten breakaway tables in this restaurant and I
had to find them. So I had to just jump
on these tables and see they so.

Speaker 7 (01:18:47):
Some of you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
Just l entrees.

Speaker 7 (01:18:52):
So it was so weird.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
So the last one they put up, they put.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
Dropped.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
I dropped an elbow off.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
I mean, this is happening.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
And I was like, this is that's what and I yelled,
this is happening. I tapped my elbow and I came
off the top and they had missed. I overshot and
I missed the bag underneath. So they had like put
like a little bit of an airbag to soften the fall.
But I overshot it and I hit hard like that
one didn't break. So this guy's just trying to eat
his antipasta. It was really fun, man. Yeah, so that

(01:19:23):
we did stuff like that, but that was on brand
for us, you know, that was stuff. So we we
kind of we figured it out, which is cool.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Now, if you asked one of the other three guys
to do a print like that. Would they feel comfortable
doing that?

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Yeah? I think so, but they would know they would
say that's better for you. Like, you know, we we'd
be in the room everything, we would just start talking
like what what can you do? And if it made
us laugh and you can envision somebody doing it, you
know whose it was, you know. But half half the
time it was like, oh, it'd be funny if Gatto
was a genie. We just used them like a wrecking
ball and it was like, yeah, we just painted purple
and just bounce and it was just like it was
one of the funnies thing they ever did, you know,

(01:19:53):
But like there was. Some of them was so simple
and it took a little selling. But I remember vividly
we were just sitting there and we're talking about punishments
because you know, we write them up. You know you're
gonna get punshed across the board. You start thinking about
it and eventually when time comes, you probably forgot that
you were gonna do it. And we're just sitting there
and I go, what if I was a massage chair?
And we all just started laughing and they go, what
is it? I'm like, and I was like and then

(01:20:14):
and then he was like, yeah, like you're the chair.
I'm like, yeah, I'm the chair. People send it and
got a massage them and we hysterical laugh and then
we write it up and we sent them the network.
It says massage punishment. Joe's a massage chair, and the
network calls into like what is it? And it's like
Joe's massage chair and they stop laughing. They go, yeah,
but what is it? He goes, now that's it. They're laughing.
So they made the massage chair and I sat in
a massage chair and when people sat down, my arms

(01:20:37):
could come out of it and I would just start
massaging people and start making the massage chair noises. So
I'm just going, we're upping these people. It was so
stupid and so fun. But then to get me, they
flew in Byumba, the sumo wrestler at the end, and
he comes and he jumps on the chair on me,
and it was, oh my god, it was the worst,
but it was It was really fun. But you know
those are for me, or yeah, there's Biomba doing it.

(01:20:57):
He just came in and I was like, get off
of me, by and I started shaking him and he's wigland.
It's really fun.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
But you know, you know what, you know what you
could do well, you know when you're a comedian, because
it's a comedy show too, right, you want the right
guy doing the right thing, like you know what sal
Or right, So you try to put them in their
best life.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
So you guys would know what the punishments were before
you went through it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
Some of them for the most part, no, but some
of them, if we thought about them, we would just
like if we came up with them, be funny. We
wouldn't let them know when it was happening, gotch so
it'd be like, it's your punishment, but you don't know
what it is. You never knew what it was what
you were walking into, and then when it happened, it
was like here you go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
Because there's one going viral right now with faking his
death for sell punishment. Obviously he didn't know about that
one going on. Have you seen the clip?

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
Uh yeah, pull up, yeah, pull up, just let's falls
off the car falls off the car with the stuntman replacement,
and Sell looks like he's about to puke. Well yeah,
I mean he thinks his friend died.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
So I mean that one's not your cup of tea.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
Yeah, the fifth Yeah, I mean this is a little
mental trauma.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
For a guy like damn our boy really just yeah
yeah be gone.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh. You know that looks like me
at the Nutral Circus.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
Seems like the most squeamish of the group. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
No, I mean he puts it on too. You know,
he's pretty good, but he definitely has the most visceral reactions.
Like you see him reacting. You literally, it's one of
those guys you could see his skin and crawl.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
And one of my favors is like Q was definitely
afraid of spiders. So we were like, you know, we
have to put a tarantel on you, buddy, and he's like, no,
you can't, you can't. And then eventually he was like
eventually he was like, you know, he's like all right,
maybe all right, maybe, but he's like, but he's got
I got to be able to pull it. If I can't.
I was like fine, So we forget about it for
a season and then we do this trantal punishment where
we bring him in and we put a transfer on him.
So he gets through it. He was super It was

(01:22:38):
like it felt bad in the moment, but he was
getting through it. And we gave him like a safety
word if he said pumper nickel will be safety word,
and we pull it. So he says pumpernicle, like we're
just kidding, there's no word, but we could tell we
got then off camera we would like all right, off camera,
like you're good, you good, you got He's like, I'm good,
I'm good, I'm almost done. I'm almost done. And then
when he said he was done, we pull it right, so,
but we don't show that, you know, So then we
do the same exact punishment reenacted. We do kittens with

(01:23:00):
sal and he reacted worse, thank you, like he was screaming.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
And then we did this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:06):
We were going to bring in, you know, a big
cat and put it in there with him, and it
was so docile it wasn't even scary. It wasn't even
scary at Salas, not just because it's sal you know,
but you could literally see his skin crawl as much
as cute. Yeah, you know, it's just it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Could you being afraid of kittens?

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Kittens?

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Yeah, And that is the most wild probably the softest
thing to be afraid.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
Sure, yeah, yeah, maybe balloons, but there's Pennywise. Yeah, think
about loves horror. Man, my daughter would love this place.
By the way, Yeah, my daughter loves horror. She's in
she's in the second grade. She goes to school as
penny Wise. That's what you wanted to be second grade?
Second sounds like, my kids are so awesome.

Speaker 6 (01:23:43):
You guys got to embrace Spootober. It's officially started.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Well, I mean, is it spectacular? Like what's Spooktober? Is
it like you're a thing?

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
I'm so glad you Yes, yes, it is, okay, great
Spooktober is so it's it's obviously the start of Halloween, right,
October one is Halloween, and now October becomes Spooketober. So
is what you call it. It's not only the fall,
it is like the kickstart of all of the holiday season. Sure,
so you know for the next three months, dude, you're
eating candy, you're gorging yourself on Thanksgiving, and you're enjoying

(01:24:10):
Santa Claus coming down your chimney. Sure or whatever holiday
you happen to believe it. But it all happens in
the same time. So to embrace these thirty one days
of fright is like the most important thing you can
possibly do because it just it fires you up, especially
when you're a dad. You gotta like dive into it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:23):
There's rules too, like you gotta you gotta watch. You
gotta watch something festive every day once a week, whether
it's you the fan, whatever, you gotta do something that
embraces the spook. So, whether it's like a pumpkin patch
on wanted house, whether you go to a coffee shop
and get yourself a pumpkin spice Lotte, of course, you
do one thing a week that embraces the spook.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
And the final thing is make.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Pumpkin pumpkin spice is spooky.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Yeah, yeah, embracing.

Speaker 6 (01:24:51):
The final thing is you gotta do a little decoration
in your house outside inside of one pumpkin, eight pumpkin
skeletons crawling on your house.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
Something that's my fan there, she's Penny Wise. Yeah, how
do you find a picture of my daughter? You are
a wizard. You're also very creepy. But yeah, so you
can tell that there my son and my daughter. My
son's like, oh way, my spider man hoodie and my
daughter's like, could I please be the scariest thing I
get bag?

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
Yeah, no doubt, she's do you let her watch any
of those shows? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
We just started, like, uh, we just started, but she
really I let her watch a scene of penny Wise,
so I let her watch in the super I let
her watch it to get together to dip her toe,
and she was and she was like watching it with
me and she goes she got like really scared there.
She's like, this is so cool. I'm like that's enough,
got enough. We watched it also, watching the like on

(01:25:37):
Sunday morning at eight am, Like I'm not letting her
see it before she goes to sleep, but she's super cool. Yeah,
but we do the Spookfest. We go down that with
fotone all the time, down to the Hollywood Hard Nights.
This is a picture of us and Q. We go
down to the Hollywood Hard Knights all the time. I'm
not a big like spook. My wife loves it. And
I remember one of our first dates she wanted in Manhattan.
They do like one of those big like spooky wunted houses,

(01:25:57):
and I would just like whether people come out and scary. Yeah,
but it was in uh yeah, so they had all
those you know, like when you go to like a
car washes, those things that hang to block the room
so you can't see it. Yeah, So I'd always just
push my wife into the room first through that thing
and everybody would come out. Then I would just walking
like hey, and I knew where everybody was. It's like
stop only because your idea to come here. That's my parents. Yeah,

(01:26:18):
as a joke, we did on the thing because my
parents died, you know. And I'd always bring out skeletons
to my parents because the boys, you know, at that point,
I'd always had their parents life, and I'd be like
I had this joke all the time. You'd be surprised
you could find a picture of a skeleton doing anything.
So whenever you're in the car driving or doing anything,
I would always like quld be talking about. I was like, oh,
my mom just up to my mom. Yeah, I was like,
oh yeah, She's like yeah, no, she went apple picking
or whatever. And I'd be like, oh, that's cool. And

(01:26:39):
then you would google skeleton apple picking and it would
just be a picture of it and I would be like, oh,
it's my mom facetiming me. Hey mom, And I would
the picture.

Speaker 6 (01:26:46):
He'd be like, dude, just so messed up, just twisted
in the head.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Yeah, my son wanted to be Earth. This is my
son being Earth. He chose to like, what do we
want to be? Away was like, I want to be Earth,
so he was Earth. My daughter was an astronaut. I
was a pilot, and my wife is a NASA employee.
It is really funny, was like an astronaut.

Speaker 6 (01:27:05):
Want to be is?

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
I like, he's obsessed with planets at that point, he's
just getting into it now. The hardest was last year
he wanted to be like these obsessed with minions want
to be minions. He's like, I want to be grew
and at the last minute he wanted to be a minions,
So I had to be grew and I kind of
looked like Steve Carella as it is, so like I like, yeah,
there it is. Yeah, that's it. My daughter was a
minion and uh oh you can be lost. But yeah,

(01:27:27):
so my daughter is like a minion. So we tried
to do the family thing. But they're kind of outgrowing
it now and that's me as good.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Heartbreaking when that is perfect, the whole outgrowing thing, I'm
dreading that what is Halloween their favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:27:39):
No Christmas, right, it's their birthdays kind of birthday.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
You must do it up on the birthday.

Speaker 6 (01:27:45):
We do.

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
We used to throw these big parties, but we just
started saying, do you want to go on vacation instead.
We used to have these huge parties at the house
for my daughter. And last year she was like, could
we just go away as a family, which I thought
was really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
Yeah, that's all we do.

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
My son loves Legos. We go to Lego Land in
Upstate New York. There's a big Lego land, so we
go there for his and we just did this world
for for hers. And they just started watching all the
Star Wars stuff. That was fantastic. All Star Wars, so
you gotta watch my special. I tell a story about
how my son gets scarred for life and.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
This okay, yeah, five years old.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
He's never been on a ride and we go to
Star Wars and it's immersive experience and everybody's in character whatever,
and he thinks he got abducted by Ailien. She had
never been on a ride, and he starts screaming, I
want to go back to Earth. It was yeah, so
it was interesting, but he went on it. This year
because we had watched the movies and he absolutely loved it. Okay,
he conquered his fear.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Now you brought up legos were you are o kid
growing up? So this is for you and your son.
You guys gotta do that all day, every.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
Day, every day. I got I got into it during
COVID too, Like you started with the puzzles and bold
and then you started with the legos, and I started
doing the legos.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
I went to Parks of the Utah with my family
and there had like a Lego store at the airport,
and I bought the Titanic. And it's been a year
and a half now I'm still like halfway through it.
But every once in a while going there, my daughters
will come in. We'll put like three pieces on it,
and then we'll just move on to whatever they want.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
I can't believe that you're able to just leave it
sitting there like that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
It's incredible. I mean, it's a difference in having girls
and boys. Yeah, but I've told them I've literally threatened
their lives. I do not, under any circumstance ever touches
for that, because all.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
I know they stepped they put one brick wrong. In
Step thirteen games. You're over at step forwy too. You're
trying to connect something. You're like at the disassemble. They'd
be punished a lot for they've done.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
I would never forgive them because I was a kid
that dude. Anytime you wanted me to sit down for
two hours, just get me a lego set. Yeah, all day,
just do that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
What I don't like about the new thing is the
instruction manual. I used to free brain it and just
build like a ship.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
They're a real man. You're a real man from the Northeast.
Appreciate business. I'm a domesticita cat. Need all of those
all of those little sheets intricately. Okay, that's where it goes.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Did you did you ever hear the toy pipeworks? Did
you ever have that growing up? So it's a pv C.
I'm sure a picture will be up of it in
a minute. It's a PVC construction, life size construction set
where you could like build these like forts, goat carts
and whatnot. I was obsessed with them growing up. My
kids have them now and they're how old are your kids?

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Seven and four?

Speaker 7 (01:29:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:29:58):
You got to get yourself some of the so this
is there's a new company that makes them. That's the
old school version and the new ones are called you
can search for it, you'll find them. But you build
like stuff like that and it's just a full set
and you can build whatever your mind creates. So then
we build these forts, these climbing things, all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:30:15):
It's really there's no directions especially you do you want?

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
They have an extra there is a thing that you
do if you want.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
But have you seen Magnetales game.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
I'm a Magnetali.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
Yeah. We make like Civilization.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
Yeah, get the whole the Triangle ones too. Yeah, oh yeah,
I do the Marble Madness things to the marble. The
marbles so they give you just the tubes to build
your own marble maze and it's kind of like really
fun where you just put a marble in and it
does all these different tracks. It's really fun.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
I got to get called Marble Madness when we're little.
That's it right there. Yeah, those guys, that's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
Oh yeah, I remember those whereas you're still in the
train track in our house.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
I never got into the Thomas or any of those
train track things.

Speaker 6 (01:31:00):
See, I grew I grew up like because I was
never like a lego guy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
I was never love Lincoln logs. That's all my cabin.

Speaker 6 (01:31:13):
Dude, I feel the same way because everybody's a big
lego fanatic and I just never got into it. I
felt like all the dads in my circle always loved
building the cars, like the old school cars, so they
always had them hanging up on their shelves.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
But I was just never a lego guy. I don't
know why if you're if you're a trained guy. I
was a hot yeah. I was simple. Lincoln logs and
hot wheels me too. I love the jumps. I'll just do.

Speaker 6 (01:31:31):
Tournaments all day long with hot wheels, like those orange tracks.

Speaker 1 (01:31:35):
To the electric ones they had, like the little gun thing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
I never got that.

Speaker 6 (01:31:40):
That's above me, you've got and then the simple like
town rug where you just you got the hot wheels
and you're pretending you're you're an NFL player, like oh,
this is my house and you're like driving through.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
But that was that was as far as I Yeah,
always an NFL player always yeah yeah yeah. So funny
how much you love football.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
You you grew up playing football too?

Speaker 6 (01:32:08):
Yeah yeah, No, I was obsessed with it from from
the start. Man My dad was all about it. We
always play in the backyard. We'd be the Dallas Cowboys
in the nineties, so I'd be like Michael Irvan, he'd
be Troy Aikman. I'd get to be all the skill spots,
Emmitt Smith, j Nova checked the tight end, and we
were just like obviously we'd win like eighty to nothing.
But it just be me and the old man pretended
to be the Cowboys. So I've always loved it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
It was the same way about bowling. Who do you
think you are? Yeah, that's me, man, I'm a bowler, dude,
are you really Yeah? Bowler and mathlete we live very
different lines.

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Bowler mathlete, magician's so cool.

Speaker 6 (01:32:46):
We're the type of kid who like made like their
own kind of board game on like notebook paper. Like
you'd always have a buddy that'd be like, hey, I
made this game and be like on their notebook and
you just play with it. No, you got to a
shield right here. You can't do it unless you have
this many types ever.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
Gotten dungeons and dragons and now I think I would
love but I did this thing so I when I
was younger, my best friend in next door neighbor Jason
Joseph was like you like he became like a football
kind of guy. But growing up we were best friends.
Two biggest yards in Staten Island. All the kids in
the neighborhood would come over playing the yards, hanging out,
just a chain link fence between us. Right as we
got older, I started doing creative writing, better at math.

(01:33:22):
Jason was like better at football talking to girls, right,
So all the kids ended up in his yard playing
like flag football. I get these pipeworks toys for my
twelfth birthday, and at first I build a sword in
a shield. That was when I was into my fantasy stuff.
I had just seen Willow and I started playing out
this thing in my mind about like, oh, I'm battling
this dragon in my head, right, and I'm just this
lanky kid or buy myself in my backyard. And then
you know, when you feel somebody looking at you. I

(01:33:42):
look over and all of them are lined up on
the fence being like, Joe, what the fuck?

Speaker 7 (01:33:45):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
To find I explained what I was doing, right, and
Jason was I was like, I'm battling this dragon and
it's got this two heads, and Jason like, do you
need help? And he hopped the fence and he built
like a bowstaff and me and him kicked that dragon's ass.

Speaker 7 (01:33:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
That whole summer, everybody came and we played adventure games.
I would narrate these stories and all the kids in
my neighborhood ladies. It was the best summer of my life.
And that was just what we did. Like I would
give everybody powers. We this whole story. I ended up
writing them at the end. It was really really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
That is to be a movie.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
Yeah, I had scripts, which is funny, do you really
Because always want to be a director. So that's why
I got into the whole game. No ship most film directors.
That's what I'll be when I grow up.

Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
Because if I obviously every kid goes to like a
sword and shield face. But like in my mind, I
was like, don't ever let somebody see you do this.
You gotta this has got to be at night in
the dark, all this out in the open chain league fence.
Kids will play tackle football.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
You want your mom knocking on the door, like what
are you doing in there? I'm just playing with my sword.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
And these kids just look over and they're like we
got to help them out.

Speaker 1 (01:34:46):
Imagine like that, and it became like this adult thing.

Speaker 6 (01:34:48):
This happens down the road from our house in like
that big field.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
Right, we gotta go it every week. And I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
It looks so great man. And what a community, right,
what a fun one thing to be a part of. Right, Yeah,
it's so it's weird a little. Let's be honest, if
we're gonna talk a certain way. I don't know if
I could get into it like that, but I think
I might be able to. I think in larpening, if
I come down to it, I think me and my
heards are LARPing it up and do.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
If we had a group of boys like this and
we all like dressed up, I would have no problem
buying into something like this. Yeah, and just knowing who
they just knowing what your roles are. Who's the king
around here? We'll got what he's saying. It is like
get them after him.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
Like you imagine you showed up with these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Oh yeah, it would be awesome that because everyone plays
like video games like that, like you've ever played Skyroom,
those kinds of types of games. It's like, this is
we're just bringing it to real life.

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
It's cool because it's also a community is built around it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
I love when like minded people find stuff together. That's
my favorite part about it. Even like live events, concerts, comedy,
like you know, like when you go and you're in
a room. I have people come to the shows all
the time that don't know anybody. I love that they
come to like I don't know anybody here, Like I
meet them to meet and greeting. I'm like, could you
come with by myself? And I was like, I love
that because that is you have the confidence to be
around like like I go to like I go to
movies by myself. I go to like I love that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
Movie go into a movie by yourself and breakfast on
like a Saturday morning by yourself. It's kind of an
all time movie.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
A cup of coffee by yourself, Like and I love
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Yeah is God. I had a question, Jude. I wanted
to ask, how sick is it?

Speaker 6 (01:36:17):
Because you seem like a big perspective guy, But how
sick is it looking back knowing that you've ultimately gotten
to be yourself make a living from it. Yeah, you know,
the fame, all that, all that stuff is great, but
just knowing that you got to be you. Yeah, that's
how cool is that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:34):
I was so happy that I didn't like end up
on a show where you had to play a character, right,
because you just get to be show yourself and then
get accepted by this crazy fandom just by being you.
And then as people get into you a little bit
more and stuff like and you find out like it's
so cool that people could talk to you could talk
to your fans like Instagram, messaging, right, comic cons all

(01:36:54):
this stuff, Like you have that accessibility and I'll hear
stories all the time about people being bullied and whatever.
And that's like when I start doing anti bullying work,
it was like I was like that too. I was
like going, And then you realize you're that for people
and that changes your whole perspective like that, Like in
the beginning, you're like, oh, this is so cool, I'm
on TV. But then when you realize what you are
for people, family, what Laughter does because the network played
in hospitals, prisons, like this is where it was. I

(01:37:17):
got a flat tire in that Like last year, Guy
shows up twelve thirty, gets out huge, dude tatted up,
comes out of He's like, oh my god, Joe I'm like,
hey's like, I just got out of prison five months ago.
You got me through it. Could I have a hug?

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
I was like, yeah, then, thank god because you're very
scario this dark alley broken down and broken down, you know,
so like it was so cool to be like that.
But then you realize that you're at hospitals and people
are just going through these things of like people are
finding you out there lowis for a reason to laugh,
going through chemo, doing whatever. All this stuff you hear
and it's like, wow, you don't even think that right

(01:37:49):
when you're like, I'm just making my friends laugh. And
then you realize that, and then you realize you have
a family, you have a legacy. It's like all that
stuff comes into perspective and you just get to be you.

Speaker 6 (01:37:58):
That's so cool because it's like you were pushing the
you know, the the uh the baby toys, yeah, the
baby gear. It's like people are in these you know,
this this rat race of the corporate world and all
the bureaucracy that comes within everything else. But you've ended
up finding a lane to ultimately like beat you.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
Yeah, it's super cool.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
Yeah.

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Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Enjoy this episode. What are your experiences like when you
see people that used to work with with the baby
stuff or high school and stuff like that, what are
you seeing a.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
Lot of times it's tough because people will be like,
because you're Joe, right, so on TV they're like Joe like,
and I'm like, oh, this guy's a fan, right, so
I'd like there he is like, I don't know where
I know you from yet I'd like, hey, I'm like
you want to take a picture like I was your neighbor.
Like it's so fun. And then you see people again
and again because you're they're fans, and the fans you
recognize some and they come into your fold and whatnot.

(01:40:10):
But you know, a lot of times people like it's
like I never say nice to meet you. I always
say good to see you, because.

Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
You learn it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:17):
They're like, if you met somebody before, to them, meeting
you is a big thing. But you know, you meet
so many people being in the public eye. Sure you
guys know, Like it's when fans of your stuff see you,
it's like, nice to meet you is very hard to
like we met before, And I hate that moment.

Speaker 6 (01:40:29):
It's and they go, they go a step further and say,
do you remember do you remember?

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
I was thinking to myself, you we just have a
good time together right now, let's just say good to see.

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
Where where do I Where do you know me from?
I'm like, clearly I don't, So what do you want
to talk about it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
Yeah, the fans. Fans are awesome having all that, there's
always like the one or two that like because you
always try to make them have a good time with you. Sure,
and you want to feel like, hey, you're one of
the boys right now, But then they take it.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
Yeah, you know you don't want you don't want them
to mess it up either. Yeah, you know, because you
like I grew up like I didn't get famous like
until thirty four I was not on TV till I
was thirty four. So I grew up a fan of
people like I was a famous So you understand it
from that side, Like when you get into limelight later
in the years, you realize that you have that fandom

(01:41:19):
has a special place in your heart because you are
a fan of people like we worked with Vince Vaughn,
and I'm a huge Vince Vaughn fan, right, And I
remember when I met him for the first time. We
were playing the Nashville Comedy Festival, you know, seven or
eight years ago, and we're here in Nashville, right, and
he uh, he comes in there. I get in the
elevator with him, and we were there for him, like
you knew who we were. He's with Steve Burne and

(01:41:39):
he goes, hey, he goes he goes, oh, Steve's hey, Joe,
how are you I looking at this? See He's like
this Vince something. I didn't say anything. The door shut.
We got out the elevator. I was like, and the
doors were shut, and I went by and he shut
and I.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
Was like, what am I doing?

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
I was like, I just shipped the bed on meeting Vince,
you know what I mean? So it's such a weird thing.
Then thankfully I met him again. We became friends, but
it was like such a weird thing that as a
fan you still choke up.

Speaker 6 (01:42:01):
Dude, Steve Burne is so his network. He we got
in events where we were at the Notre Dame game.
It was Notre Dame Ohio State and we were fired up.
I get I forget how Steve knew that we were
all there together. We texted him, yeah, yeah, we were
in Texas, Steve, and he goes, hey, here's his number,
just text him.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
He'll know.

Speaker 6 (01:42:18):
And Taylor and I are like, are you are you
sure this is okay? Because one thing in the same thing,
like wedding crashes, all of it right, massive vinsvon fans.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
And he was so fucking cool.

Speaker 6 (01:42:28):
We were on the sideline watching the football game talking
about what play you should run and yeah, it's it was.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
It was all time. Man. He's very much himself. Like
you talk about being Joe and playing Joe. I feel
like Evince for so many years I played himself because
you met him in the personality of the back of the.

Speaker 6 (01:42:42):
Yeah, I guess that, and the other it was like
he looks over Tom Osmoreman never won this, and I'm thinking,
does he know I played for Nebraska's He's just kind
of saying, like a historic head coach, I have no clue,
but this is the sickest moment of.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
My life, right right, I remember he is very endearing
because it's so funny because he's so big. He's such
a big guy. He has such a big presence. But
when you talk to Vince, he's just like very endearing.
Like when you talk to him, he's him like you
feel like it, and he'd like I feel like he's
just like he could be super intimidating, right, He's like
so big, so loud, but he just knows how to

(01:43:13):
do it. And Steve's the best Steve just I mean,
I've been friends with Steve ten years. We do our
podcast together, you know, Too Cool Moms, and he's, uh,
he's just so great to like know because he's always
like loves to connect people, he loves He's such a
good dude.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
And he did a great job with his uh like
late show I directed that's so did you really directed
a special?

Speaker 10 (01:43:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
Awesome? I think it's so last was so good.

Speaker 1 (01:43:34):
He it's such a good moment that he's such just
so funny, so fast and just a great dude.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
Yeah, when you were getting into comedy, did you feel
like there were a lot of clicks involved. Was it
kind of tough at first for you at all?

Speaker 1 (01:43:45):
I feel yeah, not really. I mean comedy, stand up
comedy especially could get I feel like this is a
very nice place now because people are very accepting of
the format, love it, you know whatever, and people are
doing a thing. But I feel like it's very it's
different because it's like Late Night's putting your work in.
It's hard and it's hard to find your voice and
hard to build it. But everybody has their own process

(01:44:06):
to get there, you know, which is which is cool.
But to get to meet all these people inside of
it and know them to be fans and be fans
of them, like that's really fun. Yeah, to do that,
but it's it's definitely its own thing. I took Steve
with me during my first show we Get Appleton on purpose,
I did Joe gazenad of comedy. Steve was with me
and I was like, because I respect him as a
stand up, I know he's good, and I was like,
all right, Steve, come with me and if it sucks.
You gotta jump on stage and help me out whatever.

(01:44:28):
So we go. He goes up, I brought him. I
brought Marca Guardgigan, another comic who's on tour with me now,
and I do my I do thirty five minutes the
first time. I'm up, and I come back in the
green room and he's sipping a scotch. I go, how
was it? And he goes, fuck you. He goes, I've
been doing this for years. You're update your a naturally
I hate you. And so he was like, it's like,
it's like it's good. He's like, it's good man. You
just got to figure out what you're going to talk

(01:44:48):
about up there. Yeah, help me build that. So that
first year with Steve, he'd become on the road with
me a lot. He was a super great mentor, just
somebody who knows what they're doing. So it's really helped
you become comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
You know, that's awesome. Yeah, do you how do you
find your and watching so many other comedians that already
found their voice and you love it and you're like,
oh man, I'm a fan of what they're doing. How
do you not take a little bit of it and
use it for yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
I figured the best thing to do is just be
me on stage and I'm not try to be delivering jokes.
And I found out quickly I'm a storyteller. I love
telling the story and people really enjoy that part of it.
So I just was like, Okay, what stories am I
going to tell? How do they connect? And then how
can I make them as funny as they could be?
And that became my process with it. So that's what

(01:45:30):
I really enjoy I grew up. I mean, I'm forty
eight this point. I've had a very storied life. I've
been through a lot of stuff. I've got lots to
talk about, which is really cool. So that's what I do.
But I don't shy away from the fact that people
know me. You know, they know me from TV. I'm Joe,
So if you liked me on TV, you're probably gonna
like hearing me just talk up there and tell you
more about me and stories. I just feel like it's
it's important if you're having fun and people watching you

(01:45:53):
have fun, it's impossible for them not to. I've always
just enjoyed that if you're enjoying what you're doing up there,
like me and the guys when we were on stage,
we're just having fun. You can't sit in there and
be like this is terrible, Like you're having fun with people.
I wanted to make it an event, especially now when
life sucks so hard for people, like, get out there,
have some fun, have some lass. Forget about the bullshit.
I'm not if they're talking about politics or bullshit whatever.
I'm just talking about you know, how this fact hit

(01:46:13):
from Staten Island found his way. You know, I think
it's important in the backyard, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
No doubt. Did you ever like when you were leaving
in Practical Jokers, we were like, Okay, I want people
to know me for comedy now instead of in Practical Jokers.
Did you ever struggle with that at all?

Speaker 10 (01:46:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
Great question? All right, well.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
No, I think that's important though, because people like, Okay,
this is my identity now, my identity is Joe like
it or not. This is me, right, So let's get
out there and laugh together. And that's why I say, like,
I go on my special, I comment on every I
respond to every comment. I'm messing with people on YouTube,
every comment I go to, and it's me responding because
it's like, if people are like oh this, stay in
your lane. This isn't for you. I'll write back, thanks

(01:46:52):
for giving it the shot. Be well, you didn't like it.
Comedy's one hundred percent subjective. If you didn't like this night,
it's fine, you know, but it's clearly my lane I'm doing,
you know, are around the theater, tour around the country
like you know, if you didn't like it, it's fine.
I don't take offense to that, but I am If
you take me and put that on TV, like, it's
going to be the same uy, same voice, same thing.
I know who I am, right, I didn't want to

(01:47:12):
try to discover myself as a stand up. Of course,
there's different aspects you have to think about, you know,
and do different things, but I still want to keep
the core right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:20):
Yeah, do you find it hard to kind of? Uh?
Because stand up?

Speaker 6 (01:47:23):
I know you got to be on the road a lot,
but balancing the family time and everything else.

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
It's honestly easier, a lot easier. I mean, I'm working
ten days in October, you know, I'm on the road
ten days.

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
Some people are on the road.

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
I'm on the road a lot, But people don't understand
the balance of it, you know, because I'm there for
what I consider the important stuff. I'm there to drop
them off at school, help with homework after the day.
During the week, the weekends they're normally busy anyway, they
got played eights birthday parties bullshit, Like during the week
is when you know, that's when the missus needs to help.
That's when it's more important. IM there for family dinners,
talking about their day, helping them if they had something
in school that went wrong. I think that's the part

(01:47:56):
of it that's good. And you're in charge of it,
you know. It's like, I'm not going to go on
these are the weekends I can go. I'm going to
be here for their birthday. You know, when we toured
for the first year, I didn't even realize that I
missed my wife's first Mother's Day because it wasn't even
in my mind. And we booked a tour so far
out and it was the first Mother's Day and my
daughter's first birthday. I both was booked for both of them,
and it was like, what a fucking And in hindsight,

(01:48:18):
I'm like, you fucking dummy, Like what you're doing, you know,
like it's so but you and it's so much you're
so much in it and then you just start going.
And I tell the story about my daughter. It was
just before COVID. She's five years old. I come home.
I was on tour with the boys, I was at
work whatever, and she was so excited to see me,
and she ran up and goes, Daddy, I love when
you come to visit. And I'm like, oh, that's hysterical

(01:48:38):
and hurts so bad. Yeah, So I was like, oh,
I gotta there's a balance thing going on here, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
No doubt, it's so hard to find, as fecially as
they get older. It is.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
I think the big thing that I've taken away from
it is there's no such thing as balance. It's focus.
It's like you're focusing your energy here. Everything is always
swirling around you. But you got to take that five
minutes to build legos, to hang out, or take your
car and beer on the racetrack. You know, whatever it made,
but you need to take those times. Like my son says, Dad,
can we play. I'll stop whatever I'm doing for five
minutes and play with him because that five minutes will

(01:49:06):
be for him and that'll be his favorite part of
the day. And I'll find that five minutes somewhere else,
I'll stay up. Five minutes later, I'll do whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:49:11):
So for the most part, you try to do what
you can then focus on what you need. I think
that's the biggest takeaway for Dad's in entertainment. It's really
a hard thing, and I think you know, you know,
especially it really is taxing on you to be I
think people are getting it, but it's really really hard
to balance all that stuff, right.

Speaker 6 (01:49:27):
Yeah, I agree with that because it's more of like
you understand what your priorities are, how you kind of
want to build your life, and it also helps you Okay,
these are the things I want to focus on and
put my energy into, and I kind of have everything
scheduled out now. Ultimately, this gives me the reason to
say no to everything else because I would be somebody
who enjoys like saying yes, like okay, maybe I can
do that always at least say maybe. But I feel

(01:49:47):
like I've learned since rus came into the world that
like I've learned what to say no to. It's like, Okay,
I know I want to do busting, I know I
want to do family time. Everything else I can basically
just say no to unless it's something that would be
you know, pivotal for or the show or.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
For the family.

Speaker 6 (01:50:02):
It kind of like helps you deviate from like all right,
I can say no.

Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
To you look at it through a different lens, Like
I just wrote, I wrote a kid's book, right, but
where's Barry? It's my new kids books, I guess when
you guys copies is great. So it's a story about
my son and it's he's animated in it as a cartoon.
My dog's Pomoni is in it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:16):
Like it's so like so we don't even touched on
the dog.

Speaker 1 (01:50:20):
Yeah, he's just been saying here telling a story and
just stroking much evil.

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
It's exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
But yeah, it's like to be able to do that. Yeah,
that's my son and Ppomoni right there, like animated in
the book, you know. But to see your kid be
like that, and that's part of your thing, like you
you get to be able to do those kind of
things now, which is totally different. Like years ago when
I was selling kids books, I was like, oh, I'm
gonna be one of these one day. It wasn't even
in your like lens, you know, But it's a it's
fun to do that stuff and celebrate the parenthood and

(01:50:48):
make a part of your person.

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
Absolutely, you know, definitely need that book. Yeah I got
to you.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
Yeah it's great, but at home. It's available now to purchase.
Where's Barry check it out?

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
No doubt you guys want to hit some teer talk.
I would love to hit some tear talk. So I'll
break down tier talk for you. I'm sure you watch
the show all the time, but I'll just do it
for the fans that are watching the.

Speaker 1 (01:51:08):
First a lot of first time. I bring up the
star star power guys.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
So there's going there's gonna be a category at least
ten people. We'll go through the category and you'll start
at your tier three, so your third best, you're gonna
paint a picture for us, Tier two, and then finally
Tier one, your favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
Now, there's always the outlier. Maybe we all agree on
one thing and that becomes a god teer. I don't
think we'll find that today, but that's just just to
put in there. Once you're finished seeing your tier talk,
we will go around the bus. One will give one
word to express how they feel about your tier talk. Okay,
so that's that's what we have. So the tears today
is spend the night pranks? I do like I like

(01:51:46):
the night pranks. Yeah, night pranks on friends or activities
with friends. That's what it is. Okay, So we can
take a couple of minutes think for a second.

Speaker 6 (01:51:56):
I'd like to go second or third. I'll just throw
that in. I'll just throw that in the universe. I
know two I have for sure. I just got to
figure out what.

Speaker 1 (01:52:04):
When friends pranks?

Speaker 7 (01:52:05):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (01:52:05):
Okay? So things that you would do as a group.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
Yes, as a group. Do you have your standard?

Speaker 1 (01:52:11):
I have two, so I need three.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
You need three? Tier talk you're tier three, your tier two,
you're tier one. I got them.

Speaker 6 (01:52:27):
My tier three. And I hate to admit I never
had the balls to go through it and do it.
But when your boys you start prank calling, when it
was just a landlines back in the day and you
had whatever numbers you wanted to do, Hey, i'll call
my uncle here. We can get them with this. I
never had the balls to be the one on the phone.
We always had like we always had a Joe that
was with us that was shameless and he would do it.
I feel like doing the prank calls and when you

(01:52:48):
get somebody and they have no fucking clue and they
start calling friends and figure out who it is. I
love that little like giddy feeling as a kid sitting
around spending the night with your boys. My Tier two
is gonna be ding dung ditching. When you first learn
you get your license, you want to just get into
some you want to get into some stuff with the boys,
and you drive around, you ding dong ditch.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
You go and sprint, You're sprinting to the car. Come on,
we gotta go, We gotta go.

Speaker 6 (01:53:10):
That escape plan is all time. My tier one, which
I love the most, and it's it's so important for
spootober but te peing throwing toilet paper in your friend's yard.
My mom, she would drive the getaway van. We'd be
at Walmart. You know, you have the jokes like somebody's
got an upset stomach at the house, like buying all
these rolls of toilet paper to throw them in the van.

(01:53:31):
With this red mini van, she would drive and me
and my boys we'd go in tpe. You know, whoever's
not in the crew, you go in tpe their house
or rolls of toilet paper everywhere. My mom actually set
us up one time where we go. We went to
one of like her friend's house, and we knew it
was also her friend's house, but she had a son
that we wanted to get and so we start tepeeing
their yard and somebody had a chainsaw in the garage

(01:53:54):
and somebody was ripping a four wheeler around the other side.
But somebody started screaming, rips the foil around, were like,
we gotta go, we gotta go to where we start
exiting toward to We're just where the garage was. Somebody
comes screaming out of the garage with the chainsaw. We
are losing our minds, sprinting away. My mom's in there laughing.
You realize there's a whole setup. But teping is by
far and away my Tier one. Okay, that concludes my

(01:54:15):
tier talk.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Great classics, solid.

Speaker 12 (01:54:28):
Edgy, tradition, nostalgic, schocking, relatable.

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
I would say, yeah, for sure, solid.

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
Do you want to go next? Ye with me to go?

Speaker 1 (01:54:46):
I have two of mine. I can probably go.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
You want to go, Okay, I'll go, I'll go. So
my Tier three is very Arizona specific, and here's why.
During spoo October, always on the thirty on the thirtieth
of October was kind of known to everybody as mischief nights.
When you go out you do the all those types
of things. Yes, so every once in a while in Arizona,

(01:55:11):
unless you have all the money in the world, everybody
has rocks as they're like landscaping. They don't have grass.
And what we would do is if a rain was
ever to come, we would take fruit roll ups and
we put it on their rocks, and when the rain
would come, the die would die everybody's rocks on their landscaping.
And now I know it's kind of nasty. It's a
nasty thing to do, but that that's why it's My

(01:55:32):
Tier three came up two times Shadow Angel the Court.
He's a kid that we happened to get one year.
I feel really bad. His parents were really mem My
tier two. My Tier two is going to go to
the classic warm bowl of water to the heaviest.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
Sleeper finger in the bowl kind of thing finger in
the bowl, you.

Speaker 2 (01:55:53):
Put it in there.

Speaker 6 (01:55:54):
They wet themselves and the boys got because they knew
I had a bed wedding problem.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
Like I got got on that one. You got on that?

Speaker 6 (01:56:00):
Yeah, yeah, I peed the ben tells like fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:56:03):
Oh nice, Yeah, I was never found one.

Speaker 1 (01:56:08):
I love there man.

Speaker 6 (01:56:14):
Childhood and you're just up in the middle of night,
stuffing in a bag, trying to get rid of all
the evidence and then blame it on the dog.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
Terrifying.

Speaker 1 (01:56:23):
Do you have a stand up in pe By accident?

Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
That's my tier too, Yeah, yeah, you're my tier one
is going to go to the t ping. It's getting
getting some people is great, But to me, high school
te ping was all about getting that girl. You liked,
the Alex mac Sudy and you go over there, you
find her house, and all the boys gonna say who
we're gonna get, and you want to somehow.

Speaker 6 (01:56:41):
Put it in there.

Speaker 2 (01:56:41):
Hey, would you get Alex? No one really knows you
like her, but you want to get her. And once
you get all the boys to dive in, throw it
over the trees, over the house and everything like that.
It's just a it's a fun easy it's it's it's
a fun thing that's innocent. It's a nice little deal.

Speaker 6 (01:56:55):
I would come back from college at Nebraska and still
get the same crew boys and we tp some Yeah,
if we if we happen to have a bye weekend
I'd go home and we'd rally up the troops and.

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
Go TP and love TP. I did have a couple more,
but they were kind of dude. Yeah, there's like.

Speaker 6 (01:57:12):
People would do forks in the ground, plastic forks on
like a cold night, and then they'd be stuck in
the ground. They would egg your car and throw flower
on top of it. Like people would do some crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:21):
Crazy because the egging was always it was a bad deal. Yeah.
We would this kid name what was his name, Anthony,
Anthony Romano. We called them maggot because he was so short,
and he would take wire.

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
Called magot because yeah, yeah, yeah, don't.

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
We would take a wire on this busy street and
we put it across like at like a four foot
five foot level and cars would go drive by and
would scrape their entire car all the way through.

Speaker 13 (01:57:47):
Oh my gosh, that diabolical.

Speaker 4 (01:57:58):
Yeah, devious, deceptive, unique, dangerous.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
Fun hyphenated fruit by the foot.

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
The I.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
Didn't know the fourth thing.

Speaker 1 (01:58:23):
The fourth thing, Yeah that's cool. I uh so I
have to put the prank call is tier three. But
we even used to do it next all. I used
to call up when we were on the bus on
tour we would just kill time and I would call
up a zoom Practical Jokers assistant Antoine, and I would
call a place and be like, yes, we want to

(01:58:43):
come in to eat here. I have the Impractical Jokers.
They'll have my ass if we don't get a corner table.
Do you have a corner table available? It'd be like
a Chili's and they're like, it was so bony, and
we would set up this whole thing and do that.
So that's my number three for two. Three Tier two
for me is the thing we used to do a lot.
It was called You'd have to get a group of guys.
We used to do it and it was a Perkins

(01:59:03):
by me. I don't know if you know. Perkins's like
yeah breakfast, yeah, breakfast, but yeah, it was twenty four
hour and sat Island or late night whatever. And we
used to do this in Goal. We work here, and
when it always be so busy that there'd always be
a chance that the host stand would be open, so
one of us would work as the hostand and we
would see people and then somebody would come over and
take their order as another friend would come over at
the waiter to take that on. These people would think

(01:59:25):
they're being helped, and we would just like leave and
wait looking through the window and I'd you're waiting to
complain about their food and we would just sit there
with like we never took your order like that was
really fun.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
We used to do.

Speaker 1 (01:59:37):
We work here at Perkins, but then we take.

Speaker 6 (01:59:39):
Their order and go and sit next to the start
eating your.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
We would just sit and wait and then wait watch
them go start going because some of our friends would
be inside. That didn't work there, right, Yeah, we used
to go to group like four or five guys and
then they would just wait looking through the window and
we just hear the people going crazy, and that was
really fun. But my favorite thing we always did, and
it worked its way into the show, was just up
your ass and to the left. So whenever anybody asked
you with something someplaces, do you know, excuse me, do
you know how I get the center? Parkie? It's up

(02:00:01):
your ass to the left up over here, and you
have to say that to them, looking them in the face.
And it made We did it for decades. And then
on the show, I'm in the park doing a petition
thing or whatever, and somebody walks up to me and
goes excuse me, do you know where the bathrooms are?
And in my ear, I go, you got up your
and I go, yeah, it's up your ass to the
left yet And it became a thing. We montaged it
on the show. We did it one million times on
the show, so whenever anybody asked us anything. But if

(02:00:23):
you don't realize, because if you just look at them
in point, they're like, oh thank you, and they say
thank you and walk away. It's crazy.

Speaker 7 (02:00:28):
Yeah, So that.

Speaker 1 (02:00:31):
The it's all like a Jedi mind tree. It's a
David Blaine. You look under their watching it's a call it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
What's your favorite number? Just strokes the dog, professional, fun, legendary, veteran, creative, original.

Speaker 4 (02:00:53):
Camaraderie, harmless.

Speaker 1 (02:00:57):
We tried to be.

Speaker 2 (02:00:59):
Great to do need a call, quick break? I have
to be very badly okay as well?

Speaker 1 (02:01:03):
All wait, you don't go together.

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
Did you know about the show at all before you Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:01:12):
Yeah, yeah, I met you guys before.

Speaker 6 (02:01:13):
Oh ship?

Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
Yeah what have we met? I met you you guys
were doing Bert outside of Zamie's with Steve burn It's great.
I make an impression. Hold on, hold on, not awkward
at all. Hold On, that's good that's fine, that's good,
it's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
Was I there?

Speaker 1 (02:01:30):
Yeah, we talked for three to five minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
It's great to see you again. A lot of good
to see you. There was one of them, No, it
was honestly, it was Bert's wife. Bert's wife was doing
a show.

Speaker 1 (02:01:41):
It was they were doing in Zanies. There was the
they were doing a podcast inside there and I wasn't there.
And then it was on the bus when you came out.
You guys were you were on the bus doing it
doing somebody. You were doing a thing, and I just
popped instid of low. You were there, you were doing
a podcast?

Speaker 2 (02:01:57):
No ship? Yeah? Yeah, God what that dude?

Speaker 7 (02:02:01):
It was?

Speaker 1 (02:02:01):
It was quick. I wouldn't be surprise.

Speaker 2 (02:02:04):
I'm gonna eat it. I'm gonna pretend like it doesn't
hurt me right now, and I'm gonna wait till we separate.
I'm gonna think about this all day long. It's gonna
be brutal.

Speaker 1 (02:02:11):
No, I never met you, all right?

Speaker 2 (02:02:13):
Are you serious?

Speaker 5 (02:02:14):
Are you serious?

Speaker 1 (02:02:16):
You'll never know.

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
That you do have a blood? Yeah, no doubt. What
bring your dog everywhere?

Speaker 1 (02:02:28):
No, when I'm when I'm only flying once I take her. Yeah, yeah,
I only flew into uh in here and then we
were drove around so I could take her.

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
But she's your real service dog, or you get the
note from the doctor that allows you to not put
her under.

Speaker 1 (02:02:40):
Oh no, you buy this on Amazon. You just yeah, easy, Yeah,
you don't have to pay for her on the airplane
when it's a service dog. But yeah, no, there's a
if you have they can't they can't ask you for anything.
So it's it's not really a thing. But when you
fly Delta, they just have a thing that you have
to You literally have the sign that you won't pee
on the plane. That's literally that's it there, Like she
can and she peas on the playing you have to
pay for them to clean it. Like that's that's their problem,

(02:03:02):
you know.

Speaker 6 (02:03:03):
So hear'd you guys laugh really loud and I had
a lot of fomo.

Speaker 2 (02:03:06):
No, it was he put me in a blender and
he'll tell you why I go.

Speaker 1 (02:03:11):
He said, uh, he said, did you know about the
show before and whatever? I and I met you guys
and he said, uh, he said no. I said, yeah,
I met you guys in Nashville outside his amies. I said,
when you guys were doing you guys were doing with
Bert and I met you guys and he was like,
I wasn't there and I told him, I was, ayeah,
you guys were filming an episode and he's like, no,
we weren't. I said.

Speaker 2 (02:03:29):
He goes, oh my god. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:03:30):
I said, it's good to see you again and I
and then he was it was quiet, and I went,
I never met you, and I was like, you were
there were no uh no outside for I'll tell you
because he's not here for real. When you guys, you
guys are doing a thing with Bert, I said a
little quick and I met.

Speaker 2 (02:03:45):
When he when he was performing.

Speaker 1 (02:03:48):
You guys were doing. You guys were doing like the
bus was outside. You guys are doing the thing or whatever,
and I had come, got you, Yeah, got you? Yeah,
that's so I did that. And then I told him
I never met him, and then he was like, wait
did you? And I was like, you'll never know. How'd
you meet Steve through So he had a show on TBS.
He had a Sullivan Son okay, and we were on
true with ours. So we ended up being at the

(02:04:09):
same like upfront and all that stuff, and then they
were on tour doing their Sullivan Son tour and we
were torn as the Jokers, and we ended up in
the same towns and we were both in like I
think it was Phoenix, Arizona. We're both somewhere once together.

Speaker 2 (02:04:20):
And he's truly one of the best guys.

Speaker 10 (02:04:23):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
Oh, I don't know why, I'm oh Josh wolf m.

Speaker 6 (02:04:28):
He was in town and he was doing a stand
up at Zanies and he has this bit where he
has a rookie comedian come up and go for five
ten minutes or something like that. Well, I was one
of those one time, so I did like a five
to ten minute thing and Steve was just helping me,
Like you know, I like write all my stuff and
he'd helped me punch up on all of it. He's
just one of the best man. He truly is one

(02:04:48):
of the best.

Speaker 1 (02:04:49):
When we toured the UK, he came in open for
us and we did an arena tour. They were likely
the two and Shin and he he ended his set
by doing a sing along to the Killers bright Side
bright Side with everybody and that is awesome, warmed up.

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
Everybody was so far Yeah, how is it touring internationally? Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
Insanity? So fun I went I had done. I just
did Australia, which was cool by myself, I did I've
done Canada, which was cool, and then we did as jokers,
we did London, which was great.

Speaker 6 (02:05:17):
Twice we did it over there and then the island
reaches that many people. Because you're probably thinking, all right, yeah,
let's go international.

Speaker 1 (02:05:23):
You might be thinking, we went to do a London episode.
Everybody knew us more than New York. It was insane.

Speaker 6 (02:05:26):
We could barely is anybody even gonna know us over there?

Speaker 1 (02:05:29):
It's crazy because we we aired on Comedy Central there,
but they picked it up in the fourth season and
every Monday for two and a half years it was
a new episode. So imagine you have a brand new
show that you love and every Monday for two and
a half years is a new episode. So it caught
fire like nothing over there with like the fucking Beatles.

Speaker 2 (02:05:43):
That's awest.

Speaker 1 (02:05:44):
So we walked over there as cool.

Speaker 2 (02:05:46):
I love that's the question, yep, because I know we
got to have you up by noon. Yeah, okay, one minute, we're.

Speaker 1 (02:05:58):
Going to the backup papers.

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:06:02):
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Speaker 7 (02:06:37):
Yeah, I'll read it all right. Our Twisted question this week.
You have to sneak into a highly secured museum to
steal a diamond. What's your disguise slash character you're playing?
And who would you recruit to be a part of
your heist?

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
If you can recruit anybody, or is it like three
people or something.

Speaker 7 (02:06:56):
Like that, let's do it. Let's do a squad of
four people, so you and three other guys, and.

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
It could be people we only people we know, or
could be.

Speaker 7 (02:07:02):
Anybody anybody let's do anybody Okay, all.

Speaker 6 (02:07:07):
Right, I think I think whoever I'm gonna have just
calling the shots, he's gonna be Nicholas Cage. I think
you have to have Nicholas is a script though, but
you're the director. Maybe you're the directory. I think you
gotta have Nicholas Cage. I don't know who my fourth
one would be, but I know another one would be

(02:07:27):
Owen Wilson from Night at the Museum. You put them
in your pocket. Whether I'm a janitor and I get in,
I let him out to go like sneak out find
the diamond. But you have little Owen Wilson running around,
you know, running around the museum. Okay, but that would
I know, I have two for sure. Do you guys
have any anybody else?

Speaker 2 (02:07:43):
Yeah, I absolutely do. I would obviously be a security guard.
I think that's the easiest thing for me to disguise
as I would have a person calling the shots. George
Clooney oceans smart, very smart. He's gonna know everything everything.
And what do you do with George Clooney You put
his right hand next to him. Got to have Brad
Pitt with them, for sure. And then finally, who's going
to go down the zip line to make sure everything

(02:08:05):
goes according to planning when they can get themselves in
a pinch figure it all out, Tom Cruise, I thought
you were gonna say kill possible was crazy. Yeah, yeah,
that's my three for me.

Speaker 1 (02:08:18):
I gotta get Lucy Low in the mix, Okay. I
feel like she's easy on the eyes and it's a
bad and yeah, especially that reason. Yeah, I think that
Elon Musk has got to be in there because he's
gonna throw some serious money behind it. Some ship. I
can't take the diamond you have it. I would be philanthropists,

(02:08:40):
would be my disguise, someone who's very regal, and I
would need to have my personal security with me the rock,
and I think that would be exactly. That would be
my good crew as if ship goes down you need
them to do some stuff or you know, I think
it will work.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
You understood this assignment one sure, and I've done it.

Speaker 7 (02:08:58):
Here.

Speaker 6 (02:08:58):
It is my addition to the roster, Tom Cruise. Christ
you had him in there, Nicholas Cage.

Speaker 1 (02:09:05):
If you bring if you bring Matt Damon as the
character born, then for sure that's another good one. But
se but I feel like Tom Cruise does his own stunts,
so he's gonna be able to pull it off. He's
gonna be able to throw him down a garbage, you know,
disposal of something.

Speaker 2 (02:09:18):
He's the elevator. The elevator scene in the first movie
threw me off so bad. It was the first of
the third the first. That elevator scene fucked me up.
I don't know why. Yeah, mission impossible. When Tom's outside
the guy gets squished. Yeah, that really messed me up.

Speaker 1 (02:09:32):
Do you take elevators just stairs there, strictly stairs.

Speaker 2 (02:09:35):
I'm all elevators all the time, even if it's a
one floor. Got to give her right next to it.
All the waits too much, too much, too much. Lucy
loves a good pull.

Speaker 7 (02:09:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:09:44):
I feel like she's she's a badass and she could
figure out a.

Speaker 7 (02:09:46):
Lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:09:47):
I think she's like the the third though, of all
the Charlie Charlie's angels, the.

Speaker 1 (02:09:51):
Third of them, think so I would go third, Yeah,
ranking according to what height?

Speaker 2 (02:09:56):
Yeah? Yeah yeah, yeah, maybe we'll just say hi, Taylor's
preference on women. Yeah, yeah, there's that.

Speaker 1 (02:10:03):
Funny I feel yeah that Oh that is terrible.

Speaker 2 (02:10:06):
Yeah, tough scene.

Speaker 6 (02:10:08):
Are you are you an NFL guy like, who's your
team college NFL?

Speaker 1 (02:10:11):
Dude, he's Northeast, he has no I'm known famously for
knowing nothing about sports but being able to fake my
way through it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:18):
Okay, dude, was like, what do you fake your way through?

Speaker 1 (02:10:20):
Well, well, I'm a New York guy, so I always
rooting for New York no matter who they're playing or Giants.

Speaker 7 (02:10:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10:25):
Uh but like I'll like, you know, it's so funny
because I'll be able to be like be able to
hold it up by like the Eagles. You know, they're
gonna have good seas. You gotta be careful with this
secondaries really lacking. They got to make out for the
old line. I'll say, ship like that. You just get
people talking like that, just people like.

Speaker 2 (02:10:38):
Yeah that's true, Yeah that's true. Like you know what
point guys this stuff?

Speaker 1 (02:10:41):
Yeah, back and forth. I'll read like Yahoo News his headlines.
I'll like me, all right, have I gotta go. But
I love like a live event. I'll go to live
sports and stuff, but I don't. I never really got
into it. I was never good at it, never really
tracked it. But uh, I love like a live you know,
growing up in New York that like the Yankees, like
the lot going to those games and you know, doing
Gotcha Day and stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:11:00):
It was.

Speaker 1 (02:11:01):
That was always fun. But I'm known for like being
not a sports guy.

Speaker 6 (02:11:06):
You weren't into growing up mathematics.

Speaker 1 (02:11:08):
I throw out throughout the first pitch there.

Speaker 2 (02:11:10):
That was great, how'd you do?

Speaker 1 (02:11:12):
I watched Steve do it. They wanted Steve threw it out,
but I was just hype man. I ran out and
fired it. This is what I do. This is what
I do at sporting events. This is a perfect freeze
frame of me. I just get the crowds going, well,
I'm a I'm a hype man to the extreme. Yeah,
you'll find if you ever had to do a hype pist,
then you need somebody as a hype man. If I'm
not in the best time, you got it. You got
that's they're gonna be the best sale. You need a distraction,

(02:11:34):
I'm your guy.

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
If you see, baseball is probably number one of the
sports you don't care about, oh for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:11:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's number one.

Speaker 2 (02:11:41):
Given your top three sports you don't care about.

Speaker 1 (02:11:42):
Okay, I would definitely say soccer. I say that, and
I would probably say, uh, it would be baseball. I
would say football is my most I would like to watch.
I could get through. I like I watch a Super
Bowl every year, of course, But I would say the
other one is probably tennis.

Speaker 2 (02:11:59):
None of tennis guys, JP are not a lot. No,
JP loves soccer and tennis.

Speaker 1 (02:12:05):
Who's who's your tennis guy?

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
You're it's Djokovic? Right, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 10 (02:12:12):
But I like got him in the in the goat race,
of course. But as far as guys I like to
watch now, I'm partial to my guy Dennis she All.
I was Canadian guy killer.

Speaker 2 (02:12:21):
Overhand nice he did it again? Overhead?

Speaker 6 (02:12:25):
Might not be the move, dude, He's oh yeah, killerr overhand.

Speaker 1 (02:12:30):
Versatile right, versatile on the courts though.

Speaker 10 (02:12:32):
Yeah, I do have a question though, unless.

Speaker 1 (02:12:34):
God, my dog just stepped on my phone and made
it talk. This is a Samonio.

Speaker 10 (02:12:39):
Spamoni from Hey Arnold, remember him?

Speaker 2 (02:12:42):
Yeah? Oh yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:12:43):
You all My dogs named after Italian desserts impasta dishes.
So I have eleven dogs and this.

Speaker 2 (02:12:48):
Is oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 6 (02:12:49):
You do have a shipload of animals, all rescues, right.

Speaker 1 (02:12:52):
All rescue. Yeah, I have a rescue in New York.
Ghatto pups and friends. It's also it's a senior dog rescue.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
The hell do you balance twelve animals?

Speaker 1 (02:12:58):
It's their pack mentality. Man, They're all mostly just old
and don't care about I have a couple of big ones,
but for the most.

Speaker 2 (02:13:03):
Part, they were all just like Spamone is the leader.

Speaker 1 (02:13:05):
Spamoni is not Piscotti.

Speaker 6 (02:13:07):
Is my Piscotti, Piscotti myfall JP.

Speaker 2 (02:13:09):
I Oh, no, you're good.

Speaker 1 (02:13:11):
I was just gonna ask.

Speaker 10 (02:13:11):
You said you made your dad tests yep, for when
he came from work.

Speaker 1 (02:13:16):
What were the tests? I used to have the New
Book of Knowledge Encyclopedias, and I used to just open
up the encyclopedias and go by and pick out like
random facts and make a test around them. And then
and then I had gotten the Snoopy and cycly those
are my dogs. Then I had got my Snoopy Encyclopedias.
They used to sell them at Pathmark, which is just
like the you know, the key food or the supermarket
by me. And they came out with a twelve book

(02:13:37):
series that I was on the hunt for in vintage
stores to find for my kids. And they were called
the Snoopy Encyclopedias. And I was obsessed with them. So
I used to write out these tests for my dad
and now my son makes math tests for me.

Speaker 10 (02:13:48):
And I'm like, sorry, Dad, I so mad coming home
from work and heyd take this.

Speaker 1 (02:13:54):
I was like, get me a scotch.

Speaker 2 (02:13:55):
He's just laughing at you while you're getting allers wrong. Yeah, yeah,
that is funny, man, Dude, Joe, thank you for coming on.

Speaker 6 (02:14:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:14:02):
This has been awesome. This has been awesome. It's so
good to see you again, to see amazing, amazing.

Speaker 6 (02:14:10):
Yeah, he was telling me and I was like, oh fuck,
did he did we actually see him? He was getting
I guess I truly don't even know. I truly don't
even know either one.

Speaker 1 (02:14:18):
I'm not I'm not forgettable.

Speaker 2 (02:14:19):
I guess this pod.

Speaker 6 (02:14:21):
This pod was awesome. We had a great time this man.
I hope you enjoy and remember embracest spook. If nothing else,
it's time to embraces a Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:14:29):
I'm gonna get a pumping spice slot there right now.

Speaker 2 (02:14:31):
I gotta do it. Thank you, bro, Yes, sir, appreciate
you brother.

Speaker 1 (02:14:37):
Good girl.

Speaker 2 (02:14:40):
Also, by the way, subscribery five stars. Thank you.

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