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Um, he's he's pretty much he's the Tim Burton of Rhode Island I think that's safe to say. he's got a new show coming out later this year on Netflix called the Altruists A 're thankful to have him this his first time being here and he's had quite a journey and we're just We're excited Today's guest is Mr. Matt Rife L lookingoo all right? Yeah I just wan to make sure I look fucking BLM. Ajacent. You what? I just want to make sure that I look BLM adjacent. Yeah, I want to look BLM adjacent. Like you wouldn't protest yourself if you'd help make the signs. I just want them to know that, you know I'm saying, I'll be. I'll pull up, you know what I'm saying? one hundred percent. But I'm not just getting crazy out there. No, no like I'll hit the barbecue, but I'm not hitting the march, you know. Yeah It's got to be a line. Yeah, because the BLA March also I think it just got too I came at a good time in my life. I had just gotten a whoop brace so I was all about my steps at that time. Oh, for the BLM market? Yeah, I was kind of right on time. Oh, that's a great point, dude. People't think about I wouldn't be surprised and this is a conspiracy theory A lot of those We're like BLM Marches and like Probably the, you know, I don't know, also maybe like the George Floyd protest. That was all kind of the same thing, I think. Yeah I think so. But were the BL and Marchs and stuff? Was all that part of like just big propaganda for like the woop braceled and some of those companies? Is that a real conspiracy? that people would think it was just for the fitness aspect? I don't know, let's look that up on perplexity, if you can, dude. Or what are they saying? there becausecause all I'm saying is that's smart That's smart. do we put out this thing? Pe need their steps. How do we get them out door? It's a black bracelet the bracelet could have been any color. You said it. It was way too early in the pod for that. I mean, Rro, this pod's been through a lot. so I know, man. I'm so happy we finally make it happen. I think we'll beine, Dude,e too, man. goodood to see you too. Good to see you too, man. Wow, I forget No, there's no credible evidence that the BLM Marches were a conspiracy to sell whoops What which is a little slangish, I feel like for perplexity, or that the protests themselves were pre plananned as a fake operation hu What is true is that the twenty twenty protests happened in response to the George Floyd killing and like many large demonstrations, that included a mix of peaceful marches in some incidents of violence, looting, and misinformation I gotta tell you, man, you're very good at reading out loud You think your cold read skills are incredible Really? Oh yeah, I was stumbling over those words, not even saying it out loud. Yeah. That was very impressive. I'm just glad to know that you don't have every skill dude, because when you like because you were like, dude, you kind of You made things difficult in a lot of his bro when you were like the good looking comedian, dude. And first of all, were hurt a lot. that was the meanest part of the sentence. Fuck, sorry. you changed a lot bro when you became you just changed the whole role. It was like 'cause comedium was a safe place for like kind of regular looking dudes. didnid't have that thing, bro, who couldn't really go around, who couldn't just walk up to a woman and be like, Taa. That's not true. You literally have that. Everybody knows that. No. Y dude. That's thank you. No, man. amongst the comedy community, you're piece of ass. Everybody knows this. This is not true. That's absolutely true. You got to get out and ask more I mean I I mean, I don't think so, but what I do know is there's a there's only a few No, you did it, bro. You were like, oh my God P peopleople dude, I remember a lot of comedians, a lot of us were, we wouldn't even go out of our houses for months afterfter I came onto the scene. Yeah. When I started doing pushus? Yeahah, people were like,. We were making noises that we'd never even made before primal urging. Yeah, we didn't even know what to do. We were buying beer and just smashing the cans and just all kinds of shit. People were just drinking Dctor Pepper and just like touching themselves in partarks and stuff. People didn't know how to doctorpper They didn't not to operate, brother U But yeah, dude, anyway, good to see you Ron. I' just kind of giving you a hard time. No. Likewise, man, I've seen you forever. I know, congrats on all your success and everything man. Thankk you so much. So cool. It's wild, dude It's a lot. It's a lot, yeah. You know what, we did talk one time I'm not even done with this yet. it it does it bug you that I say the good looking comedian thing does that bug you at all or no? It doesn'tother it doesn't bother me it bothers other people, I suppose. It does.. I can shift for it all the time. People act like I'm the one walking around saying it. Oh That's the weird part. Oh no, dude, yeah, because it was like, what do you mean? Becauseuse first you heard rumors there was a guy and he's He's doing comedy and it's good and he's good looking at. and people are like, what do you make? People calling their grandfathers. He didn' grandpathers Wh And your gndpother would be like, what do you mean? And his his woo bracelet would fucking start, you know? Not good, not good. Call Edna now. like report to grandmother. I didn't realize I was affecting family. Dude, you were just it was just a lot for people, broke Um, sorry people had never seen that the, you know, this is like there's a there's there's some people that have like skill like a skill and then another skill like People are surprised when somebody has one skill and then they also have something else. It's almost like Like Justin Tucker, do you know who that is for Baltimore the Baltimore Ravens kicker? Can you bring him up? Yeah yeah. He's an I believe he's is he opera singer He's a Meso He's a singer? He's a singer, way. So we got that leg in that throat, bro J'ust a full body powerhouse. Yeah And They said it would take a man forty years to get out of this here prison But Andy Du Frame did it in lesson twenty. Props to Justin Tucker. I mean, that's beautiful. What do you think is the bigger flex being an NFL punter or having that kind of skill set to opera sing I think that you get you the NFL punter is just a mild thing that he's doing. It's a hobby. Yeah, just to pay the bills while he pursues. Bro, when you got that kind of lung in your bro and you out there just he's just all lung. You ever try? You ever try to sing like that? Like you be like, I wonder if I can Yeah, I think I have probably. Have you? Yeah, of course. It's always like when you're in your car, you turn theado you turn the volume down just enough to hearself. You're like, am I fucking this up Then you can hearself you' like, I'm fucking ruining this song. Like I know I don't have it in me. becausecause you have to try eventually, you don't know what skills set you might have Yeah Like I was watching I a point. Yeahah, you don't what skill you might have, right? And who even ever even tries? How many people could like they never even tried. That's unbelievable. Yeah, like yeah, like are there things you've tried Are there some side quests that you've kind of tried? You know what? I feel like I've been so busy, I haven't had time to really explore a lot of other avenues, but I'd like to learn stuff. I'd love to learn like an instrument or something or fucking magic, dude. Yeah. fuckking magic I mean I think it's, you know, I'm kind of like That's where a black and me shows up at the surface, bro, when people start doing a lot of magic. It feels like it could be too real Just like what if this dude's doing this right here, what's he doing in his all in is you know what I'm saying? if he's willing to show us this. Yeah, what's he doing at the house? That's a good point But also picturing somebody learning magic in their house by themselves is also one of the funniest things I can imagine. I can't picture anything loneeler. Nobody around to see your wala or your Kazim. whatever your fucking power word is. I don't know. Is that not is that not a magician word? Is that like a chef Is that chef shit? That's a good question for. Yeah, do chefs and magicians bef over there like u Over their like verbal like ejaculate or whatever it's called it chef. Or like they're like do chefs or magicians beef over like their what is it called, do you think, Matt? They're like It's not deli they are it is a delivery, but they're finishing syllables. Finishing syllables. Yes. Is Oemonopia? Yeah what it is? I think it is. Is that like the word for sounds Bring it up onamanaia, dude Ona ona P was like some kid that couldn't read good that had to go to the toilet or whatever I remember that. we had a dude in our in our Sunday school and he couldn't You just started looking at him, Broon, you could tell he had to go to the tall. He was fiding him Yeah, his whole body would start shaking, bro. I'm not gonna lie you I would have lost all my money on how to spell that word Aem onaia. And you'd be like, damn, Aemanna pia soon, bother So we got to get him out of here, bro An Anamonopia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the sound that it describes I didn't even know there was a T in there. I've been saying on a monopia my entire life. Yeah Well, we can take a break if you need us to. Impacts and collisions. So like boom, bang, crash. You know what did it a lot was like those old comic books with like Batman Oh, one hundred percent.'s just it's just the one big word Bang. Yes. Back when it was it was Adam West was like the original. You big comic guy You know, I'm not that big into it, but I think I liked it when I was a kid, but I never got into the comic books. I feel that. Did you? No, I can't do it. I don't know why I'm not a big on paper kind of guy. Like I'm not reading Harry Potter books. I'm not doing it Yeah. now I mean, I could settle. I think if I ever have to go to the hospital for a long time, I'm saving Sopranos and Harry Potter for' I not gott to go to a hospital For a long recovery series. Yeah hospital or if I get married and if my wife's in a com or something I got to sit in there with her. You just have her propped up to watch the series? That's what's the, I mean, I'm gonna have just I w want to have something to do. I want to be able to look for becauseuse some people that's such a scary time in their life if your spouse is in a com or something If your wife's in a coma. So I want to at least be able to look forward to something. So I've saved Those things till then. What's that? Is it Munchausen Syndrome is where you keep somebody sick so that they need you? I could see you doing that toouff. Just to finish the series Yeah, do it like my wife's like, she's starting like you're getting like a little bit of reading on her, like her like be on the harby monitor? Yeah. ye. Oh, hold on, honey. I'm almost done O, I got four episodes of break in that left. You know that's happened to somebody. Oh one hundred percent. No, there was a guy I met a guy at a show one time who he faked being sick from work for three weeks to stay home and watch TV. That was like his full thing. Wow. And his wife totally just allowed it. O, which was like a cool mom letting you skip school. That's gotta be dope. Yeah, man, that's the one That's the the one. I wantna find a lady like that On the second day she's like, Oh, I see what you do. Oh, yeah, he's not even faking anymore on day three. He's just living his life. She's ono him. Yeah. And she's like. I like it. How long are you gonna be here Dang, dude. Yeahah, that's got to be if you get like a good partner like that. But yeah, dude, so that's like, u What are we even talking about the fuck we get into watchington Aon of P Automon of P. Yeahah, the bangs, the walls. magic. imagine what it was. What would you dragon? Yeah. Yeah What's your finishing term Oh man. because how did Wila come to be a term? How did or it tada? I think it's tada. Wila is definitely chef term. I don't know why that came to me Wila Well that sounds like tells audience the tr. Oh Oh Voila came from voila. Tells the A Cadabra. That's a yeah classic It's magic might be the lamest one I've ever. You do a trick and you gotta tellem what it is. It's magic. That's magic. Hey, that's like if you're mail up to a girl and it'side they youre like, It's sex Yeah That's come. Yeah. It's Wiener. She's like, it's barely Wener. like It's not Dick for sure. It's notick It's Wiener It's almost like one of those like, can't believe it's not d. Y How is that not like BlueCoo's motto Him's pills, I can't believe it's not day. Yeah.'s weird to pop one of those bad boys. The Bues? Yeah. Oh, dude, yes. And dude, I'll I'll even nibble just half of one. half. We, I kind of bed it on like how what's going on or whatever. L 'cause I used to live with my buddy's dad. I used to live brother. on, how could this possibly? Where's this going Yeah, it doesn't go anywhere gay. It goes to a straight place. There's no way But it takes a gay round. Okay. I'm listen, I'm following the curve buddy's dad and RIP, my buddy's dad just passed Wally. And I lived with him, dude right out of high school. I lived with him because he had a script for them Wayner pills, right. And I you just could they didn't have Blueew at the time. You couldn't just be getting those uers You know what I'm saying? And So when somebody it was like, dude, I was like, well, if I live with Wally, then he's got a script and I can just pop him if I needem becausecause I had a ton of sexual anxiety. And he wasn't using them all He was using them and he was going through them pretty quick. That's why I didn't know. I wish he'd have told me that before we signed the lease. So you're gonna have visitors. Oh, I talk dude. I thought I was gonna be living in L, dude You know what I'm saying fors. I'm just I'm just saying like his erection was getting its steps in, you know, So I'm saying He's got whoop He's got whoop around it. Yeah Yeah. It's like, yeah, that's Dick. You know was the what was the sexual anxiety that you Oh just in I had a lot of sexual anxiety, bro. Just nerves. Yeah, a ton of nerves. What is it like I had a tough time talking with girls. It made me nervous, bro. Like super nervous because I think I had a tough relationship with my mother. so even just the interaction with like looking at a woman being looked at by a horse, that kind of stuff was like made me super like nervous So I think that just That didn't just didn't just go away kind of. So they you move on through life and now now the women you're interacting with It's like about, you know, dating intimacy dating, sexuality, whatever. Wiener for weer That's all, you know, So just some of that. But anyway So I went to live and I gott to talk, dude, I have you here and I'm talking so much. No I love the story already. So I went to live with Wally bra RIP. shout out. and And so we were living over there. we were living in like a studio apartment. So o no, no, it wasn't that bad. Sorry. It was one bedroom, but the bedroom didn't have it just had a little balcony. It didn't have like a full wall. Got it, got it, okay. So I'd sleep out on the couch and he had a car and he would let me borrow his car, but the car, you couldn't turn it off, you had to get it jumped I would drive the car to school and I'd park like this was at Loyola in New Orleans. I would park up by the teacher's area and just leave it running the whole time. And for some reason, if the car's running, they like wouldn't put a ticket on they' be like, somebody justan inside whatever. It's genius. So I'd leave it running the whole time. I was at class. It would cost like maybe six dollars in gas, but I would leave it running anyway He got the pills, I would try to nibble off of them so he didn't see it. I' trying to reshapeem in Shibra. I was carving them into the crescent moons. Look dude, I was trying to make them all smaller Shibbro. I was like chiseling Yest, ye I was like he had like shift and it would be like an oval and now it's just like a diamond or something. L it was trapp shif. Did he ever catch you? Huh? Did He never brought it up to me bro. That's a gentleman And he'd have ladies over sometimes, and I was learning the guitar actually at the time, and he'd have go in there sometimes at night and play tears in heaven for them. That's the song I could play. Tears whoo sings that? I did at the time. It was u Eric Clatchton there you go. W you know my name? Being serenated to that would I don't even know if Id need the pill Yeah, they'd be drinking orange juice and vodka in the bed and not go in there and just play a form of. Dude it's hard to smash with a roommate I remember my first apartment in LA, I was living with my manager's son at the time. And it was a studio. There was just there was no door into the bedroom. So it was really an open floor plan. And I wasleep I lived on the couch and I had like the small closet, and he had like what would be considered the bedroom. I remember he was out of town one weekend and this girl wanted to come over We had we did sex in his bed. And she was like, what are all those clothes doing out there? I was like, Ohh, I let my friend live on the couch. Yeah. Oh, always. ye Yeah, my friend's not doing well I would say. Yeah, of course, may's like I'm doing a good beep. Yeah, he's passing through town.'s like, he's passing through town. you put all his pickers up on the walls and shit. you're like, ye kind of guy off course. Travels with his memories. Yeah, Yeah, travel with his memories, dude. voila, dude. Voila. Were you guys out this weekend? I knew you were here for CMA Fest, right? Yeah, I came down for to do some stuff with Billboard with the R Clay trays and then just stay in town for the shows, man. I fucking love it here You do. Yeah, I almost moved to Nashville, but I wanted land and I wanted a lot of it. Right. And there wasn't anything within like an hour of the city that I really liked.. If you live an hour outside Nashville, don't live in Nashville live in fucuckking Chatanooa. Yeah, yeah, you live a little bit further out. I agree. Yeah, it's nice. there's some good land out there Yeah,ude Yeahah I saw what did I see with Relade? You were giving them an award? Yeah, yeah, I gave them the groundbreakers award for Billboard That was awesome man. So good. They're such good guys. Oh, they're the best. Oh there you are right there, dude. this. so There was no introduction whatsoever. They just go, And Matt Rife. Everybody's like for real. It's turning away from the bar. There's a giant open pit of like, I'm gonna say thirty feet by fifty feet. of peopleople just standing like it was a wet floor. Noobody wanted to come close. It' the weirdest thing ever Yeah Thiskay's like two minutes long. L the guys up ude that's awesome. you get got to bring these guys. They're special, broros. You know, comedy really a lot of comedians really embrace them. I think a lot of If you go to their shows It's almost music for manen and young manen. Do you feel like that in a way? I do. I do. mean it's such a I don't know, it rems me of music like the fifties and sixties, which I think was like music's golden age. And I think there's a yearning for that because everybody loves that sound, but there's no new production of that. and I think they that out it's refreshing. I love those guys. Yeah, they're so good, bro Sometimes I feel Dude' my favorite song. Is I fuck it? I'm still fine. So good. Kyle and I would blast at my house Days People are living it up, I think that l It doesn't a matter of that m. That's so good, dude. Oh, I love them show the regularay straight. Hull look those lyrics, dude, Let me see those lyrics for a second You know, Brandon's brother Matthew wrote that song. He wrote it. Yeah, not even in the band, technically. He's writing hits, dude. I saw him the other night, dude. I knew he wrote some of their songs Um Sometimes I feel like I can't feel. Obviously, this is a song about being on antidepressants then. This is a song about coming off of SSRI's, dude. This is real should be hurting. This is at real should be hurting. I was alone. I was a song, Music and bone, God's perfect wording U People here living it up, I think they're blind. I think they're out of their minds. Not one of them has had this. God's not giving up on me. No, I'm just fine It's just a matter of time I mean, those are bars in there yeah I think guess powerful stuff. people here living I think they're blind.'s like, yeah, how can you How can you be so positive and all the stuffs going on I think that's kind of sometimes it's where we are in the world. and I don't even want to get negative, but it's like it does feel sometimes like we are pretending that we're okay. Does that make sense? Absolutely. I mean, I think I operate from a big position of just bliss. I try to stay ahe of stuff.ike I'm not a political person at all. I should get torn to shreds for even saying this, but like I don't pay attention. It seems so stressful It seems like all bad stuff all the time and I'm like, it's either happened or it's not nothing I can really do about it. Yeah. So I mean, sometimes being uninformed leades to a little bit of happiness I do know it's a good it's a good point. I think the more that I've the more I learned sometimes, the more It hurts sometimes or something hurt. I don I don't know what it is. No, I think that's life though. Think about like when you're a kid, you don't know anything. L is so blissful, right? can't don't You don't even know about all the problems going on Yeah, I do you that's so right, little kids are just like, ye, they don't know anything I think the more you learn as life goes by, I mean, I think the the magic of life kind of gets Smeared. Yeah, you know, sometimes I wonder it's like sometimes we we'll talk about stuff on here that's like kind of political or things that like we feel a lot of it's like stuff that you end up learning about through technology too. And it's like we wouldn't know it if we were like back in like tribal time where we were in like these, you know, if we didn't have so much technology, we wouldn't know a lot of the stuff. But do you think that's how we're supposed to be though? I don't think it's how we're supposed to be. I think there will be a time in the future where we will look back. and or someone will look back and they'll be like, what were they Dude, How did they even what was happening? Do you think we're supposed to know about everything going on in the world? Like do you think we should know what's going on like overseas in different countries with different people? It's tough, dude, as human beings Well, I wonder if Sometimes I think that no, it doesn't do us any good. I mean, a lot of times I'm angry about stuff that's not even in my area and then it's like where I could probably put that put that same energy towards stuff that is maybe more localized Yeah or even in my own family and personal life to have a better effect on those things or try to M. Dan I also I've heard people talk about like that there's no real separation like in between space and time. So I wonder sometimes like if people like If you see something that's so painful in the world and you prayed enough about it or you really tried to channel like whatever could have been blessed to you or bestowed upon you. if you try to channel it towards Could you have an effect, you know? Because then that makes me think, oh, well then there is some purpose to all of that. Yeah. abbsolutely. But I don't know. I don't know any of that, but it's just it is stuff to think about. No, that's a good spiritual direction, though. I like that. You know, it's something to think about. But I don't think there's anything. I can't sit here and be like sometim like sometimes I'll be like, well, why don't certain people say this? say speak up something but that's That's to me like trying to project or think some way. It's like Everybody's on their own thing. Yeah, of course. Sometimes I maybe have wishes, but But sometimes it's like, yeah, it' be better just to like sit and laugh S of people just want their comedians to just joke around and not be Yeah not talking about other st. Yeah, sometimes because somebody doesn't speak up on something doesn't mean that they're not empathetic about it. Maybe they just Maybe they can't handle it. Maybe that's just not where they're They might have blinders on that, you know, they have their sights on something specific or just minding their own business doesnn't always mean they're bad person. I don't think. No, I don't think so either Yeah like I have friends of my buddy's like, dude, I was like do you ever think about this or worry about this? He's like, Well, you know, I got a coupleid my kids right now and I have a kid who, you know, he has a kids that has some learning disabilities. He's like, I just spend I have just focus all on that. It's like, you can't fault that. It's like, No, I think that's actually better. I think I think gener I think focusing a lot of your energy on the things more direct to you, I think can be a good thing. I think that's a lot more peaceful Think about the things that get like people are complaining online all the time about something, right? Yes. All the time. it's like, okay, is that thing you're complaining about? to you personally more important than like your kids baseball game or whatever it is or or their birthday party coming up or something that's more important to you directly Right If you're sitting in the stands, like you're like mastering a tweet and you miss your kids, like, , you know, double or exactly. I agree. How do you even have time to do that? If you're not focused on something more important And sometimes we'll leave I'll notice I'll find other things to worry about, so I don't have to worry about my own shit that's healthy or not. Oh, I don't think it is at all, but I notice I'll even use worrying about other stuff sometimes as like a method of like escapism. from Mike taking care of the things that need to be taken care of. That's a very good point. Next time my dick doesn't get hard, I'm like it's just with everything going on in Iran right now, you know what I mean? Like how can you even possibly expect me to be up preg now. Wait, you're expecting sex when there are people starving somewhere? Okay, that's perfect hell. Yeah. Oh, my penis is't where it's obvious, you know, that's look There's stuff happening in Gaza right now and you're expect what do you you're expecting a lot. Okay? You want troops on the ground over here, right? But you don't want it over there. What are we talking about? It is kind of that's hilarious, dude. Yeah misx. Yeah, yeah, yeah It's that time Not it's not time to get a divorce or anything like that. It's that time for prize picks. That's what I'm saying Przise picks is America's number one sports picks app The app is really simple to use To get started, you just pick more or less on two plus player stat projections and lock your picks in. That's that's How you do it Or if you'd rather just pick teams and you can do that, Prize picks has that now too. 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I mean, Tommy Davison to Polly Shore to Jim Brewer, Bill Bellamy, I've opened for Oh Ralphie, obviously. When I was like still living in Ohio, he used to let me come down here and do his shows right before Christmas' Zanies And he would like, I mean, he would pay me hundred dollars, which I'm in high school, so that's like a million dollars to me. so that I could like I could go back home and like buy my family Christmas presents with that money. Oh dude. He's like the nicest guy. So mean, I've been coming here for a while I love it here. Yeah The comedy scene too. Yeah, it's good people, man. It's some of the best people. I couldn't agree more I can't belie you guys to come down here and work with Ralphie. That was so wild. What was that like? Did you see him having troubles back then? I mean, that was a long time ago I mean, he was fat the whole time, right? I never knew him to not be gigantic. U So I mean, there was no I mean, I was also sixteen, seventeen. So again, I'm not really like looking for problems Wow. Yeah, that's at the That's you. That's the Brea improv. Yeah, I think I'm I'm seventeen in this mayaybe eighteen I think I'd maybe just turn eighteen in that But look at that watch Wow. Fake. Couldn't be more fake. I think it look' supposed to be What's it made out of like? Looks like a goddamn Ben ten watch dude. Looks like it's made out of ivory. Is it real ivory? It's not real ivory, man Is pure plastic Is that real tusk? Not at all, man. Oh dude, look at Ralphie's smile, bro. Yeah, man. I miss him a lot He was such a good guy He started when he was super young too. I think he started when he was fourteen It was full of black He said he was so big because a lot of his inside had a lot of blacks a lot of blacks in him. Black people inside of him. I mean, he could fit a couple of black people inside of him. He said there was like a couple black guys in the front seat and the back seat of him ' you know, it you give one brother ride. couple of brothers show like like who, who's that? Yeah? You know,'s be hopping on the pegs know Yeah dude. That was the craziest thing where I used to bike through the neighborhood and on my way to school I'd go through the black area and my buddy Jonathon would get on the on the back and then like sometimes a couple of his boddies would get on the front, dude And so I was just this little just like white little engine that could, dude, you know, just like just pumping. I think I can. I think I can I'm just sitting there. Yeah And they used to call me the N word bus. That's what they that's what they call me. When they saw me pulling up, they'd like, Ohh, here come your bus. And they'd all jump on. D not have to get like five guys to get, you know, help them get their education or whatever. And I was like, I can do and get their education. Like you were public service. if I didn't get them there, it was like eleven more blocks to school. If I didn't get them there, they wasn't going. They stopp at block eight Oh yeah, yeah. O or two dudes got off, Rro We never saw them again. That's so fucking funny too. So that was wild, bro. But yeah, Ralphie was like Ralphie was one of a kind bro. I can't name somebody else that's like Ralphie. Can you really? No, man. I really wish I could see how he would have navigated like comedy today. it's changed so much in just the fifteen years that I've been doing it and watching him I mean, not give a fuck isn't the most articulate way to say that, but like he was just so unapologetically himself and people fuck with the dude. I had never met anybody who didn't like him Dude, I remember I broke down when he passed. It like really hit me hard. Oh say, man. That was. Arguably my first like mentor in comedy He u I was I wasn't I think I'd maybe just turned sixteen. he was coming to Youngstown, Ohio was playing a theaterre up there. No I'morry was Cleveland. It was doing hilarities up there And this was like when Twitter, like you could reach anybody on Twitter. Everybody was so accessible. So I like tweeted at them and I was like, hey I'm this kid in Ohio and I'm doing comedy now. can I open for you at Hilard? And he was like, yeah, you know what? fuck it come on down. But my mom ruined it Well, 'use she had no experience in this whatsoever. I mean, to her, this is just a grown man inviting her son up to Cleveland. Right. This is like pedophilia or whatever. Yeah, she had no idea. I mean I'd been doing comedy for humorous pedophilia. Humorous pedophilia Maybe five months' been doing standups. So I didn't know anything either. So she's asking like, where do I park? Do we need to buy tickets? What times do we need to be there? Where do we need to go? Do I need to talk to anybody? I ended up asking him so many questions on behalf of my mom. He was like, Hey, man actually it's actually not going to work out. So he can't he cancellled on me. And then maybe Six months later He was doing Youngstown. And he let me come up and do that. That was like my first theater show, paid me a hundred dollars for it. It was nice. didid you hold that against your mom? Oh I'm like, I was devastated because to me, I was like, this is gonna to be my big break. You know what I mean? I'm going to be this famous comedian after doing one guest spot in Cleveland. Oh, but that's all it takes you. You get three minutes of a video somebody bringing you up a, you get to bring Ralphie up, anything when you're that age, of course Bananas. I know. It would have been awesome. The theater show was very cool. I end up actually ended up meeting Tony Hinchcliff's mom at that show. In Youngstown? Yeah. She was just like, ye, I have a son who just moved to LA.' doing comedy out there open like Jeff Ross. I didn't think anything of it. I didn't know anybody mooved to LA. and he was like, you fucking know my mom. And why did why was she at that show? She was just a Ralphie fan. No. Yeah. it was totally, totally random. I was just taking pictures of people after the show. and she was like, Yeah my son lives out there. He said his mom still has like the piece of paper that I signed for her. She kept it even after all those years. Oh, that's pretty cool, so crazy. Yeah I forget he's from Youngstown,u Mhm Dude, was it a pretty urban show No, the youngster was so white. It was so white dude. But I mean This was also when he was doing Ralphie was doing this bit about the N word and I think it I think it made it into one of his specials where he was basasically trying to make a point that if you desensitized the word and make it mean something different. So he was like, I think we should name the most delicious flavored cookie The N word No what you say like I love that. Oh I see that. you could say it more optimistically. But this was like a mostly white room with a few black people, but it didn't matter. Like the joke was just great across the board. Like he was for everybody. hisis crowds were so eclectic. Oh and I love coming up with that. I never wanted to like pigeon hole played like a specific audience. and like if he can appeal to everybody, like that's the main goal. Yeah, dude. Well yeah, just to be your I think to try and try and Be as close to your truth as what it is. And I think Ralphie was that guy. He was just like, he loved like being accepted by black folks and white folks. He loved bringing them together with humor Yeah U and he loved just like being able to kind of be welcome in that space because to be in that space also and navigate comedy, it's important. because you have like a You know, have a responsibility, somebody you can bring people together. If two people can laugh at the same joke That's a big thing. I couldn't agree more. I think sense of humor is so important, dude. Dude, that's so cool that you got to have some of those moments with him. Yeah. when I first moved to L.A, he he used to pick me up big go like a diner. he'd make me order like three entrees and I was like, is this fucking for you? He was like, no, whatever you don't eat, you can take home with me. Now you have like groceries for your week. Yeah, I have leftovers for it. the nicest guy, man Wow. I know, I know. Hey, that's big, bro, That's a big heart. He was mostly heart Marten Brothers inside. M mostly Marten Bothers. He was one of those people that like I wish I could have got to share what I get to go through now with him because I knew him from like so so young. I knew somebody that looked up to. Yeah. J to give his perspective, honestly see what advice he would have had, you know Yeah, dude, that was a huge loss. What did he pass away from exactly? Did he have pneumonia pretty bad? I think it was COVID. I think he had early COVID want to get clear on that It was not COVID. I'm pretty sure it was a heart attack cardiac arrest. Ralphie made out of cardiac arrest caused by hypertensive cardiovascular disease The Clark County Nevada Coronner officially ruled his death as natural ting He he was battling pneumonia at the time Um That happens a lot roughy had our heart attack, his lung collapsed I mean, that lung was exhausted A me God, Damn Brog I think I can, I think I can, I think I can't We gotta get these brothers to school, dude. That was his long, dude All damn b He would love that joke though. He would love that He he would love it. love it. Dude, honestly, I can I'm not even joking. I can feel him smiling right now. That's one thing, B. I believe that There is this there's this Like between space and time Like if we say like Ralfie, we love you and we miss you and thank you for all the times you made us laugh. But I think he can feel that somewhere. I think so. So I think that there's like a like I think there's a way that you like that you can transfer like a feeling or like a hope, you know U through space and time, you know, I don't know. No, you can call it prayer. You can call it whatever whichver angle you want to come from, I think it does affect things. Yeah And here's the thing, even if it doesn't, isn't it so much better to just believe it anyways? one hundred percent. Isn't life just better to believe it? Yeah I mean I feel the same way about fucking bigigfoot. Just cooler to believe he's out there. Yeah, dude. is he? probablyrobably not, but it's so much more fun to think maybe he is. Dude, what about the guy that just was under Rogan that saw an eight fam think gives a Navy seal, canan you bring him up? They saw an eight foot big They said eight foot. That's pretty big. Well how tall is Victor Wiminana You gotot to be close, but his little ass he would be a punk he would be kind of a punk in the big fuck community. He' aunt. I mean, he would be I mean, they would respect him for sure. He more of a Slender manan. Oh you fuck with Slenderman? I mean, I don't fuck at him. do That's my that's my lame dog. I love all spooky shit. Oh yeah, that's right. Do you bought all the you bought the spooky You you invested in Edin Lorranz ye Yeah, their home museum. Wow. Yeah, dude. That right, dude. That's where you live. You live in Rhode Island. In Rhode Island. Yeah, yeah, but their housees in Connecticut. so's down the street hour and a half drive, something like that. It's fucking awesome, man. How does that come to pass, man? I know some of this might be old news. No, no, no. a lot of people know that I'm even into this stuff My friend and my business partner Elton Caste, he and I started doing like he had been doing ghost hunting on YouTube for, oh God, probably close to like eight years now. And then I kind of came aboard about five years ago something like that. We've been like around the world to some of the most haunted places. It's so fucking. You have? Yeah, yeah. had Sam and Colby on here talking about that before. Oh those guys are awesome. Yeah, those guys are fucking sick. Dude, one time I went to dinner with Roguean I go meet him? Sam and Colby are are they like as with Joe? Y, shut up Blew my mind. Yeah man. They're good dudes. I was like, what the fuck are y'all doing here? It's smaller world than you think. Oh, they're like the like spooky in synink kind of. It's like it's kind of what they seem like a little bit when you meet them, you know? Yeah, man, they're handsome for no reason. Yeah It's like, oh you yourre handsome and your ghost hunters. there' another there a couple Justin Tuckers dude That's who they You can't even see bangs in the dark. There's no reason to even have good hair like that. I that's just. Bangs that's anutomonopia bang. I'm talking about hair, man Take me through a little bit more of that. So you moved So you so first you why did you move to Rorod Island? You said you wanted some land? Yeah, I wanted land, main.ed I wanted some land. I wanted a city that is convenient for travel. And so like PVD is like my Burbank airport and then Boston's like my LAX. if I have to have to have to go direct. Okay so that's Proidence in Boston Airport. Yeah. And then I wanted some kind of a comedy scene. And Providence has the comedy connection there, which is a fucking greatreat A club. They've got a couple of good theaters there that I'll do like our holiday toy drives at and stuff on the wintertime. And then they have a there's a ton of open micics There's a bunch of don't tells out there. So like when I'm home and I want to work stuff out, like there's no shortage of stage time at all. Wow. I they kind of just checked all the boxes. It's awesome.ude's so peaceful, It's so beautiful. it's quaint It's got everything I need.ike I said, the airports nearby, comedy is nearby, Targets eight minutes away. How far is it from the airport to your house? seeventeen minutes? That's good. Yeah, it's not bad at all, dude.. And I mean, we're in the cities all the time for work, right? Like we're always. I'm always in New York. I'm always in L.A. or Miami, Chicago or whatever. L when I'm not there, I just want Like that's what actually. What made you pick that? I mean Rhode Island is just an interesting place. No, absolutely. You know, it's kind of like It's kind of romantic Rhode Island to me has like this like beachy kind of romantic scene but also like this thuggish sort of scene. Well I didn't know how like mob deep it was, dude had no I had no idea Rhode Island was like run by the mob for a while, which was pretty fucking awesome I was doing shows at Mohegans Sun in Connecticut And this is around the time I was like just starting to look for like, maybe I'll get a house someday. My lifes starting to change. And I was on Zillow And I found the house like an hour away and I was like, shit I should just go check it out before the shows tomorrow. I went, check that out I just fell in love with it Yes, I mean totally random. Didn't know anybody there A couple of friends have moved out there ever since they live with me, so it it's to be a nice little compact. Well, you got friends living with you? Yeah, absolutely. Have you had kick anybody out don't thinkinking, what's that been like? You guys splitting wener pills out there? What are you guys doing out there? Bro, It's like you live there. That's good to hit both on my head is pretty impressive. Yes and yes, man. We're ration it up there, brother. Oh yeah, dude. Now I will say this Wienerpill Pactory ever closes, dude. there is going to be the market is gonna to be hot for those bro. Oh my god, it's the new Kalos. You think they get better with age? I don't even think about that.. It's gonna sit on a couple. I put some in my safe. Yeah. in a little time capsule. Give one of your grandson one day, huh He he this. Now your diaper won't fit Yeah That's ridiculous.. I kind of love living with the homies. It's nice. The house is big enough that like my boy Kyle lives upstairs. I live downstairs, like Th days I don't even see them Yeah. We'll meet together in the kitchen for like an uncrustible around four PM. That's about it, dude. It's so peaceful. It's just chill When you're there, like what types of things do you get inv do you actually have enough time to take off when you're there or what's that like for you right now? I know you just said it. I saw you guys were filming and you were filming in Vancouver. How was that Yeah, I was in Vancouver for like seven months last year. Who way? Oh dude, within a week I had to move. L I didn't think I was going to get this role. at all. And then they called them and we were like, Hey, you got it, need you to move to Vancouver. And I was like, awesome. It was Friday. They're like, need you there Monday. And I was like Oh, okay I mean, things could happen that fast. Did you have touring dates you had to cancel everything? I only had to cancel a couple for film dates, but luckily they let me keep as many of them as I could which is important to me Yeah, for sure, Matt Rif among ten cast in Netflix's FTX series. And this FTX, it's about crypto. It's about the cryptocurrency. Yeah Do it rel Paul Rud No, it's not Paul Rud. whichich Which one do you think is Paul Rudd? Which one of those? Bottom middle. but you think that's Paul Rud? Does it look like into anybody else or just me Not a I wish Paul Rose was in this. He's fucking great. Oh, nobody is. You thought that was that guy need some help I'm still fine. No, don't sing your way out of it, man. dude. Oh me. We can't your way out of goop your your way out. I'm just saying, bro, things happen sometimes visually for people I think some of those weiener pills I fucking got my optics off. You got some side effects? You some side effects, some lingers. Yeah, bro. Can't see. Yeah, immagine you took so many weiener pills you just stole. The side effect is you can't get celebrities right anymore. I don't think that's that bad You eat like Beetle dish, you're like it was up shack. Dude, I met Shack, by the way for the first time. I did a thing with Bertt for the Netflix Festival He's he really is that fucking big He's gigantic, man. Also one of the best sense of humors of like a non comedian I've fucking ever make. Really? Dude, he's funny, loves a good joke about himself, man. you know, Burt was doing the whole u You know, the whole shirt takeoff thing backstage for this promo video was Shack took his shirt off and I was like, You did? Damn. Dee Jack? Yeah, man Dude, look how ripped, yeah Man, sometimes I like to u I like to remince about Summertime. suummertime. Maybe it was hot. And mom would try to make the best out of things, though. And she said, one day, she said, I'm going to take y'all to see the world's biggest ant hill about seventy miles from us And so we sat there and we weren't really excited, but we was curious. And sometimes that was enough in the summertime to get you out of the house And mom didn't know, but I'd snuck me a little devil egg in my pocket so I could head me a little snack I'd snuck a little DE down in my pocket with a piece of ice next to it so I could keep it cool in there. And we got to that ant hill and it was I mean, you couldn't even imagine how big it was You need you needed two people to imagine it at the same time even to to have the imagination of it two imaginations And they had all types of ants in there that had ants they had. Uh, step ants Uh, anntts once removed, they had cants. They had ants just couldn't do it anymore You know, they just said They was dealing with impairments or high blood pressure. And we werere about ninety five minutes into the tour. We'd been You know, was coming around the east end of that ant hill and And I'd been bit probably twenty, thirty tim by now and And they had a little rest arey little bathroom are. I said, I'm gonna sneak off behind these toilets and have me that deviled egg baby, have me a little cut of that DE that I had in my pocket And I reached in there Those ants had pick my pocket clean, brother I don't know how much deevil was in that egg, but It wasn't enough to keep those ants away. So we had some times out there, man And they were challenging and they were exciting And they were adventurous and that's summertime, you know? Anyway Cheers to Mountain Dew. Tastes like America tastes like summer So you were up there in Vancouver, you Was it an enjoyable experience? Vancouver' is awesome. It's Vancouver's beautiful. I had a good time with that being a part of like that pedigree of a project is awesome. Anthony Boyle and Julia Gardner are the leads of it And they're just such fucking great actors. Really? Like if they're not nominated for an award for for the show, I mean it's robbery. They're so so talented to like get to like learn from people like that. day after day for seven months was just an awesome opportunity. It was so hard though. Like the dialogue was just not something I was familiar with. L it's all about crypto shit. So like every line, I'm having to like Google what I'm even saying. Oh really? was that intense? Oh my God, so obviously memorizing the lines was a lot more difficult than just like a day to day conversation Yeah, But it was a good challenge. love I love acting. I want to do more of it for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. But the thing about acting is it takes away from that standup, It takes away from that stage time efinitely does. It's hard to go because if you have those long days where you having long days Oh yeah, I mean, you're on set for sometimes a seventeen hour day. You can't go do stand up at the end of the day. No. but I mean, most of the seven months I was filming Monday through Friday and then Saturday morning I'd get on a plane to go to a show Saturday night, G fly to the next place Sunday. and then I'd have to take like a red eye after the show Sunday night to be on set at like six AM Monday morning. So there were some weeks from I'm showing up on like, no sleep If you want to do all if you want to do it all like price to pay for it. else with a standu up, like I've been doing it for literally half my life And I'm so like blessed to be in the position that I'm in right now. like it's fucking insane the opportunities I've got to have over the last couple years that There starts to become more of a Q question of like, what now? what's stand up, like I've sold out Madison Square Garden, I've done the Hollywood Bowl. It's like, what what is supposed to be after that, like For me, that that's when the fun of just the creative behind is what kind of has to propel you. Like I still have these funny thoughts and these stories that I want to tell. You have to just enjoy doing standup You find something to chase, but it's not always a venue sometimes is just Bression Yeah, dude, I think it's interesting you say that Like I've been at a spot right now where like We had like my friend and I made a movie that we did that we made ourselves, right that came out and we did the whole process. and we just taped a comedy special. We did like there's been some things that have just come to an end, right and touring And now and that's all finished right now. Like for like the first time in twenty years, I don't have a tour date on the books and I don't ever have to have one if I don't want. How does that make you feel? It's it's a lot of things. It's been like I had a little bit of depression. I didn't know what it was from. I think some of it was from, I don't There's not a ton to do, like just podcasting. Yeah. but I haven't really felt like I don't know Iven't a lot ofotivation And I don't know if some of it's because like, u There's just not a ton to do. like I mean, do you feel fulfilled? in that field. Sometimes I feel like Well, what do I like Yeahah, I think part of it is like, Yeah, well what what do I want to do now? What if I did I just start stand up like twenty years ago and I've just been doing it and like And then now what do I want to, you know, I want to keep doing it. I do know that I want to keep doing it. I don't know if I want to get on stage like right now. But there is part of me that's like, yeah, well, what else do you want to do? What else do you, you know? I think I kind of wish that there was like a like a family aspect of my life right now, like wife and children, but that's not there. So it's like, That's okay. It's just like, you know you gott to wait tillil that comes along, but I do think there's some like, u Like having patience with Like not the craziest days and that's okay. And what's going to be next and I don't know, right? I think having patience with I don't know is kind of tough for me. No, it's very hard. I mean, it's fear of the unknown, especially when you're used to working for it twenty years you're waking up day after day trying to create opportunity for yourself whether it's a tour or whether it's filming something or producing something, developing something, Like I can't take a vacation. If I take three days off I haven't performed stand upp in two weeks, I feel like I've forgotten. Ething I've been going crazy. I'm only home for like two to three days at a time when I'm there after the second day, I'm like fuck I feel like I need to be doing something. when I I don't like it's okay to like take a break and just be healthy and Be where your feet are at for a little bit. Yeah. I think that's that's that that's the tough part for me right now a little bit And then I think some of it's asking God like, well, what is, you know, like Does God want me to be doing what, you know, we're just like, I think you know, I go to that place of prayer for like, yeah, where You know, help me figure out what what do I want to do? because I'm not feeling like a ton of like, u don't know that's a thing. And so it's just kind of interesting. You know, I think it's I think that's totally fine, man. Yeah, it's just hard to be like it's incredibly hard, man. When you've been chasing something for so long and you feel like you've accomplished isn't the right word, but you least got to a place of comfortability where you don't need to be killing yourself every single day. Yeah, it's hard, man. from going from one hundred to zero two, you know? Yeah, It's hard to coast. Yeah, it's hard and you start to feel I mean, all the little things come in like, well, if am I doing enough or I'm going to fall off or these things are have fallen off. L all and some of that's all just bull it's all it's all bullshit. It's all just whatever. Yeah. But all those little things kind of come in and you start you put each one on the scale of you and be like, well what weight does this really have? And sometometimes it jumps on the scale itself, some of these fears or things and you don't even know it and you're under the weight of it before you realize, oh, I didn't even put this there. This just kind of shows How much of it is ego. You know what I mean?ud How much can I put that aside and how much this is actually important to me? That's the biggest thing is yeah. No, it's so hard. How much of this is ego too and what ye, what's important? What do I need? And then what is my voice best? How could my voice best even be used moving forward For myself and for like anything, you know All that kind of stuff. Does that make sense to you? That makes perfect sense. I can't thank you enough for even understanding what that feels like. Like most people just don't get that Is there is a fear of slowing down for sure. Like I mean and I have slowed down a ton. we were doing forty to fifty shows a month between like twenty twenty four to the beginning of twenty twenty five I mean six to seven shows six to seven nights a week two shows a night tooe. Your schedule was scary, dude. I remember. We spoke one time you were having ale were you having sleeping disorder? Yeah, man, you called about that. I really appreciate that, by the way. You having sleeping disorder. I had horrible insomnia. L I literally cannot fall asleep without like the assistance of something, ye So what do how do you even aF? I mean, I guess it's easy to figure, but did you notice what was keeping me up? Were you drinking coffee late in the day? No, no I don't do any caffine at all. Like never never have can cannot do it. My brain just like You know, when you're about to fall asleep and then there's just like the light swit just goes off. Your brain's just off. Now you are like unconscious. Yeah. I can't fucking flip the switch. I can't do it. I can get so close. My brain just cannot do it. I'm not even like thinking about things. I'm not up anxious about anything. I'm not worried about anything. There's not anything in particular in my life that I'm worried about just can't do it. and I've been to sleep doctors, I've got therapists. What's that? Did you go to sleep doctors? Yeah, yeah. And they all, I mean, the problem is they all just want to They wanted to prescribe you medication, but I'm like, that makes me feel even crazier. That makes to make me feel like I have to have help. to do the most basic human thing feels fucking crazy. So I mean, I do take something that does help me get to sleep, doesn't keep me asleep, and I still don't sleep well but they Most of my doctors think it's probably just like an underlying anxiety, but I'm like I't want to take anxiety medication. I don't want Yeah, and are you feeling laying there all horny or whatever or you just laying there likein run way past that, dude. My dick is like fucking tapped out. you're done. I'm empty, bro fall to asleep in fucking Lego hands, dog. Oh d Yeah, man. What are you saying You ever jerk off and try to fall asleep? Oh yes, dude. Yeah. what are you talking about? probablyably Less than thirty hours ago, I did. We shook hands as soon as I came out here, man. Now it has showered once since then. you ever you ever accidentally get a wake up nut though when you're trying to fall asleep Where' that boost of energy on accident? Like what do you mean? L If you jerk off in the beginning of the time like what is that wake up nut? A wake up nut is kind of like about that I imagine it's like a shot of B twelve it's like get into a cold plunge. L there's just something that kind of shocks your system. you're like, okay, I' ready I'm ready to tackle the day. Do you wake up and do a nut? Sometimes, it depends on the day, you know what I mean Itpends on the weather Oh really Yeah, man. it's suny out. I' not gonna jerk off in the gloom Oh yeah, dude, I don't know. I'm more like Emo. I think I'm that dude, I'm that Tim Burton nut monkey, dude. I think I'm more like, you know, it's cloudy out. We got a forty percent chance of nut.ee that feels depressing to me. L my dick's not gonna give it its all. Well dude, my dick gave up I don't think my dick ever even wanted to be a part me and them in a partnership But yeah, I agree, but on a sunny day I'm jerking off. The Lord has blessed me with this beautiful sun and I'm gonna be like, Oh, let me show you what I can do. J J just add a little something to it. You know what I mean? Now I want to be walking on sunshine, dog. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right, bro. I want to add I'm trying to ride ride that high. Yeah, you're right, bro. There's different avenues to it for sureort. First like if you jerk off after like, I don't know, seven thirty PM. that's more that's more of a downer that's he has to relax you. That's to close it down. Yeah, I think so. What did they tell you? What did they tell? what was like did you have any? Did you try a CPAP machine they do all that kind of stuff too? Yeahah, it's not a problem like that. Dude, honestly they can't figure out the problem is, which drives me fucking crazy. I'm like, what am I at an anomaly I'm like the one person in the world who has whatever problem have if my brain doesn't seem possible. Right? Like you're like awake squatch or something. what? A awake squatch, you're like bigfoot but it's like for like somebody awake squ that won'tleep or whatever. Like if you've seen him, he doesn't sleep or whatever. I think I haveatever Michael Jackson had.aybe I've been a logo or something Maybe that's keeping me up. Does that keep you up? Maybe. Dude, I just saw this thing the other day about when Michael Jackson went to Brazil, can you bring that up Dude, he did a lot of things that uh challenge the status quo. like he wanted to go to Brazil to the Favelas to shoot. Which video was it Um they don't care about us right here song by the American singer Michael Jackson initial release He was a beautiful Asian woman I saw him one time when I was on stage We used to do the There was a comedy club in Westwood. Can't remember it now? It was like Steve Byrne was there all the time, Adam Hunter, like a lot of like great like comics um in the LA scene U, Dane would come in sometimes the window I was on the stage one time and out the wow next door was oz costume shop H HHS. like, a And Monopia. Yeah Im M aia, dude. And he was and he pulled up in a with some security guards and got out and went in there. it was like after hours, they let him go into the costume shop. No way. Yeah you would open up the door for Michael Jackson. I'm on stage and I see and I know he lived not far away and it was just the craziest thing. I'm like, Oh that's Michael Jackson And I'm on stage saying because I can see out this window on stage. and the audience can't see. it's from the second story. Oh they think you're making it up. Yeah they get like you I get some guy yelled and I'm like, whoa, J just because I saw Michael Jacks again, dude. No. He's really there. He's not my fucking sleep paralysis, Den. Yeah, dude, yeah So people will'll just call you just that for anything now. Oh, I know Um talking about sleep and then Oh yeah what were some of the modalities that they ' because I'm assuming you went pretty deep down this hole trying to figure this out. Oh, yeah,ad you had to take a break at some point, Right? Yeah, man. I had to cancel I had to cancel shows and Yeah, how many doctors for it? I had like six doctors at some point. all doing different things in different categories or whatever. like where they were they taking your blood? what were they doing? They did blood test, they check they check all that kind of stuff. I was doing scans on my brain or whatever trying to measure like what parts of it don't do and don't turn off that kind of thing. Apparently I'm normal, but I just cannot Sleep, dude. It's awful. Yeah, I did have to take a couple of weeks off. I like passed out on the way to a show People were fucking pissed, dude I mean, it was like An hour before the show was supposed to start, but like I hadn't slept for like five days What was going on? Like were you manic Oh, incredibly, incredibly, dude. I mean I'm up like crying between the hours of like four AM and nine AM just because I'm like, I just want to go to sleep. I'm exhausted and I canot I cannot shut my brain I'm like journaling to like my fucking dead grandfather. I'm like, Hey man, send some sleep talk, something jerkking off back to journaling and jerking off back to doing everything I can And I was heading to the show and I like I like nearly like fainted and like fell into the bushes and I was like, cannot do this show. Like I will not make it.ike I might even I wouldn't even be able to sit down in the stool. so we had to cancel the show.'m I'm laying in the hospital. I'm getting like death threats The people like in bars in Indiana being like, we hope Matt Rright fucking dies. And I'm like, I'm going to, dude. Yeah, people did not care. But That's like Morgan Wand just had they had a weather issue for his. all that. but it's like He's not he's not a meteorologist. It's not up to him. Yeah, he's doing the best that he can and people just they won't cut him a break.. W imagine it was like a strong winds or something like that I think they were. He has a big set and it's like, you know, once if something falls, it's a tornado touches down in the middle of a concert and he didn't cancel it. Yeah. He's done, dude It's people die at the concert. Yeah. Oh you can't be on stage, you know? Guess'm the And like people are getting hit by lightning of course Yeah twwistters touching down? Yeah. of course That's crazy. There's a twist just throwing people up on stage. It wass like people are passing by you in the air. You can't please everybody, man. he would have been s in peopleople were just flying. People are wishing they had s in their boots because theyre fucking would be anchored down better. It's like cut the guy some damn slack, man. He just wants to be He just wants to do his best. He's fucking awesome. you know, I had I had Kyle dress up as him for the for the AA's AA that it was for Yeah, because they had me presenting and I was was here he's sitting here with us one of the best photographers Yeah, he does all my videography. does. He does a great job.. I couldn't harm becauseuse you had him Sorry If something happenens, you could help bid me. I guess well You're up on the block boy. dude. Yeah, now look, I'm not saying I'd get one. I' make sure I get a friend with them. I one or two. They say you can't have them be alone. They're kind of like goats. We'll see about it, K. They have me presenting for it and they had me presenting in a country category. so I just I wanted to do some kind of bit for it. And the bit was basically get everybody to be like, oh my God, Morgan Wallen is here. and Where was that at This was the AMA' in Vegas. So he shaved his beard completely down. He had just the mustache and he had this big old mullet wig with a little hat down. He looked just enough like him. The bit was supposed to be that like the camera goes to him. It's so obviously not Morgan Wallen and that was going to be the bit. but he looked so much like him that people were like Okay, okay, cool Morgan Wall's here. Like completely fucking failed because he looked so much like him. Yeah. Is that online? Yeah, yeah, yeah. think I think I posted it on my Instagram, I'm sure. And all the country pages anduff picked it up and everything. they like Oh M Rev takes dig at Morgan Wall. I'm like it's complete opposite. I'm saying he's definitely too fucking good to be here. He is too good to be here. He's selling out the moon, dog Yeah, Day, that's hilarious. He get snubbed on so many of these awards. I don't get it I don't think he cares about it Well, I mean, what is what does it matter? If you know you know you're the entertainer of the year. The fuck else is doing multiple stadium shows? I agree. It's like, wow, what this it's just for you. Yeah you know one hundred percent. It's just' talking about ego earlier, right? Right?. It's just for the ego of these companies. a lot of these things, you know, they want to keep this idea that some select people get to decide who the the entertainer of the year is. It's like Let the numbers decide. Oh one hundred percent know. I couldn't agree more. It's like with the they trying to give a podcast in awards or something earlier. I think this was this year last year And like do you want to be in the award, you have to pay to be You know, you're you got pay to be in consideration. They got you. they gave you a nomination But then you have to pay to be, u to see if if you'll be like one of the top five or whatever. That's so weird. And it was like, first of all, pay us to nominate you It was that was part of the edge of it, right? You have to pay to continue to be nominated. It's like,, and I can't remember who it was, but it was like u That was part of it. And then they gave the award to like I think it was Amy Poler's podcast, which is great, right? She's one of the most talented entertainers that there are. If you're not giving that award to Joe Rogan, then what do you what do you even doing? Yeah? it's like right he wasn't even nominated for it because he didn't self bid himself. Right. That's crazy. but it's like what doest Giving it to him L then what are we we're just play then we're playing some game of yours. one hundred percent It's not a real thing. It' like you're playing algorithm in in a awardhip. Yeah. Yeah. so it's like I think a lot of people see through all that shit. like I don't like I want give me something that's real that's fine, but I don't want something that's some made I don't want to live in some made up type of thing where you decide who get who gets to be this thing? And that's why I think touring is so fucking awesome because it's totally in the hands of like your fans, right? It's it is literally a physical It's it's a physical what's what I'm looking for, fuck. It's u Proving that you have a connection with the people, right? Like those people are paying to come see you. That's harder money that they saved up. They got a babysitter. this is their anniversary, whatever it is. Those people are coming to see like that success speaks for itself. If you can move people to come see you in real life, does it matter what eight people voted in the middle of Hollywood or Nashville or whatever it is? Yeah, I agree, dude Um, Like that's the true success, I think Just let it be what it is You know? Why, you know? I don't know. I think I also have like I get some angs toward some of that Hollywood stuff, so I think Ill get it. I have a little bit of a chip in my shoulder about some of it. and I don't even know why all the time. Let's show this clip though right here. And yeah, dude, Morgan could go Morgan could literally go back in time before before people even knew him. and people were like, I heard he's good, you know? Well like percent. He could go to like forty years ago And people somehow like, yeah, I heard I heard that guy's good. Yeah, man Bro, look at this right here, dude. Is this AI? You get accused of being getting AI a lot? All the time I'm so AI Bro, you are a. I'm in Rhode Island right now What the heck I'd ever even realized it, dude Dude,'re like my fucking hot lesbian anunt that's AI, dude. You have a hot lesbian aut? Yeah. I'll turn her out, dog., let's fucking go I don't know. You guys look too similar though. Let me show this award show part I think we can all agree that the current state of country music someome pretty good hands, right? I mean, just tonight alone, we've seen Riley Greene Keith Urban And actually making his very first AMA appearance, Morgan Wallet is here. I'm kidding. Morgan Fallen, Dg. D He's my little off brand. That's crazy. Yeah, man. That's hilarious row. Yeah, first we realized he looked like this when he accidentally shaved his beard in Europe one time. We were fucking tearing him apart. I calledu him failer and heart. You did Yeah. You accidentally shaved yours count. Yeah. That's hil. He nicked a little piece of it and then shaved the whole thing off. We were like,, I had to fire him for like three weeks. I can't be around you right now. You get a vulnerable neck. That's it Oh ye dude, that's crazy bro Dude, that's funny, bro Yeah, it was a decent bit. But then almost everybody when I got home we were like, Ohh no, we actually thought it was Morgan Wall and. I was like, that wasn't supposed to be the bit literally at all. Its He's wearing my tour. He's wearing my tour Cut off Jean Jack at a Red clace Tay's head. peoplee can't see that good, dude. I'll say this if they yeah You had a couple of too manyier pails you' vising. A lot of. A lot of people thought it was Paul Rud. A lot of people A lot of people were saying it All right. Voila, voila Um, am I able to get one more? Yeah, let's get another water. Can we get one? Thank you so much. Thanks, brother we got that Michael Jackson thing here. I think I found it Okay, Oh yeah, this looks like it, let me see. In nineteen ninety six, Michael Jackson shot a music video in Rio de Janeiro Favelas. The world didn't know that this historic shoot was only possible thanks to the approval of a drug trafficker Um, Awesome Yeah, the government said it was too unsafe for him to come, but he wanted to come and be around the people. Let me see. Rio de Janero in nineteen ninety six, Sike Les camera panans across the hills of Don Dononna Marttha a falla clinging to the city's slopes Michael Jackson has come to shoot his video, but the setting a F cry from Hollywood studios is no ordinary set The goovernor of Rio is against it. The police refuse to set foot in Dona Marta cameraass roll. That had to be pretty brave, bro. Yeah, man I mean to be that loved Did it say that they looked out for him I would imagine so So when Michael Jackson arrives in Rio to shoot In a Falla. it's not the mayor or the governor who has the final say. It's Marcino VP The man hunted by police is also the one who ensures the King of pop safety. So He was the head of one of the most powerful criminal factions in the city. Charismatic and ruthless Martcino had established himself in a world where hierarchy is carved out Cved in fear and cemented by weapons What set him apart from other hill bosses was a strange intellectual depth, almost unsettling for a man at war with the established order It's just pretty wild that he wentn't shot that thing. It feels like he could haveve did it in Burbank. Yeah, it does I think he why don dot we even start talking about this? Do you remember Blue Oh, I just mentioned that I was wondering what my sleep problems were by had the same thing that Michael Jackson has. And you said, hold on a second. we went on a fifteen minute loop. U goo back a little bit the tent shoot. I just want to see that part. The governor Rio is staunchly opposed. Brazil is still dreaming of hosting the two thousand four Olympics. There's no way toll let the world see what's hidden behind the postcard beaches. to show the poverty, the drugs, the bullet ridden walls, it would be bad PR. Jesus He went shot it there anyway. It so gangster He did stuff like that, dude, we? The deal is clear. no money changes hands No one of the table bribes That's awesome Just kind of wow, look at that, Dude just a show up there be that close just who like would never have access to you. You know what I mean? Right. would never have access to you. And also there's probably, you know, you get in some dangerous neighborhoods's dangerous Yeah, but I mean, it sound like the people he's getting approval from are like nobody's gonna fuck with you. We would be the people to fuck with you. Right. noobbody's gonna fuck with. That That's awesome. That's awesome, bro That that's what I'm talking about. That's the people you If you're for the if you're with the people, you're with the people You know? It doesn't matter what these other like little, you know, fancy people say about this or that. I don't care, you know Say this guy's the number one award winner, this guy's this or whatever, you know. The truth is the truth. one hundred percent. replacement for real life. Yeah Anyway, sorry, I feel kind of I don't know why I feel kind of animated about that. I like it U this passion Taking on a little bit more of so so you bought this Ed and Lorraine's house Take me on the house that you bought and what you guys have done with it. I know there was like articles going around that you guys were doing like you guys had turned it into a haunted Airbnb where people could go and stay. It is essentially that. Yeah. we were approached by by at the rain horns family that they were going to sell the house and we were the first people that they wanted to offer it to. and obviously we were fucking psyched about it. and we have so much respect and love for their family and what they mean to the paranormal community So I mean, to get to part of arguably the most prominent piece of paranormal history on earth being the Annabelle doll in the Warren's house is fucking awesome, dude. U and we got the house like as is like we have all their old clothes, all their old tape recordings. I mean there's there's hundredundreds and hundreds of old recordings and letters from cases that never got turned into movies and TV shows and stuff like that. And it's so cool, man. I mean, the house itself Museum I that is fucking terrifyingly haunted But there's like such a warmth to it. L regardless of what they did and who they were and what they were around all the time, like It still feels like such a cozy family home So we've opened that up to the public to be able to be stayed in Asen and Airbnb and it's attached to the museum which holds I think it's something like seven hundred artifacts or something like that in the museum as well as the Annabelle doll Take me through like just a brief synopsis of the family and the Annabelle doll for people they don't know. I mean, and L Rain were of the most famous ghost hunters pretty much in the history of it. I mean, they helped I'm going to say a few hundred families. And they were spousal. They were married? Yeah, absolutely. Dude that She was a psychic mediian and Ed was was an author and They they put out a lot a lot of good books And they helped a lot of fucking people. And they' I mean, they are the family behind like the largest scary movie franchises in the world between Annabelle, all the Condre movies, Amot deville horror, all that good stuff. And they how do they help a lot of people? You said they helped a lot of people. Well, mean, a lot of people dealt with like possessions and haunted homes and a lot of haunted objects and everything, and they would go to help these families with either casting out the spirits via exorcism, sometimes it was taking an item like the Annabelle doll off of the family's hands and putting it in a more secure place, stuff like that So you have the annerbuild all now? Yeah It's pretty craz It's a pretty white thing to own Yeah, that is, huh? Yeah. I mean, do you believe in ghosts Yeah, believe in ghosts, but I get scared about it because it's like You know, if you go summon ghosts, if you summon like, if you look at it as like the devil I think there's different ways to look at it. If you look at it as like a spiritual thing, like maybe something that's in between here and there U But if you look at it as like satanic and you're trying to summon Satan, then that stuff is a little scary at. Oh, yeah, I don't fuck with that stuff at all. Regardless of like there being a demon literally attached to that doll. like I don't fuck with it. I'm not hanging out with the doll. That was the crazy thing. People I mean, that's a very passionate community and it's one that I respect that and I'm happy to be a part of. But people thought I was like because I'm a comedian that I was gonna like disrespect this doll They thought I was going to turn thisouse into a fucking frat house and Annabelle was going to be crowd surfing like a stretched out blow upp doll. Oh ye I could see that, dude. People always want to like think about stuff like that. Did you do anything cool with anybodye? Like were you guys able to even have her like bring her out to have like a tea or something? No, God no. We would never let her out of that box ever We've only had to move the box a couple of times and even I don't fucking touch that. Really? Elton and we have a couple of priests that help with that Really? Oh yeah I'm terrified of Yeah, I'm never there by the way. Like I'm not at that People thought I was living at the house with Annabelle, I'm fucking never there. You're not No. I check on Annabelle like I look for racism on Twitter. I'm like 's still there You know what I mean? If it's gonna exist, it might as well be like contained, you know what I mean? Nowhere to find it. Yeah. Wow, bro. Yeah it's pretty awesome, man. Do It's so fascinating to me. Do you feel like do you want to create more stuff around like horror genre? Like is that something you start to feel like? 'causeuse you said you're kind of at this space where it's like you're kind of thinking, well, yeah, what else is possible and what else would I like to do in what direction? Yeah, absolutely. I mean On the entertainment side of things, like I would love to develop some kind of like a horror project, whether it be a TV show or a film or something like that. But I mean we're also even expanding in that space. we're moving the museum and expanding it to a location in Salem Tle, Massachusetts, this I think it's going be this September or August that it's going to open up. So I mean, there's a couple other properties that we could potentially be buying as well. so I mean I'm so fascinated by it. Like it is so new to me that I think it's very exciting. It's cool just to lear learn about it. And this creates a lot of opportunity for people to educate themselves on that world. People are fascinated by it, but they don't know a lot about it. So this is kind of like, firsth experience. Have you had a like in a like a supernatural experience of your own. Oh yeah, dude, of all the investigations and stuff we've done I mean I've seen and heard so many things that I couldn't possibly explain. I mean, I've heard my name be said. like I like EVPs, which is like the voice recordings the most. Like to me, that's the most fascinating because it's Audible. I feel it sounds You're getting a direct response to a question you ask. Like to me that feels so undeniable. L I'm the ro. I know who else is in here. I know this hasn't been tampered with in any kind of way. To me that feels so cllose to undeniable as possible. Was there someone you were trying to talk to? or was it? I'm trying to think of the most prominent one We were in, u This was Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio, I believe. Sh out we feel. Shut out, man. That's what actually filmed Shwshank redemption Yeah, yeah, it's fucking. It's really, really cool space Um we're in what we used to be the old library and we were asking like, you know, what they're like, what' what do this room used to be lou clears day It's fucking terrifying. We were doing some in Lorraine Warren's house in the tunnel that goes from the house to the museum. our friend was in there asking, like, you know, do you mean us harm? And youar if possible Crazy shit like But it's still so fascinating to me. Like I'm passionate about it because on a spiritual level Helps kind of reassure me that there is something else. You know what I mean? Like I When my grandpa passed away, I was I had like this really big moment of like, okay, there can't just be this. There has to be something out there. There's no way I won't ever see this person again. So the fact that I can go communicate with other what I assume are people or spirits of people. To me, that brings me like a little bit of warmth thing that like, you know, maybe maybe I will see that person again and maybe Maybe everybody gets to see their loved ones again. Yeah Yeah, wasas it did yourranda pass away recently or no? It was, I think it's going on three years this October or maybe three years. Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that That's all right. was so young. Yeah, man. He was only sixty seven I know. I know. Did he get pretty sick? Yeah, man. he had he had cancer, but it was like they found out in nowhere Dogs. pulled him on his leash in it like pulled something in his like abdominal slash like ribcaage a little bit and it was hurtting him. it was hurting him for a while and it got worse and worse. and he started coughing a lot more and everything And eventually you went to the doctor and I did a whole scan of everything and they were like Dude You've got stage four cancer. like like lungs black Yeah, so it was, u he was he was perfectly healthy like five months before he passed Hey, I know Was that scary? Like at you guys really close Yeah, that was definitely u that was definitely like my best friend. that's that was like my father figure growing up and everything. It was. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I I spent every weekend of my childhood with him Every single weekend. Yeah. I definitely wouldn't have got into comedy if wasn't for him D yeah, it almosts like your daddy's so young. Yeah, Gee, it looks like a Zika baby. Let's Oh Dome on him. Bro BLM, dude. I know Yeahes I are Yeah, he fucking. He lo loveved comedy. He's the one used to take me like the open mics when I was like fifteen and he would pay like the five dollars a headad to like show like be a bringer show shit He would like buy five tickets. Would he go perform? No, God, no, no, but he think he you into it You mean like physically or like why did he took you everything becausecause he knew you wanted to do it? Yeah. Yeah like he thought I was funny. Like we would we would fucking kill each other laugh every weekend my entire childhood Um So it was really cool. He got to see me He get to see me sell out comedy Cub. I think it was the Cincnati Liberty Funny Bone before he passed. which I think is the hardest part. It's like you Kind of like what we were talking about with Ralphie earlier. It's like if there's one person I wanted to share all of this with It would have been him. feel like he doesn't get to see this kind of sucks He's out there, Steve, that's his name. Yes, Steve. What's up, Steve Shout out big Steve my God. Ohude he fucking loved Ralphie too. Did he? Oh yeah Oh dude, that's so cool, bro. You can hear us I feel him right now. Steve's milling around, bro with his ninety seven different haircuts at milling around. bro, that was like the shortest his hair ever was. He used to grow down to like his butt crack, dude. Total hippie hair man. Dude, a lot of people with name Rick have ponytails. You notice that Mostly ricks and Stevevess, I would argue Yeah. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Honytail is a rick and Steve This is a power move, dog. Yeah, I'll still like I upll pray to him before every show and everything. just be like hope you hope you enjoy it. Thank you en for watching Amen, bro. That's awesome dude Thank you. That's quality stuff. I appreciate that I'm going to pivot a little bit. Some of your comedy specials, your first few came out on YouTube, right? Yeah, yeah, put out the first two and then I did a crowd workork one on YouTube as well. And then did you do one on a stream on a streaming platform? Then it was Netflix. yeah. that did a natural selection for Netflix. Did you feel any difference? because like one is more of it feels like its it feels like it's more for the people like from it feels its Do you feel any difference between like doing some that way and doing one for Netflix for I mean, you do a special for Netflix for like self validation to be like, I made it to what is supposed to be the pinnacle platform for comedy. But I think the difference was the YouTube stuff I did entirely like by myself. Like it was just my friends helping me. Like I directed the first one then I got Eric Griffin to direct the second one And even the crowd workk one, which was like a totally experimental thing. I literally did it with me and My buddy Elton actually ran camera by himself. It was me and one person did an entire crowd workork special. So I mean, it was exhausting, but it was super, super fulfilling to like have a hand in a little bit of every piece of the creative for that. So I mean, I think it was different in that sense also the um The reach A viewership, I think is different for YouTube and Netflix is not everybody has Netflix. Not everybody likes Netflix and you got to have a subscription to it versus YouTube It's so easy to share. like I can text you a link. you could watchhit right now. then you could text that link to ten other people. So I think you actually reach you have a potential to reach more viewers on YouTube than you might on Netflix. Yeah So I guess is again, like what does it mean to you Right Yeah, it's interesting dude because yeah do I got one that's coming up, but I think about like, yeah, what I like to it on Netflix. Yeah. Okay. And we're just I'm looking at a cut of it later today, but it's like what I'd like to maybe do one in the future that would be maybe just for YouTube. Yeah. That would be more just for like You know, I do it myself completely, you know? I don't know. I just think about that sometimes and what that's like. Oh no, I battle with it all the time. I'm doing my next special ep It'll be towards end of the year. I can't really say w when yet, but I don't I don't know what I'm going to do with it just yet Im not one hundred percent sure There's different and pros and cons, obviously. Yeah And you're a place where you can kind of do you can do what you choose. Yeah, absolutely, whichich is pretty nice. Yeah It's figure out what fits best You got kind of like pinned with like being in the crowd work, like your crowd work started to kind of like take clips and make it so that a lot of people are doing crowd work. Do feel like that that's kind of a true statement? Yeah, I would say so. I mean, I definitely wasn't like the first one to do it. L like Schultz was a big inspiration for me doing that. Like his crowd workork fucking He's amazing at That' so good at. He was doing this thing that even maybe we want to start doing any of my YouTube specials where he was doing like a new minute every single week. that he would post a new clip every single That's fifty two minutes of material throughout the year. was genius and he would sprinkle crowd workking with that as well And I was just like, holy should I see the importance of content in the standup market, which I don't think anybody had really been paying attention to. You put out specials, but that's what once every year, maybe once every two years. Yeah. but we weren't like comedians weren't being in people's faces all day. likeike you weren't prominent on a platform P peopleople kind of couldn't avoid you which I think is prominent for the algorithm. Well especially if you't if you're not if you don't have regular podcast, like with podcasting you do, becausecause you just have clips, right? O course. But if not, yeah, it's hard to find like what is that thing without doing a sketch or like planning this big thing. And that's why I like doing the bit of crowd work that I do doing my show ' like it's and refreshing, right? Likes I'm not doing the same stories and jokes night after night after night that you have to deliver, like it's your first time ever saying it. Like this is something so new and spontaneous that I can post online. it's not burning any of my material. Yeah, dude, I saw the one where you saw one of your teachers? Is that wasas that one of yours? Did you have a teacher that came? No, I think that was Trevor Wallace. Oh, that was Trevor Wallace. I think his teacher o. Sorry,ude. It's okay. It's fine I' don't fucking with you, man. Oh I was like, yeah, I can't. Just kidding me. That's okay, I dude. L Trevor you're not going anywhere, man. Trevor impersonated you though, I think and was it felt like he was like trying to steal your shit No no, I'm just joking. I'm just fucking joking with Rverty. he wouldn never do that. He's the nicest guy. I love it. He's very, very nice.ir I don't know if He is so nice, dude Um Did it ever feel like like then you had to be the crow were? likeike you had to do that Yeah, there' a little bit of that.'s kind of you, I talked to Adam Ray about this recently too because you know he's gotten so prominent with like his characters that he does with like Dr. Phil and Biden and everything. I We stepped into that and it's unbelievable G genius by the way, to find that it's such a specific lane that nobody else has been doing. Nobody. I asked him, I was like, do you find people coming to your show and like just wanting the characters and he was like All the time S sometimes I'll be in the middle of story and somebody be like, do row work and'm like I'm gonna to fucking get to it if I feel like it. okay? not That's not all this is. likeike I in my goddamn jukebox. Yeah. It's crazy, man. But I mean I do it because enjoy it. you know. Yeah, that's like when I was in like I couldn't when I was like doing this wiener pills, it's like, get an erection and you're like, I'm trying man Give me a few minutes. Let me warmem up a little bit. Yeah, dude Let me nibble off a frreinaking chunk of my roommate's wiener bill at an angle so he won't notice it's missing you freak. They're only freaking five milligrams. Tablets. Do you do you ever when you're touring, like do you ever do any crd workk at all? I do some of it more often now and I really like it. It's just fun. It's just something silly and spontaneous. It gets a bad rap for people being like, oh, you're just doing it ' you don't have the material That's such a hack response to have to it. Like by what means does that mean that? Yeah Yeah, Yeah, like I wasot we were shooting this thing in Lexon a few weeks ago and somebody out out AD right in the middle of the show And it was just like, if it's a woman too. Jesus. And usually age is more of a guys thing or whatever. And are you gonna not acknowledge it? I know. Dude I was like, oh, that's how bad things have gotten. It's like Pe people' just yelling. Dude, that's the other hard thing as well is like venue wise now, the smaller venue I do, the more people yell out because they want to be the person that like gets talked to. like they want to be the next clip. I'm like it doesn't work like that. It's usually the least assuming person you talk to is probably like you're gonna get the best shit out of it. It's not like like the pick me person in the back. That's true, dude. It's always like that. Yeah comedy club is like so intimate. we're all kind of feel like we're hanging out in like a living room to where it's nobody really wants to be like the dick headad to interrupts. L that's kind of perfect. And an arena so big that like I think they assume they You can't hear them, so they're not gonna to waste yelling out. Like anywhere in the middle ground, like a theater, peopleople are like, I know they'll fucking hear me. Yeah. We yell some wild shit dude I think it's like There is this weird thing where you yell because you kind of want tona be heard, but you do not want to be called on. there's some of that energy too for some people. Oh, of course. L you want to be a part of it, but you don't want to be a part of it. Oh I love the purse. I love like the like the wife brou her husband the husband didn't want to sit front.' like what What if he talks to me and the wife's like, it's not all about you Ron, you know what I mean? And then you end up talking to that guy and he's like, this is my fucking wor nightmare. The wife's loving it I love that dynamic Has it ever backfire like take me on one that backfired? Was there have there been one that backfired like because when you open it up to the crowd, that's another thing. suuddenly forty people are they want to have a, you know, they want to offer a suggestion. It's very hard to direct a room full of people who are like, okay, now it's my turns. I mean, that mean that does happen quite often. I mean, usually I'm pretty good at shutting it down and everybody can kind of be cordial, but it happens But you also get duds, you know what I mean? Like you fucking, you interview people. You know, what it's like to talk to somebody who you can't hold a conversation with So I mean, that happens all the time, but I'm not going to post that clip, obviously. See, that's not magic every time. but when you do get it, it's such a fun feeling to have that moment right then, right there with people. Yeah, Dude, one time there was a guy in his wite, he had a wife or girlfriend, whoever it was, had the craziest Dum Tits, right you couldn't think of tits, okay. And they well they were so crazy. I couldn't even It was hard to categorize them. They were so ins Anamanaas. J Yeahah, just these just boom. U Bang. you know, just like some real just Aamana peas on. Okay. Okay. Just like some damn fucking, just some milk tonsils, you know, just some like L five S none Like you have no cartilage left from holding those up. They were just yeah, they were you could just feel like one of you could feel u One of her vertebrae having trouble. God damn. Yeah, you could feel it too The Mendenburgs. Yeah, yeah She had them damn blimps and front blimps. Front blimps. So anyway, dude, but they were craziest looking tits and you and The guy's like, I said, Oh, what do you do? He's like, you know I stock vending machines, you know? And I was like, and what do you guys put him and he's like muscle milk, you know? And he was like, Damn He says muscle milk, but then you see where you think he's getting the milk from. his wife's just sitting there quiet With the craziest tits, like, oh yeah, acting like she doesn't have crazy tits orate. Ant she's wearing a little bitty hat. You ever see somebody who like pins a hat on their hair and acts like it's a real hat broach Yeah Of course, yeah, it's a fucking broke. It's a little it's like Toy Story e bitch we talk And did you address them? Did you address the titties? Yeah, I said, Well, now I said, Well where are you guys getting the milk from? And that was just Ande there was nothing else to the rest of the night that was like There's just something about that thing that's in the moment where and it was just simple. There was nothing I really had to do. Of course. It was justes it just presents itself. Bro, I was in Philly Yeah, this was in Philly. There was a guy sitting front row s goty these like slack pants on and just had the most amount of dick sitting in the front of his pants. Like a conglomerate? Yeah, man Like like a seven dick pile up right in his own pant. meelted eight or nine dicks on his dick. Like it was so prominent. It stopped me in the middle of a story and I was like, you got, I took the camera off the cameraman's shoulder, zoomed in on it. a placement It looked like he shit the front of his pants. Like it was so much dick. It honestly ruined my night. Wh. I was I was upset. I was insecure for the next five minutes. Yeah dude. Oh when somebody shows up with that stepdad cock orate Step Dad cock is such a real thing As somebody who had a stepdad, it's such a real thing. I was so mad I wasn't his. Oh for a few years man I'd have been afraid to come out of that thing though. stepdad cock, you can't. That's why he doesn't have any kids, bro. A kid wouldn't make it out of that thing, brother This is right your biggest dick ever. Is this a video of it? It's probably a video, yeah Whats your fucin The Cameraman just like wouldn't get the shot of it. And I was like, hold on. Why wouldn't he?? Simes Sometimes they're like three inches away from somebody's face and I'm like, ye of you have a zoom. Hold on, it's tang up in his deck. Hold on a second hold on. Look at this fucking thing. You're moving the camera bro! Look at that thing, man. Big bro got that front yard do. Oh alien when it's coming out of her fucking stomach. Yeah. looks like Wow Yeah. that's a lot, man. Turtleneck dck is just a different comp. Any he's wear a turteneck too? Yeah. No That's insane. That's Christmas Dick. Christmas. If you wearing a turtleneck, holiday hog.ight pants, brother. Yeah, he knew. you got that's not comfortable. There's no way. That's Oh, no, that's all tight, brother. That's your so glad my dick isn't that big Yeah. So glad about it. Yeah, same same. Um, But yeah, man, you get some weird stuff like that What about u Are you married? not married?. No. single Okay And you start thinking about getting married or anything like that? or do you even think about that kind of stuff? or like Do your mom bug you about that? What's your mom doing in your life these days becausecause she was giving you a hard time about working for Ralphie? What is Is she still like have that managerial energy or now she kind of trusts where you're at? No, she's She's so happy with where I'm at, dude. I've got her her second house. yeah, the first wom just wasn't working out. and she was like by herself in the middle of nowhere, Georgia. And she's like, noobbody comes and visits. So I'm like, no shit. You live in the middle of nowhere. So I moved her out to Colorado where my sister lives. now she has her she's there with her grandkids and stuff My little sister's got kid That's Y your sister has a couple kids? Yeah.'s got two daughters. Oh that's mom right there?.' her name? April. April. What's up, April? You know what's so funny? if you look at mom, Christina from Iowa is on the top thing. She's actually more prominent than my own mom in most of these Really, that's her right in the middle. Christina top right corner, the blonde hair. And who was that your ex No, no, no, no, that was that arguably probably my my most famous crowd workork thing was she's like this really hot mom, actually grandma who lives in Iowa. and I met her on stage. She gave me like these cookies and this like really sexual shirt and everything. And bro, I was like ten minutes into the show when this happens I did like an hour and twenty minutes just talking to her and it was crazy, crazy good time the entire time. Like we were great chemistry, great banter, crowd was fucking loving it. But at the time, you can only post a ten minute clip online on like Instagram and stuff. so I had to edit it all down to that. like the whole show is that whichich never happens, by the way. that Sounds like I didn't have material ready for the show, but like it was just such a really cool in the moment thing. And it went stupid v. It's got over like I'm sure It'ly over a couple hundred million vs. Dang. ye. Really? Yeah, it's awesome. No way' awesome Dude, that's the best for whereere in Iowa was that at? Des Moes, the Funny bone there Yeah I mean, sometimes crowd work is it's different every time. That's the fun. you don't if you're gonna talk to, you know, a super hot mom or biggest dick you've ever seen or somebody, you know, somebody all crumpled up in the corner, you don't know. Yeah, it is kind of great. Oh, there she is right there. Yeah Yeah, it is great Dude with crdwork. there's something really special about it It's just real in the moment, you know? How do you get the, um How do you get your cameraman now is you have a special cameraman who's who's like right there He gets do it all cow. He does all the all the cowdwork stuff. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And then we do a little collaborative editing system together. Yeah, he shoots all of it. This is was man at comedy clubs. That feels like a lifetime ago. This is probably Three and a half years ago, maybe, something like that. Maybe I feels like a different lifetime ago Um Are you off tour right now? Are you going back out? A there any new places that you're going that you're a little bit like? U new places this year? notot like new countries U we just got back from Europe, which is really awesome. We did um We did England, went to Romania. Romania was fucking awesome. My friend just you the second guest in a row that's talking about Romania. Really? My friend just quit playing basketball my friend Patrick was playing basketball over What? Yeah. Is white? White guy Yeah Okay, yeah Can I kind of tell him the story? Okay, so we get we have like five weeks in Europe straight. This is night one of us landing in Romania of the whole trip. Night one. fiveive weeks is a long time. A veryery long time Night one, we're like, o, we're going to go out have some drink. It's Friday night.' see what Romia is about Kyle gets roofed and robbed. The first night O tour How do you know you got Rofy, Cal I woke up in an ambulance fifty fifty minutes away from the hotel at nine thirty in the morning. My chain was gone, my camera was gone. they sent three grand on my debit card. Yeah, he couldn't like remember And they had like carry him through the lobby and everything. He was fucked up, dude. It was pretty funny. That checks out Night one, dude. Night Well, it was like we got back to the hotel at probably like four AM or something like that. and we're like, hold on, Kyle wasn't with us I checked the location on my phone, he's still at the bar. We thought he had left earlier. So I'm texting with him.m like, yo like do you want Jackson and I to come? you know Jackson McQueen? Oh ye so he's so funny. He's hilarious. I was like, do you want Jackson I to Well come back and get you right now and he goes, it's all good.'m head I'm heading back to the hotel right now.'s like, you sure. He goes Yeahah, I'm heading back to the hotel I go to sleep. I wake up at nine thirty in the morning my phone's ringing off the hook and I'm like fucking what? they're like Yeah, Kyle's in the back of an ambulance right now. It's like no fucking way. Do you communicate with him, Kyle? No. I could barely open one of my eyes And I was I knew I got beat up by strippers. I remember that That's all I remember. Do you have a grill in right now? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's interesting. But we're sitting in the van day one after his recovery and it's all quiet and we're trying to ask him a little things about. We're trying to give him some space and he just goes those strippers rem mean to me It was so so somber. We're like, what he goes, I think they pushed me down a lot It was one of the meanest things I've ever heard. It's wild to say that specifically, I think they pushed me out. It was heartbreaking. Yeah. And all you got was that grill U the worst part is, dude, and just about taking the grill is hilarious. I'm gonna leave him something. But dude, You did a show in Romania? Yeah, Romania was awesome. We did two shows there It was so c. I guess comedy is like a new growing thing that's like people are starting to go and perform a lot more. If you get an opportunity they were a fucking awesome crowd. I would love to go back. And do they speak is there enough English spoken there? Absolutely. Everybody there speaks English for the most part Oh yeah, Draculous castle Is it close to Estonia, I wonder M I mean, close ish think I think Estonia is a little bit further north I think. becauseuse we had Ari Maddie and he's Estonian. Yeah, do A is the best. He's he's a he's a. tornado of comedy dude Europe crowds are fucking awesome, man. I love performing overseas thousandousand miles apart Yeah. Oh yeah, good time, dude. Sweden was awesome. Oslo was really cool. I love performing in England. And the crowds were so much fun. Oh dude, yeah We had some good, We did some good spots over there. Ireland. I it. Ireland's the best show of the tour every time I go there. They're fucking great. Scotland was amazing You can't crowd work in Scotland th. We did. Yeah, why not? Yeah fucking understand them. Oh, yeah. What I'll say something. They'll say something back and I don't understand it. and the crowd is like They're fucking cooking me, dude, and I have no idea what they're saying They Yeah, it's legendary over there. What's up what's up What's in the news? Doude anything in the news that we wanted to look at? Oh yeah what's Anything good to talk about? Oh what do you think about these data centers and stuff? Do you think about that kind of stuff?ike becausecause that's kind of I just had to help stop them from putting in one in Rhode Island to know where' at. Yeah. They had to like have a whole town hall meeting and everything like that. went to it? I couldn't go, but my friend went and spoke on my behalf, which was very nice. She was very passionate about it. mean she had my approval, I couldn't agree with her more It just It's so peaceful out there. It's going its it's just fucking up what we have, man. I mean, I don't know too much about them. I'm not even going to pretend like I do. Yeah for sure. But the one thing, the most prominent thing that stood out to me because it wasn't going to be that far from my house was there was going to be like a nonstop humming coming from the building I, don' look I can hear birds outside dud. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, well, especially yeah, like something just humming in the distance, dude. Yeah. New York passes Data Center moratorium and consumer P protections as environmental and housing proposals stall Um So what data is going into these things? Why Yeah, why did the data centers need to be so big? Do you have anything about that This is perplexity. Data centers are built for continuous operation, power cooling and network password duplicated. so a failure of maintenance event doesn't drop workloads parallel systems and physically separated paths M. Well, my thing is just this, like we're already keeping a lot of data, right our phones. we record stuff all the time. It's on the cloud. The amount of data that they must want to store now B astronomical compared to what we're doing. Yeah. So that's what I don't understand unless we're going to go into like a surveillance state, right? where which is that's what it feels like a lot of times like they already are. right Because then they're going to have to record around the clock everywhere, everything. Yeah And that's going to put these Rant that's going to put these storage places and random places around the country, that's so strange to me. Yeah Eron Brokovich and I was just talking about it And I want to get someone on to talk about some of these data centers just to learn a little bit more about it and what's going to be going on Yeah, let's see what this says right here. This is tech billionaire, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison confesses a dystopian AI mass surveillance network Citizens will be on their best behavior. becausecause we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on. It's un impeachable. The cars the cars have camera you know cameras on them. I think we have a squad car here someplace. But those kind of applications using AI we can use AI, and we're using AI to monitor the video. So if that altercation had occurred, occurred in Memphis, the chief of police would be immediately notified It's not people that are looking at those cameras. It's AI that's looking at the cameras No, no, no. You can't do this. It would be like a shooting. That's going to be immediately that's going to be an event that's immediately an alarm is going to go off.' be and we're going have supervision. In other words, every police officer is going to be supervised It's going be wild. What the fuck man? I mean play that beginning part again, is play the first twenty seconds. what does he say this one part? Citizens will be on their best behavior becausecause we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on. because we are constantly reporting. It sounds like they're like Like they're going to be reporting to him you can that's the thing It's so fucking weird, dude. I mean, do we have to be watched all the time I don't know how we can stop it now. That's the scary thing. Why do we need it? I mean, I understand they're pushing the agenda of safety, but like We have to how much safer is it going to get Is it just going to be for accountability, you think I think that's it's like and also there'll be a level of control there because yeah, I would say so. Yeah If you don't do certain things, then you're entering this space Well you didn't o you didn't do things the right the perfect way, this exact way. Yeah. So then what are the repercussions of that It's a weird dude. I don't even I don't even want living in this time to be honest. I know it feels just kind of like It's too futuristic. It's too it's too invasive When would you have liked to have been alive? If you could like pick a couple of decades to have been like Oh prime you probably born in Becauseuse I think part of you does, I feel like want to kind of know, it's weird. You wantan to know how it You want to be a part of the world in the sense you want to like you you hope that the world ends well because otherwise you feel like What's the point? I think that starts to happen. Yeah For me in a wayay, I'm like, you want to I feel like for past generations, I bet feel like let's leave it better. We're all building towards something. And then now suddenly I feel like we're all standing in a cul deac and we're like, what the fuck are we building towards anymore? Our grandparents are like doing only fans now. they're like, we're checked out. We don't care. It doesn't even matter. Like everybody like I do feel that way. Some of that energy is like What are we doing? Yeah I don't know what it looks like a generation after this one, you know? I have no idea what that looks like. Yeah I think I would I would have liked to have been born It' been like sixty, nineteen sixty? Yeah. Grow up in the seventies And then you're a young adult in the eighties And the music culture alone for that would been fucking awesome. Oh, It's great for film Everything was magic Heard good things. Yeah, everything was magical. and then you get to see how dystopian it's getting and be like, yeah, I I' glad I'm leaving. Dude, I feel so weird being like the last generation of people who wasn't like chronically online. Like I didn't This isn't young for some people, but like I didn't get a cell phone until I was like, I think I was almost almost fifteen, something like that. It's like I still got the childhood of like, I got the privilege of boredom. I think that's good for your brain to be a kid and have nothing to do and have to figure it out How to entertain yourself, G go make up a game, go play, pretend, to walk around to go throw something through somebody's window. Yeah. go break some shit. I think that's good for you. Yeah I think your mom came home and you' like, you got to arrested? you're like, Yeahah, I don't know. What else was I supposed to do? Yeah I threw something through someone's window. I didn't know it would break. just shit like that. like you just didn't know anything. And I think that I think it makes you a better person Oh, dude. So now wandering around just hoping something would happen. a car drove by you just watching it go by. Just watching it, dude. Laying on your floor, ang like Hoping your mom wouldn't come home soon, but also hoping your mom would come home soon So as somebody's around Yeah to hear some racket. I think it's good for you, man. And there's that's gone. People will never have that again. taking a thousand naps. If anybody came to the door, you would go talk to them even if he was like you know, like a registered sex offender or whatever D you you keep the chain on to keep him out, but you still at least talk to him ' it was somebody to talk to, of course. And they were charming. You Yeah, they were good at what they did. Remember having to like ride your bike across town to see if your friend was home? and they weren't Oh God. and you just had to go back. You had to. Across town. You biked miles. accross grass Dude, it was yeah Oh do yeah, you'd find a new way to go. What is this video right here? We'll watch this, and we'll get you out of here man, and you got a show ton, o I have heard about these flog camers. is these are start these are like some of the early U cameras are going up everywhere mass surveillance, public safety. They are linked to the new AI data centers U Let's play it. You won't believe the stickers I found Somebody is putting these buggers up on every flock camera in town. Not enough people know that these are not just license plate readers. These flock cameras build profiles on individuals that are walking by and in vehicles. They use things like gender, clothing, behavior, and even biometrics to build profiles on you for their NoOVa platform E integrating social media profiles, email data in places that you go. and Flox data feeds directly into Paleers's Gotham, which already powers ice deportation. What if this is GTA six Like they're scanning everybody in real life in the real world, everybody's going to be in the game That That's why it's not how yet That first v is the excuse that they need for why it's not out in two. That would be absolutely amazing, dude. I mean, they just change a little feature about you, but you're like, you know that's you But in the future, they could do that. Some of these companies could then license your existence somehow where you add in certain areas into a video game like that. and that gets kind of crazy, dude. That's pretty sick. Yeah. Let's finish out here. Let me see, flock cameras have exploded across the US because they're cheap turnkey crime fighting tools that let even small departments tap into a national vehicle tracking network Um Fock sales subscription packes include the hardware, cellular The cameras continuously capture plates, timestamps and vehicle metadata push it to Flox Cloud where cops can run searches and set alerts on hotlists U Flock is marketed directly to police, HOAs, and private business centralizing all plate reads By twenty twenty four, twenty five, the company said it had cameras in roughly four thousand plus cities in over five thousand communities. bro it's here. Oh, it's already in. Yeah it's done. That's the new Annabelle dude. And she's out of the box, dog Matt Rife man, you have your N your Gnitur. I'm on tour right now. Yeah. Yeahah. Okay. Yeah, stay goolden tour. Ay manen, bro. We're going through the rest of this year. There should be fun. Yeah. There's some fun cities ahead. Nice. be back here in Nashville Uber for Bridgestone. Okay. Yeah. you're in town for you. You gott to come through, dude. Dude, yeah, I will be in town. My friend Is somebody dying or getting married what's happening? October thing? October tenth Yeah, october tenth, something's happening. It's my grandpa's birthday. It is. That's creepy. Dang. That's creepy Chasty st Steve. Um ro yeah, Thankk you. Congrats, everything. FTX is coming out, you don't know when yet. The FTX series comes out this December and is that what it's called U no, it's called the altrist. The altrist That'll be on Netflix and we've got the movie with Owen Wilson coming out in October. so that'll be's a nice little end of the year. Oh, rolling loud, the movie. That's what it is? Yeah, yeah Dude, that's crazy, bro What do you play in this movie Uh, I play his, um H work colleague who happens to also be at the festival,'s like a big festival head and he helps him look for his lost son of the festival. So it's just me, Hemah and's girl Christine Ko, who's a hilarious actor. She was on Dave M Yeah. So we kind of help him look for his lost son. Amen, bro. Yeah, dude. Best of l man, congrats on everything, dude. Thanks for stopping by and spending some time with bro. It's a pleasure. I I've beening to figure this out for some years now, so thank you for finally making the time I appreciate it. It's a bless man. your life, seems active and busy. It seems like you stay active in your own life as much and just, you know, show up for yourself done, that's exciting. It's inspiring. Thank you man. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's the truth. Matt Rife, thans, brother. Now I'm just falling on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be I share this peieace of my life out I can feel it in my body