Bill Burr and Joe Rogan dissect Steve Byrne’s stapled-forehead prank legacy and his new film’s festival buzz, contrasting it with Al Madrigal’s hidden "Sicilian-Mexican" rage. They mock The Thing From Another World’s 1950s acting while praising Burt Reynolds’ stunt work in White Lightning, then pivot to pandemic-era stand-up—Burr’s chaotic parking lot shows vs. Ron White’s refined Vulcan Gas run. Burr’s unfiltered "haymakers" and Rogan’s security team (ex-military) highlight comedy’s raw survival, but both reject cowardly online critics, calling them "steaming piles of shit." The core message: authenticity trumps fear, even in a culture obsessed with outrage. [Automatically generated summary]
But I remember he was at the comic strip, and he did the late night show, and somehow somebody threw a chair at him.
I remember it hit him in the head, and he got cut.
And then two days later, I go to the comic strip, and somebody had taken his head shot down and put staples in his forehead where he got hit by the chair and put it back up.
I guess back when you could do stuff like that, he could just tease somebody.
So he had that movie coming out.
I was just saying it got nominated for...
For some film festival awards, so I was very, very happy for him.
There was Tom Sawyer, the guy who ran the second Cobbs.
He used to run...
It was a great club.
It was great.
He had a real good taste for comedy, so the level of comedy was very good.
Dom Herrera told me about it.
So I went there and this is when Al Madrigal was first starting out.
One of the first times I ever hung out with Al Madrigal.
I was working there for the weekend.
Al was the, I think he was the MC. And after the show, he and I went over to, I think it was his brother's house, and we got super baked and watched old Oprah Winfrey episodes.
She was like a pretty good comic, you know, doing the road, but she found a niche and that niche was girls only.
So she wouldn't let anybody in that was a man.
No managers, get the fuck out of here.
It was all women.
And so they would tell like dirty dick sucking stories and wild shit and just do wild comedy only for women.
And Jenny Jones had a super popular daytime talk show until...
They had a show where they had a guy on, and he said, you have a secret crush, and they bring in the secret crush, and it's another guy that he works with.
And the guy who he works with was like, you know, I've always fantasized about you, and this and that.
And so he went over that guy's house after the show aired.
He was embarrassed, and he shot him and killed him.
He just sort of gets quiet and then stares at the target and the wheels start turning.
I think he's half Sicilian, half Mexican, so he has all that love, family, all that.
But if you cross him...
The anger.
It's not like me.
I got the German-Irish temper where I just flip out and I start screaming.
He's plotting your demise.
I used to do a thing with him at Nerd Melt.
And I swear to God, it was like every three shows, he would tell a story about something that he did during his daily dad life, something that somebody did to him, and what he did to get revenge.
And, you know, as he's telling it, he's not in the mindset.
He's like, okay, so they did this.
And so I was like, okay.
And then I went down, and then just this calculated, like...
Because this stand-up thing is you don't understand how you're just listening to the crowd and you lock in where they're at and then you start taking them where they're going, where you want them to go, right?
And you get on a roll and then that's when you can start killing.
They're in their cars.
So it was like, it felt like I was like deaf, trying to do stand-up and trying to gauge how they were laughing.
But the weirdest thing, though, is just after one night, you adjust to it.
And then your whole new idea of what killing sounds like You're able to block out the traffic and the police helicopters.
I'm not even joking, because it's right in downtown Hollywood.
And then it just becomes this crazy fun gig, and there's comics waiting to go on behind you.
It's really this amazing thing where I kind of feel like you're kind of going back to just the pure love of just going up there, trying shit out, making people laugh, supporting other comics.
There was a point where I started to do those because the comedy store got so crazy.
It was such like, it was so like, just on 10. Yeah.
Then everybody was murdering everything.
Like, even during the, every night started feeling like Saturday night.
Like, I want to go out.
Lean on the mic stand, try out some shit, feel out a story or something like that.
And then I'm going on after, you know, these beasts on the show.
And it was like, oh man.
So I started doing the belly room.
And then there was a really cool one on Fairfax that I was doing in this back room of this, like, I want to say Russian bar or something like that.
Great.
It was fucking great.
And I went there and I felt that thing again where it was like, you know, I feel like if I go to the comedy store, somebody knows who I am.
If I go to that one, most of the people don't even know who I am.
Because you start to forget, like, just how much shit there is out there to watch.
And all you need is just, like, 1,200 people in each city to know who you are, and you could do, like, a theater.
But, you know, you can have a very niche-level thing.
Like, I try to explain that to somebody where they go, oh, you're selling this thing out so everybody knows who you are.
It's like, no.
It's like there's people selling out Madison Square Garden.
Bands you've never even fucking heard of, but there's 20,000 people that know who they are, you know what I mean?
So I'm sort of tapping into that, trying to go to these places where you could have that fun again of like, oh, you don't think I'm funny.
Oh, you guys don't know that I know how to do this shit.
And so then that also means you don't know how I joke around.
So now I can have this fun of...
Of like, you don't know what my style is, so it can still be like surprising as opposed to, oh, now he's going to do this, now he's going to flip out, and then I'm going to laugh and clap, and then he's going to say goodnight.
You know, you can kind of break out of that, which is...
I think it really was he also had all these ideas for film and all the stuff that he did.
Yeah.
But, you know, it's kind of interesting, like, where he is...
What he used to say about it was such a serious time that he was coming out of the previous decade, all the assassinations, the Vietnam War, the gas crisis and all that.
And all these comics were talking about all this heavy shit and he was just super silly.
It was like a mental break.
Somebody came to us with a pilot idea for something, and it was over-the-top, like, absurd and silly, and, like, that was my reference.
I'm going, dude, this is like the Steve Martin bunny ear thing.
Everybody's, like, going with Trump and the virus, and it's like, this thing is just silly.
There's no Me Too cancel call.
There's nothing in here.
You can just sit down like that Dumb and Dumber type of thing, that type of stuff that I love.
And he goes into the supermarket and he gets the price gun and everything's like 99 cents and he's kind of standing there as he's scanning all this filet mignons and everything.
I don't know what it is, but it's just like, I don't mind, I like this, I don't like this, but don't fucking sit there and start, you know, I'm going to tell a mechanic why the car he just fixed is fucking working, not knowing how to fix a car.
A lot of what's going on today with commentary is disingenuous in that it's not necessarily what they really think, but it's what they think will get a reaction from the people that align with their ideology.
As far as bad 70s lines that an actor had to deliver, one of my favorites of all time was that movie Over the Edge with the young Matt Dillon.
It's a fucking amazing movie.
It's about these kids that...
Back when white families were moving out of the crime-infested cities and they were starting these...
Whatever.
These suburban things.
But all the kids were doing drugs and all that shit.
It's basically about stuff like that.
So the kids end up being these crazy white kids, and they take over the school.
And at one point, they lock all the parents, because they had this big meeting about the kids, and the kids snuck in, and they locked them all in the little auditorium.
And as they're vandalizing the school, one of the cops is trying to get out, and this chick runs by with a giant globe, and she sees the cop, and she stops, and she just goes, Eat it, you stinking pig!
It's just like...
It's like, who the fuck writes shit like that?
So, I was watching a movie called The Car, which is sort of Carrie.
Yeah, he lies that he's going to try to help get the moonshiners, but he really wants to go out and get revenge on the cop that did something bad to one of his family members.
It's just a classic Burt Reynolds movie, and he worked a lot with, like, Ned Beatty, who's just one of the great character actors of all time.
So I've just been, like, either watching shows like that, or, like, you know, the Friends of Eddie Coyle, watching, like, really good movies from then, and then just watching, like, crazy shit.
I just watch that, and I have a good time.
Rather than going on, like, social media and shit like that, I've been, you know, watching all these French movies and shit, and just, like...
Dumb shit that I watch, but it's done really well.
It's done shot really well.
There's a really great shot in it where a dude kills somebody Because the boss told him to, and he didn't feel good about it.
And how they got his reaction, he bludges him to death with the butt of this rifle, and the shot that they used was the reflection of the guy's face in the pool of blood of the guy he killed.
Yeah, I was just like, oh man, that's the fucking...
That right there was worth watching this whole movie just to see that shot.
Yeah, getting involved in films or anything that's outside of the shit that you're getting twisted up in your head is always good for you because it just makes you realize there's people out there doing a lot of things.
So I'm just getting the American version of movies, I'm getting the American version of news, and everybody's yelling at each other, and it's just like I'm trying to poke a hole in the tent to try to just get something else coming in, because I can't...
So all the old movies are still available and they make new ones every day.
They're making movies right now and they pile up.
Like the amount of data that's out there in terms of like things that you could watch, just the sheer volume, terabytes of movies that are available...
It never stops.
It just keeps piling up, and it doesn't just come from America.
Yeah, it was a French one, and it was really fucking bizarre.
I saw the trailer.
I'm like, I'm not fucking watching this shit.
They went a little further...
It was sort of like a misogynistic dude and then he was a chick but still looked like a dude and then he was hooking up with chicks and they were on top of him grabbing his throat and shit.
I'm like, what the fuck?
I ain't watching this.
But then I was also thinking like, oh, they use this same sort of like switcheroo movie over here too.
Yeah, I remember that Ken Burns, the war, they used to say, guys who would come home with that PTSD would come back and they would say, like, he couldn't shake off the war.
That's all those kids had back then was shake it off.
Well, you remember it was shell-shocked when we were kids?
Vietnam, they'd come back shell-shocked.
They would call it shell-shocked.
But you've got to think, these people get through the Great Depression, that's the beginning of the 20th century, and then they grow up, you know, so these guys that are acting in the 1950s, in those films, like during the 1920s, you know, they were kids.
The thing about these kids coming up today, they've been involved in wars where we didn't learn from not taking care of the troops.
We didn't learn from exposing them to bad chemicals in Vietnam and Agent Orange and all the shit.
We didn't learn.
These kids are still...
You know about these burn pits that they have on bases over in Iraq and Afghanistan?
They take all their waste and they just burn it.
I didn't know about this.
I mean, I maybe had peripherally heard about it, but then Evan Hafer from Black Rifle Coffee was on the podcast talking about all these guys that are experiencing all these horrific problems because you've been breathing in toxic burn fumes.
Everything.
They burn everything.
Human shit, plastic, garbage.
They throw it all into this gigantic fire pit and it burns 24-7.
So these guys are constantly breathing in fumes from burning chemicals and burning waste.
The fact that after all the shit that happened with Agent Orange and Vietnam, that this is still going on today?
All the shit that happened in the Gulf War, the first Gulf War, with the depleted uranium where they'd come back with Gulf War sickness and nobody knew what the fuck that was and their kids would be born with all these I like all these tent cities.
Well, people look at people that are doing the wrong thing like you're an outcast.
And I felt this when I was a kid in the smallest way, but I kind of understand in a way.
When I was 18, when I graduated high school...
I didn't do anything for a year because I was competing and I was like I'm just gonna dedicate myself to competing and see if I could make the Olympic team by the time I was 21 that was my goal and I also really had no idea what I wanted to study in school and the only reason why I wind up going to school at all because I didn't want people to think I was a loser so I went to college but I remember I would tell people like they're like wait where did you go to school where you going to school after I graduated college I'm like I'm taking the year off they look at you like They didn't want to hang out with me anymore.
It always cracked me up, though, the level of colleges that were there versus what me and my friends were like.
You know what I mean?
We were just the biggest idiots.
There was that whole weird thing with Boston where it's these meathead sports fans like me, and then there's Harvard and MIT and BU. You get all these smart people coming in from other...
It's like New York.
New York talks about all this great shit that they have and it's just like you have so many free agents from other states coming in there that end up doing great shit and designing the stuff but most of you guys are like me you're walking around sweatpants getting a slice of fucking pizza you have nothing to do with this architecture so I always thought that that was uh you know I've actually I don't know this weird thing is I really really miss being back in uh Massachusetts.
Massachusetts.
And I would say what it was, because I don't know now.
Now I'm just fucking old.
So, just been, like, thinking a lot of...
I just think during this whole, like, pandemic, I've just had the time to finally have to, like...
You know, the second you decided you're going to be a comic, it's just like you just jumped in this river.
All of a sudden this happens, and it's like you can't do stand-up for a long time, and after you're done cleaning up your house and doing shit like that, you kind of got to sit down and be like, alright, so what did I do over these last few years, and how the fuck did I end up out here in this place that's going to, I guess, burn for months now?
It's kind of funny how people think that they're, like, because of those imaginary lines of states, that that's not, like, this disease that's going to fucking work its way across.
Right, if you want to compete, if you want to compete in the marketplace, there's so many people out there that are just going guns blazing, pedal to the floor.
So I remember hearing Lou Reed, when Lou Reed was on his deathbed, he was just sitting there relaxed, smiling with this look of wonderment, like enjoying your last experience.
I'm going to experience death.
And he was open to it and had a little smile on his face.
And it's just like, okay, that's...
How I would like to go out.
Not being like, oh fuck, oh fuck.
And then there was another one.
I almost don't even want to say the fucking name.
I'm not even gonna.
It was this famous guy and he was a child star.
And I don't think he ever got past that, you know, the ups and downs.
I was here and now I'm only here.
But he's still like doing these huge shows, but he's not as big as he was.
And his final words were, so much wasted time.
And if you look at his career, it wasn't.
He worked his ass off, but that's what scares the shit out of me.
I'm like, so much wasted time, dude.
You played fucking theaters for 40 years, selling out and made millions of dollars, and you came out the other side of that saying so much wasted time.
So that's kind of making me look at, like, you know...
There's this weird sort of thing with what we do.
Like, oh, it's exciting and stuff.
But, you know, you kind of also sit back like, all right, well, if I do that too much and something else suffers, or did I take the time?
I remember, like, living in play, fucking New York, no air conditioners.
Like, someday, I'm gonna get a fucking house, and I'm gonna have a fucking pool, and on a goddamn day like this, I'm gonna fucking jump into that thing.
And, uh, yeah, and on hot days like that, I'm not.
I'm fucking sitting in my office, you know, working.
But there's something to be said about that, because that's what you're supposed to do as a dad and everything, but then, um...
You know, there's also that other thing.
It's like if you work too much, do you end up being that guy?
It's very difficult when you're in a competitive business like show business to pay attention to just yourself and just enjoy your experience and be in the moment.
Everybody is looking at themselves...
Through the eyes of the success of other people.
I remember when I was on news radio, the staff, the crew, the cast, everybody else besides me had a background in show business.
All I had to do, I only had a background in stand-up.
I'd never taken acting classes other than a few private classes they made me take when they gave me a development deal.
So I didn't understand the culture of acting.
And I remember I was on the set, and they would read Variety.
Or they would read, you know, whatever those show, Hollywood Reporter.
And they would read about people getting deals.
And they would read about how well Friends was doing and how well this is doing.
And they'd get so fucking mad.
And I would go, why are you reading that?
Like, you're reading The Devil's Rag.
I go, you guys are upset.
I go, last time I checked, I'm on fucking TV. I'm a 27-year-old kid and I'm on TV. Maybe because that was such a well-written...
show that didn't get quite the shine that it should have.
I felt.
I felt because that was a really, really, really good show with like a ridiculous level talented cast.
And there's always those things.
But that's something you have to learn in this business that you just have to accept that like, you know, I always equate a lot of things to like music that, you know, you'll have like some pop star, you know, some young, you know, guy or girl's going to come out, prime of their life, good looking, singing some, you know, bubble gum shit is always going to sell more than this you know, bubble gum shit is always going to sell more than And you just have to, you got to be okay with that.
Because it's like, if you want to sell that, yeah, you gotta go do that bubblegum shit, and if you don't want to do that, don't fucking sit there and look at it.
Show business, that's a common thing amongst comics.
You would see it, this gleam of jealousy.
But I think also there's good aspects of jealousy and that you can feel bad that you're not getting something that other people are getting and then it makes you work harder.
But then once you've achieved like a...
A level of success where it's measurable, where you're like, hey, look, you're paying your bills, you're doing shows, and people are coming to see you.
You're doing great.
Just concentrate on the work.
Then concentrate on the work.
Concentrate on being at your best.
Don't concentrate on how well this guy is doing and how well that...
I remember when Dane Cook was killing it.
There were so many haters.
And not just because of all the real reasons to be a hater, but also just because of his success was so astronomical.
I remember people would just fume thinking about Dane Cook selling out arenas.
It would drive them crazy.
And I remember thinking, like, just concentrate on getting better.
And if this is, like, really hitting, you don't have to go do that.
It's like, well, I kind of want to go over here and just do this thing.
And...
I was talking to you about stand-up earlier, and over the summer I was lucky enough that Dave Chappelle invited me to come out and do a couple shows out in his place out there in Ohio, and going out there and getting in front of a crowd where there was no cell phones, and I knew that this was just going to be for them, and I didn't have to worry about all this shit.
It suddenly reminded me of how fun stand-up used to be.
Before all the joke police came out to complain about shit that happened at a show that they weren't at.
And it was sort of this thunderclap moment.
It was just like, I've been doing stand-up wrong for like five years.
It's not that I didn't say what I wanted to say.
I was looking over my shoulder as I was doing it.
Literally telling jokes going like, is this going to be the one?
And then just doing his gig for three days, I was like...
It took me back to being at the Boston Comedy Club in New York.
Back when, you know, I would watch a young Dave Chappelle and all of the guys down there.
And I was just...
And ever since then, in August, it was like, oh, yeah!
Like, this isn't theirs.
This is mine.
And theirs meaning these fucking assholes who are sitting there like I'm on Shark Tank, and I'm trying to sell them something or whatever, and it's just like, no, this is just, I'm just up here.
I'm not doing anything.
I'm just up here fucking around, saying crazy shit that I think's funny, trying to make you laugh, but, like, this, like, my act is mine.
You know what I mean?
This is my shit to say.
If you like it, you like it.
If you don't, there's a hundred thousand comedians.
But you also have to accept the fact that if you're going to do something that people don't like, there's going to be a certain amount of people that because of social media, first of all, people are addicted to posting.
They love it.
They love posting things.
They do it all day long.
They get a juice out of it.
And then on top of that, if they could post about something that's...
That rings true with outrage, especially if they can take you out of context, and it rings with outrage, then people will click on that.
It'll get a lot of likes.
So it's inevitable that if you talk about controversial subjects like you do...
I understand it, but my thing is to not just completely let go of that.
Like, oh, is that what you're doing?
Is that how you took it?
Great.
I'm going on to my next show, and I'm going to continue doing that bit, and I'm going to expand on it, because that's what I want to do, because it makes me happy, and this is what I think is funny.
And if you don't think it's funny, I respect it.
But ever since that Chappelle Show gig, I've just been like, oh yeah, this used to be fucking like...
Bert Kreischer, he invented these fucking drive-in shows.
He loves doing stand-up and he was trying to figure out a way to keep doing stand-up during the pandemic and he came up with the idea of drive-in shows.
He was the first guy to do it.
I don't know if one of his agents or managers or someone...
Fuck, I'm trying to study or hit on this chick or whatever.
But those shows, as much as they look like hell gigs, they're like the greatest crowd ever because they're so into comedy that they're willing to sit in their car and listen to it.
And it's the weirdest thing ever.
A year ago, this is the worst fucking setup ever for comedy, but it's the greatest crowd ever, and it ends up being this great show.
Because what's funny is with all of this shit is I don't do this shit to make you feel bad.
I'm trying to make you feel good.
That's the funny thing about it.
So like...
When people take it a certain way, I'm not this heartless person that just goes like...
You know, I remember way back in the day, I did a bit and I made this woman cry.
And I felt fucking horrible.
I just didn't have the emotional ability to handle it.
Because she was right.
I mean, that's like...
I wasn't doing it about...
But it touched too much on her life and where she was.
It happened to me twice.
I remember this woman came up to me and she's like, plane crashes aren't funny.
And left and I was like, oh my god.
Yeah, and I wish that I was mature enough to be like, I am so sorry.
You know?
You know, but...
Not like I shouldn't have done the bit, but it's just like I should have had like empathy there.
I didn't know what to do.
And of course, back then, you know, all my comic friends, we were all like, you know, in our 20s, you know, broken toys at that point, crawling out of whatever the fuck happened that made you a comedian.
So asking them for advice was not the right thing to do.
I would have been like, fuck you, bitch.
And even then, I was just like, really?
That's what you would have said?
Because there was that thing back then where it's just, I'm going to hurt you before you hurt me, that type of shit.
But open mics, like, the worst was when I would go on the road and say I'd do a gig in Florida and they'd have a local opener and I'd watch like two minutes of the guys set up like, oh my god, this is impossible.
There's nothing, nothing is funny.
It's impossible to be funny.
Like, some of the opening acts...
Like in fucking Tampa or somewhere.
They were so bad.
You couldn't imagine anything could be funny.
Like it was a race.
I had to close my head.
I had to leave the room.
I had to shut the door, the green room, and hope I didn't miss my intro because it was so bad.
And then you would go on stage and you'd have this look in the people's eyes just beaten down by life because they listened to 20 minutes of utter horseshit.
That wasn't the case with Hicks.
With Hicks, it was like he was doing this stuff that was just not on the same vibe as the guy before.
The guy before was on this dumb, like real obvious, straight down the middle.
I mean, not covering his ass, not making excuses, not pretending he doesn't give a fuck.
Genuinely, didn't give a fuck.
He looks up and goes, yep, this generally clears the room.
Just watching people just get up in sets.
And he's like...
Just squatting!
And Fitzsimmons and I crying laughing.
He never lost confidence.
It was crazy.
I was like, how is this guy so confident?
How is he so relaxed?
And never adjusted his material to the crowd.
Like, his material was that what we're doing with our culture, with our lives, is empty and vapid and meaningless, and that we're ruining God's creation.
What's funny about that is I understand getting mad at the government, but you also have to get mad at all these fucking assholes who are just doing whatever the fuck they want to do.
He's the guy who did all our COVID tests in LA and he arranges them all out here in Texas as well.
He was doing COVID tests for all these people that went to one of those influencer parties in Hollywood.
He said there was like a hundred people that tested positive.
They went to some party, fucking pack party, thousands of people all mulling around and then all of a sudden they just started falling into his office a few days later.
Nobody knew what the fuck was going on before this happened.
Before January, no one had any idea that we would be dealing with something like this.
So they have to sort of make it up as they go along.
And then in the future, I think if another pandemic comes around, we're going to be much better prepared for it.
We'll be able to lock down quicker and...
The thing about the virus and the vaccine is that if this vaccine is effective and if you really can get it to people and give their immune system, we should be able to ramp things back up to fairly normal levels fairly quickly.
Well, you weren't a sports guy, but they used to show those guys that would go to Chicago Bears games and not have four guys or five guys spell out bears, right?
And Bert, he's cut from that cloth.
That guy is a...
He's the machine.
He's the machine.
And I feel like guys like him are really what this time needs.
It's just somebody...
Bert is one of the most fun guys ever.
I'm trying to think.
He's like anybody.
Anybody has their little down moments.
But just generally speaking, hanging out with Bert is always fun.
He is like, whatever Debbie Downer is, he is the exact...
Because I haven't drank in just a little over two years now, right?
I just quit.
So now, so with this weed shit going, becoming legal, and I'm just hearing people talking about it, being like, well, this is the shit, man.
If you want to, like, clean your house, be high, but you still want to clean your house, or this shit here, if you just want to get fucked up, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and all this stuff.
Like, my question is, what are they putting in weed?
Because weed, you should just be weed.
I wasn't a marijuana guy, but weed was kind of weed.
Because I didn't realize that there was all this talk about that was the thing to get into.
You know, invest in and get into these people.
And I didn't realize it was this all cash business.
And it was a nightmare.
Like I had a buddy of mine that kind of got out of this business, got into that.
And like, he was sort of living like this murder mountain fucking existence where there was local gangs, hostile about what, and they were like, They were kind of like, hey man, we're just like making CBD oil for like your fucking joints or whatever.
We're not selling what you're selling.
And they were driving by, you know, taking shots at people.
Millions of dollars in cash, in bags, and these guys would transport it, and they would hire these special forces guys.
So they would hire SEALs and Rangers, and these guys would literally be fucking strapped and loaded to the teeth and rolling around with millions of dollars of cash.
I love those guys.
And they were always worried about getting jumped.
They're always worried about someone breaking in.
It was like hippies and peaceful people wandering, like, what have you got?
I'm looking for something in a sativa, you know, like, wanted to get high.
So you get into special forces and the shit that you had to survive, right?
And then you get out of the army and you're like, alright, I got a civilian life and now this is going to be like, now you're bringing like bags of cash like you're in Scarface.
You're like, can I get a fucking break here?
Can I just get like a fucking sit in a booth?
Take somebody's goddamn temperature?
Honestly?
I talk to a lot of like...
Like a military pilot, you know?
And this one guy, he had flown in the first Gulf War, helicopters and shit.
And I'm like, oh man, you must be a sick-ass pilot and, you know, flying around out here.
Yeah, that thing of only using a certain part of your brain is not totally accurate.
What they used to think that you only used, like, 10% of your brain, like, that's actually, like, one of the premises, a false premise in the movie Lucy.
Lucy's a movie where they give this lady, Scarlett Johansson.
Anyway, the premise was that you only use 10% of your brain.
From what I understand, they used to think that, but now they have a better understanding of the different parts of your brain and what they're being used for.
And there's different parts of your brain that are being used for motor skills, different parts of your brain for emotions, different parts of your brain for memory.
There's a lot going on.
So the idea that you only use 10% of your brain is not real.
On the last show, the show you went to, I was being so silly.
It was because that overly acting shit out and jumping up and down, squatting down, acting like an idiot, that is the frustration of, I'm getting sick of these jokes, so I need something new in this.
And it's just like now I'm going to have a massive hangover.
I just got to get through these next few.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I know the mindset.
I have to get in.
And then, you know, my crushing need to be liked.
I just know that I'm not going to take any shows off.
But that's the fear as you start to get a little...
I'm not a young guy.
So, I mean, this takes me back to, you know, used to do those casino gigs.
Or like how road gigs used to be.
You know, you'd come in Tuesday through Sunday, two Friday, three Saturdays.
And just going up and like when we were coming up because when I was coming up anyways, you know, the dip had happened so they would just paper these fucking rooms and it was just 300 fucking people and large clumps of 20 that all knew each other hammered and could give a fuck because they were looking at it like it was a free show.
It was one of those noise barrier walls, and then there was a street.
But the funny thing was, was the stage was up high, so the crowd, I ended up figuring out, the crowd was down low and couldn't hear it the way I heard it, unless it was super loud.
And then I couldn't really hear myself, so then I started yelling, and then the third show, I felt a little twinge.
I'm like, oh, fuck.
I got, like, you know, about a dozen shows left, and I'm already doing this.
So then I actually sort of adjusted how I was talking, and then it kind of went away, which I can't believe.
I did one weekend in Houston in July, and one of the things that I noticed at the end of the weekend by Saturday night, late show, I was like, ooh, my voice is not in shape.
Now it's just like, alright, they've had fucking jets landing.
I'm not even going to hear that.
But I've been having...
So much fun and just seeing the fact that someone would come out to see stand-up in that environment under a fucking blanket is really like, man, people really love this shit.
They love it the way I love it.
They just don't do it.
So it's been like, it's kind of been giving me like a jolt for every show to like, all right, these fucking guys, people are going to sit out here on the grass under blankets.
Because I pretty much survive on tequila and crackers.
Tequila and crackers keeps me going.
There was like so many like just brilliant lines in that and I was just reading the comments because I knew everybody like he's just one of those guys just everybody loves him and it was just like every real estate video should be like this.
And when they went nuts when he went on stage, and they went nuts when he went off stage, and you could tell it's like he had a glow about him when he walked into the green room.
Whatever that version of you is, is what you should be doing.
Because I would never tell another comic what they should and should be saying.
And that's one of the most heartbreaking things about all of this.
I get it when it's just groups.
But to see other comics piling on, trashing other comics, I equate that back to like...
Back when they had the big, the red scare, and directors would turn in other directors and actors would go after other actors and shit.
It's just like, you are a fucking cowardly piece of shit to do that to another fucking, especially if you weren't there and you don't know what the fuck happened and you're attacked, you know, or you wait till something happens to them and it's your excuse to get your little bitter comment in about their fucking act.