#2145 - Colin Quinn

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Hello Joe, Joe, that was fun last night. Let me just start by saying, what a fun time at the club, the green room and everything else. And here's what I was talking to the head of security about the club.

It's very important.

It's unbelievable.

And unfortunately, there's so many crowd work clips that get put out on Instagram. People are now thinking that they want to be a part of the show. Yeah, I see people much more often chiming in and yelling things out and they think they're going to be a part of things.

Yeah, and even when you go, when you try to be nice on the first line, you go. That was okay, sir. Then they try again. You're like, Listen, you p, Oh my God, but that's what I love about your club. Everybody there just has the energy, like, we're going to tell you right now another word, you're out.

Nobody heckles sober, either.

And nobody heckles sober and they just like to start trouble. And the green one was fun. And even though I didn't go on, I also didn't go on because you have to understand the language where I was.

Oh, I have to dance with you. go on, I didn't know you wanted to dance, you want to dance tonight.

No, I got to leave, I'm going to Seattle tonight. what the fuck I got to go, I would love to.

Are you performing tonight in Seattle?

No, no, maybe I can change my flight. well, let's see, maybe I can change it.

Move it around. There's plenty of flights out of Austin, it's a wonderful hub.

It is, it's great, it keeps booming every time I see it. Last time I saw it was Covid.

Yeah, I don't think it's going to get too much bigger, I think we've reached peak.

You think so?

Yeah, yeah, I think it's about it.

You think Shane Gillis was the last citizen they allowed in?

No, there's a few more coming. Joe Derosa just got a place here, he did, yeah, and Joey Diaz is getting a place here.

I can't believe the two Joe D's are going to be here, let's go, that's great.

Joe Diaz and Joe Derosa is a fierce combination.

I know, but I spoke to Joe Derosa yesterday. I deliberately didn't go to the Chicken Place because of Joe Derosa.

Really, why?

Because when he recommended it, it just bugged me, his confidence. When he goes, you got to try this chicken place.

It's Gus's fried chicken, and it's phenomenal.

I just don't like that. Joe has positioned himself as the new gastronomic expert in comedy.

Right, because he owns a sub shop. Yeah, by the way, it's a good sub shop, though.

I heard it's amazing.

It's fucking great.

I'm embarrassed, I never heard of it.

It's fucking great. He brought some over when they were doing moondower, he was in town, he brought some subs over, they were fucking tremendous.

They said The bread's amazing.

Everything's amazing, the food's amazing. He makes a great sub. Yeah, obviously, it's a labor of love.

The name Joey Roses is good.

Yes, it's great, it's great.

It's anger producing in some ways, but.-.

In a lot of ways for you, you have a thing with him, I think.

With Joe.

Yeah.

I try to have a thing with everybody, that's my thing, Joe, I like to have a thing. If you had studied straight karate and wanted to MMA, maybe I could have a thing with you. But let's face it, you don't play games.

I do play games.

You're not to be taken lightly. No, I don't.

It's fun.

When you see Shane Gillis in there, Shane Gillis is just that guy, he's so big. I just want you to lock him in a basement and just feed him. Red meat and make him train MMA for two years and just eat masculine and red meat and just become a stone cold killer. Wow, that's my dream.

I've got him working out.

For sure, yeah, I know, yeah. He looked sore yesterday, he said. He'd be really sore.

We did two hard days this week.

Well, look how big he is.

He's a big fuck.

Yeah.

Big old football player kid.

If I was as big as him, I wouldn't be a comic. No, I'd be an animal. I'd be working security at the club, telling people shut up, Tony's trying to do something up there.

A little bit, yeah.

Yeah, it's got to.

Well, there's just so much resistance, it's so difficult to get through. Yeah, there's a lot of fucking running up that river.

Yeah.

Right?

So I'm trying to do it like that. So Norton goes, I'm going to the cellar, you're tipping you're not part of the rat pack. They just start trashing me for 10 minutes.

I understand.

Yeah, this is a daily thing.

I enjoy tipping myself.

Yeah, I could see you're a high roller, too.

It's like, a little love bomb, give a little love bomb to people.

Yes, an extra few dollars, and it makes their whole day.

You don't even feel it. It makes people happy. I always try to tell my cheap friends like, you got to get over that.

Yeah.

Fuck that 15. What are you doing?

I agree, there's a lot of chiselers, Yeah, don't be a chiseler, and they think of excuses.

Yeah, I give people big tips and they give me shitty service. I just want everybody to be happy.

Yeah.

Yeah, you can give them a little happiness and maybe they'll be nicer to the next people and use the butterfly effect.

Well, it's certainly not working for the planet right now, let's face it.

We're all right, I think the problem is, we're inundated with bad news constantly.

Yeah.

That's the real problem, and then, you know, there's also, like the problems in cities.

Yeah, well, everywhere. I mean, you know, I just did a special. By the way, about it's releasing tomorrow, it's about I did it in front of a psychiatrist's convention.

Did you really?

Yeah, yeah, wow, I just did it. And so I found I sought out a psychiatrist's convention and went there and said, Hey, would you guys let me go on and just do my shoot, my special in front of you?

What room was it at?

It was a ballroom like one of those, you know, it was like a Washington D.

And they did not plan on you being there, no, and so you knew they were going to be there at that time, yeah, and you coordinated with them.

Well, they were welcome to come to the show or not, but yeah, we told them before, you know, if you come, you might be on film. But yeah, they didn't have to show up. Obviously, half of them probably showed up, but it was –.

That's a great idea.

Yeah, I thought it was because it's about the world, how we're having a psychotic break when we're talking about the planet. So it was kind of fun for me because, you know, it was interesting for that angle. The whole special is built around it.

It's so much more discussed, the bad news is so much more discussed, people's problems are so much more discussed. Having problems is so much more a thing that people love to talk about. Now. It makes you more interesting.

Social media started as a fun aunt's kitchen, where everybody was being positive and saying, like, Hey, you know, dance between the raindrops. And then suddenly somebody was like, shut up, bitch, you fat bitch, fuck you and the raindrops. And it just unleashed all of us. That's what I say.

Not just that, but also you don't feel bad. Like if you say something shitty to someone, you see the look on their face. Even if you feel like you should have done it. When you're alone at night, you might be like, I didn't have to do that, Why did I do that? What a fucking asshole I am.

And they used to have, they used to have gossip magazines, like If celebrities in the 1950s. That's when they started to realize people love to read bad, scandalous stuff. But now you get to respond, you're like the writer and the reader of the gossip magazine.

You know what I do enjoy, though, when people don't understand how it works. And they'll post something and just get smashed in the comments, and then they'll start going back and forth with people in the comments.

Like, what are you doing? what are you doing? Oh yeah, oh yeah, well, what about? Well, one of the biggest problems is people. This is one of many of them trying to be funny that they've never had to. They've always thought they were kind of funny.

And being around the comics.

And being around the comics.

Regulates you? What the fuck was that joke?

It regulates you.

Yeah, it does, it does. yeah, you get feedback, yeah.

It's a whole other level.

Yeah, who gets more feedback than comics? We get, like real live feedback from hundreds of people every night.

Every night you got feedback last night.

Just last night.

You can't live in a theoretical world of like, I think this is funny, I think this is good, you're getting feedback.

Yeah.

You know?

It's fun, though, don't you still enjoy it?

It's the best, it's the only honest reaction you can get in today. There's nothing virtual about it.

The most honest form of entertainment, because you write it, you perform it, you produce it, you edit it. Like, I was saying, like, how easy doing sitcoms was when I first started doing sitcoms.

I know I get so jealous of the idea of, like the old days, comedians would just have writers. Oh yeah, like, what do you got for me? We got to go out and think of this stuff.

A few people still do that, right, a few guys do, like, I know, obviously the guys who host talk shows do, Yeah, you know, you can't write a new monologue every day.

I did on tough crowd.

You did, you wrote that every day.

Now I'm not saying most of them didn't bomb, but I did write them all myself. No shit, yeah.

When I went to see you on Tough Crowd, the best part of it was you warming up the crowd. I was like, why don't they show this? This is funnier than the rest of the whole show. It was so good, it's so good.

It was fun and that crowd was crazy, they were coming like a lot.

Well, I was living in California at the time. And I just like, sometimes I forget, sometimes, you know, sometimes you haven't seen a guy in a while and you're like, God damn, I forgot how funny Kyle is.

Right, right, right.

You know, you just you need to see it, you need to see them live.

You do, you need to go out and see it?

Yeah, just get in your head, it's the best thing. I mean, I've been doing it for so long, but I still love it, I love it.

And what's fun about it, too, is you can't if you don't, it's like working out. If you don't do it, you just get flabby and out of shape.

Yeah, that's it, no way fans are about to buy on it. When I take a time off, I go on vacation for like, 10 days. I'll have one really good set when I come back because I'm enthusiastic, yeah.

And that's what's great. Yeah, that's the horror, but that's the best part about it.

It's just reality.

Everybody that steps away from it too long. They talk in this term where it's like, Oh, you got to do a reality. I'm mediocre when I get on stage, I'm going to be mediocre tonight, even though I don't want to be. And I'm like, Hey, I really figured this out and guess what?

How much time did you take off during Covid?

I did a few shows, I mean, I did some shows that were like on, I did remote shows, which I loved, remote comedy.

Really, I loved it, like Zoom comedy.

Zoom Comedy. You loved it, I loved it.

You're the only guy I've talked to. Everybody else said it was hell.

Because I just read, they think I'm just looking at them, I'm reading my act. So any new material was memorized immediately.

Oh.

It's great, every new joke.

Maybe you should get a teleprompter? What's that? Maybe you should get a teleprompter?

I've tried teleprompters. Yeah, yeah, I wish I could bring them all the time, yeah.

You tried on stage?

I love teleprompters.

No shit, yeah, no, it's a good way to make sure you remember your shit.

Yes, Teleprompter is the greatest.

Because the worst feeling is when you get back to the green room and you're like, Fuck that tagline, I forgot the tagline.

Yeah, or even the intro line, so you're like, of course, it bombed. I didn't even explain what I was going to talk about, yeah.

I know some guys who lay out sheets of paper on the floor on stage with like bullet points.

I've tried that. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't really work that well.

It's weird.

The lights are weird, yeah, but you can't even see them.

Do you go on stage with glasses on?

No, that would help. This is one of the first times I've been in glasses in public really well. I wanted people to take me seriously during the interview.

It's a vibe, it's hot on chicks, yeah.

I don't know why I agree.

A girl who doesn't see that good for whatever reason.

For whatever reason.

They just seem smarter.

Hey, for whatever reason, yeah, there's something intense that only became in the 70s, that became like a thing, really.

Girls with glasses are hotter.

Yeah, they had the whole new glasses. I'll tell you, certain people just look great in sunglasses. The first person I noticed as a kid. One of your idols? Bruce Lee, I go, that guy looks badass in sunglasses. And he had, like, they weren't completely dark.

Yeah, he was a cool motherfucker.

He was a cool motherfucker.

Yeah, that dude changed the world.

Unbelievable.

Nobody thought about doing karate before Bruce Lee.

Nobody cared. Well, even when he was on the Green Hornet. I'm old enough, I was there for the Green Hornet days. And you're like, Yeah, that's kind of cool, but you didn't think about it.

And it was the first time we ever saw somebody with abs.

Yes.

Whoa?

Yes, how cool does that look? yes.

How cool does it look to be ripped? Yeah, look at that, what? look at that?

Come on, I mean, I hate to say it, but my profile pic when I was 19, I basically have the same physique. I don't care what anyone says.

He kind of looks like a twink today, though.

Yeah, he does, if you compare him well, because nobody lifted weights in those days, you know?

Look at the abs on that motherfucker Jesus Christ today, he'd be accused of having fake abs.

Yeah, yeah, he's a badass.

Bruce Lee Gold medal sunglasses Oh, you can buy them, oh.

Yeah, but I don't think those are the ones I'm thinking about.

No, that one in that photo looks pretty fucking cool.

No, it wasn't these, it was some other look where he just was casually wearing sunglasses.

What a cool dude.

Yeah, he was a badass, he was a real superstar, he just was a star. mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah, transcended.

Yeah.

And it also was happening during that weird time, the weird time in life in the 70s.

After Vietnam was really winding down, it was almost done. Now we're back to 1968..

Yeah, we're right there right now.

We're in 1968 right now.

We're waiting for Kent State to jump off. You've seen these fucking protests that are happening in colleges.

Yeah.

First of all, these kids are all wearing masks, they're outside, they're protesting, and they're all wearing masks. I say that it's like the Democrats MAGA hat, that's what the mask is, isn't it?

Nice.

You're letting everybody know, you're letting everybody know that you're a part of the Klan, that you're on the good side. Yeah, I'm masking.

Yeah, well, it's—I say it this way, it's 20. —let's say 20 of them are just. —20 of them are kids that were raised to hate the West. Everything in the West is bad, they're brainwashed.

Have you ever seen when they get interviewed? Konstantin Kissin from Trigonometry. He went to the protests and he was just asking them The river to the sea. What does that mean to you asking questions, What do you think should happen?

Yeah, and now they're literally praying, they're praying to Mecca now. Did you see all the footage of them?

Oh, wonderful.

They're bowing. It's like, I am objectively going to put a fatwa on my mother.

I just want to come out publicly and say, China, Russia, you guys won, you won, you got our kids, you got the kids, you got a lot of them.

No, they don't want them. Listen, China, they're teaching kids computer, engineering, law schools are teaching, like, you know, state sanctioned violence in Shakespeare sonnets.

Guys with fake eyelashes reading to toddlers. Yeah, that's what it is. That's what TikTok is. our TikTok's a disaster, yeah.

We did.

Yeah, but they did, they infiltrated the universities.

It happened way before that, in my opinion.

When did it happen?

They just went like this, all they had to do was go like this.

You ever see Yuri Bezmenov talk about it? He's a defector from the KGB, He talked about it in a famous interview from 1984. We talk about it way too much, so I'm sorry if you're hearing this again, folks. But he basically laid out exactly what was going to happen to America in 1964..

Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying. It started long before any of this China. He didn't say they did it.

He said Russia did it, He said Russia was doing it. They're actively subverting our education system.

But I feel like the idea of this kind of thing started long before, you know before.

Yes.

So I don't think that was Russia and China doing that, I think that was us doing it.

I think Russia and China influenced it, particularly Russia.

I think they just agreed.

Well, it's also a situation where your universities are almost entirely dedicated towards one ideology, that's right, you don't have any look. There's clearly over history, regardless of what you think about right-wing people, clearly over history. There have been brilliant conservative people, sure.

That's right. Well, I mean, even just the fact that Russia and China didn't force them to stop people from speaking at these places. You know what I mean, right? That's what's been going on for whatever amount of years.

Yeah.

Active censorship. And you're like me, you're not some right-wing guy, you know what I mean? You're not....

It is a cult, but isn't it? I mean, it's one of the beauties. One of the beautiful things about America is the amount of freedom we have of expression. And when you have that and you have 330 million people, you're going to have a certain percentage of people that are just off the rails.

That's right.

They'll kill you if you leave, but you can join, you can join, they'll take you in as a brother. Ooh, I want to join.

Because moderates are considered pussy, I talk about this all the time, moderates are considered. All you can see is a bland guy in dockers with his goddamn, you know, with his dad, Bod.

Fence-sitters.

Fence-sitters. I say, even in Superman, you've got Lois Lane, she sees Clark Kent, Nice guy. He's like, Hey, Lois, want to have dinner?

Right?

Like, the hero in the movie walks away after blowing up a hydroelectric.

Imagine being Clark Kent. And you've got to deal with this lady just constantly talking up Superman and talking down to you and you're like, Bitch, you don't know shit.

Yes.

And you've just got to sit there and take it because you just can't spill the beans. You want to say, hey, fucking dummy, you want to just take the glass off. Well, you stupid, I'm the same guy, but just wearing glasses.

I catfished you.

You didn't notice that I'm built like a fucking linebacker, you didn't notice that I look like a giant super person. Yeah, oh, I just have glasses on, so now I'm a loser.

Well, because she never slept with him, that's why she didn't notice, right? because she was like, Clark lay off.

Do you think Clark would show off every now and then, like, pick something up, he shouldn't be able to pick up.

Yeah, oh, I didn't know Clark's an insult. Yeah, he is an insult, an angry insult.

A handsome, angry, football quarterback-looking insult.

Yeah, yeah.

He's an insult.

Just because of the glasses.

Isn't that funny? Like that was? The only disguise he had was glasses. It's the dumbest fucking disguise in all of comic books. At least. Batman, like, maybe he had a weird face.

It is stupid, but speaking of Bruce Lee, the Green Hornet had a mask, yeah, but then Kato was Bruce Lee, mm-hmm.

Never.

In life, but even then. But he wore this little chauffeur's outfit. Mm-hmm if I remember correctly. Yep.

You know, he was supposed to be in that TV show kung fu, really. Yeah, it was supposed to be about him. it wasn't supposed to be David Carradine.

And why did he say no?

They didn't want to have a Chinese guy on TV.

That's insane.

No, wow. And they picked David Carradine, Yeah, but it worked. The crazy thing with David Carradine is it did work, it worked.

Yeah, it worked.

That show worked, I loved that show, I used to love that show.

Yeah, it was a great show. I was a little kid because every episode there was. Although, let's face it, when you really look at it, it was kind of a woke show. A little bit every week. It was intolerance.

And kick some ass. He always had to use violence, though.

But he wasn't that great of a martial arts guy. Oh, he was terrible.

It was nonsense. It was totally unbelievable. But the way he was doing, it was like, if you didn't know any better, you're like, Oh yeah, he's got magic.

But if Bruce Lee had done that, he would have broke not the internet, but he would have broke TV wide open.

Oh yeah.

That would have been the best show of all time.

Wheel kicking people and jumping side kicking people in the face. Whoa. It would have changed everything, but the movies changed everything. I mean, he broke through just because he was undeniable.

Oh yeah.

That was supposed to be him.

They opened, I'll tell you, all the karate studios, Jerome Mackey, These were all the karate. These were big karate guys. Back when I was a kid, like karate teachers, he opened thousands of karate studios around the country. Bruce Lee alone?

Absolutely yeah.

It became a thing.

Bruce Lee and then Chuck Norris was how I got into martial arts.

Yeah, Chuck Norris fighting him.

Jean-Claude van Damme Watching those movies.

How about this name, Bill Wallace, you ever hear of him?

Yeah, Superfoot. Yeah, he was a great kickboxer.

And there was a guy named Joe Lewis.

Yeah, Joe Lewis, heavyweight champion not in boxing, but in kickboxing.

That's right.

Yeah, white guy, yeah.

There was a bunch of great fighters, Jim Kelly was a great fighter.

He was in the Bruce Lee movies, too. Did you ever do karate or did you just follow it?

I mean, I did a couple of classes, but I was, you know?

It's crazy that you know about all those guys like Joe Lewis. How about Benny Urquidez?

Benny the jet, Benny the jet, of course. Yeah, well, because when I always tell this. But when I was a kid, the trains were so dangerous in New York. Like, I mean, this is nothing now compared to when I was growing up.

Good move.

Who's going to read a karate magazine unless it's a karate? Then I ran into, Owen, Do you know Owen Smith is a comedian? Yes.

That's hilarious.

So while you were studying martial arts, seriously, just remember there's a whole bunch of lazy pricks that bought magazines and trophies. Just so we were like, stolen valor.

People find a workaround. There's a lot of dudes who walked around with kung fu outfits on, Yes.

To this day, they still do, and to this day, I'm still like, I don't want to fuck with that guy.

Yeah, I used to go watch them practice in the park and they were faking martial arts. It was made up stuff, they were doing made up things.

And you knew they were made up.

100, yeah, 100. They were doing stuff that just there's no history of this. Like, I don't study kung fu, but I understand it, I know it.

Yeah.

They would touch their students, their students would like fall to the ground. They're still out there. There's a video, there's an Instagram page, McDojo life. McDojo Life just highlights all these fake martial artists.

It depends on the teacher.

Yeah, but this idea of like a death touch that people had, like, some secret powers.

It's the dream, yeah.

Yeah.

I tell you I took six judo lessons when I was a little kid, I should say before the martial arts craze, and I really wish I would have stuck with judo. But in those days, there was no like panic. So you're working a class with the worst headache.

Oh yeah.

Of all time.

Oh, you're getting brain damage.

Yeah, you're getting brain damage.

You're getting brain damage in regular judo, 100 100 judo's bad as hell.

You do.

Yeah, my friend Mark Gordon, he specializes in traumatic brain injuries. He's a doctor and he works with a lot of veterans, football players, fighters and stuff. And he's like, everything that hits your head is bad.

But how do you get it from a jet ski?

The bouncing, just the bouncing.

Then how come they tell you you're supposed to go on those gymnastic whatever that's called?

Trampolines.

Yeah, trampoline. yeah, I don't think it's like jolting.

Because that's kind of like, catching you and lifting you up and catching you and lifting you up. That's a different thing than boom, boom, boom. It's the heavy-duty, shaking, head banging like Angus from ACDC.

But who the hell goes on a jet ski? More than, like, once a year? Let's think about that.

Some jet ski people that really love them. jet skis are fun. Yeah, I have a jet ski.

I love it, I've tried it.

It's fun, but if you bounce around on waves, you're getting brain damage. That's how delicate the brain is. The brain is not meant to be jostled around, and guys get concussions from getting hit in the chest.

Well, yeah, yeah, but that's why it's a good thing. I stopped judo because every day I'd have a horrible headache I was a little kid.

Oh my god. Well, that's different, that's ski jumping, that's insane.

I know, but this is what the article on skiing was bringing up.

Oh my god, that's insane. That dude hit hard.

How hard they hit.

Oh, must be nuts.

They're going 30.

So this is a water skiing tournament. Is that what that is?

That's what that was. Yeah, but this is like an article about water skiers getting CTE. Oh, yeah, have to.

No doubt, no doubt, they have it, no doubt.

I bet dolphins have CTE.

I bet they don't, I bet they glide right into that water.

Everybody always says how smart they are, I'm like, Yeah, they seem really intelligent sometimes.

You're dismissing the intelligence of dolphins.

Yeah, when anybody bounces a beach ball on their nose and that's their, they're the valedictorian of the animal kingdom. That's enough for me.

I think you have to do that if you're trapped in that swimming pool, if you want to get fed. I think you'd put that beach ball on your nose, too. That's the problem. The problem is we're so evil, we'll take intelligent things and lock them in a swimming pool.

What?

I don't know what he's saying. Do you want a fish or not? Here's the ball, motherfucker, that's what it is.

What?

Yeah, 40%.

Now, wait a minute.

But they can't decipher it yet, but they're hoping they can do that through AI.

First of all, if you don't have a routine about dolphins accents, you're crazy. I'll steal it if you don't do it.

I had a bit about dolphins, it's a true story, actually, it's a true story. I got on very high edibles with my daughter. And we went fishing and these dolphins came by the boats and they were jumping up in the air.

No, what does that mean? I don't even understand what you're saying.

What I'm saying is that when you think of yourself, when you think Colin Quinn, like, when you think, like, Oh, I'm looking at the world. This is me, right, that energy of what me is. This is how high I was. I was on like 200 milligrams of pot edible on a boat in the middle of the ocean in Hawaii. Just an amazing experience.

That's God, yeah, what about the, you know? When I was thinking about the whole martial arts thing, too, was when you think about dolphins, fighting sharks or saving people from sharks, that's almost a martial art, too.

Oh yeah, well, did you ever see what killer whales do to sharks?

No.

Ooh, there's this video of this mother killer whale. it doesn't count. Oh yeah, they fuck everybody up. there's this video of this.

Got what was coming to them.

Yeah, some asshole tried to harpoon their sister or something, you know, I'm sure that happened. But the point is that, like, killer whales don't actively target people when it would be really fucking easy to do so, check this.

Killer whales. Yeah, look at that boom, yeah.

I mean.

I just saw something the other day of a killer whale around a boat, some little boat. And it was just, you could tell the guy's like, Oh God, it's over for me, and then the whale didn't bother him, like you said.

Yeah, they just generally.

Just checked him out and left.

Don't fuck with you, yeah, and I think you can kind of talk to them, I think, if you, I think they understand.

Oh my god, Oh my. oh, it's right underneath. wow.

Whoa, you guys getting there? Yeah, yes.

Let's get out of here, let's get out of here, by the way.

But that was a gentle bump.

That was nothing, no, it was just something else. But how about that? Is that not the battle cry of today?

Do you even have Instagram? Yeah, you do.

Sure.

Do you make reels? Do you ever make like, positive? Hey guys, you can really do it, push through it.

Well, I kind of ironically, as you know, I've been doing that for years. I'm kind of a soccer mom on social media just to infuriate people, that's my whole game.

I didn't know you were doing this.

Yeah, I know I have a bunch of episodes where I interview, it's my little, you know, like the thing I care the most about doing, which is. I interview people from different neighborhoods in New York that I know over the years, and then just get them to tell stories about their neighborhood. So I was talking to my friend from Hell's Kitchen, Mike Spillane.

I didn't even know this was out there.

Yeah, yeah.

One problem with really great comics, and I include you in there, is that you guys are terrible at promoting things.

Yeah.

But it's also why the stuff you put out is so great, because you're only thinking about the stuff, you're not thinking about promoting the stuff. Which is a totally different animal.

And we would only come here, where else would we go, we don't know.

Well, doing it yourself, like doing your own promotion, or like letting people, you know.

So I interviewed this one guy, Mike Spillane from Hell's Kitchen, and they're a famous family over there. He's telling all the stories, but one of the stories which you will like was him and my friend Robert, who died his cousin. They were in a bar.

Oh my god.

They're in a fight with Andre, the giant.

Oh my god.

And he picks him up and flings him. And it's like a whole famous story of them fighting and getting their ass kicked by Andre, the Giant.

Oh my god.

And then the cops come and grab him outside and arrest him, and the cop walks in, finds out what happened, sees Andre and just walks out and laughs. He goes, let him go, don't worry about it. So, like, just finding different stories of different neighborhoods.

That was back in the day before Instagram where people weren't snitches.

Exactly right, so that's all. I'm just talking to these people and finding out all the great stories.

If that happened today, Andre would be all over the news, people would be angry at him.

Oh my god, everybody would have an opinion on all of it. Oh yeah, and when this guy was telling the story, I go. So people must have been buying you drinks for months. He goes at Hell's kitchen that time, two weeks, and then there was some new story happening.

What a great name for a neighborhood.

Hell's Kitchen, yeah.

What a great name. Oh yeah, I mean, you kind of have to act crazy if you're there.

And they did, yeah, they did.

If you're going to move to Hell's Kitchen, that's a very specific mindset.

Well, now, of course, it's different, but it was the most. Just imagine a neighborhood in the middle of Times Square when Times Square was taxi driver. So they had to deal with all of that, the theaters, so all the stagehands were there, all the teamsters were there.

And so much music and so much stuff came out of that area.

It's crazy.