Earthquake Gets Real About Comedy | Whiskey Ginger

Welcome to Whiskey Ginger — a Wave series. Andrew Santino sits down with comedy legend Earthquake for a raw, hilarious conversation about stand-up, longevity, and telling the truth on stage no matter who it makes uncomfortable. They talk about Earthquake’s Netflix special Earthquake: Legendary, his decades in comedy, the difference between old-school comics and today’s scene, and why authenticity always wins. This episode is packed with perspective, big laughs, and real comedy history. Watch Earthquake’s Netflix special Earthquake: Legendary now streaming In this episode: • Earthquake on building a long-lasting comedy career • Stories from the road and the early days of stand-up • Why honesty still matters more than trends • Santino and Earthquake talk comedy, culture, and crowd control #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #Earthquake #EarthquakeLegendary #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #PodcastClips #Comedians SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR SQUARESPACE USE PROMO CODE: WHISKEY GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER https://squarespace.com/whiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:49Andrew Santino?

  What up, Whiskey Ginger fans? Welcome back to Whiskey Ginger A Wave Series. Hey, tonight, tonight, I'm in Hanover, Maryland. Come on out Baltimore, or anybody in the surrounding area. Come out and see me, The Hall at Live. Tomorrow, I'm in the Borgara at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Then I'm in, back to Southern California by San Diego at the Harrison Valley Center. Then I go to Canyonville, Oregon for Lover's Day, February 14th. Bad Friends is doing one show up there in Lincoln, California, by Sacramento. Then I'm at the Win in Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas. Then I'm at the Little Roadie Fest out there in Providence at the end of March. Come see me at andrewsantino.com. Those tickets are at andrewsantino.com.

• 2:27Speaker 02

  In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.

• 2:32Speaker 03

  Oh, that creature in the ginger beard. It's sturdy and ginger.

• 2:36Speaker 04

  Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Ginger's a beautiful. You owe me $5 for the whiskey, $75 for the horse.

• 2:44Speaker 03

  Ginger's, oh, hell, no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers.

• 2:51Andrew Santino?

  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I'm meeting once again today. It is Earthquake.

• 2:58Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 2:58Andrew Santino?

  Ladies and gentlemen, the joke telling business.

• 3:01Speaker 05

  Joke telling business.

• 3:02Andrew Santino?

  That's right. Cheers. We're having ourself. Earthquake walked in and said he didn't want to have anything to drink. Then he saw a little old Rip Van Winkle here, 10 year. And he said, you know, maybe go get me an ice cube or two and I'll have a little sip.

• 3:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, that got a little bite to it, too.

• 3:15Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it'll kick you.

• 3:16Speaker 05

  Oh, goddamn. Warms your soul.

• 3:19Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 3:20Speaker 05

  I feel like a cowboy just ran in, you know, came into the saloon.

• 3:25Andrew Santino?

  I'll take some say sparilla.

• 3:27Speaker 05

  Yeah, threw the motherfucking corn on the bar. Leave the bar, leave the bottle. Oh, this is strong.

• 3:33Andrew Santino?

  It's good, right? Yeah, it's a little strong. It's, I think it's 107 proof.

• 3:39Speaker 05

  Woo.

• 3:40Andrew Santino?

  Delicious.

• 3:41Speaker 05

  Shit.

• 3:42Andrew Santino?

  What do you drink when you're drinking?

• 3:43Speaker 05

  Um, a Colin 18.

• 3:45Andrew Santino?

  You're a big Scotch guy.

• 3:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm a Scotch. I do Tito's when I want to go white.

• 3:50Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 3:50Speaker 05

  The world is white, so you gotta mix it.

• 3:53Andrew Santino?

  For some of us, for some of us it is.

• 3:56Speaker 05

  Celebrate. Y'all in a good time. It's your season. That's true.

• 4:00Andrew Santino?

  Wait, but you didn't hear what happened in 2025. Last year, I'm a redhead, we got nominated as like black adjacent. The black community embraced us as black adjacent.

• 4:07Speaker 05

  Ain't nothing wrong with it.

• 4:08Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 4:08Speaker 05

  We know what y'all been through.

• 4:09Andrew Santino?

  Well, because we're different, right? We're so different that they kind of, they grouped us as non-white, but not black. We're kind of in an island on our own, like we were when we first were around.

• 4:22Speaker 05

  How many of, I mean, what's your count?

• 4:24Andrew Santino?

  How many, how many redheads are left? I don't know. How many redheads are on earth right now? Let's, let's take a, we'll gamble. Let's take a guess. I'm thinking on earth, out of 8 billion people, there's gotta be.

• 4:35Andrew Santino?

  I would say less than, I would say maybe two or three million redheads. What do you think?

• 4:40Speaker 05

  Maybe, if, fuck it, give y'all five. So that mean y'all can't do nothing.

• 4:46Andrew Santino?

  How many?

• 4:46Speaker 06

  Hundred forty million.

• 4:48Andrew Santino?

  Hundred forty million? There's more of us than you think.

• 4:50Speaker 05

  Hundred and forty million redheads?

• 4:51Speaker 06

  Yeah, thirteen percent of Scotland, ten percent of Ireland.

• 4:55Andrew Santino?

  You gotta remember, most of us aren't hiding.

• 4:57Speaker 05

  Why y'all hiding?

• 4:58Andrew Santino?

  Well, I don't need to because I'm, I'm, if you're above a five on the look scale, you're allowed to be out in public as a redhead. But if you're an under five, if you really are a decrepit ginger, they keep us away. You gotta hide. You have to go away.

• 5:09Speaker 05

  Y'all need some self-esteem. Cause, you know, ugly people come out in all denominations.

• 5:17Andrew Santino?

  They do.

• 5:17Speaker 05

  You know what I mean?

• 5:18Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, they do.

• 5:19Speaker 05

  In your face.

• 5:20Andrew Santino?

  But ugly and redhead is really a double, man. That's a two for one. That's tough.

• 5:23Speaker 05

  Nah, the redhead, I mean, and Latino, like Mexican, redhead means you the chosen one, ain't it? That's what they used to say that about, uh, Carmelo. He's the red.

• 5:33Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, Canelo. Canelo, see what?

• 5:35Speaker 05

  The redhead, he was the chosen.

• 5:38Andrew Santino?

  The chosen one, yeah. If I'm in a, if I'm in a, um...

• 5:42Speaker 05

  I don't know that's for fact.

• 5:43Andrew Santino?

  No, no, it's true. If I'm...

• 5:44Speaker 05

  That's what they used to say.

• 5:45Andrew Santino?

  If I'm in a big, uh, Mexican neighborhood, people want, I will get a Canelo yell once. They'll go, "Canelo, hey, Canelo", from across the street.

• 5:52Speaker 05

  Have you ever smashed a redhead?

• 5:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did a red on red, yeah.

• 5:57Speaker 05

  Naturally red?

• 5:58Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, natural. None of the fake shit. No, no fake, yeah.

• 6:00Speaker 05

  So is it red down there too?

• 6:02Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, well, it was shaved, but yeah, I imagine before they were shaved, it was red.

• 6:05Speaker 05

  Damn, that might look creepy.

• 6:09Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying?

• 6:10Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 6:11Speaker 05

  That might look creepy.

• 6:12Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 6:13Speaker 05

  Damn, see, you got me curious, but I'm married now.

• 6:15Andrew Santino?

  Have you, have you ever had? Have you ever had a red? Never?

• 6:18Speaker 05

  Never.

• 6:19Andrew Santino?

  But you, have you tasted all the continents?

• 6:20Speaker 05

  No.

• 6:21Andrew Santino?

  No?

• 6:22Speaker 05

  No.

• 6:22Andrew Santino?

  What are you talking? Only?

• 6:23Speaker 05

  I'm a segregator.

• 6:25Andrew Santino?

  Only black?

• 6:26Speaker 05

  I mean, they the only one hit on me. I mean, uh...

• 6:28Andrew Santino?

  No way.

• 6:29Speaker 05

  No, I've never, no.

• 6:30Andrew Santino?

  White girls never hit on you, ever? I don't believe that shit at all.

• 6:34Speaker 05

  No, really?

• 6:35Andrew Santino?

  Really?

• 6:35Speaker 05

  No, I'm never...

• 6:36Andrew Santino?

  Why do you think that is?

• 6:37Speaker 05

  Well, women don't hit on me, period, anyway.

• 6:38Andrew Santino?

  Not anymore?

• 6:40Speaker 05

  No, I mean, before...

• 6:40Andrew Santino?

  Cause you're married?

• 6:41Speaker 05

  Before I was married.

• 6:42Andrew Santino?

  They didn't?

• 6:43Speaker 05

  Hell, no.

• 6:45Andrew Santino?

  What are we talking? You're telling, you're telling me about self-confidence. What are you saying? You walked around, you're, you're a successful comedian who's been famous for...

• 6:54Andrew Santino?

  Forty years?

• 6:56Speaker 05

  Thirty five, thirty six.

• 6:57Andrew Santino?

  Okay, so what are you talking, you saying women never hit on you?

• 7:00Speaker 05

  I don't say never, but women don't hit on me. Certain dudes, we call it closers. They meet a woman, they know. I'm not a closer.

• 7:06Andrew Santino?

  No?

• 7:07Speaker 05

  No.

• 7:08Andrew Santino?

  You're an opener?

• 7:09Speaker 05

  Beyond an opener.

• 7:10Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 7:11Speaker 05

  For me to get on a woman is, I, she had to be, I like you. I, I, my reconnaissance is terrible. And I'm not a hunter. Cause I hate to be rejected.

• 7:21Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 7:21Speaker 05

  Oh, that one walk, when you walked over there and asked that girl to dance, and she said, no. And all your friends laughed at it. Last time I ever asked any of you motherfuckers for anything else.

• 7:34Speaker 05

  You won't get me again.

• 7:35Andrew Santino?

  What's it, do you have a story like that, a bad rejection story when you were young?

• 7:38Speaker 05

  All the time. I mean, in the community, you have women dancing on the floor and you come dance with them and they go sit down.

• 7:47Speaker 05

  Some of my motherfuckers stories.

• 7:48Andrew Santino?

  They sit down.

• 7:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, they dancing.

• 7:50Andrew Santino?

  That hurts.

• 7:51Speaker 05

  And you come on the back of those, oh damn, they turn around, see you, and stop dancing, go sit down. Kind of bullshit is that? How do you get that kind of shit, you like, nah.

• 8:00Andrew Santino?

  No, you're good.

• 8:01Speaker 05

  I'm good, man.

• 8:02Andrew Santino?

  I wrote a note to a girl my freshman year and I slid it under her door. And she, I saw her laughing with other friends about the note I wrote her and that one stayed with me for a long fucking time.

• 8:12Speaker 05

  It scars you, dog.

• 8:13Andrew Santino?

  It hurts.

• 8:14Speaker 05

  I, I still remember me walking over there, I was like eleven. We at the school dance, so it's a house party. She standing over there, all her friends are dancing. I come over there and said, nah, I don't wanna dance. Then, I had to walk back, my friends laugh. Next motherfucker, couldn't have been a, couldn't even been a hot minute, motherfucker come ask her to dance. Football dude, she up here grinding with him and everything. That let me know. You can't trust these motherfuckers.

• 8:46Andrew Santino?

  You can't.

• 8:47Speaker 05

  Oh, no, you could have danced with me, yo.

• 8:50Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, she shut up.

• 8:51Speaker 05

  That's why, to be honest with you, people be saying, I danced with everybody when I be at the club. Some, sometime my friend like, man, you dancing with this chick. I mean, some real non-show business type dancers.

• 9:07Speaker 05

  You know what I mean? My friend like, well, I said, I know how she feel. Somebody gotta dance with her. You know what I mean?

• 9:12Andrew Santino?

  Somebody's gotta dance with her.

• 9:13Speaker 05

  I, I may, I mean, it don't cost me nothing to make her day. You know what I mean?

• 9:17Andrew Santino?

  I've been there before.

• 9:17Speaker 05

  You know what I mean? And now you in the day making business. So I reverse it. Fine chicks ask me to dance, I'm like, nah, I'm straight.

• 9:27Andrew Santino?

  That's your charity.

• 9:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, I come back over there and dance with the chick with, with her feet all out.

• 9:35Speaker 05

  Dress don't fit. The coke girl. You know, you know, every woman have the coke girl. She wash the coats while everybody else go dance. She wash the drinks.

• 9:46Andrew Santino?

  Yeah. Yeah, stay back.

• 9:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, she usually the driver. She just drive them there. Don't nobody ask her to dance. They're the ones I be knocking off.

• 9:54Andrew Santino?

  Dance, dance with the coke girl. That's the lesson, the lesson learned today.

• 9:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, she wash the coats. And the purse while they go dance. You know what I mean? You know, you stay right here, don't nobody ask her to dance.

• 10:07Andrew Santino?

  What is her name usually?

• 10:08Speaker 05

  Oh, man.

• 10:09Andrew Santino?

  You know she's got a name.

• 10:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, she got a name, but nobody know it because nobody never ask.

• 10:15Speaker 05

  Only person know it, motherfucker checking for her ID. They letting anybody else in. They won't see her ID. They looking for a violation.

• 10:21Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 10:23Speaker 05

  It's a student ID, you need a government one.

• 10:28Speaker 05

  Oh, stop that, Todd, let her in. No, I'm not losing my job over her.

• 10:34Speaker 05

  She needs a goddamn state ID, not a school ID.

• 10:37Andrew Santino?

  The feet out, the feet out of the shoes is hilarious. I saw that right away. Falling out of those sandals.

• 10:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, falling toe over the sand.

• 10:44Andrew Santino?

  Toe over the side is so funny.

• 10:45Speaker 05

  And she slide. It's a constant slide when she walk. Because the shoes are rotating. I watch she got big calves. 'Cause the slides wanna, I danced with her.

• 10:56Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you'll dance with her.

• 10:56Speaker 05

  No, 'cause I know, I know how that feel.

• 10:59Andrew Santino?

  You've been there.

• 11:00Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 11:00Andrew Santino?

  When you were a kid, when you, were you, in, in high school, were you popular in high school?

• 11:04Speaker 05

  No, my brothers were. And then I hung, I hung around, um, my friends that was in, we have go-go bands in DC.

• 11:12Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 11:12Speaker 05

  And he was, his name was Dave, and he was part of the go-go band, and I hung with him. So, I got to see how women treat men that had a little juice with them.

• 11:24Andrew Santino?

  Well, you had, yeah, you had that great perspective. You got to sit back and watch, you watched the angles.

• 11:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:28Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, that's pretty great.

• 11:29Speaker 05

  And they was crew like that too, like, we, we in the 10th grade, but they are grown, they, they have schedules like grown ass professional musician. I didn't know it at the time.

• 11:41Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 11:42Speaker 05

  'Cause they are, on a school day, they would go and play at a, an arena, a big ass theater. And we'll be in there till four o'clock in the morning at fourteen years old.

• 11:54Andrew Santino?

  What?

• 11:54Speaker 05

  And they be cranking, playing their instruments called Red Asses, and we go, and, um, we used to get our ass whipped for being out there that late, but it was worth the ass whip because when you go back to school, everybody was there. And you ain't wanna be the only nerd that'll say, "Hey, man, they was cranking and you, where was you at?" I was at home, right? Get the fuck outta here. So, it was worth the ass whipping. That being said, I learned how women treated, 'cause one of my friends, like I said, Dave, he'd come to school and girls be waiting for him in class talking about, "I know you had to work last night, y'all was cranking, I was there, you ain't get a chance to do your homework, so I know you had a chance, 'cause you was working. Here, I did it for you, just put your name on the top of the tape and turn it in." And I said, "Well, I was there too."

• 12:40Speaker 05

  She said, "Fat nigga, get an education, you oughta be ashamed of yourself, out here hanging and everything else. You're not going to school, I ain't doing your shit." I said, "Bitch."

• 12:54Speaker 05

  I said it to myself.

• 12:56Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, alright.

• 12:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, so I knew nobody wasn't gonna do my homework, but they did his homework.

• 13:01Andrew Santino?

  Dave.

• 13:01Speaker 05

  And yeah, his name Dave and Little Benny. It was two, he was light skinned, so he had all the women.

• 13:06Andrew Santino?

  Little Benny, Little Benny? Where's he today, you think? Do you know?

• 13:09Speaker 05

  Oh, he's rest in peace.

• 13:10Andrew Santino?

  He's gone.

• 13:11Speaker 05

  Yeah, he's gone. He, we all went to high school. I still know of him. We ain't been in contact. The band is still there, but the original players has changed.

• 13:19Andrew Santino?

  Dave, Dave's not around either?

• 13:21Speaker 05

  Nah, Dave is. He in North Carolina. Um, damn that motherfucker. He, he got kicked out the group when we was in high school. He just couldn't stop being, you know. I, I don't, I never understood, how you late for band practice?

• 13:36Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you made up the time.

• 13:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:38Andrew Santino?

  It's your band.

• 13:39Speaker 05

  It's a band, you know what I'm saying? The fuck is, you know, they used to suspend him for shit like that. I was late for band practice. Nigga, it's a band.

• 13:48Andrew Santino?

  It's a band, man.

• 13:49Speaker 05

  There's all this discipline in a band.

• 13:51Andrew Santino?

  Figure it out.

• 13:52Speaker 05

  Y'all are musicians. You on the sex drug, rock and roll now, nigga. They holding, I said, they wanna put you out, man.

• 13:59Andrew Santino?

  They, they did. They kicked his ass out.

• 14:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, they kicked him.

• 14:02Andrew Santino?

  So, well, you didn't play sports at all when you were young?

• 14:03Speaker 05

  No.

• 14:04Andrew Santino?

  No, no, no.

• 14:05Speaker 05

  No athletic ability at all. First of all, again, you just ain't gonna holler at me as a coach.

• 14:12Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 14:13Speaker 05

  Once they start hollering and shit, like, who you talking to?

• 14:16Andrew Santino?

  You went into that shit.

• 14:17Speaker 05

  Nah, you don't talk to me like that. Football, that shit was too painful.

• 14:22Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 14:22Speaker 05

  Basketball, they holler at you. Fuck running up and, yeah. Football, hit me?

• 14:29Andrew Santino?

  No.

• 14:29Speaker 05

  I'm hitting you back. Fuck this shit. You know what I'm saying? So I just sat in the, um, bleachers in Washington, talked about him.

• 14:36Andrew Santino?

  Were you talking shit in high school? Is that where you kinda started?

• 14:39Speaker 05

  Well, I, I never said it too loud, cause they, you know, just, back in them days, motherfuckers ain't take constructive criticism. Ass weapons was included.

• 14:52Speaker 05

  We had pundits.

• 14:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 14:55Speaker 05

  Think, uh, my job is to talk shit about you. Nah, and my job is to whoop your motherfucking ass. You know what I'm saying? It's like you couldn't holla shit to grow big motherfuckers like that.

• 15:06Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 15:06Speaker 05

  You saw a motherfucker shoot the ball, you get your ass whooped.

• 15:09Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 15:10Speaker 05

  So it was more internal.

• 15:11Andrew Santino?

  When did the, when did comedy really start to get in your blood, though? Like, when did you really start to figure out that that's what you wanted to do? Was it around high school?

• 15:19Speaker 05

  No. No, this was an epiphany, man. I never did anything comedic. I, first of all, I didn't even know, um, being a comic was an occupation.

• 15:33Andrew Santino?

  Sure.

• 15:33Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying? I knew about the Richard Pryor and all that, but I knew him theatrically, though, the movies.

• 15:38Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 15:38Speaker 05

  My mother and father, him watching his, hearing his tapes and shit like you heard about it, but, nigga, I ain't doing shit with my mother. I'm trying to get outside. I can sit around and listen to no shit with them. You feel what I'm saying?

• 15:50Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 15:50Speaker 05

  And plus, they not there to, you know, to allow us to hear it anyway. So I never knew that. And, um, what got me into it, as usual, I was in the military for nine years and I, I hated my job. I just hated working anyway. And I was trying to find anything to get out of not doing my job, which is loading nuclear weapons for a living. And, um, I just did Topson Blues, tried that shit out.

• 16:18Speaker 05

  And then, um, I knew I was getting out the, out the military, out to being in nine years. I said, I gotta find what I'm gonna do. So I started looking at other motherfuckers do different stuff. And I took this girl

• 16:32Speaker 05

  to see this comedy shit. She was playing it on her TV and it was a disc and everything. And this motherfucker was laughing like shit, falling all under the table. I ain't gonna say who comedian it was.

• 16:43Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 16:43Speaker 05

  And I just said to her, I said, if you wanna fuck him, just say you wanna fuck him. But he ain't that funny. She was like, you're just hating on him. And I'm like, nah, that's funny. But that ain't the, you know, that ain't the funniest shit I ever heard for you to be all under the table. Just fuck him. So she was like, if you think you could do better, then do it. And I was like, I don't know if I can do better than that, but, nigga, that ain't the funniest shit I heard for you to be out there. Let me out of here. She was, you wanna fuck that dude? So, so the next time we went to a comedy club and I tried it and it was cool. And, you know, I'm a guy. And it was just the options of what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna try this and that. And I just got with Coconuts and they put me on.

• 17:28Speaker 05

  Tom Wilson just put me on a couple of things.

• 17:31Andrew Santino?

  You were with Tom Wilson?

• 17:32Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 17:32Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, doing a bunch, like doing co-headlining shows?

• 17:34Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, he was headlining, I was opening.

• 17:37Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 17:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, and I went to see Steve Harvey and said, I wanna be a comic. And he told me what it takes and this and that. And I said, let me try it out. And I said, well, something else will come along. Let me just try this shit. But it was never an occupation or desire or this one. I am more surprised that this is my calling than anybody on this world.

• 18:03Andrew Santino?

  Really?

• 18:04Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 18:05Andrew Santino?

  What did you think was gonna be your land, what did you think you were gonna land at eventually?

• 18:09Speaker 05

  I don't know what I was gonna do, but I knew I was gonna be successful because I'm not a struggling type. You know what I mean?

• 18:17Andrew Santino?

  You're not good at that.

• 18:18Speaker 05

  I'm not good at struggling. And, you know what I mean? I, I have to, I have to produce certain amount of income to, to, to take care of certain things I ain't do. Like, I'm not cleaning up. I gotta make enough money to find somebody to clean up for me.

• 18:38Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 18:39Speaker 05

  You get what I'm saying?

• 18:39Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 18:40Speaker 05

  So, before I can get a woman, before I can get this and this, these are the certain things in my life that I have to accumulate enough. And I knew I was gonna be successful now because my mother told me, you don't, you gonna have to hire a lot of people.

• 18:58Andrew Santino?

  You're gonna need more than the average person.

• 19:00Speaker 05

  Oh, you gonna need a lot of people for, cuz you, this is shit you say you ain't gonna do.

• 19:05Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 19:05Speaker 05

  That you ain't gonna do. And not to do it, you need somebody to do it for you. So, to answer your question on it, it was just, tried it one day and no, nothing better has came along.

• 19:16Andrew Santino?

  How old were you when that happened?

• 19:18Speaker 05

  Twenty-six, twenty-seven.

• 19:19Andrew Santino?

  Okay.

• 19:20Speaker 05

  Ninety-nine, twenty-eight.

• 19:21Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 19:22Speaker 05

  I was in my twenties. That's what I'm saying when I hang with Dave and Chris Rock and he all the comedians, I knew it in high school. I knew it in, that's why I don't do shit for my family. Motherfuckers like, nigga, you knew I had this and ain't nobody tell me shit. Fuck outta here. You don't deserve shit. We could've been living great.

• 19:43Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 19:44Speaker 05

  Y'all, have you seen all this?

• 19:46Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 19:46Speaker 05

  You ain't never bring them my attention.

• 19:48Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you should've told me.

• 19:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 19:49Andrew Santino?

  I'd have liked to know.

• 19:50Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 19:51Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 19:51Speaker 05

  Just tell them, motherfuckers.

• 19:54Andrew Santino?

  Nothing better came along is probably one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life.

• 19:58Speaker 05

  Nothing better came along.

• 19:59Andrew Santino?

  But you hated the military, you hated working so much in the military, you was like, I gotta get the fuck outta here.

• 20:04Speaker 05

  Well, I knew they was getting tired of me.

• 20:07Andrew Santino?

  Well, you weren't gonna be a lifer. You weren't gonna work, you were gonna be a-

• 20:09Speaker 05

  I mean, if ain't nothing better came along, I would've stayed for twenty years, you know?

• 20:13Andrew Santino?

  Collect the pension and say goodbye?

• 20:14Speaker 05

  Well, my thing is, why get out? To just do something that you already got, so.

• 20:21Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 20:21Speaker 05

  What made me get out, the war broke out. So I told the motherfuckers, I don't mind practicing for war, but y'all fighting for real, this, with this relationship, I don't-

• 20:29Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 20:30Speaker 05

  You know what I mean?

• 20:30Andrew Santino?

  I'm down for the drills, I just don't wanna do it.

• 20:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, man, I'm not going over here fight for no oil. I don't even have a car. You better send BP or Exxon over that bitch. I don't give a- Saddam Hussein take all the oil in the Middle East. Fuck you bringing it to a nigga in the car for? It's our natural interest. No, it is motherfucking yours. The gas station.

• 20:53Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 20:53Speaker 05

  It ain't mine, I ain't going, oh shit, I could've stayed at home and get shot at. Fuck I'm going over there for? And y'all gotta understand, this is the time that they told us he had chemical warfare, chemical war, I mean, war agents.

• 21:06Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 21:07Speaker 05

  That he had all of-

• 21:08Andrew Santino?

  Weapons of mass destruction.

• 21:10Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 21:11Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 21:11Speaker 05

  Weapons of mass destruction, but more than that, the chemical aspect of it. That we had to be over there fighting in our goddamn suits with the air masks on and everything on, but we trained on that shit. I always died.

• 21:25Speaker 05

  With the simulated war, nigga, I was the first one to motherfucker die. Shit went underneath my mask, I ain't put it on. Fuck, I'm going over that real one, fool. Nigga, you killed me every time we do this exercise. You tap me on the shoulder, you dead, motherfucker, you got your gloves out in the can. Fuck, I'm going over that phone.

• 21:44Andrew Santino?

  You died every time.

• 21:45Speaker 05

  Every war. Every simulated war, I died. Fuck, I'm gonna go over the real one.

• 21:50Andrew Santino?

  Fuck that.

• 21:51Speaker 05

  Fuck that, that's, that's the, you'll be the dumbest motherfucking world. You died for, I've been in it nine years. Nine straight years I have died in every exercise in a simulated war. And you want me to be the first to go for the real one?

• 22:05Andrew Santino?

  No.

• 22:06Speaker 05

  Somebody trying to kill me, man.

• 22:07Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you gotta get out.

• 22:09Speaker 05

  I gotta get out.

• 22:10Andrew Santino?

  When you left, when you left the military, did you, did you go to the west coast first?

• 22:13Speaker 05

  No, I went to Atlanta.

• 22:14Andrew Santino?

  You, oh, that's right, I do know that.

• 22:16Speaker 05

  I went to Atlanta because CNN said that's the best place for black men to prosper.

• 22:21Andrew Santino?

  And is it?

• 22:22Speaker 05

  That what they said, and I have never been there before, I said, fuck it.

• 22:26Andrew Santino?

  Why not?

• 22:26Speaker 05

  No, because I'm, I'm from Washington DC. You do nine years in the military, then go back to where you was at. And as black, that's acid to being illegal pharmaceuticals. That's, that's an episode of Power, nigga.

• 22:41Andrew Santino?

  Fifty's writing that line right now.

• 22:43Speaker 05

  Right now, got out of the military, went shit phone. My uncle Sam gave him 20 G's so he copped the key lock.

• 22:50Speaker 05

  Sam, that's believable. You understand what I'm saying? That's my, I go up there, motherfucker, say, man, I know you got all that discharge money.

• 22:57Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 22:57Speaker 05

  Key's gone for 14,000, you just give me the 14,000. I'll bring you back 28.

• 23:03Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 23:03Speaker 02

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• 23:06Andrew Santino?

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• 23:48Andrew Santino?

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• 24:33Andrew Santino?

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• 24:42Andrew Santino?

  What'd you do in Atlanta when you first moved?

• 24:44Speaker 05

  Um...

• 24:45Andrew Santino?

  How were you making money?

• 24:46Speaker 05

  I just, no, I was just, first of all, I got my unemployment. You get that and the money that I had for getting released. It's about 20 Gs. And back in then, Atlanta was affordable, motherfucker. Rent was $450.

• 25:01Andrew Santino?

  $400 a month?

• 25:02Speaker 05

  $400. And I went with four of my other friends. So all of them got out until the war broke out. I was telling them the same thing. You died in simulated war, you got to... This ain't your war, man. Not over... Tell them motherfuckers Hollanders when they get to the United States.

• 25:18Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 25:19Speaker 05

  Fuck over there, we ain't going over there. You don't even know no Kuwaitan. The fuck you in the fit of the Kuwait, nigga? Who is this nigga Kuwait? Nigga, fuck outta here, nigga. So, we all four got out and we moved to Atlanta. And that when Atlanta was Atlanta. Atlanta was, you, I mean, we were city boys. We were from Washington DC, New York, Cleveland, Denver, and we, we... Seen the world, we going in Atlanta, Atlanta was still with the southern part of it. It was so, so ripe, they even allow you to pump the gas and then go pay them.

• 25:55Andrew Santino?

  Oh, that's wild.

• 25:56Speaker 05

  We are the reason why you have to pay first, because we ain't pay for shit. What do you, we, we like this motherfucker's on.

• 26:04Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 26:07Speaker 05

  This, we looking around and then they look at this car, we all, y'all going too, y'all going too.

• 26:13Andrew Santino?

  Let's go.

• 26:14Speaker 05

  No, we, we was shocked, we like this gotta be a setup.

• 26:17Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 26:17Speaker 05

  So the first time you pay, and you're like, and then you talk to the cashier, like, man, um, my pump was on. He's like, yeah, and they look at us like we stupid.

• 26:27Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 26:29Speaker 05

  Nah, you pay when you finish pumping, we like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, y'all leave them on all the time, you're like, yeah, fuck around with you, like, shit. Pump that gas, lay that motherfucker, hose on the ground, because see when you put it back in, that allows the, the beeper going in and let you know they finished, that you finished and they look out and see you. But if you lay that bitch on the ground and the machine think it's still pumping, you like halfway in Marietta. Before that nigga look out there, well, I thought it was on, but I don't see nobody. Because that motherfucker's in the trash can, that why you don't see no motherfucker about it, we gone, motherfucker.

• 27:08Speaker 05

  We was robbing them niggas, they was on the news, there's been a rash of gas stealers in our city. We like, that's us.

• 27:18Andrew Santino?

  That's why, what is it, in Jer, is it Jersey, where they, they won't let you pump your own shit?

• 27:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, you gotta pull in Jersey and they come out.

• 27:23Andrew Santino?

  They have to, then that's.

• 27:25Speaker 05

  Them, you and you gonna keep a job.

• 27:26Andrew Santino?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, you can't pump your own gas.

• 27:28Speaker 05

  Listen, man, we'll sell you a gas station, but we pump the gas.

• 27:33Andrew Santino?

  That's exactly right, yeah, you don't pump the fucking gas.

• 27:35Speaker 05

  You don't pump the motherfucking gas, because we need to know who getting gas in this motherfucker, so we get our fair share.

• 27:42Andrew Santino?

  Right, they're counting, so when you, you're in Atlanta, you're with your friends from the military, and then you started doing stand-up in Atlanta.

• 27:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, that was the same.

• 27:51Andrew Santino?

  What took you to LA? Was it being on tour with Def Comedy and all that?

• 27:55Speaker 05

  Nah, man, me and, we had a fallout with my partners, I owe three comedy clubs, and, um. You know, uh, Uptown Comedy Car, Quakes, uh, Quakes Comedy Club and another one in, uh, Texas. And I had no ambition or desire to come to Los Angeles. Um, all my friends, when I first started doing this and it was it, like I told you, there was no. It just was a blessing that it happened, but I didn't have the desire to be in L.A.

• 28:26Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 28:27Speaker 05

  You gotta understand, I got like the military and I'm getting a lot of money for standing on stage for just being me. And, you know, Chris Tucker was like, come on, let's go to Hollywood. I'm like, Nick, calm down. I just got down to this sweet motherfucker. You've been living here your whole life. I ain't going nowhere. And, um, all my friends was telling me, come on, Nick, you need to go to L.A. I'm like, nah, man, I'm sweet down here, cause I own my own comedy club. I was doing my investments and, um, and anytime somebody wanted to see me, they had to get me out of Atlanta, you had to pay a retail on it. So, me and my partner had, uh, filled out the story. It's ain't worth discussion.

• 29:06Speaker 05

  And to keep from doing anything ignorant about it on the other way of the betrayal of it, I just went on the left of Atlanta and came straight out to L.A. And, um, me and Billy Gardell was, um.

• 29:18Andrew Santino?

  Love him.

• 29:18Speaker 05

  Yes, that's my friend. Me and him had the same manager, Christopher Peta. And Billy was coming out here, so we both came out at the same time.

• 29:28Andrew Santino?

  He's the best.

• 29:28Speaker 05

  We, we, uh, lived across the street from each other. And me and Billy used to hang every motherfucking day and just sitting there, like he, he had his son. When I had my son, he got married when I got married for my first marriage. And he moved out the neighborhood and I was so fucking happy that he got his show, he was on, and it was it. And, um, I was just out here like, do I really wanna do TV? Um, cause I was still making, you know, a lot of money on the road. It's a different location for flying from L.A. to Atlanta. But, uh, yeah, that was the whole fucking story. That's the only reason I came out to L.A. And now that I got out here, you wake up one morning, you're like, damn, you been in this bitch truck fifteen years.

• 30:14Speaker 05

  Cause it's, it's, it's, it's. It's perfection of it, the seasonal season.

• 30:20Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 30:21Speaker 05

  So you, you know, when you live out east, a bad winter of ninety-four and uh, you know, it it gives you.

• 30:27Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 30:28Speaker 05

  This motherfucker is the same every day.

• 30:30Andrew Santino?

  Every day.

• 30:31Speaker 05

  You know what I mean? So you have no season changing of the growth. You lose the time that you have been here because the seasons don't change.

• 30:39Andrew Santino?

  No, big time. I've been here twenty years.

• 30:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, and you you just feel like you just got to this moment. Somebody, ah, you came in two thousand, I'm like, god damn. That's right. I'm going on twenty-six fucking years. I've been out here longer than I've been anywhere in my life.

• 30:56Andrew Santino?

  And I tell you, that's it's a weird thought, because then now you're California's home, home, home.

• 31:01Speaker 05

  It's home.

• 31:02Andrew Santino?

  It's weird.

• 31:02Speaker 05

  Definitely now. I I mean, I've been out here so long, I gotta get some money.

• 31:08Speaker 05

  I gotta, I gotta get this.

• 31:10Andrew Santino?

  No, you're doing good.

• 31:11Speaker 05

  You know what I mean?

• 31:11Andrew Santino?

  No, you're doing great. You got a new special on Netflix, and please.

• 31:14Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 31:14Andrew Santino?

  Please go watch that. The Joe Tellin' Business is out on Netflix. You have two specials on Netflix, but this one's out now.

• 31:20Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 31:20Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you got a new one out now.

• 31:22Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 31:22Andrew Santino?

  Where'd you film this?

• 31:24Speaker 05

  Um, I think it was May. I filmed it in Atlanta.

• 31:27Andrew Santino?

  Oh, in Atlanta, yeah.

• 31:28Speaker 05

  Yes, I did legendary at home, because I'm from DC. And then I had to do the second one in Atlanta, because that's where I was born and raised in comedy. They made Earthquake.

• 31:39Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 31:39Speaker 05

  You know what I mean? So I will always be indebted to Atlanta.

• 31:43Andrew Santino?

  What theater was it at?

• 31:45Speaker 05

  Um, Buckhead Theater.

• 31:47Andrew Santino?

  Oh, I love Buckhead.

• 31:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, Buckhead Theater. Um, um, it's my my most proudest uh special. Because, man, I I call it the Michael Jordan flu game.

• 32:00Andrew Santino?

  This is your flu game special?

• 32:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was my flu game special. And I um had bad sinuses, and them motherfuckers will pop up any fucking time. And it popped up there, drainage, insects, uh sinus infection, and you know when you.

• 32:17Speaker 05

  You can't go to Netflix and say, "I don't feel good today." Let's shut all this production down. And we're gonna come back a month from Thursday. Only Dave Chappelle can do that.

• 32:26Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, he can do that, yeah.

• 32:28Speaker 05

  Dave can tell them.

• 32:28Andrew Santino?

  He can do that.

• 32:29Speaker 05

  Me, me, me. Nah, the me ain't feeling it.

• 32:33Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 32:34Speaker 05

  He's the man.

• 32:34Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 32:35Speaker 05

  But for us, I mean, for me anyway, you gotta play that game.

• 32:39Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 32:40Speaker 05

  Or assume the responsibility financially of what it costs.

• 32:44Andrew Santino?

  I don't wanna do that.

• 32:45Speaker 05

  And you don't want to do that.

• 32:46Andrew Santino?

  No, I don't wanna do that. I don't wanna pay for everybody. No, thank you. I'm good.

• 32:49Speaker 05

  Twice.

• 32:50Andrew Santino?

  We'll shoot.

• 32:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:51Andrew Santino?

  We'll shoot.

• 32:51Speaker 05

  You understand?

• 32:52Andrew Santino?

  Cameras up.

• 32:53Speaker 05

  You don't wanna pay for them twice.

• 32:54Andrew Santino?

  No, no, fuck that.

• 32:56Speaker 05

  You paid them for the night, and then they gotta come back and shoot the one that you feel better at.

• 32:59Andrew Santino?

  Uh-uh.

• 32:59Speaker 05

  Me, me, me.

• 33:00Andrew Santino?

  Me, me, me. Me, me, me. Me.

• 33:02Speaker 05

  Me, me, me.

• 33:03Andrew Santino?

  Me, good.

• 33:03Speaker 05

  And what people don't understand, this about comedians is, this ain't nothing different than any other time that occupational hazard that we deal with every year.

• 33:14Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 33:15Speaker 05

  No time to, just like a football player, athlete, no comedian gets on that stage a hundred percent healthy.

• 33:21Andrew Santino?

  No, no, you're going through.

• 33:22Speaker 05

  Mentally unfit, they're going through something.

• 33:24Andrew Santino?

  Something is up or down.

• 33:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, something is up and down right there, and we have to play anyway. The true professional ones.

• 33:29Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 33:30Speaker 05

  You get what I mean?

• 33:30Andrew Santino?

  You do.

• 33:31Speaker 05

  Some of them lean on, like for me, for my special, I just leaned on the material.

• 33:36Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 33:37Speaker 05

  You understand?

• 33:37Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 33:38Speaker 05

  Articulate the material, get it in, and then it'll speak for itself.

• 33:42Andrew Santino?

  Well, you did it enough. You've done it enough, like you're professional enough that you just know what to do, but to be sick during a filming is crazy hard. It's a nightmare.

• 33:52Speaker 05

  It's the hardest, man. Everybody coming with their home remedies and shit. Take this goose and soak it in the juice, and it'll clear your throat out.

• 34:05Speaker 05

  Because they wanna see you healed because they see it.

• 34:07Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 34:07Speaker 05

  And it's love. But you'll be amazed at all the home remedies that you get from the crew,

• 34:13Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 34:13Speaker 05

  the staff at the theater, your own people. And I say, if I take all this shit, I'm gonna die.

• 34:22Andrew Santino?

  Is that what you really want?

• 34:23Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 34:23Andrew Santino?

  Is that what you guys really fucking want?

• 34:25Speaker 05

  If I take all y'all motherfuckers remedy, I die.

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• 36:04Andrew Santino?

  What do you think now that this is out? Are you touring a new hour after this?

• 36:07Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 36:08Andrew Santino?

  A whole new hour?

• 36:09Speaker 05

  Yeah. See, I don't tell jokes.

• 36:13Speaker 05

  I don't write, I mentally write.

• 36:15Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 36:15Speaker 05

  So I don't physically write. So, once the subject matter that I was talking about, that I made funny, is over. There's no recording of it mentally in it, cause it's gone. That situation is gone. What had me mentally thinking about it is gone. Now, what I'm, what I'm seeing now that I can make funny of.

• 36:38Andrew Santino?

  Oh wow.

• 36:38Speaker 05

  So when people come to you sometimes and say, dude, this is a joke. And you're like, um, you'll, you'll, you'll remember it, but it'll sound fucked up.

• 36:47Andrew Santino?

  It's not the same joke.

• 36:49Speaker 05

  Because you're not there no more.

• 36:51Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 36:51Speaker 05

  See, I write like, it's the truth. It's a subject that's the truth, and then I elaborate on it.

• 36:58Andrew Santino?

  Sure.

• 36:59Speaker 05

  If a brother got shot, boom, then by the time I finish, he got shot eleven times, fell under the tree. Then he ran up the street, after getting shot eleven times, talking about, where's my pistol? He should say, where the hospital at? But he didn't say that, and he kept running. And it just goes all the way.

• 37:16Andrew Santino?

  Expand, expand, expand.

• 37:16Speaker 05

  And you flip it, and it flip it, and it flip it, and then when you get it to the, to the point where, like Steve Harvey say, a number one. And a number one is a joke that'll work anywhere. And it'll make a motherfucker laugh at a funeral. Everywhere you said it, and where, where you put it, how you did it, it always killed. That's the number one. And when you're ready to do a special, you line up all your number ones and then tape it.

• 37:41Andrew Santino?

  That's how you've always done it.

• 37:42Speaker 05

  That's how I've always done it.

• 37:43Andrew Santino?

  Right. And then now, well, see now, there's a thing going on with the internet with specials, but there, there's a million of them out there. Like, a lot of people are doing them. Do you think you're gonna continue to keep putting out specials, or, or is it now slowing down? You just wanna tour and do live for a long time?

• 37:58Speaker 05

  No, I'm, I'm right now, I, um, me and Bill Burr is doing a TV show for Fox this season.

• 38:07Andrew Santino?

  Oh, it's great.

• 38:08Speaker 05

  Yes, um, he's the, um, he's the production company. And I want to, um.

• 38:18Speaker 05

  Show my version of funny in a sitcom form.

• 38:21Andrew Santino?

  Good.

• 38:22Speaker 05

  And.

• 38:23Andrew Santino?

  Did you write it?

• 38:23Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 38:24Andrew Santino?

  Oh, great.

• 38:25Speaker 05

  And um, we are slated for this season. And um, I wanna do that and then I'm uh, after I do that, I'mma drop another special. My god be my witness, be healthy on that day.

• 38:41Andrew Santino?

  You will.

• 38:41Speaker 05

  Anything above it.

• 38:42Andrew Santino?

  You will.

• 38:42Speaker 05

  And um, put it together and I'mma shoot that one uh, probably uh, this time next year.

• 38:50Andrew Santino?

  Wow. That's good, I mean, you already got it planned out.

• 38:53Speaker 05

  New year.

• 38:53Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 38:54Speaker 05

  Eve, about the um, the show going hiatus for the first season. Um, I'mma shoot a uh, special right after, because I, I got like thirty, good thirty minutes of it what ones right now and um, by the time the end of this year, it'll be all together, what I wanna do.

• 39:19Andrew Santino?

  You have another thirty.

• 39:21Speaker 05

  Put another thirty and sell it.

• 39:23Andrew Santino?

  Good.

• 39:23Speaker 05

  You know what I mean, sell it off of it.

• 39:25Andrew Santino?

  That's great. What's the name of the show with Bill?

• 39:28Speaker 05

  Steelquake.

• 39:29Andrew Santino?

  Steelquake?

• 39:30Speaker 05

  Steelquake.

• 39:31Andrew Santino?

  Didn't go away?

• 39:32Speaker 05

  No, yeah, Steelquake.

• 39:33Andrew Santino?

  Still quake.

• 39:34Speaker 05

  Bill Burr is a great guy, man, and um, it's a pleasure and an honor and a god bless of we sitting there of having him be the executive producer on my show.

• 39:46Andrew Santino?

  Giving notes?

• 39:46Speaker 05

  And, yeah.

• 39:47Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 39:48Speaker 05

  No, but Bill, Bill, when I submitted my um, treatment for my show and he said, I, I get it all the time, nobody has came with complete understanding and thoroughness of this fucking show you got and I'll say, this is the shot, we, we, I know, I will never get another opportunity like I'm having right now with Fox and um, to get this opportunity because they have mandated, they want an earthquake show, not a water down show, they don't care what I put fictitious as my occupation, as long as it captured my own voice. And I'm gonna surround myself with a people that understands that

• 40:33Speaker 05

  and we're gonna take advantage of this uh, opportunity and um, put my version of funny out here and see how it does.

• 40:41Andrew Santino?

  Thank you, Fox.

• 40:43Speaker 05

  Oh, thank you. Words can never.

• 40:47Speaker 05

  Ever express.

• 40:48Andrew Santino?

  Thank you Fox.

• 40:49Speaker 05

  Thank you, thank you is below, it's so weak of a, where I can't even found it yet. I mean, it's just, sometime I, I um, I really, I, I, I sit back in, cause I done had eighteen, twenty. I done had every deal that is.

• 41:08Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 41:08Speaker 05

  In my thirty years. But to deal with the, with an opportunity and a person that wants you to be you and that's what they buying. And they expect to see Fox is going back to their, their, their origin when they first get married with children.

• 41:25Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 41:26Speaker 05

  And live in color, you know what I mean?

• 41:28Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 41:28Speaker 05

  All of that.

• 41:29Andrew Santino?

  Original shows with original takes.

• 41:30Speaker 05

  Original Martin.

• 41:32Andrew Santino?

  Love Martin.

• 41:32Speaker 05

  We're about to be the flagship of bringing that multi-camera back to Fox with the edge. We're not CBS with your grandmother, we're not NBC trying to be the, we're Fox.

• 41:43Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, we're Fox.

• 41:44Speaker 05

  You understand what I'm saying?

• 41:45Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 41:46Speaker 05

  We're the Simpsons.

• 41:47Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 41:47Speaker 05

  You understand what I'm saying? We, we, we there, you know what I mean? We, we, we hear you, you know, comedy central and y'all, but we're Fox. When it come to broadcast, this is where it is. And I was told that and um, um, Michael was told, Bill, Bill Pur was told that. And we came together and said, we gonna give it to them.

• 42:10Andrew Santino?

  That's great.

• 42:11Speaker 05

  And we gonna give it to them and um, and to give that opportunity, you know it as opportunity. And that's the network president that sending that to us.

• 42:19Andrew Santino?

  That's, that's a big deal.

• 42:20Speaker 05

  You understand? There ain't no hiding the shareholders. Saying this is what we want all from it and it's just, and, and I plan on to ask your question to one and I'm now. Just dedicate um, these next, this year to my um, to my TV show.

• 42:38Andrew Santino?

  To the show.

• 42:39Speaker 05

  To the show.

• 42:39Andrew Santino?

  Wow. Are you, how much of your real life is in the show? Is it like taking from what's going on in your life right now?

• 42:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, but on a comedic or.

• 42:48Andrew Santino?

  Sure.

• 42:48Speaker 05

  I mean, um, certain things have base that we have similarities, but like I said previous, take that and then run away. Run with it and make it a scrabble, it's possible.

• 42:58Andrew Santino?

  As big as possible.

• 42:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's biggest and I got characters that's in really my life that I just expand on them on their worst day.

• 43:06Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 43:07Speaker 05

  It made them day.

• 43:10Andrew Santino?

  On their worst day.

• 43:11Speaker 05

  On their worst day, it made a day every day.

• 43:13Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 43:13Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying?

• 43:14Andrew Santino?

  That's perfect.

• 43:14Speaker 05

  You get what I'm saying? These are brilliant. On their worst day, made a day every day. And um, and take it that way. That's why I'm still, that's why it's called Steelquake. And all this is happening, but I'm Steelquake.

• 43:26Andrew Santino?

  At the end of it all.

• 43:27Speaker 05

  At the end of it all, I'm a Steelquake.

• 43:30Andrew Santino?

  When you go, when you do like bounce back after doing like a show or a movie or something like that, when you go back out on the road, does it take you a long time to readjust? Or are you one of these guys that's, it doesn't even skip a beat for you?

• 43:41Speaker 05

  It doesn't because it's, um, standup is, um, my sanctuary. And now, it's even gonna be better for me because it's no longer my, um,

• 43:54Speaker 05

  only source of income.

• 43:55Andrew Santino?

  Right, right. Right, there, there is, there is ancillary now.

• 44:00Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying?

• 44:01Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 44:02Speaker 05

  When, when standup is your only source of income, you, you can't fuck around and get booed. Fuck with your ticket sales.

• 44:09Andrew Santino?

  Nah, you need it, yeah, you need to work, yeah.

• 44:11Speaker 05

  You gotta be that motherfucker all night. You gotta bring that motherfucker all night. Ain't no commercial money, ain't no motherfucker. This is, yeah, we need to sell all these motherfuckers out. Yeah, add two more shows. Cause I just took my woman shopping, na na na na. You give a bad show Friday, motherfuckers won't show up Saturday and Sunday.

• 44:33Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 44:33Speaker 05

  And get out. That's why your first show's on Friday is important. Cause people call like, what you doing? I went to go see her. And man, it was funny, let me see if I can get some tickets. So it's, so you understand that.

• 44:44Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 44:44Speaker 05

  But if you got a TV show, you coming at my mother. Listen, man, I really don't wanna be in this motherfucker.

• 44:54Andrew Santino?

  I'm gonna tell you, you, I'm gonna throw back, you, you, one of the nicest things that ever happened to me was your buddy Billy Gardell, who I love. I, I was, I got asked to go down to, I think it was Irvine, Irvine Improv to do, to host. When I first, you know, was hosting out and, uh, they said, oh, it's gonna be with Billy. I said, okay. And so I showed up real early. I was there a couple hours early and I was in the green room. And Billy walked in with a couple of guys that he was with. And I'm not gonna say any names, but so he walked in and I got up immediately and I got out of the green room. And he's like, where are you going? I said, well, it's the headliner's green room. I was just waiting for you guys to arrive, you know, just to say hi and introduce myself. He said, sit down. I said, no, no, I'm okay. And one of the men that was with him sat in the seat that I was in.

• 45:39Andrew Santino?

  And I said, no, I'll just go out to the bar. This is the headliner green room. He said, no, you're a comedian. Sit down. And I said, and I said, no, no, it's okay. And then he said to his buddy who was sitting in the seat, he goes, get up, give him back his seat. And his buddy was like, what? He goes, get the fuck up, give him back his seat. And so I reluctantly sat down, but I was also like, now this guy's gonna fucking hate my guts.

• 45:59Speaker 05

  Right.

• 46:00Andrew Santino?

  But Billy was, you know, Billy was being

• 46:02Speaker 05

  Billy.

• 46:03Andrew Santino?

  Very hospitable. And he was such a nice guy the whole time. Because I was so young and nervous as shit, you know, you're hosting these shows for these guys and I was, you know, they don't know me and so you just wanna do good and shut the fuck up and get out of the way. But Billy was such a great dude, but I forever remembered that as like one of the one of the greatest moments as a young comic, when somebody does that to you.

• 46:24Speaker 05

  Cause that happened to Billy before and Billy know how that feels.

• 46:27Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 46:32Speaker 05

  Don't matter where you start among, you should have some just some sense of

• 46:41Speaker 05

  just love for your fellow comedian. Cause you once was a opener. You know how it is to be in there. You know how it is to be shitted on by this arrogant fuck who happened to start before you did. Only different from me and you, you started first.

• 46:58Andrew Santino?

  Right, that's it, right.

• 46:59Speaker 05

  You've been in here for thirty years, you old man, motherfucker. And you telling the rules, it didn't work for you.

• 47:06Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 47:07Speaker 05

  Maybe you are the most disciplined comic, but it ain't helping with your progression and your fucking job. Or your career. And Billy knows that.

• 47:17Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 47:17Speaker 05

  That's why me and him are so friends, the humility of him. And why he told him to get out the seat is, cause that's your seat, cause you was already sitting there as a comic.

• 47:28Andrew Santino?

  Yeah. Yeah, it was a big, it was a big moment.

• 47:30Speaker 05

  It was always. He was already as a comic, and even if this dude is a comic, he should know that. And if he ain't a comic, you need to get your motherfucking ass up anyway. You ain't a comic. I don't give a fuck, he started the day. You ain't never start. Shut the fuck up, get out to sleep. That's the mentality of Billy. There's evil oil, so either way, if the person who was sitting there was a comic, you should have had some empathy, understanding that. That's his fucking seat forever, comic. And if you ain't, you don't probably be sitting down any motherfucker. You ain't no goddamn comic, this is a green room, bitch.

• 48:05Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 48:05Speaker 05

  Say no sitting there.

• 48:06Andrew Santino?

  Well, see, we all expect, like, do you have one that sticks out, and you're not trying to start some shit, but do you remember something that happened to you when you were a young comic that kind of fucked you up, stayed with you?

• 48:15Speaker 05

  Um.

• 48:15Andrew Santino?

  It's hard, I know, I don't want you to have to throw anybody, but.

• 48:17Speaker 05

  No, I mean.

• 48:20Andrew Santino?

  But sometimes people do that to us.

• 48:21Speaker 05

  I mean, I mean, I have some of my best friends fuck me up. I mean, with the star shit.

• 48:27Andrew Santino?

  Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 48:28Speaker 05

  You get what I'm saying?

• 48:28Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, when they get famous and that, yeah.

• 48:29Speaker 05

  They get famous, they get the star shit, you know what I mean?

• 48:32Andrew Santino?

  The attitude changes.

• 48:33Speaker 05

  And just, yeah, I mean.

• 48:37Speaker 05

  They flex, you know what I mean?

• 48:39Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I do.

• 48:40Speaker 05

  I never take the shit personal, cuz, me, anyway, I make even one's decision.

• 48:48Speaker 05

  I'd like to give you a pass and give you grace on that, or I'll never come see your ass again.

• 48:54Speaker 05

  Those are two motherfuckers choices. You had a bad day, you felt that way, I'll be your hookah bird.

• 49:00Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 49:01Speaker 05

  I'm your friend, I'm your hookah bird, man. I ain't gonna be your hookah birdies.

• 49:05Andrew Santino?

  You're right.

• 49:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'll be your, I'll give you.

• 49:07Andrew Santino?

  Singular, not plural, yeah.

• 49:09Speaker 05

  You know what I mean? Cuz I had one of my friends, friends, still my friend, I came to see this motherfucker, had me waiting for him for forty-five minutes like I was one of his bitches.

• 49:20Speaker 05

  Ain't nobody saying, man, you be a minute, you doing it, just waiting. My respectful, I didn't leave.

• 49:28Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, that's huge.

• 49:28Speaker 05

  Cuz I had already told him, I'm here, he said, give me a minute.

• 49:33Andrew Santino?

  Okay.

• 49:34Speaker 05

  You understand?

• 49:34Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 49:34Speaker 05

  So that, so I'm waiting.

• 49:38Speaker 05

  And you justify it, say, alright, I'm gonna get this motherfucker, ten more minutes.

• 49:42Andrew Santino?

  Ten fifteen minutes, yeah.

• 49:44Speaker 05

  Then you all right, I can't believe this, then the motherfucker come. We sit there, like, alright, you just mark it.

• 49:52Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you, yeah, it logs in.

• 49:54Speaker 05

  It logs in, you're like, alright, I seen that shit.

• 49:58Speaker 05

  Don't come over with that bullshit no more, motherfucker. You gotta get your dick wet on somebody else.

• 50:05Speaker 05

  I ain't your hoe now.

• 50:07Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 50:07Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying, it's, you know what I mean?

• 50:09Andrew Santino?

  It stays with you.

• 50:10Speaker 05

  But I, I do get mad at other comedians that snap off that and carry that shit like it's a...

• 50:17Andrew Santino?

  A vendetta?

• 50:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, like you were scarred.

• 50:20Andrew Santino?

  Right, right, right.

• 50:21Speaker 05

  You understand what I'm saying?

• 50:22Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 50:23Speaker 05

  You know what I mean, thinking bad about a joke thirty years ago, or he snugged me with it is and asked for an autograph, or...

• 50:31Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 50:32Speaker 05

  The fuck, and...

• 50:36Speaker 05

  This is me, maybe it ain't you. Let's say, for instance, that is what happened in his. You are a blessed motherfucker.

• 50:46Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 50:47Speaker 05

  That, that little incident scarred you that bad, ain't shit else happened.

• 50:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 50:54Speaker 05

  In this world, and the one that carried you with fuel and venom and revenge, I mean, you got to get this motherfucker is because the nigga did not, and I mean this, sign an autograph for you.

• 51:11Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you gotta let it go.

• 51:13Speaker 05

  Sign an autograph for you. Or said a joke that was yours.

• 51:17Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 51:18Speaker 05

  I got friends that took my jokes.

• 51:22Andrew Santino?

  Really?

• 51:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 51:24Andrew Santino?

  Was that, like, we all know that's like the ultimate, in comedy, that's like the one, the one thing. You still talk to people that took shit from you?

• 51:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 51:34Andrew Santino?

  Why?

• 51:35Speaker 05

  It's just a joke.

• 51:36Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it doesn't matter, I guess.

• 51:37Speaker 05

  I mean, I'm in the joke telling business.

• 51:39Andrew Santino?

  Yes, you are.

• 51:40Speaker 05

  I make these.

• 51:41Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 51:42Speaker 05

  There's no joke you could take that could fuck with me, because it's me.

• 51:46Andrew Santino?

  Do you call them out?

• 51:47Speaker 05

  No. Because, see, I know where I got mine from. I got you now.

• 51:51Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 51:52Speaker 05

  Because you're running out.

• 51:53Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 51:53Speaker 05

  You over here. If you had enough, you wouldn't be over here.

• 51:56Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 51:56Speaker 05

  I got you.

• 51:57Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 51:58Speaker 05

  I ain't running out.

• 51:58Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 52:00Speaker 05

  I'm in the joke telling business. I make these. This is what I do. This is known and on me on it. Now, I'm not gonna let you take it off of it. We're gonna acknowledge this point on it.

• 52:10Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 52:10Speaker 05

  And we, they know. I have said, hey, man, I'm on the show. Can you not use my this, this, this today? I would like to use it.

• 52:20Andrew Santino?

  Since I wrote it, I'd like to use it.

• 52:21Speaker 05

  You get what I'm saying? I would like to use this one today.

• 52:24Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 52:24Speaker 05

  See, that's how, you know what I mean? Not confrontational.

• 52:27Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you don't need it.

• 52:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, for what?

• 52:29Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it's fine.

• 52:29Speaker 05

  It's a joke.

• 52:30Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 52:31Speaker 05

  It ain't my manhood. It ain't my integrity. It ain't my kids.

• 52:35Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 52:35Speaker 05

  It ain't none of this a joke. So you, you the one put so much motherfucking emphasis on it, of it is. If you in the, you think McDonald's get mad, the hamburger get mad if you lose one hamburger?

• 52:48Andrew Santino?

  No, no, no.

• 52:49Speaker 05

  He in the hamburger making business, nigga. He, he ain't about hating the motherfucker that stole a hamburger. If you in the hamburger now, if you only got four hamburgers.

• 52:58Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, that's just some shit.

• 52:59Speaker 05

  Then he mad at the motherfucker for 20 years. But if he producing them motherfuckers out there, bitch, one hamburger.

• 53:05Andrew Santino?

  You're good.

• 53:06Speaker 05

  You know?

• 53:06Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 53:07Speaker 05

  You know, the hamburger ain't running, I can't believe this nigga stole this hamburger in 1902.

• 53:15Speaker 05

  Can't stand this motherfucker.

• 53:17Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it's true.

• 53:18Speaker 05

  He don't care because he in the hamburger making business, and I'm in the joke telling business.

• 53:22Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you are in the joke telling business.

• 53:24Speaker 05

  That's why I named it.

• 53:25Andrew Santino?

  It's a good name for a special, too.

• 53:26Speaker 05

  I'm joke telling business. That's all I am. I'm not your pastor. I'm not none of this shit. None of it.

• 53:33Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you've never, you've never done this high horse thing that a lot of people do. It happens in comedy, right? Well, people in comedy kind of feel like their voice or opinion or thoughts on something matters more than anybody else's. But you, I don't think you've ever talked to people like that in your whole career.

• 53:49Speaker 05

  Because...

• 53:51Andrew Santino?

  It's not your style at all.

• 53:52Speaker 05

  Not, well, it's my opinion.

• 53:57Speaker 05

  It's just an opinion.

• 53:58Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 53:58Speaker 05

  So, I'm not gonna tell you what my opinion should sway yours, cuz you still entitled yours. I'd rather tell you the hypocrisy that goes along with it, and that's how I came to my opinion on it.

• 54:10Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 54:11Speaker 05

  You understand?

• 54:11Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 54:12Speaker 05

  And you do what the fuck you want to.

• 54:13Andrew Santino?

  Right, you give it to them.

• 54:14Speaker 05

  You get, I give it to you.

• 54:15Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 54:15Speaker 05

  I hear you go.

• 54:17Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 54:17Speaker 05

  There it is, what you see is, is the hypocrisy, and that's how I'm hanging. That's how I'm doing it.

• 54:22Andrew Santino?

  Right, right.

• 54:23Speaker 05

  Good luck to everybody else.

• 54:24Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 54:25Speaker 05

  I ain't tell you what you supposed to. I'm not put on, no man is put on this earth to tell another man how his destiny's supposed to be, and no man should tell another man what he ain't. Who are you to tell this man what he's not? God, who, who ain't known it you?

• 54:41Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 54:41Speaker 05

  Being over here to tell this man his shortcomings, what he is not, what he should be doing. And why in the fuck you over here worrying about what I'm not doing? Why you worrying about what I'm doing? Who's, who's fucking working on you? Oh, my fault, you got your shit all together.

• 54:55Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 54:55Speaker 05

  You a made motherfucker, so you got time to evaluate everybody else's life. That's why I tell them, I have no time to tell you what you should be doing. Cuz I'm still working on me. I'm fucking me, I am, I am behind.

• 55:10Speaker 05

  It's a lot of shit. I, I am, man, there's a lot of shit that I need to learn and sit there and understand. But I also have the empathy to understand, and more than that, the sympathy to understand. People go through shit, and it take them longer to get to that destination, and who am I to tell them they should be there now?

• 55:29Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 55:30Speaker 05

  That's, that's what I'm saying.

• 55:31Andrew Santino?

  Cuz who knows what people are going through?

• 55:33Speaker 05

  You don't know what they going through, and it's, it's God, it's their growth, that's their journey, that's their testimony. They're not there yet, just cuz your fast ass made it. You can pop the motherfucker. Pop, I'm at the end, come on, fat bastard.

• 55:49Speaker 05

  Come on, you, you know, you done popped the tape. Come on, you fat motherfucker.

• 55:56Speaker 05

  What you sitting down for? You can't get here if you sit down. Cuz you quick.

• 56:01Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 56:02Speaker 05

  You understand? You still got shit to run, you just stop right here to look back.

• 56:06Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 56:06Speaker 05

  Unless you say that's the end of your race, but I wanna go farther than that now. I just ain't got there before you did. So stop hollering at me, but when I get up here, I'ma fuck you up.

• 56:19Speaker 05

  For hauling this shit out.

• 56:20Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 56:20Speaker 05

  Fuck you.

• 56:22Andrew Santino?

  Fuck you. When I get there, I'm gonna fuck you up. Fantastic approach. I mean, that's what it... Also because, look, you've been through the game so long, you've seen it change so much, right? Your perspective is so much more solid. I think that's the one thing is... I'm 42. As I've now got into my, into my 40s in this part of my career, I've started to change what I care about more, right? Like, you're a father. You're married. Like, you... There's certain things that just shift the way you give a shit about the business and your life and your career. I think as, when we're young, you're so hungry that you only care about the machine a little bit. It kind of dilutes you sometimes. Then you get older and then you start to feel what really is important to you, you know?

• 57:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, 'cause more responsibilities come.

• 57:08Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, well, life happens.

• 57:09Speaker 05

  Yeah, I tell my wife all the time, "I make enough money for me." It's your ass I can't afford.

• 57:16Andrew Santino?

  Yes, yeah.

• 57:17Speaker 05

  Then I'm out here working hard for you.

• 57:19Andrew Santino?

  Right, if it was just me...

• 57:20Speaker 05

  Oh, it was just me, Nick?

• 57:21Andrew Santino?

  It was fine!

• 57:22Speaker 05

  Shit, one show a month.

• 57:24Andrew Santino?

  We're good. We're good.

• 57:26Speaker 05

  I make one show enough, it's good for me.

• 57:28Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 57:28Speaker 05

  I ain't let this shit... I don't live out my price range. No. No, it's you, motherfucker, that broke the bank. Not that you ask for shit I want you to have.

• 57:37Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 57:38Speaker 05

  You understand? So, no, I make enough for me. If I was a no-good motherfucker, I cut everybody off, I'd be nice.

• 57:47Speaker 05

  If I said fuck everybody?

• 57:49Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 57:49Speaker 05

  I'd be nice.

• 57:50Andrew Santino?

  But that's not who you are.

• 57:51Speaker 05

  It's not who I am.

• 57:52Andrew Santino?

  You'll never be who you are.

• 57:53Speaker 05

  Never who I am.

• 57:54Andrew Santino?

  Also, that mountain is lonely when you're at the top over there. We know people, you know people that have all of it by themselves.

• 57:59Speaker 05

  Well, let me try it. This group love is fucking lonely too.

• 58:04Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it is.

• 58:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, 'cause you don't, you have no safety net. You are the provider.

• 58:09Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 58:09Speaker 05

  You have no one to turn to but God. That's why I tell my people, before coming to ask me for something, try God.

• 58:16Andrew Santino?

  Try God, see what he says.

• 58:18Speaker 05

  See, give, let, give Jesus his time to work it.

• 58:24Speaker 05

  You are, you're an impatient believer.

• 58:28Speaker 05

  It's only been four days and you're over here.

• 58:30Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, relax.

• 58:30Speaker 05

  You just asked him, 72 hours ago.

• 58:32Andrew Santino?

  Get in line.

• 58:33Speaker 05

  Wait, it's in his time.

• 58:38Speaker 05

  You question them, you have no faith. I believe in God. He gonna work it out for you.

• 58:45Andrew Santino?

  You say you never lived beyond your means, you always have been, you always have been pretty careful with your money.

• 58:51Speaker 05

  I try.

• 58:52Andrew Santino?

  You've never lived, like, you know, you hear some guys that live kind of crazy and irresponsible. You, that's not who you are ever. Have you, you never were foolish?

• 59:00Speaker 05

  No, my money always was spent on other things.

• 59:03Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 59:04Speaker 05

  My biggest expenses always be the woman in my life.

• 59:07Andrew Santino?

  People.

• 59:08Speaker 05

  Yeah, but woman in my life, my people, they can get, but my baby.

• 59:13Andrew Santino?

  The woman first.

• 59:15Speaker 05

  Oh, everything.

• 59:16Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 59:17Speaker 05

  I just, I pride myself on making sure that the woman in my life live

• 59:24Speaker 05

  a standard of living that I, maybe she might even know one for herself. It's no better satisfaction than that.

• 59:30Andrew Santino?

  You want it more than she does? You think sometimes you'll, you, you want this lifestyle more than she wants it?

• 59:36Speaker 05

  No, I just want the life, I want, it's not the lifestyle I want. I want the income that allows me to provide the things that I want her to have. And the only way I can get it is to have this lifestyle. I open up the one ass and ain't nobody paying me this kind of money.

• 59:55Speaker 05

  I ain't qualify for shit in there. I told my wife the other day, I said, for our income right now, if I went into Athlete, I would at least have to be the head coach.

• 1:00:06Speaker 05

  I would have to, you know what I mean? The income that comes along with those things.

• 1:00:09Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:10Speaker 05

  I couldn't be in sports as a scout. We'll starve. We'll starve around this motherfucker. If I'm a scout, assistant to the assistant, starve.

• 1:00:25Speaker 05

  You'll leave me.

• 1:00:26Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:27Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying?

• 1:00:27Andrew Santino?

  You gotta be the head coach.

• 1:00:28Speaker 05

  Oh, man, so I got to run with these jokes, so. But it's no enjoyment, we back to, it's, it's no better satisfaction than enjoyment than making a woman in my life, which happen to be right now forever, is my wife happy. And the things that comes along with. Um, telling these jokes and being at this point allows me to do that. So that's where my money goes.

• 1:00:50Andrew Santino?

  Well, thankfully for the joke telling business, it's going good.

• 1:00:52Speaker 05

  Oh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's good.

• 1:00:54Andrew Santino?

  And you better go watch that right now.

• 1:00:56Speaker 05

  Please.

• 1:00:56Andrew Santino?

  We should tell the people at home.

• 1:00:58Speaker 05

  Please.

• 1:00:58Andrew Santino?

  Before we sign off, to please go watch, uh, the joke telling business right now on Netflix. You can also watch Legendary, which is also on Netflix.

• 1:01:06Speaker 05

  Yes, produced by the great Dave Chappelle.

• 1:01:08Andrew Santino?

  The, one of the greatest dudes alive.

• 1:01:10Speaker 05

  Oh, man, he's a great dude. Thank you for the opportunity.

• 1:01:13Andrew Santino?

  He is the man.

• 1:01:14Speaker 05

  He the one brought me to Netflix. I am only there because of Dave.

• 1:01:18Andrew Santino?

  Did you, have you, you've gone out to Yellow Springs and done that whole thing?

• 1:01:21Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:01:22Andrew Santino?

  Did you do the outdoor or the firehouse?

• 1:01:23Speaker 05

  Both.

• 1:01:24Andrew Santino?

  Both, yeah, we did both, both, I mean, he let us come do the firehouse first, uh, and that was incredible. And then when I did, we did the summer series this last year, that was one of the most fun times I've ever had in my life. I mean, like, he created a world that I've never seen before. I mean, it's just noth- noth- there's nothing like that thing.

• 1:01:43Speaker 05

  He wrong, cause after he fuck with him, he's like, nigga, I'm doing this all wrong.

• 1:01:48Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah, what am I doing? How did he create this shit?

• 1:01:51Speaker 05

  The freedom, the artistic freedom.

• 1:01:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:55Speaker 05

  Of it, and it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's, to me, I like, listen, this is what I want, the freedom of it.

• 1:02:03Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:04Speaker 05

  The freedom, he's in that town and he able to bring people such as us in there, break Hollywood to him.

• 1:02:12Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you come to me.

• 1:02:13Speaker 05

  You come to Dave, it's outside in the summertime in the cornfield, the inside in the firehouse and it's different on it and it's.

• 1:02:22Andrew Santino?

  It's brilliant.

• 1:02:23Speaker 05

  It's only one hotel in the whole city.

• 1:02:25Andrew Santino?

  You gotta stay in that hotel.

• 1:02:26Speaker 05

  You gotta stay in that hotel.

• 1:02:27Andrew Santino?

  There's nowhere else to go.

• 1:02:28Speaker 05

  And everybody know you and.

• 1:02:30Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:31Speaker 05

  It's just, and it's, it's beautiful, and then he goes out and do the rest of it. It's a beautiful thing, and I was on the show that is Unstoppable, uh, when he did it in DC. And he called me and said he wanted me to be on the show, and I didn't know he was filming. And I walked in there and just looked around and I was like, this is, this is it. This is the sweetness of the sweetness of our profession. It's like the Hall of Fame. I see what, uh, football fans, players feel when they get that gold jacket.

• 1:03:06Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:03:07Speaker 05

  It's just that controlling your own destiny, your own, how you wanna do it, when you wanna do it. It's seductive to me, to be honest.

• 1:03:16Andrew Santino?

  Well, you're doing it too.

• 1:03:18Speaker 05

  Man.

• 1:03:18Andrew Santino?

  You're doing it too. You're good, you're doing it.

• 1:03:22Speaker 05

  Nah, I'm just joking. There's some good shit right here, man.

• 1:03:24Andrew Santino?

  This is fantastic, see?

• 1:03:25Speaker 05

  You done got me drunk in the moment.

• 1:03:26Andrew Santino?

  I told you.

• 1:03:27Speaker 05

  Mama, I love you.

• 1:03:30Andrew Santino?

  Go see Quake on tour, and go see, and watch the special right now on Netflix, please. It means the world to us that you came by. Support the show. We support you. We end the show the same way. You look into that camera and you say one word or one phrase to end the episode. Some people impart a word of wisdom, some people have a phrase they want to pass on, but in that camera, one word or one phrase whenever you're ready.

• 1:03:52Speaker 05

  Ooh.

• 1:03:53Andrew Santino?

  And you can take your time.

• 1:03:55Speaker 05

  One word and one phrase.

• 1:03:56Andrew Santino?

  One, see, sometimes people, it used to be a word years ago, and then I said, well, if you got a phrase, like a coin that you like to leave people of like, you know what I think about before I go to bed, or something that wakes you up, or something powerful that someone told you. Leave it with us.

• 1:04:13Speaker 05

  Oh, that's beautiful.

• 1:04:16Speaker 05

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• 1:04:25Speaker 02

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• 1:04:31Speaker 03

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• 1:04:33Speaker 04

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• 1:04:37Speaker 07

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• 1:04:44Speaker 03

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