Ep 276: Fluffy w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand

Comedian Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias joins Mark and Sam this week as they get into touring stories, fan encounters, and how Fluffy built one of the biggest stand-up audiences in the world. They also dive into cat ownership chaos, the never-ending litter box problem, late-night spending habits, and honest talk about health, relationships, and staying disciplined on the road. Sponsored by: Start investing in your future with Acorns https://acorns.com/wmbd — get a $5 bonus investment when you sign up Tired of the litter box struggle? Try Boxie https://boxiecat.com/WMBD — get 30% off with code WMBD Build your business with Shopify https://shopify.com/drunk — start your one-dollar-per-month trial Take control of your health with Hims https://hims.com/DRUNK — get your free online visit Subscribe to We Might Be Drunk: https://bit.ly/SubscribeToWMBD Merch: https://wemightbedrunkpod.com/ Clips Channel: https://bit.ly/WMBDClips Sam Morril: https://punchup.live/sammorril/tickets Mark Normand: https://punchup.live/marknormand/tickets ⸻ Produced by Gotham Production Studios: https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com @GothamProductionStudios | Producer: https://www.instagram.com/mrmatthewpeters #WeMightBeDrunk #MarkNormand #SamMorril #Fluffy #GabrielIglesias #Acorns #BoxieCat #Shopify #Hims #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #BodegaCatWhiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:06Mark Normand?

  How cute.

• 0:07Speaker 01

  This, yeah.

• 0:08Mark Normand?

  Holy shit.

• 0:09Speaker 01

  So this is, this is Roka, this right here is Roka. Uh, if you're gonna be, just, uh, start petting it from the back.

• 0:14Mark Normand?

  I know, I know about the back.

• 0:15Speaker 01

  You have consent.

• 0:16Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 0:16Speaker 01

  Yeah. Get up, Lexi.

• 0:19Mark Normand?

  Sniff, sniff. Ah, she's scared.

• 0:21Sam Morril?

  Why, why a chihuahua?

• 0:23Speaker 01

  Uh, I've always had a chihuahua. So like, uh, when I was 12 years old, my first dog ever was a chihuahua. And then, uh, I got a couple, uh, you know, after that. And I've just always, since I was 12 years old, I've always had a chihuahua.

• 0:34Mark Normand?

  And you, you both love Taco Bell.

• 0:36Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 0:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, that's funny if you're over 40, right?

• 0:42Mark Normand?

  You're Kiro. I'm over 40. There you go.

• 0:46Speaker 01

  But yeah, she's just like, I just, ah.

• 0:48Mark Normand?

  Ah, that's great.

• 0:50Sam Morril?

  That would be great if you actually ate her right now.

• 0:52Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 0:55Speaker 01

  Here you go.

• 0:55Sam Morril?

  Just the most violent opening to the episode.

• 0:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 0:58Mark Normand?

  Thank you.

• 0:59Sam Morril?

  That is a cute dog.

• 1:00Speaker 01

  Yeah. Oh, you think she bites? You ought to see what the white girl does.

• 1:02Mark Normand?

  Oh shit.

• 1:03Speaker 01

  That's my girlfriend. I haven't nev- I've never been able to publicly, um, put that out there. Like, I've, any, any relationship, I've never been, and I've never been public. I've never pu- posted photos of why I was eating. I always kept it really private, cause I figured, ah, if I put it out there, then they're gonna, people are gonna start reaching out.

• 1:20Mark Normand?

  I get it.

• 1:20Speaker 01

  So I told her, get ready, cause, uh, you know, I, I put it out there, so.

• 1:23Sam Morril?

  Wow, this is your first public?

• 1:25Speaker 01

  First public.

• 1:25Mark Normand?

  Hey, public honky.

• 1:28Speaker 01

  First public.

• 1:28Mark Normand?

  Well, white women love the public. They go, hey, you gotta post about me. Hey, you gotta put me out when it's our anniversary. And you go, ah, you gotta ruin my feed, bitch.

• 1:36Sam Morril?

  Well, the worst one is when, the worst one is when you're in the toxic relationship, and they're still mad you're not posting, and you're like, we're gonna break up any day. I still gotta post? And you still post, and then you're fucking, you're miserable. You know who you are. You know those groups, those friends who are like?

• 1:48Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:49Sam Morril?

  The bad marriage, they're cu- they're like, my fucking, my honey bear. And you're like, you cheated on her.

• 1:54Mark Normand?

  The more you post, the worse the relationship is. I've noticed. You know, the guy's like, I love her so much, and a week later, they're done.

• 2:00Speaker 01

  You know what? Yeah.

• 2:01Sam Morril?

  Overcompensation.

• 2:02Speaker 01

  I got, I got some friends that are doing that right now.

• 2:04Sam Morril?

  Ah, yeah?

• 2:05Speaker 01

  Oh, I got her roses. Oh, this and that. Oh, mi amor, my love. And I'm just like, oh, God, this is so just gross.

• 2:11Sam Morril?

  Are you crazy with gifts?

• 2:13Speaker 01

  No!

• 2:14Sam Morril?

  I think that's a good sign.

• 2:15Mark Normand?

  That is.

• 2:16Sam Morril?

  I think too many gifts is, is scary. Yeah.

• 2:18Speaker 01

  I feel like you're trying to comp- overcompensate for something.

• 2:21Mark Normand?

  Yes, exactly.

• 2:22Speaker 01

  My time is the biggest gift.

• 2:24Mark Normand?

  Here, here!

• 2:24Speaker 01

  My time is the biggest gift.

• 2:26Sam Morril?

  Your presence is the present.

• 2:27Speaker 01

  Because I could be doing some, you know, other things, but if I'm there, I care.

• 2:30Mark Normand?

  There you go.

• 2:31Speaker 01

  There you go. Make it rhyme. If it rhymes, it's good, right?

• 2:33Mark Normand?

  I don't buy my wife shit. We're a hit.

• 2:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, there you go.

• 2:39Speaker 03

  I got an interesting stat here, based on, uh, people professing their love. Best actress winners are 63% more likely to have their marriage end within four years.

• 2:51Mark Normand?

  Damn!

• 2:52Speaker 01

  Oh, man.

• 2:52Mark Normand?

  Because you're moving on up.

• 2:53Speaker 01

  Sacrifice. Drop that dead weight.

• 2:55Sam Morril?

  Well, maybe also you're just, you're probably just working a lot, too.

• 2:58Speaker 03

  Oh, that's true. Yeah, things are different.

• 3:00Mark Normand?

  But I think they're thinking, hey, I'm hot shit now. I got a nice guy.

• 3:03Sam Morril?

  But you said best actress, not actress.

• 3:04Speaker 03

  Actress winners.

• 3:05Mark Normand?

  I believe it.

• 3:06Sam Morril?

  Maybe the dude can't handle it.

• 3:07Speaker 01

  They're always trying to upgrade, right?

• 3:08Mark Normand?

  They're always trying to upgrade.

• 3:09Speaker 01

  Always trying to upgrade.

• 3:09Mark Normand?

  That's why women get hotter, and then they dump their fat piece of shit, and then they go get some hot, hunky guy.

• 3:16Speaker 01

  Alright.

• 3:17Mark Normand?

  Yeah, I'm just saying.

• 3:18Speaker 01

  There we go.

• 3:19Mark Normand?

  We know two girls have done that.

• 3:20Sam Morril?

  I, sometimes dudes, like, you ever feel a breakup coming on, you're like, I better hit the gym?

• 3:25Mark Normand?

  Ah, no.

• 3:25Sam Morril?

  You know. I get ready. That dog does.

• 3:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, right.

• 3:29Sam Morril?

  The dog's like, preach.

• 3:30Mark Normand?

  Preach.

• 3:31Sam Morril?

  No, sometimes you feel it coming on, you're like, I gotta get ready to be single again, because...

• 3:34Mark Normand?

  Right. So I did a, I did a gig in, you ever done Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle?

• 3:39Sam Morril?

  Classic.

• 3:39Mark Normand?

  In, uh, Royal Oak, Michigan?

• 3:41Speaker 01

  No.

• 3:42Mark Normand?

  Oh, it's a great club. But they, I couldn't sell tickets back then, so it was like, uh, they'd give away, like, a charity would come in and do a, so you'd have, like, Thursdays would be women's, women battered women nights, or whatever.

• 3:54Sam Morril?

  Hot crowd.

• 3:55Mark Normand?

  Yeah, they were tough.

• 3:56Sam Morril?

  You guys better laugh.

• 3:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, right?

• 3:58Mark Normand?

  Give you a taste of the back of my hand. But one night I had, uh, service dog graduation night. So it was just a bunch of people with their dogs at the show.

• 4:08Speaker 01

  You had an entire audience with people with dogs?

• 4:10Mark Normand?

  Full of dogs.

• 4:11Speaker 01

  Oh, I've never had that. That's pretty cool.

• 4:13Mark Normand?

  And so I'd be like, I'd bombing, you know, so I'd be like, so, uh, I was at the grocery store the other day. And, uh, you know, I was getting some, uh, grated cheese for my pizza. And I was like, "God damn it," because you can't, you can't tell the dog to shut the fuck up.

• 4:28Sam Morril?

  You take your keys out, you're like, "Come on, give me something."

• 4:32Mark Normand?

  Throwing treats out at some point.

• 4:33Sam Morril?

  That happened to me once though, back, way back in the day, Comedy Zone in Warwick, Rhode Island, in a movie theater, piece of shit club, but the whole crowd was, uh, breast cancer survivors. Best crowd of my life.

• 4:44Mark Normand?

  Oh, okay.

• 4:45Sam Morril?

  They've been through hell.

• 4:46Mark Normand?

  They've seen shit.

• 4:47Sam Morril?

  So they wanted to laugh. So I was like, "I've never killed this hard in my life."

• 4:50Mark Normand?

  That's a good point.

• 4:51Sam Morril?

  I think people who have been through real shit, like, no one's writing a fucking, no one's gonna Karen comment card you

• 4:56Mark Normand?

  No.

• 4:57Sam Morril?

  in that crowd.

• 4:57Mark Normand?

  Right. Laugh my tits off.

• 5:03Mark Normand?

  But no, I'm with you. I did, you do those, uh, benefit shows, like, for addicts, drug addicts and whatnot, they're the best crowds, because they've just, they've been through shit.

• 5:11Speaker 01

  And it's like, how are you gonna offend someone? Like, the things I used to do for, to get high? Like, really? Like, really? I'm, I'm gonna offend you?

• 5:18Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 5:18Speaker 01

  You know? And, and I, I think that's awesome, though, that you did a show like that for, for breast cancer survivors.

• 5:23Sam Morril?

  It was awesome.

• 5:24Speaker 01

  You know, you, once you go through chemo and stuff like that, it's like, nothing's gonna faze you.

• 5:27Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 5:28Speaker 01

  Nothing's gonna, you're just happy to be alive.

• 5:31Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 5:31Speaker 01

  And I think more people need to appreciate life.

• 5:34Mark Normand?

  And cop audiences are pretty good, too, because they see dead bodies, they go, "Shootouts," and all this shit.

• 5:39Speaker 01

  All the things they say, come on.

• 5:40Mark Normand?

  Ah, yeah, that too.

• 5:43Sam Morril?

  You get some PBA cards that night.

• 5:45Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 5:45Sam Morril?

  They always wanna be like, "Give me one of these." I'm just like, "All right, I got a few of them."

• 5:49Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 5:50Sam Morril?

  I get a little good at jail free card.

• 5:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 5:52Mark Normand?

  Yeah, what is that?

• 5:52Speaker 01

  Show this to, uh, if you get stopped, just show, show this to, uh...

• 5:56Mark Normand?

  I think I got one of those.

• 5:57Speaker 01

  I don't know, those, do those...

• 5:58Mark Normand?

  Those work?

• 5:59Speaker 01

  Hey, man, hey, ballin' over here, look at that.

• 6:01Mark Normand?

  Oh, that's spot pay.

• 6:02Speaker 01

  I love that.

• 6:03Mark Normand?

  Yeah, I'm a hooker. Hold on, I think I got a PBA here.

• 6:07Sam Morril?

  If I wasn't a comic, I'd never have cash on me, ever.

• 6:09Mark Normand?

  It's all comedy.

• 6:11Sam Morril?

  Yeah. It's just those seller spots.

• 6:13Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 6:14Speaker 01

  I'm impressed with the amount of cards you carry.

• 6:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah, well, I'm old school.

• 6:17Speaker 01

  I stopped carrying a wallet a long time ago. I just use my little, the little tiny wallet that goes on the back of the magnetic, that goes on the back of the phone. So three cards, that's all I got.

• 6:25Mark Normand?

  There it is. PBA 22, do they expire?

• 6:29Speaker 03

  I think after a year.

• 6:31Mark Normand?

  Ah, fuck.

• 6:32Sam Morril?

  After a year?

• 6:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:33Sam Morril?

  That's fucking brutal.

• 6:34Speaker 03

  You gotta get money every year. You gotta read.

• 6:35Sam Morril?

  Tim, good old Tim, alright.

• 6:37Mark Normand?

  Alright, yeah. You got the wallet on the phone?

• 6:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:40Mark Normand?

  That guy? Oh, that's good stuff.

• 6:41Speaker 01

  It's the one where it's just, you know, it's, it's the, it's on the back of the phone.

• 6:44Mark Normand?

  Oh, man. But no cash?

• 6:47Speaker 01

  No, well, you know, I keep, I keep cash on me.

• 6:49Mark Normand?

  I see.

• 6:50Speaker 01

  No, I don't have any cash on me right now, but.

• 6:51Mark Normand?

  You need some?

• 6:52Speaker 01

  Usually, nice.

• 6:53Mark Normand?

  Okay. But you're like, uh, you gotta be a trillionaire at this point.

• 6:57Speaker 01

  Oh, stop it. Stop it.

• 6:58Sam Morril?

  I mean, you did, you did. Two, two shows at Dodger Stadium?

• 7:01Speaker 01

  I'm doing alright for myself.

• 7:02Sam Morril?

  How crazy, so you did a show at Dodger Stadium and then you added a second show?

• 7:06Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 7:06Sam Morril?

  That's gotta feel insane.

• 7:08Speaker 01

  It was very much insane. So I was selling more tickets than the Dodgers at the time. And now they're killing it. So, you know, now, now they're killing it with Otani and the rest of the team.

• 7:16Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 7:16Speaker 01

  And now they're back to back champions. So, yeah, I, I feel like I was, I was the catalyst for that.

• 7:20Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 7:21Speaker 01

  I, I kicked it off.

• 7:22Sam Morril?

  Damn.

• 7:23Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 7:23Sam Morril?

  That is cool, man.

• 7:24Mark Normand?

  So where do you stand? Like at, at home plate? How do you, how's that work?

• 7:28Speaker 01

  Uh, you know, I've, I've seen many concerts at Dodger Stadium and they're all, they're, the, the stage is set up in the outfield. It's set up over by the bleachers. And so you're roughly, you're sitting probably right around, uh, what, second base?

• 7:41Mark Normand?

  Oh, okay.

• 7:42Speaker 01

  So the seats come all the way out and stuff like that. They try not to have, they try not to have seats actually on the bases and stuff like that. Cause they don't wanna mess up the mound.

• 7:49Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 7:50Speaker 01

  They have like a, a, a thing they put on the floor.

• 7:52Mark Normand?

  There it is.

• 7:53Speaker 01

  They put a thing on the floor so it kinda, it protects the grass.

• 7:56Mark Normand?

  Oh, my god.

• 7:57Sam Morril?

  How was the show though? Cause I feel like comedy outdoors always kinda sucks.

• 8:01Speaker 01

  You know, and as somebody who does a lot of fairs, uh, you're always dealing with the elements. You're always dealing with, oh, you got planes and helicopters, you got bugs, you got the weather. Sometimes it's humid, sometimes it's raining, sometimes, you know, and I've had to perform through all of that. The, the scary one is when it's raining and I'm like, I probably shouldn't be out here.

• 8:19Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 8:20Speaker 01

  And they're like, we can't get our deposit back. And I'm like, no, I'm out there freaking kicking water like Tay Tay. Right? But luckily, yeah, that's a real picture. I know it looks fake, but that was, man.

• 8:30Mark Normand?

  That is unbelievable.

• 8:31Speaker 01

  Yeah. If I had a Tinder, that'd be my picture right there.

• 8:33Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 8:34Speaker 01

  That'd be it. This is this guy.

• 8:36Mark Normand?

  Damn. Imagine that, all those people laughing, coming back at you. That's a beautiful thing.

• 8:40Speaker 01

  Incredible feeling, you know, and I thought that I was gonna have to adjust the show cuz anytime you perform for a big crowd, you always, you know, you you slow down a little bit to allow for the timing and everything, but in a situation like that, it was almost like a comedy club because the sound was so good, uh, they had, um, they they call, I think they call them delayed towers out in the crowd, so they were, everybody was getting it immediately. So it wasn't like a thing.

• 9:05Mark Normand?

  That's incredible. And did they do any baseball?

• 9:11Speaker 01

  And I I was terrified at first because it's like I've done the intro at Dodger Stadium, I've done the, you know, and now it's time for Dodger baseball and you would hear it and it would sound now, now, time, time, time, you know, and I'm like, oh, God, I hope it doesn't sound like that.

• 9:27Sam Morril?

  Were you the first comic to do a ballpark? I know Burr did Fenway, right?

• 9:31Speaker 01

  Uh, yes, I was the first one to do Dodger Stadium, uh, Bill Burr did his a few months later.

• 9:35Mark Normand?

  All right, you beat him.

• 9:37Speaker 01

  I mean, I know, yeah, yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a right there, you know?

• 9:41Mark Normand?

  Totally, totally.

• 9:42Sam Morril?

  And that's your team too, the Dodgers?

• 9:43Speaker 01

  Dodgers, yes.

• 9:44Sam Morril?

  That's crazy.

• 9:45Mark Normand?

  That's amazing.

• 9:45Speaker 01

  So to do a show that size at home was freaking awesome.

• 9:49Sam Morril?

  Did they, did they give you any cool swag as like a little gift?

• 9:52Speaker 01

  Uh, I get perks.

• 9:55Speaker 01

  Any of the, any of the swag, I, I, you know, I, I make my own merch, so I can make whatever I want.

• 9:59Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 10:00Speaker 01

  But, you know, whether it's a bat or something signed and stuff like that, you know, show up on a special day, it's like, ooh, but I haven't really asked for anything, you know, I think if you ask for it, they'll give you more, but there was no like, well, now we wanna present you with this and and present you with that.

• 10:14Mark Normand?

  But you don't get tickets for life and shit? I mean, you should be able to just walk in the stadium now.

• 10:18Speaker 01

  I'm pretty sure if I asked to go, that, you know, again, I, I think it's just for make a call, but I haven't.

• 10:24Mark Normand?

  Okay.

• 10:25Speaker 01

  And I don't wanna be that guy either. Hey, you know who I am, right?

• 10:27Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 10:28Speaker 01

  You know, you know what I did here?

• 10:31Speaker 01

  So, I'm just happy that it happened and I can talk about it and it's, it's, you know, there forever. It'll be on my tombstone. So when I'm, when I'm, you know, you know, born this day, died this day, and on the bottom, Dodger Stadium.

• 10:42Mark Normand?

  Hell, yeah.

• 10:42Sam Morril?

  That's, that's your number one, you think so far?

• 10:44Speaker 01

  Uh, biggest show, yeah.

• 10:45Sam Morril?

  It's pretty, I mean, just achievement.

• 10:47Speaker 01

  Just achievement, yeah.

• 10:48Sam Morril?

  I love those Hollywood, what's that Hollywood cemetery?

• 10:51Speaker 01

  The Hollywood cemetery?

• 10:52Sam Morril?

  You know what I'm talking about, where they have like, uh, Mel Blanc?

• 10:54Speaker 01

  They'll have Movie Night and stuff like that.

• 10:56Sam Morril?

  And they, but they have like Mel Blanc who voiced Bugs Bunny and on his tombstone it says, "That's all folks."

• 11:00Mark Normand?

  Hey!

• 11:01Speaker 01

  That is the best, that is the best.

• 11:03Sam Morril?

  You can't top that tombstone.

• 11:05Mark Normand?

  That's great.

• 11:06Sam Morril?

  And it wasn't, was it, it's either Carlin or Dangerfield, I gotta look it up, but it was, he was here just a minute ago.

• 11:10Mark Normand?

  Oooh!

• 11:11Sam Morril?

  That's a great tombstone.

• 11:13Speaker 03

  Can't remember who it was, it was like Jack Parr, might be, "He won't be right back."

• 11:17Mark Normand?

  Hey! That's great. Hey, I like that. Maybe mine will be, uh, "You're dead to me." Okay, sorry.

• 11:25Speaker 01

  They'll just be the dog.

• 11:26Mark Normand?

  Yeah, there you go, rough, yeah.

• 11:31Mark Normand?

  That was a hell of a show, that was really bad, that dog show. Brutal. And then I lady heckled me, and I said, "Ma'am, you're less well behaved than a dog." And that, that did well.

• 11:42Sam Morril?

  "You, ma'am, are the true bitch."

• 11:44Mark Normand?

  Yes!

• 11:46Speaker 01

  So if it was a graduation for dogs that, you know, like, was it like obedience school?

• 11:50Mark Normand?

  Service dogs.

• 11:52Speaker 01

  Well, shouldn't they have not barked then?

• 11:54Mark Normand?

  I know!

• 11:55Speaker 01

  I feel like that's part of the deal, you know?

• 11:56Mark Normand?

  You'd think, but I think I was bombing so bad that they were like, "Yuck."

• 12:00Speaker 01

  You were being heckled by a dog.

• 12:02Mark Normand?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 12:02Sam Morril?

  The dog's like, "I'm on the clock, but this is ridiculous."

• 12:04Speaker 01

  This is horrible. Nothing worse than getting heckled by a dog with a vest.

• 12:08Mark Normand?

  Right. Yeah, and I can't pet it either.

• 12:11Sam Morril?

  The working dog.

• 12:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, nowadays all dogs are service dogs, I feel, like everybody's, you know?

• 12:16Mark Normand?

  It's a scam. Look.

• 12:19Sam Morril?

  If you, if you have a note, you can get your dog.

• 12:21Mark Normand?

  Yeah. The blind guy, alright, go nuts, but this guy's got a fucking dachshund on a plane, like, get out of here. The dog's yappier than everyone here, the dog's giving me anxiety. I don't buy it.

• 12:33Speaker 01

  Mmm. I've, I've heard about people having different animals too, like a peacock, I've heard a peacock, parrot. And I'm like, okay, that's different.

• 12:41Sam Morril?

  There's a woman in my neighborhood, she's got a bird on her shoulder, and you could tell she's doing it for attention, cause there's like, it'll be at the coffee shop, outside, you're trying to work, just zone out, and she's just got this bird screaming, and everyone's just looking at her like, you know what you're doing.

• 12:54Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 12:55Sam Morril?

  But she just does it.

• 12:56Mark Normand?

  But you know what's fun? You walk past her, you don't even say anything, cause she was dying for you to say something, and you just go, "Nope."

• 13:02Sam Morril?

  I got up and that's what she wanted.

• 13:04Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 13:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's her icebreaker.

• 13:05Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 13:08Sam Morril?

  I once played for an audience full of birds, and, uh...

• 13:12Mark Normand?

  Look at that, look, there's an ostrich, a horse, a peacock. This is ridiculous. It's kinda like a weed card. If you let somebody, a pig, if you let somebody, that's me and my wife, um, if you let somebody bring a... Or if you let somebody cut corners, they're gonna do it, basically. If you give someone a loophole, they're gonna abuse it.

• 13:32Speaker 01

  Give an inch, take a mile.

• 13:33Mark Normand?

  That's the term.

• 13:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:34Mark Normand?

  There you go.

• 13:35Speaker 01

  Give an inch, take a mile.

• 13:35Mark Normand?

  Now, we're getting somewhere. So now, what do you do from, where do you go from Dodger Stadium? Are you back in arenas?

• 13:41Speaker 01

  So, uh, after Dodger Stadium happened, I actually contemplated retiring because I'm like, I just jumped the shark. What am I supposed to do now? Like, this is the craziest goal. And after you do it, it's like, okay, like, wha- what am I supposed to do now? So it's like, alright, I still had a, an obligation to do another special. So I'm like, alright, well, I'm gonna go back on the road and just, you know, go back to the routine.

• 14:05Sam Morril?

  Yeah, what's your process for that? Do you go smaller venues to build back up, or what do you do?

• 14:09Speaker 01

  Uh, a lot of times, I do like going back to clubs. And that's what I did. These last couple of months that I was getting ready for SoFi, I just wanted to get, get in as many, that was the new goal, by the way.

• 14:20Sam Morril?

  That's amazing.

• 14:21Speaker 01

  My, in order for me to get excited about wanting to go out and, and tour and just build up a new set, I needed to set a goal. And so, that's when I approached Joe Coy about the idea about teaming up and said, "Hey, man, come on, man, look, this is where we're at in our career." And I, I did the math. I said, "Okay, you sell out these many shows. This is how many tickets you sell. This is how many tickets I sell. Uh, this is the biggest market we have." Uh, you know, all the boxes were just like, if we do this, it can't fail. Just based on the math alone, it cannot fail.

• 14:52Mark Normand?

  Mm-hmm.

• 14:53Speaker 01

  And, you know, I was right.

• 14:55Mark Normand?

  And you're doing it?

• 14:56Speaker 01

  And we're doing it. So we're doing it next week, next Saturday, uh, SoFi Stadium. Uh, so that is, that, then, on Sunday, I'm gonna find myself in that same situation.

• 15:05Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 15:06Speaker 01

  It's like, now what are we supposed to do?

• 15:08Sam Morril?

  Yeah. It's funny, because you achieve your goal, and then you're just like, "Do I just kill myself? What do I do now?"

• 15:12Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 15:13Speaker 01

  My thing is, is that I just always, I never wanna be a shell of myself. I never wanna fade. That is my biggest fear. I do not wanna fade. If any- Thing I'd rather end on a high note.

• 15:23Mark Normand?

  Of course.

• 15:24Speaker 01

  That's the way you should go out. Go out on a high note. Go out Seinfeld style.

• 15:28Mark Normand?

  But what would you do if you retired? Like, what what's your days looking like?

• 15:32Speaker 01

  I would find other things to get into that I might not be as passionate about it, whether it's voice acting or acting or, you know, uh, may- maybe radio, maybe I'll start my own podcast. There's so many different veins I can go into. So it's just, you know, I, I, believe it or not, I've, I've been approached.

• 15:49Mark Normand?

  Really?

• 15:50Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, I've been approached. I've been, yes.

• 15:52Mark Normand?

  Who's, who's talking to you?

• 15:55Speaker 01

  I've been, I, it's not a matter of a company, but I've been offered money to do things.

• 15:59Mark Normand?

  Whoa, from Fluffy to Fluffer.

• 16:02Speaker 01

  Well, you know, it, that'll be the name of the book.

• 16:05Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 16:05Speaker 01

  I could write a book. So, uh, I, I definitely want to be involved in comedy some, in some fashion. Um, I thought about buying a club multiple times. I, I came close to buying, uh, the Ice House.

• 16:18Mark Normand?

  Oh, cool.

• 16:19Speaker 01

  Recently, that was very, very close. Uh, came really close to it and unfortunately it just, it did not pan out. Um, the owner Johnny Bus, uh, from the Bus family, the Lakers.

• 16:30Mark Normand?

  Yep.

• 16:30Speaker 01

  Um, we had worked something out where it's like, okay, this is the, uh, you know, this is what they want. I agreed to it. I came up in the conversation because it was two, two, uh, two people or companies in the running. It was this company, I want to say it's a stand up something in New York, uh, out here. There's a club that's got a chain.

• 16:50Mark Normand?

  Uh, New York Comedy Club.

• 16:51Speaker 01

  Something stand up.

• 16:52Mark Normand?

  Oh, uh.

• 16:54Speaker 01

  They have multiple locations.

• 16:55Mark Normand?

  New York Comedy Club. I think it's New York Comedy. They, they bought Stand Up New York.

• 16:58Speaker 01

  Oh, I think that's.

• 16:59Mark Normand?

  So there's three of them and there's one in Connecticut now.

• 17:01Speaker 01

  So there was a club out here that was in the running for it and then they approached me because they knew I had a history with the club.

• 17:07Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 17:07Speaker 01

  And they figured with, you know, where I'm at right now, this, it might make sense. Cause like, cause they know I'll take care of it. I'll continue the legacy. I'll make sure that I cherish it and take good care of it. Cause that's where I started.

• 17:18Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 17:18Speaker 01

  And, uh, once we agreed on it, everything was all set to, uh, we're supposed to take a meeting and what happens? They sell the Lakers for nine billion dollars and all of a sudden my phone stops ringing. Stops ringing, no more. Emails, no more replies. That's it. It went away.

• 17:34Mark Normand?

  Ay, ay, ay.

• 17:35Sam Morril?

  It's a lot of money.

• 17:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 17:37Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 17:38Speaker 01

  It's a lot of money. If I become a billionaire, there's a lot of people I'm gonna stop talking to. Just FYI. I think they know who they are. But, uh, yeah, so that was the last one. So I, I think either I'm gonna get into owning a club or, you know, mentoring, man. There's a lot of comics out there that, hey, man, I could help you. I don't, I don't, I'm not gonna do it for the money. It's just to stay in the game. But at a certain point, I'm like, man, how much longer can I do this at this level? Um, without falling off.

• 18:03Mark Normand?

  But the fact that you're conscious of it is a good sign. A lot of guys are like, I'll be huge forever.

• 18:08Speaker 01

  No, that's not, no, that's unrealistic, man. And I'm very much, all it takes is one bad tweet and you're deuces. You know what I mean? So, uh.

• 18:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah. But your crowd's what, pretty Hispanic?

• 18:19Speaker 01

  Uh, it's a little bit more than that. I mean, you know, don't get me wrong.

• 18:22Mark Normand?

  Majority.

• 18:23Speaker 01

  That's, if we're talking LA, California, absolutely rude. Texas, same thing. But you gotta figure, I go to fricking thirty plus countries where they don't even know what a Mexican is until I get there. So.

• 18:33Mark Normand?

  Well, if you got Joe Coy with the Filipino crowd, you got a Mexican crowd. That's the hardest working crowd in America.

• 18:39Speaker 01

  Right. Yeah. It's Jolly B meets King Taco. One night only, man. You gotta come see that show.

• 18:44Mark Normand?

  Jolly B.

• 18:45Speaker 01

  I figured I'd beat you to it, cause I knew you were warming up to it. Ah, I see it coming.

• 18:49Mark Normand?

  I didn't know it was Filipino. That's great.

• 18:54Mark Normand?

  Uh, but yeah, that's incredible. Uh, but yeah, you gotta stay in the game. Like I'm, I used to open for Seinfeld. And he was, I was like, hey, Cami's in Cars. I love that show. He goes, thank God for that show, or I wouldn't be relevant. And I'm like, your, your TV show's on.

• 19:07Speaker 01

  Forever.

• 19:07Mark Normand?

  Forever, ten times a day.

• 19:09Speaker 01

  Forever.

• 19:09Mark Normand?

  And he, but that's how he thinks. He's like, I got a new show. Thank God. I'm, I'm back in the zeitgeist.

• 19:14Sam Morril?

  Young people don't know Seinfeld. I mean, sometimes these shows come on Netflix and they're like, oh, what? I don't know this.

• 19:18Speaker 01

  Or they don't know that he's a comic. Because, you know, the show's big, but he's an actor in this situation.

• 19:24Mark Normand?

  Right, right. It's crazy how clueless people are now to, to new, to old stuff.

• 19:29Speaker 01

  And it's insane considering that information is right at your fingertips. You can find out anything in two seconds.

• 19:34Mark Normand?

  And we know less.

• 19:34Speaker 01

  Back in the days, like, you had a thesaurus or a friggin' encyclopedia. You had to really research, newspaper.

• 19:39Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 19:40Speaker 01

  You had to really work for the info.

• 19:42Mark Normand?

  Right, that's true.

• 19:43Speaker 01

  We'd watch, uh, you know, an HBO special that would come up every six, seven months.

• 19:47Mark Normand?

  Yeah. I know, but you.

• 19:48Sam Morril?

  They felt actually special. Yeah.

• 19:50Speaker 01

  Because it was, you know, once or twice a year, whereas like now, it's like, man, alright, every Tuesday, here's a new comic.

• 19:57Sam Morril?

  There's probably, do you think over under four thousand comedy specials a year? What do you think?

• 20:02Speaker 01

  There's, god.

• 20:03Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 20:03Speaker 01

  You figure between Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and, and yeah, oh, especially on YouTube.

• 20:09Sam Morril?

  YouTube changed the game. Anyways, no gatekeeper. You just throw something up there.

• 20:14Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 20:14Sam Morril?

  And call it a special. Which is great, but then now it's like, there's so much shit. They were like, oh my god, it's just like more and more and more. And it's like, where do you land? I get annoyed when there's like, I gotta download like Peacock for like fucking for one sports event. I know. There's so many different things, you know, but. That's true. That's, that's where we're at now. Yeah, that is annoying, but how many specials you got now?

• 20:38Speaker 01

  Uh, this next one will be number 10.

• 20:40Sam Morril?

  Where else have you been in the world where you're just like, this is crazy? Like what other parts of the world?

• 20:45Speaker 01

  Uh, let me see.

• 20:46Sam Morril?

  Cause you've been everywhere, right?

• 20:47Speaker 01

  All over the Middle East, definitely. It was always an experience and I'm just like, wow, okay. Uh, like my first time in the Middle East was in Jordan. I did Amon Jordan. Um, I went there with Russell Peters. Russell, I credit him a lot because he's one of the guys that inspired me to start traveling more outside of the US. Him and Dunham. They were the first ones to really start going and, and doing that, but. Uh, as far as culture shock for me, I think maybe Japan. Japan was very like, oh, okay, it's different here. Uh, now that was for military. I did a USO tour there, but I was there for a week and I got to just see how people live there and I'm like, wow, it's a culture shock. You know, when you're loud, that's a form of disrespect there. So silence is literally golden in Japan.

• 21:29Sam Morril?

  Good place to break up with a woman.

• 21:30Speaker 01

  Uh, nice, right? Just real quiet. Um, super clean country.

• 21:34Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 21:35Speaker 01

  Incredibly clean. I thought Singapore was really clean. Japan is spotless. Like they don't even have homeless people.

• 21:41Sam Morril?

  Whoa.

• 21:42Speaker 01

  I talked about, I said, I think they kill them there. I think, I think if you're unemployed for a week, it's like, huh, and then freaking sushi. And then, there's no ways there.

• 21:51Sam Morril?

  I believe it.

• 21:53Speaker 01

  Uh, many places. I mean, I'm trying to think, the one that really stood out to me, definitely Saudi Arabia was just one for, you know, for the books. But

• 22:00Mark Normand?

  You going to Iran?

• 22:01Speaker 01

  Still, uh, I've not been to Iran.

• 22:03Mark Normand?

  Alright, it's the cheap

• 22:04Speaker 01

  Right now, right now, you could probably get a good deal.

• 22:07Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 22:09Speaker 01

  I have a lot of friends that went to South Africa. I want to go to South Africa. That's one of the countries that I haven't been to yet. Uh, but I've been to over 25.

• 22:16Mark Normand?

  Woo, that's nice. I did my honeymoon in South Africa. It was amazing. Uh, but I've never to Japan. That's, that's next on my list.

• 22:23Speaker 01

  Japan has been on my bucket list for a very long time. So that happened recently. It was a lot of fun.

• 22:29Mark Normand?

  Damn. Uh, you know, they got a birth problem over there.

• 22:32Speaker 01

  What do you mean?

• 22:33Mark Normand?

  Like their, now their birth rate is through the floor. No one's fucking.

• 22:36Sam Morril?

  And, and China through the roof.

• 22:38Mark Normand?

  Is that right?

• 22:39Sam Morril?

  Oh, yeah, they got a big population in China.

• 22:41Speaker 01

  It's overcrowded.

• 22:42Mark Normand?

  Yeah, through the loof. How about that?

• 22:45Speaker 01

  Where they make Viagra. I don't know. Who knows?

• 22:48Mark Normand?

  They make a lot of stuff over there.

• 22:49Sam Morril?

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• 23:07Mark Normand?

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• 24:18Mark Normand?

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• 25:01Mark Normand?

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• 25:08Sam Morril?

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• 26:06Mark Normand?

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• 27:14Speaker 03

  Oh my god. I learned it from you.

• 27:16Mark Normand?

  Oh no.

• 27:16Speaker 03

  Chinese fuck like this. Wah! I don't know.

• 27:19Mark Normand?

  I don't think that's me.

• 27:20Speaker 03

  No, I said it's prior.

• 27:21Mark Normand?

  I know, and I don't think I told you that.

• 27:22Speaker 03

  Oh my god.

• 27:23Mark Normand?

  Oh, sorry.

• 27:23Sam Morril?

  You definitely didn't do that act out.

• 27:26Speaker 01

  That was pretty good.

• 27:27Mark Normand?

  Whatever happened to tequila, by the way? I was hoping to taste the tequila.

• 27:30Speaker 01

  Joe, did we get the tequila?

• 27:31Mark Normand?

  I got it. Oh, he's got it, okay. Sorry, sorry. Didn't mean to call you out. Just, uh, I wanna try it. Just give me a little neat, just a little shot, splash. Oh, you already had it?

• 27:40Speaker 01

  Look at that.

• 27:41Mark Normand?

  There we go. What do you call it?

• 27:43Speaker 01

  Uh, Pochino.

• 27:44Mark Normand?

  Pochino.

• 27:45Sam Morril?

  So this is your tequila?

• 27:46Speaker 01

  This is my tequila.

• 27:46Sam Morril?

  We have a whiskey and you have a tequila.

• 27:48Speaker 01

  I've been, uh, I've been approached, this is the bottle.

• 27:51Mark Normand?

  There you go.

• 27:52Speaker 01

  Since you guys are all about it, let's go check it out right here. I'll show the different cameras right here. So, um, on the bottle, Pochino's the name. I came up with the name. I designed the, uh, the label on a napkin, and then a real artist took over and did that. Um, these two dogs were dogs that I had before. And they're no longer with us, so I wanted to honor them on the bottle because they were there when I drank a lot. So, um... Basically, I was approached multiple times over the years to do a tequila because I do drink. Uh, but it just didn't feel right because you know, you like what you like.

• 28:27Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 28:28Speaker 01

  Like what you like and why deviate from that and plus, you know, fans are gonna know and man, he's full of shit. He doesn't really drink that. And so it was kinda like, eh, I'm good. But in this case, I was involved from day one. So it wasn't like someone just said, here's the bottle. Do you wanna freaking? You know, put your name behind it.

• 28:44Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 28:44Speaker 01

  I was literally involved with the entire creation of it. So the name, the, the design, the tasting. Oh, the tasting was so much fun.

• 28:52Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 28:52Speaker 01

  Because I told them what I, what I liked and uh, they're like, well, we, I guess we could try to make something like that. And they showed up to my place with like thirty bottles and the whole day was just dedicated. Testing and tasting the tequila.

• 29:07Mark Normand?

  That's exciting.

• 29:08Sam Morril?

  We had one of those after, uh, on an old episode, I guess, about whiskey and it turned into like March Madness style. Like, alright, you two now have to go head to head.

• 29:15Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 29:16Sam Morril?

  You know, it's, it's fun.

• 29:17Mark Normand?

  We got after it.

• 29:18Speaker 01

  So that was a good time and you know, um, totally involved with the, with the company, uh, Next Century Spirits. They've, they've taken exceptional care of me. Really, really good, uh, people to work with and so we, we feel really good about it.

• 29:30Mark Normand?

  This is damn good tequila. So I like, what does Pochero Fino mean?

• 29:33Speaker 01

  So.

• 29:34Mark Normand?

  Sorry.

• 29:35Speaker 01

  They said, um, well, Gabriel, you know, we think that, you know, all these different people with tequilas out there. We got The Rock, Kevin Hart and multiple people with their tequilas, but they're like, um, culturally, we think there should be a Mexican that has his own tequila.

• 29:49Mark Normand?

  That's fair.

• 29:49Speaker 01

  And I'm like, you know, I, I agree. And they're like, well, you're from Mexico. You should have one. I said, I'm not from Mexico. I said, I was born in the US. My family's from Mexico and so that's the story where it's like, it's a Mexican, American tequila. So it's like the best of both worlds.

• 30:05Mark Normand?

  Ah, it's legal.

• 30:06Speaker 01

  That's the story right there. It's like, it's, it's both. Nice. I, I heard that.

• 30:12Mark Normand?

  I like it, goes good with ice. Oh my god, joking, I'm a Canadian. Uh, this is damn good.

• 30:19Speaker 01

  That was funny.

• 30:20Sam Morril?

  Have they, have they pulled up to your shows outside ICE, or no?

• 30:23Speaker 01

  Uh, you know what, to my knowledge, I, I don't, I don't know.

• 30:26Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 30:27Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 30:28Mark Normand?

  Ah, those calls didn't go through, I guess.

• 30:30Speaker 01

  It sucks what's going on, man, but I try not to be too vocal, you don't want, no matter what you're saying, someone's gonna disagree with it.

• 30:37Mark Normand?

  That's true. I hear you.

• 30:39Speaker 03

  So we do this thing?

• 30:40Mark Normand?

  I got threats. Sorry, what?

• 30:42Speaker 03

  I was gonna say, we do this thing on the show called Working on Any Bits? Where you like, test out, or talk about bits you're working on with these guys and see if, uh...

• 30:53Speaker 01

  There you go.

• 30:54Speaker 03

  I think it was, they fuck fast, wooka. I fucked up.

• 30:56Mark Normand?

  Ah, there you go.

• 30:58Speaker 03

  I literally have a tape of you telling me that.

• 30:59Mark Normand?

  Is that right?

• 31:00Speaker 03

  Anyway, so, you working on any bits?

• 31:02Sam Morril?

  I, I mean, I don't know, let me check.

• 31:03Mark Normand?

  You gotta prep us for this.

• 31:04Sam Morril?

  Yeah, you don't fucking, wh- wh- wh- when did you become the guy, the setup guy? What the hell's happening here? We're never ready for this shit.

• 31:10Mark Normand?

  Uh, wait, I had a question, now I know, I went blank.

• 31:13Speaker 01

  You threw him off.

• 31:14Mark Normand?

  Oh, you still have your VW collection?

• 31:18Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, yeah.

• 31:19Mark Normand?

  That is a hell of a collection you got there.

• 31:22Speaker 01

  Thirty, thirty buses.

• 31:23Mark Normand?

  Thirty buses?

• 31:24Sam Morril?

  Wait, what?

• 31:25Mark Normand?

  Yeah, he collects the old VW, uh, the cool seventies ones.

• 31:29Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 31:29Sam Morril?

  Where do you, where do you stock all these?

• 31:31Speaker 01

  I have a building in Long Beach.

• 31:33Sam Morril?

  Holy shit.

• 31:34Mark Normand?

  There's him with Leno.

• 31:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, there you go.

• 31:35Mark Normand?

  Thirty of them.

• 31:36Speaker 01

  Leno's been to my place a few times, he's actually the one that inspired the car collecting. I, uh, I did an episode, there you go, see?

• 31:42Mark Normand?

  Jesus, it just keeps going.

• 31:46Sam Morril?

  Hmm.

• 31:46Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 31:47Sam Morril?

  Yeah, what?

• 31:48Mark Normand?

  That wow!

• 31:48Speaker 01

  One, yeah, that was a fish tank, the, the TV show Tanked came over and they, they built a fish tank out of a, a Volkswagen, it was pretty cool. So, the goal is to just make an entire Volkswagen museum there?

• 31:59Mark Normand?

  Mm-hmm.

• 31:59Speaker 01

  And it's already set up, so when I'm, when I'm dead and gone, that, that'll be a place where people can visit and...

• 32:04Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 32:05Speaker 01

  Cause anytime I do tours there, people are like, oh my god, all these Volkswagens, and no, I don't drive them all.

• 32:10Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 32:11Speaker 01

  From time to time, I'll take one out, but at the end of the day, there, there's still fifty year old cars, so, you know, you're not very reliable.

• 32:17Mark Normand?

  Sure, yeah.

• 32:18Speaker 01

  And if you scuff a rim, it's like, it's not like a hubcap.

• 32:20Mark Normand?

  Yeah. You gotta replace it.

• 32:22Speaker 01

  Really, it's, it's expensive, but...

• 32:24Mark Normand?

  So what, what is it about this car that hits you?

• 32:27Speaker 01

  Uh, it was my first car.

• 32:30Speaker 01

  When I was hanging out with Leno, uh, for one of the episodes, his guys that are the ones responsible for getting him his cars, they said, well, if there's anything you're, you're looking for, let us know, we're good at finding cars.

• 32:40Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 32:41Speaker 01

  And at the time I had gotten my ex-girlfriend back her first car, not the actual car, but her first car was like a, a Trans Am and they found one that looked just like it. Car and they're like, if you think of anything else you want, I go, well, um, maybe I want to get my first car, I go. And then I gave him the year and model of a Volkswagen bus and like that, they found it, they brought it and I'm like, oh wow. And they're like, well, if you want anything else, let us know. And I said, well, if you come across anything else you think I might like, you let me know. And we played that game for two years and next thing you know, the building was full of cars. And, uh, I wound up making friends with, uh, with a gentleman who does restorations and his, his, uh, you know, his, his thing is Volkswagen buses.

• 33:25Speaker 01

  And so he's done the restorations on all the buses, all those buses are pristine.

• 33:29Mark Normand?

  They're beautiful.

• 33:30Speaker 01

  They're, they're beautiful, so, uh.

• 33:32Sam Morril?

  Do you ever drive them out or no?

• 33:34Speaker 01

  They're rare, cause man, I'm telling you, as soon as you scrape one or something, you just, you feel it. It's so painful, like, oh, it's just, cause you know how long it took to get them that way.

• 33:45Sam Morril?

  So it's like more of like a museum.

• 33:46Speaker 01

  That's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is, which is why you see the artwork on the walls. I, uh, commissioned an artist to come in and paint these, these, you know, really nice, beautiful paintings. And, uh, it, it's nice. It really is.

• 33:59Mark Normand?

  What do you think, I mean, look, I'm going into my accounting brain, but what do you think that total worth is on all these puppies? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.

• 34:08Speaker 01

  No, I'll tell you, um, you know, my accountant told me, she says, you can keep buying these cars, they're only gonna go up in value. She goes, you don't do cocaine, so go for it. That was the direct quote, you don't do cocaine, so go for it.

• 34:20Mark Normand?

  There you go.

• 34:20Speaker 01

  She said, uh, Volkswagens and Rolexes, you can buy as many.

• 34:26Sam Morril?

  What, uh, yeah, what?

• 34:27Speaker 01

  About five million.

• 34:28Mark Normand?

  Oh, mama. All right, see, if you have that one tweet come out, then you can, uh, sell a few of these puppies.

• 34:36Speaker 01

  Shit ever hits the fan, there gonna be a sale.

• 34:41Mark Normand?

  That's a lot of, he's getting triggered as a Jewish guy, that's a lot of VW here, but, uh.

• 34:45Speaker 01

  Oh, sorry about that, bro.

• 34:48Sam Morril?

  We got over.

• 34:49Mark Normand?

  I showed him my pizza oven once, he flipped it. But yeah, that is, that's beautiful. You and Leno, Seinfeld, you all have a hanger of cars.

• 34:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, so, uh, Leno's not really the biggest fan of the, the bus.

• 35:01Mark Normand?

  What?

• 35:02Speaker 01

  Yeah. Um, and, and Seinfeld, he's more of the Porsche guy.

• 35:05Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 35:05Speaker 01

  He's the Porsche guy and, you know, I'm, I'm the bus guy, so that's, that's my thing.

• 35:09Mark Normand?

  That's cool.

• 35:10Sam Morril?

  And that kind of fits all your vibes, you know?

• 35:12Speaker 01

  And it's chill. So if I do take one out, it's, you know, it's not like, oh my God. You know, a lot of people, uh, whenever, you know, putting gas in one of those, people come up and they'll tell a story. Oh, my, my uncle and my dad had one of these. Oh, I remember we drove the, there's always a

• 35:28Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 35:28Speaker 01

  fun story attached.

• 35:29Sam Morril?

  That's you listening to one of their stories.

• 35:32Mark Normand?

  And there's a dog there, too. Oh, the dog made it. He's sleeping too.

• 35:37Speaker 01

  Oh yeah, you can see it.

• 35:39Mark Normand?

  That's Joe Coy going, well, I'm gonna open. I'll do 20.

• 35:43Sam Morril?

  Oh yeah, how do you figure that out? Who opens and who, uh, who closes that one?

• 35:47Speaker 01

  Well, and

• 35:48Sam Morril?

  Have you talked about it?

• 35:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, absolutely. So in that situation with SoFi, um, talking about, okay, who's gonna open, who's gonna close?

• 35:56Speaker 01

  I have no, no issue with, with being the opener and I think it's a responsibility that I, I should take on because when I did Dodger Stadium, I broke curfew. I went way over.

• 36:07Mark Normand?

  Oh shit.

• 36:07Speaker 01

  So I know what that's like, so I feel, I figure.

• 36:09Sam Morril?

  And that cost, that cost you money?

• 36:11Speaker 01

  Quarter million.

• 36:13Sam Morril?

  Cause you wanted to go long.

• 36:15Speaker 01

  Well, cause I did go long, not cause I wanted to. I didn't know that that's what they were gonna find me. I think if somebody would have been on the side of the stage and be like, Gabe, you're, you're the reason they can afford Otani.

• 36:27Speaker 01

  You might wanna cut it off. Cause I've, I've done shows before.

• 36:30Sam Morril?

  That's like three VWs, dude. What the hell?

• 36:32Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 36:34Speaker 01

  So I've done shows here in New York at, um, Radio City and there's another venue. I forget the name of it, but I remember they It was a thing where if you hit curfew at midnight, the, the, I think it was like 25K every like 30 minutes or something like that and Union One here in New York does not mess with you.

• 36:53Mark Normand?

  No, they don't fuck around.

• 36:55Sam Morril?

  Chappelle owes them eight million dollars right now.

• 36:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, I've, um, I remember I was on stage and my tour manager at the time runs out and he yells, Gabe, you got less than a minute to get off the stage or they're gonna fine you $25,000.

• 37:10Mark Normand?

  Oh, man.

• 37:11Speaker 01

  And I had a clock on the floor and I just remember looking and I'm like, I'm seeing the dial and I'm like, holy shit, lady, and the whole crowd heard it. So I said, thank you, good night. And I just, he goes, run off the stage because you legally have to be off the stage by midnight or they tax your ass.

• 37:27Mark Normand?

  Yeah, this, this happened to me in Philly. I think the guy screwed me. Cause he's like, you gotta be off stage by 11. If you're on a stage at 11:01, that's your ass. They're gonna find you 500 bucks every 30 seconds or whatever. So I was like, all right, no problem. We wrapped the show up. I say, bye. Thank you, everybody. I'm leaving and the guy goes, can you do a photo with all the staff and all the grips? And I said, uh, sure. Yeah. It's 10:56, 10:58, whatever it was. But I was like, he has to do the photo. So if you want to do a photo, we can do a photo. And we did the photo with all the guys in, you know, get, get the guys in the front low, the guys in the back tall. Here we go. We got it. And he goes, ooh, 11:02.

• 38:05Sam Morril?

  That's bullshit.

• 38:05Mark Normand?

  Gotta find you. Swear to God.

• 38:06Sam Morril?

  No way.

• 38:07Mark Normand?

  I know. We did a sketch about it.

• 38:09Speaker 01

  You got suckered into that. That's what it sounds like.

• 38:11Mark Normand?

  I told a guy and it was in the Union. He's like, that's the oldest trick in the book. You fell for that? And I go, he has to do a picture.

• 38:15Sam Morril?

  That's not real, dude.

• 38:15Mark Normand?

  True story. He was there.

• 38:18Speaker 01

  Oh, my God.

• 38:18Sam Morril?

  500 bucks. How much they fined you?

• 38:19Mark Normand?

  500 bucks.

• 38:20Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 38:21Mark Normand?

  But for like a minute and a half. But yeah, he screwed me. Philly. That was at the Miller Theater. I still remember it.

• 38:28Sam Morril?

  Damn.

• 38:28Speaker 01

  Ah.

• 38:29Sam Morril?

  I'm so glad no one asked me for a picture at that theater.

• 38:31Mark Normand?

  Nice. Don't do it. Keep your eye on the clock.

• 38:34Speaker 03

  I remember Mark told his manager, he was like, and his manager was like, it's just 500 bucks. And he was like, then you fucking pay it.

• 38:40Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's true.

• 38:42Speaker 01

  So to answer your question, um, I'm, I'm gonna go first on this one.

• 38:46Mark Normand?

  Nice.

• 38:47Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 38:47Speaker 01

  I'm gonna go first on this one. And, and you know what?

• 38:49Sam Morril?

  Do you have another opener or is it just you two?

• 38:51Speaker 01

  Uh, we plan on having some special guests and then, you know, we're gonna do like a pre-show. So let's say the show starts at seven, the pre-show start at six, and that's where we put in the homies. You know what I mean?

• 39:00Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 39:00Speaker 01

  His normal openers, my normal openers to give them a chance to just, you know, warm up the crowd. And, uh, we're gonna encourage the audience to get there sooner than later, cause it's not like a club where you could fill it in, you know, 30 minutes.

• 39:13Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 39:13Speaker 01

  It takes a long time for people to park, walk from the car.

• 39:16Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 39:17Speaker 01

  To the door, check in, scan your ticket, go through security.

• 39:21Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 39:21Speaker 01

  Find your seat.

• 39:22Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 39:23Speaker 01

  Get a soda, go to the bathroom. I mean, it takes a while, so.

• 39:26Mark Normand?

  Let the opener do that.

• 39:27Speaker 01

  We're encouraging them to get there super early, um, because there's also gonna be another concert happening right up the road at Intuit Dome.

• 39:34Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 39:34Speaker 01

  And at, um, the Forum next door.

• 39:37Mark Normand?

  Oh, geez.

• 39:38Sam Morril?

  Who are you going against?

• 39:39Speaker 01

  Uh, I think it's, is it Peso Pluma?

• 39:41Mark Normand?

  Oh, no.

• 39:42Speaker 01

  Yeah. There's somebody, it's, it's somebody that's gonna sell out for sure.

• 39:46Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that might eat some of your people.

• 39:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, nice.

• 39:51Mark Normand?

  Peso Pluma.

• 39:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, so, uh, so I, again, I got no problem going first on this one. It's not an ego thing. The two of us are, uh, good friends. And we just feel like, man, a show like this is something that has never been done, needs to be done. And, you know.

• 40:07Mark Normand?

  I agree. And going first is like a little more, uh.

• 40:10Sam Morril?

  Sometimes it's more fun, yeah.

• 40:11Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah, you're dumb.

• 40:12Sam Morril?

  I can chill.

• 40:12Mark Normand?

  You, you close it.

• 40:12Sam Morril?

  They're up there, you're having a cocktail, you're like.

• 40:14Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 40:15Sam Morril?

  Enjoy.

• 40:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, but in, in my situation, I either gotta deal with people still coming in.

• 40:19Mark Normand?

  Oh, that's true.

• 40:19Speaker 01

  And sunlight.

• 40:21Mark Normand?

  Ooh.

• 40:22Speaker 01

  You know?

• 40:23Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 40:23Speaker 01

  So there's, there is, there's pros and cons to both slots.

• 40:26Mark Normand?

  But can you have the openers eat that sunlight, eat that people coming in? You know, that's what an opener is.

• 40:32Speaker 01

  And originally the plan was we were each gonna do 90 minutes. So to make it a three hour set. In which case that probably, yeah, well, that probably would have been a, you know, we, we would have been cutting it really close on that one. So we had a conversation and uh, he's like, dude, we should really keep it closer to an hour this way.

• 40:51Mark Normand?

  I agree.

• 40:51Speaker 01

  Keep the people still excited, more engaged. And I'm like, I get it. Let's do it.

• 40:55Mark Normand?

  Yeah, I think that's fair.

• 40:57Speaker 01

  So that gives us a little bit of an extra buffer just in case, you know, I go a little bit over or Joe goes a little bit over.

• 41:02Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 41:03Speaker 01

  But I already know, like if I, if I do go over, I'll, I'll own it and I'll cover whatever that is.

• 41:08Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 41:09Speaker 01

  If I do that, but I don't wanna do that, cause I just, you know, I've been working on my set for the last couple of months and I've only been doing clubs. So I went back to just straight up improvs and levy and freaking, you know.

• 41:20Mark Normand?

  Funny bones, heliums, it's great.

• 41:22Sam Morril?

  That's, it feels good though, man. It gets you tight. It cuts the fat.

• 41:25Speaker 01

  It does. Cause on average with the regular shows, I'm doing three shows a week. Doing the arenas, going back to the clubs, I can do six shows.

• 41:32Mark Normand?

  Exactly. You get the reps and it's hard to work out in an arena, obviously. You know, the clubs, you can tweak the jokes a little better, I think.

• 41:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, the arena, there's a certain expectation. And if you're trying out shit at the arena, they're like, I don't know. At the club, they're forgiving.

• 41:46Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 41:46Speaker 01

  You know, they're, they're more buzzed.

• 41:48Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 41:49Speaker 01

  So there's, there's.

• 41:50Sam Morril?

  I do wanna see a hipster comic in an arena, like what else? Uh.

• 41:54Speaker 01

  Oh, I hate that. I hate that.

• 41:57Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 41:58Speaker 01

  Are you seeing that thing that like a lot of comedy shows are going viral, the guys that are just pull out their phone and read their jokes on the phone?

• 42:04Mark Normand?

  Oh, no.

• 42:05Speaker 01

  And I'm just like, oh.

• 42:06Mark Normand?

  I don't love that either.

• 42:07Sam Morril?

  That better be a new material night.

• 42:09Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 42:09Sam Morril?

  We do new material night, the seller.

• 42:11Speaker 01

  Jokes aren't even like, it's not real bits. It's more like jokey joke.

• 42:15Sam Morril?

  Oh, like tweets or something?

• 42:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, like, yeah, hacky shit.

• 42:19Mark Normand?

  Right. Now, how the hell did you come up with a 25 minute story? That, I've never had a 25 minute bit in my life.

• 42:26Sam Morril?

  Yeah, when you do a bit that, that is that long, do you, do you write it out or do you just keep talking and you do know the beats and where it's gonna end?

• 42:34Speaker 01

  So uh, I've never written anything out. I cannot just sit and it's too structured for me.

• 42:40Sam Morril?

  You don't have like emails or word docs or anything?

• 42:42Speaker 01

  No. So what I do is all my shows are recorded, audio, audio for every single show. And one of my uh. Opener's who's he's really good at structuring and he helps me out whenever I do specials. He'll break down the sets, time codes, so that when we go into editing, we present the, you know, the editor with. These are how long the bits are. These are the time codes. We want to take time off of, you know, so that the, he's really structured. And I appreciate that, but me, I can't do it. Yeah. Can't sit and write up, okay, here's the premise and you know, they, they teach the whole, and you do the circle and then you do the line. And then here you're building on this premise. I, I just can't do it because it's work and I fucking hate work. I hate work. I want to have fun. I'd rather go out on stage and just start venting and telling stories.

• 43:27Speaker 01

  And whatever gets the laugh, cool, I keep whatever doesn't get the laugh. That's where I start trimming. I'll go back and listen. All right, there's this. A minute gap where there's no laughter. That's too long. We gotta shorten that. So. Yeah. Cut to the chase. Right. And so I've done that over the years. You will not find a single notebook, a single thing where I wrote anything else. That's wild to me. That is fucking crazy. I have a really good memory on stage. Offstage, I can't find my fucking keys. And so it's crazy that I can, I can work like that. Um, I will use bullet points. So like, let's say I'm doing the Tonight Show. All right, there's cue card or whatever. I, I appreciate the bullet points. Yeah. You know what I mean? And also too, when you're doing a set like that, you're, you're taking your, you're not doing your normal routine that you do every night.

• 44:08Speaker 01

  So you, you already know it, you flow. What you, you do in a Tonight Show, you gotta, okay, we're taking this four minute piece right here. And uh, here we go. This, this is this long. This is this long. This is this long and go. And then you gotta hope that the audience either is with you or not too much with you where they give you too much applause. Where you're like, you're taking away my couch time. Stop clapping, you know? Yeah, yeah. Just want to do your thing. Damn. But I cannot sit and write stuff out. So when I have comedy friends that go, hey, man, let's sit and write. I go, ah, no. I, I don't, I don't do that. When I was in high school, I was on the speech team, same thing. Like I, I would just go up and talk. That was my thing. I'd go up and talk and whatever, whatever worked, worked and whatever didn't work. All right, we'll just scrap that. Yeah, yeah.

• 44:52Speaker 01

  But that's where I got my bones was in school on the speech team. Just getting up, be comfortable talking in front of people. Get comfortable with silence, comfortable with just people staring at you. And once I started doing stand up, I was just like, okay.

• 45:05Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 45:06Speaker 01

  We're good.

• 45:06Mark Normand?

  I just can't, I can't remember everything. I have to look at my paper before I go on, just to be like, okay. Oh, don't forget the dog joke. Don't forget the shoe joke. Don't forget the couch joke. But if I go up there.

• 45:16Sam Morril?

  Yeah, I still write a setlist out for sure.

• 45:17Mark Normand?

  Yeah, well, whatever I miss.

• 45:19Speaker 01

  Also too, like the stories that I'm telling, I tell stories that, things that happen. So it's, it's a memory thing. I'm like, and then I did this, and then I did this, and then I did this. So it's like, it's a, based on a true story.

• 45:32Sam Morril?

  But it blows my mind that you can't, but even if it's a true story, it blows my mind that you don't like, there's like a beat that I would have to write out. Uh, just saying how I would do it. I was like, I would need to write out a beat in, you know, in a word doc or in a notepad and be like, this is where I say the joke this way. This is this laugh. This is, uh, when I do a setlist, it's almost, at first it's like every laugh. And then it kind of, I, I'm like, I got it. And then it becomes more like every, uh, like topic. It kind of becomes smaller, but it starts with like, this is every laugh when I'm building, you know?

• 46:01Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 46:02Sam Morril?

  But maybe that's fucking insane.

• 46:04Mark Normand?

  I know Bill Burr is same way. He doesn't write anything down. He just goes out.

• 46:07Sam Morril?

  I think Jim Jeffrey is same way too.

• 46:08Mark Normand?

  There you go.

• 46:09Sam Morril?

  Cause he would tell me, it's like, it's, he said, it's like, oh, my story's 25 minutes. How could I write it down? I was like, man.

• 46:13Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 46:14Sam Morril?

  I would at least start with, but you know where you're going. Like when you tell a long story, you know what the ending is usually, right?

• 46:21Speaker 01

  If, if I were to write something down, if, for me, it almost feels like it's, it's a script. And whenever I act and I gotta, uh, follow a script, I have a real tough time memorizing my lines. It's just, it's like, ah, because I, I'm not enjoying it.

• 46:36Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 46:37Speaker 01

  I'm not enjoying it. And so I sit down with someone and then we just go over the lines over and over and over. And I'm like, I fucking hate this.

• 46:43Mark Normand?

  I hate the lines.

• 46:43Speaker 01

  So the idea of having to do that with my set, with my material, it's like, I don't feel like it's gonna come out the same way. It's gonna be very mechanical with the delivery. Like, you know, every show, if you, I've listened to multiple shows. And the wording changes. The delivery does change every single time I do it. There's a high, there's a low. I forget to do a minute in there somewhere and it's like, oh shit, I forgot to do it. Like I missed this part right here.

• 47:10Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 47:11Speaker 01

  Cause I'll have my guy who goes, hey, by the way, you forgot this whole chunk. Like, oh shit, it still worked, so.

• 47:17Sam Morril?

  But isn't the part where you miss that chunk, I think like that's, that's why I'm shocked you don't write it down. Cause I think I'd be like, oh fuck, I forgot. There's always one word I forget. I'm like, fuck, I should have said this word instead of that word.

• 47:27Speaker 01

  The only time I get stressed out about it is when I'm doing a special. That's why I refuse to do a special live. I will never do a special live. Because I don't need that stress.

• 47:36Mark Normand?

  No.

• 47:37Speaker 01

  And if you mess up, it's just like, ah, really? So always do two. For me, I always do two. And the first one, I'll flub a few things. That second one, I'm always dialed in.

• 47:48Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah, totally.

• 47:49Speaker 01

  Always dialed in on that second one. And then for any reason, like one time I was, um, when I did that special, I was telling you about, um, Aloha Fluffy where, uh, I talked about the story about the Middle East. I was, I was going through like a bad cold and you can hear it. You can hear my nasal, like I was just messed up. I probably had like, I forget what my temperature was, but I was struggling. And I did forget a big piece. And that's the only time I had to go back and pull from the first show.

• 48:16Mark Normand?

  Oh, wow.

• 48:17Speaker 01

  Insert it. And then when you watch the whole thing, you're like, you could, you could hear it. You don't see it because the editor was so good, but you can hear the difference in my voice where the, where I'm good. But then it cut back to the night before and all of a sudden you hear the, the voice change. You can hear it.

• 48:34Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah. Uh, anything like that, like if I have a couple too many drinks, I feel that slur coming. I'm like, oh, I suck. Yeah. It's like, uh, it gets in my head or if I'm stuffed up, it gets in my head. Anything, anything that fucks with my voice kills me.

• 48:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, but as far as notes go, only during specials, that's when I feel the need, okay, let's go over some stuff and just kinda like, alright.

• 48:56Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 48:56Sam Morril?

  Feels good writing out a setlist before a special, cause you're like, that's the last time I have to do it with this shit.

• 49:01Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 49:02Speaker 01

  Definitely, once it's out there, then it's just like, let it fade.

• 49:07Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 49:07Speaker 01

  And then I start incorporating new material on top of that old stuff, and then you just kinda fade it out.

• 49:12Mark Normand?

  Exactly, that's a great feeling.

• 49:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 49:14Mark Normand?

  Especially that one joke, you're like, I never really even liked that joke, I'm so glad I can drop that one.

• 49:18Speaker 01

  It helps to support whatever the next bit, like, there's bits that I hate, but it sets something up.

• 49:24Mark Normand?

  Yes, yes.

• 49:25Speaker 01

  So that I can call back later and slam it.

• 49:26Mark Normand?

  Exactly, exactly.

• 49:28Speaker 01

  So you need that.

• 49:28Mark Normand?

  Totally, it's like a little boost for the new bit, yeah.

• 49:31Sam Morril?

  But movies have that too, you're like, what the hell is this scene, then you're like, oh, right, I mean, sometimes you gotta do that.

• 49:38Mark Normand?

  Man, I find, uh, this was, I guess, in Hawaii.

• 49:41Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, there we go.

• 49:42Mark Normand?

  Aloha, Fluffy, I, I do not do well in Hawaii, cause I think there, I feel like the crowd's like, I live in Hawaii, I, I don't need to laugh at your bullshit, I already got it made.

• 49:52Sam Morril?

  I do think there's some truth about when your life is too easy, like, there's something about like, laughing in like, a city like this, everyone's just like, in a fucking mood and pissed, and like, I need to laugh, I'm like, there's built up tension in Hawaii when you're that, like, you don't laugh your hardest on vacation.

• 50:07Mark Normand?

  Yes, yes.

• 50:08Sam Morril?

  Their life is like, peaceful, I feel like, I don't know, maybe there's, this is crazy.

• 50:12Speaker 01

  It is such a chill vibe there.

• 50:13Mark Normand?

  It is.

• 50:15Sam Morril?

  But I think about Chicago, great crowd, there's like, a fucking intensity to that city.

• 50:18Speaker 01

  But there is drama there, there's stuff you can address.

• 50:20Sam Morril?

  Boston, SF, the city's a fucking mess, they laugh.

• 50:24Mark Normand?

  Yeah, Buffalo.

• 50:25Sam Morril?

  Yeah, Buffalo, Seattle, there's a fucking needle in a foot, but you go in that room, they're gonna be fucking laughing, you know?

• 50:31Mark Normand?

  So the fact you killed here is a testament to your standup.

• 50:34Speaker 01

  It is a good time, and they have their own issues and, and problems, you just have to do the research to find out, like, I, um...

• 50:41Sam Morril?

  I saw The Descendants with Clooney.

• 50:42Speaker 01

  Nice. I did one joke there that, that got a huge laugh and a huge groan at the same time.

• 50:50Mark Normand?

  I love that.

• 50:51Speaker 01

  And, um, basically, I was talking about how...

• 50:55Mark Normand?

  Maui fires?

• 50:56Speaker 01

  No, not even that, not even that, or I said, um...

• 51:00Sam Morril?

  Why are we laughing at this?

• 51:02Speaker 01

  Though I guess there was at the time that had just been an earthquake here in California. And so I was talking about the earthquake and I was on the news and stuff like that. And I says, yeah, so I'm talking to my friend about the earthquake in California. I go, did you hear about it? And he goes, nah, brother, I didn't hear about it. I go, you didn't hear about our natural disaster? He goes, nah, brother, we have our own natural disaster here on the island. I go, well, you have earthquakes? He goes, nah, brother, worse, Micronesians. And I guess there's a, there was a thing where the government was blowing up Micronesia. They gave them a bunch of money and said, go ahead and move to Hawaii. And so they got, they got, that was their version of Hurricane Katrina, where all the people from Louisiana came into Texas. And so it's kind of like the same thing. People were displaced and they came in.

• 51:46Mark Normand?

  Got it.

• 51:46Speaker 01

  You know, crime and all kinds of other stuff. So, so it was a huge laugh because they're like, ah! But then people are like, oh, you're saying bad things about the people.

• 51:55Sam Morril?

  That is our life.

• 51:56Speaker 01

  So it was, you know.

• 51:58Mark Normand?

  What the hell's a Micronesian? I've never even heard of that group.

• 52:00Speaker 01

  There you go, Google that one right there.

• 52:01Mark Normand?

  Is that a, is that a country?

• 52:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 52:03Mark Normand?

  Oh, wow. Jeez.

• 52:06Speaker 01

  It's pretty, but um, yeah, America kind of went in there and started messing it up. So that's why they give them a bunch of like, hey, here's some money, move to Hawaii, forget about this.

• 52:13Mark Normand?

  Got it. Oh, it's off by Australia, alright, damn.

• 52:17Speaker 01

  But yeah, so that joke got a big, ah! And then you could hear the groans in there too, and I'm like, ooh.

• 52:23Mark Normand?

  Couple of Micronesians in the crowd.

• 52:24Speaker 01

  It is, it is possible to offend Hawaiians.

• 52:27Mark Normand?

  Yes, although suicide, suicide rate is quite high in Hawaii.

• 52:31Speaker 01

  Is it?

• 52:31Mark Normand?

  Yeah, believe it or not.

• 52:32Speaker 01

  No kidding.

• 52:33Mark Normand?

  Yeah, you know why? Cause if you live in Hawaii and you're depressed, you're like, well, I got nowhere to go from here. You know what I mean? Like, this is it. This is the happiest place on earth and I can't be hap- I can't be happy here? I'm fucked.

• 52:44Sam Morril?

  I had a friend who just went to Hawaii, like, fell in love instantly.

• 52:47Mark Normand?

  It's beautiful.

• 52:48Sam Morril?

  Yeah, something about, I don't know.

• 52:50Speaker 01

  I think you need perspective in life and if all you've ever known is Hawaii, then you don't look at it the same way where somebody that like lived in, I don't know, Albuquerque and you're like, wah! You go from Albuquerque to, you know, to, you know.

• 53:03Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 53:04Speaker 01

  Maui and you're like, oh my god.

• 53:06Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 53:07Speaker 01

  If all you've ever known is the ocean and the palm trees and the beautiful sand and the beaches.

• 53:12Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 53:13Speaker 01

  There's no way for you to do the comparison.

• 53:15Mark Normand?

  Where do you go from there? It's only down. Yeah, I I went to Maui, did some shows. Unbelievably beautiful, the air, it's not hot, it's not cold, it's just perfect, the air tastes good, it's wet. But the locals there are the toughest people I've ever met in my life. I saw a fistfight between a white guy and a Hawaiian guy. Best fight I've ever seen. Throwing each other through fucking windows and shit, crazy. And we all jumped off a cliff, just, you know, a couple of honkies.

• 53:41Sam Morril?

  To get away?

• 53:41Mark Normand?

  Yeah, just being silly, jumping in the water. And then you walk out in the sand, go back up the mountain, then jump off the cliff again. The local guys would climb the cliff. I'm talking wet, rock, climbing, and then they would do like eight backflips off, and we were like, ah, good to meet you. You know, and I was like scared to jump off, I had floaties on.

• 54:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm not about that.

• 54:01Mark Normand?

  Oh, really?

• 54:02Speaker 01

  No.

• 54:03Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah, it's crazy.

• 54:04Speaker 01

  That sounds like something my manager, who's in the room right now, would do. He would jump off of some shit like that.

• 54:08Mark Normand?

  Oh, it was like, it was like that? Like, nothing crazy?

• 54:10Sam Morril?

  That sounds like a fucking ask to be paralyzed right there.

• 54:12Speaker 01

  Sea urchin?

• 54:14Sam Morril?

  That's a great, that's a great, that's a great reality show.

• 54:16Speaker 01

  It was a sea urchin, right?

• 54:17Sam Morril?

  New show, on NBC.

• 54:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:20Mark Normand?

  Damn.

• 54:21Speaker 01

  The thing was like that long and it broke off in his foot.

• 54:23Mark Normand?

  Oh!

• 54:24Speaker 01

  He's a gangster, dude, he left it, he didn't even go to the doctor, okay? So I don't know if you want to call that being tough, or just like, dude.

• 54:30Sam Morril?

  Avoidance?

• 54:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, so he still went out and partied and we hung out, and I think a week later, he had it pulled out of his foot.

• 54:36Mark Normand?

  Hell, yeah.

• 54:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, but he stepped on one of those right there.

• 54:38Mark Normand?

  Ooh, wee. Ah, yikes, that's long, that's more than a micronesia.

• 54:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, that is a little bit longer than a micronesia.

• 54:44Mark Normand?

  Look at that vagina, though, Jesus, that's a, that's quite a bush. But, uh, yeah. My god. Um, well, that seems like hell, I would not want to step on one of those, but...

• 54:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, I ain't jumping off a cliff, or a rock, or nothing, man, I'm just, you know, I'm not, not much for the sand.

• 55:00Sam Morril?

  Are you an outdoorsy guy?

• 55:02Speaker 01

  No, I mean, if I'm in a car, or some Polaris, or something fun like that, you know what I mean? But I don't like going to the beach, I just don't...

• 55:09Sam Morril?

  What, what on the road is like your thing? If you're, if you're traveling, how, how do you do it? Booze?

• 55:14Mark Normand?

  Yeah, my kind of guy.

• 55:16Sam Morril?

  What's your, what's your, uh, besides tequila, what do you drink?

• 55:20Speaker 01

  Whatever it is that somebody's handing me, I'll drink anything.

• 55:23Sam Morril?

  So you, are you like, what kind of bar guy are you?

• 55:26Speaker 01

  As far as uh.

• 55:28Sam Morril?

  You like a tavern, you like a dive, you like a lounge. I love a dive.

• 55:33Mark Normand?

  Me too.

• 55:34Speaker 01

  When the wood floor has that layer of film on it, you're like, oh, this. Yeah, yeah, some stuff happened here. They have a jukebox or one of those pull tables with the quarters.

• 55:43Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 55:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, if you see that, that pull table with the quarters.

• 55:45Mark Normand?

  Love it.

• 55:47Speaker 01

  All the balls come out.

• 55:48Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's great. There's money, like, cat, dollar bills on the wall or panties.

• 55:52Speaker 01

  Pictures or something.

• 55:53Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's great.

• 55:54Speaker 01

  There's a small little hole in the wall.

• 55:55Sam Morril?

  I love a wall, fake IDs on it, too.

• 55:57Mark Normand?

  Oh, that's a good one, too. Don't let this guy in.

• 55:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:00Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 56:00Mark Normand?

  Yeah, uh, with stickers everywhere, that's a big one.

• 56:03Speaker 01

  I don't like clubs anymore, like a nightclub, the music's too loud, you can't talk, I'm just like, ah.

• 56:09Sam Morril?

  They're taking away our only ability as comedians.

• 56:11Speaker 01

  Just, yeah, how's it going? You gotta just text a group, yeah, here, yeah.

• 56:15Mark Normand?

  That's the worst. You lose your voice in there.

• 56:17Speaker 01

  I, I, I prefer a nice dive bar.

• 56:18Sam Morril?

  I like a bartender that looks like that.

• 56:20Mark Normand?

  Ah, like a January sixer?

• 56:22Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 56:22Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 56:25Mark Normand?

  That guy's name is C. Urchin.

• 56:29Mark Normand?

  There's some good tequila. It's going down easy there, Gabe.

• 56:32Speaker 01

  Some, uh, a place that plays like seventies classic rock music.

• 56:35Mark Normand?

  Yes, yes.

• 56:37Speaker 01

  Early eighties, yeah, that's, that's what I like.

• 56:40Mark Normand?

  So wait, where'd you grow up? Did I miss that?

• 56:41Speaker 01

  Long Beach.

• 56:42Mark Normand?

  Oh, Long Beach, okay, wow, Long Beach is cool.

• 56:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, but I mean, for the last, god, what, twenty years now, I've lived everywhere, so it's like.

• 56:48Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 56:49Speaker 01

  Done all fifty states and then just always on the road. So now I spend time between California and Texas. That's where I have two houses. I have one there.

• 56:56Sam Morril?

  Where in Texas?

• 56:57Speaker 01

  Uh, New Braunfels.

• 56:59Sam Morril?

  Where is it?

• 56:59Speaker 01

  So it's in between Austin and San Antonio.

• 57:01Sam Morril?

  Oh, nice.

• 57:02Speaker 01

  So if I wanna go mothership, I go north. If I wanna go LOL, I go south.

• 57:06Mark Normand?

  There you go. I just did LOL. It's a great room, great time. Uh, San Diego is underrated comedy town.

• 57:12Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, I, I was just at, uh.

• 57:13Mark Normand?

  Sorry, San Antonio.

• 57:15Sam Morril?

  It is.

• 57:15Speaker 01

  They just added a new club called, uh, I wanna say it's called the Mic Drop. They just added a club called a Mic Drop.

• 57:20Mark Normand?

  Oh, really?

• 57:20Speaker 01

  And, uh, they built the club in the old comedy condo building.

• 57:25Mark Normand?

  What?

• 57:25Speaker 01

  Cause I remember I used to perform at the River Center Comedy Club and then.

• 57:29Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 57:29Speaker 01

  They would put you at a hotel, they put you at the comedy condo and the comedy condo was just, uh.

• 57:32Sam Morril?

  How bad were the condos?

• 57:34Speaker 01

  It wasn't that bad.

• 57:35Sam Morril?

  This one was good? Most of them were bad, though.

• 57:36Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, with the carpets are like, just like eight different colors.

• 57:39Sam Morril?

  Did they change the sheets? Did Joe DeRosa jack off in this bed last weekend? Who knows?

• 57:45Mark Normand?

  I know, it smells like Kirk Fox in here.

• 57:49Speaker 01

  Love how specific you were with those names.

• 57:51Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 57:51Speaker 01

  Um, but yeah, they, they built a comedy club in the basement. And it's called the Mic Drop. It's a sick club. The room holds maybe a hundred fifty people. They got a sick little bar and it's just, it's really, really cool.

• 58:04Mark Normand?

  Oh, nice.

• 58:05Speaker 01

  They just opened it maybe two months ago.

• 58:07Mark Normand?

  Wait, is it in a, it's in a hotel?

• 58:09Speaker 01

  It's inside the old building.

• 58:10Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 58:11Speaker 01

  That the comedy condo was in.

• 58:12Mark Normand?

  I think I popped in there after our LOL shows and it was.

• 58:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 58:15Mark Normand?

  It was great. Low ceiling.

• 58:16Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 58:17Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that was killer.

• 58:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 58:19Mark Normand?

  I thought it was called The Riot. Maybe I think it's.

• 58:20Speaker 01

  Well, no, no, no, you're right. You're right.

• 58:22Mark Normand?

  The Riot.

• 58:22Speaker 01

  I'm sorry. Sorry, I haven't played the Mic Drop, but big shout out to the Mic. You know why I thought Mic Drop? Because I have a Mic Drop in San Diego.

• 58:28Mark Normand?

  Then I said San Diego. I fucked you up. Alright, there you go. The Riot.

• 58:31Speaker 01

  San Diego.

• 58:32Sam Morril?

  All the, all these fucking great comedy towns too.

• 58:34Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's another one. Another great, that's the club. There it is.

• 58:37Speaker 01

  There it is, yeah.

• 58:38Mark Normand?

  Yeah, great little room down there.

• 58:39Sam Morril?

  The Riot.

• 58:40Mark Normand?

  The Riot.

• 58:40Sam Morril?

  I'm gonna hit it up when I'm.

• 58:41Mark Normand?

  Worth popping in on.

• 58:42Speaker 01

  And they have, uh, they have one in Houston there.

• 58:45Sam Morril?

  Right.

• 58:46Speaker 01

  And I think, uh, there's another place they have, uh, a riot.

• 58:48Sam Morril?

  I like that you still pop into the little rooms, man. That's good.

• 58:51Speaker 01

  You know what? I think once you feel like you're too good for those rooms, that's where you're, you're going downhill. So always stay hungry if you can and, and try to work your set out.

• 58:59Sam Morril?

  Right? I mean, you gotta, gotta eat it with the new shit somewhere.

• 59:02Mark Normand?

  Yeah, you gotta.

• 59:03Sam Morril?

  And you got, and also it feels good to, feels good to.

• 59:05Speaker 01

  A small room like that, it's, it's the most real, honest room. Because if your material is good, you're gonna know. And if it's not, it's, it's one of those, it's a reality check because in an arena, it's always gonna sound good. It's all.

• 59:18Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 59:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's a, it's always gonna sound like that. At a comedy club in front of freaking eighty people, you're gonna know if that joke is good.

• 59:26Mark Normand?

  Ain't that the truth?

• 59:27Speaker 01

  Yeah. So it feels good to pop in like that and, and, you know, I'm excited to still do it.

• 59:32Mark Normand?

  Yeah, hell yeah.

• 59:33Speaker 01

  And it's so funny because like the manager after comes up to me goes, oh, listen, we only got a, like, I could pay you like, like two hundred dollars and like, like, bro, I'm, don't try to fucking pay me.

• 59:43Mark Normand?

  Keep it.

• 59:43Speaker 01

  He's trying to pay me money. I go, dude, I'm just, I'll drink more of your alcohol than what you're about to give me right now.

• 59:48Mark Normand?

  Totally. I mean, I took the money, but yeah, yeah, I'm with you.

• 59:51Speaker 01

  I appreciate that they still try to break me off, you know? I'm like, I'm doing okay.

• 59:56Sam Morril?

  You know what those rooms feel like? Do you ever hear those stories about the sorority girls where they make you take your clothes off? And they highlight all your wrong areas?

• 1:00:02Mark Normand?

  Whoa, I didn't know that.

• 1:00:03Speaker 01

  Oh, I've never played that game.

• 1:00:05Sam Morril?

  It feels like they're doing that with your act.

• 1:00:07Mark Normand?

  Uh, oh, there's small crap.

• 1:00:09Sam Morril?

  Yeah, you're like, that sucks, this sucks, and you're like, oh shit, I feel like, okay.

• 1:00:14Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 1:00:15Sam Morril?

  I was at New Jokes the other night at The Cellar, and you're just like, it's great, you get a couple of new things going, but it's funny, you know when you're like gearing up for a special and you're killing and you feel like, you're like, who gives a shit?

• 1:00:27Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:00:28Sam Morril?

  I don't fucking like this anymore, who cares? I'm sick of this. And then you go on the first few times with new shit and you get like two new jokes to hit, the rest of the sets are washed, and you actually feel good.

• 1:00:37Mark Normand?

  You feel great.

• 1:00:38Speaker 01

  Because you know that those bits, you got, you got two new ones.

• 1:00:40Sam Morril?

  I got two new ones.

• 1:00:41Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:00:41Sam Morril?

  That was, yeah.

• 1:00:42Mark Normand?

  Cause the win is that you can still write. You know, it's killing with old shit, you already proved it.

• 1:00:48Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:00:48Mark Normand?

  You know, but when you write a new one, you're like, alright, I still got it.

• 1:00:51Sam Morril?

  You're in editing mode, so you're like, I know this works, I just gotta cut out the, the weak parts, but the new shit, you're rebuilding.

• 1:00:58Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:00:59Speaker 01

  The hardest thing to do is to sacrifice your ego for the sake of trying something new.

• 1:01:04Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:05Speaker 01

  Cause most of the time, you just wanna go in and you want the high of the laugh and the kill and, ugh.

• 1:01:10Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:01:11Speaker 01

  But to take that, you know, like pull back and then go, alright, we're just gonna try this new thing and see how it goes.

• 1:01:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:17Speaker 01

  And not intentionally kill.

• 1:01:19Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:01:20Speaker 01

  That's a hard one, because you're, you're risking it to try to build this new thing.

• 1:01:24Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 1:01:25Speaker 01

  You know, a lot of, a lot of times, guys don't wanna break away, they wanna stay comfortable.

• 1:01:28Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 1:01:29Speaker 01

  You know, and by the way, The Cellar, I finally got to perform there, I, uh, I've only performed there one time, and that was very recently. Uh, I had always wanted to perform at The Cellar, but I could never get in.

• 1:01:40Mark Normand?

  What?

• 1:01:40Speaker 01

  I swear to you, I could never get in.

• 1:01:42Sam Morril?

  Physically?

• 1:01:43Speaker 01

  Oh, fuck, I was waiting. Anyway.

• 1:01:47Speaker 01

  I could never, I could never.

• 1:01:48Sam Morril?

  We couldn't believe it, what?

• 1:01:49Speaker 01

  Get up on that stage, because, uh, for some reason, I had no issues getting up at Caroline's, no issue getting up at Gotham.

• 1:01:55Sam Morril?

  When was this, and they wouldn't put you up?

• 1:01:56Speaker 01

  Stand Up New York, I could just never get into the club.

• 1:01:59Mark Normand?

  What?

• 1:02:00Speaker 01

  It was just.

• 1:02:00Sam Morril?

  Was this like 20 years ago?

• 1:02:02Speaker 01

  It's been not twenty years ago, it's been for like forever that I've tried going up and I could never get in.

• 1:02:09Sam Morril?

  Wow.

• 1:02:09Speaker 01

  And so I did a set at Gotham, a few months back. And my tour manager made a phone, I found out that one of the guys on my show was gonna go over there. And I go, oh, really? You're going over there? And so I had, I asked my tour manager to reach out to the club to see if maybe there was a possibility hanging out or even getting up for a spot.

• 1:02:29Sam Morril?

  Hmm.

• 1:02:30Speaker 01

  And they said yes. And I guess when I got there, it's like, it was so clustered with comics.

• 1:02:37Sam Morril?

  You're right.

• 1:02:37Speaker 01

  In the hallway and um, I, somebody got bumped.

• 1:02:41Sam Morril?

  Ah.

• 1:02:42Speaker 01

  Somebody got bumped and then I went up there and I did, I did my ten minutes and I heard somebody talking about, why is he here taking away sets?

• 1:02:50Sam Morril?

  No.

• 1:02:51Speaker 01

  And when I went up there, I was, I was a few in. And so I said, for all the comics in the back talking shit about what is this guy doing here? Taking sets away from these comics? I said, understand now, I had to bust my ass for over freaking twenty years to finally get this opportunity to perform here once. So right now, know now that I'm, I'm marking my one time appearance here at The Cellar. I go, so like it or not, bitches, I had to work for this. I go.

• 1:03:17Sam Morril?

  And be honestly, what are we, what is he talking about?

• 1:03:18Speaker 01

  No, I got it. So understand, it's a fight I was having with myself, only with myself.

• 1:03:22Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:23Speaker 01

  And uh.

• 1:03:23Sam Morril?

  And it was one dude who probably was like, I shouldn't have said that, fuck.

• 1:03:27Speaker 01

  But then afterwards, the, the, the staff invited us upstairs to the restaurant and they took care of us like kings and we just had such a great time and.

• 1:03:35Sam Morril?

  Yeah, that shouldn't be your only time there.

• 1:03:37Speaker 01

  It felt awesome and uh.

• 1:03:38Sam Morril?

  I'm there tonight if you wanna hang.

• 1:03:40Speaker 01

  I was very happy to finally.

• 1:03:42Sam Morril?

  You got in.

• 1:03:42Speaker 01

  Set at The Cellar.

• 1:03:43Sam Morril?

  Hell, yeah. I think you always feel that, there's always like one club that's kind of your blind area, you know, like we, we, we always felt that way about the Comedy Store in L.A. But it's like, you know, it's, it's a foreign thing to you.

• 1:03:54Speaker 01

  Every view is that, that place goes through its phases. So it's like it's, sometimes it's toxic, sometimes it's like, alright, it's more corporate. And right now I feel like it's in a place where it's really good. Um, I wanna say, is it Rose who runs the Comedy Store?

• 1:04:08Sam Morril?

  Yes.

• 1:04:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, she's incredibly awesome. She's just been nothing but. Like anytime you wanna come by, just, you know, you just very welcoming.

• 1:04:17Mark Normand?

  And just had a baby?

• 1:04:18Speaker 01

  And yes, oh, she finally did.

• 1:04:20Mark Normand?

  She had a baby girl?

• 1:04:21Speaker 01

  When I saw her a couple of months ago.

• 1:04:22Mark Normand?

  Mazel tov, Rose.

• 1:04:24Speaker 01

  Congratulations, Rose.

• 1:04:25Mark Normand?

  There you go.

• 1:04:25Speaker 01

  But yeah.

• 1:04:26Mark Normand?

  But yeah, she's cool.

• 1:04:27Speaker 01

  The Comedy Store was not a place that I ever enjoyed going until recently.

• 1:04:30Mark Normand?

  There you go. Look at that. So where were you? A Laugh Factory improv guy?

• 1:04:36Speaker 01

  No, I was on the road.

• 1:04:38Mark Normand?

  Oh, okay. There you go.

• 1:04:39Sam Morril?

  So you didn't work in town. You were just burnt out on the road?

• 1:04:42Speaker 01

  I was always, I'm gone. Once I started getting work, I'm, I'm gone. I'm, I'm going anywhere. I'm going to Dayton, Ohio. I'm going to freaking, you know, Mississippi. I'm going anywhere.

• 1:04:52Mark Normand?

  I love it. Are you a tour bus guy or are you a flight guy?

• 1:04:55Speaker 01

  Uh, both.

• 1:04:56Mark Normand?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:04:57Speaker 01

  So I'll fly, let's say, if I'm in Long Beach, I'll fly out of Long Beach to wherever the bus is at. And then for the next three days, we're on the bus. And on the last day, we fly either to Texas or to.

• 1:05:10Sam Morril?

  Do you sleep on the bus or no?

• 1:05:12Speaker 01

  Yes, I prefer the bus. I had the bus customized for me and.

• 1:05:17Sam Morril?

  What are some fluffy custom things here?

• 1:05:19Speaker 01

  For the guys, I get it. They're bunks, but I got, I got the big room in the back.

• 1:05:23Mark Normand?

  Hell, yeah.

• 1:05:23Sam Morril?

  But what, like, what did you soup up that are like, that's like totally you?

• 1:05:28Speaker 01

  Let me see. I have a, on the tour bus, I have a full-size toilet. So I don't have one of those RV toilets with the foot pump where the, the thing kinda just.

• 1:05:37Sam Morril?

  So you can take a shit on this tour bus?

• 1:05:38Speaker 01

  I do.

• 1:05:39Mark Normand?

  Good for you!

• 1:05:40Speaker 01

  I do.

• 1:05:40Sam Morril?

  That is crazy that that's the most luxurious part of a tour.

• 1:05:43Speaker 01

  The number one rule is you don't shit on the bus.

• 1:05:46Mark Normand?

  Of course.

• 1:05:47Sam Morril?

  Totally.

• 1:05:47Mark Normand?

  Tell him that.

• 1:05:47Speaker 01

  But when you own it, yeah.

• 1:05:50Mark Normand?

  He'd shit on a bus with a handler.

• 1:05:51Sam Morril?

  No, that was the green room. That was the green room.

• 1:05:53Mark Normand?

  Sorry, my bad.

• 1:05:54Sam Morril?

  No, we, when I did the tour bus, my camera guy pounding hot chicken in Nashville, and I was like, be careful on a tour bus tonight. And he's like, I got this. He had three hot chickens. I was like, all right, dude. Fucking hot boxes, the, the, I'm like, dude, the guy's gotta throw it away. You gotta, you gotta tell him to pull over. So I made him.

• 1:06:11Speaker 01

  So right now that you said that, I know what you mean. Tell everybody what hotboxing is.

• 1:06:15Sam Morril?

  Well, it means you put it in a.

• 1:06:16Speaker 01

  No, hot bag.

• 1:06:17Sam Morril?

  Hot bag, sorry.

• 1:06:18Speaker 01

  Hot box is when you get high in a car.

• 1:06:20Sam Morril?

  He hot bagged it, which is.

• 1:06:21Speaker 01

  Hot bagged it.

• 1:06:22Sam Morril?

  Shit on the toilet, but in a garbage bag.

• 1:06:26Speaker 01

  You line the, the, the toilet, you put a trash bag in the toilet and then just line it and you sit on the.

• 1:06:33Sam Morril?

  Oh, my driver, I said, I said, anyone else ever hot bagging? He's like, don't get me started on Segura.

• 1:06:40Sam Morril?

  Like Tom.

• 1:06:41Speaker 01

  Yeah, so I had a few guys hot bagging on the bus, but I do not hot bag my bus.

• 1:06:45Sam Morril?

  It's nasty.

• 1:06:46Speaker 01

  So my bus, uh.

• 1:06:48Sam Morril?

  So you can, where does the shit go? It just goes under the, where's it going? Like in the street?

• 1:06:51Speaker 01

  It goes on, there's a whole tank and everything. And so my, my bus driver, Dave, whenever we, we hit a, a truck stop or something, you know, fill up the bus with water, uh, with the tank and then drain whatever's in.

• 1:07:01Sam Morril?

  He has to siphon out poop?

• 1:07:03Speaker 01

  No, well, you know what I mean? It's a whole system. You just lock it in and sucks it out and puts in the new stuff. So.

• 1:07:07Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:08Speaker 01

  It's, uh, it's pretty easy. Um, as far as customizing, my bathroom on the tour bus is, is like a full-size bathroom. I have a massive bathroom on my bus. My shower is huge. You can extend your arms all the way out. I have a shower, a bench and everything. It's badass. Uh, yeah. So I basically took out space from the closet. Cause I don't have a huge wardrobe. I just got all my, you know, shirts. I just have, you know, and I only need three shirts for the weekend. So I don't really need that much closet space. So I use the closet space to build out my big, uh, shower. And then I have the, the bathroom, the toilet and a huge sink, mirrors and stuff. So, yeah, it's pretty pimp. Um.

• 1:07:47Sam Morril?

  Damn.

• 1:07:47Speaker 01

  Axl Rose had my bus before I did.

• 1:07:49Sam Morril?

  Whoa. Damn.

• 1:07:50Speaker 01

  Yeah. So I like, every time I get on the bus, I'm like, yeah, some, some evil shit happened.

• 1:07:55Sam Morril?

  Put a flashlight up to that.

• 1:07:57Speaker 01

  There used to be a, uh, pole in the front, uh, lounge from the bus that would, the, the, ceiling would slide to the side and then a pole would come down and then you'd lock the pole down into this little, little hole. And it was like an acrylic, uh, pole that had like water in it and glitter.

• 1:08:14Sam Morril?

  Oh, fun.

• 1:08:15Speaker 01

  And, uh, yeah.

• 1:08:16Sam Morril?

  Like a stripper pole?

• 1:08:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, basically it's a stripper pole. And then there was, there's mirrors in the corners where it would reflect a laser beam. So the, the line would just create this laser show on, on the front lounge.

• 1:08:27Sam Morril?

  Now here's the question, what has more jizz in it? That bus or a comedy condo?

• 1:08:32Speaker 01

  Uh, comedy condo.

• 1:08:33Mark Normand?

  Yeah, you're probably right.

• 1:08:34Speaker 01

  Comedy condo.

• 1:08:35Sam Morril?

  And it's sadder jizz.

• 1:08:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's solo jizz.

• 1:08:39Sam Morril?

  Tourbus jizz is.

• 1:08:40Speaker 01

  It's solo jizz.

• 1:08:40Sam Morril?

  Tourbus jizz is party jizz.

• 1:08:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, Tourbus, that's cool.

• 1:08:43Sam Morril?

  It's a sad jizz.

• 1:08:45Speaker 01

  Yeah. When you're across the street at that sad condo in Cleveland.

• 1:08:49Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:50Sam Morril?

  Every single one, dude. Oh, so many memories. Even the happy ones, there was a sadness to them. I don't like when there's no one, you can be like, hey dude, the fucking thermostat's broke. And they're like, yeah, I'm a fucking, I'm a waiter. I don't give a shit.

• 1:09:02Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:09:02Sam Morril?

  That's like your contact at the club. They're like, yeah, I don't know how it works.

• 1:09:05Mark Normand?

  Yeah, and you know what's even sadder? When I was broke, I would eat the comedy club condo food. Cause they would always have a guy left food in there and I would eat all of it.

• 1:09:13Speaker 01

  Bro.

• 1:09:14Mark Normand?

  Cause I was so broke. I was like, oh, this is a free.

• 1:09:16Speaker 01

  That, that there is the cure for COVID. Get that in your system. Get that up in you.

• 1:09:21Mark Normand?

  Well, there'd be like a box of powdered mashed potatoes. I was like, I'm making that. And it was from like, you know, Bill Maher, you know, at 88 or something. And I would eat it. Cause I was like, oh, I don't have to go buy a food. This is great. Old waffles, there'd be like a bag of like, uh, Chiquitos or something. I'd eat all that shit.

• 1:09:39Speaker 01

  There'd always be something left over.

• 1:09:40Mark Normand?

  Always.

• 1:09:41Sam Morril?

  Yeah, it's nasty.

• 1:09:42Mark Normand?

  Big peanut butter.

• 1:09:42Speaker 01

  That's, that's true gambling. There's, you know.

• 1:09:45Sam Morril?

  I mean, if it was like milk in there, I'd smell it, but.

• 1:09:47Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:48Speaker 01

  Do we do this or?

• 1:09:49Mark Normand?

  Oh yeah, there's a couple of hot pockets in there, all that shit.

• 1:09:51Sam Morril?

  You look at the schedule, you're like, what fucking asshole got the, you didn't even stock the fridge.

• 1:09:55Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 1:09:57Speaker 01

  And they always tell you, never touch the mayonnaise.

• 1:09:59Mark Normand?

  Uh oh.

• 1:10:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, never touch the mayonnaise.

• 1:10:02Mark Normand?

  Oh no.

• 1:10:02Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:03Mark Normand?

  That's, that's sad jizz right there. Mayonnaise.

• 1:10:06Speaker 01

  Like, yeah, Polly Shore was just here.

• 1:10:09Sam Morril?

  Yeah, you never want to follow the Polly Shore weekend.

• 1:10:11Mark Normand?

  No.

• 1:10:12Speaker 01

  Ever.

• 1:10:13Mark Normand?

  One time I did improv Miami, they were like, don't sit on that couch seat. And I was like, why, why not? They're like, he jizzed on that one. So sit on the two. And I'm like, you can't get a new cushion? He jizzed on the couch. He got blown.

• 1:10:24Speaker 01

  Was he aiming for someone or was it more like?

• 1:10:26Mark Normand?

  I think he was getting blown. It was like, ah, or something. And they were like, don't sit on that cushion. So I was like, all right. So every, every, uh, show I had to sit off on the edge of the couch like this.

• 1:10:35Sam Morril?

  God.

• 1:10:36Speaker 01

  He's just looking at it.

• 1:10:37Mark Normand?

  Yeah. Well, he's in the juice.

• 1:10:39Speaker 01

  You're pointing at it like, buddy, hey buddy.

• 1:10:43Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 1:10:44Sam Morril?

  That is fucking nasty.

• 1:10:45Mark Normand?

  Yeah, he had a, he had a run that, that Polly.

• 1:10:49Sam Morril?

  God damn, you gotta not jizz on a cushion.

• 1:10:51Mark Normand?

  And how about get a new cushion, you cheap cunts?

• 1:10:53Sam Morril?

  That's really the truth.

• 1:10:55Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:55Sam Morril?

  You gotta get a new couch.

• 1:10:56Speaker 01

  Or hot bag the couch.

• 1:11:01Speaker 01

  So yeah, so the bus is pimped out.

• 1:11:02Mark Normand?

  Hell yeah.

• 1:11:03Sam Morril?

  That's pretty sick, man.

• 1:11:04Speaker 01

  So I sleep on the bus. I prefer to stay on that. Plus, I got my girl, I got my dog, so it's just, it makes it easier. We don't gotta worry about the hotel, because staying at the hotel with, uh, with the dog is, ugh.

• 1:11:15Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:15Speaker 01

  She hears everything and everything is a.

• 1:11:19Mark Normand?

  Ooh.

• 1:11:19Sam Morril?

  But she's okay with the motion, she's.

• 1:11:21Speaker 01

  On the bus, it's different because it's just, it's consistent noise.

• 1:11:24Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:11:25Speaker 01

  Anytime you have consistent noise, she's all good. But if it's a new sound or any little, you know, like, what, let's see.

• 1:11:33Speaker 01

  I'm surprised she didn't go off right now.

• 1:11:35Mark Normand?

  Yeah, usually they think someone's at the door.

• 1:11:37Speaker 04

  She asleep?

• 1:11:37Mark Normand?

  Oh, okay, okay, there you go.

• 1:11:39Speaker 01

  But normally, that would, that would be a, that would be a thing right there.

• 1:11:42Mark Normand?

  Not a good sign for the episode. We're knocking dogs out here.

• 1:11:46Speaker 01

  You had a urinal on your bus? Oh, yeah.

• 1:11:48Mark Normand?

  Whoa, that's a good idea.

• 1:11:50Speaker 01

  Alright, so in the front lounge, uh, the bus had a toilet seat with the pump, like the RV pump.

• 1:11:55Mark Normand?

  Yep, yep.

• 1:11:56Speaker 01

  I had it taken out and I figured, there's no girls on the bus. So I said, let's put in a urinal and they're like, the, the bus company was like, that's, no one's ever done that. And I'm like, well, it's about to be done. So let's put one in, make it a waterless one, because I have a, a waterless urinal at my building.

• 1:12:11Sam Morril?

  You're breaking records at stadiums and with urinals.

• 1:12:14Speaker 01

  And urinals. Dude, you know how cool it is? Every time a guy sees the urinal, they're like, there's a fucking urinal right here. I go, yeah.

• 1:12:19Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:12:20Speaker 01

  It's a dude bus. And so, you know, and then my girl, she used my bathroom in the back.

• 1:12:25Sam Morril?

  And there's a glory hole, dude. All dudes all the time.

• 1:12:29Speaker 01

  That'd be funny, just put a glory hole in the door.

• 1:12:32Sam Morril?

  Like, why'd you do this?

• 1:12:33Speaker 01

  Uh, it's just, you never know.

• 1:12:34Mark Normand?

  You get a low one from Brad Williams?

• 1:12:36Speaker 01

  Oh, God. But yeah, so I had a, a urinal put in and now they're, they, uh, I got a second bus and they put one in that urinal, or they put a urinal in that bus too. And I heard other people found out about the urinal and now that's becoming a thing.

• 1:12:47Mark Normand?

  Oh, good.

• 1:12:48Speaker 01

  So I feel like I've pioneered the urinal tour bus thing.

• 1:12:51Mark Normand?

  That's br- it's, it's more efficient than a toilet by far.

• 1:12:54Speaker 01

  It's easier to clean.

• 1:12:55Mark Normand?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:12:55Speaker 01

  Easier to clean, so much easier to aim too when you're going for 70 miles an hour.

• 1:12:59Sam Morril?

  Throw some ice in there?

• 1:13:00Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:01Sam Morril?

  Love when there's some ice in there.

• 1:13:02Speaker 01

  Oh, that's the best.

• 1:13:03Sam Morril?

  You zap it out, it's fun.

• 1:13:04Speaker 01

  You melt it. Nothing like hearing the smell, not the smell, but, ha, the, the sound of the ice just.

• 1:13:10Mark Normand?

  Yes, you feel like a superhero.

• 1:13:12Sam Morril?

  Invaders or something.

• 1:13:13Mark Normand?

  Yeah, killing ISIS. Yeah. Uh, well, where are you gonna be? You back on tour? What's the story?

• 1:13:20Speaker 01

  Uh, well, let's see, next week, uh, well, this weekend, I'm going to, tomorrow, I'm going to Canada. I got two dates in Canada.

• 1:13:25Mark Normand?

  Uh huh.

• 1:13:26Speaker 01

  Then off to Montana, I think I'm doing a fair.

• 1:13:28Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:13:28Speaker 01

  And then next week, I got two days in Bakersfield, then, uh, SoFi Stadium.

• 1:13:32Mark Normand?

  Hell, yeah.

• 1:13:33Speaker 01

  And then after that, I take off a week and then we're back on tour.

• 1:13:36Mark Normand?

  I love it. And, and, uh, does a fair pay well?

• 1:13:40Speaker 01

  Fairs pay incredibly well.

• 1:13:42Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 1:13:42Speaker 01

  And, uh.

• 1:13:44Sam Morril?

  We think he's doing a fair for the love of the game?

• 1:13:46Mark Normand?

  Well, that's what I was confused. It's a bunch of toothless yokels. You'd think, uh, you're not gonna make any money, but you're a, you're a big ticket.

• 1:13:52Speaker 01

  Fairs and casinos, they, uh, they pay very, very well.

• 1:13:56Mark Normand?

  Good to know.

• 1:13:57Speaker 01

  I don't think a lot of comedians are able to do fairs, which is why I think there's also a better pay for that because you gotta be very family friendly. There's kids in the crowd, there's, there's old, you know, older people in the crowd. So they want you to have a show that's friendly to all.

• 1:14:11Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:14:12Speaker 01

  And, uh, yeah, you'll, you know, we'll, we'll have 10,000 to 15,000 people at a fair.

• 1:14:17Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 1:14:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, they pay is really, really good.

• 1:14:20Mark Normand?

  Okay, good to know.

• 1:14:21Speaker 01

  For a while, I wanted to just be the king of the fairs, cause it was just, there's so many.

• 1:14:25Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:26Speaker 01

  There's every state's got their, you know, you, you could stay busy all year just doing fairs.

• 1:14:30Mark Normand?

  Damn, that's, that's cool. I had no, Nate Bargatze did a lot of fairs.

• 1:14:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, but, you know, it's, uh, it's a thing where you're outside, you gotta deal with the elements.

• 1:14:38Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:14:39Speaker 01

  Sometimes there's people running around, there's kids running around, sometimes you gotta start during the day.

• 1:14:43Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:14:44Speaker 01

  The worst than trying to be funny during, I don't feel like you're as funny when there's sun out.

• 1:14:48Mark Normand?

  Definitely not.

• 1:14:48Speaker 01

  When it's in your face.

• 1:14:49Sam Morril?

  It's brutal. I mean, outdoors and day is a, is a tough combo.

• 1:14:53Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:14:53Sam Morril?

  That's two strikes against you.

• 1:14:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, but when you're out there and you're just kinda, you're doing this one.

• 1:14:57Mark Normand?

  Oof, and you're sweating.

• 1:14:59Speaker 01

  You start off, you, your set starts off with sunlight and you finish and it's nighttime.

• 1:15:04Mark Normand?

  Weird. That's crazy.

• 1:15:07Speaker 01

  But they, they take really good care.

• 1:15:09Mark Normand?

  Alright.

• 1:15:09Speaker 01

  But, you know, you just gotta be flexible with it, cause it's not gonna be a comfortable gig.

• 1:15:13Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 1:15:14Speaker 01

  Casinos are a lot more comfortable.

• 1:15:15Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:15:16Speaker 01

  You're inside, you know, everyone there is over 21.

• 1:15:18Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:15:19Speaker 01

  At the fair, you got kids.

• 1:15:20Mark Normand?

  You got kids, you gotta follow the goat race, you know, there's always some weird bobbing for, uh,

• 1:15:25Speaker 01

  Something.

• 1:15:25Mark Normand?

  Whatever, yeah, yeah, the hate ride.

• 1:15:27Speaker 01

  It used to be, you had to be squeaky clean at casinos and then they changed that rule.

• 1:15:30Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:15:31Speaker 01

  Cause it's like, who goes to a casino, like, you know, who loses their ass and says, "I'll shucks." You know what I mean?

• 1:15:36Speaker 01

  Come on, you gotta let up on that one, so.

• 1:15:38Mark Normand?

  And you're still clean, that's impressive.

• 1:15:40Speaker 01

  I will cuss.

• 1:15:41Mark Normand?

  Oh, okay.

• 1:15:41Speaker 01

  In the course of an hour, I'll drop maybe three F-bombs, but it's like.

• 1:15:44Mark Normand?

  That's impressive.

• 1:15:45Speaker 01

  It's, you know. Not even a tick, because some comics do it as a tick, where just every other word. But uh, they're very specifically well-placed. So I don't, you know, I'm very, very selective with the cussing.

• 1:15:58Mark Normand?

  Yeah, remember Bill Cosby himself, he says asshole once, it gets like a three-minute applause break. Because it just, it's so powerful.

• 1:16:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, and it's even bigger when you don't do it. So when you save it up and all of a sudden it comes out, it's like.

• 1:16:10Mark Normand?

  Oh, exactly, exactly.

• 1:16:12Sam Morril?

  Kind of like his roofies, really thick heads.

• 1:16:15Mark Normand?

  Alright, well, what else you got? Say, where was uh, we got you, we got you.

• 1:16:19Sam Morril?

  I got, I got just, uh, yeah, I just got May 7th.

• 1:16:23Speaker 01

  First of all, I'm impressed you guys can read that. I'm like, look, I'm like. I know what I'm looking at, but I can't see the.

• 1:16:30Mark Normand?

  Inglewood, Raleigh, Atlanta. Wow, State Farm Arena, holy shit.

• 1:16:36Sam Morril?

  These are wild.

• 1:16:37Mark Normand?

  Wow, Moody Center in Austin, jeez Louise, Corpus Christi, oh, those are over, sorry. Uh, Beaumont, Texas, wow.

• 1:16:45Speaker 01

  No, none of those have happened yet.

• 1:16:47Sam Morril?

  That's May, that's May.

• 1:16:48Mark Normand?

  Sorry, Oakland, Sacramento.

• 1:16:51Speaker 01

  Couple nights in Vegas.

• 1:16:52Mark Normand?

  Woo, Tucson. You ever think you'll ever do the Sphere?

• 1:16:56Speaker 01

  So I had that conversation already, and um, it doesn't make sense. The Sphere is probably the most expensive place to perform, just because of like, you know, you gotta create the content to fill the screens. It's not like a regular thing where you just turn on a camera.

• 1:17:12Sam Morril?

  It's a music place.

• 1:17:12Speaker 01

  It, it's more, definitely more music or, or film. Like, I went to go watch Wizard of Oz there.

• 1:17:18Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:17:19Speaker 01

  It was insane.

• 1:17:20Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:17:21Sam Morril?

  Was it awesome?

• 1:17:21Speaker 01

  They had to uh, format it and, and, and create, you know, around the original content. You can see it. They digitally created uh, to expand the, the vision of whatever that is. So let's say you're looking at that.

• 1:17:34Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 1:17:34Speaker 01

  They digitally uh, duplicated what you see on the screen to fill out this whole area.

• 1:17:40Mark Normand?

  Oh my lord.

• 1:17:41Speaker 01

  So it looks awesome. And what they add is like, let's say during the tornado, there's giant fans that turn on.

• 1:17:48Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:17:49Speaker 01

  There's, there's a um, confetti that they blow into the crowd, and when the trees are shaking, apples actually fall, like.

• 1:17:56Mark Normand?

  What?

• 1:17:56Speaker 01

  They have a thing where apples fall.

• 1:17:58Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 1:17:59Speaker 01

  They're like the little um, like the little Styrofoam apple. But it's cool, and it says Wizard of Oz.

• 1:18:03Mark Normand?

  That's amazing.

• 1:18:04Speaker 01

  It was a lot of fun. And they, they shortened the film by a little bit, but you know, they cut to the chase on it. It was a good time. I've seen um, multiple shows there and.

• 1:18:14Speaker 01

  For music, it definitely makes sense. The Eagles and Backstreet Boys were my two favorite concerts there.

• 1:18:19Sam Morril?

  Whoa.

• 1:18:20Speaker 01

  Joe Coy and I talked about doing the Sphere and I go, it doesn't make sense dude. Visually, you know, talking and comedy just is not gonna fit.

• 1:18:28Sam Morril?

  It takes away from.

• 1:18:29Speaker 01

  It takes away from.

• 1:18:30Sam Morril?

  Minimalist is better for stand-up.

• 1:18:31Mark Normand?

  True.

• 1:18:32Speaker 01

  So, so no, so we will not be, I will not be anyway doing it.

• 1:18:36Mark Normand?

  Alright, but you can put the VW buses up there or something.

• 1:18:39Speaker 01

  You know, I remember talking to AJ from Backstreet Boys. They had to do so many shows before they even broke even.

• 1:18:47Mark Normand?

  Oh.

• 1:18:48Speaker 01

  And then you're making money after that. So to do one or two shows would not make sense because it's just so expensive.

• 1:18:55Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:55Speaker 01

  Like Dana White taking UFC in there, they didn't, they didn't make money on being there one night. You know, you really, I mean, maybe from the pay-per-view and stuff like that, but you're not gonna, you're not gonna get that from, from being in that building.

• 1:19:06Mark Normand?

  That's a bummer.

• 1:19:07Speaker 01

  It's, it's not a good building for that.

• 1:19:09Mark Normand?

  Got it, got it.

• 1:19:09Speaker 01

  Definitely music.

• 1:19:10Mark Normand?

  Oh, and movies too.

• 1:19:11Speaker 01

  I'm planning on going seeing, I already got the suite for Metallica.

• 1:19:14Mark Normand?

  Woo.

• 1:19:15Speaker 01

  So I'm gonna go see Metallica.

• 1:19:16Sam Morril?

  I was there for Wizard of Oz and I was just so fucking sick. I had to rest up for the show. I was, I wanted to go so badly because I'd heard, I heard it's unreal.

• 1:19:24Mark Normand?

  I saw Two Girls One Cup there. It was wild.

• 1:19:26Sam Morril?

  Phenomenal.

• 1:19:28Mark Normand?

  Dropping shit on you. It was crazy.

• 1:19:32Speaker 01

  Don't look up. Just don't look up. Trust me on this one. Just, just stay focused.

• 1:19:37Mark Normand?

  Right, that show was the shit. Alright, uh, yeah, so we're gonna be all over. You know where, where to find us on Punch Up. Get some bodega cat.

• 1:19:45Sam Morril?

  Punchup.live slash Mark Norman, punchup.live slash Sam.

• 1:19:49Speaker 01

  Pochofino.

• 1:19:50Mark Normand?

  Thank you.

• 1:19:50Sam Morril?

  Pochofino and bodega. Look at these together. This looks good together.

• 1:19:53Mark Normand?

  Hey, look at that.

• 1:19:55Speaker 01

  Seen that movie.

• 1:19:57Mark Normand?

  Interracial.

• 1:19:58Sam Morril?

  Look at that, it's fun.

• 1:20:00Mark Normand?

  That's good stuff. That's a fun night right there. Alright, hey, fluffy of the man.

• 1:20:04Sam Morril?

  Great to meet you, man.

• 1:20:04Speaker 01

  I appreciate you guys. This is really nice to finally meet you both.

• 1:20:07Mark Normand?

  It's an honor. You're a legend.

• 1:20:09Speaker 01

  I honestly thought you guys lived out in LA.

• 1:20:10Mark Normand?

  No, no, no, we're funny. Alright.

• 1:20:14Speaker 01

  Okay, really quick. Really, really quick. Do you guys feel like there's been a thing over the years where it's like, almost like rappers with comics? Where it's like east coast, west coast?

• 1:20:22Mark Normand?

  There's a lot of gray way.

• 1:20:23Speaker 01

  I don't, I don't mean like the fighting as more, more of like a certain style like.

• 1:20:27Mark Normand?

  Definitely a style. L.A. is bigger. You got like a Sebastian and guys like that where I think New York is more Dave Attell. You know, more jokey, more written. That would be my assessment, but both, you know, they got, you got Jezzalneck over there, you got Bill Burr over there, you got, you got a lot of great comics.

• 1:20:43Speaker 01

  But Bill Burr's from out here, though.

• 1:20:44Mark Normand?

  That's true, trying to throw your bone there.

• 1:20:46Sam Morril?

  And Jezzalneck and Sebastian's from Chicago.

• 1:20:48Mark Normand?

  Alright, well, you got nothing out there, but no, of course, you know, isn't a...

• 1:20:52Speaker 01

  So I've always felt, I've always felt like, ah, who's actually from here? I know I'm from out there, but...

• 1:20:57Mark Normand?

  Yeah, you're from there.

• 1:20:58Sam Morril?

  Most LA people are not from there.

• 1:21:00Mark Normand?

  I think Adam Carolla's from LA.

• 1:21:02Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:02Mark Normand?

  Yeah, who else?

• 1:21:05Speaker 01

  See what I mean?

• 1:21:06Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:21:07Mark Normand?

  Well, we got George Carlin, Woody Allen, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, they're all from New York. Dave Attell, Amy Schumer.

• 1:21:16Speaker 01

  So I feel very special that you guys can't really name anybody, but...

• 1:21:19Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:21Mark Normand?

  Yeah, sorry, so you're the LA guy.

• 1:21:23Speaker 01

  I'm the LA guy.

• 1:21:24Mark Normand?

  You gotta hold it down for the City of Angels.

• 1:21:26Sam Morril?

  The Dodgers guy solidifies you as that.

• 1:21:27Mark Normand?

  That's true. Now, let me ask you, when you pay taxes, I hope you're paying Texas taxes.

• 1:21:34Speaker 01

  Soon enough, soon enough. Soon enough.

• 1:21:38Mark Normand?

  Don't let them take your fucking shirt off.

• 1:21:40Speaker 01

  Yeah, I work way too hard.

• 1:21:40Sam Morril?

  It's a lot of UW's right there. VW's.

• 1:21:44Speaker 01

  VW's.

• 1:21:45Sam Morril?

  Man, I really, I really don't know cars. I don't drive, I don't even drive. UW's, ugh, trying to stick the land on the end of...

• 1:21:52Speaker 01

  You got a bunch of unwanted's. Yeah, that says UW, a bunch of unwanted's.

• 1:21:56Sam Morril?

  So my dad used to call me.

• 1:21:57Mark Normand?

  Ah, there we go, alright, we might be drunk, we'll see you guys later. Thank you, Fluffy, thank you to the dog.