Casey Rocket

Comedian Casey Rocket blasts into the Whiskey Ginger studio for a whirlwind of surreal characters, unfiltered absurdity, and deep-cut comedy brainwaves. Andrew Santino and Casey riff on everything from Casey’s psychedelic approach to stand-up, his Southern roots, and what it’s like to blow minds in real time. Casey’s one of the fastest-rising and most original voices in comedy today—don’t sleep on this one. 🎟️ Check out more from Casey: https://caseyrocket.com 📺 Subscribe to Whiskey Ginger: YouTube.com/@AndrewSantino 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods. #CaseyRocket #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #StandUpComedy #ComedyPodcast #SurrealComedy #AltComedy #ComedianInterview #WhiskeyGingerPodcast =========================================================== Sponsor Whiskey Ginger: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/whiskeyginger SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS PROPHETX USE PROMO CODE: WHSIKEY GET UP TO $300 IN PROPHET CASH https://getprophetx.co WHISKEY GINGER SURVEY WIN A $150 AMAZON GIFT CARD https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/whiskeyginger CREMO NEW LINE OF DEODORANT & ANTIPERSPIRANT AVAILABLE AT TARGET OR https://target.com HELLO FRESH GET UP TO 10 FREE MEALS! https://hellofresh.com/whiskey10fm TONAL USE PROMO CODE: WHISKEY TO GET UP TO $200 OFF YOUR ORDER! https://tonal.com ======================================= Follow Andrew Santino: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino Follow Whiskey Ginger: https://www.instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast https://twitter.com/whiskeygingerpodcast Produced and edited by Joe Faria https://www.instagram.com/itsjoefaria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:55Andrew Santino?

  What up, Whiskey Ginger fans? Welcome back to the show. If it's the first time you're on the show, welcome to the show. We got a good one for you today, like my man Steve Harvey done say. Guys, I'm popping around. Your boy's popping around a little bit. May 22 and 23. I'm going to be coming to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, then to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. May 22 and 23, just doing a couple of casinos up there in Canada. Then I come back home and I'm on the road again, doing the No Bad Lies Show. Please check that out, my new show, my new golf show if you're interested. And in July, 18th and 19th, Bobby Lee and I, we do two shows, that's it. Bad Friends is done touring. We're just doing two in London and Dublin, July 18th and 19th. Go to badfriendspod.com. And if you're in Canada and you want to come see the boy in Edmonton

• 1:39Andrew Santino?

  or in Winnipeg, May 22, 23, go to andrewsantino.com for those tickets. andrewsantino.com.

• 1:45Speaker 03

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• 1:59Speaker 04

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• 2:10Speaker 00

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• 2:24Andrew Santino?

  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Dinner. My guest today is one of my favorite people on the other side of the room. My guest, my name is once again today, it's Casey Rocket.

• 2:33Andrew Santino?

  Casey Rocket. Did you know Casey Casey? Do you know Casey Casey?

• 2:37Speaker 05

  Scooby Doo.

• 2:38Andrew Santino?

  Casey Casey.

• 2:39Speaker 05

  Casey Casey, Scrappy Dippins.

• 2:41Andrew Santino?

  Scrappy Dipples. Casey Casey.

• 2:44Speaker 05

  Scrappy is an intensely private person.

• 2:47Andrew Santino?

  Truly, right? And how did all his, uh, his drama get out though? What ended up happening?

• 2:53Speaker 05

  Well, somebody, there was a leak. There was, there's somebody, there was a crack in the foundation of his inner circle.

• 2:59Andrew Santino?

  There was a leak in the boat, man. What was your childhood favorite show? Scooby Doo?

• 3:06Speaker 05

  Scooby Doo. Loose Lips, Sink Ships.

• 3:08Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, don't tell.

• 3:10Speaker 05

  I was a, I was a bit younger than most people and I think, I used to like Ed, Ed and Eddie, Courage the Cowardly Dog.

• 3:17Andrew Santino?

  Ed, Ed and Eddie was good.

• 3:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was good.

• 3:19Andrew Santino?

  And I'm older than you, but I know some of that stuff.

• 3:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 3:21Andrew Santino?

  Were you SpongeBob generation or no?

• 3:23Speaker 05

  I was, yeah, I was Gen one. So SpongeBob's taken a, he's turned a corner and he seems a little bit, he is a little bit different than when I was a kid, but.

• 3:31Andrew Santino?

  What do you mean? He's, is he trans now? What happened to Sponge?

• 3:34Speaker 05

  He seems a little more effeminate than he was when I was a kid and I'm an effeminate person, so I, maybe I would like this version of him better, but.

• 3:39Andrew Santino?

  You should, yeah.

• 3:40Speaker 05

  The clips I've seen recently, he seems like a little more goofy.

• 3:44Andrew Santino?

  Like a little bit more wacky?

• 3:46Speaker 05

  Like a little bit sassy. But I'm not a little kid anymore, so I probably would have thought, I probably wouldn't even like it anyway. You know who I used to like is the Canker Sisters on Ed, Ed and Eddie.

• 3:56Andrew Santino?

  The Canker Sore Sisters?

• 3:57Speaker 05

  They were sexy, sexy and they were presented as gross. And I remember watching it as a kid and I was going, I kinda like it. I kinda like it.

• 4:05Andrew Santino?

  Also, kinda mean, I get canker sores inside my fucking lips and that just really disrespects the canker sore community.

• 4:11Speaker 05

  Sure. Well, it's anti, yeah, it's anti-canker.

• 4:13Andrew Santino?

  It's anti-canker all the way through. What's the most childlike bullshit you still do today?

• 4:18Speaker 05

  Um, like on a daily basis?

• 4:21Andrew Santino?

  No, just in your life. When you said, I'm not a kid anymore, like, what's a thing that you're like, oh, you know what, but I still really hold on to?

• 4:26Speaker 05

  Hmm. I gotta sleep with a little bit of lights on in my room. I get a little bit scared.

• 4:32Andrew Santino?

  Do you?

• 4:33Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 4:33Andrew Santino?

  When you go to a hotel dude, you always have a little light. What is it? The light in the, uh, in the bathroom?

• 4:38Speaker 05

  Bathroom. Just a little bit. I need to know that I have, cause I watched this movie called Darkness Falls when I was a kid.

• 4:43Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 4:44Speaker 05

  And it's about the tooth fairy and she's not the tooth, she's not your grandma's tooth fairy. I'll put it that way.

• 4:48Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 4:49Speaker 05

  She, basically she wanna take all the teeth out of your head whether or not you wanna give them or not.

• 4:53Andrew Santino?

  Wow.

• 4:53Speaker 05

  Scared you?

• 4:54Andrew Santino?

  What was she gonna do with them?

• 4:55Speaker 05

  I think she makes like a mask or s- or house is made out of teeth.

• 4:59Andrew Santino?

  Oh wow, I wonder what that property value is like.

• 5:02Speaker 05

  It's gotta be through the roof. She, she lived like in an abandoned, uh, lighthouse made out of teeth. It's not really my story to tell. But, and I'm just as happy with a good book. But, she used to scare me a lot and I, I have carried some of that into adulthood.

• 5:18Andrew Santino?

  So you still have to have a little light? Do you like, are you a single dude?

• 5:23Speaker 05

  I have a girlfriend. Yeah.

• 5:27Andrew Santino?

  Like that old Mitch Hadford joke? I don't have a girlfriend, but I know a woman who'd be very upset if she heard me say that. So you, but I, but what I'm saying is do you like to sleep in the same bed together or do you prefer solo sleeping?

• 5:40Speaker 05

  When I first meet a girl, I can't sleep if we're in the same bed, but as I get used to her presence, I like to have her in the bed.

• 5:47Andrew Santino?

  Then you go the other way. I'm married and we don't, I don't like, I, sleep in the same bed's tough. I'd rather sleep somewhere else because I do, I can't get good sleep when I'm in bed with someone. It's really tough.

• 5:57Speaker 05

  If they even move a muscle, I have to sleep with earplugs and if they even move a muscle, I'm up.

• 6:03Andrew Santino?

  A twitch and you're there.

• 6:05Speaker 05

  She's back.

• 6:06Andrew Santino?

  Are you okay?

• 6:06Speaker 05

  Yeah. Everything okay babe?

• 6:08Andrew Santino?

  That's why I can't keep a weapon next to my bed. I will.

• 6:11Speaker 05

  You'll just grab it.

• 6:12Andrew Santino?

  I'll shoot her.

• 6:12Speaker 05

  You'll grab it.

• 6:13Andrew Santino?

  I'll shoot her right. Just one.

• 6:15Speaker 05

  Yeah. I keep a go-bag under my bed so I, I, just in case I need to be packed up and gone in 30 seconds, De Niro style. Sometimes I'll do it in my sleep, she'll kick and I'll, I'll open my eyes, I'm halfway out the door.

• 6:27Andrew Santino?

  You're already to fucking.

• 6:29Speaker 05

  I go shit.

• 6:29Andrew Santino?

  Already halfway to Mexico.

• 6:31Speaker 05

  Time to go to bed, babe.

• 6:31Andrew Santino?

  You like Austin, dude?

• 6:33Speaker 05

  I like.

• 6:33Andrew Santino?

  Are you liking it?

• 6:34Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 6:35Andrew Santino?

  This is what for you? How many years? Two years?

• 6:36Speaker 05

  Uh, I am in my fourth year.

• 6:38Andrew Santino?

  Holy shit.

• 6:39Speaker 05

  I was Gen one. I, I moved there in 2021.

• 6:41Andrew Santino?

  Oh gee.

• 6:42Speaker 05

  Pre-Rogus, pre-Rogus, pre-mothership.

• 6:45Andrew Santino?

  Pre-Rogan. Before Rogano. Before Rogano came a down.

• 6:50Speaker 05

  A vec fromage.

• 6:52Andrew Santino?

  That's pretty impressive though. You were one of, who came, who left Atlanta with you?

• 6:56Speaker 05

  So I came from Idaho. I was in Atlanta with a good class of comics, Will Foskey, Michael Rowland. Um, it's a pretty good group of guys. And then I moved to Idaho. Um.

• 7:10Andrew Santino?

  What were you doing in Idaho? Boise?

• 7:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, I was in Boise. Um, well, I'm trying to think of this girl's name, it's driving me crazy, but she's so funny.

• 7:18Andrew Santino?

  Fell in love, huh?

• 7:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, I met a girl in Idaho. So I, I went out there to visit. I met a girl, fell in love. Pandemic happened, so I was there for three years. So then I came from Idaho to Boston. Yeah.

• 7:31Andrew Santino?

  Wow.

• 7:32Speaker 05

  Catherine Blandford is the Atlanta comic I was trying to think of. Not my, the love of my life.

• 7:36Andrew Santino?

  Not the love of your life?

• 7:36Speaker 05

  No.

• 7:37Andrew Santino?

  I know her, she's out here now.

• 7:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, she great.

• 7:39Andrew Santino?

  So wait a minute, you went to Idaho?

• 7:41Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 7:41Andrew Santino?

  Got swept up in the whimsy?

• 7:43Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 7:44Andrew Santino?

  And then when you broke up, you're like, dude, I'm a, I gotta go.

• 7:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, I said, what, I looked around, I said, what am I doing? Well, I didn't even want to really be there. I went to visit, I met a girl, almost immediately. They started giving me work at the club out there, which used to be called Liquid Laughs, which I saw you at one time. You, you did that club.

• 8:01Andrew Santino?

  I did that club.

• 8:02Speaker 05

  Liquid Laughs.

• 8:02Andrew Santino?

  It was a bar.

• 8:03Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 8:04Andrew Santino?

  It wasn't really a club.

• 8:05Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 8:06Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 8:06Speaker 05

  But they could fit a couple hundred people in there.

• 8:08Andrew Santino?

  You saw me there?

• 8:09Speaker 05

  You were there.

• 8:10Andrew Santino?

  Well, how bad was that, huh? Liquid.

• 8:12Speaker 05

  It was right by a knitting factory, right there in Boise. Yeah.

• 8:16Andrew Santino?

  Tough, huh?

• 8:17Speaker 05

  Tough room. They did not care for me very much.

• 8:20Andrew Santino?

  Did they care for me? I don't remember.

• 8:21Speaker 05

  I don't remember.

• 8:22Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I don't remember if I liked it or not. I do remember Boise when I was played that Liquid Laughs room. I remember walking the streets and I was past a huge line of people going to an auditorium or, you know, a big room, whatever, like a small... What is it called? A fieldhouse type of shit?

• 8:40Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 8:40Andrew Santino?

  And I was like, dude, what the fuck is this line for? Who is this? And they were like, "Oh, it's, uh, uh, Hasan Minhaj." And I was like, "The guy I started comedy with? I'm at Liquid Laughs." I was so fucking bummed, dude. When you hear your peer is playing some... Oh, dude, it was tough.

• 8:58Speaker 05

  He's at the Egyptian Theater and you're at Liquid Laughs, slumming with the centers.

• 9:03Andrew Santino?

  Pump and dump. Welcome to Pump and Dump. Grab your drinks and take your seat. No, you know what, though? And shout out to Hasan. Good egg. But, you know, it's so funny, when you do those little bounce around rooms and you're in cities and people you know are playing other spots, it's either embarrassing or cool. It either hurts your feelings, or you're like, "Oh, right on, we can go hang out." And that one was one of those that I was bummed about because I was like, "Oh, man, he was killing it." And I was liquid laughing it. How long ago do you think that was?

• 9:29Speaker 05

  That was, oh god, six years ago, probably. Probably 2019.

• 9:33Andrew Santino?

  2019, yeah, before, pre-Pandy.

• 9:35Speaker 05

  Pre-Pandy. We didn't even know it was coming. There was a storm coming. There was a storm coming.

• 9:40Andrew Santino?

  You know who did, I will say? Burr said something one time. He walked into the green room of the Comedy Store and it was just like comedy was humming, you know, like Rogan, Mizzou, and Rogan and Friends. And people were, like, a lot of people were coming around LA a lot, even a lot of New York guys. And every night was sold out. And it was like Eddie Griffin was coming back doing spots. Martin Lawrence was like doing spots he hadn't done in years. And so the parking lot would be like Rolls Royces and Ferraris and Lamborghinis, you know?

• 10:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 10:11Andrew Santino?

  And his entourage. And Burr walked in the green room and was like, "Dude, do you see what's going on outside?" I was like, "Yeah, it's a lot of famous, rich guys' cars." He's like, "Dude, they're gonna get us. Comedy's getting too big. Something's gonna happen." I was like, "Well, you know." And then, literally, half a year later, the fucking pandemic. I was like Burr called.

• 10:29Speaker 05

  And they had to stop it somehow. And there was a lot of...

• 10:34Andrew Santino?

  And Chinese, dude.

• 10:36Speaker 05

  A lot of casualties of war along the way. Just to stop the rifts, for what?

• 10:39Andrew Santino?

  Just, why?

• 10:40Speaker 05

  For what?

• 10:41Andrew Santino?

  Why kill the rift, dude?

• 10:42Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 10:43Andrew Santino?

  Well, I want to give you some compliments real fast.

• 10:45Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 10:46Andrew Santino?

  People know Casey Rocket. You are part of the Kill Tony sphere, whether or not you like it. You will be embedded in that forever. Do you do Killers of Kill Tony?

• 10:55Speaker 05

  I do not. I do my own tour.

• 10:57Andrew Santino?

  Good for you.

• 10:57Speaker 05

  I've never done those, but they have a lot of great comics on them.

• 11:01Andrew Santino?

  Sure, you don't have to say that, man. Just say you're not on it.

• 11:03Speaker 05

  I've never done it, yeah.

• 11:05Andrew Santino?

  No, that's good. No, but you are, you did kinda, you did kinda get some great movement from that and kudos to them for giving you the space to do it, man, because you're fucking fantastic. I love watching, I love watching your shit online. It's so fucking fun and so active. So that's all I'm gonna tell you. You don't have to get nervous if I keep complimenting you.

• 11:23Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, it's been, it changed my life. Yeah, I, even a year ago, I couldn't sell any. I saw some girl, I was at mothership on Monday and I saw this girl who was a bartender in Bisbee, Arizona, when I was there.

• 11:36Andrew Santino?

  With Stan Hope?

• 11:36Speaker 05

  Yeah, Chuckleheads. I did Chuckleheads a year and a half ago. I sold maybe 20 tickets over the whole weekend.

• 11:43Andrew Santino?

  So what, six shows or four shows?

• 11:44Speaker 05

  Um, oh god, maybe just three. I don't, they don't do a traditional weekend.

• 11:48Andrew Santino?

  Okay.

• 11:48Speaker 05

  Chuckleheads is basically like a bar that sits maybe 40 or 50 people, but they call it a comedy club in Bisbee.

• 11:53Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 11:54Speaker 05

  And she was the bartender and I was like, oh my god, that was not very long ago. I mean, I couldn't move 40 tickets. There's no way. So it definitely changed my whole, my whole shit.

• 12:03Andrew Santino?

  Are you doing clubs now or theaters?

• 12:04Speaker 05

  Just clubs.

• 12:05Andrew Santino?

  Do you, do you wanna do theaters or not?

• 12:07Speaker 05

  I don't, no, not really.

• 12:09Andrew Santino?

  Sure.

• 12:09Speaker 05

  I like it, you know, 400, 200, 300, 400 is nice. The improv out there in Irvine is about, that's the max I would like.

• 12:17Andrew Santino?

  550 maybe?

• 12:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:19Andrew Santino?

  That's, it's big. It's good, though.

• 12:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, it is good. It's set up nice where you're not losing them. It feels like they're there, right?

• 12:26Andrew Santino?

  And you, what, are you doing, are you, are you bringing guys with you or no?

• 12:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:30Andrew Santino?

  Picking up locals?

• 12:30Speaker 05

  I have these guys based out of Philly, Rob Stanton and Jim Gillespie, who I met last year and I bring them almost everywhere I go.

• 12:37Andrew Santino?

  Stanton Gillespie, a one-two punch. Do you, do they get to choose who goes when?

• 12:42Speaker 05

  Um, typically Jim goes first, but sometimes they'll just switch off. Yeah, it's up to them. I let them figure it out.

• 12:48Andrew Santino?

  That's really fun to make them fight over it. I like that, dude.

• 12:51Speaker 05

  Well, I can wash my hands of it, yeah. I don't wanna be the bad guy.

• 12:54Andrew Santino?

  I know, I know, dude. I know how that goes. When you, when I have a couple of people and I'm always like, I don't fucking, you guys, I don't really give a shit.

• 12:59Speaker 05

  I know, I don't wanna be the guy who says you're, you're the worst one. You go first.

• 13:04Andrew Santino?

  Oh, but in Canada, you played Canada, the old Canadian way. I don't know if they still do it because I haven't played their clubs in a while. But the host got paid more money than the feature because the host did the most time before the headline.

• 13:16Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 13:16Andrew Santino?

  It would go.

• 13:17Speaker 05

  Metric system.

• 13:18Andrew Santino?

  Host does like, you know, 20 kilometers of bits.

• 13:23Speaker 05

  Sure, two clicks.

• 13:24Andrew Santino?

  Two clicks of bits, eh? And then the feature would do a moose or two of bits and then the host would come back and do more time.

• 13:30Speaker 05

  Oh, wow.

• 13:31Andrew Santino?

  So the host got more time overall than the feature. I always thought that was fucking weird when I first started playing there. I was like, why is the host doing another 10, 15 minutes?

• 13:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:38Andrew Santino?

  And the club owner was like, what the fuck are you talking about? That's what they, this is what they do. I was like, nah, dude, not in the States. It's not how.

• 13:43Speaker 05

  No.

• 13:44Andrew Santino?

  It's not how it goes in Donald Trump country, my friend.

• 13:46Speaker 05

  You guys have your fun, play your little games, but I'm gonna be just as happy with a good book back in the States. I'm an avid reader.

• 13:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, list off the books now that you got right now in the hotel room.

• 13:56Speaker 05

  A Bushwhacker's Tale, um, Sirius, A Star-Based Mystery, Sirius, A Starboard Story, uh, Interstellar, The Science Behind Interstellar, um, Chris Nolan, From Rags to Riches, Little Tito.

• 14:13Speaker 00

  Let's be honest, you don't go to the family holiday gift exchange just to participate. You go to win. This year, get a gift that'll cause a stir. A KitchenAid Stand Mixer. It's not just an appliance, it's a present to help them with the making. Year after year, recipe after recipe, you're enabling the family to whip up new traditions. 'Tis your season to mix it up. Gift a KitchenAid Stand Mixer this year and make more than meals.

• 14:44Speaker 05

  It's Mr. Pibb and Oral History.

• 14:46Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 14:47Speaker 05

  Um, and The Murder on the Orient Express.

• 14:50Andrew Santino?

  That is so good.

• 14:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 14:51Andrew Santino?

  Murder on the O Express is fantastic.

• 14:53Speaker 05

  So good, Agatha Christie's.

• 14:56Andrew Santino?

  Agatha Christie's.

• 14:57Speaker 05

  Agatha Christie's.

• 14:58Andrew Santino?

  Agatha Christie's. What's his tattoo, by the way? I've never even really seen this.

• 15:01Speaker 05

  This one or this one?

• 15:02Andrew Santino?

  It's not Scorpion Scorpion.

• 15:03Speaker 05

  Um, I was in Boise and uh...

• 15:06Andrew Santino?

  This was a Boise time.

• 15:08Speaker 05

  This is a Boise time.

• 15:08Andrew Santino?

  This is a Boise bad boy tattoo.

• 15:09Speaker 05

  Well, I got the bottom when I was in Baltimore last year.

• 15:12Andrew Santino?

  What does it say on the bottom? I can't see.

• 15:13Speaker 05

  It says feeling good again on the bottom, but the top is gibberish. It says Scorpius Christie.

• 15:18Andrew Santino?

  I like that.

• 15:19Speaker 05

  Which is adjacent to Agatha Christie's. So, sorta, I kinda knew I would end up here having this conversation.

• 15:24Andrew Santino?

  Everything's full circle with you.

• 15:26Speaker 05

  Flat circle.

• 15:26Andrew Santino?

  It always comes back.

• 15:27Speaker 05

  And this is Lynch. This is a No I Banda, the Mulholland Drive thing.

• 15:32Andrew Santino?

  You, do you love Mulholland Drive?

• 15:33Speaker 05

  I don't care for it.

• 15:34Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 15:35Speaker 05

  No.

• 15:35Andrew Santino?

  Why would you?

• 15:37Speaker 05

  No, I, I love, I'm a huge Lynch guy. I went and saw Fire Walk with me three times last week. And they were playing it at the local theater in Austin.

• 15:44Andrew Santino?

  Really?

• 15:45Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm. Twin Peaks Fire Walk with me, went and saw it.

• 15:47Andrew Santino?

  I did the, what a creepy thing when I, after I watched, after he died and I watched his documentary again. I, there was a shot of him pulling down a, a road in his car.

• 15:58Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 15:58Andrew Santino?

  Going to get cigarettes and I was like, I know that road. Like, for some reason, I knew the road, cause something like popped out. So, I fucking Google Earthed for like twenty minutes.

• 16:08Speaker 05

  Street view?

• 16:09Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, street view and it, and then I found his crib. And I found the crib. I know how weird.

• 16:13Speaker 05

  You reverse engineered where he lived?

• 16:14Andrew Santino?

  Uh-huh, I did. It was creepy. Well, cause in the documentary, he does a lot of stuff from his art studio that's above his home, that's kind of open air.

• 16:20Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 16:20Andrew Santino?

  And I was like, well, that's easy to find. I won't be able to, if it's a close, if it was anything else, I would've... But you, I could literally Google Earthed this open air studio and I just sat there and stared at it for a while because I thought was, I was like, man, that's so crazy.

• 16:31Speaker 05

  Was it David Lynch and Art Life?

• 16:34Andrew Santino?

  It was uh...

• 16:34Speaker 05

  The Art Life?

• 16:35Andrew Santino?

  No, no, yeah, yeah, The Art Life. No, no, no.

• 16:38Andrew Santino?

  The HBO one. The last one on HBO. Is that Art Life?

• 16:40Speaker 05

  I thought it was called an Art Life, but there, there could be a couple of them. HBO seems to own the IP for some reason.

• 16:45Andrew Santino?

  They own everybody. They own you.

• 16:46Speaker 05

  They do.

• 16:47Andrew Santino?

  We'll cut to an ad real fast with Casey Rocket on HBO.

• 16:50Speaker 05

  Hey, guys. Welcome to White Lotus, season three. The, the, it's gonna be a big year. Walter Goggas, um, Henry Drasher.

• 16:59Andrew Santino?

  Henry Drasher, happy he's back.

• 17:04Speaker 05

  It's been, what a sight for sore eyes, Henry Drasher has been.

• 17:09Speaker 05

  Look what the cat dragged in.

• 17:11Andrew Santino?

  You've never seen White Lotus.

• 17:14Speaker 05

  Okay, so I watched the first two seasons. I haven't seen the new one, though. Parker Posey.

• 17:19Andrew Santino?

  PP turns you off? You didn't want to get into the PP?

• 17:21Speaker 05

  Hang on, I'm checking out.

• 17:22Andrew Santino?

  Check it. Is your Parker's in this?

• 17:24Speaker 05

  There you go. Last time I checked, this isn't me curled up with a good book. I'm done. I check out. I like Parker Posey from the Christopher Guest films.

• 17:33Andrew Santino?

  So good.

• 17:34Speaker 05

  The faux documentary.

• 17:35Andrew Santino?

  I was lucky to do one thing with that guy and it was unbelievable.

• 17:38Speaker 05

  He was an SNL guy.

• 17:40Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 17:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 17:41Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 17:42Speaker 05

  It's random.

• 17:42Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, he sure was.

• 17:44Speaker 05

  Funny you bring that up. He's an SNL guy, something neither of us have any association with. Also an SNL guy.

• 17:49Andrew Santino?

  And his wife, it was an SNL gal.

• 17:52Speaker 05

  Was it?

• 17:53Andrew Santino?

  No, she loves it.

• 17:54Speaker 05

  Really?

• 17:55Andrew Santino?

  She loves the show. She watches it all the time. She's at every taping.

• 17:58Speaker 05

  Really?

• 17:59Andrew Santino?

  She goes to every single taping. Refused to go to the one that Drake was a host and a musical guest of, and that's just a political thing, I guess.

• 18:06Speaker 05

  Understandably so.

• 18:07Andrew Santino?

  I mean, you're connected to the business very heavily. People don't know this, but you run a kind of deep nepotistic world. You're connected.

• 18:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:14Andrew Santino?

  Do you care to share any of this stuff?

• 18:15Speaker 05

  I'm happy to tell you. It does not, uh, it doesn't occur me. I was Jimmy Superfly Snuka was my godfather, so I'm a nepo baby. And through that, I, um, yeah, Rob Reiner was my, uh, was basically my little brother. He's like a little brother to me.

• 18:32Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, because he raised you, kind of, but oddly enough, you were older, but he kind of was your mentor, a youth mentor.

• 18:38Speaker 05

  Yeah. Every time I would make a mistake, I would look at Rob and he would go, "What'd I tell you?"

• 18:44Speaker 05

  He'd go, "What'd I tell you?" And he goes, "I'm not gonna handle you with kid gloves anymore."

• 18:48Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 18:49Speaker 05

  Gloves are coming off, so. That's actually pretty cool. Wait, who is Christopher Guest's wife?

• 18:56Andrew Santino?

  Who is his wife?

• 18:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, Nancy.

• 18:58Andrew Santino?

  You know her, Nancy Guest.

• 19:00Speaker 05

  Nancy Guest.

• 19:01Andrew Santino?

  No, you do know Christopher Guest's wife. She's, uh, very famous.

• 19:04Speaker 05

  What is her name?

• 19:05Andrew Santino?

  She's very famous. She has three names.

• 19:08Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 19:09Andrew Santino?

  You're gonna get this. She has three. Name actresses you know with three names.

• 19:11Speaker 05

  Um, Sarah Jessica Parker.

• 19:13Andrew Santino?

  That's it. Christopher Guest, oddly enough, he wrote Sex and the City.

• 19:18Speaker 05

  And the City.

• 19:19Andrew Santino?

  And they had to redo it.

• 19:20Speaker 05

  Sex and the City and the big ugly thing.

• 19:25Speaker 05

  That's pretty cool. I, Hillary Rodham, Hillary Bonham Carter, who, pretty cool, from Sweeney Todd.

• 19:33Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 19:33Speaker 05

  Another, I don't need to keep naming the three, the three names, I already nailed my head, but.

• 19:37Andrew Santino?

  I like that you're doing it. I like that you're doing it.

• 19:40Speaker 05

  I'm happy to just.

• 19:41Andrew Santino?

  Were you a Burton boy? Did you like Tim Burton a lot? Were you a big Burton fan?

• 19:44Speaker 05

  As much as the next guy, my good friend, William Montgomery, so when you're talking about me, you're also talking about William, we're connected at the hip.

• 19:51Andrew Santino?

  One of the same.

• 19:52Speaker 05

  He love Danny Elfman, so.

• 19:56Andrew Santino?

  He's a big Elf dog.

• 19:57Speaker 05

  He loves Elfman. He plays it during his hour. Sometimes he'll stop telling jokes for five, 10 minutes, just play Ice Man by Danny Elfman.

• 20:06Speaker 05

  It's a pleasure to watch. Rochester, New York, 150 people, hung on every word, playing Ice Dance by Danny Elfman.

• 20:14Andrew Santino?

  What else do you want?

• 20:15Speaker 05

  Nothing.

• 20:15Andrew Santino?

  They paid for the tickets, they got the show.

• 20:17Speaker 05

  Sure. Buy the ticket, take, take the ride.

• 20:19Andrew Santino?

  Take the ride, man.

• 20:20Speaker 05

  Hunter S. Thompson, Three Name Lady.

• 20:22Andrew Santino?

  I was a big fan of Burton, because maybe that's a generational thing too, because, uh, yeah, like I said, with Scissorhands, I feel like, you're my sister's age, and she was like, this is fine. I was like, this is incredible.

• 20:35Speaker 05

  Well, it was, uh, you know, yeah, it's before Scissorhands and after Scissorhands. Movie making is kind of divided into that AD.

• 20:42Andrew Santino?

  That was, yeah. Before SH.

• 20:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, BS.

• 20:47Andrew Santino?

  BSH.

• 20:47Speaker 05

  BSH, AS.

• 20:49Andrew Santino?

  ASH.

• 20:50Speaker 05

  ASHMR, so.

• 20:51Andrew Santino?

  Bushish, Ashish.

• 20:52Speaker 05

  It's ASMR, but it's just scissors clanking in your.

• 20:57Andrew Santino?

  Are you, are you, are you into that shit?

• 21:00Speaker 05

  I don't like the way it sounds.

• 21:01Andrew Santino?

  It bothers the fucking, I can't, it drives me nuts.

• 21:05Speaker 05

  I don't like the smack game. It's a lot of like chewing.

• 21:09Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it's always food.

• 21:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:10Andrew Santino?

  I also found myself getting these TikTok holes of watching a video that I kinda wanna watch, but they're building something next to it and I have to watch them build. Whatever they're building, I have, or a bus going through one of those like Anvil loops.

• 21:25Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 21:26Andrew Santino?

  It's, I can't, I like-

• 21:27Speaker 05

  So you're saying someone is talking and then there's a second part of the screen where something's happening.

• 21:31Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 21:31Speaker 05

  They're doing coin running.

• 21:33Andrew Santino?

  Oh, love a coin run.

• 21:34Speaker 05

  Coin run is so big.

• 21:35Andrew Santino?

  I love a coin run. Coin run on top of trains? Train jumping, coin running?

• 21:38Speaker 05

  So good.

• 21:39Andrew Santino?

  God, it gets me sucked in so hard. I won't even hear what the fuck Neil deGrasse had to say.

• 21:43Speaker 05

  I know.

• 21:43Andrew Santino?

  I'm coin running.

• 21:44Speaker 05

  You're like, I do wanna learn about the Byzantine Empire, but also he's getting a lot.

• 21:50Speaker 05

  He's getting an unprecedented amount of coins right now.

• 21:52Andrew Santino?

  Your mistake is that your day starts at 10 a.m. when you wake up.

• 21:56Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 21:56Andrew Santino?

  My day, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, jumping coins. It's really hard to pay attention to these-

• 22:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 22:02Andrew Santino?

  helpful videos.

• 22:03Speaker 05

  My day starts as soon as I crack that good book.

• 22:05Andrew Santino?

  Hmm.

• 22:06Speaker 05

  Your day starts as soon as you be watching some of the coins.

• 22:08Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 22:10Speaker 05

  Checkmate. Get some sleep.

• 22:12Andrew Santino?

  Now, you've been known, and this could be a lie, but you've been known to replace a lot of the bibles or, or, or the books of Mormons that reside in hotel rooms with what?

• 22:23Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 22:24Andrew Santino?

  What is that?

• 22:26Speaker 05

  It's a creation. It's an amalgamation. It's a, so it's basically a home photo album.

• 22:30Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 22:31Speaker 05

  But it's all pictures of Ted DiBiase, The Million Dollar Man. So, uh, it's pretty cool.

• 22:37Andrew Santino?

  And do you make these yourself and go to FedEx and copy them?

• 22:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm old school. This is pre-AI, so I would spend five, six hours, if I got a long weekend, maybe. Uh, I'm in Rochester, maybe I'm in Des Moines, Des Plaines.

• 22:50Andrew Santino?

  Dubuque.

• 22:51Speaker 05

  Dubuque. Andrew Desmukes, SNL, great. But maybe I spend-

• 22:56Andrew Santino?

  Christopher Guest's wife's favorite show.

• 22:57Speaker 05

  Yes, it is. I can't wait. Bobby Moynihan, close friend.

• 23:02Andrew Santino?

  Have you hung with him?

• 23:03Speaker 05

  Coming for you, Moyns.

• 23:04Andrew Santino?

  I love him, dude.

• 23:05Speaker 05

  He commented on one of my, uh, posts the other day. I don't know him, though. And I was like, holy shit, is Bobby Moynihan-

• 23:10Andrew Santino?

  Was it a negative or a positive post?

• 23:12Speaker 05

  That's a good question.

• 23:13Andrew Santino?

  Fuck you, Rocket.

• 23:15Speaker 05

  Eat shit, piss bag. Eat piss, shit rag. That is scary to think about. It was an emoji, so, Moynihan, if you're listening, please tell me what you meant by this. It was a shocked emoji, like, but no words, so I don't know if that meant that he didn't like it. Although, why would Bobby Moynihan go all the way to go to my page to tell me he didn't like it?

• 23:34Andrew Santino?

  Well, what was the clip?

• 23:37Speaker 05

  I think it was one of the rare ones. I think I was talking about Matthew Perry or something. It was one of the rare, it was one of the rare clips where I'm talking a little bit of shit.

• 23:45Andrew Santino?

  You were talking about, was it on a podcast or stand up?

• 23:47Speaker 05

  Stand up.

• 23:48Andrew Santino?

  And you were saying how Matthew Perry is?

• 23:50Speaker 05

  Deceased. Passed away.

• 23:52Andrew Santino?

  That, maybe he just found out. Maybe it took your page to-

• 23:54Speaker 05

  That's true. Maybe this, that's how he got the, anyway.

• 23:57Andrew Santino?

  What?

• 23:58Speaker 05

  No. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, this can't be happening, this can't be happening.

• 24:03Andrew Santino?

  What did you say about Matthew Perry?

• 24:04Speaker 05

  I was riffing, God forbid.

• 24:06Andrew Santino?

  You're always a riffer, dude.

• 24:08Speaker 05

  I'm always one thought away from, from a clinical riff. And this was in, uh, it doesn't matter where it was, but I think it was in Arlington, Virginia. And I was, I was really off the wayward path. And I was talking about, I know what it was. Matthew Perry put his wiener in a hot tub jet and got filled up like a balloon. And normally I don't talk about stuff like that. Normally I'm even keeled, right?

• 24:29Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 24:30Speaker 05

  And I don't go one way, I don't go the other. Did he get his wiener filled up? Not for me to say, right? I like to stay out of it. Wash my hands of it. But I put that on Instagram, Moynihan sees it. I, I think he meant that he didn't like what I was saying.

• 24:44Andrew Santino?

  I would imagine this was him going, "Fun. Fun joke."

• 24:50Speaker 05

  Funny.

• 24:51Andrew Santino?

  Funny.

• 24:53Speaker 03

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• 24:56Andrew Santino?

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• 25:38Andrew Santino?

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• 26:22Andrew Santino?

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• 27:06Andrew Santino?

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• 29:08Andrew Santino?

  Funny!

• 29:10Speaker 05

  Funny, I know Andy Samberg.

• 29:11Andrew Santino?

  I bet he liked it.

• 29:12Speaker 05

  Maybe. If he knows Andy Samberg, he's gotta like me.

• 29:15Andrew Santino?

  He's gotta like that, you guys are the same!

• 29:17Speaker 05

  We're one in the same. Hot Rod.

• 29:18Andrew Santino?

  Island Boys.

• 29:19Speaker 05

  I wrote Hot Rod almost word for word, and then I saw the movie come on TBS, and I went, "You gotta be fucking kidding me."

• 29:26Andrew Santino?

  You're fucking kidding me.

• 29:26Speaker 05

  I mean, you gotta be kidding me. This is pretty funny stuff.

• 29:28Andrew Santino?

  Pretty good.

• 29:29Speaker 05

  But, I would've liked it to be my-

• 29:31Andrew Santino?

  I like that you never saw in the theater. You waited till it was TBS-worthy.

• 29:34Speaker 05

  Yeah. I went, I took a girl named Jana Gallbreth-

• 29:38Andrew Santino?

  Gallbreth?

• 29:39Speaker 05

  Gallbreth. She was one of my best friends, Eric Brooks's, it was her cousin. And she was in 7th grade, I was in 6th grade. We went and saw Hot Rod. And I talked to my friend the whole movie, who is now in prison, besides the point.

• 29:52Andrew Santino?

  What for?

• 29:53Speaker 05

  Trafficking. He had a bit of a-

• 29:55Andrew Santino?

  He was a traffic king. Always directing traffic.

• 29:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, he was doing it too good. They shut it down.

• 30:03Speaker 05

  Cuff him! I talked to my buddy the whole movie, and then afterward she said, "We're breaking up. You talked to your stupid friend the whole time." And I went, "The movie's funny as hell."

• 30:12Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I wanna chat with my boy.

• 30:13Speaker 05

  Andy Samberg, Bill Hader.

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• 30:45Speaker 05

  Man.

• 30:46Andrew Santino?

  You didn't do anything wrong, man. I feel like it's sitting with you.

• 30:49Speaker 05

  Sure, I'm going back to that place.

• 30:51Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I saw you do it.

• 30:53Speaker 05

  I remember blipping in and out. I'm like Rust Cole when he's getting interviewed and I'm having a couple of Lone Stars and I'm going, "Sorry, where was I?" Thinking about Hot Rod, Janet Galbraith, what a name.

• 31:04Andrew Santino?

  Jay Galbraith. What's she up to now, you think? Where's Gold Golly?

• 31:10Speaker 05

  Where does a girl like that go? Where do they all go?

• 31:12Andrew Santino?

  Where do they all go, man?

• 31:13Speaker 05

  Blink and you'll miss them. I don't know. She's probably better off. She's better off without me, I'll say that.

• 31:19Andrew Santino?

  Doubt it. Not the Casey Rocket I know.

• 31:22Speaker 05

  We could have made a run at it. I think that, sometimes. We could have made a real run at it. I knew her for one week.

• 31:27Andrew Santino?

  You think any day, at some point, you'll be a Papa Bear?

• 31:31Speaker 05

  Have a kid?

• 31:31Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you think you'd be a Papa?

• 31:33Speaker 05

  I'm trying to have a kid save my life. I would love, if I had a son, I feel like it would like, save my shit.

• 31:39Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 31:40Speaker 05

  Like, I would...

• 31:41Andrew Santino?

  Daughter, though.

• 31:42Speaker 05

  Daughter, opposite, I go off the deep end.

• 31:45Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, crash out.

• 31:45Speaker 05

  I take my go-bag, I go. Fifty bucks on the dining room table for your 18th birthday, I'm gone.

• 31:51Andrew Santino?

  Fifty's pretty generous.

• 31:53Speaker 05

  Fifty, nice. Fifty's nice, especially if you put it in escrow. Like, row.

• 31:58Andrew Santino?

  Hit her with the trust, dude.

• 31:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, hit her with the trust fund. I don't know, that's funny. Whenever I think about having a kid, I always think of it as a son. I don't know what I would do if it was a daughter, probably just bail.

• 32:07Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you'd have to.

• 32:08Speaker 05

  I'd have to, to keep, to save face.

• 32:11Andrew Santino?

  Just to keep riffing.

• 32:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, keep riffing.

• 32:13Andrew Santino?

  No daughter's not gonna let you riff, buddy.

• 32:15Speaker 05

  Drag you down, paint and nails. Paint and nails.

• 32:18Andrew Santino?

  Paint and nails, dude.

• 32:19Speaker 05

  Changing diaper. My son won't need a diaper, not a chance.

• 32:21Andrew Santino?

  Doll hair, dude, a lot of doll hair everywhere.

• 32:24Speaker 05

  My son, he's just using Dude Wipes.

• 32:27Andrew Santino?

  You do, let's cut to a clip.

• 32:30Speaker 06

  Dude Wipes, Wiping Dude.

• 32:34Speaker 05

  White Lotus, season three.

• 32:37Andrew Santino?

  Sponsored by Dude Wipes. The island's getting crazy.

• 32:42Speaker 05

  The island's getting sweaty. Nothing says sweat like Dude Wipe.

• 32:45Andrew Santino?

  I've never seen, I've never seen any White Lotus and I know I'm like out of the mix. I'm, I'm not a TV, I'm.

• 32:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 32:51Andrew Santino?

  Nope.

• 32:51Speaker 05

  You watch movie?

• 32:53Andrew Santino?

  Only movie. I don't like TV. I like movie.

• 32:56Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 32:56Andrew Santino?

  And I'll re-watch a movie I've seen if, an absurd amount of times before I'll watch a new TV show.

• 33:01Speaker 05

  I'm the same, I mean, yeah, I saw Fire Walk with me three times last week. So I get it. I, I re-watch tons of movies. I watch probably two movies every day, but.

• 33:10Andrew Santino?

  Movies get more interesting to me when I watch them again. TV shows. You really gotta fucking sink me, like, because they're like, it gets good in episode six. I'm like, I don't wanna fucking stick around for six.

• 33:21Speaker 05

  Five hours until I get there? Get real.

• 33:23Andrew Santino?

  I don't, no thank you.

• 33:24Speaker 05

  No thanks. I'm the same way. I, I, it takes a lot. You gotta really twist my arm to get me to watch a C.

• 33:30Andrew Santino?

  Like, what was the last TV season, TV series that you were like, this is good TV?

• 33:34Speaker 05

  Hmm, there was a show on AMC called The Terror that I thought was pretty good.

• 33:39Andrew Santino?

  The Terror?

• 33:39Speaker 05

  The Terror. Uh, it's about a, like a doomed Arctic expedition. I thought it was pretty cool.

• 33:44Andrew Santino?

  Oh, that's cool. Who's in that?

• 33:45Speaker 05

  Yeah. Uh, British people.

• 33:47Andrew Santino?

  Yuck.

• 33:48Speaker 05

  You wouldn't know them. You wouldn't like them either.

• 33:50Andrew Santino?

  I got stuck on this show, on a Tom Hardy show called Taboo.

• 33:53Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 33:53Andrew Santino?

  And it's fantastic.

• 33:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, alright, I saw that on Prime. I didn't see it though. I saw the image.

• 33:58Andrew Santino?

  That was actually pretty good and then they clipped it really fast because he didn't wanna do it anymore. But before that, I think it was Breaking Bad, which is like so long ago now.

• 34:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, The Northwater, also a great, uh, British drama. Yeah, Breaking Bad. I finally just watched it for the first time. That's how long I waited, like, last year. I just saw it for the first time. I liked it. I liked Jesse. I like, uh, Pinkman. Same guy.

• 34:19Andrew Santino?

  Stop there. Stop there. Steals the show.

• 34:22Speaker 05

  I know.

• 34:23Andrew Santino?

  Pink man.

• 34:24Speaker 05

  Pink man. He goes, did somebody say crystal?

• 34:27Andrew Santino?

  Never.

• 34:33Speaker 05

  Pause, pause for, uh, studio audience.

• 34:36Andrew Santino?

  Pause for Pinkman.

• 34:38Speaker 05

  So cool.

• 34:39Andrew Santino?

  Photographs now. Pause for Pinkman. Did someone say crystal?

• 34:46Andrew Santino?

  People come all over the world to hear him say it.

• 34:47Speaker 05

  You're the live studio audience.

• 34:50Andrew Santino?

  Lose their shit.

• 34:52Speaker 05

  Say it again. And go, alright, one more time, one more time. Did somebody say crystal? Fuck.

• 35:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, one gun.

• 35:05Speaker 05

  I thought it was great. I thought Cranston was great, but I was sad that he took the Emmy over Rust Cole and True Detective Season One, which is

• 35:11Andrew Santino?

  He earned it.

• 35:12Speaker 05

  back where we started.

• 35:13Andrew Santino?

  I guess he did. I guess he earned it, man.

• 35:15Speaker 05

  Whatever, man. I hate getting caught up on this Pinkman stuff.

• 35:19Andrew Santino?

  I gotta be honest with you. As, I think you are such a funny dude, fun to play. And you know what's always interesting to me is like the text that we had today where I'm like, hey, are you in LA? Yeah, I'm in LA. And you're like, I gotta go to my, the agents. And I know what that does to the inside of a comedian to go to a fucking building of age. I mean, it just... So my wife was like, I was, she's like, are you gonna pod today? I said, I think we might be able to pod today. He's going to his agency and she, and she was, she was like making something and stopping. She was like, oh god. Like so concerned. Like it was a death in the family.

• 35:53Speaker 05

  God bless him.

• 35:54Andrew Santino?

  Fuck, poor kid.

• 35:55Speaker 05

  See if you can turn that attitude around in time for the podcast.

• 35:59Andrew Santino?

  I know, I get really fu- I don't know if it fucks you up, but it just, I hate going to those spots. It does something to me, man. I don't know. I just get annoyed fast. I don't wanna do it.

• 36:07Speaker 05

  They're all great people, but they all, uh, I feel like they don't really know me. So they're all like, you should do more, you should read more stories. You should tell more stories into the camera on Instagram and then we can use that.

• 36:19Andrew Santino?

  They're trying to pitch you bits?

• 36:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, they're like telling me kinda, I'm not trying to talk out of school here. I'm sure they might listen, but yeah, they're saying like, if you do this, then we can monetize that, right? It's all about how do we get, how do we get the cash?

• 36:34Andrew Santino?

  How do we get the money? The money. I want the money.

• 36:38Speaker 05

  Everybody's got a price. Ted DiBiase.

• 36:40Andrew Santino?

  Casey, can we sell your socks online after you wear them? Can we, can we market you, Casey?

• 36:47Speaker 05

  How do we market Casey?

• 36:50Andrew Santino?

  Dude.

• 36:51Speaker 05

  It's brutal.

• 36:51Andrew Santino?

  It's fucking, that's the grossest shit.

• 36:54Speaker 05

  I'm not a slab of meat, I'm not prime cut.

• 36:56Andrew Santino?

  No, you're not. You're a rump roast.

• 36:58Speaker 05

  I'm a rump roast and I'm a work in progress. And I'm just getting started, really. I'm just getting my sea legs. So yeah, they're saying like, if you change your whole lifestyle, and you change all these things people like about you, we can sell it. And like, sell what? Now I'm not even me anymore. And then I'm looking around in my empire of dirt like Johnny Cash and I'm going, where's my loved ones? Where's my daughter? Where's my son? I got nothing, but I got a fistful of dollars, Clint Eastwood. Brutal.

• 37:23Andrew Santino?

  Brutal. Million dollar baby. That's who you'll become to them.

• 37:27Speaker 05

  I'll be riffing on stage, I'll fall and break my neck on a stool.

• 37:32Speaker 05

  And they'll stand up and they'll drag me into the streets like Gaddafi. Strap me to the front of a jeep and parade me around town.

• 37:41Speaker 05

  Brutal. But they'd make a little coin from it?

• 37:43Andrew Santino?

  If they'd make money, it's worth it.

• 37:45Speaker 05

  Yeah. They'd have me six feet deep selling my bones as necklaces.

• 37:51Andrew Santino?

  Scary. Scary, but real, dude.

• 37:53Speaker 05

  I'm starting to shift a little bit, getting a little scared.

• 37:55Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, no, no, they're not gonna come get ya.

• 37:57Speaker 05

  They don't know where I am.

• 37:57Andrew Santino?

  How, are you really, you truly are, truly close to William Montgomery?

• 38:01Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 38:01Andrew Santino?

  I love that dude too. He's so fucking funny to me.

• 38:05Speaker 05

  Genuine eccentric, yeah. And I'll say this about William, and I don't think this is, uh, talking out of school, he's probably my best friend. I don't know where his accent comes from. I've never talked to anyone who talks remotely. I'm from the south, I'm from Georgia, and I've never met anyone who talks like William Montgomery.

• 38:20Andrew Santino?

  Well, he's from Tennessee, right?

• 38:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, so a little different. Tennessee's a pocket.

• 38:24Andrew Santino?

  Tennessee's a different, but that's a different accent?

• 38:26Speaker 05

  It is different, but he's just, he talks so uniquely. It's so funny. So he could say anything and it's so funny.

• 38:33Andrew Santino?

  Can you, can you give me the difference of, of Georgia and other surrounding accents?

• 38:40Speaker 05

  Georgia would be like, um...

• 38:42Andrew Santino?

  Say one, do it with one word. Say, actually say Stephen King's The Mist.

• 38:47Speaker 05

  Stephen King's The Mist.

• 38:48Andrew Santino?

  The Mist.

• 38:49Speaker 05

  The Mist. So Theo Von talks more like how someone from Georgia might talk. It's that typical southern twang.

• 38:56Andrew Santino?

  But he's not from Georgia.

• 38:57Speaker 05

  But he's not. He's from Louisiana, right?

• 38:58Andrew Santino?

  No, he's not even from there. It's all been a lie.

• 39:01Speaker 05

  And it's better, better off for him.

• 39:02Andrew Santino?

  He's from Boston. Great if he's from fucking.

• 39:05Speaker 05

  Charlestown.

• 39:06Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, from fucking Charlestown, dude. I gotta flip this fucking accent before I get on the road. Yeah, dude. His agents were like, that's it.

• 39:15Speaker 05

  That's it.

• 39:16Andrew Santino?

  We can monetize that.

• 39:18Speaker 05

  Dude wipes. But every time he talks, it's so funny. It's all like, there's a little bit of fucking poop in my ass. Like, it's a little bit of like.

• 39:27Andrew Santino?

  It's valley. It's a little valley girl.

• 39:28Speaker 05

  It's a little valley girl, and it's, god, he's so funny. I love him.

• 39:31Andrew Santino?

  He is wonderful. How, you guys had, you guys met in Austin, though? You didn't know each other before?

• 39:36Speaker 05

  No, I had never even seen Kill Tony until I moved to Austin, or heard of it.

• 39:41Andrew Santino?

  Well, that makes sense.

• 39:42Speaker 05

  And, uh.

• 39:43Andrew Santino?

  It's kind of where it gained ground.

• 39:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, blew up.

• 39:46Andrew Santino?

  Like, here, we knew it.

• 39:47Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 39:48Andrew Santino?

  Because we grew, you know, we grew up in the store together.

• 39:50Speaker 05

  That makes sense.

• 39:51Andrew Santino?

  But when, but when it left, man, it really, it did a number, man. It really blew up. It became the thing that people.

• 39:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 39:57Andrew Santino?

  The fucking thing that blew my mind was, I would see these videos, these kids being like, I drove here.

• 40:02Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 40:02Andrew Santino?

  You know, from Montana, or to, you know, down here, and it, you know, whatever, it took me to eighteen, nineteen, or whatever. And they drive there just to try to get on, and they wouldn't get on, and you're like, that's fucking wild, dude.

• 40:14Speaker 05

  Now what?

• 40:15Andrew Santino?

  That's crazy.

• 40:16Speaker 05

  Or you do get on, and then it'll have a minute ready, and you're like, you had the whole car ride, man. You drove here from Billings.

• 40:21Andrew Santino?

  You didn't riff with your boy in the front seat?

• 40:23Speaker 05

  I was on a plane ride with this guy. I was coming back from, maybe I was at the Mall of America in Minnesota.

• 40:30Andrew Santino?

  Love.

• 40:30Speaker 05

  Good, so good. Squidward statue, so cool. Have a laugh, go sit next to Squidward and go, we did it.

• 40:36Andrew Santino?

  We did it, baby boy.

• 40:37Speaker 05

  We did it. We made it.

• 40:38Andrew Santino?

  Oh shit, here comes SpongeBob.

• 40:40Speaker 05

  Fuck. Hey, keep it down, keep it down, keep it down. Pretend to be asleep. I was thinking about this, I will return to this in one second, but I remember, I have this memory, I was in high school and I used to skip class all the time. And I was driving with my friend, and we had drank in some cough medicine, and it was just kicking in, and it's like eleven in the morning, right? And I'm driving, and I get to a stoplight.

• 41:03Andrew Santino?

  Remind me to return to Kill Tony. I get to a stoplight.

• 41:06Speaker 05

  And the Kaufman is the test is kicking in. It's 11 in the morning, so it's early for test. I'm at a stoplight, I look, Ferris Bueller situation. My dad is at the other stoplight.

• 41:17Andrew Santino?

  No way.

• 41:17Speaker 05

  Swear to God, this is true. I just remembered this the other day. And I'm with my buddy and so I'm kind of spacing. And I see my dad and I go, oh shit dude, get down. And I'm driving.

• 41:33Speaker 05

  It completely takes away that logic. So I get down.

• 41:38Speaker 05

  Under the wheel. And I was thinking, um, what did I think? What was best case scenario? He would go, oh, somebody, there's a ghost in Casey's car.

• 41:48Speaker 05

  So very clearly I had a red Pontiac Grand Am. And he would just go, oh, nobody's driving Casey's car. That's interesting.

• 41:54Andrew Santino?

  Seems pretty normal.

• 41:55Speaker 05

  Just goes past him, just nothing. Ghost car.

• 41:58Andrew Santino?

  Dad busted you?

• 41:59Speaker 05

  Dad busted me. No, he's, yeah, he's, I like peeked over the wheel and he was pointing at me. And he goes.

• 42:09Speaker 05

  And I said, hey, sorry, I had a doctor's appointment.

• 42:13Andrew Santino?

  In the middle of school?

• 42:15Speaker 05

  And it's as if, uh, he would know if I had a doctor's.

• 42:18Andrew Santino?

  A hundred percent, yeah, he scheduled it.

• 42:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, I wasn't making my own doctor's appointments at 16 years old. Oh, sorry, it was something I should have told you I had a doctor's appointment. But I always thought that's funny, that kind of drug logic where you're like, if, if, I can't see you, you can't see me.

• 42:33Andrew Santino?

  Oh, I love that logic. They can't, they can't see us. Well, it also applies the other way. They're all looking at you, which is also this bullshit panic of you're like, nobody's paying attention to you.

• 42:43Speaker 05

  No.

• 42:43Andrew Santino?

  But you, I did that in high school all the time. We'd skip and go get high. Wasn't a test dog, but I just smoked a lot of pot. And I would just go smoke weed and then I would always be like, do you think those guys are like talking about us? It's like, there's no, they don't give a fuck that you're there.

• 42:57Speaker 05

  What would give them means to be like, look at these fucking jerk.

• 43:01Andrew Santino?

  Look at these guys are probably doing pot. You guys doing pot, man?

• 43:06Speaker 05

  Good ol' eh.

• 43:07Andrew Santino?

  Did you, did you, did you graduate?

• 43:10Speaker 05

  I graduated high school and then I graduated from the University of Georgia Southern. I'm a Georgia Southern Eagle. They nominated me to be one of the forty under forty.

• 43:19Andrew Santino?

  Good god.

• 43:20Speaker 05

  But I forgot to apply, so.

• 43:22Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, okay. That's fine.

• 43:23Speaker 05

  I am, uh, happy for the honor.

• 43:26Andrew Santino?

  What was that fight song again?

• 43:28Speaker 05

  Come on Eagles, and kick 'em and rock 'em and put 'em in the nest.

• 43:34Andrew Santino?

  Put 'em in a nest, eh?

• 43:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:36Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, put 'em back where they belong.

• 43:37Speaker 05

  Put 'em in the nest egg, let 'em grow, kick 'em out when they're ready to fly.

• 43:42Andrew Santino?

  When they're ready to fly.

• 43:45Speaker 05

  One lives, three fall, the ones that fall can also rise.

• 43:52Speaker 05

  It's good, but it's long, but it's good.

• 43:54Andrew Santino?

  I gotta be honest, it kinda turned into a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, so you gotta be careful, dude. You know I get sued by Key. A.K.A. sue you, dude.

• 44:01Speaker 05

  Oh, man. Get John Ferchenshian on me. Or whatever the fuck his last name is.

• 44:06Andrew Santino?

  Ferchenshian? Ferchonte. Ferchonte.

• 44:09Speaker 05

  Ferchonte.

• 44:10Andrew Santino?

  Ferchonte. Alright, least favorite popular band. Go. Least favorite popular band. This band is big, Case Rocket don't like it.

• 44:20Speaker 05

  Uh, Foo Fighters.

• 44:21Andrew Santino?

  Foo Fighters stinks, huh? You think they stink.

• 44:24Speaker 05

  I saw 'em live when I was a kid, one of the loudest shows I've ever been to. People were smoking big blunts. It was at Phillips Arena in Georgia. Big smoke.

• 44:32Andrew Santino?

  Blunts at a Foo Fighters show?

• 44:33Speaker 05

  That's, that's what sticks in my mind.

• 44:35Andrew Santino?

  Doesn't really add up.

• 44:36Speaker 05

  I know, 'cause as I age, who's like, "You ready to smoke this thing?" And they're listening to "Learning to Walk Again" by the Foo Fighters. What a joke. You're a clown.

• 44:46Speaker 05

  By what age brings a blunt to the Foo Fighters concert?

• 44:50Andrew Santino?

  Strange, though. Strange world.

• 44:51Speaker 05

  I know.

• 44:52Andrew Santino?

  Okay, favorite band that, that not a lot of people like.

• 44:57Andrew Santino?

  That people are like, "That's their, I don't know."

• 44:58Speaker 05

  I, I think the B-52s is underrated.

• 45:01Andrew Santino?

  Oh, really, you do?

• 45:04Speaker 05

  My dog was a whale and it's as big as a truck.

• 45:08Andrew Santino?

  Eating my shoes.

• 45:11Speaker 05

  Most of their songs are about swimming. Every B-52 song.

• 45:14Andrew Santino?

  So much swimming.

• 45:14Speaker 05

  So much swimming. Like, at least one line out of every song they have is like, "Then we went to the pool."

• 45:22Andrew Santino?

  By the way, that was his, he was trying to get a pool at the house and everybody was like, "We can't have a pool, dude."

• 45:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:26Andrew Santino?

  Just let it fucking go.

• 45:27Speaker 05

  Let it go.

• 45:28Andrew Santino?

  Now I'm gonna keep writing in every song, yeah. Then we went for a dip. What do you say?

• 45:34Speaker 05

  It's not that expensive. You can write it off.

• 45:37Andrew Santino?

  Come on, guys. We'll take some time. We'll dig a hole together.

• 45:43Speaker 05

  And then they're sitting there going, "You can't write it off."

• 45:45Andrew Santino?

  You can't write it off. That's impossible. We looked up the tax code. That doesn't even make sense. Can't write off a pool.

• 45:49Speaker 05

  You're gonna say that's a business expense. You're out of your mind.

• 45:52Andrew Santino?

  If we write songs from the pool.

• 45:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:54Andrew Santino?

  It's basically my office. And the desk is the waves.

• 46:00Speaker 05

  Like, alright, I see where you're going, but it's not gonna work.

• 46:04Andrew Santino?

  Let me see it.

• 46:04Speaker 05

  Um, about the, we are returning to the Kill Tony 7.

• 46:07Andrew Santino?

  Let's get back to Kel Town.

• 46:08Speaker 05

  It is funny. So it's like The Tonight Show, but you have an opportunity to be on it. So it's like if The Tonight Show allowed bucket pulls, you know, because it's gotten to that point where it is that popular.

• 46:18Andrew Santino?

  Oh, yeah.

• 46:18Speaker 05

  There is just this feverish amount of people lurking outside the mothership on Mondays, waiting for their, uh, opportunity in the limelight. It's pretty interesting.

• 46:27Andrew Santino?

  It is very interesting.

• 46:28Speaker 05

  Because they can't get on. They can't change their life.

• 46:30Andrew Santino?

  Some people.

• 46:31Speaker 05

  Some people.

• 46:32Andrew Santino?

  It has. Now, it's also done the opposite, where it's definitely ruined someone's life, too.

• 46:36Speaker 05

  Sure. People get nervous and say the N-word. Whoa.

• 46:41Andrew Santino?

  Oh, shit, dude.

• 46:41Speaker 05

  Whoops.

• 46:42Andrew Santino?

  Was that your thought on the way from Billings? Did you think, "Maybe I'll bail with the N-word"? Have you seen someone come off of that, that you're like, truly, truly impressed with a minute? Have you ever seen someone that you're like, "Holy shit"?

• 46:54Speaker 05

  Um.

• 46:54Andrew Santino?

  They have, they have a thing.

• 46:55Speaker 05

  I don't watch it like that.

• 46:57Andrew Santino?

  No.

• 46:57Speaker 05

  Um.

• 46:58Andrew Santino?

  But I mean, have you ever, have you heard, through the grapevine, do you know anyone that's come off of it like that?

• 47:02Speaker 05

  Like?

• 47:02Andrew Santino?

  Because I don't pay attention.

• 47:03Speaker 05

  Where it was, where it was like a rags to riches thing?

• 47:06Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 47:08Speaker 05

  Like a true bucket pull.

• 47:11Speaker 05

  I know, I don't know.

• 47:12Andrew Santino?

  Oh, yeah, it's, yeah, isn't that interesting?

• 47:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 47:14Andrew Santino?

  A lot of false hope, isn't it?

• 47:15Speaker 05

  But it can happen. But, but people don't see is like, I've been doing comedy for 11 years. Ari Matty's been doing it for like 15, Hans 15, William like 20. So, we've been, you know, but I think people think you just walk up there, right?

• 47:29Andrew Santino?

  They think you're part of that world.

• 47:31Speaker 05

  You're out there waiting.

• 47:32Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 47:32Speaker 05

  You're waiting and then your, your name got pulled, but really you've been, you know, you've been out there. You've been riffing.

• 47:37Andrew Santino?

  You've been riffing.

• 47:39Speaker 05

  Been riffing.

• 47:40Andrew Santino?

  When you do, do, are you doing the mothership weekly when you're at home or no? You treat it like the home club or are you just on the road a lot?

• 47:45Speaker 05

  Um, doing spots there.

• 47:47Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 47:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, when I'm back, so since the last summer, I've been on the road at least three weeks out of the month. But when I'm back, I'll normally get to do about a weekend a month, I'll, I'll do spots, yeah.

• 47:58Andrew Santino?

  You like the little room or the big room?

• 47:59Speaker 05

  Little room, yeah.

• 48:00Andrew Santino?

  The little one's, isn't it the best?

• 48:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, and when I'm home, I want something where I can feel comfortable to let my hair down and have some laughs. And it feels better for me to just have it be 90, 100 people in that little room. And I can kinda not feel as much pressure.

• 48:16Andrew Santino?

  It's a true workout, little space. It reminds me, by the way, you said, we talked before the show for a second about Laughing Skull in Atlanta. It reminds me of the skull a little bit.

• 48:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:24Andrew Santino?

  Tight, tiny.

• 48:24Speaker 05

  Tight.

• 48:25Andrew Santino?

  Compact.

• 48:25Speaker 05

  Dark is perfect. They're all right there. The big room is equally as good, but I feel more pressure and I don't like to feel pressure.

• 48:32Andrew Santino?

  Well, it's more performative.

• 48:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:33Andrew Santino?

  You gotta put on. Can you still smoke in the Laughing Skull indoors? Last time I was there, you could still smoke inside.

• 48:39Speaker 05

  In that green room?

• 48:40Andrew Santino?

  No, no, no, no, no, in the restaurant next door.

• 48:42Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 48:43Andrew Santino?

  They used to still have smoke, that smoking like late.

• 48:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, they cha, I don't think you can anymore.

• 48:47Andrew Santino?

  That stinks, dude.

• 48:48Speaker 05

  But you could smoke in the Atlanta airport up until last year. I think it was probably that same ordinance killed smoking in the skull.

• 48:54Andrew Santino?

  Why would they take that away from people?

• 48:55Speaker 05

  I know, for what?

• 48:57Andrew Santino?

  How long you been smoking?

• 48:59Speaker 05

  Since I was a little kid. But, pretty regularly since I was probably 15, yeah.

• 49:04Andrew Santino?

  Keep it going.

• 49:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm go, it's going good so far.

• 49:06Andrew Santino?

  Payoff is coming, baby.

• 49:09Speaker 05

  The big one.

• 49:10Andrew Santino?

  The big one's coming.

• 49:11Speaker 05

  The golden cigarette, they take me to the Marlboro factory, I get to meet Joe Camel.

• 49:14Andrew Santino?

  He comes out on a cane and does a fucking tumble.

• 49:17Speaker 05

  Oh, and he lands it.

• 49:19Andrew Santino?

  Holy shit.

• 49:20Speaker 05

  Welcome.

• 49:21Andrew Santino?

  I bet the gold makes the cigarette taste terrible.

• 49:25Speaker 05

  I'm gonna show you how we make the Camel Crush balls.

• 49:31Speaker 05

  It's a big cauldron. So cool.

• 49:34Andrew Santino?

  And there's that Slugworth, who comes up.

• 49:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 49:37Andrew Santino?

  And then the Marlboro man comes over and tries to convince you to sell him the Camel Crush recipe. And underneath a bridge at night and you're with your grandpa, just won't get out of bed. He's ripping heaters on that. Charlie, don't give him the chemical compound to the Camel Crush.

• 49:52Speaker 05

  This is bigger than us.

• 49:55Speaker 05

  It's about loyalty.

• 49:59Speaker 05

  Piss bud.

• 50:00Andrew Santino?

  When I was a kid, my dad smoked so much, well, and every woman he ever married or dated. And so my benefit was with their friends and people they hung out with and wherever we went, whether we went to like a restaurant where you used to be able to have the smoking sections. And I would go around and I'd get Marlboro miles. You know about Marlboro miles?

• 50:19Speaker 05

  Oh, I've heard tell.

• 50:21Andrew Santino?

  Brother, amazing. It was like a little kid scavenger hunt. You were like, I could just go up to these adults, be cute and be like, can I have your mom's cigarette pack, please? He'd rip the miles off, you'd collect them, keep them in a Ziploc bag on the fridge. And then I'd order myself a fucking jacket, shoes.

• 50:37Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:38Andrew Santino?

  It truly was.

• 50:39Speaker 05

  They took away the merch.

• 50:39Andrew Santino?

  It was amazing to have merch for cigarettes.

• 50:41Speaker 05

  I know. Now all those things, they're top dollar. Everybody's got a price.

• 50:45Andrew Santino?

  Everyone's got a price, man.

• 50:46Speaker 05

  Yeah. And what's yours? That's a real question. What's yours, man?

• 50:49Andrew Santino?

  I don't know. The agents are still working on it right now.

• 50:52Speaker 05

  I know.

• 50:52Andrew Santino?

  They're gonna sell tickets, uh, they'll do platinum lift at my funeral. You want front row?

• 51:00Andrew Santino?

  You gotta go through a third party market, dude. I'm doing meet and greets at my funeral. No pictures, you guys. Just talk to them, dude. Don't touch them. Stay back. Do you do that? You do meet and greets?

• 51:10Speaker 05

  Don't touch him. He's sticky.

• 51:11Andrew Santino?

  He's sticky, bubby. You doing a meet and greet?

• 51:14Speaker 05

  I do. I do it after every show.

• 51:15Andrew Santino?

  After every show?

• 51:16Speaker 05

  Every show.

• 51:17Andrew Santino?

  You're not charging, you're going on, saying hi.

• 51:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, no charge.

• 51:20Andrew Santino?

  That's very nice.

• 51:21Speaker 05

  Free charge. I, last week when I was in Portland was the first week I have finally decided to stop doing it after the early show.

• 51:30Andrew Santino?

  Hmm, oh, well, yeah, dude, what, that, I think people don't, we've talked, I've talked about it, but like. It's another job.

• 51:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 51:37Andrew Santino?

  And people are like, what do you mean, say what's up? You're like, but it's like a lot of energy to like, do a show, say hi to everyone, and then go do another job again.

• 51:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, and start it all over, and it's very performative, and I'm genuinely happy for people to be there, but yeah, it's super, it's a lot, you know, you're making everyone happy and you're entertaining, you're playing house, so.

• 51:54Andrew Santino?

  You're playing house? And what role are you playing at house?

• 51:57Speaker 05

  Mommy.

• 51:58Andrew Santino?

  You're a little mom, cute little mommy girl. Little mommy girl in your little cute little outfit.

• 52:02Speaker 05

  Grilled cheese.

• 52:03Andrew Santino?

  Everybody want grilled cheese?

• 52:04Speaker 05

  I want grilled cheese.

• 52:08Speaker 05

  Everyone grilled cheese. What's wrong with Casey?

• 52:11Andrew Santino?

  Grilled cheese. He's been handing out grilled cheese at the meet and greets, uh, where it's, it's, it's really unob- It's not fiscally responsible, we're like, losing a lot of money, he's making so many grilled cheese.

• 52:22Speaker 05

  He's signing the grilled cheese.

• 52:23Andrew Santino?

  Grilled cheese is also the way to the hearts, that's the way to the hearts of, uh, festival goers. You like, do you, you ever been to a Dead show?

• 52:32Speaker 05

  No, I've been to Bonnaroo though.

• 52:34Andrew Santino?

  Bonnaroo!

• 52:35Speaker 05

  Bonnaroo.

• 52:36Andrew Santino?

  And that's in Tennessee, right?

• 52:37Speaker 05

  It's in Tennessee, yes, and grilled cheese is like currency.

• 52:40Andrew Santino?

  It is.

• 52:40Speaker 05

  You're totally right.

• 52:41Andrew Santino?

  But I did that, because I had that, I learned that run in the-

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• 53:13Andrew Santino?

  For lack of a better word, jam band world when I was in high school, my good friend, Marticious, he, he was like, "Bro, I gotta introduce you to some people." And we went and I went to these shows, because I didn't, I was, I liked hip hop a lot when I was in high school, and I was like, "Well, I could like this shit." Dude, I went, it was incredible, I was like, "So this girl will sell grilled cheese, make money, trade this for tickets, do that." She showed up with no money, just bread and cheese, and a little fucking George Foreman grill, and he's like, "Brother, the world is your oyster here." Dude, it was just, I was impressed, I was like, "You could trade anything for anything."

• 53:47Speaker 05

  Well, it's revolutionary Marxism, yeah.

• 53:49Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 53:49Speaker 05

  It's "by the people, for the people."

• 53:50Andrew Santino?

  For the people, by the people, for the people, again, and no one gets a cut.

• 53:54Speaker 05

  No.

• 53:54Andrew Santino?

  You, the agents don't get a cut, dude.

• 53:56Speaker 05

  Uh-uh.

• 53:57Andrew Santino?

  How do we monetize the- Grilled cheese, Casey.

• 53:59Speaker 05

  Maybe we can keep the crust. You're not getting the fucking crust.

• 54:03Andrew Santino?

  Get the fuck out of here.

• 54:04Speaker 05

  Get your hands off me.

• 54:05Andrew Santino?

  Agents.

• 54:06Speaker 05

  Freak.

• 54:10Speaker 05

  Um, yeah, you know, they would, if I'm the sandwich in this metaphor, you know, they're taking the crust.

• 54:15Andrew Santino?

  Taking the crust, baby.

• 54:16Speaker 05

  And the tomato sauce is.

• 54:18Speaker 03

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• 54:21Andrew Santino?

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• 55:02Andrew Santino?

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• 55:47Andrew Santino?

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• 56:32Andrew Santino?

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• 57:16Andrew Santino?

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• 58:00Speaker 05

  I haven't snorted in years, felt good.

• 58:02Andrew Santino?

  I like a snort.

• 58:03Speaker 05

  I like a snort, being vulnerable. You know, I snort a lot on dates. When I meet a girl and I'm feeling really vulnerable, it's a new thing. It just started happening a couple of years ago. I meet a girl, I'm being vulnerable, she says something funny, like, what are these, what are these, everyone's on their phones.

• 58:21Speaker 05

  Just throw a snort at her.

• 58:22Andrew Santino?

  Hit her with a snort, dude, see how she reacts.

• 58:26Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, then you're oinking. You hit her with the oink, she knows you're in love. You hit her with a snort.

• 58:31Speaker 05

  There's a fine line to the, to the snorts. More than two snorts, you're oinking.

• 58:35Andrew Santino?

  You're oinking, kid. I think he loved me, he was oinking all night long. Shut up. You got a fucking oink from the rocket? Get yourself an oink on the way out.

• 58:48Speaker 05

  Come on, guys, tip your waitress, grab yourself an oink on the way out.

• 58:52Andrew Santino?

  Oh, no.

• 58:53Speaker 05

  Backfiring. There's a fine line. I'm gonna oink myself into the grave.

• 58:57Andrew Santino?

  You sell, do you sell merch at shows?

• 58:59Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 58:59Andrew Santino?

  You do?

• 59:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, I have five different shirts.

• 59:02Andrew Santino?

  Shut up!

• 59:02Speaker 05

  I normally fly with two variations. I'll bring two. Uh, yeah, I brought some.

• 59:06Andrew Santino?

  Five is a shitload.

• 59:07Speaker 05

  It's a lot, but that's just what's on my website. So, I have a shirt guy, they're named Raw Paul, great local company in Austin. Raw Paul, oink me to death, daddy. And they, uh, they'll give me like, uh, they mail it, you know, so it'll meet me at the club, you know, I go to Laugh Boston, I got a hundred tees waiting for me. Um, and yeah, I sell them after shirt twenty-five bucks.

• 59:26Andrew Santino?

  Did you just do Laugh Boston?

• 59:28Speaker 05

  Uh, yeah, I was there in December is when I was thinking about it.

• 59:30Andrew Santino?

  John Tobin, shout out to Tobers.

• 59:31Speaker 05

  He told me.

• 59:32Andrew Santino?

  He was one of, he was one of the guys that, uh, you know, you will, I will always remember the clubs that like gave me a shot before I genuinely didn't deserve it.

• 59:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:42Andrew Santino?

  Where they were like, you're a nice guy, you're funny, you're working hard, like, fuck it, we'll give you the shot, you know?

• 59:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:48Andrew Santino?

  Where you're like, I'm sorry, I can't sell shit, but I'm really gonna bust my ass for you, like, I really will try. They were one of them that let me do some shit there before I, you know, Comedy on State was good. I will say, there's only one club that never really let me go before I should have gone. Even when I could have gone and I deserved it, was Acme in Minneapolis.

• 1:00:05Speaker 05

  Really?

• 1:00:05Andrew Santino?

  The irony is staggering. I shot my fucking special in Minneapolis.

• 1:00:09Speaker 05

  Well, you got yours.

• 1:00:10Andrew Santino?

  Just a month ago. That's right, Acme, eat my fucking ass. I did four shows at Pantagius, you fucking dickheads. They never let me headline for some reason. They didn't like my shit. Maybe they didn't like me.

• 1:00:21Speaker 05

  Maybe.

• 1:00:21Andrew Santino?

  But I remember being like, well, that's weird, because all these other clubs were way more valid than them.

• 1:00:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:27Andrew Santino?

  They never let me come around.

• 1:00:28Speaker 05

  Sit and spin, Shirtwreck.

• 1:00:30Andrew Santino?

  Sit and spin.

• 1:00:31Speaker 05

  Dish towels on the other leaf.

• 1:00:35Andrew Santino?

  Was there, was, is there a club that's of your like, uh, I really want to play that club and I haven't yet?

• 1:00:40Speaker 05

  Um, I am finally gonna be able to do Comedy Works this summer.

• 1:00:43Andrew Santino?

  Denver?

• 1:00:44Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:44Andrew Santino?

  Downtown?

• 1:00:45Speaker 05

  Downtown. Downtown.

• 1:00:46Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, damn, damn.

• 1:00:47Speaker 05

  So, Creek and Cave was that club for me. They were letting me headline right when I moved to Austin. I was living in my, I was living in my car and they were letting me headline. And I would sell, I mean, no one knew who I was. So if it did sell anything, it was just strictly by happenstance.

• 1:01:00Andrew Santino?

  That's great, though.

• 1:01:01Speaker 05

  Date night stuff.

• 1:01:02Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was great. And I would, you know, forty people show up, ten people, fifteen people. And they were giving me like Saturday, nine PM. They let me headline, Rocket and Friends. Nobody go, nobody know. Out there, riff, riff, riff.

• 1:01:13Andrew Santino?

  Riff, riff, riff, riff, riff, kill, kill, kill.

• 1:01:15Speaker 05

  Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. Word starts spreading. Who is this young riff king?

• 1:01:19Speaker 00

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• 1:01:34Andrew Santino?

  Y'all here to see the riff king? Get in line.

• 1:01:38Speaker 05

  Get in line, brother. It's gonna cost you an oink and a handshake. Put her there.

• 1:01:43Andrew Santino?

  Get on in there.

• 1:01:44Speaker 05

  Front row for these onkers. Couple of pig sloppers, put them on the, put them on the pistol. Put the pig sloppers on the pistol.

• 1:01:52Andrew Santino?

  Put the pig sloppers up on that pistol, boy.

• 1:01:56Andrew Santino?

  So Comedy Works is gonna be phenomenal. That was, that was an early one for me, too. They were, they treated me right. They were so good to me.

• 1:02:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's a, that is a, you know, that's as good as it gets. I've gotten to do Zany Chicago several times now. That was a big goal of mine. Zany's Nashville is also wonderful.

• 1:02:09Andrew Santino?

  Love.

• 1:02:10Speaker 05

  Yeah. I love the classic clubs with all the headshots on all the walls. Make you feel like a real comic. Yeah.

• 1:02:14Andrew Santino?

  It does, doesn't it?

• 1:02:15Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:02:15Andrew Santino?

  Because the newer ones, it's fine, but they're just, it does something to you.

• 1:02:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, the cookie cutter, kind of the corporate clubs and, you know, it's good for business, it's good. If it got a stage, I'll go do it. But I love those old school ones.

• 1:02:28Andrew Santino?

  They're the best.

• 1:02:29Speaker 05

  The improvs are always great.

• 1:02:31Andrew Santino?

  You done Comedy on State in Madison?

• 1:02:33Speaker 05

  That's where I started the tour last year.

• 1:02:34Andrew Santino?

  That's great.

• 1:02:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:02:36Andrew Santino?

  What about, what about like Punch and SF or Cobb's?

• 1:02:39Speaker 05

  Yeah. Mm-hmm. I did, I'm going back. So I did, uh, two nighters at each last year. I did two nights at Cobb's, two nights at Punch Line.

• 1:02:48Andrew Santino?

  That's great, man.

• 1:02:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was a good run. Cobb's is great. That's about the, the capacity I'm looking for. About 450, perfect.

• 1:02:55Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:56Speaker 05

  Double decker.

• 1:02:56Andrew Santino?

  When Natal said he was gonna shoot a special, I was like, well, that's fucking perfect.

• 1:02:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:03:00Andrew Santino?

  Are you, have you shot, have you shot a special yet?

• 1:03:02Speaker 05

  Uh, no.

• 1:03:03Andrew Santino?

  You're coming up on one, though. You gotta do one soon.

• 1:03:05Speaker 05

  I got the hour down. But it, you know, it's different. I improvised maybe, I'd say out of the hour, 15 minutes is different every night, maybe 20 minutes.

• 1:03:13Andrew Santino?

  That's great.

• 1:03:13Speaker 05

  Depends. Yeah.

• 1:03:15Andrew Santino?

  Shoot a couple of shows and then, you know.

• 1:03:17Speaker 05

  For sure.

• 1:03:17Andrew Santino?

  Fuck it, who cares?

• 1:03:18Speaker 05

  That would be what it is. I think we'd try to shoot three and then we would Frankenstein it together, but.

• 1:03:25Speaker 05

  What if worms gets green?

• 1:03:26Andrew Santino?

  And it's called, Oink Yourself to Death. Oink the hell out of here.

• 1:03:31Speaker 05

  Oink me like Gaddafi. Take me to the piss palace.

• 1:03:34Andrew Santino?

  Take me to the piss palace. All right, how about this, Name My Special For Me. My special doesn't come out till September. Name it for me. I'm gonna use the Rocket recommendation.

• 1:03:42Speaker 05

  Okay, um.

• 1:03:44Andrew Santino?

  Cause I know the Rocket's got a rec.

• 1:03:45Speaker 05

  Uh, The Day The Whistle Died.

• 1:03:47Andrew Santino?

  Uh, we already pitched that. Yeah, we pitched that. Hulu didn't like it.

• 1:03:50Speaker 05

  Um, No Such Thing As A Free Dinner.

• 1:03:54Andrew Santino?

  That's actually pretty good.

• 1:03:55Speaker 05

  That's not bad.

• 1:03:55Andrew Santino?

  No Such Thing As A Free Dinner.

• 1:03:56Speaker 05

  Yeah. Laughs Unlimited.

• 1:03:59Andrew Santino?

  Laughs Unlimited. Presented by.

• 1:04:05Andrew Santino?

  Present, Laughs Unlimited.

• 1:04:08Speaker 05

  Brought to you by Crank Yankers. Hello?

• 1:04:13Speaker 05

  Hello?

• 1:04:16Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I don't, I'm in the lost, I'm in the abyss over what I'm gonna call, I have no fucking idea. And it's funny, it's a weird pressure thing when they're like, what do you wanna call it? And it's like, I have no idea.

• 1:04:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, cuz it really doesn't matter, but it would be like naming a kid, where like six months later, I would go, I didn't wanna name it.

• 1:04:29Andrew Santino?

  Didn't wanna name that.

• 1:04:31Speaker 05

  I shouldn't have called it the piss protocol. It's not even a joke like that. So there's not like a through line? There's not like a big, big joke, right?

• 1:04:41Andrew Santino?

  No, it's just comedy bullshit.

• 1:04:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:04:43Andrew Santino?

  But also cuz I find myself whenever I saw specials that had like one big, great through line. It didn't matter, it was just as whatever as if they didn't. And I never really cared either way.

• 1:04:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:04:55Andrew Santino?

  For, even if, you know, friends or people I knew. I'd always be like, well, it's fucking one of the same. If they don't do that, if they do that. Like I tell, it's an amalgamation of like just great jokes.

• 1:05:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:05:03Andrew Santino?

  Over and over and over. And, you know, I know he does work on a line, so to speak, but you're like, it's just fun, I don't give a shit.

• 1:05:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, I, I, I remember being so consumed my first maybe three years of doing standup with finding transitions for the jokes. And then I, I was like, what, what? Who cares? World, why would they care? That's well crafted. No, they just wanna laugh. It, it's all gibberish. If anything, it's better for it to be non sequiturs where you go, you know, oh, it's funny you bring that up. I was like, you know, changed the topic very abruptly.

• 1:05:33Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 1:05:33Speaker 05

  But when anyone can pull it off nicely, it is, it is impressive.

• 1:05:37Andrew Santino?

  There, yeah, okay, there's people that are like, I'll tell you who's probably the best at this. Colin Quinn is a fucking magician.

• 1:05:43Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:05:43Andrew Santino?

  He's maybe one of the greatest I've ever seen at like, Ham, Gary Goleman. Like, there's guys that can just do it in a way where I'm like, oh, they just, their, their, their computers are built for that.

• 1:05:53Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:05:54Andrew Santino?

  Like, they're literally built for that.

• 1:05:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, yeah, I feel like you would probably know if you were that type of guy, right?

• 1:05:58Andrew Santino?

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:59Speaker 05

  We would know already.

• 1:05:59Andrew Santino?

  We would know, how wouldn't we? We keep telling ourselves that. Well, my test comes in next week, so I'll find out what kinda guy I really am.

• 1:06:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, I saw Quinn run, uh, run the hour at mothership a bunch of times in a tell. It was amazing. I was a door guy there for like a year, so getting to watch them kind of work that, uh, watch all the greats do their thing was really cool.

• 1:06:17Andrew Santino?

  That is cool.

• 1:06:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:06:18Andrew Santino?

  But now look at you, baby. You don't hold no doors for nobody.

• 1:06:20Speaker 05

  I'm not holding no doors even for myself.

• 1:06:22Andrew Santino?

  Excuse me, I don't hold no doors. I walk through them now. I'm not a door guy.

• 1:06:25Speaker 05

  I don't shine shoes no more.

• 1:06:27Andrew Santino?

  Get your fucking shine backs.

• 1:06:29Speaker 05

  Goodfellas.

• 1:06:30Andrew Santino?

  He should have just shined his shoe. I mean, shine his fucking shoes.

• 1:06:32Speaker 05

  Well, compared to murdering a guy.

• 1:06:33Andrew Santino?

  I mean, come on. It's a little much, don't you think, dude?

• 1:06:37Speaker 05

  What, something I was looking up recently and Goodfellas, um, Joe Pesci's character in real life was murdered when he was 25.

• 1:06:45Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:46Speaker 05

  So it's so interesting, like, it makes me feel like I haven't done enough. Like, I haven't, yeah, I'm not trying to do a bit, but I haven't joined the mob. I have not.

• 1:06:55Andrew Santino?

  Been kicked out of the mob.

• 1:06:56Speaker 05

  Been kicked out of the, I haven't been fake made and bullet put in the back of my skull.

• 1:07:01Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 1:07:01Speaker 05

  Nothing. No one's tried to kill me at all. Um, and they were so young, they were prolific.

• 1:07:05Andrew Santino?

  Well, let's get this started, guys out there, uh, guys and gals, fans alike, uh, give the old onker a, a snoodle in the noodle if you don't mind. Let's kill him. Let's do it.

• 1:07:16Speaker 05

  Hang me high.

• 1:07:18Speaker 05

  That's awesome. Yeah, that's cool. Well, I was, I thought, and this is a folly on me, um, Joker folly I do, but I, I thought that maybe you were gonna say, throw me a line if you know someone in the mob, but you're, you're just gonna go ahead and say.

• 1:07:31Andrew Santino?

  Execute you.

• 1:07:33Speaker 05

  Skip the mob part.

• 1:07:34Andrew Santino?

  Dude, hit him. Hit him where it hurts.

• 1:07:36Speaker 05

  Let him keep his legacy, but put a bullet in his head.

• 1:07:38Andrew Santino?

  Well, you'll last longer posthumously for sure. That'll be the Casey Rocket legacy.

• 1:07:42Speaker 05

  These riffs will live on. They will echo in eternity.

• 1:07:45Andrew Santino?

  These riffs will live on forever. These riffs live on forever. Yeah, you know, the snort is so good. Do you think you're gonna stay in Austin, though, after all this, like, uh, movement in your life and your career?

• 1:08:00Speaker 05

  I like it. I like it a lot. I think I'm gonna spend some time in Chicago this summer.

• 1:08:04Andrew Santino?

  My home, dude. I love Chicago.

• 1:08:06Speaker 05

  I, I really get along real well with the comedy scene out there. They've been real, real nice to me. I get along with them real well, and I wanna watch lots of Cubs games, so I'm gonna go out there, so.

• 1:08:15Andrew Santino?

  Man, you're, you're like trying to make me crush on you, huh? Young man?

• 1:08:18Speaker 05

  I was born in Bloomington.

• 1:08:19Andrew Santino?

  Oh, were you?

• 1:08:20Speaker 05

  So, yeah.

• 1:08:20Andrew Santino?

  No shit.

• 1:08:21Speaker 05

  And my mom lives in Carbondale, so.

• 1:08:23Andrew Santino?

  Down south.

• 1:08:24Speaker 05

  I got roots. She lived by Southern Illinois Saluki.

• 1:08:27Andrew Santino?

  Saluki, Saluki. That's down south, dude. That's, you know what's so funny about Southern Illinois, people don't know, that's really, that is the south. So people go, Chicago, yeah, it's always in Illinois, right? And then you go down south, they go, yeah, but it's still like, you know, Chicagoland or whatever. You're like, no, dude, that's like the south.

• 1:08:42Speaker 05

  No, it's incredibly rural.

• 1:08:44Andrew Santino?

  Different world.

• 1:08:45Speaker 05

  My mom's a horse trainer, so when I was a kid in Georgia,

• 1:08:50Speaker 05

  real rural area and all her boyfriends would be redneck type guys. So I grew up in, in the country and Southern Illinois is no different. It's all cornfields, very blue collar, very, uh, farmland.

• 1:09:01Andrew Santino?

  Any of the, any of the boyfriends you got on with that you liked?

• 1:09:04Speaker 05

  There was one named Bobby Ray, who I really liked. He was a great guy.

• 1:09:07Andrew Santino?

  Mr. Bobby Ray.

• 1:09:09Speaker 05

  And he would show me, uh, he would order all the wrestling pay-per-views and he would get his Domino's pizza.

• 1:09:13Andrew Santino?

  Fucking awesome.

• 1:09:14Speaker 05

  We had Domino's pizza almost every night.

• 1:09:16Andrew Santino?

  So this guy was making good money?

• 1:09:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:09:18Andrew Santino?

  Bobby Ray was living.

• 1:09:19Speaker 05

  I think, I think he ended up losing the house. So I think he might've been betting against some.

• 1:09:23Andrew Santino?

  Overstretching his means, but he was a cow, uh, bred cows and, uh, yeah, he would go, Sue cow, come here, baby. And that's how you call a cow. He goes, Sue cow, come here, baby. Sue cow, come here, baby.

• 1:09:38Speaker 05

  Come here, baby. And all the cows are, huh?

• 1:09:43Speaker 05

  Say what? Huh? Is it feeding time already?

• 1:09:46Andrew Santino?

  Did you ever sue cows with him? Sue cow?

• 1:09:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, I would try, but I think they were trained to the sound of his voice.

• 1:09:51Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 1:09:52Speaker 05

  So they didn't like it. Baby cows stink. I just, sorry, I just got this flashback of smelling this baby cow's covered in milk stunk.

• 1:10:01Andrew Santino?

  They do smell.

• 1:10:02Speaker 05

  They smell, but they live outside.

• 1:10:04Andrew Santino?

  They live outside. They deserve to smell. Let them live.

• 1:10:06Speaker 05

  They do.

• 1:10:06Andrew Santino?

  Don't shame the cows. But Bobby Ray was the one.

• 1:10:10Speaker 05

  He was a good guy.

• 1:10:11Andrew Santino?

  Is your old man still alive or no?

• 1:10:12Speaker 05

  He is, but they divorced when I was seven.

• 1:10:15Andrew Santino?

  You talked to him though?

• 1:10:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, I talked to him yesterday. I, I talked to him every couple of weeks, you know, men, I don't think need to check up on their kids. Everyone's different, but my father doesn't need to check up on me. He'd be fine checking up on me once a month.

• 1:10:27Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:28Speaker 05

  But my mom, she gotta talk to me all the fucking time.

• 1:10:30Andrew Santino?

  My mama.

• 1:10:32Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:10:32Andrew Santino?

  She's chatting. She's always on Kenechi on the phone.

• 1:10:35Speaker 05

  But she lives. Hey, hey, drop me an oink if you don't mind. She's always, she lives alone on this little farm and it's super rural in this town outside of Carbondale. She doesn't have a neighbor for like miles.

• 1:10:47Andrew Santino?

  She likes it that way.

• 1:10:48Speaker 05

  She does, but she gets lonely out there. So she wants to talk all.

• 1:10:52Andrew Santino?

  Have you thought about being like, I can afford now to move you somewhere?

• 1:10:56Speaker 05

  She wants to live out there, but I think I'll be able to buy her the farm soon. The old, it's our family farm.

• 1:11:02Andrew Santino?

  Well, Casey, you know, he bought the farm.

• 1:11:05Speaker 05

  He bought the farm. He did right.

• 1:11:07Andrew Santino?

  He did done right. It's your family legacy.

• 1:11:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:11:10Andrew Santino?

  And what was the crop?

• 1:11:11Speaker 05

  Her, her grandfather, L B McMahon, World War II veteran liberated by, uh.

• 1:11:18Andrew Santino?

  Who'd he fight for?

• 1:11:20Speaker 05

  The Axis. He was Japanese. Full blown Japanese.

• 1:11:24Andrew Santino?

  I love you, Casey. Do me proud.

• 1:11:28Speaker 05

  He liberated Dachau. So he's like a war hero, but he, uh, so anyways, but they were horse people, but they were surrounded by corn. So they grow corn, you know, Midwest. It's all, nothing but miles and miles of cornfields out there.

• 1:11:42Andrew Santino?

  It's miserable. Whenever he took road trips, I was always like, what in the fuck? When does this end?

• 1:11:46Speaker 05

  There is nothing, nothing to look at. In Texas, the topography changes. It can go from mountains, California, the same way. So there's a lot to look at.

• 1:11:55Andrew Santino?

  You get nothing in the Midwest, dude. When we take a road trip, I couldn't believe how much fucking bullshit corn was there.

• 1:12:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:12:01Andrew Santino?

  And I'd be like, where is the next rest stop? And like 26 miles, you're like, what the fuck?

• 1:12:06Speaker 05

  What happens if the car? Yeah, we're done. We're on our own.

• 1:12:09Andrew Santino?

  It is true to think about back, back in the day when we would take long rides. I remember how long the gaps were of time when we could pull off somewhere and go get gas or food or drinks. And you're like, this is, you just, if you didn't plan, you were just fucked. There was no like.

• 1:12:23Speaker 05

  You can't press a button and call AAA.

• 1:12:25Andrew Santino?

  Poop, poop, poop, poop. I see you're stuck on the side of the road. Do you want me to send an oink truck to pick you up? It is crazy, that is like a, like the like Planes, Trains and Automobiles of it all was such like a very viable way that these guys got.

• 1:12:38Speaker 05

  Dude, he could just get stuck places.

• 1:12:40Andrew Santino?

  Get stuck, yeah.

• 1:12:41Speaker 05

  Have to start a fire, stay warm.

• 1:12:42Andrew Santino?

  What a movie that is, by the way.

• 1:12:44Speaker 05

  Oh, so good.

• 1:12:45Andrew Santino?

  Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

• 1:12:45Speaker 05

  Was that John Hughes?

• 1:12:47Andrew Santino?

  John Candy, Steve Martin, I think.

• 1:12:51Speaker 05

  Directed by Rob Reiner?

• 1:12:53Andrew Santino?

  Was it a Reiny? Was it a stinky Reiny?

• 1:12:55Speaker 05

  Was it my son directed this movie? I should know this, callback.

• 1:12:58Andrew Santino?

  Wait, honestly, now I'm having a bad.

• 1:13:00Speaker 05

  Was it Reiner or John Hu- I don't feel like that's a John Hughes thing, right?

• 1:13:04Andrew Santino?

  No, it's definitely, I don't think it was John Hughes, but I do think you might have hit it with a Reiny.

• 1:13:08Speaker 05

  I might have got it right on the head with a Reiny.

• 1:13:09Andrew Santino?

  No, it's a Hughesers! It's a Hughesers, doozers.

• 1:13:13Speaker 05

  It's good to put out two possibilities, so either way, you're right.

• 1:13:16Andrew Santino?

  Either way, you're right. Alright, how about this? How many John Hughes movies can you name?

• 1:13:20Speaker 05

  Home Alone.

• 1:13:21Andrew Santino?

  Bing!

• 1:13:22Speaker 05

  Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

• 1:13:23Andrew Santino?

  Bing!

• 1:13:25Speaker 05

  Pretty in Pink.

• 1:13:26Andrew Santino?

  Oh yeah.

• 1:13:26Speaker 05

  Sixteen Candles.

• 1:13:27Andrew Santino?

  Uh huh.

• 1:13:28Speaker 05

  Oh, Babies Day Out. Come on.

• 1:13:31Andrew Santino?

  Babies Day Out. That's a deep pull.

• 1:13:33Speaker 05

  Deep pull.

• 1:13:34Andrew Santino?

  Forgot, two of his most famous.

• 1:13:36Speaker 05

  I'm forgetting two of the most famous?

• 1:13:37Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, huge. Come on. Think Chevy.

• 1:13:41Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 1:13:42Andrew Santino?

  What?

• 1:13:43Speaker 05

  He did Christmas Vacation?

• 1:13:44Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, The Pooners, babe.

• 1:13:45Speaker 05

  And Vacation.

• 1:13:46Andrew Santino?

  And Vacation, and The Great Outdoors.

• 1:13:48Speaker 05

  Okay, The Great Outdo- Uncle Buck?

• 1:13:50Andrew Santino?

  Yep, did Uncle Buck. The guy wrote so much great shit, it's almost like... It almost feels a little fake, when you, when you're like, when there's great writers, when you go, this guy was just a good writer, and he didn't try to do other shit, you know, now it's like, you're a writer, he's an actor and a director, and he's also... This guy was like, I'll just write a bunch of shit, I'll direct a few things, but I'll just write the fuck out of a bunch of stuff.

• 1:14:08Speaker 05

  Yeah, it is highly, highly unusual.

• 1:14:11Andrew Santino?

  To be this good? She's Having a Baby, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, National Lampoon's, Dutch, Curly Sue, Home Alone, uh, Two Lost in New York.

• 1:14:19Speaker 05

  Phenomenal.

• 1:14:21Andrew Santino?

  Uh, Dennis the Maness, Beethoven's Second, Babies Day Out, Miracle on Thirty Fourth Street, Hundred and One Dalmatians, Flubber, Home Alone Three, Beethoven's Third, which is the best banger of them all.

• 1:14:31Speaker 05

  Oh yeah.

• 1:14:31Andrew Santino?

  Beethoven's Fourth is reaching a little bit, Made in Manhattan, Beethoven's Fifth, come on, John, what are we doing, dude? Drill bit Taylor did not know that.

• 1:14:39Speaker 05

  Whoa, he did Drill bit Taylor?

• 1:14:41Andrew Santino?

  He wrote all the characters, the original characters were him.

• 1:14:44Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:14:45Andrew Santino?

  And then, uh, the very last thing he did, uh, prior to his death was, uh, the Breakfast, Breakfast Club Live, they did a live. Breakfast Club Live and Vacation, the one with Ed Helms and, uh, Christina Applegate.

• 1:14:56Speaker 05

  That was pretty funny. That was underrated.

• 1:14:58Andrew Santino?

  You know, isn't that funny that it got a lot of, it got a lot shit for being not good? And I was like, I actually kinda liked it. But it got knocked down, I think, because people were like, you're taking from the original property.

• 1:15:08Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:15:12Andrew Santino?

  And when they do that, they always get mad. Like, what's your, do you, is there a property that you like the second version better than the original version?

• 1:15:19Andrew Santino?

  It's a tough dig.

• 1:15:21Speaker 05

  Suspiria. Suspiria, great pull.

• 1:15:24Andrew Santino?

  Suspiria.

• 1:15:24Speaker 05

  The remake of Suspiria, I think is su- superior to the Dario Argento.

• 1:15:28Andrew Santino?

  Whoa.

• 1:15:29Speaker 05

  And, uh, I hate to say it. I, I think it's better. I think it's better in every way. It's more modern. It's less campy. A lot of that Giallo stuff is very campy.

• 1:15:37Andrew Santino?

  Now, you don't like campy shit at all?

• 1:15:38Speaker 05

  There's a time and a place for it. I like campy comedies.

• 1:15:41Andrew Santino?

  But like, like, what about the campy, like the scream, you know, the fucking?

• 1:15:45Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:15:46Andrew Santino?

  Campy fake murder bullshit?

• 1:15:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, so.

• 1:15:48Andrew Santino?

  Cause it's wackadoo?

• 1:15:49Speaker 05

  You mean like, uh, Friday the 13th campy? Like campy horror?

• 1:15:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I can't, well, but, but can, even that was like.

• 1:15:58Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, because even those weren't that campy. They just kinda tipped the hat maybe a little bit, but like.

• 1:16:04Speaker 05

  I, I like it if it goes, if it's so outrageous, like the studio seems to just start throwing things into it at the end.

• 1:16:10Andrew Santino?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:16:11Speaker 05

  Like, uh, Jason X, Jason Goes to Space is wonderful. Like, they weren't trying to make a satire, but you're watching it and at a certain point, they just go, let's just blow it all up.

• 1:16:19Andrew Santino?

  Who gives a fuck?

• 1:16:20Speaker 05

  Yeah. Let's literally and metaphorically blow the movie up.

• 1:16:23Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 1:16:24Speaker 05

  Yeah. Um, Clive Barker had an insane one after Hellraiser that I can never remember.

• 1:16:29Andrew Santino?

  Midnight Meat Train?

• 1:16:31Speaker 05

  That one is good. Bradley Cooper, one of his, uh, first roles. Um, but, oh man, it's gonna drive me nuts, but, uh, Clive Barker, they gave him like 20 million dollars after Hellraiser.

• 1:16:40Andrew Santino?

  I'm gonna look it up. Cause the kid isn't here.

• 1:16:42Speaker 05

  Nightbreed.

• 1:16:43Andrew Santino?

  Oh, Nightbreed. Oh, yeah.

• 1:16:45Speaker 05

  They gave him all this money. He's clearly zooted. I don't wanna speak, um, out of turn about Clive Barker, but he's a hundred percent on cocaine. And at one point in the movie, they just go, ah, let's blow the town up.

• 1:16:58Speaker 05

  That's where most of the budget must've went, but I love that concept of this isn't working.

• 1:17:03Andrew Santino?

  Blow it up. Dude, the only reason I have any, any sort of knowledge of Midnight Metre and I was a P A at the studio who did that movie.

• 1:17:10Speaker 05

  No way.

• 1:17:10Andrew Santino?

  And I met Brad Coop.

• 1:17:12Speaker 05

  Whoa, a young Coop.

• 1:17:14Andrew Santino?

  I was a young P A. He came in handsome as ever.

• 1:17:16Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:17:17Andrew Santino?

  Flirting, you know, he was flirting.

• 1:17:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, he's still swinging it around.

• 1:17:20Andrew Santino?

  He goes, you get me a Diet Coke, man? I go, you got it. And he goes, thanks a lot. And I thought, this guy's looking to fucking take me out.

• 1:17:27Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:17:27Andrew Santino?

  He might get a snort out of me, dude. But, but I, I, I met them. This is such a dumb story, but like, it just, you, by bringing up Clyde Barker, I used to have to run scripts. Back in the day to celebrities. I had to, I did have to drop them off at their house, right?

• 1:17:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:17:42Andrew Santino?

  And back then, there was no, we used a thing called, uh, we used a thing called, uh, uh, uh, uh. Oh dude. Uh, Thomas Guide. It was called a Thomas Guide. Thomas Guide was a, a little, a gra- a charted map, then you flip pages. You'd be a C-14 would take you to this part of L.A. And so you'd have to flip pages. That's literally, we had to use Thomas Guides to deliver stuff. It was so fucking insane. And so I was using Thomas Guide and he was in the Hollywood Hills.

• 1:18:07Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:18:07Andrew Santino?

  And they said, verbatim, do not fucking hand this script to anybody but Clyde Barker. And I said, well, what if he's not home? They said, then you fucking wait till he's home. It was, this is like, this is that Hollywood.

• 1:18:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:18:19Andrew Santino?

  So I'm in my little bullshit Hyundai and I'm bare, I, I was so scared to run out of gas too, up in the Hollywood Hills. And I'm going through all the Hollywood Hills, following the map, trying to drive. I finally get there. There's this big buff, like just jacked fucking dude. And I was like, nah, it's not Clyde Barker. That's definitely not Clyde Barker. He comes down the driveway. It's like big, tall, black dude. And he's like, what do you want? I was like, I have a delivery from the studio. I have to give this script to Mr. Barker. He's like, give it to me. I was like, wow.

• 1:18:49Andrew Santino?

  I was definitely told to not give it to anybody but Clyde Barker. And he goes, give me the fucking script. And I was like, sir, if you don't mind, I'm just gonna wait in my car. Cause I don't wanna lose my job. Like I need this eighty-six dollars a week. So fucking bad. Please don't do this to me. And he was like, you go wait for him. I don't give a shit. And he was just so much attitude, man. And I was so like, I was so embarrassed and also so like. Ashamed and nervous and I was like, this is so many emotions. I just want, I want to quit. I was like, I'll just quit. I'll give them the script and I'll quit. And I'm sitting there and at the time, there was a company called Anon, A-N-O-N. They would, they, they make um, snowboard lens goggles, lenses, glasses, right? And Anon's symbol is kind of, it looks like a Jesus fish almost, right?

• 1:19:30Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 1:19:31Andrew Santino?

  It's very, it's very specific, but I'll never forget this. I'm sitting there on my car and he's kind of like, you know, he's coming and going. He'll come down and check on me and be like, hey man, he ain't coming till you drop it off or get the fuck out of here, but uh. I'm like, sir, it's literally my only job. And he stops in for a second. He goes, what the fuck is that on your glasses? I take him off. I'm like, that's a snowboard company. He's like, does that say KKK? And the way that the symbol looked, you could mistake it.

• 1:19:59Speaker 05

  You could interpret it that way.

• 1:20:01Andrew Santino?

  Yes. So he was like, is that, I was like, no, no, no, it's not. Let me just give you the script and get the fuck out of here. So I handed him the script and I was like, fuck it, fire me. I'm not gonna get beaten to death in Clive Barker's drive by, driveway by his security guard.

• 1:20:13Speaker 05

  This is trending in the wrong direction.

• 1:20:15Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I just was like, I gotta get the fuck out of here. And I, and I never got it to him. When I got back to the studio and they're like, did you give Clive the script? Yep. Of course I did.

• 1:20:22Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:20:23Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I handed it right to him. Not gonna get, what are you gonna fire me?

• 1:20:26Speaker 05

  Gonna whip your ass over the script.

• 1:20:28Andrew Santino?

  The amount of shit jobs I had to do in Hollywood like that, dude. I had to, dude, I, I used to go like, uh, I should, I had to go one time. I had to get a tie from Westlake Village, which is like 50 minutes west of here, just to go buy a tie for a guy. And I got the wrong one.

• 1:20:44Andrew Santino?

  The wrong fucking one, dude. Well, cause we were just getting stoned all day doing deliveries. It was like, what did you want me to do? You're sending me on these fucking crazy runs.

• 1:20:53Speaker 05

  These dead end runs.

• 1:20:54Andrew Santino?

  Did you do shit? Do you have a bunch of shit jobs?

• 1:20:56Speaker 05

  I, yeah, again, I.

• 1:20:57Andrew Santino?

  Did you bypass that?

• 1:20:58Speaker 05

  I grew up in a, a rural area, so I like washed boats.

• 1:21:02Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, but that's kind of fun though.

• 1:21:03Speaker 05

  Sure, that was fun. That was in college. So I enjoyed like washing boats. Most of my, I had a real bad job at a place called Don Corleone's Pizza.

• 1:21:11Andrew Santino?

  Cut to an ad, please. Don Corleone's.

• 1:21:14Speaker 05

  If it still exists, he owes me eighty-three dollars, cuz he wouldn't pay us, like, it was basically the business.

• 1:21:19Andrew Santino?

  Ripping off teenage kids?

• 1:21:21Speaker 05

  The business would make enough money to where he could stay open one more day. And he would, so, let's say an order comes in for twenty-five dollars for a pepperoni pizza. He would take the money out of the register and go, okay, go to Walmart, buy me a bag of cheese, buy me a stick of pepperoni. He was making pizzas just to barely make enough pizzas to keep. It was a vicious cycle.

• 1:21:43Andrew Santino?

  Don Corleone's, where was this at?

• 1:21:44Speaker 05

  This is in Statesboro, Georgia.

• 1:21:47Andrew Santino?

  I'm looking it up, dude.

• 1:21:48Speaker 05

  There's no way it exists anymore.

• 1:21:49Andrew Santino?

  I gotta know.

• 1:21:50Speaker 05

  But we could smoke cigs in the kitchen, so it was awesome. We would rip cigs right by the pizzas and, uh...

• 1:21:55Andrew Santino?

  Well, yeah, of course you could, dude. This is Don Corleone's.

• 1:21:57Speaker 05

  He just wouldn't, he wouldn't pay us. It was awful. There was, it was totally under the table. We would get drunk on the job, and I'm delivering pizzas.

• 1:22:04Andrew Santino?

  Closed, closed permanently, my friend.

• 1:22:06Speaker 05

  Tragic, the end of an era. His name was Mohammed. He was a good guy.

• 1:22:10Andrew Santino?

  Mohammed owned Don Corleone's?

• 1:22:12Speaker 05

  He was not an Italian man. He was definitely Middle Eastern. And one day, he texts me, he said, "I'm sorry, but I'm gone." And I said, "What?" And he said, "I'm gone."

• 1:22:21Andrew Santino?

  Had to skip town, kid.

• 1:22:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, he just, literally, I think he just dodged, like, his creditors and went back.

• 1:22:25Andrew Santino?

  He's like, "You'll learn when you get older. You gotta, sometimes you gotta go."

• 1:22:29Speaker 05

  You gotta know and fold them.

• 1:22:30Andrew Santino?

  Get out of town? No, you sound like those are, those are not the worst job. They're not that bad. I mean, mine were always monotonous. It was more of like, it was more, I had jobs that were like, busy work bullshit.

• 1:22:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:22:41Andrew Santino?

  Shit that I was like, oh, man.

• 1:22:43Speaker 05

  I wrote newsletters for a while for this. It was a desk job. I hated that. So, it was a lot of dentists and, uh... Yeah, I had my degrees in writing, so, yeah, it was a lot of like, "This April, smile through April with the tooth discount and get a hundred teeth in a hundred days," or whatever. It was awful. I'll tooth puns and shit.

• 1:23:03Andrew Santino?

  Wait, it was English? Was your major?

• 1:23:05Speaker 05

  My, uh...

• 1:23:06Andrew Santino?

  Creative writing?

• 1:23:06Speaker 05

  I was journalism major.

• 1:23:08Andrew Santino?

  Me too.

• 1:23:08Speaker 05

  I was double minor, creative writing and technical mining, technical writing, yeah.

• 1:23:13Andrew Santino?

  Mine was journalism.

• 1:23:16Andrew Santino?

  Media was like my focus and then English.

• 1:23:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:23:22Andrew Santino?

  Which was like just a bypass of me just doing creative writing and all I wanna do was like write shit down. That was like, let me say stuff, cuz I was like, I, I, I'm not good at, couldn't do math, can't do science, can't do anything. Other than write a bunch of fucked up wild ideas down. And they were like, perfect, do journalism.

• 1:23:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, I changed my major specifically so I would not have to take any more math classes. As I, I cannot, I can't do another one. I, I physically.

• 1:23:48Andrew Santino?

  I barely got to the fucking, what are the, what are they called? You know.

• 1:23:54Speaker 05

  SAT?

• 1:23:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, no, the required, the, the, the, not electives.

• 1:23:57Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, what are those called?

• 1:23:59Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, what the fuck?

• 1:24:01Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 1:24:02Andrew Santino?

  Journalism. It worked.

• 1:24:04Speaker 05

  Your requirements or whatever.

• 1:24:05Andrew Santino?

  But let me tell you something, dude. I'm really happy that you came over here. I appreciate you taking the time to come over and do the show. It means the world. I think you're very funny, dude.

• 1:24:14Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 1:24:15Andrew Santino?

  I think you're gonna have a continuously, uh, successful career in perpetuity. And, uh, I hope the kids keep watching you and spreading your love and your giggles and your riffs, uh, for the rest of the time.

• 1:24:28Speaker 05

  Thank you. I'm a fan of the podcast. It's one of the few podcasts I listen to, so this is cool to.

• 1:24:33Andrew Santino?

  Really? That's fucking awesome.

• 1:24:34Speaker 05

  Be a whiskey ginger guy.

• 1:24:35Andrew Santino?

  Thank you, dude.

• 1:24:36Speaker 05

  Hell, yeah.

• 1:24:37Andrew Santino?

  You're on tour. We're gonna plug your dates.

• 1:24:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:24:40Andrew Santino?

  Uh, this will come out in a little bit, but let me do this. You gotta go to KC Rocket.

• 1:24:47Speaker 05

  KCRocketComedy.com.

• 1:24:49Andrew Santino?

  You couldn't get the original, huh?

• 1:24:50Speaker 05

  I think I have KCRocket.com as well, but just to be, just to be safe. I think it's KCRocketComedy.com.

• 1:24:55Andrew Santino?

  KCRocketComedy.com. You guys gotta go to KCRocketComedy.com and go, uh, go see all the dates that he's got coming up. He's on tour. Um, and you know, like we said, uh, give him a meatball. Show up with a meatball to a show. He does love stuff like that.

• 1:25:12Speaker 05

  Cover me in marinara and bury me in a pauper's grave.

• 1:25:15Andrew Santino?

  Slather this pig up with, with poppers and marinara. Uh, April, uh, oh dude, you're going down to Australia?

• 1:25:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:25:23Andrew Santino?

  Oh, that was a big point that you should have brought up.

• 1:25:25Speaker 05

  Sure. I'm going to Australia, Melbourne, Brisbane.

• 1:25:28Andrew Santino?

  Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney. Comics Lounge in Melbourne, that's a, I did that club when I was there. I was shooting a movie and I popped in there. They were fucking so nice. They're rad. You're gonna love it. And by the way, that part of Melbourne, the CBD is what it's called. It's, that's where all the coolest shit is. I'm gonna give you some, I'm gonna text you a bunch of cool restaurants to go to.

• 1:25:45Speaker 05

  Please do.

• 1:25:45Andrew Santino?

  Some spots that, you, do you like, uh, experimental food?

• 1:25:49Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 1:25:49Andrew Santino?

  Are you pretty like, uh, you know, some people you're like, like sometimes Bobby's really good when we go on the road, but sometimes we go on the road, people are like, dude, I'm eating fucking standard. You're not gonna get me to eat some weird ass bullshit.

• 1:25:58Speaker 05

  I eat a lot of meat and cheese, but I can eat weird stuff.

• 1:26:00Andrew Santino?

  Eat some weird shit down there. Um, all of, uh, most of April, uh, the kid is, uh, down there, down under. And then he comes back at the end and goes to West Nyack, Levity Live, baby. Back in, back in the mix. And then helium in Philly in April. Uh, got a bunch of shows there and then goes out to Vegas, Wise Guys. Uh, and it continues on, uh, in, in Pittsburgh and more and more. Comedy Bar Toronto, Ontario in May. Guys, go see Casey Rocket. Go to casiroccatcomedy.com. Uh, see the kid. We love him. We're fans over here. Hey, so, uh, we end the show the same way. Look into that camera right there and say one word or one phrase whenever you're ready.

• 1:26:41Speaker 05

  Everybody's got a price.