Max Amini Might Be the Biggest Comedian You Haven’t Heard Of | Whiskey Ginger

Welcome to Whiskey Ginger a Wave series presented by Fanduel. Andrew Santino sits down with comedian Max Amini for a hilarious conversation about stand-up, culture, family, touring the world, and the absolute chaos that happens when you make the audience part of the show. Max has built a massive international following with his storytelling, improvisation, and crowd work, performing for audiences around the world and proving that comedy translates a lot better than your uncle's opinions at Thanksgiving. Check out Max Amini's latest stand-up special, Randomly Selected, streaming free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy2QyPQ5L5M See Max live and check out upcoming tour dates: https://www.maxamini.com Follow Max Amini: https://www.instagram.com/maxcomedian Follow Andrew Santino: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino Follow Whiskey Ginger: https://instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast #WhiskeyGinger #AndrewSantino #MaxAmini #ComedyPodcast ==================================================== This episode is sponsored by: FANDUEL Get ready for big games, bigger Saturdays, and your most rewarding season ever. only on FanDuel. http://fanduel.com/whiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 1:03Andrew Santino?

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• 1:52Andrew Santino?

  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people in the other state of Rob. My guest, Max Amini, once again today, it's Max Amini! The guy has a name built for entertainment. It's Max Amini on the podcast, thank you for coming to the show.

• 2:04Speaker 05

  Thanks for having me.

• 2:05Andrew Santino?

  You're the man, dude.

• 2:05Speaker 05

  One of my favorite comedians.

• 2:06Andrew Santino?

  I've known you for so long, it's so funny. And to see your, your rise has been, um... It's hard to say without sounding condescending, but I'm proud, proud, happy for some people. There's some people that you go, "Good." Some people blow up and you go, "Bad." Some people blow up and you go, "Good, dude, he's the man."

• 2:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 2:24Andrew Santino?

  I love to see that, dude.

• 2:26Speaker 05

  Thanks, buddy.

• 2:26Andrew Santino?

  Life is good right now for you.

• 2:28Speaker 05

  Life is, life is good. I'm always an optimistic person. I'm always happy, I'm not, I'm not the depressing, I mean, you know, you, you're down, but I'm not the guy who likes to complain. I'm always grateful, in that sense. I was grateful when I played 200-seater, you know, theaters. I'm grateful now, playing these arenas. I'm happy for, for what's happening, but I gotta tell you, and you understand this,

• 2:54Speaker 05

  everything that we, we dream for is, is not as easy as it looks from the outside. So, so it's a lot of work that goes into this.

• 3:00Andrew Santino?

  You put in a lot of work. You've been in the game for how many years? 74, right?

• 3:04Speaker 05

  24 years.

• 3:05Andrew Santino?

  24 years you've been in the game. And you're, and you're 16 years old, how old are you now?

• 3:09Speaker 05

  I'm 16.

• 3:11Andrew Santino?

  He's the next Matt Rife, this handsome...

• 3:13Speaker 05

  I'm the youngest 44, that's how I feel.

• 3:15Andrew Santino?

  You are.

• 3:16Speaker 05

  I, I really honestly feel 32 years old, max.

• 3:19Andrew Santino?

  So, your audience, what's the age range of your audience? Like, do you find that you're getting people in their 40s?

• 3:24Speaker 05

  Massive.

• 3:25Andrew Santino?

  And above?

• 3:25Speaker 05

  The bulk of it is 25 to 35.

• 3:27Andrew Santino?

  That's a good number.

• 3:28Speaker 05

  Bulk of it. Bulk of it is 25, 35. I have, um, and, and the age range has changed. Um, my audience has changed so much, Andrew, in the last two years, it's unbelievable.

• 3:41Andrew Santino?

  Really?

• 3:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 3:42Andrew Santino?

  What, a lot of fat people, a lot of skinny people, what are we talking about?

• 3:44Speaker 05

  All good-looking, sexy.

• 3:46Andrew Santino?

  You do have sexy people on your show.

• 3:47Speaker 05

  I swear you come to my show, the women, I'm not looking at the guys so much.

• 3:51Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 3:52Speaker 05

  But I tell you, the women looking good.

• 3:53Andrew Santino?

  No Persian women, no Persian women.

• 3:55Speaker 05

  A lot of Persian women.

• 3:55Andrew Santino?

  A lot of Persian women.

• 3:56Speaker 05

  A lot of beautiful Persian women. I would say today, all my Persian audience still comes, shows up to the theater, but the capacity has changed so much, now they make maybe 10% of the audience.

• 4:06Andrew Santino?

  Wow.

• 4:07Speaker 05

  But they're all there.

• 4:08Andrew Santino?

  But it used to be the core.

• 4:09Speaker 05

  It used to be like 90% Persian, and that 10% was the husband, the boyfriend, and the girlfriend.

• 4:15Andrew Santino?

  So, was it mostly the girlfriends that brought the boyfriends? Because their girlfriends were attracted to you?

• 4:18Speaker 05

  Yep, yep.

• 4:19Andrew Santino?

  And the boyfriends hated you? They were like, "This sexy, we gotta go see this sexy dude." The girlfriend sold it as, "We gotta go see this very funny guy." And the guy show up, they go, "This motherfucker." "I know this specific shit."

• 4:30Speaker 05

  Okay, fine, I laugh for two minutes.

• 4:32Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I will laugh with him, but you will go home with me.

• 4:35Speaker 05

  Yep, yep.

• 4:36Andrew Santino?

  But that's great, dude, you're, and you're, you're killing. You said you're going, before the show, we started, you said you're going to premiere of a movie tonight.

• 4:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, buddy.

• 4:42Andrew Santino?

  This will be out, obviously, after that, but...

• 4:44Speaker 05

  So, this is a movie, I made this movie six, seven years ago.

• 4:48Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 4:49Speaker 05

  And, uh, I'm premiering...

• 4:50Andrew Santino?

  Seven years ago?

• 4:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm premiering it tonight. So, it's, it's, I can't tell you, it's an emotional rollercoaster with this film. Um, the movie hit the pandemic, so we shot it and the pandemic happened. So, my movie post-production sort of sat for a couple of years. And then we started post-production. And then the, uh, one thing to another, then the strike happened, and, you know, film festivals were off. Finally, we, we finished the movie, we gave it to a sales agent, kept it for three and a half years.

• 5:22Andrew Santino?

  What was he looking at it, what was he doing?

• 5:23Speaker 05

  Trying to sell it, the offers were horrible. He kept saying, "Oh, you know, business is getting better, right now is the worst time to sell, let's wait another year." We just lost so much time, and now I got the movie back. So, I'm thinking, everybody's releasing their films on YouTube, every, all these self-distributions doing so well.

• 5:41Andrew Santino?

  There's a lot of that, yeah.

• 5:42Speaker 05

  My audience has grown. I'm like, "Look, this is the time to premiere this and go out with it and share it with the world."

• 5:47Andrew Santino?

  That's great.

• 5:47Speaker 05

  So, that's the idea.

• 5:48Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, what, was it a story you wrote or you're starring in it?

• 5:50Speaker 05

  No, it's a story someone else wrote, and I rewrote it with him.

• 5:54Andrew Santino?

  Okay.

• 5:54Speaker 05

  Uh, this, it's a drama, it's a coming-of-age story, it's a serious movie. Um, and, uh, it's an indie film, the, the one-liner of the film is, it's a story about a 13-year-old boy that cannot feel pain or emotion.

• 6:09Andrew Santino?

  Oh, wow.

• 6:09Speaker 05

  And when I read the script, the whole time, I was like, "It's better be a good story." It was New Year's Eve, I was laying in bed, I'm like, my girlfriend was sick, I'm like, "Fuck, we didn't go out." This better be a good story. By the end, I was crying, and I kind of felt like all of us wish for no pain. And then when I finished the script, I realized, "Man, without pain, this life doesn't even have any meaning."

• 6:32Andrew Santino?

  Sure.

• 6:33Speaker 05

  It's, it's cra, it was, it was, and I said, "This is a great story for me to make." I was looking for a comedy script, and then I was like, "Look, I'm, I'm in love with this script, I'm gonna make this."

• 6:40Andrew Santino?

  But pain is funny too, though. You know what I mean? Like, pain is funny.

• 6:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's funny.

• 6:44Andrew Santino?

  I mean, we put in part of our act, there's a lot of painful stuff that's very funny, right? First time your dad ever hit you through, through a drywall and made you fix it. I mean, that's painful, that's funny. That's very funny, you know?

• 6:54Speaker 05

  100%. So, the movie, I...

• 6:57Andrew Santino?

  You don't play the 13-year-old boy, I hope.

• 6:59Speaker 05

  I am, I play the 13-year-old.

• 7:02Andrew Santino?

  I mean, dude, you look good for your age.

• 7:03Speaker 05

  I felt very young.

• 7:04Andrew Santino?

  But I don't know about 13, brother.

• 7:06Speaker 05

  No, I casted these super talented 13-year-olds, who are now adults, and they are, their careers are phenomenal, they're doing amazing. And, um, I'm excited to just, to, to get this movie out now.

• 7:20Andrew Santino?

  What's it called? Say what it's called.

• 7:21Speaker 05

  James II.

• 7:22Andrew Santino?

  James II.

• 7:24Speaker 05

  James II.

• 7:24Andrew Santino?

  And is it gonna be in theaters, Netflix, HBO, streaming, who knows?

• 7:27Speaker 05

  Today, we're premiering at a Chinese theater, but then I think we're gonna go all VOD.

• 7:30Andrew Santino?

  Asian-American theater, my God, dude.

• 7:31Speaker 05

  I know, I know you have a sensitive spot for Asians, so...

• 7:35Andrew Santino?

  It is called Man's Chinese.

• 7:37Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 7:38Andrew Santino?

  And the food downstairs is just as good. Chinese theater, tonight, and then where does it go?

• 7:42Speaker 05

  And then we're gonna do VOD, like, uh, all the, you know, Amazon and YouTube.

• 7:47Andrew Santino?

  Streaming platforms, buy it everywhere. James II.

• 7:50Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 7:50Andrew Santino?

  And obviously, that's named after the son because his father was James I.

• 7:53Speaker 05

  Yep, exactly.

• 7:54Andrew Santino?

  That's right.

• 7:54Speaker 05

  Now, talking about this whole movie business, Andrew, I don't know if you ever talked about this on your podcast, I don't know if all your fans know how much of a actor you, you've been, like, all the...

• 8:07Andrew Santino?

  Me?

• 8:07Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 8:08Andrew Santino?

  No, I'm an actress, first of all.

• 8:09Speaker 05

  Actress.

• 8:10Andrew Santino?

  I'm an actress first.

• 8:11Speaker 05

  That's extra talented, yeah? Not only he acts, but he can act the opposite sex.

• 8:15Andrew Santino?

  I've been saying that for years, I'm an actress, and people, now, it's popular, you know what I mean? Now, it's cool. I've been doing it for years, I've said I'm a beautiful actress.

• 8:24Speaker 05

  That's the only way to get cast.

• 8:25Andrew Santino?

  I'm the prettiest redheaded actress out there right now. There's nobody cuter than me.

• 8:28Speaker 05

  I believe it.

• 8:29Andrew Santino?

  Thank you, that's nice. No, I love, uh, I love the world. I think it's just, it's different for us now, you know? So, now, comedy, podcasts, that's been our, you know, our breadwinners. Like, it's been the thing that we love the most. And it doesn't, you know, there is no strike in acting, I mean, I mean, in, in, in comedy.

• 8:47Speaker 05

  I remember, I remember.

• 8:48Andrew Santino?

  There was.

• 8:49Speaker 05

  You were in New York for a long time, right? For some time you were in New York.

• 8:52Andrew Santino?

  I bopped around to every, I've been everywhere, I've been everywhere, man.

• 8:55Speaker 05

  Did you, did you stay in New York because of acting, or was it for stand-up?

• 8:58Andrew Santino?

  No, no, no, I, most of my acting happened in LA, which is kind of funny. Like, almost all my acting happened in Los Angeles, because once you get on one thing in LA, pilots and that whole thing, this is where all of it happens. So, I, I did way, West Coast dominated my entire career, because you would come out here, you'd do one thing, and then they're like, "They want you for this other thing." And then you go do it, it fails, and they go, "Will you come try again to this other thing?"

• 9:21Speaker 05

  And the thing is, um, not a lot of stand-ups are great actors. Not a lot of stand-ups are into acting the same way.

• 9:29Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I mean, no, but I think being a great actor is tough in general, I don't think anybody, I mean, like, I would count on my hands how many people I've seen that I'm like, "Wow, that's a great actor." Most people are serviceable.

• 9:38Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 9:38Andrew Santino?

  What they used to call plumber actors, you know, like, that's a, I think Steve Martin talked about that in his book, about his father being a plumber actor, meaning like, he was good, he got by. He was like a plumber, it's like, you call a plumber at your house, you know, he's not a genius, but he's gonna fix the pipes. You know what I mean? Like, it's gonna, the poop is gonna flow out at some point.

• 9:55Speaker 05

  And, and was he inspired by the plumber actor?

• 9:58Andrew Santino?

  I think, I think, I think he, Steve talked about it as, if I remember, right? Did he ever say that, right? He said, his dad was...

• 10:04Speaker 06

  It's part of his plumber's joke.

• 10:05Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, plumber, right. I think that, I think the idea was, um, you know, look, there's a lot of serviceable people in our industry, and it takes a lot to get to the next level, and he wanted to break to the next level. He didn't just want to like, kind of be a worked actor, he wanted to be something else.

• 10:21Speaker 05

  I remember there was an audition for a cosmopolitan something pilot, or, or, and you were, you were, uh...

• 10:28Andrew Santino?

  I was the guy?

• 10:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, you were the guy. And later, and later on, saw the project, and you were the guy.

• 10:33Andrew Santino?

  For a short period of time, I might be the guy.

• 10:34Speaker 05

  What was the project?

• 10:36Andrew Santino?

  I don't, dude, I...

• 10:37Speaker 05

  Was it Mixology or something?

• 10:38Andrew Santino?

  Oh, Mixology. It was called Mixology. We did it, we did it, we got it off the ground, yeah, it was, we did one season. Guys, go watch that on, uh, on ABC streaming, I don't even know if you can see it anymore. It was a, it was a show, um, uh, Scott and Moore.

• 10:53Andrew Santino?

  Um, uh, they wrote, the guys that wrote the original first draft of The Hangover, kinda crazy. They wrote the very first draft of The Hangover.

• 10:59Speaker 05

  Crazy.

• 11:00Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 11:01Speaker 05

  And they cast you in the wrong project.

• 11:03Speaker 06

  Only buy it.

• 11:03Andrew Santino?

  You can only buy it now, so don't, don't buy it. Don't give them any more money. No, but the, the two guys that wrote, uh, Lucas and more, the guys that wrote the original first draft of The Hangover, the one that we know now as this masterpiece, um, they wrote this pilot idea in a bar in one night in Manhattan. Uh, the whole season took place over the course of, uh, one night in a bar, which was a bold concept and people were kinda like, no chance. And Troy Miller directed it, great. So like, it was, it had all the inner workings of being like, this could be genius, cause it was different. But America was like, nah, give us friends.

• 11:38Speaker 05

  And then it's gotten worse since.

• 11:40Andrew Santino?

  My acting, yes, you're right. It's gotten significantly worse since.

• 11:43Speaker 05

  No, the, the movie business and the film business.

• 11:46Andrew Santino?

  Changed tremendously.

• 11:47Speaker 05

  TV is just, you know, at, at least back then, people were watching the pilots or, you know, you had some sort of, now it's so hard to get anybody to watch anything.

• 11:55Andrew Santino?

  I know. Well, but, look at, okay, let's talk about your growth. Talk about me. Who gives a shit about me? I, you know, I met you for the first time, I think I met you at the factory.

• 12:04Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:04Andrew Santino?

  I had to meet you at the factory.

• 12:05Speaker 05

  Hundred percent.

• 12:06Andrew Santino?

  And you, you were a stronghold of that place. Jamie loved you dearly and respected you tremendously. Um, and I do think like watching your rise as someone that put in all of the work and all the hours, that's really where the payoff is, is like you grew an audience, you grew, grew your own little, you know, your own little atrium of fans, which is, it's really difficult to do. So like, the business is going on without us, no matter what, but you grew this thing totally on your own. I mean, you can't really point to one thing that goes this. It's like, well, you did year, if somebody said how to max crack, I'd be like, I don't know, man, a long time of work.

• 12:40Speaker 05

  I, I think you're right. I think it just, you hang in there long enough.

• 12:44Andrew Santino?

  And they get, and then they love you.

• 12:46Speaker 05

  Somehow the universe, you know, makes it crack. Like it just makes it fall in place. It's like, it's like a chiropractor that just finds a spot and finally just take, like, whoa, there it is. It, it was that kinda thing for me. I feel like, uh, you know, doing it for so long and finally social media. Somehow this algorithm finally got out there in a way that more people got to see me. And that just sort of snowballed, snowballed.

• 13:13Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it did. It did. What'd you start? You started in LA?

• 13:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:16Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you did.

• 13:17Speaker 05

  Always, yeah, yeah.

• 13:18Andrew Santino?

  That's so crazy.

• 13:18Speaker 05

  Twenty, twenty-three years old, I started in LA.

• 13:21Andrew Santino?

  Um, now, do, now, were your, were your parents and family, were they supportive?

• 13:25Speaker 05

  Very. Even though I'm Persian, everybody goes, how does your Persian parents or a kid with, I answered it this way. My dad, my dad was a huge fan of me following my dreams. Like, I want you to do something you love. I said, okay, dad. I love my acting class and, and so I became an acting, you know, major at UCLA. But at the same time, we, we were not the typical Persian family where, you know, I, I lived in my parents' house till I was twenty-five, supported by them. I was on my own since I was sixteen, seventeen years old.

• 13:55Andrew Santino?

  Why'd you do that?

• 13:56Speaker 05

  Just my family, it was a family dynamic.

• 13:58Andrew Santino?

  You guys weren't like that. It wasn't your style?

• 14:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, we, we, you know, I was on my own. Um, my dad wasn't, my dad didn't have a lot of money, so it was never a financial relationship. It was, it was a true, sort of like, my dad would sit down and we'd have these good conversations and he would say, this is what I think. But I, I, I did whatever I wanted to do. And so it wasn't like, um, it, it wasn't so much his permission. But the fact that he was supportive with the idea, today I look back as a young person, I go, it's, it was so refreshing that my father was like, yeah, do what you love. You're gonna be great. And frankly, when you start stand-up, you don't know if you're great or not. It takes you so many years to even prove to yourself, do, do I have it or not?

• 14:40Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 14:40Speaker 05

  So that part was great, but it wasn't the typical Persian families. They want you to become a doctor, engineer, or this, or that, a lawyer. And, and, you know, they're, they're talking about it since you're thirteen years old. They're taking care of you till you're forty years old. It doesn't matter. So that's, it's, it's a little different in that sense. But they were supportive. My mom didn't really have much of an opinion about it. It wasn't like, I'm for it or not for it. She's like, what are you doing? I'm doing this. Oh, okay. And, and here I am.

• 15:08Andrew Santino?

  Not like the typical run though. For people that don't have any Persian friends at all, for people that don't live in Los Angeles, that's not, that's not the typical goal. A lot of times it's, you're shunned. You're the black sheep of the family.

• 15:19Speaker 05

  Exactly.

• 15:19Andrew Santino?

  If you don't go do the thing that the, the mommy and daddy want you to do.

• 15:23Speaker 05

  Let me tell you another thing that's not typical. My mom has never asked me, when are you getting married?

• 15:28Andrew Santino?

  When will you get married?

• 15:29Speaker 05

  Have kids? Never, ever.

• 15:31Andrew Santino?

  Never.

• 15:31Speaker 05

  She never said anything.

• 15:32Andrew Santino?

  Really?

• 15:33Speaker 05

  Never.

• 15:33Andrew Santino?

  Do you have brothers and sisters?

• 15:34Speaker 05

  Two younger sisters.

• 15:35Andrew Santino?

  Do they have kids?

• 15:36Speaker 05

  No. None of us have kids.

• 15:37Andrew Santino?

  Wow. Really cracking that Persian code, dude. Really cracking that Persian code, dude.

• 15:42Speaker 05

  No, but she's so.

• 15:44Andrew Santino?

  They don't care. It's not their life.

• 15:45Speaker 05

  She's, she's, you know, and I asked her, I'm like, why, you never put any pressure. She goes, why would I? I want you to be happy. Do what you, I mean, you guys are smart. My mom usually says, you guys are smart. You know what you're doing. Um,

• 15:57Andrew Santino?

  And your mom's like, I had kids and I hated them. Look at, look. She's like, I had these.

• 16:01Speaker 05

  She's like, I got married, had a terrible fucking marriage.

• 16:04Andrew Santino?

  I didn't like it. I didn't want you to suffer too.

• 16:07Speaker 05

  Oh, my god.

• 16:08Andrew Santino?

  No, but that is, that is, it is very like antithetical to many Persian cultural things. I grew up in here in my young twenties, when I first came out here. Every kid I knew that was Persian, it was like, dude, you got, it was a very patterned, you better do, you better fall in line.

• 16:22Speaker 05

  So where did you grow up exactly?

• 16:23Andrew Santino?

  Well, Chicago. When I moved, but I moved out here when I was twenty-one years old for the first time.

• 16:29Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 16:29Andrew Santino?

  And the first kid I lived with, uh,

• 16:32Speaker 05

  Was Persian?

• 16:33Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, he was. The first kid I lived with.

• 16:34Speaker 05

  That's LA for you right there.

• 16:36Andrew Santino?

  Say his name, but I don't wanna, I don't wanna say his name. But I'll tell you off camera, but the name is, you'd go, yeah, dude. He was the first kid I lived with, me, him and two other roommates. And, um, I learned his, the way of his life. Cause he was kinda the outcast of his family, right? He kinda cracked and wanted to be in the business and do his own thing and.

• 16:52Speaker 05

  Really?

• 16:53Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I think they were a little, he went to UCLA grad school and I think they were a little like, hoping that he would get back into something more dominant. But he loved entertainment, like really badly wanted to be in entertainment.

• 17:02Speaker 05

  Did he stay in there?

• 17:03Andrew Santino?

  He, he is on the fringes of it. Yeah. He never was on camera. He was the other side. He wanted to produce, you know, he wanted to make, make stuff, represent people. He wanted to kinda be a, um, curator.

• 17:15Speaker 05

  Which is great.

• 17:16Andrew Santino?

  It's amazing. Yeah, yeah.

• 17:17Speaker 05

  Especially today, that's really respected. I mean, that's amazing.

• 17:20Andrew Santino?

  And then he got into The Game. Do you remember The Game? Neil Strauss, the book, The Game?

• 17:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, of course.

• 17:26Andrew Santino?

  About how to pick up chicks?

• 17:26Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 17:27Andrew Santino?

  Dude, he got embroiled in this world. He would read this book. I never forget. He read this book and it was his bible. Then him and these other two guys that he was friends with would come over to the house and they'd go out looking for chicks. And they'd be like, come out and party with us. I was like, I gotta go do spots. I was doing, you know, I'm like, I gotta do open mics, man. Like, I can't, I don't have the time to go fishing right now. So I'd go do spots, they'd go on the hunt for women and shockingly, it worked to a degree that was unfathomable. These guys would get girls so far out of their league, cause they used this tenets of this book, which was like nagging.

• 17:58Speaker 05

  And it worked.

• 17:58Andrew Santino?

  Oh dude, it worked all the time. They worked constantly. It was a lot of nagging, a lot of like being, being coy or mean to girls that you find out of your league, to bring them down to your level. That was like part of the philosophy of the book. I do not recommend this book. I don't, but this was like a revolution for a long.

• 18:14Speaker 05

  I bet you that book is canceled today.

• 18:16Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I'm sure, dude. A lot of incels read that book and, and got a lot of lift from it. But no, he, but he, they lived and died by this thing. It was fascinating to me. But he was, again, he was kinda like the bad boy of his family, like a Persian kid who went against the grains and kinda like, you know, he didn't wanna do the typical shit and kudos to him for doing it. Cause I do remember him getting anxious if his parents were gonna come visit. It was like a very heavy lift, you know? Like he had to lie a lot, you know?

• 18:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:42Andrew Santino?

  Which stinks. You know what I mean? Like, I remember when I was a kid, I grew up with a kid whose mom was so strict, um, that he would have two changes of clothes. He would wear clothes to school and have a change in his backpack of clothes he wanted to wear. But his parents would make him leave the house and something and then he would change at school. And then when he went home, he would change back before they would see him in what he wore.

• 19:02Speaker 05

  It's, it's such an important topic because, first of all, I think the world has gotten better. The younger generation parents now, they're a lot more open. I think social media has made the business, people that wanna be into entertainment or influencers. People, they don't wanna be even artists anymore. They wanna be influencers. And, and, and, and when I talk about influencers, not even like a, influencers that specialize in something, an influencer that says, look at my dinner, look, I'm in Mykonos right now.

• 19:29Andrew Santino?

  Look at my dinner.

• 19:30Speaker 05

  Look at my rims. You know, just like, that, that's the influencing sort of, uh, topic. And, and people are supportive of it now.

• 19:37Andrew Santino?

  Sure, if it's working, who cares?

• 19:38Speaker 05

  My son has two hundred thousand followers. You're like.

• 19:42Andrew Santino?

  Good for your son.

• 19:42Speaker 05

  That's, the world has changed.

• 19:44Andrew Santino?

  Whatever works, works. I don't, I mean, I, yeah, my, my, my parents' generation, our parents are probably similar in age. That doesn't fly with them, dude. We got a different, that's a different, it's just, you know, it's going to change as time goes on, which is good, but you know.

• 19:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 19:57Andrew Santino?

  Do you talk about any of this stuff in this, you got, his news, my young, my young friend here has a new special coming out. It's not gonna be out until twenty twenty-seven, but it's gonna be on the big N, the big red N, as it were, the Death Star. Netflix, uh, twenty, you have a date, a release date?

• 20:12Speaker 05

  No, not yet.

• 20:12Andrew Santino?

  Nothing, huh?

• 20:13Speaker 05

  Not yet.

• 20:13Andrew Santino?

  Okay, good, it's coming.

• 20:14Speaker 05

  They gave me the offer. I'm excited.

• 20:16Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, that's great. Isn't that cool? Isn't that a good call?

• 20:18Speaker 05

  Really, it's really cool. It, it's sort of, you know, puts the stamp of approval.

• 20:23Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it's the North Star of comedy.

• 20:24Speaker 05

  It's kinda like, okay, we put in our time, now you're gonna, you know, have your special here. Uh, um, I'm excited about it and, and I think my fans are gonna be very excited about it. So.

• 20:35Andrew Santino?

  Good. That's awesome. Where'd you shoot it? Here in LA?

• 20:38Speaker 05

  I shot it in Toronto.

• 20:39Andrew Santino?

  Why?

• 20:40Speaker 05

  Um, I have a massive fan base there.

• 20:42Andrew Santino?

  You do?

• 20:43Speaker 05

  And when I shoot specials, I sort of learned that, um, the more shows I play, the better special will come out.

• 20:51Andrew Santino?

  Sure.

• 20:52Speaker 05

  So I played this casino called, uh, the great, the great something casino, the great Canadian casino.

• 21:00Speaker 05

  Forty eight hundred seats, almost five thousand seats.

• 21:03Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 21:03Speaker 05

  I played four shows.

• 21:04Andrew Santino?

  Wow.

• 21:05Speaker 05

  Two nights in a row.

• 21:06Andrew Santino?

  It's great.

• 21:06Speaker 05

  And then we shot all four shows.

• 21:08Andrew Santino?

  Wow.

• 21:09Speaker 05

  We picked one and it feels good.

• 21:11Andrew Santino?

  That's good.

• 21:12Speaker 05

  Yeah. I don't know if you've ever shot a special and then you go, ah, man, I thought it was much better, but now I'm watching it. I've had a few of those. This one, I shot it, it felt good. You know, I watched a rough cut, I go, this is it. I'm happy with this.

• 21:25Andrew Santino?

  Every time I shoot a special and I watch it, I go, can somebody else replace me in this? Can you just, can you overlay someone else doing other jokes in this stupid fucking thing?

• 21:33Speaker 05

  In here, we pour whiskey.

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• 22:58Andrew Santino?

  No, we played, when we did Toronto, we did Massey Hall, which was beautiful. That's a great theater venue. And we had, we had an opera singer come out. Is that what it was?

• 23:05Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 23:05Andrew Santino?

  It was incredible. It was, because it was built for like operatic theater, like it was very like-

• 23:10Speaker 05

  Did opera singer like open for you?

• 23:12Andrew Santino?

  Uh, kind of closed for us, so to speak. He came out and closed the show. Yeah. He just sang songs with me and Bobby Lee. Yeah.

• 23:17Speaker 05

  Really?

• 23:18Andrew Santino?

  It was incredible. I don't even know how we found that guy.

• 23:20Speaker 05

  Uh, from the audience.

• 23:21Andrew Santino?

  Really?

• 23:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 23:22Andrew Santino?

  That's incredible.

• 23:23Speaker 05

  From the QR code.

• 23:24Andrew Santino?

  QR code, yeah.

• 23:25Speaker 05

  Oh, so it was random on the spot?

• 23:26Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, we bring people, when we did the Bad Friends tour, we put a QR code up and you could scan it with your phone. You could submit if you had a hidden talent or something secret that you wanted to share. We kind of left it open for the audience to have fun. And we had a few really good hidden talents. There was a woman, there was a woman who could queef the Star Spangled Banner, uh, in Denver. Shout out to that girl. She was incredible. She could queef the Star Spangled Banner. Did a good job, dude. I think she played, uh, A Simple Man by Leonard Skinnerd as well.

• 23:50Speaker 05

  How did you guys mic her?

• 23:51Andrew Santino?

  Uh, she was self-miked, yeah. She came-

• 23:53Speaker 05

  She was self-miked?

• 23:54Andrew Santino?

  No, no, no, yeah. The lob was way up there.

• 23:56Speaker 05

  With the speaker?

• 23:57Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, we boomed it. We underboomed it.

• 23:59Speaker 05

  Oh my god.

• 23:59Andrew Santino?

  No, we had some crazy hidden talents, but that one was this guy was like, I'm an opera singer. And we were like, bullshit. And-

• 24:06Speaker 05

  Came out and blew it right out of the bottle.

• 24:08Andrew Santino?

  And yeah. So shout out to Toronto. Shout out to the sixth-

• 24:11Speaker 05

  It's a great city.

• 24:12Andrew Santino?

  It was, every time we go up there, we have a fun time.

• 24:14Speaker 05

  It's a great crowd. I really love that city. And, and it's always, I've always had my biggest crowd in, in Toronto.

• 24:20Andrew Santino?

  Who do, what, what city doesn't support you?

• 24:24Andrew Santino?

  What's the hardest city for, for Amini to sell?

• 24:26Speaker 05

  I, I would say in, generally speaking, Midwest for me is, is smaller.

• 24:30Andrew Santino?

  That's right, you guys. And keep that up. Come see me. Don't see him. He doesn't need somewhere. He sells twenty thousand fucking seats in Toronto. Don't worry about him. Come see me, Midwest. The Midwest doesn't like you for some reason.

• 24:41Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 24:41Andrew Santino?

  It just doesn't do as well.

• 24:42Speaker 05

  It doesn't like me. The, the population that comes and sees me-

• 24:45Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 24:46Speaker 05

  It's not the Midwest. I just played, um, I just played, uh, uh, Kansas City. I had fifteen hundred people come out. But I play anywhere else. Theaters are much bigger. Minimum five thousand. So fifteen hundred in comparison, Kansas City, that's, that's a, you know, a small draw. But I love it. I love it because the crowd is different. And, and in a way-

• 25:07Andrew Santino?

  What do you mean by difference? Like, like, uh-

• 25:09Speaker 05

  It's, it's more the Midwest crowd.

• 25:11Andrew Santino?

  More whites?

• 25:11Speaker 05

  Yeah. And I don't get a chance to play that often, so it's extra fun for me. And I feel like it also opens up that sort of, um, crowd for me. So, so the more you share that kind of material, then it's going to reach to that audience. Then hopefully that audience gets bigger.

• 25:28Andrew Santino?

  You want them to retain. What's the name of this new special? Do we have a name yet?

• 25:31Speaker 05

  I forgot to tell you. That's the name of the special. I forgot to tell you.

• 25:35Andrew Santino?

  It's really good. It's very, very good.

• 25:37Speaker 05

  It's good. It's my life story. Um, I ran that material for, for about a year and a half on tour. It was, it was, it was perfect. You know, it was ready. When I got to Toronto and I said, this is the time, let's shoot this and put it out there. So I feel, I feel like the next, I'm already on my next hour. Which is hard because now I feel like this hour is even funnier than that hour.

• 26:02Andrew Santino?

  That's a good place to be. Yeah, if you're only getting better, that's good.

• 26:06Speaker 05

  The stories, the stories, you know, I'm, I, I do a lot of crowd work and then I do my storytelling. So the combination sometimes, you know, you, you have that night, it just boom, it's magic.

• 26:15Andrew Santino?

  Yeah. Oh, that's what you want, dude. You want it to click. I don't know if you want me to talk about it, but I did say on the way out, he's got, he's got the, he's got the wrapped Cybertruck. I don't know if you care to share with the band. It's so funny to see, dude. Cause it's, what is, what, what's the colorway on that thing?

• 26:28Speaker 05

  It's, it's, uh, it changes, it changes color.

• 26:31Andrew Santino?

  It's like a chameleon paint?

• 26:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, chameleon.

• 26:34Andrew Santino?

  It's fucking huge.

• 26:34Speaker 05

  I don't know what it's called, but it, the, the wrap was very rare. And I, and I, when you look at the car, the shape is so, you know, awkward.

• 26:42Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it's weird as fuck.

• 26:43Speaker 05

  I was like, put a solid color on this car. It's extra awkward, you know? So I, I, when I saw the wrap, I was going through it, I go, this is great. This kind of makes, makes you, makes it more, you know-

• 26:55Andrew Santino?

  Gives it some dimension.

• 26:56Speaker 05

  Easy to look at.

• 26:57Andrew Santino?

  Right, gives it some dimension.

• 26:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, so we, I, I wrapped, I love this car. And I tell you what-

• 27:01Andrew Santino?

  You do, you like it.

• 27:02Speaker 05

  It's fun. I love it.

• 27:03Andrew Santino?

  Cause it's a big point of contention. A lot of people who love cars or hate it, and the people that love it, they love it.

• 27:07Speaker 05

  I love this car. And it drives, you know, Teslas, they all, they have the self-drive.

• 27:11Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah, right. That's right. Auto drive. No, I don't, I don't own a Tesla.

• 27:14Speaker 05

  I don't drive it.

• 27:16Andrew Santino?

  Oh, it just drives you?

• 27:17Speaker 05

  It drives me. I'm on the phone, I'm doing my thing and the car. Like, right now, I had lunch, the whole time I'm eating my lunch, the car's coming. It's amazing.

• 27:25Andrew Santino?

  You don't have to worry about it. And if you do hit someone, they will die, because that's very big. It's like ten thousand pounds.

• 27:32Speaker 05

  It's eight times safer than humans driving.

• 27:34Andrew Santino?

  Eight times safer than humans?

• 27:35Speaker 05

  Eight times safer. When you get in the car, first, everybody I tell them, they go, ah, man, I don't feel comfortable. I don't trust it. You watch the car drive and you go, shit, this is way better than me. And it's not slow. It doesn't make you feel like it's, you know, it, the car moves fast and it's very safe.

• 27:52Andrew Santino?

  It's efficient.

• 27:53Speaker 05

  Very. And, and, and I hate driving because I feel like I drive in LA, I get home and I take a nap. I'm tired already.

• 28:00Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it's a, it's a heavy lift, yeah.

• 28:02Speaker 05

  It's just, it's, you know, so that's why I love this car. Yeah.

• 28:05Andrew Santino?

  Well, did you, okay, you, you said-

• 28:06Speaker 05

  I feel like Tesla should fucking sponsor me for this.

• 28:08Andrew Santino?

  Well, tell them. Go ahead, Elon. Sponsor your boy, dude. What are you waiting for? I, I, uh, if Elon has, uh, any plug into this world, because he does like comedy-

• 28:18Speaker 05

  He does.

• 28:19Andrew Santino?

  Why don't you watch, uh, I Forgot to Tell You on Netflix and then give this guy a check, write him a sponsorship check?

• 28:24Speaker 05

  I should just roll, you know, roll on stage next, you know, next special with the Cybertruck.

• 28:28Andrew Santino?

  That's very funny. Can you imagine the crowd? Who are you, Kevin Hart? They're like, get out of here. What are you doing, dude? He would do that. He'd roll it on a fucking, on a Tesla Cybertruck. What's up? What's up? Out of the trunk and shit?

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• 29:44Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, did you ever grow up, by the way, though, the Persian shot, I have to take you, did you ever grow up with a, a white Beamer Mercedes?

• 29:50Speaker 05

  I did. I had, I had my, I had my white convertible BMW.

• 29:55Andrew Santino?

  You have to have BMW.

• 29:55Speaker 05

  Yep, yep.

• 29:56Andrew Santino?

  You have to have, any Persian isn't a Persian until one member of their family has a white Beamer or a white Benzo. You have to. What is that? Is that, it's like, it's in your code. It's like in your DNA.

• 30:07Speaker 05

  Well, and, and then, uh, the next level is G-Wagon.

• 30:11Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, right. G-Wagon is when you guys graduate to, yeah, that's what, that's, that's real Persian money.

• 30:16Speaker 05

  Soon as you get that raise, you gotta get the G-Wagon.

• 30:18Andrew Santino?

  Have to get a G-Wagon.

• 30:19Speaker 05

  The history of G-Wagon. The whole, the whole, love the Persians have Mercedes-Benz is because the Shah of Iran is the designer, uh, behind the G-Wagon.

• 30:30Andrew Santino?

  Oh, is that right?

• 30:31Speaker 05

  It was his idea.

• 30:31Andrew Santino?

  No shit.

• 30:32Speaker 05

  He, he had this idea. He sketched the idea. He said, this is the design I want, sent it to Mercedes. And the first G-Wagon was designed for the Shah of Iran.

• 30:41Andrew Santino?

  No way.

• 30:42Speaker 05

  And they sent it there. And then after that, the, the car just becomes an interesting, uh, Mercedes never thought the Jeep-looking sort of thing is going to be theirs.

• 30:51Andrew Santino?

  No.

• 30:52Speaker 05

  It blew up and now it became one of their popular models.

• 30:55Andrew Santino?

  Shah of Iran. I've literally, I've never heard of this story. To me, it looked like a Nazi tank. I always thought that. It was like World War II. I thought Mercedes was like, we'll make something to cut through all of the soldiers. What is it?

• 31:07Speaker 06

  He ordered twenty thousand.

• 31:08Andrew Santino?

  Twenty thousand G-Wagons, the Shah of Iran.

• 31:10Speaker 06

  Yeah. He got them, yeah.

• 31:11Andrew Santino?

  And he got twenty thousand of them.

• 31:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:13Speaker 06

  For the army.

• 31:14Speaker 05

  Isn't that crazy?

• 31:15Andrew Santino?

  Well, so it was an army truck.

• 31:16Speaker 05

  And then he, he had one for himself.

• 31:17Speaker 06

  Yeah, of course.

• 31:18Speaker 05

  He drove a beautiful luxury one.

• 31:20Andrew Santino?

  Fucking keep one of them, dude. Twenty thousand is crazy.

• 31:24Speaker 05

  I didn't even, I didn't know that. I didn't know, I, I just, I knew he had one. And that's what, that's why Iranians fell in love with Mercedes-Benz brand, you know, from that, you know, from that on, but-

• 31:34Andrew Santino?

  They do, man. And white Beamer is for the younger Persian.

• 31:37Speaker 05

  It's for Armenians.

• 31:38Andrew Santino?

  Right.

• 31:40Speaker 05

  Armenians are obsessed with BMWs. Persians obsessed with, with Mercedes. Now, Armenians also love BMW, but, but, you know, the, um, the stereotype is, I would say the white BMW is for the Armenians and the white Mercedes for the Persian.

• 31:53Andrew Santino?

  So why'd you have a white Beamer? You broke the code.

• 31:55Speaker 05

  I wanted to be more Armenian.

• 31:58Speaker 05

  They got the hookup for everything.

• 32:00Andrew Santino?

  They really do. They know a guy who knows a guy, man. They always got a boy, dude.

• 32:04Speaker 05

  They always do. They, they, they, you know, you talk to an Armenian, they always go, what do you need? Just, just tell me. You're like, what do you do? Don't worry what I do. I hook you up. Just tell me what you need. They always have a hookup.

• 32:16Andrew Santino?

  They do. You'll find, you'll find yourself on a discount plane service that you've never heard of before. You're like, Shakira Air? What the fuck? And they're like, just go. You're like, I don't know, dude. It's just gonna get us there?

• 32:27Speaker 05

  I'd, I'd tell you a great story about a Persian Armenian. We're at the Laugh Factory. I'm performing.

• 32:32Andrew Santino?

  This is, by the way, Laugh Factory is where all the Persians and Armenians.

• 32:36Speaker 05

  They go.

• 32:37Andrew Santino?

  That's the house. That's the house of comedy for them.

• 32:39Speaker 05

  I had this really great show on a weekend. Show finishes, I'm talking to these three girls after the show. Beautiful. And they're like, hey, come out with us. Let's hang out. And as comics, we're at the comedy club. And then, you know, we hang out and we go home.

• 32:52Andrew Santino?

  It's work.

• 32:53Speaker 05

  And I'm like, look, I'm not gonna go to club. And the girls are insisting, come on, it's gonna be fun. And I'm like, God, good gracious. And the girls are so hot. I'm like, fine, I'll go out for a little bit. Where, where they're going, hide, right around the, it's like, it's like two blocks, you know? Uh, two blocks away. So we walk, we walk to hide. There is a line around the block, people standing to get in. The three girls just, we just walk in the front. I'm, I'm with the girls. And this big, ginormous, you know, bouncer, black guy opens the rope. The three girls get in as soon as I'm about to go and he closes the rope. And the whole, everybody's watching. And, and, and I'm standing there, like, together. And the girl's like, oh, he's with us. Can, can, and, and he goes, nope.

• 33:37Speaker 05

  And the girl goes like, why? We have a table. He goes, your table is full, is occupied. That's it. You can't get in. And I'm just, and I'm just, I'm about to melt away. I'm so embarrassed. And the girl goes like, oh, sorry, bye. Bye. They walk in and all of a sudden I hear from behind me, Max, Max. I turn. There's a police officer in the uniform with his car, standing in the lot, Persian Armenian guy. And he goes, can I take a picture? It was like, everybody in line is like, who is this guy?

• 34:09Andrew Santino?

  The sea's parted that day.

• 34:11Speaker 05

  It was, it was, it was the most magical timing life had ever brought me. I walked down, hey, what's up, man? He goes, I love your work. Gives me a dab. We take a picture. He goes, thanks, man. I walk right back to the club. The bouncer opens the rope. I walk in, bro.

• 34:26Andrew Santino?

  Perfect.

• 34:27Speaker 05

  Like the most insane club experience I've ever had in my life.

• 34:31Andrew Santino?

  And then you spent two more hours going, what? What? Yeah, no, yeah, one more.

• 34:37Speaker 05

  I just, I had, I had the best time. I walked in and the girl's like, oh, you got it? I'm like, yes, but I'm hanging out over here.

• 34:42Andrew Santino?

  Yeah. No thanks to you, bitch.

• 34:44Speaker 05

  Exactly.

• 34:44Andrew Santino?

  Kick me outside. Are you single now? What are you doing?

• 34:47Speaker 05

  I'm single now.

• 34:48Andrew Santino?

  Single. Good for you.

• 34:49Speaker 05

  I'm single now, buddy. And, and I'm very happy about it. I'm not, I'm not, um, I'm in such a transition career wise. I feel like I'm better off single.

• 34:59Andrew Santino?

  Good for you.

• 34:59Speaker 05

  If that makes any sense.

• 35:00Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, whatever works for you, man. Yeah. I'm married, dude.

• 35:03Speaker 05

  Are you married?

• 35:04Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, I'm married. To this guy.

• 35:06Speaker 05

  To this guy.

• 35:07Speaker 06

  He's my everything.

• 35:08Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah. We live and die with each other.

• 35:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, I kind of remember. You got married recently, about a couple of years?

• 35:13Andrew Santino?

  No, no, it's been a long, long time. I think I got married in the forties.

• 35:16Speaker 05

  Single. Just kidding.

• 35:19Andrew Santino?

  I got married in nineteen forty-eight.

• 35:22Andrew Santino?

  No, yeah. No, you know what's so funny is I don't, I don't envy any of my single friends. I really don't. Like, I know, I know.

• 35:27Speaker 05

  So how long you been married?

• 35:28Andrew Santino?

  Ten years.

• 35:29Speaker 05

  God damn, kids?

• 35:30Andrew Santino?

  You didn't get a wedding invitation, did you? We sent it out.

• 35:33Speaker 05

  Back then, I don't think we've been friends for ten years. I don't know.

• 35:35Andrew Santino?

  No, we, no, we didn't, no. We, uh, no kids. We couldn't have kids. We tried and then we said, you know what? Probably better off that we don't have them.

• 35:42Speaker 05

  Good for you.

• 35:42Andrew Santino?

  Cause we like to live a little bit free.

• 35:43Speaker 05

  Is she in the business?

• 35:44Andrew Santino?

  She's not, dude. One headshot per household. That's the rule. One headshot per household. Al Madrigal, shout out to Al Madrigal. He said that.

• 35:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:51Andrew Santino?

  Al one time goes, one headshot, dude.

• 35:53Speaker 05

  I agree. I agree. I think it's too much.

• 35:55Andrew Santino?

  It's tough when two people are doing this bullshit game. This is already, we can't have two children in the house. One has to be a grown up.

• 36:01Speaker 05

  Yep, yep, yep.

• 36:01Andrew Santino?

  We're gonna be kids for the rest of our lives. Someone has to be a responsible adult, right?

• 36:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, but everybody, when people ask me, why are you not married? I said, look, our lifestyle is not easy, it's this hard. But then here you, we have Andrew, ten years, married.

• 36:15Andrew Santino?

  Well, you know, my wife lives in Russia, so she, it's, it's good, cause she's far, far away.

• 36:22Andrew Santino?

  No, you can make it, you know, you can make relationships work in this business. It is very, very difficult. I think the biggest thing is you find your, you find your happiness in, in the center of it all. Because it's very distracting. You're on the road all the time. You're gone a lot. You have to focus on the business. So you're being so selfish in the game. It's hard, dude. It's, but if, but if you can meet someone who shares, um, the love of your drive that you have, like that really wants to like support the drive. God bless, dude. Well, it's, it's, it's hard. It's really hard. We, you know, we have a lot of friends that.

• 36:54Speaker 05

  How often she comes on the road with you?

• 36:57Andrew Santino?

  You know, dude, I'm not touring this year. I haven't toured this. It was kind of crazy. And last year she came out a little bit, but it's like, once in a while, she'll come out if there's a city that she wants to go to. She's not going to Topeka. You know what I mean? Like, there's places where I'm like, but we'll go to the major city, right? We go to New York, we go to Boston, we go to Philly, we go to, those places she wants to be along for the ride.

• 37:14Speaker 05

  That's nice.

• 37:15Andrew Santino?

  But you know, but touring is so hard and it's work. I'm not, we're not like the most pleasant people when we're on the road. When I'm on stage, it's the most fun. But the hotels, the flights, the transfers, the blah, blah, blah.

• 37:26Speaker 05

  Yep. I saw you that, you remember I saw you, uh, at the airport?

• 37:28Andrew Santino?

  Where were we?

• 37:29Speaker 05

  We were going, well, uh, we were going to DC. You and Bobby had a show.

• 37:32Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 37:33Speaker 05

  I had a show in DC.

• 37:34Andrew Santino?

  DC, that's okay. We, we, we played, um.

• 37:36Speaker 05

  Constitution Hall.

• 37:37Andrew Santino?

  Constitution Hall. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

• 37:39Speaker 05

  I remember. I remember. I said, where you guys playing? Yeah, you were playing Constitution Hall. Fun show, right?

• 37:44Andrew Santino?

  Oh, my God, dude. So upside down that place. Well, DC throws you for a loop because you don't really know who the audience is gonna be. Like, you're like, who lives here? Who is this? Like, who's in DC?

• 37:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 37:56Andrew Santino?

  Because so many people that live in the direct world are in the world of politics, but you get so many people from the outside world that come in, you know, like,

• 38:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:03Andrew Santino?

  A lot of Virginia people coming.

• 38:04Speaker 05

  I feel like it's like LA.

• 38:06Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, it's a good, it's a mix. Yeah.

• 38:08Speaker 05

  And, and it's a smart crowd. Um.

• 38:10Andrew Santino?

  Oh, it's a super smart crowd. Smarter than the people on stage, that's for sure.

• 38:13Speaker 05

  What, like, majority of your crowd is who? Is it a white crowd?

• 38:18Andrew Santino?

  No, we kick out the whites. We're not into the whites.

• 38:21Speaker 05

  Because I feel like the whites are into, uh.

• 38:23Andrew Santino?

  Who? Matt Rife? Yeah, they like him. Okay, Max?

• 38:28Speaker 05

  Bobby, Bobby, but the whites come from Bobby.

• 38:30Andrew Santino?

  No, the white, no, we get a lot of, we get a lot of Asian, a lot of Filipino, a lot of Asian. Uh, but we get a pretty good mix. I feel like I get, um.

• 38:39Speaker 05

  Filipino, Filipinos.

• 38:41Andrew Santino?

  We do get a lot of Filipinos.

• 38:42Speaker 05

  They're great comedy audience.

• 38:43Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, man. They, what do you, they like to laugh, like, you know what I mean?

• 38:46Speaker 05

  But they're good comedy audience.

• 38:47Andrew Santino?

  Because they can take a joke. Mexicans, we get a ton of Mexicans. West Coast especially, dude. We're, we're Mexican audience is huge. We love Mexicans. I fuck with Mexicans the hardest. These are some of the best people who know how to laugh at the shit, who like that we're weird and fucking creepy and stupid.

• 39:03Speaker 05

  Filipinos are so good is because, look, Bobby is not Filipino.

• 39:06Andrew Santino?

  No.

• 39:07Speaker 05

  Right? He's got a big Filipino following. Uh, Joe Coy was, you know, got the initial big bang from the Filipinos. I have a massive Filipino audience. So that means they're, they're comedy lovers.

• 39:20Andrew Santino?

  They love comedy.

• 39:21Speaker 05

  I'm Persian. Joe Coy Filipino. None of you guys Filipino.

• 39:25Andrew Santino?

  Well, he dated a Filipino, that's why.

• 39:27Speaker 05

  Oh, I remember her. Yeah.

• 39:29Andrew Santino?

  He had a Filipino, he had, he had, his, Kalila was from the Philippines and her family still lives with Bobby. So he's kind of supportive of the Filipino culture. So they, they support him in return.

• 39:38Speaker 05

  Okay, okay, okay, okay.

• 39:39Andrew Santino?

  We get it all. We touch all bases.

• 39:41Speaker 05

  I didn't, I didn't, okay, okay.

• 39:42Andrew Santino?

  And then, and then the audience always is never ending argument that I get more black fans than he does. He fought me on it, but it's very true.

• 39:48Speaker 05

  How? How do you think?

• 39:49Andrew Santino?

  Why do I get more black fans?

• 39:50Speaker 05

  Was it dick jokes that you guys had on the podcast?

• 39:52Andrew Santino?

  No, black guys like white, offset whites. That's what I always say. They're like a white that doesn't look like a normal white.

• 39:57Speaker 05

  No, but you, you have, you have, you, you're the white guy with black energy.

• 40:00Andrew Santino?

  Okay.

• 40:01Speaker 05

  You do.

• 40:01Andrew Santino?

  You say it. You heard that?

• 40:03Speaker 05

  He does. He's got, he's got that loud, like fucking, I don't give a shit.

• 40:08Andrew Santino?

  I don't give a shit.

• 40:09Speaker 05

  Let's go. It's as real as it gets right here, you know?

• 40:14Andrew Santino?

  So, yeah, black people like real shit.

• 40:15Speaker 05

  Listen, if you're not authentic, then, uh, nobody wants to fucking connect with you, especially black people.

• 40:22Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah. They don't, they like comics that have some confidence in them. Yeah, they're not into like, um, I'm trying to think of a name as, I'm trying to be like, who would they not like? You know, I don't see, there's some people that just wouldn't cater to those audiences, cause that's not their style. But yes, they want someone that's got a little bravado. They want someone that's got that thing. Where whites can sit through anything.

• 40:42Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 40:43Andrew Santino?

  The whites will sit through anybody, dude. But no, they want a little bit, they want a little sauce in there.

• 40:48Speaker 05

  Who's the best comedy audience to you?

• 40:51Andrew Santino?

  Like where in the country?

• 40:52Speaker 05

  No, no, just from all the different nationalities. Who's the best comedy audience?

• 40:56Andrew Santino?

  I like this. I like this. I like this. Let me, let me isolate one. Let me piss off the other ones. I would say.

• 41:06Andrew Santino?

  I would still say Mexicans are our best fans. I think when we play like the west, when we play LA or we play the west coast. Dude Mexicans go fucking off. Arizona, Texas, anywhere in the southwest where the Mexican contingency is high. They go the most nuts. I think the Mexicans fans that we have were like the Irish fans when we went to Dublin.

• 41:26Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 41:27Andrew Santino?

  They were fucking so much fun. They couldn't wait to party. Then we played London and London was fine. They were great. But the energy wasn't the same.

• 41:36Speaker 05

  Yeah, no.

• 41:36Andrew Santino?

  Cause London was polite.

• 41:38Speaker 05

  It's actually interesting you say that, cause I, I landed in London. Matt Rife was playing the O2. I was playing the O2 a few days later.

• 41:47Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 41:47Speaker 05

  So, um, we have the same agent. Uh, he said, he said, I'm at the O2, Matt's playing. I said, shit, I'm gonna come right now. So I went, I watched Matt play. And after the show, I saw him, I said, Matt, fucking, it was great. How do you feel? He goes, man, I fucking hated the audience.

• 42:00Andrew Santino?

  Well, he's a comedian.

• 42:01Speaker 05

  And I said, I said, why? He said, dude, I just, the energy, I'm not, and you know, London, they're so polite.

• 42:07Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, they're very nice.

• 42:07Speaker 05

  I'm not getting that crazy vibe that I, and I said, buddy, I watched the show. It was, it was amazing. And it was great, but absolutely right.

• 42:14Andrew Santino?

  That's a, that it's a, it's a cultural thing. Cause Americans, you know, they make fun of us. We're the, you know, that we're these rowdy pigs, but like, I like rowdy pigs, dude.

• 42:21Speaker 05

  No, for a comedy show, the more wild and.

• 42:24Andrew Santino?

  And mild and they're, they, they appreciate well-written jokes and it's great, but like, give me a fucking, give me some fun.

• 42:31Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:32Andrew Santino?

  When we're on the road, give us some fun.

• 42:33Speaker 05

  I don't have the biggest black audience, but.

• 42:35Andrew Santino?

  Right, we know, they told us before the show.

• 42:37Speaker 05

  They told you that. But the, the best, the best comedy audience is, is always gonna be the African-Americans.

• 42:45Andrew Santino?

  A black room, yeah.

• 42:46Speaker 05

  Like, American. And, and, and when they laugh, man, the whole body, they laugh with their whole body. The fucking, you feel like, that's a different feel. You, you, you know, you're performing and the audience, like, you know, when you play Chaka Sundays, I don't know if you played, um.

• 43:00Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, or Moe Bada Mondays.

• 43:01Speaker 05

  Moe Bada Mondays. The audience just moves. And if you're really funny, they'll start hitting themselves and be like, fuck. If you're extra funny, they'll beat each other like, ah, fucking A. And you feel like a rock star playing that show.

• 43:15Andrew Santino?

  But if you're not funny.

• 43:16Speaker 05

  If you're not funny, bro.

• 43:19Andrew Santino?

  If you're not funny in a black room. If you're not funny in a white room, it's fine.

• 43:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:25Andrew Santino?

  You're not funny in a black room, you gotta take off a week. You gotta let them know, you gotta, go lick your wounds for a little, they'll tell you.

• 43:32Speaker 05

  You need to see your psychologist the next day.

• 43:34Andrew Santino?

  They'll tell you. I like, nah, nah, I've heard that, nah. And you're like, god damn dude. Nah hurts, nah hurts your feelings. But now you're out of place, now you've cultivated such a big fanbase, it doesn't even matter. You're good. You've got who you need and you keep, just keep growing and that's all that matters.

• 43:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:49Andrew Santino?

  And I don't care who shows up. I've always said, I don't care where they see us from, whether it's the podcast space or TV or film or blah, I don't give a fuck. As long as you're coming to have a good time.

• 43:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, of course.

• 43:59Andrew Santino?

  Are you on, are you, are you on the road right now? Are you touring or not?

• 44:02Speaker 05

  I'm about to leave to Australia this Saturday.

• 44:05Andrew Santino?

  Bro, Bobby's going what, in like two weeks?

• 44:07Speaker 06

  On Monday.

• 44:07Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, bro.

• 44:08Speaker 05

  Really?

• 44:08Andrew Santino?

  You guys are gonna overlap.

• 44:09Speaker 05

  Leaving on Saturday.

• 44:10Andrew Santino?

  He's gonna be there, he's going to Perth. No, sorry, he's doing.

• 44:14Speaker 06

  Melbourne.

• 44:14Andrew Santino?

  Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.

• 44:16Speaker 06

  Auckland.

• 44:17Andrew Santino?

  And Auckland, yeah.

• 44:17Speaker 05

  I'm playing, I'm playing all those cities, plus Perth, Adelaide, uh, yeah.

• 44:23Andrew Santino?

  We did Perth, the last trip we did, we did it together. We did Perth, we did Brisbane, Adelaide, we did all of them. He doesn't wanna go to the west coast. He's touring alone. Him and Carlos are gonna go out there and have some fun together.

• 44:31Speaker 05

  Australia's insane. It's insane.

• 44:33Andrew Santino?

  These people are the best. They're awesome comedy fans, dude.

• 44:35Speaker 05

  They're fucking comedy lovers.

• 44:38Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, because they're, because they're happy you came so far. They're like, dude, this is a long ride. Thanks for coming down.

• 44:42Speaker 05

  Especially Perth. You get to Australia, it takes you forever to get to Australia. And then you're like, where's Perth? Oh, another flight for six hours south. Like, fuck.

• 44:50Andrew Santino?

  It's insane.

• 44:51Speaker 05

  You know, it's, it's, it's far.

• 44:52Andrew Santino?

  But Perth, shout out to Perth, they treated us very well. That was such a great city. I'm glad we didn't skip it. They were like, you're gonna make it to, cause we were, our original plan was play first Perth first and then head back east. That's what we wanted to do, was go that way, just go that way. We went down, up and then there, then all the way back. And I thought, damn, are we gonna even make that show? For a second, I thought we were gonna cancel it. And I'm glad we went, cause they were amazing.

• 45:13Speaker 05

  They're amazing.

• 45:14Andrew Santino?

  Then we went, have you been out there to Perth?

• 45:15Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:16Andrew Santino?

  There's a little place, there's a little Rott Ness Island. It's off the coast. If you get a chance, take a boat, go out there. They have these things called the quacas. They're these little tiny, what are they like squirrels?

• 45:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's the most like.

• 45:26Andrew Santino?

  Quacas is what they're called.

• 45:27Speaker 05

  Really?

• 45:28Andrew Santino?

  Go take a boat to Rott Ness. I'm not kidding, you won't regret it. It's so beautiful. It's like a.

• 45:31Speaker 05

  Outside of Perth?

• 45:32Andrew Santino?

  West of Perth. It's off the western coast of Perth. It's like a little tiny island. It took us, I don't even know, like, maybe forty-five minute boat, something like that?

• 45:38Speaker 06

  If that, it's just a ferry.

• 45:40Andrew Santino?

  It's a ferry, yeah. But go out there.

• 45:42Speaker 05

  I, I'm, I'm gonna see, because this, my schedule is so tight with this tour. This is my, I've been playing Australia for ten years, maybe, maybe longer.

• 45:51Andrew Santino?

  Okay.

• 45:51Speaker 05

  Uh, I used to go out there to big Persian community, I used to play. Now, this is the first time I'm going back. This is the biggest tour I've ever had in Australia.

• 45:58Andrew Santino?

  Awesome.

• 45:58Speaker 05

  This is, this is like, I've never played Australia like this. And because it was overwhelming, the response, it surprised us. The days that I thought I'm, I have off, we ended up booking those days.

• 46:12Andrew Santino?

  Oh, well, that's a good problem to have.

• 46:14Speaker 05

  So, the, the wiggle room between the, it's like, I don't, I hardly have, I think I have one travel day between every, every show.

• 46:21Andrew Santino?

  What are you doing for yourself then? What's Max doing for himself?

• 46:23Speaker 05

  Nothing in Australia.

• 46:24Andrew Santino?

  What are you doing here? What's your break time? What's your getaway from the machine? Cause all I know of you is work.

• 46:29Speaker 05

  Well, I tell you, but that is my life.

• 46:31Andrew Santino?

  But you don't have anything for you? Just your little hidden getaway?

• 46:34Speaker 05

  I'll tell you, I'll give you a little bit of a, you know, a day of maximini. The best time for me is the morning. I, you know, I get up, I work out.

• 46:46Speaker 05

  That's like my two, three hours of the gym. And I try to be extremely consistent on this, right? And, and I, the only sports I play, and I stay consistent playing, is basketball. So, twice a week, I play basketball. Wednesdays and Sundays. And my friend has a court, we get a bunch of same people, safe game, good game, fucking very competitive. You know, that's the only sort of fun I, I can, I can recall. But it doesn't mean that, but I mean, we love what we do. I love my work. I love when I'm performing. I love my dinners with my friends. That's all I do. Go to dinner, see a friend, catch up. But my days are busy. I mean, I, I wake up in the morning, I do my workout, I go to my office. I have forty employees.

• 47:30Andrew Santino?

  Four zero.

• 47:31Speaker 05

  Four zero.

• 47:32Andrew Santino?

  How?

• 47:32Speaker 05

  Uh, I have, this is, I've had this production company since two thousand ten. So, two thousand ten, I opened this production company. And I started with like six, seven people. And it grew little at a time. And now, at its peak, it's really heavy because I have three departments. I have a marketing department that markets all my tours. I have a touring department, you know, I have six people working the touring department. And then I have my editors for social media. So, when I perform, I come back, the editors cut my stuff and then, you know, the, the content gets ready. You know, you know, we, we have a social media person that posts it. So this whole thing just keep growing and the pressure keeps, you know, increasing. And that is probably the, the, the heaviest part of my, uh, routine.

• 48:18Andrew Santino?

  Wow.

• 48:18Speaker 05

  Now, that is probably, I, I was, people say, my god, your touring schedule is so heavy, you must be tired. I'm like, shit, you don't understand, the touring is actually, I love it.

• 48:27Andrew Santino?

  Break from the life here.

• 48:28Speaker 05

  I enjoy, exactly. I get out, I love the touring. I love the shows. The traveling is hard, but the tour, the shows are amazing.

• 48:34Andrew Santino?

  Yeah.

• 48:35Speaker 05

  But running a business, I mean, today's entertainment has changed. Like you, um, you can relate. I mean, look at this beautiful studio you have. You have your own team, you have your own editors, you gotta get this content, you gotta, it, people don't realize how much we have to be involved in the creative process of aftermath of the shoots and the great fun stuff. I feel like, to me, um, that's my least, uh, fun sort of thing in my life. I mean, it's, it's, it's painful, it's heavy, it's, it's, it's, it's annoying, but you gotta do it. You gotta have the work ethic and do it, otherwise, this side, you can, you, you know, you cannot enjoy the play, the fun.

• 49:19Andrew Santino?

  No, no, well, you, you have to have as much fun as you're doing work though. That's what I mean. You gotta take more time for yourself too. Do some, do some Mac stuff.

• 49:27Speaker 05

  Like what?

• 49:28Andrew Santino?

  I have whatever, whatever tickles your fancy. Do whether it's making pottery at night, you know what I mean? Like, you gotta do something that like does a thing for you. I'm always telling my comedy friends, cause a lot of times you're gonna get a lot of fame and success and it's gonna be great. And it's also like, what else too? What, what moves Max? You know what I mean? And I think, I think you're gonna fish for something soon. Cause you're working like a dog.

• 49:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 49:49Andrew Santino?

  And you're on top. And that basketball is probably fun, but let's get Max to do something else. We're gonna find something for you.

• 49:55Speaker 05

  Give me, I'm, I'm, I'm not gonna golf. I'm not gonna golf.

• 49:58Andrew Santino?

  You're not gonna do white stuff?

• 49:59Speaker 05

  Cause I, I know you're a good golfer.

• 50:00Andrew Santino?

  Love golf.

• 50:01Speaker 05

  I, I'm, I'm too Persian for the golf.

• 50:03Andrew Santino?

  Do Persians not golf?

• 50:04Speaker 05

  Let me ask you this. What is it, what is your thing? Is it golf?

• 50:08Andrew Santino?

  No, or I disappear with like on boys trips with friends. Like go, we'll go do stuff, like go to a little disappear boys trip, something like that. And a lot of times that is golf, but it doesn't always have to be. A lot of times just getting together with guys and going to fucking disappear from the world of this.

• 50:19Speaker 05

  How long?

• 50:21Andrew Santino?

  A couple of days, four, five days.

• 50:22Speaker 05

  I do that.

• 50:23Andrew Santino?

  Okay, that's good.

• 50:23Speaker 05

  So, till the end of my tour, I take a few days.

• 50:26Andrew Santino?

  Go on vacation with a couple of boys.

• 50:27Speaker 05

  Exactly. There's few cities, I've, you know, every city, we all have good friends, because we've been going to these cities for so long.

• 50:32Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you see so many people.

• 50:33Speaker 05

  And so, there's certain cities, when I go to, at the end of the tour, my crew goes back, I stay a few days. And that's just my few days. Two or three days.

• 50:43Andrew Santino?

  Disappear.

• 50:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, just, just with the same people that I, people that I love. You don't have to think, you just, you're just there. And, and you just, you know, pick on each other and talk bullshit and you're happy no matter where you at.

• 50:54Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, just hanging out.

• 50:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. I do that.

• 50:57Andrew Santino?

  That's good. That's what you need. Cause I'm gonna see Max go up and up and up and up. I'm gonna go, Max, Max, I'm up here. I'm busy.

• 51:07Speaker 05

  No, I'm with you. But I think I'm very conscious of my, um, I prioritize me in the sense of, like, I, I don't get my, I'm not unaware of how much heat and how much work is on my shoulder.

• 51:20Andrew Santino?

  Sure.

• 51:21Speaker 05

  I, I sort of, I, I, I know when I'm, when I'm under pressure and I give myself a little break or come up for air.

• 51:27Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, you need to, otherwise.

• 51:28Speaker 05

  Although you do, yeah, of course. Of course.

• 51:30Andrew Santino?

  Like, there's a famous story about Martin Lawrence, right? It was that Martin Lawrence that did, uh.

• 51:35Andrew Santino?

  He was doing back to back to back to back to back movies and then he didn't have like a stroke or something. Something happened where he was like hospitalized for like exhaustion. I mean, he like cracked himself, right?

• 51:44Speaker 06

  Yeah, August 1999.

• 51:45Andrew Santino?

  He worked himself.

• 51:46Speaker 06

  Three day coma.

• 51:46Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, he worked himself into a coma. And that's real shit. The guy worked so hard, so much. He was just, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And I don't know who it was. I want to say Chappelle. That's probably wrong. But Dave just is a great order. So he's told so many great stories. But he said someone visited him in the hospital.

• 52:06Andrew Santino?

  And he was like, how are you? And he was like, that's the best sleep I've ever had. And he was like, that's not good. That it took you to have a stroke to go to sleep. Who's like,

• 52:15Speaker 05

  God damn.

• 52:16Andrew Santino?

  But it's true in the entertainment world. A lot of times they're, you're, you're running yourself as thin as they're wanting to run you too. So that's how I always say to my friends and people in the biz, like people that I respect, I'm always like, make sure you're doing you too.

• 52:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:27Andrew Santino?

  Cause if you're doing just a machine, sometimes you're just gonna, you kind of fall into nothing.

• 52:31Speaker 05

  Especially this, look, I don't drink.

• 52:34Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, no drink, no drugs, no nothing. I know that. You never have. Yeah, it's not your thing.

• 52:38Speaker 05

  That's another thing.

• 52:39Andrew Santino?

  I do enough for you, by the way. I do, I'll drink and do drugs for you.

• 52:42Speaker 05

  But I'm thinking, I'm thinking that I would have never been able to make these tours if after my show I was drinking and then going to bed, waking up the next day, trying to go to another city and perform again and then have fun afterwards. I just don't know how their body can pull it through.

• 52:58Andrew Santino?

  It's hard, but I'm doing, I'm doing my best. Doing a great job, dude. I'll tell you, cause the drugs offset the drinking is what you do. You do the drugs to get back from the drinking and then, no, I'm getting older where I can't do it as much as I used to. But I love having a couple of pops. That's my favorite thing is, you know, that's my, part of my connective tissue to people is sharing a bottle with somebody and chatting backstage for a couple of hours. That was nothing to me. Well, that's my, my heritage.

• 53:23Speaker 05

  After the show, before the show?

• 53:25Andrew Santino?

  After the show.

• 53:26Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 53:27Andrew Santino?

  I don't want to see people before the show. He knows I'm a big,

• 53:29Speaker 05

  Me neither.

• 53:30Andrew Santino?

  Leave me alone before the show.

• 53:31Speaker 05

  Me neither.

• 53:31Andrew Santino?

  I don't want, like, can we come backstage? You're like, yeah, after the show. And they're like, what about before? You're like, why?

• 53:36Speaker 05

  A hundred percent I agree.

• 53:38Andrew Santino?

  Come see the show, have a good time and then come back. I'll say hi. That way my shoulders are, are dropped. I don't want to be backstage being like, yeah, man. And then, yeah, good to see you. And then you're doing five things. It's not, I think people don't, there's a lot going on prior to a show. And the more that you can kind of chill out right before you go on, it's a lot easier than afterwards.

• 53:56Speaker 05

  Even if it's nothing going on before the show.

• 53:59Andrew Santino?

  Something's going on.

• 53:59Speaker 05

  I like to be by myself.

• 54:01Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 54:01Speaker 05

  I like to sit in that room. They come and ask you a couple of questions. I want to be in my own zone. And not that as a comedian, we do any, uh, jumping jacks or a weird warm up or nothing. You guys do. Yeah. I love that, that sort of like a few minutes before. And by the way, I don't know about you, I show up five minutes before I go on. But when I, you know, in the car, I don't want anybody next to me. I like to be alone from my hotel.

• 54:29Andrew Santino?

  Even your openers don't ride with you?

• 54:31Speaker 05

  No, no. I just, I like, my opener is super cool. They come, but I, I, I'm, I'm in my own zone before I go on stage. I don't want to have a conversation, but I really want to just, I'm thinking about the city. I'm thinking about how my day went. I like to open the show and sort of relate to the city I'm in. So I'm kind of reviewing, you know, I'm in that sort of like, uh, observation of what I experienced that day, what's happening or where I'm at and.

• 54:59Andrew Santino?

  Trying to connect with the city.

• 55:00Speaker 05

  And, and I hate to have a conversation with anybody at that moment. Cause I am really enjoying this, this moment of discovery. Uh, so, but afterwards, a hundred percent.

• 55:09Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, then you can come hang. Yeah, we've had some good hangs after the show. Carlos got himself in a lot of trouble after a couple of shows.

• 55:15Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 55:16Andrew Santino?

  Bad boy. He's a little bad boy, weren't you?

• 55:18Speaker 06

  Yeah, I haven't drank, uh, at a show since.

• 55:21Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, that's exactly right.

• 55:22Speaker 05

  I mean, you and Bobby go out after the shows?

• 55:24Andrew Santino?

  Bobby doesn't. Bobby's sober. But I'll, I'll go out.

• 55:27Speaker 05

  But, but he doesn't come and hang out?

• 55:29Andrew Santino?

  Uh, sometimes it really depends on what, if we go get food together. We usually go get dinners, cause dinners is like a, we have family dinners. And the family dinners, then we, it's an excuse for him to want to come out. But to go out to a bar when I'm meeting up with people, to go out to a bar or something like that, he's not interested in that crowd. That's, he just, he doesn't want drunk people near him.

• 55:46Speaker 05

  Good for him. Good for him.

• 55:47Andrew Santino?

  He goes back to the room and, uh, and plays video games or what?

• 55:52Speaker 06

  He stays up all night.

• 55:53Andrew Santino?

  Stays up all night. Yeah. He plays video games, goof's around. Yeah.

• 55:56Speaker 05

  Listen, first of all, I have so much, I don't drink. I didn't do drugs, but I have extra respect for those who did it. And then they sobered up after that. Like I said, that's unbelievable.

• 56:08Andrew Santino?

  No, good. We're happy for him. I mean, I, again, like, I'm not like I used to be, but I still like to go out, say hi and have some pops, especially if we're in a city and someone that I know is there. Can't wait, man. That's like one of my favorite things in the world. Especially if a feature is someone I like, you know, like I, I toured with this guy, Devontre Coleman, who I think is a phenomenal comedian. And the first couple of nights we went out together and I said, do you, do you like drink when you're at home? He's like, no, but I drink with you. And I said, okay, dude, it's not my fault. No, but he's, he's, he's an independent man. He can do whatever he wants. But it is nice, you know, to kind of trail around into the night with a feature, a little one-on-one.

• 56:44Speaker 05

  He's getting his features all, you know, alcoholic.

• 56:47Andrew Santino?

  Yeah. It's not my fault, you know what I mean? Welcome, welcome to the show.

• 56:52Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's like, how did your career go? I was doing so great. And I started featuring.

• 56:55Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, Chris Santino and I bombed. Yeah. You know what? Fucking, you know, can't take the heat, get out the kitchen, dog. Um, tell me, Max, we're, uh, uh, we're on tour now. maxamini.com is the website.

• 57:08Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 57:09Andrew Santino?

  Yes. Go see the man. Uh, Australia, you're going. This will probably be out while, you know, you're already down there. So I, the shows were great. I'm, I know they were. But the rest of the tour is going to continue on. Go to maxamini.com and go get those tickets and go see the man. And then in the new year, please come support all of our friends and family of the Whiskey Ginger Crew, uh, and watch, uh, I Forgot to Tell You.

• 57:31Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:32Andrew Santino?

  It's great. I forgot to tell you on Netflix. On Netflix. It should be on Netflix coming out in 2027. We don't know when, but keep your eyes and ears peeled. Uh, comment down below if you own a white Beamer or a white Benz, uh, and the year. And if you want to put a photo of it in there in the comments, we'd love to see that.

• 57:48Speaker 05

  Or a Cybertruck. Or a Cybertruck. I show you the rap.

• 57:51Andrew Santino?

  Yeah, he'll show, he'll post the rap.

• 57:53Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:53Andrew Santino?

  We end the show the same way. You look into that camera and you say one word or one phrase. It used to be, uh, a word, uh, it used to be a phrase. It was a word. People got, you know, people wanted to impart words of wisdom. Some people want to say just one singular word, but when you're ready, whatever you want to say in there.

• 58:08Speaker 05

  Pussy.

• 58:09Speaker 02

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

• 58:15Speaker 03

  Who's that creature in the ginger beard?

• 58:17Speaker 07

  Sturdy and ginger. Like that, the ginger gene is a curse.

• 58:21Speaker 04

  Ginger's a beautiful. You want me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse? Ginger, oh hell no. This whiskey is excellent.

• 58:30Speaker 03

  Ginger. I like gingers.

• 58:36Speaker 00

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