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1:55 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:55 Speaker 00 Dune, specifically Dune.
1:57 Bobby Lee? It's not anything racial.
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2:01 Speaker 03 It's clearable Quran.
2:03 Speaker 00 Nope, it's Dune.
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2:08 Speaker 03 He goes, "This is an audio jungle single called A Prayer." It's not bad, I gotta say, you know? That's a pretty good. Kind of sounds.
2:19 Speaker 00 My god.
2:20 Speaker 03 vibrato? Like Kenny G circular breathing here, it's lasting forever. The long.
2:29 Bobby Lee? Oh, um.
2:31 Speaker 03 What about this intro for us?
2:32 Bobby Lee? Assalamu alaikum. Another wrong opening?
2:35 Speaker 00 Maybe.
2:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah, maybe wrong opening. Um, I apologize for that.
2:39 Speaker 00 For what?
2:39 Bobby Lee? But it's for good. Um, I love all people. And I think we're connected. I do.
2:47 Speaker 00 Do you?
2:48 Bobby Lee? Do I not?
2:49 Speaker 00 Maybe.
2:49 Bobby Lee? Do I not?
2:50 Speaker 00 You do.
2:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
2:51 Speaker 00 You love some more than others.
2:53 Bobby Lee? Yeah, that is absolutely not true.
2:56 Speaker 00 You almost said, "Yeah."
2:57 Bobby Lee? Yeah, um, if you look at my face before we introduce everybody in the room, I've been breaking out a lot. So on the left side of my mountain, there's a mountain region of,
3:09 Speaker 00 Yeah.
3:10 Bobby Lee? I mean, of acne. The one down here, right? Right? And consider my nose the Strait of Hormuz.
3:17 Speaker 00 Okay.
3:18 Bobby Lee? It's Iran.
3:19 Speaker 00 I see.
3:20 Bobby Lee? The mountainous regions. And I think I did that for this podcast in solidarity.
3:25 Speaker 00 I see, I see.
3:26 Bobby Lee? Everybody, one, two, three. Ahhh.
3:32 Speaker 00 It's raining men!
3:35 Speaker 03 That's the opposite. That's the opposite. You can't. No, no, no. No, no, we don't allow that.
3:39 Speaker 00 Haram, haram, haram, haram.
3:41 Speaker 03 Oh, this guy, this guy knows what's up.
3:43 Bobby Lee? Um, I, um, we have Zach who's new. You know what I mean? That was, it was a last minute.
3:50 Speaker 03 Thank you so much.
3:53 Bobby Lee? Thank you so much. Oh, that's great. Uh, we have an old schooler, Ramsey Badawi, big star now.
3:59 Speaker 04 I'm like him.
4:00 Bobby Lee? He was on, uh, a gigantic show that just came out called Comics Unleashed, and I just...
4:05 Speaker 04 Oh my god.
4:06 Bobby Lee? My congratulations to you. You've made it in show business. And let's do a salute to you. Dude, that's legacy media, dude.
4:15 Speaker 04 Well, it's a rite of passage.
4:16 Bobby Lee? It's a rite of passage, dude.
4:17 Speaker 04 Thank you. I needed the $500.
4:19 Bobby Lee? Yeah, it's not about the money, though. It really isn't. It's about...
4:22 Speaker 04 It was strictly about...
4:22 Bobby Lee? Optics. It's about, um, being on the center stage with legends.
4:29 Speaker 04 Oh, perfect, yeah.
4:29 Bobby Lee? Like Chris Milhouse.
4:32 Speaker 04 Come on, dude.
4:33 Bobby Lee? Who's in your class?
4:35 Speaker 04 I don't know.
4:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, who's he? Yeah, yeah. Good question, Zach.
4:37 Speaker 04 Paint the couches next to it.
4:39 Bobby Lee? Yeah, cat. Give me the...
4:39 Speaker 04 Paint the chairs.
4:40 Bobby Lee? Cat, cat. The cast.
4:42 Speaker 04 I literally do not know.
4:44 Bobby Lee? No, no, no. You tested me the other day.
4:46 Speaker 04 I swear to god. I sent you the thing.
4:47 Bobby Lee? You didn't memorize the three guys that you were on a show with?
4:50 Speaker 03 You'll never believe this. He goes, "Guess where I am?" And you send your picture up.
4:54 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
4:55 Speaker 04 I don't know one of the people.
4:56 Bobby Lee? You didn't know their names? You can't even remember? Wow, that's uninteresting.
5:00 Speaker 04 Yeah.
5:00 Bobby Lee? Because sometimes you get the big ones in there.
5:03 Speaker 04 Yes, I did not get any of the big ones. They were very nice people. I just didn't know.
5:06 Bobby Lee? Maybe you were the big one.
5:07 Speaker 04 It could have been.
5:08 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Is it aired?
5:10 Speaker 04 It's airing, uh, May 28th.
5:11 Speaker 03 I can do a viewing party?
5:14 Speaker 03 We should all go.
5:15 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
5:15 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
5:16 Bobby Lee? We should run out to Hollywood.
5:18 Speaker 05 Merrick Cooper, Mike Manola, Chase Anthony, and Ramsey Badawi, new.
5:23 Speaker 04 Thank you.
5:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah, Ramsey Badawi.
5:25 Speaker 00 8:35 on CBS.
5:27 Speaker 03 Did Byron lead you in really well?
5:29 Speaker 04 Yeah.
5:29 Speaker 03 He's like, "Ramsey, you have a dog."
5:31 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
5:33 Speaker 04 He actually went, "What makes you mad?" That was it. That was one of the, one of the lead-ins. "What makes you mad?"
5:38 Speaker 03 And that dovetailed perfectly into your mad thing?
5:39 Speaker 04 It's all my, what I'm mad about.
5:41 Speaker 03 Do you think anybody at home is like, feels like it's super organic, like? Like, we know how it works behind the scenes?
5:46 Bobby Lee? God, Byron really must know this person.
5:49 Speaker 03 Yeah, or they just all have, like, amazing jokes about these topics.
5:52 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
5:53 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Um, so how is the prep prep? Do you, is there, you get there early? And then they, somebody, you have a handler?
6:02 Speaker 04 Uh, somewhat.
6:04 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and they go, okay, cause let me know, how do we set up? Your joke, what jokes?
6:08 Speaker 04 I sent them all my jokes. They asked me to send a transcript of my material.
6:13 Bobby Lee? Oh, not audio, just on, on a page?
6:16 Speaker 04 Just on a page.
6:17 Speaker 03 How does that feel? Like, when you have to break down your act and actually type it? Do you feel like a fraud, like, then I tell her?
6:24 Speaker 03 You're like a court stenographer? And you're like, what the fuck? When you see your jokes in written form, you're like, what the fuck am I doing?
6:30 Bobby Lee? And, and sometimes the punchline is a physical thing, right? So did you have to put in parentheses? This is where I might raise my hand up, right? And I do a little dance. Does the worm.
6:38 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, in brackets, Ramsey gets up and does the worm.
6:41 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
6:42 Speaker 00 How do you do yours set then?
6:43 Bobby Lee? That's why I've never done it. Well, I've never been asked. I think that's the most important thing.
6:47 Speaker 04 I can hook you up with the connect if you want to do it.
6:51 Bobby Lee? So I already, so this is what really happened. Um, and then we're gonna get to you and your show.
6:55 Speaker 03 No, I don't care. No, I'm here for the, I'm here for the hang.
6:58 Bobby Lee? And, and, and all the things that you've been doing in the business. And I'm very excited for you. But, um, Monday night, I was in a fever dream.
7:07 Speaker 04 You were?
7:08 Bobby Lee? And I just, I, I just couldn't stop watching on Comics on Life.
7:12 Speaker 04 Oh.
7:12 Bobby Lee? What's, why, why'd you laugh at that, Zach? Well, it's just, that's a weird fever dream.
7:18 Speaker 04 I'm getting texts from Bobby at like 1:15 a.m. being like, what is this? This, what is going, and then at 2, he's, he's going through.
7:25 Bobby Lee? It kept going, it kept going.
7:26 Speaker 04 Yeah.
7:26 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, my fever dream. And, um, number one, I think, and I'm being quite honest here.
7:35 Speaker 04 Thank you.
7:35 Bobby Lee? Great show.
7:38 Speaker 04 Okay.
7:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
7:39 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, good.
7:40 Speaker 03 I believe it.
7:41 Bobby Lee? Great show. Um, not great in the way you would think it's great. It's great in a, um, why are you smiling?
7:52 Speaker 03 I'm keeping the same face.
7:53 Speaker 04 We're all nervous.
7:55 Bobby Lee? No, no, no, no, no. Your eyes, your eyes are doing something diabolical. I don't like it. They're Filipino eyes. Oh, they are? Filipino eyes. Red and puffy and scared, okay? Filipino eyes. Okay.
8:07 Bobby Lee? Red, puffy and scared. So, um, saw a great movie the other day, Obsession.
8:11 Speaker 03 I keep hearing about it.
8:12 Bobby Lee? Oh, my god.
8:12 Speaker 03 Twenty-six-year-old YouTuber, it'd be amazing, talk of the town.
8:15 Bobby Lee? I mean, it's gonna make a hundred million dollars and it costs less than a million to make.
8:18 Speaker 03 Jeez.
8:19 Bobby Lee? Yeah, anyway. Um, I was obsessed with Comics Unleashed, and the reason why is, um...
8:30 Bobby Lee? Everyone on the show are great comics. I, I, I'm friends with them.
8:34 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
8:34 Bobby Lee? Right? There's just something about this format that doesn't really, you know what I mean? You can't really get your muscle out there, your point of view and who you are in a thirty-second joke.
8:45 Speaker 03 Yeah. Yeah, it's almost a relic of yesteryear. Like, it made sense at a certain period of time.
8:49 Bobby Lee? Yes.
8:50 Speaker 03 Almost like late night.
8:51 Bobby Lee? Hmm.
8:51 Speaker 03 After COVID, late night kind of felt false. Like, why are we pretending to do this thing?
8:55 Bobby Lee? Hmm.
8:56 Speaker 03 And then now with Colbert going to that YouTube channel, and it's like so much more fresh.
8:59 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
8:59 Speaker 03 Than doing this pretend thing of like, "The Colgate Hour." It felt like that, you know?
9:04 Bobby Lee? It felt like state-sponsored television.
9:06 Speaker 03 Yeah.
9:07 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
9:07 Speaker 03 Or this is what we used to do. This is how we used to consume entertainment.
9:09 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
9:10 Speaker 03 But back in the day, it made sense, just like, joke, joke, joke, joke.
9:13 Bobby Lee? Yeah, so, um, my point of view is about it is that I think it's great for young comics.
9:19 Speaker 03 Uh-huh. Is there any buts?
9:21 Bobby Lee? No.
9:21 Speaker 03 No. You think it's great for everybody?
9:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I think that you really have to focus on the dance when you're coming out.
9:27 Speaker 03 You got it.
9:28 Bobby Lee? And that's pretty much what I've been watching.
9:30 Speaker 03 Wait, is there a dance?
9:31 Bobby Lee? No, my dance... It's a, they call your name and there's a, there's a, a split where you have to get to the stage.
9:36 Speaker 03 Yeah.
9:37 Bobby Lee? And you have to go through this mini hallway where you're exposed to the, um, the audience.
9:41 Speaker 03 And they all have their funny way of...
9:42 Bobby Lee? And they, and they, and, yeah, one guy's doing this.
9:45 Speaker 03 Wait, is this like the Jennifer Hudson?
9:46 Bobby Lee? It's the... Yeah!
9:47 Speaker 03 Really?
9:48 Bobby Lee? That is, yeah, yeah. People, "Come on!" You know what I mean?
9:52 Speaker 03 How long's the dance last?
9:53 Bobby Lee? It's, it's probably very short. Probably like, you're talking about three seconds.
9:56 Speaker 03 What if they pivot and it's ninety percent of the show? Just turn to the full train?
10:00 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
10:01 Speaker 03 They go, "We're looking at the stats." The retention is great for the dance out.
10:04 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
10:04 Speaker 03 The jokes they don't love so much.
10:06 Bobby Lee? Yeah, so now you were getting to what I pitched literally Tuesday to the people.
10:13 Speaker 04 Oh, you spoke to the people at Comics Unleashed without me?
10:16 Bobby Lee? Yeah, without you.
10:17 Speaker 04 As an intermediary?
10:18 Bobby Lee? Well, here's the funny thing is is that I I happen to have a better link than you have there.
10:24 Speaker 04 Is that so?
10:25 Bobby Lee? Well.
10:25 Speaker 04 Even though I'm an alumni.
10:29 Bobby Lee? You have your photo on the wall.
10:31 Speaker 04 I'm one of the.
10:32 Bobby Lee? That is true. You're on the wall, but the executive producer of the show used to open for me. Whoa. Wow.
10:40 Speaker 04 Whoa.
10:40 Bobby Lee? For years. Plot twist. Okay, and we we shared the same manager.
10:44 Speaker 04 Okay. Okay, fine. You've got a better connection.
10:47 Bobby Lee? All right, so I think I feel like I have a better connection. Strong connection. What do you think, Zach?
10:50 Speaker 03 That's a strong connection.
10:51 Bobby Lee? That's a very.
10:52 Speaker 03 Pretty strong.
10:52 Bobby Lee? As strong as you probably could get.
10:54 Speaker 03 Yeah.
10:54 Bobby Lee? Unless Byron, I had a direct contact to Byron.
10:57 Speaker 03 Or you were Byron Allen.
10:59 Bobby Lee? Or. Yeah, I was Weather Channel Byron. Yeah, yeah.
11:03 Speaker 04 Do you have a relationship with Byron Allen at all?
11:06 Bobby Lee? I have a feeling and I'm usually right about it that he doesn't like me. Wait, why?
11:11 Speaker 03 Really?
11:11 Bobby Lee? Because I did Funny As You Ask my questions, whatever that show is.
11:15 Speaker 03 Yeah.
11:15 Bobby Lee? What is it called?
11:15 Speaker 03 Funny You Should Ask.
11:16 Bobby Lee? Oh, Funny You Should Ask. Okay. I did two episodes of that and I called and I go, because I know, you know, people do it regularly and they're like, yeah, we'll contact you later. Whoa. I think it wasn't my vibe. Yeah.
11:31 Speaker 03 What is, what do they do on Funny You Should Ask?
11:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah. So back then it was Louis Anderson, John Lovett, Caroline Ray, these kind of people, and they're all friends of mine. So I'm like, it's it's kind of old school, you know? What was that Hollywood Squarzy? You know what I mean? I'm like, I'll do this. It wasn't like, who are you?
11:54 Bobby Lee? Next to me. You know, it was like everyone on the thing was like a guy that Wayne Fetterman, like I did just people I know, you know? And I see around, like, yeah, that. It's like this stuff. Yeah, I love John. I love, yeah, Louis. Look at Louis.
12:07 Speaker 04 Dude, I would crush that part.
12:08 Bobby Lee? Tim Meadows, Tim Meadows, dude, Caroline Ray. Yeah. That was fun. There I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's doing the dance. Yeah, so, so, I mean, honestly, you, pause, please. Does that sound like?
12:22 Speaker 03 That looks fun.
12:22 Bobby Lee? Fun. You would do, you would do it because you're you're around legends.
12:26 Speaker 03 Yeah.
12:26 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Yeah. You know, I never did Comics Unleashed because I didn't never, number one, didn't want to burn my material. You know what I mean? And number two, it just isn't my thing. Yeah. Yeah, so I called my manager and I said, we're gonna get your special. No, no, no, I don't care. Alright.
12:42 Speaker 03 He was pissed.
12:43 Bobby Lee? I wanna hear that. Yeah, yeah, I called my manager and I go, I have a pitch, and I was dead, and Andrew wants to do it too, Santino. I haven't called the other two guys, but we book Comics Unleashed. Okay. But we make a demand, it's gotta be me, Santino, Tim Dillon, and Burt Kreischer. I mean. That's a great episode. You take it over for an episode? We take it over for an episode. That's amazing. They would love that. That would be awesome. It's not, I'm not done with my explanation, okay? It's all dancing. So, you know, that's, I think you're getting this. Oh my god. So, um, you said that there is a handler that you have that, or you write out your jokes. You write out the jokes. We would do that too. Of course. You know what I mean? You're gonna ask me about how my, how my, how's your new lawnmower? Right? I love that one.
13:28 Bobby Lee? And you and I are gonna come up with a joke about lawnmower. Yeah. Right? And then Tim and everyone will do the same, right? So when Byron brings up the lawnmower, I'm gonna go, there's a genocide in Gaza.
13:42 Bobby Lee? They're quite literally mowing the lawn. Something of that ilk, you know what I mean? Like something that has nothing to do with what he asked.
13:52 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? Yeah, and then what's gonna happen, everyone's gonna be like that. I want Tim to do a three-minute rant of whatever he wants to rant about. About the Hollywood Hills and mudslides or whatever. The fires. Yeah, the fires or whatever, and the conspiracy behind it. Byron cannot interrupt him, because when Tim's going, he's a locomotive. Sure. Okay? Somewhere during Tim's speech about the fires or whatever, right? I'm gonna collapse the ground. Right? And Andrew's gonna say that I have a condition. And you can't call the cop, don't stop the show, just let him sit, he'll wake up eventually.
14:30 Speaker 03 This is like performance art, comics unleashed.
14:32 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
14:32 Speaker 03 It's the highest.
14:33 Bobby Lee? What? This is amazing. It's amazing, yeah. And then, you know what I mean, Bert, no one will answer the questions that they do, you know what I mean? Maybe, you know, Byron will ask Bert a question and Bert just stares at him for as long as he can, like for 45 seconds.
14:47 Speaker 03 Question, is Bert's shirt on or off at the?
14:49 Bobby Lee? Completely off.
14:50 Speaker 03 It's off, of course.
14:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, he comes on off, right? I would demand Andrew, us and us to try to do the longest dances that we can do to get to the stage. If it will make it a contest, you know what I mean? I think I'll make 15 minutes. Yeah, insane, 15 minutes? Yeah, I mean, they'll cut around it.
15:07 Speaker 03 You're all just sweaty and.
15:08 Bobby Lee? Yeah, they're gonna cut around, they're gonna cut around it, right? And then, at one point, toward the end of the show, I get back up. Right, I go, what happened? Yeah, so sort of Kaufman-esque kind of a thing, you know what I mean? You guys wanna see my dog? I wanna see it. Yeah. And so, honey, you know, my, my housekeeper is gonna come out with.
15:30 Speaker 03 Dancing?
15:30 Bobby Lee? In a dominatrix outfit. She agree to this? No, I, I, I'll make her do it, I'll pay her whatever she wants, from neck to toe, right? And she's gonna bring out Julio.
15:42 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I know, but Julio with a muzzle. Okay. Yeah, I have a dog Julio that's the most homicidal dog. He'll bite you. It will do. Like a Tasmanian devil, right? Dick bite. And I will just go around, you know what I mean? He's gonna go crazy and at one point, Byron's gonna be so scared. Yeah. Yeah, he'll be so scared, right? Horrified.
16:02 Speaker 03 This is like the first episode where comics will really be unleashed.
16:08 Bobby Lee? I wanna unleash them.
16:09 Speaker 03 Yeah.
16:09 Bobby Lee? Yeah. So I think that, um, and then my manager said, no. Yeah. It doesn't have to be exactly what I said, I'm just saying we could get, me, uh, we, four could get together and figure something fun to do.
16:22 Speaker 03 Float it, I think it's worth floating it by them.
16:24 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
16:24 Speaker 03 I'm sure they'd be down.
16:25 Bobby Lee? Because I think that it'll do way better numbers than they think.
16:29 Speaker 03 Of course, they'd go crazy on YouTube.
16:31 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, we.
16:31 Speaker 03 The clips would be insane.
16:32 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but I would.
16:33 Speaker 03 It would be insane.
16:34 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I, I would tell Byron, I go, I would go, you can't edit, I mean, we edit it. For this one show.
16:40 Speaker 03 Oof.
16:41 Bobby Lee? FDA, we will not cross those lines.
16:43 Speaker 03 Sure.
16:43 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean?
16:44 Speaker 03 Well, that's crazy. That's Food and Drug Administration.
16:48 Speaker 03 That's how crazy you guys are getting where the FDA is getting involved? The FCC, sure, but the FDA?
16:54 Bobby Lee? We can't let this.
16:55 Speaker 03 You're like, we're gonna poison the beef supply?
16:58 Speaker 04 Nope, so confused. I was like, Red Dy 80?
17:02 Bobby Lee? FCC.
17:02 Speaker 03 We're gonna put Ebola, what, from Comments Unleashed? They package frozen vegetables?
17:08 Bobby Lee? FCC, FCC, I'm at FCC.
17:11 Speaker 03 The FDA?
17:12 Bobby Lee? FDA, yeah, yeah, NRA, they're all gonna be involved.
17:18 Bobby Lee? AAA.
17:19 Speaker 03 All the agencies get involved? I, yeah, yeah. Helicopters flying.
17:24 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what do you think of that idea?
17:27 Speaker 03 I love it.
17:28 Bobby Lee? Are you being sincere?
17:29 Speaker 03 No, for real.
17:30 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
17:30 Speaker 03 That would just be so cool because it feels like, I mean, not stale, but something of the yesteryear, and it's a great opportunity for young comics, but to inject this new into it?
17:38 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
17:39 Speaker 03 I think if they were cool, they would let you guys take over for one episode.
17:42 Bobby Lee? One episode.
17:43 Speaker 03 And it would draw a lot of attention to the show and it'd become kind of fun.
17:45 Bobby Lee? But they don't get to edit.
17:47 Speaker 03 Yeah, you get final cut.
17:48 Bobby Lee? But, but the FCC will look at it and we won't cross any lines.
17:52 Speaker 05 Would you edit in the canned laughter? Or would it just be like an awkward silence?
17:56 Speaker 03 Whoa, that's, that's, that's.
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17:58 Speaker 04 Are you saying that?
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22:37 Bobby Lee? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
22:38 Speaker 03 Are you saying that? That's presumptuous. You're saying there's gonna be no laughter in the studio?
22:44 Speaker 00 It's just gas. I don't know.
22:46 Speaker 04 Pulling it hot first time.
22:47 Speaker 03 I don't know if the rabid dog would.
22:49 Bobby Lee? We're gonna put in our own audience.
22:52 Speaker 04 Oh, it's your own audience?
22:53 Bobby Lee? Oh. No, no, yeah, we're gonna promote it. We're like, we're doing this. Bring our audience in.
22:58 Speaker 04 Yeah.
22:59 Bobby Lee? Or keep the televis- because they're paid.
23:02 Speaker 04 Of course, they're.
23:03 Bobby Lee? So all television audiences get fifty dollars apiece to sit there all day long.
23:06 Speaker 03 I would like it was just that.
23:07 Bobby Lee? I'd be too.
23:08 Speaker 03 They have to see this and they're from like Omaha and they're like, what's happening?
23:12 Bobby Lee? And they don't know, they don't know what's about to, you mean develop.
23:15 Speaker 04 Surprise.
23:16 Bobby Lee? They go, oh, we've seen this show on television.
23:18 Speaker 03 Right, right.
23:18 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
23:19 Speaker 03 Or we'll tell them that they're gonna watch like a Tim Allen sitcom or something.
23:21 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
23:23 Speaker 03 And then this is like so left of that.
23:24 Bobby Lee? Yeah. So audience responses, I think will be, oh.
23:28 Speaker 04 Yeah, they'll be very.
23:29 Bobby Lee? And then lots of silence.
23:31 Speaker 04 Yeah.
23:31 Bobby Lee? And, and I'm, and I'll be, feel free to mumble.
23:35 Speaker 04 You'll say that?
23:37 Bobby Lee? Well, I mean, before we'll have our own warm up.
23:40 Speaker 03 Is your warm up guy even fucking weird? Like, he's not even doing the job of getting the.
23:43 Bobby Lee? It'll be back flame or, yeah, yeah.
23:46 Speaker 04 Perfect.
23:46 Bobby Lee? Yeah. King Kai's, um, yeah.
23:49 Speaker 03 He goes, where are you from? Oh, that's cool. And then he goes to another person.
23:53 Bobby Lee? So we'll get all the information out about like, just laugh, you know, if you want, you don't have to. This is gonna be a weird one. And then, and then we'll do it. And, um, well, they also, they promote it. So they go, next episode, you know what I mean?
24:05 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah.
24:06 Bobby Lee? Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, uh, Burt Kreischer, Tim Dillon, or we could even Theo, whoever wants to do it. You know what I mean? And we'll just see what happens.
24:16 Speaker 03 I love that when they cut to the clips of like, next episode is just insanity. Like, Burt has cuts on his body. Like, you're vomiting.
24:24 Speaker 04 Dog is a muppet.
24:26 Speaker 03 This seems like a real pivot for the show.
24:28 Speaker 04 How would Byron deal, like, is he?
24:30 Bobby Lee? He won't do it.
24:31 Speaker 04 I'll tell you what, yeah, I think he's a panic button. He would hit it and the set would turn into Judge Judy or something.
24:36 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
24:36 Speaker 04 Completely flipped.
24:37 Speaker 03 Or what if you recast Byron just for that one episode?
24:40 Bobby Lee? Oh, a Byron impersonator.
24:41 Speaker 03 Suit or something?
24:42 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah. Byron's sick.
24:45 Speaker 03 Yeah, Byron's filling in for Byron, playing the role of Byron Allen.
24:48 Bobby Lee? He's in Congo. He got the, he got the E.
24:52 Bobby Lee? Be sick? Yeah, he'll be fine. You got the E, the A-ball.
24:56 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. Oh, wherever. There's an excuse.
24:58 Speaker 04 Sure.
24:58 Speaker 05 Any country.
25:01 Speaker 05 Happen anywhere.
25:02 Bobby Lee? Oh, I, that was the first one that just came up behind me. I'm sorry, Argentina, Honto. But anyway, um, wherever.
25:07 Speaker 04 Yeah.
25:08 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
25:08 Speaker 04 Sudan.
25:09 Bobby Lee? Went bird watching in Venezuela. He got a little tummy ache. Yeah, yeah, we can do that.
25:14 Speaker 03 You got like Idris Elba? Just get a huge black.
25:16 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean.
25:18 Speaker 04 Or a small one. Like a tiny, like Kevin Hart, you know, like a tiny black guy.
25:22 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. I don't think Kevin would do it, but uh, maybe Cat Williams would do it.
25:26 Speaker 05 Oh, he might.
25:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. But anyway, um, what do you think of that pitch?
25:29 Speaker 03 I'm for it.
25:30 Speaker 05 Amazing.
25:30 Speaker 03 So your manager won't even float it by them?
25:33 Bobby Lee? No.
25:33 Speaker 04 Can I, can I say something? I'm against it.
25:35 Speaker 03 Wait, why?
25:36 Bobby Lee? Why?
25:36 Speaker 04 You're making a mockery of a television show that I was on.
25:40 Speaker 05 Wow.
25:40 Speaker 03 That is fair. It is an institution.
25:42 Speaker 04 You're making a mockery of my biggest credit.
25:47 Bobby Lee? That would, okay, uh, uh, dream bigger. And I think that's the real message here on today's special. Dream bigger.
25:55 Speaker 04 Okay.
25:56 Bobby Lee? I mean, it's like, I did the Tonight Show on Jay Leno in two thousand and one or whatever.
25:59 Speaker 03 Did that change your life?
26:00 Bobby Lee? No.
26:01 Speaker 03 Really? Even then?
26:02 Bobby Lee? It did nothing.
26:03 Speaker 05 Wow, that's crazy.
26:04 Speaker 03 I thought you did it in an era where at least.
26:06 Bobby Lee? No, it did absolutely nothing for my career. It doesn't matter, right? Um, especially in the day and age of the internet, it doesn't matter. It's all the same.
26:18 Speaker 03 Same with me. I did it like twenty twenty-five. It was fun to do.
26:22 Bobby Lee? With the Tonight Show?
26:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, but it did nothing.
26:24 Bobby Lee? It does nothing.
26:25 Speaker 03 Yeah.
26:25 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
26:26 Speaker 03 I call it like going to the Magic Castle for comedians.
26:28 Bobby Lee? Yes.
26:28 Speaker 03 You dress up, you pretend that you're a famous comedian from the eighties, and then you have a steak afterwards.
26:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
26:33 Speaker 03 You wake up and your life is no different.
26:35 Bobby Lee? No one calls.
26:36 Speaker 03 You have cool pictures, but that's about it.
26:37 Bobby Lee? No one calls.
26:38 Speaker 04 Nobody called when you did the Tonight Show?
26:39 Bobby Lee? No one called.
26:40 Speaker 03 What year did you do it?
26:41 Bobby Lee? Two thousand and one.
26:42 Speaker 03 I feel like, for some reason, I feel like it still did stuff then.
26:45 Speaker 05 Does it make your parents proud at least? You know, it's like, no?
26:49 Bobby Lee? I don't think. It, it, no, Zach, you, you, no.
26:54 Bobby Lee? I think my dad, yeah, yeah, yeah, my dad, yeah, yeah, my dad say, my dad goes, "How much did you pay them?"
27:02 Bobby Lee? Yeah, that's what he said. He thought that I had paid them to do it. I'm like, that's not how it works. Cause, cause I want him to feel proud, right? That like, hey, I got on TV. But they thought that anyone could just go, here's a grand, I'm gonna just try to do some comedy. Like Tom Cruise goes, "Thanks for having me on," you know what I mean? But, so they didn't, they don't know how show business work.
27:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
27:22 Bobby Lee? I think later on, when they saw me constantly on Mad TV, they were like, "Oh, this is a real," you know?
27:29 Speaker 03 That's what it took.
27:29 Bobby Lee? What was the last word they said? "This is a real."
27:31 Speaker 03 A real.
27:32 Bobby Lee? Okay.
27:33 Speaker 03 Yeah. I brought my parents to The Tonight Show.
27:35 Bobby Lee? Did they, were proud?
27:37 Speaker 03 Well, I did it, cause I, I did it just to get the monkey off my back, you know? I felt like, uh, make them proud.
27:42 Bobby Lee? Leave them home.
27:43 Speaker 03 The monkey? The monkeys?
27:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
27:46 Speaker 03 Well, but I mean, they wanna watch me do it too. The monkeys wanna see me.
27:49 Bobby Lee? Is it spider? Is it, what is it?
27:50 Speaker 03 It's all of them. Chimp, orangutan.
27:53 Bobby Lee? Okay.
27:53 Speaker 03 But I thought that would do the thing for my, for my dad, like, okay, maybe he saw me Tonight Show. But it's when I had a writing job and I had a parking space and I went to a building for eight hours.
28:01 Bobby Lee? That's what he was proud of.
28:02 Speaker 03 He was like, "Oh, you have a parking spot?" I had a break room.
28:06 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:06 Speaker 03 They just restock it.
28:07 Bobby Lee? Oh, wow.
28:08 Speaker 03 He only understands nine to five businesses.
28:10 Bobby Lee? Ah.
28:11 Speaker 03 So like Hollywood shit did nothing to him, but the fact that I go to a building, I sit in a desk for eight hours and I leave, and I have lunch and they pay me, he can wrap his immigrant brain around that. He's like, oh wow, he's doing it.
28:23 Speaker 04 Benefits.
28:23 Speaker 03 Yeah.
28:24 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but you have to, I mean, your parents had to have some sort of concept of what The Tonight Show is.
28:31 Speaker 03 That's why I brought them. I'm like, okay, I feel like they kind of know.
28:34 Bobby Lee? Average Americans know conceptually what this means. If your son or daughter
28:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
28:39 Bobby Lee? was asked to do this show, what did it mean to your parents? That specific thing, not the writing job.
28:46 Speaker 03 I think it meant something, even though my dad didn't verbalize like he did with the writing job. I think the fact of flying to New York, you know, spending some time there as a family, going to 30 Rock, being backstage, saying hi to The Roots, you know, my mom meeting Questlove.
29:01 Bobby Lee? That's insane. Wow.
29:03 Speaker 03 Yeah, and then Jimmy coming by and being like, "Oh, nice to meet you," and like, John Oliver's back there too.
29:07 Bobby Lee? What, Jimmy, so Jimmy Fallon met your dad?
29:10 Speaker 03 Yeah.
29:10 Bobby Lee? Oh, so.
29:10 Speaker 03 Jimmy's so nice, man.
29:11 Bobby Lee? Yes, I know, I know him. I know him.
29:13 Speaker 03 Oh, okay, well.
29:14 Bobby Lee? Don't accuse me.
29:14 Speaker 03 No, not at all, not at all.
29:17 Bobby Lee? Yeah, he's actually nice.
29:18 Speaker 03 This isn't an affront to you, Bobby.
29:23 Speaker 03 He's great. I've done Conan. No, no, he's great.
29:27 Bobby Lee? That's a top.
29:28 Speaker 03 But he was just so accommodating and so personable to my family. And even as a comic, he really sets you up. You're behind the curtains and he's like, his family's in the crowd. Let's give him a lot. He really, he almost does an audience warm up. So you're playing a hot crowd when you come out.
29:43 Bobby Lee? Your dad must have been proud of you.
29:45 Speaker 03 Yeah. He, it's like an immigrant cold love.
29:49 Bobby Lee? That didn't.
29:49 Speaker 03 It's actions, it's not words. He's not like, wow, you crushed it.
29:55 Speaker 03 I love the way you open and then you dovetail. He's not a comedy nerd. Those new gag, oh, then you're closer.
30:01 Bobby Lee? That switch.
30:02 Speaker 03 That switch.
30:03 Bobby Lee? Came out of nowhere.
30:04 Speaker 03 Then you step on the gas, I knew.
30:07 Speaker 03 I did some mics in Kabul and. So I kind of know a few things. It's kind of a colder love.
30:13 Bobby Lee? There's no hug.
30:15 Speaker 03 No, I mean, my mom will make us hug sometimes, like.
30:19 Speaker 03 Well, because we don't need it, but my mom thinks, she's like, you have to hug each other and we both, it just feels weird. If you didn't grow, like, we do it more now.
30:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
30:27 Speaker 03 But like, we don't say, I love you. It's implied. I'm very lovey dovey with my mom. My mom is like, where I can be a human.
30:34 Bobby Lee? I think I met your mom.
30:34 Speaker 03 Yeah.
30:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I love your mom, yeah.
30:36 Speaker 03 And I remember when you used to take me on the road and stuff, you would almost do an intervention with my parents. You'd be like, he's very good at this. You know what I mean? Like, because you knew they were worried about me and stuff. And you go.
30:46 Bobby Lee? Because I relate to, I relate to that. Like, I think, um, Fahim has the same thing. Not Fahim, that's you. Amir Kay has the same thing.
30:54 Speaker 03 Amir's hilarious.
30:55 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but I think he has that thing with his dad. Do you, you, your dad?
30:59 Speaker 04 Nope, no clue. They don't know what I do.
31:00 Speaker 03 Oh.
31:01 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:02 Speaker 03 Really?
31:02 Bobby Lee? Zach, your dad?
31:03 Speaker 05 My dad's dead, but I liked it.
31:05 Bobby Lee? But how does he feel?
31:07 Speaker 05 You know, he's with me always. No, he was, he was, he was a white guy. My mom's Moroccan.
31:13 Bobby Lee? Oh, she's Moroccan.
31:13 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah, she doesn't quite understand. She's just like.
31:16 Speaker 03 Casablanca.
31:16 Bobby Lee? Great movie.
31:17 Speaker 05 Yeah.
31:17 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
31:17 Speaker 05 Yeah, that's her, uh, that's her movie.
31:19 Speaker 04 Great connection.
31:21 Speaker 05 Yeah, no, she.
31:22 Speaker 04 Moroccan rugs, those are awesome.
31:23 Speaker 05 Moroccan rugs, yeah. Aladdin.
31:25 Speaker 04 I liked that a lot.
31:26 Speaker 05 Yeah. Uh, she doesn't quite get it.
31:30 Bobby Lee? She didn't get comedy now?
31:31 Speaker 05 No, I mean, she doesn't.
31:32 Bobby Lee? The white part?
31:33 Speaker 05 No, it doesn't, it doesn't really affect her.
31:35 Speaker 03 Does she trust you? Or she's like, I don't get it? Or does she think like you're throwing your life away like it's drugs or something?
31:40 Speaker 05 She trusts me, but she always downplays me. Cause she hates parents that brag about their kids. So people say like, oh, I saw your son at the show in San Francisco. And she'll be like, yeah, he's trying to do comedy.
31:52 Bobby Lee? Oh, so she's Moroccan?
31:53 Speaker 05 But then she'll tell me she believes in me. I'm like, why don't you tell them you believe in me?
31:56 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
31:57 Speaker 05 That's weird.
31:58 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I mean, I don't know what that is. I, but here, here's what, here's the, I think the good analysis or is we don't know thirty, forty years ago from, from now, what AI is gonna do. And so my son could be like, I'm a, you know what I mean? I'm an, I'm a space prob, probe. I'm a spaceman probe in space. You know what I mean? And I, I'm, I'm on Venus and I get to pro Venus. And we're like, and we're kinda like, congratulations?
32:31 Speaker 03 Yeah.
32:32 Bobby Lee? No, that's.
32:33 Speaker 03 No, for real. You have no frame of reference.
32:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah, we have no frame of reference of it.
32:37 Speaker 04 Yeah, you go, can't you be a YouTuber like everybody else? Be a DJ like your grandpa.
32:42 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we now live in a socialist, you know what I mean? Society where because AI has taken over, that we have to pay probably sixty percent of our population. Give me a guaranteed wage. Cause their jobs are gonna be gone. So then, you know, we're gonna have more artists, more comics, we're gonna have more, you know what I mean?
33:02 Speaker 03 Space. You know, the open mics were bad now. Get ready for AI, take away all the jobs and everyone has all this free time.
33:08 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but people have free time doing their own little projects. I think it'll be, if, if that happens, what, what are you doing? Am I too loud?
33:15 Speaker 00 No, I'm just adjusting everyone's levels.
33:17 Bobby Lee? Okay, okay.
33:18 Speaker 00 I do this all the time.
33:20 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, but that's the first time I've ever noticed that.
33:22 Speaker 03 The one time he sees you doing your job.
33:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:24 Speaker 04 AI replace him.
33:26 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but, um, yeah, so maybe our parents don't really get what we're doing.
33:31 Speaker 04 Yes.
33:31 Speaker 03 I know they don't, so I understand it. But when you're seventeen and it's happening, you're like, you don't get me.
33:36 Speaker 05 Yeah.
33:36 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
33:37 Speaker 03 This is my life.
33:38 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
33:39 Speaker 03 I don't wanna be a doctor.
33:40 Bobby Lee? You, you also don't know the, the living hell.
33:45 Bobby Lee? To get there.
33:46 Speaker 03 You need that level of delusion, like, uh, thank God, little kid me didn't know how long it would take, all the steps and all that. You know what I mean?
33:54 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, and the, there's a lot of pain and suffering up until that point that your parents are not aware of.
34:01 Speaker 03 Yeah, but I always, I would always tell my parents, I'd be like, whatever the worst case scenario in your mind for me is, and I'm like homeless, doing drugs, just, no, I don't want that for me either.
34:09 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
34:09 Speaker 03 I will, I will switch tracks. I'm not gonna keep on doing comedy till I'm eating fish heads out of a dumpster.
34:15 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:15 Speaker 03 And like, you know, selling my butthole for money or whatever. Like, I don't love comedy that much.
34:21 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
34:22 Speaker 03 To do it to that degree.
34:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
34:23 Speaker 03 Like, if things get really bad, I'll pivot. I'm still an engineer, you know?
34:26 Bobby Lee? Yeah, oh yeah, you could be an engineer.
34:28 Speaker 03 Yeah.
34:28 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
34:28 Speaker 04 You did both, right?
34:29 Speaker 03 I did both until I could do comedy full time, so I'm like, I have a fallback.
34:33 Bobby Lee? Can you go back to that?
34:34 Speaker 03 I have too much gap in employment at this point. They'd be like, why have you been gone for?
34:39 Speaker 04 And you show them your late night.
34:39 Speaker 03 Twelve years. I go, I show them this tonight, Joe?
34:41 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:42 Speaker 03 Will you let me work on planes again?
34:43 Bobby Lee? I do, I think they would let you work on planes again.
34:45 Speaker 04 What's a late night clip?
34:47 Bobby Lee? No, okay.
34:48 Speaker 03 Yeah.
34:48 Speaker 04 Yeah.
34:49 Bobby Lee? Yeah, were you, well, you, did you have a, yeah, you had some prominent jobs.
34:53 Speaker 04 I did, I worked in, I worked.
34:54 Bobby Lee? Governments?
34:55 Speaker 04 Yeah, I did, I worked at the State Assembly in California, and I worked at, uh, political consulting firms.
35:00 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and he's also a, a rock star.
35:03 Speaker 04 Oh, don't do this to me, Bob.
35:04 Speaker 03 Oh, I don't know this.
35:05 Bobby Lee? You don't know this, This Wild Life?
35:06 Speaker 05 Yeah, he was in a band.
35:07 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
35:08 Speaker 04 I was in a band called This Wild Life, yeah, fantastic band.
35:10 Speaker 03 What if I had no idea the whole time? I'm like, I just listen to their music, but I never, I looked at their people.
35:15 Speaker 04 He's been bullying me about this for two weeks now. That I had dreams.
35:18 Speaker 03 Well, what did you play?
35:19 Speaker 04 I played bass.
35:20 Speaker 03 I played bass.
35:21 Speaker 04 Did you really?
35:22 Speaker 03 In orchestra, I was not very good.
35:25 Speaker 05 Different vibe.
35:26 Speaker 04 You played this thing?
35:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, because in fourth grade.
35:28 Bobby Lee? Interestingly enough, your orchestra is more famous than This Wild.
35:31 Speaker 03 Really? Wow.
35:33 Speaker 04 Check it out, new record, I think.
35:35 Bobby Lee? They're big.
35:35 Speaker 04 Yeah, they're.
35:36 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, they're big. So orchestra what?
35:39 Speaker 03 I was in orchestra, they would, they would, uh, you could play electric bass.
35:42 Speaker 04 Oh, you played.
35:43 Speaker 03 So that's how they get you in. I'm like, oh, cool, I'm like a rock star. But then, once you got to middle school, they take it away and you have to play the upright. And I was tiny, I didn't grow till, so I'm just like a little kid carrying this giant fucking upright bass.
35:53 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
35:54 Speaker 03 Putting it on the bus.
35:54 Bobby Lee? Are you good at it?
35:55 Speaker 03 No, I was, I was like, whatever. But the cool thing about the bass is it's such a low register that no one could hear how bad you are. She's like, brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr.
36:02 Bobby Lee? Oh, right.
36:02 Speaker 03 Brrr, brrr, brrr. If you're violin, everybody knows you.
36:04 Bobby Lee? Everyone knows you, everyone knows you.
36:05 Speaker 04 Were your parents proud of orchestra?
36:07 Speaker 03 Well, I want, it was something to do to put your kid in it. And then, once I wanted to quit, my dad was so mad. He was like, if you quit this, you'll quit at everything. He wouldn't let me quit. And then, finally, I was able to. I was like, I want to do drama.
36:21 Bobby Lee? It's very Afghanistan.
36:22 Speaker 04 Yeah, classic Afghanistan.
36:24 Bobby Lee? Classic Afghanistan.
36:25 Speaker 05 They don't quit?
36:26 Speaker 03 They don't quit.
36:29 Bobby Lee? Let's be honest, there's a strength about Middle Eastern people in all regions that we're not fully aware of. You know, Koreans are tough because of the Japanese occupation, you know? So, I think it gets passed on generationally. You know, this strength and like, you know what I mean? You don't bully me, you know, you don't, you know, I'm gonna take this to the end.
36:56 Speaker 04 Rage.
36:57 Bobby Lee? Not rage, strength.
36:59 Speaker 04 Strength and rage.
37:00 Speaker 03 Well, it's doing a lot with a little, too. I think even Afghanistan, it's always war-torn, like, the British went in there, and then the Russians, and then America. They always think it's gonna be easy, but it's mountainous, the people are very resilient, so it's not a cakewalk, you know? And then Iran as well, they thought it was gonna be quick, like.
37:16 Speaker 05 It's over.
37:16 Speaker 03 Yeah.
37:17 Speaker 05 It's over.
37:17 Bobby Lee? It's not over.
37:19 Speaker 05 No, we.
37:19 Bobby Lee? No, wait, wait, wait, wait, Zach, you think it's over?
37:22 Speaker 05 Yeah, our country is really great, we won.
37:26 Bobby Lee? No, no, no, no, Zach.
37:27 Speaker 04 I'm with Zach on this.
37:28 Bobby Lee? Yeah, no, wait, wait, Zach, where are you getting your information? I want to know, because maybe it is over, I don't know.
37:32 Speaker 05 Yeah, Trump, Trump himself.
37:33 Bobby Lee? Oh, he said it on Truth.
37:34 Speaker 03 He's in the room.
37:35 Bobby Lee? Oh.
37:36 Speaker 03 What if government propaganda is getting into podcasts? And they just have, like, bros with a button up, like, we're killing it. Mission accomplished.
37:44 Speaker 05 We did it.
37:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
37:47 Bobby Lee? I'll be honest with you, this last weekend, I literally thought, oh, maybe this one is real.
37:54 Speaker 03 This war?
37:54 Bobby Lee? This one, no, this particular, like, oh, you're 95%, right? It's just, we just have a couple of things, you know what I mean? Everyone's involved, and I was literally going, oh, this is it, then. You know what I mean? And then, they attack. We attacked the southern region or whatever. So, then, I'm like, I was fooled again.
38:16 Speaker 04 Yeah.
38:16 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, I was fooled again, but, yeah, I, you know, I'm not a political guy, but, um, but I don't do that.
38:22 Speaker 04 You guys gotta see Bobby connect with Uber drivers.
38:25 Bobby Lee? Okay, what does that mean?
38:27 Speaker 04 Bobby gets into an Uber sometimes, and when he finds out he's from a place, Bobby goes off, dude. Bobby be connected.
38:33 Bobby Lee? I'm with you.
38:35 Speaker 04 Bobby's sitting there going over all the battles and all the fights and all the policies.
38:40 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I go nuts.
38:42 Speaker 04 The Uber drivers love Bobby.
38:44 Bobby Lee? They do love. I tip well and I also great conversational. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:48 Speaker 04 They're both talking with their hands.
38:50 Bobby Lee? And there are times where I hug them.
38:52 Speaker 04 Oh, for sure.
38:52 Bobby Lee? Yeah, good luck, brother.
38:54 Speaker 04 You do, you do.
38:54 Bobby Lee? Yep, my comrade.
38:57 Speaker 03 Sometimes you'll cancel a ride with a white person to get a brown. You go, sorry, Devon, I'm waiting for Mahmoud.
39:06 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
39:09 Bobby Lee? So you were joking when you said that it's over.
39:11 Speaker 05 No, yeah, it's not over.
39:13 Bobby Lee? Okay, it's not, yeah. So your Moroccan mother, now she's probably more supportive or no?
39:19 Speaker 05 You know, if I'm in the local paper, I think would be the greatest.
39:22 Bobby Lee? What's the local paper? What paper?
39:23 Speaker 03 Yeah, you're in the paper?
39:24 Speaker 05 Like the Ark. Like if I get in her local paper.
39:27 Bobby Lee? Where's the Ark?
39:28 Speaker 05 It's in Marin County, Northern California.
39:30 Bobby Lee? You haven't been in that yet?
39:31 Speaker 05 No, I mean, I think. There's a picture.
39:36 Speaker 05 As a kid, at a parade in the background, and she like framed it.
39:40 Speaker 04 You're not even like.
39:40 Speaker 05 I'm just sitting down watching like Johnny Mosley talk about when it's cold.
39:44 Bobby Lee? Just, you're not on it based on your craft?
39:47 Speaker 05 Yet. No, I mean, well, I guess I could just ask them to write about me and they probably would. It's a really small town.
39:52 Speaker 03 Well, wait, have you done Comics Unleashed or not yet?
39:54 Speaker 05 No, not yet.
39:55 Speaker 03 Hop on it and then get in the Ark. Come on, that's huge for the town. That's the move, actually. Yeah.
39:59 Speaker 05 Yeah.
40:00 Speaker 03 Just do it for your mom.
40:01 Speaker 05 Yeah, my brother got in for football in high school and that was like the greatest day of our family's life.
40:05 Speaker 04 Legacy, like media like that, it's a big deal.
40:07 Speaker 05 Yeah.
40:08 Bobby Lee? Yeah, it's a big deal for them.
40:10 Speaker 05 Yeah.
40:10 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Would you do Comics Unleashed?
40:14 Bobby Lee? Look at me right in the face, it's fine. And you can say yes or no, it's fine.
40:18 Speaker 05 Byron's a listener of the podcast.
40:19 Bobby Lee? Is he?
40:21 Speaker 04 I'll remember what you answer when you ask me to hook you up with the fact.
40:25 Speaker 05 I don't, you know, I don't think I'd be a good fit for it.
40:29 Bobby Lee? I think you would.
40:31 Speaker 04 I think it'd be great.
40:32 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
40:32 Speaker 05 No, I don't. And I'm standing firm in that.
40:35 Bobby Lee? Why?
40:36 Speaker 05 Because I don't want to do it.
40:40 Bobby Lee? Good. That's a good answer. That's the real answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:44 Speaker 03 He said it like he's been drafted to Vietnam, the way he said it.
40:48 Speaker 00 I don't want to do it.
40:49 Speaker 04 No, I can't. I'm gay.
40:51 Speaker 03 He has bone spurs.
40:52 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah, bone spurs. Okay, okay.
40:53 Speaker 04 I'm flat footed.
40:54 Bobby Lee? Okay.
40:55 Speaker 04 I'm Muslim. I can't do comics.
40:56 Bobby Lee? Okay, okay. So, yeah. Just then move to Canada then.
40:59 Speaker 04 Yeah.
41:00 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
41:00 Speaker 04 I should.
41:01 Bobby Lee? That's your only option. They're gonna make you do it.
41:02 Speaker 04 Yeah.
41:03 Bobby Lee? I feel like they make you do it.
41:06 Speaker 04 The Canada makes you do it. It's a compromise.
41:08 Bobby Lee? No, I think America makes you do it.
41:10 Speaker 04 Comics.
41:10 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:11 Speaker 03 It's like mandatory military service.
41:13 Bobby Lee? I think so.
41:13 Speaker 03 You have to do two years of comics.
41:14 Bobby Lee? As a comic, I think they make you do it, yeah. Yeah, I think that. I think I'm in the same. I'm 54.
41:19 Speaker 03 Oh, you're out of it.
41:20 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can make up something.
41:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
41:22 Bobby Lee? Kidney stones, you know, polyps, everything, you know. Yeah, yeah.
41:26 Speaker 04 It was an honor to serve Paramount.
41:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
41:28 Speaker 03 You have hemorrhoids. You can't sit in the seat.
41:29 Bobby Lee? Yeah, would you do it?
41:30 Speaker 03 I've been asked to do it. I'm with you. I...
41:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
41:34 Speaker 03 It's just not my speed.
41:34 Speaker 04 I guess I'm on a podcast with a bunch of people with so much integrity.
41:39 Bobby Lee? No integrity in this goddamn business.
41:41 Speaker 03 No, not at all. It's not integrity. It's just knowing, like, it's knowing yourself. Like, how you operate. Like, I know I'm not good in that environment. Like, Kill Tony even. It's a huge opportunity. Tony's asked me to do it in the past, but I'm like, I'm not good on a panel like that. I just know my comedy.
41:55 Bobby Lee? It's so funny that you say that because I say no to Kill Tony. He thinks it's an offense to him.
42:01 Speaker 03 No, I'm so flattered and it's such an amazing show, gives great opportunities, people are so good on it, but I just know that's not... I'm not... I don't excel at that. So, I'd rather not do it than do something so big and be bad at it.
42:12 Bobby Lee? Yeah, like, when I do it, if you've never noticed, there are times I leave.
42:15 Speaker 04 Yeah, you have it on.
42:17 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I have to go to the bathroom and I'll wait 30 minutes.
42:20 Speaker 04 Yes.
42:20 Bobby Lee? And then come back.
42:21 Speaker 04 Every time I've seen you do it, Bobby, you look so uncomfortable.
42:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah, because I don't... I'm not good at that kind of...
42:26 Speaker 03 Yeah.
42:26 Bobby Lee? Of comedy. Of like, making... I'm not a roaster.
42:30 Speaker 03 Same, like ball breaker.
42:32 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I'm not a ball breaker roaster. I do it with... I know how to roast. I'm probably one of the best at it when it comes to personal things.
42:38 Speaker 03 Yes.
42:39 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? If I know you and I know that you're not gonna take offense to it and, you know, Andrew knows... But there are things about Andrew and I, personally, that we know that is a no-go. Right? And so, for me to do it in front of a stranger, you know, I'd have to do research and know what really hurts and that... I really, that's my thing.
43:02 Speaker 00 So, Kevin Hart asked you guys and paid you a lot of money to do his Netflix.
43:04 Speaker 03 That's a different thing also as well because you have your jokes. That's a roast. You, I, I guess you could rise to the occasion to do a roast. I still don't love it. But Kill Tony is, is like, literally, it's like jazz. It's, somebody says something, you barb, and then, it's almost like jump rope, or, you know, when they're doing double dutch. Like, how do you get into, like, the timing of it?
43:23 Bobby Lee? They're writing a teleprompter on that last roast.
43:26 Speaker 03 Ah, yeah.
43:26 Bobby Lee? Do you notice?
43:27 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah, they're literally, all their jokes are written out, you know what I mean, on a teleprompter. They know exactly what they're gonna say. And, um, with Kill Tony, it's like, there's no, it's like podcasting, but what's safe about podcasting is that we edit.
43:40 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
43:41 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean?
43:41 Speaker 03 And there's some history, and it's kind of small, it's controlled.
43:44 Bobby Lee? Yes.
43:44 Speaker 03 Uh, Kill Tony's chaos. There's somebody doing a minute.
43:47 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
43:47 Speaker 03 They got a weird thing, somebody's talking in the crowd, there's a panel here, there's a chick with huge tits coming out giving you drinks.
43:53 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:53 Speaker 03 It's just like-
43:54 Speaker 04 It's overstimulating.
43:55 Speaker 03 It's very, yeah.
43:56 Bobby Lee? Yeah, it's, yeah, it's not my thing, but-
43:57 Speaker 03 But some people are amazing at it, and it's great to watch, and it's-
44:00 Bobby Lee? It's a great show, and, um, I'm not dogging it at all, and, but he always took it personally.
44:05 Speaker 03 Hmm.
44:06 Bobby Lee? Like, I'd be in town, and I won't even call him, I'm in Austin.
44:08 Speaker 03 Yeah.
44:09 Bobby Lee? Because, hey, man, you're in town, you have to do it. And I'm like, I'm not doing it. And he always convinces me to do it.
44:16 Speaker 03 Ah.
44:18 Speaker 04 It makes-
44:18 Bobby Lee? Remember?
44:19 Speaker 03 Yeah.
44:19 Bobby Lee? The last time?
44:20 Speaker 03 You called him to say, "You're not doing it."
44:21 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I called him to say, "I will not do it," and somehow I get, I'm doing it.
44:25 Speaker 04 It makes me laugh so much to see you on that show. It is so funny.
44:28 Bobby Lee? Why?
44:29 Speaker 04 You just look so, I know you now, and I know when you're really uncomfortable.
44:32 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
44:33 Speaker 04 And you look so uncomfortable every single Kill Tony episode.
44:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. Um, it's, I get laughs.
44:36 Speaker 04 Of course you do.
44:37 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I get laughs.
44:38 Speaker 04 But I could tell you don't want to rib, you don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, you're just trying to be you, you know?
44:43 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Yeah, I, I, yeah. I mean, I, I, if Netflix asked me to do a roast, I'd be able to come up with great jokes, and I would do it. Here's the thing, is that you get open to-
44:53 Speaker 03 Hmm, people coming at you.
44:54 Bobby Lee? Yes.
44:55 Speaker 03 You start crying, you're like, sitting on the couch.
44:58 Speaker 03 And you're like, you're pretending like you're okay.
44:59 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
45:01 Speaker 03 Tears coming down your eyes.
45:02 Bobby Lee? And I watch, yeah, and I watch-
45:06 Speaker 03 It cuts back to Bobby, he's hanging, like, whoa, he's found a rope. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in a suit, just hanging. It just, it just.
45:13 Speaker 04 Tombstone, only a tombstone.
45:16 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I think that's the part, you know, that I don't really like, you know? My personalized my personal life.
45:23 Speaker 04 Yeah.
45:24 Bobby Lee? You know, and, um, listen, there was a lot of resentment in that roast.
45:29 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah. Oh, you could feel that.
45:31 Bobby Lee? There's a lot of hatred, resentment, these people do not talk to each other. They have a, just, I mean, I have a couple of comics in my life that I don't like, you know, because of wrongdoing, that was slighted.
45:45 Speaker 04 Yeah.
45:46 Bobby Lee? And I, I can't imagine being on stage because I will go off. You know what I mean?
45:51 Speaker 03 Yeah.
45:52 Bobby Lee? And that's what that is, that's what that was.
45:54 Speaker 03 It doesn't seem fun like it used to be. No.
45:56 Speaker 04 No, it used to be, now it's way too personal.
45:58 Speaker 03 Yeah.
45:58 Speaker 04 You know, it's like in 1993, he filed for bankruptcy, you're like, whoa, what, they're getting really specific here.
46:05 Speaker 03 Like, you lost your kids. Yeah.
46:07 Speaker 04 Like, what the hell?
46:08 Speaker 03 Why'd your husband kill himself?
46:10 Bobby Lee? Yeah, that was one of them, yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:12 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
46:12 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, it, that, that part is like, uh, no, you, you're not allowed to talk about that.
46:18 Speaker 04 Question Bobby, who would be the guy that you would like to see least on the panel? You go, oh, no, if I see this guy, this would be a problem.
46:24 Bobby Lee? Well, this person called me a couple of years ago and goes, listen, I know you don't like me. I don't really like you, but please stop talking about me. On your podcast because it's ruining my life.
46:37 Speaker 03 Whoa.
46:38 Bobby Lee? And he goes, just, can we just make a deal? And I go, okay.
46:44 Speaker 03 And so we're not going to name the person?
46:45 Bobby Lee? I can't.
46:46 Speaker 03 Did you respect that, though?
46:47 Bobby Lee? There's two people like that, there's a couple of people like that, where they're like, yeah, I'm getting harassed at work. You know, and I'm like, I'm just saying that I don't like you, I, I, I, I think that I'm even in the wrong in this.
46:59 Speaker 03 I'm, I'm just saying that I don't like you on a massive podcast. Every, every week. Yeah.
47:03 Speaker 04 And the guys at work.
47:04 Speaker 03 And it gets clipped up, and there's clippers out there as well, and the clip is circulating on Facebook, TikTok, and Yeah. I don't see what the big deal is.
47:10 Speaker 04 I'm boosting the post.
47:11 Speaker 03 I'm just far, far more popular. I'm putting $30 a day into these clips.
47:16 Speaker 03 It's not a big deal. You make your own podcast and then talk about me.
47:20 Bobby Lee? Do you have, do you have anybody?
47:23 Speaker 03 Enemies, or what do you mean?
47:24 Bobby Lee? People that you're like, uh, I'm gonna walk the other way if I see them at the comedy store.
47:29 Speaker 04 This is interesting, cause he to me is such a guy that I feel like everybody loves.
47:33 Bobby Lee? That's why I don't trust him.
47:35 Speaker 03 No, there's.
47:35 Bobby Lee? No, that's why I don't trust this guy, because he, there's, he has like boundaries.
47:41 Speaker 04 Yeah.
47:43 Speaker 03 The healthiest I have.
47:44 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:45 Speaker 03 He has boundaries.
47:46 Bobby Lee? No, no, no, no, no.
47:47 Speaker 04 I'm with this.
47:48 Bobby Lee? I've never heard anything bad about, um, yeah, yeah, nothing.
47:52 Speaker 04 Just a hard worker, he's so funny.
47:53 Bobby Lee? There's not a dent on your car, not even a scratch. I watch, I look, and, um, they're just, you're so like, you won't reveal specific things about your life.
48:03 Speaker 03 Yeah.
48:04 Bobby Lee? You don't mesh that, you rarely talk about your ethnicity, or.
48:08 Speaker 03 No, I do, I do.
48:09 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, but not, yeah, but this is, but this is a new thing.
48:12 Speaker 03 But it's not my whole act, you know? Um, yeah, I guess I'll be a little more.
48:16 Bobby Lee? You and I have had long conversations about, of like, you know, maybe if you, you talked about, you know.
48:22 Speaker 03 Yeah, opening up a little.
48:22 Bobby Lee? Opening up a little bit more, and you won't do it, and that's fine, you're protecting your personal life.
48:26 Speaker 03 No, yeah.
48:27 Bobby Lee? But.
48:28 Speaker 03 I'm better about it now, like, yeah.
48:30 Bobby Lee? But you are very private, you're so nice, I don't, I can't think of anyone that's ever said anything bad about you.
48:37 Speaker 03 I have one enemy.
48:38 Bobby Lee? Whoa. You don't have to say it out loud, but you do have one.
48:41 Speaker 03 I do, you know who it is.
48:43 Bobby Lee? Can you whisper it in my ear? We'll cut it out, I promise.
48:45 Speaker 04 It'll be, yeah, I got it, I got it, wait, you don't got to say it.
48:48 Speaker 03 I'll give you a clue.
48:49 Speaker 04 Tell Bob.
48:49 Speaker 03 Not a, not a comedian.
48:51 Speaker 04 Oh, okay.
48:51 Bobby Lee? Well, they're finally here!
48:52 Speaker 03 Yeah.
48:53 Speaker 04 We'll bleep it out.
48:54 Bobby Lee? How do I know? I won't know them.
48:56 Speaker 03 You'll know them. Cause you tried to settle it, you tried, you tried to squash the beef.
49:00 Speaker 04 It's gotta be a famous person. Who could, who could he? It's Dax Shepard, dude.
49:06 Speaker 04 It's gotta be somebody of note, maybe it's a, maybe like a medical guy, a doctor or something?
49:12 Bobby Lee? Uh, I bet it's like, uh, industry.
49:14 Speaker 04 It's gotta be industry. It has to be industry. Industry? Agent or something.
49:17 Bobby Lee? Yeah, that's all we can say.
49:18 Speaker 04 Yeah.
49:18 Bobby Lee? I know this person.
49:19 Speaker 04 Byron, is it Byron Allen?
49:20 Bobby Lee? No, no.
49:22 Speaker 03 He tried to broker peace at one point.
49:24 Bobby Lee? I tried to broker the peace.
49:25 Speaker 05 Wow.
49:26 Speaker 04 You know you're in a tough spot when you're getting Bobby to broker the peace.
49:29 Speaker 03 Where he's the voice of reason?
49:30 Speaker 04 Where Bobby's the peaceful one.
49:32 Bobby Lee? I'm sorry, I'm very highly offended by that.
49:34 Speaker 04 I apologize, sir.
49:36 Bobby Lee? In fact, I am Pakistan.
49:38 Speaker 04 You are very much Pakistan.
49:39 Bobby Lee? I've many of times have broken pieces and negotiated on people's behalf.
49:45 Speaker 04 I believe that.
49:45 Bobby Lee? And I find that, what you just said, very highly offensive.
49:48 Speaker 04 I apologize.
49:50 Bobby Lee? There's another thing that you did, if you want to fucking play games.
49:52 Speaker 04 I don't know. I'd like to not play games.
49:54 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
49:56 Speaker 04 Just keep it straight.
49:56 Bobby Lee? Let me ask you something, Zach and Fahim.
49:58 Speaker 04 Okay.
49:59 Bobby Lee? Not Zach and Fahim. Yeah, that's right, Zach and Fahim.
50:03 Speaker 04 That's how hilarious this episode is, everybody kinda looks like a giant.
50:06 Bobby Lee? I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
50:09 Bobby Lee? Let me ask you, Fahim and Zach.
50:11 Speaker 04 Go ahead, Jimmy O. Yang.
50:16 Speaker 04 Sorry, I know you're gonna hurt me, so I wanted to lash out.
50:19 Speaker 03 He has to get out of the way.
50:19 Speaker 04 Go ahead, sorry, go ahead Bobby, I apologize.
50:21 Bobby Lee? I don't know if this is working anymore.
50:24 Bobby Lee? I really don't know if this is working anymore, right? But remember Fahim used to open for me?
50:30 Speaker 03 Yeah.
50:31 Bobby Lee? Right?
50:32 Speaker 03 You were the first guy to take me out, I argue a lot.
50:34 Bobby Lee? I don't, you don't owe me anything.
50:36 Speaker 03 Well, I appreciate it.
50:37 Bobby Lee? Your success is the proof, in the pudding. But I just remember just having a really good time with you. I've never thought anything bad about you, never said anything bad about anybody. You made our travels smooth, as if you weren't even there, and you're very grateful. And at times you were unfollowable. That's how, I remember specifically San Antonio LOL. You know, I remember turning to a local comic next to him, that was standing next to me and going, "I seriously don't know if I can follow this. He's killing, okay? And so, I want to say, thank you for being a great opener. Thank you for causing me peace in my life. And I will be forever in gratitude."
51:20 Speaker 03 The feeling is mutual Bobby.
51:21 Bobby Lee? Thank you.
51:22 Speaker 04 Why did you include me on this?
51:27 Bobby Lee? What do you mean?
51:28 Speaker 05 You said, "I want to tell you something for He-Man, Zack."
51:31 Speaker 03 Well, he just wants you to hear this.
51:32 Speaker 05 I got it.
51:33 Bobby Lee? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
51:35 Speaker 03 It doesn't pertain?
51:36 Bobby Lee? That's not what this is. This is set up to him.
51:38 Speaker 05 Okay, okay.
51:39 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, of what he did.
51:40 Speaker 05 Okay.
51:41 Bobby Lee? Okay? And he just called me Jimmy O. Yang.
51:43 Speaker 05 He did.
51:44 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
51:45 Speaker 04 I'm sorry, I was lashing out, I felt attacked, go ahead, I'm ready.
51:48 Bobby Lee? Okay, you don't even know what I'm talking about right now.
51:50 Speaker 04 I know it will hurt, that's what I know.
51:54 Speaker 04 I know it will hurt.
51:54 Bobby Lee? Yeah. We were somewhere, someplace, you know what I mean? And we were outside, and there was a group of fans that came up to me, "Bobby Lee," you know what I mean? "Riding by," and he made fun of my fanbase.
52:08 Speaker 05 It's not...
52:09 Speaker 03 To their face, or when they...
52:10 Bobby Lee? No, often, like, yeah, these, it's a da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, you know what I mean? I can't say what he said. And he made fun of my fanbase, and I looked right in his eyes, and I said, "If you ever do that again, you're fired."
52:23 Speaker 05 Yeah.
52:24 Speaker 03 Wow.
52:24 Bobby Lee? These are the people that love me, yeah, I'm sorry, my fanbases are weird.
52:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, the people you were playing to?
52:30 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes they're missing an eye, sometimes they're disheveled, you know what I mean?
52:34 Speaker 03 And they need a laugh in their life.
52:36 Bobby Lee? Their hairs are in the wrong places, you know what I mean? But my point is this, they still are my fans, and they relate to me, and I relate to them, and I love them.
52:44 Speaker 03 Yeah.
52:44 Bobby Lee? Okay?
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53:21 Bobby Lee? You would never disrespect me by doing that.
53:24 Speaker 03 I would just be so happy there were people there.
53:25 Bobby Lee? Exactly.
53:25 Speaker 03 That I could play a full house.
53:26 Bobby Lee? And Zack, where am I, is he at fault or am I? That's why I wanted to ask you.
53:30 Speaker 05 For...
53:31 Speaker 03 Defending your fans?
53:32 Bobby Lee? Yeah, Ramsey, making fun of my fans when he's my opener.
53:38 Bobby Lee? Would you ever do, would you ever do that?
53:40 Speaker 05 Would I ever make fun of your fans?
53:41 Bobby Lee? Yeah, if I have you open for me.
53:43 Speaker 05 If, if I open for you, no.
53:45 Speaker 04 Let me just say this, he's trying to divide and conquer us right now, guys. I'm just letting you know.
53:48 Speaker 03 I'm just thinking about you guys going the road after this, Ramsey coming out, and everyone going, "Boo." They have eye patches and they're like.
53:58 Speaker 03 One guy has a hook.
54:00 Speaker 04 They're wearing medical gowns. Straight jacket.
54:05 Speaker 03 Yeah, like a muzzle.
54:07 Speaker 04 Bobby, I apologize.
54:09 Bobby Lee? This is gonna hurt you from now on a little bit, I think.
54:11 Speaker 04 Bobby, if I can say just.
54:13 Speaker 03 Talk to the fans. I would address the fans.
54:16 Bobby Lee? On his behalf, right?
54:18 Speaker 04 I have eight foot of them too.
54:19 Speaker 03 What?
54:20 Speaker 04 You can make fun of them too?
54:21 Bobby Lee? No, I'm not gonna make fun of them too. I love them.
54:23 Speaker 04 Me too.
54:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah, it was, they were.
54:27 Bobby Lee? They were the sillier, the sillier.
54:29 Speaker 00 You have a spectrum.
54:30 Bobby Lee? I have a spectrum of people.
54:31 Speaker 04 Yes.
54:32 Bobby Lee? And these people were a specific type of spectrum.
54:35 Speaker 04 Their car had like no registration on it.
54:37 Bobby Lee? Yeah, that kind of thing.
54:37 Speaker 04 Broken window kind of thing.
54:39 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
54:40 Speaker 04 But, but I love Bobby's fans and Bobby, I do apologize about that. That was crossing a line and I, I do mean that. I'm sorry.
54:47 Speaker 03 It's real.
54:47 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and I already forgave you then.
54:49 Speaker 04 Thank you.
54:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
54:50 Speaker 03 I remember just, I wanna trade Bobby notes opening. I'm trying to remember from when I opened to see if he does the same stuff with you. I didn't know about your rule. You would always pay when we went out, you know? And that was very cool. You're like, get whatever you want. Oh, this is amazing. You feel like.
55:03 Speaker 04 The greatest.
55:03 Speaker 03 In Willy Wonka's factory.
55:04 Bobby Lee? I'm a great meal star.
55:05 Speaker 03 Mozzarella steak. So amazing meals, steaks, whatever. There's no limit. Appetizers, salads. And then I noticed this about you too. You, you order everything and then you take one bite of everything like Homer Simpson. And then you just like.
55:15 Speaker 04 Yeah.
55:16 Speaker 03 Leave it. You have whatever you want. But I remember.
55:18 Bobby Lee? I learned that from David Spade.
55:20 Speaker 03 I tried to box it and you go, no, no, no, no, no. I go, what? He goes, no, no, no. You can't, you can't box food. I go, what? He's like, anything, you can have anything here in this moment, but you can't box it and take it back. I didn't know about that rule until touring with Bobby. I'm like, well, he's paying for it. I guess it makes sense. A little odd, like no one's ever done that.
55:38 Bobby Lee? Not odd.
55:38 Speaker 03 But I kind of get it in principle. Then you're not trying to bilk Bobby and you only order what you can eat at the table. Like he's not here to pay for this meal and your next one.
55:46 Speaker 04 Right. Right.
55:47 Speaker 03 Does he do that?
55:48 Speaker 04 Time together.
55:48 Speaker 03 Same with you guys? Like, you can't box it?
55:51 Speaker 04 I don't know if I've ever even had a desire to box anything, but that's how big the meals are.
55:55 Speaker 00 We don't even order main sometimes. Sometimes he gets so many appetizers, so we just eat that.
55:58 Speaker 04 It's legendary.
55:59 Speaker 00 It's amazing.
56:00 Bobby Lee? I don't know, Alex.
56:02 Speaker 04 Oh boy.
56:03 Speaker 00 I heard you call him the monster.
56:04 Bobby Lee? We call him the monster because he sometimes go on the road. And we call him the monster at dinner. And I go, his is usually the most expensive thing. Yeah, yeah, lamb chunks, you know what I mean?
56:16 Speaker 04 Lamb chunks, I have chops.
56:17 Speaker 03 That's off menu. I see the chops, where are the chunks?
56:21 Bobby Lee? A5, no, like A5, snow beef, oxtail. Something like that, right, where it's like $3,000.
56:28 Speaker 00 Comes in like a gold suitcase.
56:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. So it's like, he's that guy. So it's like, sometimes I look at monster and I go, go ahead, monster.
56:39 Speaker 00 You have been making an announcement lately. You're like, everyone, I see the A5 wagyu at the table, just don't order it.
56:45 Speaker 04 Yeah, he goes, no, he goes, you can order it.
56:47 Speaker 00 Order it, but.
56:48 Speaker 04 But I might have feelings about it. Which I love.
56:51 Speaker 00 I like that. I like that rule.
56:53 Speaker 04 I do too, it's fair.
56:54 Speaker 03 Okay, well, when I was coming up, there was no A5.
56:56 Bobby Lee? There was, oh yeah, it was A4, dude, A4.
57:02 Speaker 03 Cows weren't doing that.
57:02 Bobby Lee? Yeah, they weren't doing, they weren't doing that back then, yeah, yeah. They learned the A5, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, um, so the A5, um, the specific restaurant we went to, right? Is, is $100 every two ounces of meat.
57:19 Speaker 00 Insane.
57:20 Speaker 03 Whoa.
57:20 Bobby Lee? All right, so two ounces of meat is the size of this jewel.
57:24 Speaker 00 $100?
57:26 Bobby Lee? Okay, now, if the mons, it was specifically for the monster. Right, right? Because I don't even know if he can read.
57:35 Bobby Lee? I mean, his favorite band is Limp Bizkit, so I don't know.
57:39 Bobby Lee? I don't know if he can read, right? So in that specific restaurant, I was like, all right, so no one ordered that, it was for him, right? And so for, in order to get, to feed him with two ounces of, um, Japanese A5 wagyu, you know what I mean? Would have cost me thousands of dollars. Which is, I'm fine to do, but it's like, there's also a porterhouse.
58:02 Speaker 03 Right.
58:02 Bobby Lee? That you can get.
58:03 Speaker 03 I just imagine you calling your accountant and be like, monster wants a.
58:08 Speaker 03 Can I, can I do it? Okay, I'll tell him to go 14. You can't do 32, my accountant.
58:14 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
58:15 Speaker 00 Yeah, I appreciate the dinners, though.
58:16 Bobby Lee? They're good. Yeah, I know, and I, and, and you're welcome. You know? You're very much welcome. You're family to me. And so, um, but that's why I say it out loud. I go, just that, don't know in order because I'm, I'm getting every appetizer. And you can get any meal you want, except for that. And it's only for the monster. Okay, yeah. Yeah, and I, so, um, I didn't even know how I got into bringing that up, because you, you said something.
58:48 Speaker 04 I hurt you when I called you Jimmy O. Yang.
58:49 Bobby Lee? No, it was before that, that started. What was the thing before that?
58:53 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah, how you don't let people take food. Oh, yeah, being generous on the. Like, you have to eat it there.
58:57 Bobby Lee? Right, and then, um, do you have any beefs?
59:01 Speaker 04 With, with, uh, people, comedians?
59:03 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
59:04 Speaker 04 I, I certainly have beefs, but I don't know if anybody is, uh, like, significant enough to, to matter at this point. You know, like, I don't have any beefs with anybody, like, you know what's funny is I did an episode here with Trevor Wallace. I didn't have a beef with Trevor Wallace, but I was definitely rude to him in the early days of my comedy. And I remember sitting next to him and being like, I wonder if he knows, or if he remembers.
59:25 Bobby Lee? You should have brought it up.
59:26 Speaker 03 Why, where do you think that comes from? Why?
59:28 Speaker 04 Open mic scarcity, you know, like, feeling like you gotta kinda edge out everybody above, you know what I mean? And now, you know.
59:37 Speaker 03 Like, someone's success means less for me.
59:39 Speaker 04 Yes, in the early days.
59:41 Speaker 03 I think the way Hollywood used to be, that was somewhat true, but now it's just an ocean of clips and.
59:47 Speaker 04 Yes.
59:48 Speaker 03 Yeah.
59:48 Bobby Lee? Anyone's game.
59:49 Speaker 03 Anyone's game.
59:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah, anyone's game.
59:52 Speaker 03 But you gotta just put stuff out there and then hope society gravitates toward it, towards it, but that's it. There's no gatekeeper. It's like, you're the guy.
59:58 Bobby Lee? We're in a juncture in show business and in the world where there's so many unknown factors that it's even difficult to plan what you're gonna do in three years.
1:00:08 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:00:09 Bobby Lee? You know, like, um, I mean, I literally, that special I did was like, oh, this is the last time I might do this.
1:00:16 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:00:17 Bobby Lee? I mean, something else might come around. I don't know what it might be, but, um, we are definitely, I think, uh, like plumbers, stand-up comedians, I have a longer, you know, I mean, maybe a lifespan.
1:00:29 Speaker 03 Well, you have a skilled trade that is dependent upon you. You don't really need, there's not a lot of moving parts with stand-up. It's guy talking, your fans show up. Do you put butts in seats? It's pretty lean business. But to act, you need the producer to sign off, the casting director, so many things.
1:00:44 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but if an AI robot could tell really good jokes.
1:00:49 Speaker 04 They're getting close.
1:00:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and perform live.
1:00:52 Speaker 03 But he's like, anybody from out of town that he falls, and then they put a blanket over him and they drag him off. Did you see the clip of the Michael Jackson robot?
1:00:59 Speaker 04 Yes.
1:00:59 Speaker 03 My god, I haven't laughed at anything like that in such a long time.
1:01:02 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:01:03 Speaker 04 That thing scared me.
1:01:04 Speaker 03 Well, it was so good.
1:01:05 Speaker 04 It was great.
1:01:06 Speaker 03 And then it's so funny that it could do all these complex movements, but stairs, like one step takes it out.
1:01:11 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:01:11 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:01:11 Speaker 03 And I love how it stumbled, but then it recovers, like it didn't happen. You know, like when the figure skater falls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, no, go back further. Go, yeah, yeah, okay.
1:01:19 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah.
1:01:21 Speaker 03 Killing it.
1:01:21 Speaker 04 To me, this genuinely feels.
1:01:23 Speaker 03 This is, okay, that, and then, okay, okay, that didn't happen, that didn't happen. Back to the performance. Nobody saw that, nobody saw that. You're killing it, robot. You're killing it. Hit the moon, what, uh, uh. All right, let's try the steps again. Here, uh, and then he's done.
1:01:36 Bobby Lee? I've literally seen.
1:01:37 Speaker 03 Gives up.
1:01:38 Bobby Lee? I've seen Eric Griffin do that.
1:01:42 Bobby Lee? I really have, I really have. Yeah.
1:01:44 Speaker 03 This is like vaudeville and it's hilarious. This guy with a t-shirt comes in, it's so sad.
1:01:49 Speaker 04 It sincerely feels like the beginning of a sci-fi movie, where that guy is like, they humiliated me, they made me dance for them.
1:01:55 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:01:55 Speaker 04 He, you know.
1:01:56 Speaker 05 He feels shame for the first time in his life.
1:01:58 Speaker 04 Yes, yes. And then he's gonna make us dance.
1:02:01 Bobby Lee? But he's gonna get better.
1:02:03 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:02:04 Speaker 03 Yeah, he's gonna learn from this. He's like.
1:02:05 Bobby Lee? He's gonna learn from, yeah, yeah. Like Long Beach.
1:02:09 Speaker 04 Uh, okay, we'll bring in Long Beach.
1:02:12 Bobby Lee? So, so, I know, I know we were bringing up Long Beach, too much bringing up Long Beach.
1:02:16 Speaker 04 Well, give me the Cliff Notes, I'm sorry, it's painful.
1:02:18 Bobby Lee? Long Beach, right, me and Andrew are playing Long Beach.
1:02:21 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:02:21 Bobby Lee? Right, and Andrew still talks about this.
1:02:24 Speaker 04 This is really unfortunate.
1:02:25 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I mean.
1:02:25 Speaker 04 This is very.
1:02:26 Bobby Lee? Like, like, why'd he do that, you know what I mean?
1:02:28 Speaker 04 I was so nervous.
1:02:29 Bobby Lee? Is that, what's the matter?
1:02:30 Speaker 05 I don't know what happened.
1:02:31 Bobby Lee? I'm gonna tell you.
1:02:31 Speaker 05 Okay.
1:02:32 Bobby Lee? But your eyes, you know what I mean, are fixated on me.
1:02:35 Speaker 05 My mom was a servant, man, I just have.
1:02:38 Bobby Lee? Okay, okay.
1:02:40 Speaker 04 That is the Middle Eastern, I think, conundrum.
1:02:43 Bobby Lee? Conundrum.
1:02:43 Speaker 04 There's a sadness.
1:02:45 Bobby Lee? Okay, so, um.
1:02:47 Speaker 04 Can I say this, by the way, Bobby, really quickly? The reason why he doesn't know this story, and Zach's a good friend of mine, is I've never told it to him. Because it was, it's such a deep shame.
1:02:54 Bobby Lee? Well, if you don't want me to bring it up, if it's too shameful.
1:02:56 Speaker 04 No, bring it up, bring it up.
1:02:57 Bobby Lee? It was pure shame.
1:02:58 Speaker 04 Yeah, bring it up.
1:02:58 Bobby Lee? Okay.
1:02:59 Speaker 04 Let him hear it.
1:03:00 Bobby Lee? So I gave you and, um.
1:03:02 Speaker 04 Angie.
1:03:03 Bobby Lee? Angie Stroud, an opportunity to open up for us in this big theater in Long Beach.
1:03:08 Speaker 04 Hometown, my hometown, by the way.
1:03:10 Bobby Lee? How many seats was it?
1:03:11 Speaker 04 Twenty, uh, twenty-five hundred?
1:03:12 Bobby Lee? Yeah, something like that, big, big, big, big, big place, you know? And I go, you're opening.
1:03:17 Speaker 04 It was a great honor.
1:03:18 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and you know how you can tell when somebody takes the mic out of the stand? That it might not go well?
1:03:26 Speaker 04 Just immediately from that?
1:03:27 Bobby Lee? You know, it's, it's, it's more of a.
1:03:32 Speaker 04 Fidgety.
1:03:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you've seen that?
1:03:34 Speaker 04 And then can you hear it too?
1:03:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah, you're gonna hear it.
1:03:36 Speaker 04 Oh, no.
1:03:38 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean? Hey, you know what I mean?
1:03:42 Speaker 04 Like, even, even the hey was bad?
1:03:44 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:03:45 Speaker 04 Hey.
1:03:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:03:46 Speaker 04 I remember.
1:03:47 Bobby Lee? It's like vocalized, there's twenty-five hundred people. Hey. Yeah, so, um, Andrew is watching Ramsey like this.
1:03:57 Speaker 04 Oh, boy, that's a scary thing to hear.
1:03:59 Bobby Lee? Watching, right, and I'm pacing, because I'm the one that got you on it.
1:04:02 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:04:03 Bobby Lee? And I thought you were doing pretty good.
1:04:04 Speaker 04 I did fine.
1:04:04 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, I did really good. But the ending. Was shame.
1:04:10 Speaker 04 Yes.
1:04:11 Bobby Lee? Yeah, tell us what happened at the end.
1:04:12 Speaker 04 So what happened at the end was, first of all, can I say this? It was a very, it was my first time in a theater. Twenty-five hundred seat, you know, I'd never performed. By the way, Bobby, I had never opened for you at that point. So that was the first time you were watching me wa- like, there was a lot of nerves in me, right? And then on top of that, they also have the Bad Friends set in the background. So I'm in front of the curtain. Like, I'm performing at the edge of this. It's a very foreign.
1:04:36 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:04:37 Speaker 04 Sort of thing.
1:04:37 Speaker 03 It's almost like a plank.
1:04:38 Speaker 04 It feels like a plank.
1:04:39 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:04:39 Speaker 04 So I'm up there.
1:04:40 Bobby Lee? Explain that. Like a pirate, pirate plank?
1:04:42 Speaker 03 Yeah, just like a small area.
1:04:44 Bobby Lee? A lot of pirates.
1:04:45 Speaker 04 Yep, and I felt like, you know, the sword of Andrew Santino poking me in the back. Get out there, you know?
1:04:50 Bobby Lee? Andrew, note that.
1:04:51 Speaker 04 Well, you know, I just mean, he's a scared.
1:04:53 Speaker 03 Figuratively.
1:04:54 Speaker 04 I was more scared of Andrew at the time than I was of Bobby, I think. Because Bobby was more friendly to me and Andrew was a guy who was like completely like didn't, you know? So, set's going fine. I go to close, you know, do my last joke. And right before I do the final punchline, the, the cable comes out of the microphone.
1:05:11 Speaker 03 Did you step on it or what? How did it come undone?
1:05:14 Speaker 04 I don't even know exactly how it happened.
1:05:15 Bobby Lee? Is it a three-prong?
1:05:18 Speaker 04 It's a three-prong.
1:05:19 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Oh, so you gotta find it. You know the three-prong? You gotta find the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, so, oh, this is every comic's nightmare.
1:05:26 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:05:27 Bobby Lee? Attachment, right?
1:05:28 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:05:28 Bobby Lee? And then to get it in, there's a three-prong thing where you have to line it up.
1:05:33 Speaker 03 It's like Interstellar.
1:05:34 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:05:34 Bobby Lee? It's Interstellar.
1:05:36 Speaker 03 So it's a puzzle now.
1:05:37 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:05:37 Speaker 03 You already have no audio.
1:05:39 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:05:39 Speaker 03 It feels like an eternity.
1:05:40 Bobby Lee? Apollo 13, remember when Kevin Bacon's character had to perfectly, you know, get it in that little thing?
1:05:45 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:05:46 Bobby Lee? The latch on.
1:05:46 Speaker 03 Did you do a reenactment and play the Interstellar music while Ramsey's trying to?
1:05:51 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and the connection took too long.
1:05:55 Speaker 04 It was just a little bit, you could hear it.
1:05:57 Bobby Lee? Yeah, you could hear the connection, you could hear him, it not fitting the right way, you know what I mean? And in my mind, I was just, look at the dots!
1:06:04 Speaker 04 You're yelling.
1:06:05 Bobby Lee? My mind!
1:06:06 Speaker 03 The dots!
1:06:07 Bobby Lee? Line it up!
1:06:07 Speaker 03 Look at the dots!
1:06:09 Bobby Lee? You're losing the crowd!
1:06:10 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:06:12 Bobby Lee? So that happens, and then what happens?
1:06:15 Speaker 04 Uh, well, I just.
1:06:16 Bobby Lee? You go and do another joke?
1:06:17 Speaker 04 No, I just finish, I just do the punchline as opposed to like addressing it or like.
1:06:21 Bobby Lee? Ah, so he had a punch, so he did a punchline. So let's, let's take an old joke.
1:06:28 Speaker 04 Uh huh.
1:06:28 Bobby Lee? All right. So you know, you know, a grasshopper is a drink at a bar.
1:06:33 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:06:33 Bobby Lee? Right? Grasshopper walks in a bar. Bartender says, um, hey, we have a drink named after you. And the grasshopper says, you have a drink named Steve?
1:06:42 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:06:42 Bobby Lee? Okay, that's the joke.
1:06:43 Speaker 04 Classic.
1:06:44 Bobby Lee? All right. So this is how this joke, how Ramsey did it.
1:06:46 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:06:49 Bobby Lee? Let me grab one of these.
1:06:50 Speaker 04 This is, by just so everybody knows, one of the most traumatic experiences.
1:06:54 Bobby Lee? All right. Hey, grasshopper walks into a bar. Bartender says, hey, we have a drink named after you. And the grasshopper says, you have a drink named?
1:07:08 Bobby Lee? Steve?
1:07:10 Speaker 05 It's almost brilliant how you do it. It's like Andy Kaufman.
1:07:15 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
1:07:16 Speaker 03 That's so much time passed where they didn't even remember the setup.
1:07:19 Speaker 04 They don't remember.
1:07:21 Speaker 04 They're wondering if I'm the janitor. They don't even know.
1:07:24 Speaker 03 They're like, is Steve the next comic?
1:07:25 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
1:07:26 Speaker 05 The sound guy?
1:07:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're expecting Steve to come out to do the set. Yeah, yeah. So, um.
1:07:31 Speaker 04 I was broken.
1:07:32 Bobby Lee? Here's what you do though, in that situation, right? Is you go, fuck that. I have to close on a laugh.
1:07:39 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:07:40 Speaker 03 You go do a different joke.
1:07:41 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:07:43 Speaker 04 May I just say one thing?
1:07:44 Bobby Lee? I respect survival.
1:07:46 Speaker 04 Ah, yes, yes.
1:07:47 Bobby Lee? Over anything else.
1:07:48 Speaker 04 May I say one thing? Just one thing?
1:07:50 Bobby Lee? You can say whatever you want. You're a human being.
1:07:51 Speaker 04 Right before I went out, Bobby goes, the time is 10 minutes. Do not go one second over. He gives me a little bit of that conversation. If you go one second over, we get in trouble. We rent this theater boat. Like, it was a big conversation.
1:08:03 Speaker 03 That's compounded fear then.
1:08:05 Speaker 04 Yeah. Now the fear is compounded.
1:08:06 Bobby Lee? Compounded fear, but what it teaches you is he's not, he doesn't have comics' instinct.
1:08:11 Speaker 04 Okay.
1:08:11 Bobby Lee? So survival.
1:08:12 Speaker 03 But, but it's almost, it's almost, but it's almost like a suicide bomber of comedy where he's willing to take, he's willing to die to cut time for your guys' show.
1:08:21 Bobby Lee? Hmm.
1:08:22 Speaker 04 I'm Middle Eastern.
1:08:22 Speaker 03 He's a martyr.
1:08:23 Bobby Lee? Hmm.
1:08:23 Speaker 04 To my core, Bobby, when a dictator tells me to do something. And in this situation, you are our fearless leader. I list.
1:08:29 Bobby Lee? This is what I would have done. I just, I'll just tell you what I would have done.
1:08:32 Speaker 04 Okay.
1:08:32 Bobby Lee? All right. First of all, it would have gone quicker.
1:08:36 Speaker 04 Okay.
1:08:37 Bobby Lee? All right. I've practiced it.
1:08:39 Speaker 04 Okay.
1:08:39 Bobby Lee? I've gone to the Comedy Store during the day, right?
1:08:43 Speaker 04 Like this is.
1:08:44 Bobby Lee? I'm Asian.
1:08:45 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:08:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:08:46 Speaker 04 Blindfold.
1:08:48 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I mean, I've practiced.
1:08:49 Speaker 03 Yeah, he's blind.
1:08:49 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. All right.
1:08:51 Speaker 03 That's your correct.
1:08:52 Bobby Lee? Yeah, so, you know what I mean? I've also practiced lines that I have when that particular thing happened.
1:08:57 Speaker 03 Mmm.
1:08:58 Bobby Lee? Okay?
1:09:00 Bobby Lee? You want to hear it?
1:09:00 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:09:01 Bobby Lee? One of my lines, right?
1:09:02 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:09:02 Bobby Lee? So if I, you know, I'll do it, I go, "Don't worry, guys, my people made this shit."
1:09:07 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:09:07 Bobby Lee? That always gets a laugh. You know what I mean? You have to have three or four of those in there, you know what I mean? In order to, you know what I mean?
1:09:14 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:09:14 Bobby Lee? Survive those situations. And I have jokes about anything that could go wrong in the room.
1:09:20 Speaker 03 Give us some.
1:09:20 Bobby Lee? Yeah. No, I don't want.
1:09:21 Speaker 03 Or you don't want to burn it?
1:09:22 Bobby Lee? I don't want to burn, I want to, I don't want to burn, now I can't even do that one.
1:09:24 Speaker 03 That'd be so funny, we just like.
1:09:26 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:09:26 Speaker 03 Like, X-Men training room, throw some scenarios. Like, "All right, lady, lady heckles, a fat guy gets up."
1:09:34 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:09:34 Speaker 03 "A skinny guy."
1:09:36 Speaker 04 Person with an eye patch.
1:09:37 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. So what I would have done is I would have looked, because I was, did you see him on the side of the stage?
1:09:43 Speaker 04 I remember nothing about that night.
1:09:45 Bobby Lee? Okay, oh, yeah.
1:09:46 Speaker 04 Because I was so nervous. I was so, also mortified after that.
1:09:50 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:09:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, you, okay, so when he says Steve at the end of his, I don't know what the punchline was, but when he goes, "Steve," and it doesn't get a laugh, he puts the mic, and he go, and you can see his body just drop.
1:10:02 Speaker 03 Ah.
1:10:03 Bobby Lee? Right?
1:10:04 Speaker 03 This hurts to hear.
1:10:04 Bobby Lee? And go, "An ex-comic," you know, and he brings up Angie. And then maybe like 20 minutes later, I see him on a couch. And let's say I'm like, we're the corner of that garage, and I'm Aunt Ramsey, this is what Ramsey's doing.
1:10:20 Speaker 04 Yeah, I do remember that.
1:10:21 Speaker 03 A lot of body language, man.
1:10:22 Speaker 04 Yeah, I do remember feeling that way. I remember being like, "Ugh, that was tough."
1:10:25 Bobby Lee? And I felt so bad.
1:10:28 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:10:28 Bobby Lee? And I walked right up to him with like, just empathy, and I looked him right in his eyes, and I go.
1:10:34 Speaker 03 You went a second over.
1:10:38 Bobby Lee? You know, Zach, I had a punchline there.
1:10:42 Speaker 00 You stole it, dude.
1:10:44 Speaker 04 Alright, plug the mic back in.
1:10:45 Bobby Lee? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I literally had a punchline there and you stole my joke. That's fine. But you know what? Now you're shaking.
1:10:56 Bobby Lee? But I'd rather have someone use their comedy instincts than fail.
1:11:02 Speaker 04 Thank you.
1:11:05 Speaker 04 That's why I'm here. Lessons.
1:11:08 Speaker 00 It's a lesson right there.
1:11:08 Bobby Lee? It's a lesson, you know what I mean? But that was a sad night, but you know, he's still opening for me. And he's killing it. I can put him in any position, in any scenario, and he hits the ball.
1:11:22 Speaker 03 That's cool, you're getting theater Bobby's. Cause I was getting club Bobby's. Those are great, they're sold out weekends and stuff. But theater Bobby's next level.
1:11:28 Speaker 05 Yeah, that's different.
1:11:29 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:11:30 Speaker 05 How do you even prepare for that? You just gotta fail, like you said. You gotta try and like fall in that room.
1:11:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:11:35 Speaker 04 Yeah, I think I was just really nervous at that day. Because again, it just felt like my hometown. It felt like I can't believe I'm here. And then it was like Bobby's never even seen me before. There was just a lot in my head.
1:11:45 Bobby Lee? Oh yeah, I'd never seen him before.
1:11:47 Speaker 04 You'd never seen me before?
1:11:47 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:11:48 Speaker 03 I feel like we all have those things as well and you learn from it. You can dwell on it and let it eat you inside, but then you have to move on. You learn from it and you move on.
1:11:54 Bobby Lee? I have a thousand of those.
1:11:55 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:11:56 Bobby Lee? I literally have a thousand of those.
1:11:58 Speaker 04 Does anything come to your mind?
1:11:59 Bobby Lee? A failure.
1:12:00 Speaker 04 Does anything come to your mind where you go, that day was one of these?
1:12:02 Bobby Lee? Oh, oh yeah, I mean, I have failure. My whole life is failure after failure after failure and still not quitting.
1:12:10 Speaker 03 I like hearing that, you know, when I was a younger comic and you would talk about these failures to you.
1:12:15 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:12:15 Speaker 03 And then how well you're doing in my mind. I'm like, oh, you can still, you can have bad moments and still have a career and persevere.
1:12:21 Bobby Lee? Yeah, it's, it's, it's, you just fail upwards.
1:12:27 Speaker 00 Good, yeah.
1:12:28 Bobby Lee? Yeah, you just don't quit and every once in a while, something would happen that you don't expect. And you kind of go, you get pulled up a little bit, you know what I mean? But it's like, I have so many embarrassing failing moments where I was literally like calling people and go, I think literally I'm gonna kill myself. Yeah, that was so embarrassing.
1:12:49 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:12:50 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? So it's like, but I didn't. I just kinda survived. You know, but um, you know, I had, uh, if you want to hear a story, yeah. Is that what you wanted? Is that what you were setting me up for?
1:13:00 Speaker 04 I was just curious, if anything, what's the thing that makes you go?
1:13:03 Speaker 03 What's your long beach?
1:13:03 Bobby Lee? Okay, so my long beach is this, um, I'm auditioning for the Montreal Comedy Festival. I could never get one. I could never get one.
1:13:11 Speaker 03 Were you somewhat big at the time? Did you have anything going or no, no?
1:13:15 Bobby Lee? This is before Matt TV. And I, um, I had Abby, my manager, who also manages the executive producer of Comics Unleashed.
1:13:24 Speaker 04 And Funny You Should Ask.
1:13:25 Bobby Lee? And Funny You Should Ask. Okay, so anyway, um, I, she goes, sweetie, you're gonna do Chocolate Mondays or whatever it was.
1:13:33 Speaker 04 Chocolate Sundays.
1:13:34 Bobby Lee? Chocolate Sundays, sorry. Why did you laugh? I got the day wrong.
1:13:38 Speaker 03 It's just funny to me, Chocolate Mondays.
1:13:40 Speaker 05 One's a pun.
1:13:41 Bobby Lee? How, why, how is one a pun?
1:13:43 Speaker 04 Like an ice cream, Chocolate Sundae.
1:13:46 Speaker 04 Wait, you didn't know it was called Chocolate?
1:13:48 Speaker 03 To be honest with you, neither did I until you said that.
1:13:51 Bobby Lee? I didn't know it was one.
1:13:52 Speaker 04 I didn't know. Black people love Sundae.
1:13:56 Bobby Lee? I think it's like a church thing.
1:13:57 Speaker 04 I thought it was a church thing. I really did.
1:13:58 Bobby Lee? I thought it was like a church, church thing. Oh my god, I never, you're right, Chocolate Sundae.
1:14:06 Bobby Lee? I'm embarrassed. This is a game.
1:14:08 Speaker 04 Bobby Mune.
1:14:09 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:14:09 Speaker 04 I had no clue.
1:14:10 Bobby Lee? I did Chocolate Sundae's and, uh, back then it was like a hard room. And, um, I go, okay, and she goes, I invited everybody.
1:14:22 Speaker 04 That's crazy.
1:14:23 Bobby Lee? I go, what do you mean everybody? She's like, Montreal's coming, Will Smith's production's coming, uh, company's coming. Just all these fucking people are coming. HBO, I mean, the list goes on. And I was like, oh, okay. And I show up, I don't know any of the comedians, cause you know, at that time, I just played the store. I didn't know, you know what I mean? You know, later you find out who they are.
1:14:47 Speaker 04 Sure.
1:14:47 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? Oh, Cedric the Entertainer. Yeah, I mean, like, I mean, these types of acts. And they put me in the middle of the show and they have Criss Cross.
1:14:57 Speaker 03 Holy crap.
1:14:58 Bobby Lee? Like a, a, these two kids.
1:15:00 Speaker 03 Of cour- I know Criss Cross.
1:15:01 Speaker 04 They wear their pants backwards.
1:15:02 Bobby Lee? Criss Cross, I'm like, Joe, Joe, Criss Cross. Right, and they are before me.
1:15:08 Speaker 05 Oh my god.
1:15:10 Speaker 03 No one would do well.
1:15:11 Bobby Lee? Yeah, that's.
1:15:11 Speaker 03 You gotta follow Criss Cross in their prime?
1:15:13 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:15:14 Speaker 03 That's the stuff of nightmares.
1:15:15 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, and they're, they're, I didn't understand why their pants were backwards.
1:15:20 Speaker 03 That was their thing?
1:15:20 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I wanted to say to them, hey, excuse me, kid, your pants are backwards, you're about to perform. Like, I didn't know that that was a hook.
1:15:27 Speaker 04 Maybe you guys are nervous.
1:15:28 Bobby Lee? Yeah, maybe you're nervous. Yeah. And you know, it's a three pronger too.
1:15:35 Speaker 04 Wait, Bobby, can I ask before you even go further, when you do black rooms, cause the, the audiences are different. A lot of times the comedy is different for those people who, you know, maybe are unfamiliar. Did you typically do well in those types of settings?
1:15:45 Bobby Lee? Nope.
1:15:45 Speaker 04 Okay, okay, so already you're in the know.
1:15:47 Bobby Lee? Nope.
1:15:48 Speaker 04 Okay.
1:15:49 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:15:49 Speaker 03 Were you the only non-black act on the?
1:15:51 Bobby Lee? Yep.
1:15:52 Speaker 03 This is, Bobby, this is tough for anybody.
1:15:54 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and this is, you're talking also five years after the riot.
1:15:59 Speaker 04 The riots, oh boy.
1:16:00 Bobby Lee? Okay. Yeah, yeah, so they think I'm a rooftop, they think I'm a rooftop Korean.
1:16:07 Speaker 03 Is that the name of your special?
1:16:09 Bobby Lee? No, no, yeah, yeah, but yeah, yeah, but they think I'm a rooftop Korean. You know, and so I'm like, I'm not rooftop. Here's another thing that I do that I've changed over the years, but for some reason, when I played black rooms, I would find myself trying to talk different.
1:16:25 Speaker 04 Of course.
1:16:26 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? To, to, you know, and it never, they just saw it right through.
1:16:29 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
1:16:30 Bobby Lee? What's up, dogs? Yeah. It doesn't sound right.
1:16:33 Speaker 03 DJ, cut that shit.
1:16:34 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. You gotta just be yourself.
1:16:37 Speaker 03 Hell no. I'm Bobby L.
1:16:38 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:16:39 Speaker 04 He's got a catchphrase all of a sudden.
1:16:40 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:16:41 Speaker 03 I'm Lil Robert.
1:16:42 Bobby Lee? So then.
1:16:43 Speaker 03 Lil Burt.
1:16:44 Speaker 04 He's like cheeseburger.
1:16:45 Bobby Lee? So Criss Crocs go up and they do, they don't do comedy, they do music.
1:16:50 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:16:50 Bobby Lee? There's a DJ on stage and, you know what I mean? Chum, chum, chum, I don't know.
1:16:54 Speaker 03 Were they going crazy?
1:16:55 Bobby Lee? And they were doing a dance routine.
1:16:57 Speaker 03 Shit.
1:16:58 Bobby Lee? And the whole place was standing.
1:16:59 Speaker 04 Oh no.
1:17:00 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean?
1:17:01 Speaker 03 God damn.
1:17:01 Bobby Lee? Right, right, oh, it gets worse. It gets way worse, right? They do two songs, just killing it, right? And then the host gets up on stage and turns to the kids and go, We have more comics going up, so you guys gotta leave. The audience going, nah.
1:17:18 Speaker 05 Oh my.
1:17:20 Bobby Lee? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, keep the kids up there, right? And then the kids are like, yeah, we're gonna do another one. And, and the guys, cause you know, there's so many comics on. They're like, no, we gotta move on, right? And then he brings me up while they're still on stage.
1:17:35 Speaker 03 Oh my god.
1:17:37 Speaker 05 So they're doing this?
1:17:39 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:17:39 Speaker 05 And then you're still coming on?
1:17:41 Bobby Lee? Those two kids are on stage.
1:17:44 Speaker 03 You don't understand how huge.
1:17:46 Speaker 05 Yes.
1:17:46 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, these kids were the thing.
1:17:49 Speaker 05 And they're younger than I thought, like you're basically kicking kids.
1:17:52 Speaker 03 Choking off there.
1:17:53 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:17:54 Speaker 04 It's rooftop Korean.
1:17:55 Bobby Lee? Yeah, rooftop Korean is walking up to kids going, you gotta get off stage.
1:17:59 Speaker 05 Crushing their dreams.
1:18:01 Bobby Lee? And then they stay on stage and um, I, for some reason, so nervous, I just go into my act.
1:18:11 Speaker 04 Oh, you don't even fit with the dress?
1:18:13 Bobby Lee? I don't acknowledge what's going on, I don't acknowledge, you know what I mean? You know, and my friend Jonathan Gottsick, like, cause you know, from the improv main stage, you can see people by the door, that double door.
1:18:27 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:18:27 Bobby Lee? I, I see Gottsick standing there, and he's also the only white guy there. He, he has a bald head, and he's, we, back then, you know, we grew up together in comedy. And I remember at one point, two minutes in, he just kinda.
1:18:42 Speaker 04 Oh, when you start to see your allies turn from you?
1:18:44 Bobby Lee? Yeah, the back of the room. Turn his body and walk out.
1:18:47 Speaker 03 Can't watch.
1:18:48 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and I remember I made it to like, three or four minutes.
1:18:51 Speaker 04 Oh no.
1:18:52 Bobby Lee? The kids are still on stage.
1:18:54 Speaker 04 What?
1:18:54 Speaker 05 Why, why are they on stage?
1:18:55 Bobby Lee? They're doing a song after mine, I mean.
1:18:58 Speaker 05 Oh my god.
1:18:59 Speaker 04 You're an intermission to their act.
1:19:01 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:19:02 Speaker 05 That's mean.
1:19:03 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and I get off stage in tears, that's how bad it was.
1:19:06 Speaker 05 Fuck.
1:19:07 Bobby Lee? And I walk up to Jonathan, and Jonathan goes, you wanna move back to San Diego?
1:19:11 Speaker 05 Oh, what kind of friend is that?
1:19:13 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:19:13 Bobby Lee? No, but, cause we moved here from San Diego.
1:19:15 Speaker 05 Oh.
1:19:15 Bobby Lee? We started in San Diego, and he was trying to be helpful, like, maybe we're not ready.
1:19:19 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:19:20 Speaker 05 Yeah, it affected him.
1:19:21 Bobby Lee? Yeah, it affected him, maybe we're not ready.
1:19:23 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:19:24 Bobby Lee? And I, he couldn't, I was crying hard, it was so embarrassing.
1:19:28 Speaker 03 Yours is nothing.
1:19:30 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:19:31 Bobby Lee? I swear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I never did New Faces, ever. Even though I had opportunities to showcase years after that, never did it. And I believe it's crisscross. You, we, we have to get. I believe.
1:19:47 Speaker 05 They owe you an apology.
1:19:48 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't, they're kids. Well, they should have gotten off stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. They did another song and they crushed. Oh, my god. Cause I can hear them outside when I'm walking into my car. And at that point, there was no valet. So I'm walking down Melrose. Yeah. You mean, I'm going to Brea. Oh. From Melrose. Just that sad nighttime walk. Of course. You mean, you see all these fancy stores. Yes.
1:20:09 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:20:10 Bobby Lee? And you're going, it's over. Yeah.
1:20:12 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:20:12 Bobby Lee? It's all over. Do you have anything? No, you don't have anything like that.
1:20:15 Speaker 05 Oh, brother.
1:20:16 Bobby Lee? Yes, brother.
1:20:17 Speaker 05 I have failed harder than fucking.
1:20:18 Bobby Lee? That?
1:20:19 Speaker 05 Well, no, but I have, I have failed so bad that I thought I was gonna like die at the club that night.
1:20:26 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:20:27 Speaker 05 Like I thought someone was gonna kill me.
1:20:28 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause they're mad at you?
1:20:31 Speaker 05 I hurt feelings, yeah.
1:20:32 Bobby Lee? Oh. Oh, you hurt feelings? You ripped somebody apart?
1:20:34 Speaker 05 No, I just like said a joke. They're like, what the fuck is wrong with you? And then I'm like, I don't.
1:20:38 Bobby Lee? Oh, you said a joke?
1:20:39 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:20:40 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:20:40 Speaker 05 And, um.
1:20:42 Bobby Lee? Was it, was it racial?
1:20:44 Speaker 05 Kinda, yeah.
1:20:46 Bobby Lee? Can you? As he tells the story, he's a monster, or like? Listen, we cut with the show, so just say it, and if it's too uncomfortable, we'll cut it.
1:20:55 Speaker 05 No, it's bad. It's bad.
1:20:57 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, we wanna hear it.
1:20:57 Speaker 05 No, I can't.
1:20:58 Bobby Lee? Yeah, you can. Zach? We'll cut it. We'll cut it. We really do cut it.
1:21:03 Speaker 05 Alright, so I was new and I was performing in a lot of white rooms. And I had a very dumb joke. I mean, I'm probably a few months in. And I had a dumb joke about, um, the Fonz, talking about an epidemic, and he goes, AIDS.
1:21:20 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:21:23 Speaker 05 Very stupid, silly.
1:21:24 Bobby Lee? No, I like it.
1:21:24 Speaker 05 And, but it would do well in white rooms.
1:21:26 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:21:27 Speaker 05 And then I always saw a competition, uh, that was like, you could win 200 bucks. And I'm like, dude, I think I'm ready. I'm ready to start making some money.
1:21:34 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:21:35 Speaker 05 And so I signed up for this and I went with my friend. It was a all-black room in Stockton, I think, or outside of, maybe it was outside of Sacramento. Um, and the place was called Touch a Class.
1:21:45 Speaker 03 Touch a Class.
1:21:45 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:21:46 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:21:46 Speaker 05 And, uh, it was, we were the only white people or off white, off-black people in there.
1:21:52 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:21:52 Speaker 05 And, um, the guy was like, everyone's doing 10. And I didn't have 10. I had like two.
1:21:58 Bobby Lee? Oh, go, go, go. Hold on. All right, okay. All right. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on. All right.
1:22:03 Speaker 04 What the fuck?
1:22:04 Bobby Lee? You have two jokes, one of them is an AIDS joke.
1:22:06 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:22:08 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, you need some fallback. Well, I would. I would have won it a year.
1:22:12 Speaker 05 A lot of, a lot of my stuff was making fun of my Moroccan family, but in an all-black room, they don't care about your.
1:22:16 Bobby Lee? Oh, I see.
1:22:17 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah.
1:22:18 Bobby Lee? That does exist.
1:22:18 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:22:19 Speaker 03 In honesty, if he stretches the AIDS, it's three minutes.
1:22:23 Speaker 05 I just got up.
1:22:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:22:26 Speaker 05 Yeah. Uh, so they're like, everyone's doing 10 and we drew names out of a hat and they're like, you're up second.
1:22:31 Bobby Lee? Oh, my God. Great spot.
1:22:33 Speaker 05 Fuck, I don't even, I don't know where to think, I needed more time to think of jokes.
1:22:37 Bobby Lee? Wait, wait, wait, you're signing up for a competition?
1:22:40 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:22:40 Bobby Lee? Where you only have two minutes of material?
1:22:43 Speaker 05 Maybe, maybe five, but it's mostly about my Moroccan family.
1:22:45 Bobby Lee? I did the same thing, but let, but I, I've already talked about it. So I, I get it.
1:22:50 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:22:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:22:50 Speaker 05 So I, uh.
1:22:51 Bobby Lee? You think you could like rise above the occasion?
1:22:53 Speaker 05 Yeah. Yeah.
1:22:54 Speaker 03 Think, yeah, think.
1:22:56 Bobby Lee? You think.
1:22:56 Speaker 03 Pressure makes time, like the star in Mario Kart, you're just gonna be on stage like, fucking nice shirt. And everyone's like, ah.
1:23:02 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:23:03 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:23:03 Speaker 05 And, uh, I went up, uh, the first guy goes up and they go, what'd you guys think? And the room was so nice and supportive. They were like, should he move on or not? I'm like, oh shit, they're asking the crowd like that? And the crowd went, yeah. So he moved on and then I went up, did bits about my Moroccan family and I could just see the crowd like checking out. And they're like, dude, wrap it up, man. And it's been like three minutes. I'm supposed to do 10.
1:23:23 Bobby Lee? Okay.
1:23:24 Speaker 05 And so then I finally do this AIDS joke, but for some reason I said like, Africa and epidemic. I don't even remember how I worded it.
1:23:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:23:33 Speaker 04 He wanted to tie in black people.
1:23:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:23:36 Speaker 04 Magic Johnson.
1:23:37 Speaker 05 We can all appreciate how sad the world is right now.
1:23:40 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:23:40 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah. So then I go, AIDS, and I'm not kidding you, there's like, maybe, it felt like 200 people in there.
1:23:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:23:46 Speaker 05 And standing room only, and I went, AIDS, and it was silence, and one voice in the back went, what?
1:23:55 Speaker 05 And then the host came up, and he's like.
1:23:59 Bobby Lee? Oh, he pulled you off.
1:24:00 Speaker 05 He was like, he was like, being polite.
1:24:01 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
1:24:02 Speaker 05 Down by the stage, like, oh, yeah, just get up. And so I, I'm like, thank you so much, and I leave, and these two big women got up to slowly walk out, to leave the show because they were so offended, but they blocked me, so I had to like, wait, walking through the crowd behind these women that just shook their heads at me.
1:24:18 Bobby Lee? Oh, wow.
1:24:18 Speaker 05 And walked out, and he goes, what'd you guys think of that guy? Nooo.
1:24:22 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:24:22 Speaker 05 Hear the crowd as you leave. And I.
1:24:24 Bobby Lee? Not even a boo.
1:24:25 Speaker 05 I sit and I.
1:24:25 Bobby Lee? No.
1:24:26 Speaker 05 Yeah, no.
1:24:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:24:28 Speaker 05 Cognizant, no. I was devastated. I go and sit in my seat in the crowd. I didn't know where to go, and I just sit there and like, eat it, watching this crowd hate me, and I feel a tap on my shoulder, and I was so mortified that I just pretended to not feel it, and it's like, someone doing this, and I'm just getting nudged, and I'm like, ignoring it.
1:24:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah, who was it?
1:24:46 Speaker 05 And then I turned around, and it was a woman, and she was like, how long you been doing comedy? And I was like, just a couple months, and then she turned to her boyfriend, she went, he's only been doing it a couple months, and he just looked at me and went.
1:24:58 Speaker 05 No, disapproval. And then a guy in a wheelchair pulled up and said he wanted to book me for his show, he's looking for non-black comics, and that was the only show I never showed up to.
1:25:08 Bobby Lee? Oh, because you were just like, I can't show.
1:25:09 Speaker 05 I was like, there's no way he would want me on that show.
1:25:11 Bobby Lee? Wow.
1:25:12 Speaker 05 It was brutal. I'm like, my heart's shaking.
1:25:14 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:25:14 Speaker 05 Like, thinking about it.
1:25:15 Bobby Lee? Everyone has a story like that.
1:25:16 Speaker 05 It was brutal.
1:25:17 Bobby Lee? Let me say something, you're a great comic now.
1:25:19 Speaker 05 Thank you.
1:25:20 Bobby Lee? I think you had to go through all that.
1:25:21 Speaker 05 Yeah, it makes you stronger. I mean, you think about.
1:25:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:25:24 Speaker 05 It makes you feel like you deserve the breaks more than like, just doing well the whole time. Like, I had to deal with this shit, I had to deal with this, I did this awful show.
1:25:31 Bobby Lee? As a headliner, I have to, I didn't do it with you because you didn't ask for it, but with Kat and Anne Ramsey, there's, we have to have conversations, like, it's okay, it's the second show, you know, you know what I mean? You have to be, I, you know, I always warn them, I go, Friday night, second show, probably gonna be the worst show we have.
1:25:49 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:25:50 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? And, uh, don't take it personally.
1:25:52 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:25:53 Bobby Lee? You know, um, so, you, you, you try to. String them along, have them learn little things here and there. I didn't, I never used to do pranks on you, right?
1:26:03 Speaker 03 I think you would try and then you'd realize I don't do that.
1:26:07 Speaker 03 And then you wait, you would like, respect my boundaries.
1:26:10 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, like, I would lock you in a, lock you in a...
1:26:13 Speaker 03 No, you wouldn't do that.
1:26:14 Bobby Lee? Okay.
1:26:15 Speaker 03 Yeah, I think he did a little note to you one time where he had to go to the stage, but then you kept him back there.
1:26:19 Bobby Lee? Yeah, that's what I mean, yeah, yeah, stuff like that.
1:26:20 Speaker 03 He had to get on stage and like, you would block the door.
1:26:22 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:26:22 Speaker 04 Oh my god, it's the worst.
1:26:23 Bobby Lee? Did that, I did that to you?
1:26:25 Speaker 03 No, you, you wouldn't do it.
1:26:25 Bobby Lee? I wouldn't do that to you, yeah.
1:26:26 Speaker 03 No.
1:26:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:26:27 Speaker 04 Wait, there's an option to exercise boundaries?
1:26:30 Speaker 03 Yeah, there is.
1:26:31 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but the problem is that you already had that window of opportunity. Yeah, he's always been like that.
1:26:38 Speaker 03 Well, Bobby can sniff it, he's like a dog, like, he knows how far he can take with certain people.
1:26:41 Speaker 04 Well, 100%.
1:26:42 Speaker 03 And I think with, with me, you just knew like, alright, I know.
1:26:45 Bobby Lee? This is how much, this is how much integrity, is that the right, right? Integrity he has, okay? I didn't even fucking know this guy, right? And I was on Mad TV.
1:26:54 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:26:54 Bobby Lee? Right, and I had a scene where I was doing a series of celebrities touring my apartment. And so I had Dave Navarro as the celebrity, right? From Jane's Addiction.
1:27:06 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
1:27:07 Bobby Lee? Right? And I wanted to open up a closet and have just an Afghani man with a hole storing something.
1:27:15 Speaker 03 In his underwear, no, sharpening a sword.
1:27:17 Bobby Lee? Yeah, sharpening a sword, yeah, sharpening a sword, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:27:19 Speaker 03 You'd be in your underwear, sharpening a sword.
1:27:21 Bobby Lee? And not even acknowledge it all and just kinda do this, and I offer him the part and he goes, "I'm not doing that." And at that time, he was just a...
1:27:28 Speaker 03 I was nobody, I was nobody, like...
1:27:30 Bobby Lee? Right.
1:27:30 Speaker 03 I honestly, I said, "I don't want to do that." No, I, I wasn't, I just go like, "Uh, no, I don't want to do that." I just said that.
1:27:35 Bobby Lee? That's what I just said.
1:27:36 Speaker 03 You made it sound like I go, "I'm not doing that," like I was offended or something.
1:27:39 Bobby Lee? Uh, I'm not doing that.
1:27:42 Speaker 03 I said, "I don't want to do that."
1:27:42 Bobby Lee? I don't, okay, I don't want to do that.
1:27:43 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:27:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but that, I mean, would you, would you have done it?
1:27:48 Speaker 03 Uh, if I was...
1:27:49 Bobby Lee? Network.
1:27:49 Speaker 03 How old were you? Twenty something.
1:27:51 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:27:51 Speaker 04 I'll do it right now.
1:27:54 Bobby Lee? I know, I know. That's how different you are than him.
1:27:56 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:27:57 Bobby Lee? That he always had that.
1:27:59 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:27:59 Speaker 03 But just in my mind, I'm like, what's, what's that gonna do for me? I'm just gonna be a split second, sharpening a sword in my underwear. I also don't.
1:28:06 Bobby Lee? Is this it?
1:28:07 Speaker 00 Let's see who did it.
1:28:09 Speaker 05 Who is that?
1:28:10 Bobby Lee? Who is that?
1:28:12 Speaker 00 I don't know.
1:28:12 Speaker 05 Oh, is that that guy that, uh, kinda hangs out in the store, right? That guy with the...
1:28:18 Bobby Lee? That's Sandy Danto.
1:28:20 Speaker 05 Is that Sandy Danto? Is that really?
1:28:21 Bobby Lee? That's Sandy Danto.
1:28:22 Speaker 00 Holy hair, wow.
1:28:23 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:28:24 Speaker 05 Like, nothing like him.
1:28:25 Speaker 00 Could've been you, Fahim.
1:28:27 Speaker 00 Missed out, brother.
1:28:28 Speaker 05 He's stirring a pot of...
1:28:29 Speaker 03 What if we had a time machine? Like, my life is so different. I'm in a mansion. It's the pool.
1:28:34 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, um...
1:28:37 Speaker 05 That's a good bit, though. Yeah, when you're younger, you say yes to everything. You're like, you're supposed to. But it takes, like, yeah, integrity to say no.
1:28:43 Bobby Lee? What, now that you saw it, you still wouldn't do it?
1:28:47 Speaker 03 Yeah, I don't know why. I mean, I was pretty hardline on it back then, I guess. For me, it was just so quick. And then also, my parents, I'm in my underwear, it's Hollywood, like... I always think about the shame stuff, my parents and shit.
1:28:59 Bobby Lee? Right, okay, okay, okay, okay.
1:29:00 Speaker 05 You don't wanna be like a caricature of their culture.
1:29:04 Speaker 03 Yeah, or, or whatever they think I'm gonna do.
1:29:06 Bobby Lee? Even if I would've offered him, like, there's a part, you're a sketch, it's Michael McDonald's, the star of the sketch, you have to do a Afghani accent, he wouldn't do it.
1:29:18 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:29:19 Speaker 05 Right.
1:29:20 Bobby Lee? Yeah, he, yeah, would you do it?
1:29:22 Speaker 04 Uh, if I could do accents, I would. I would like train. I would go on YouTube, I'd learn to do accents.
1:29:26 Speaker 00 I'll do anything. I'll do anything.
1:29:28 Bobby Lee? Dude, I know, that's why you and I have more of a bond, I think.
1:29:32 Speaker 04 I think so.
1:29:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. That you're just willing to do anything.
1:29:35 Speaker 04 I'm in.
1:29:36 Bobby Lee? I always, I also said this the other day, I called him, I go, I just wanna let you know, if I'm crossing any boundaries, or you feel uncomfortable, he's like, do whatever you want to me.
1:29:46 Speaker 04 Ramsey, just like a little.
1:29:47 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He can do whatever you want to.
1:29:49 Speaker 03 Ramsey goes, go harder.
1:29:52 Speaker 04 I said, you can do whatever you want to.
1:29:54 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't mind. I don't care. You know what I mean?
1:29:56 Speaker 05 Bobby, I'm merely a series of holes.
1:30:01 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Do you have integrity like that?
1:30:05 Speaker 05 I try to, um, you know, my, I feel like my mom was like, dude, do whatever you want. She was, you know, she was like a servant. So she was like, I don't care. Like you have freedom. Go be free. But I'll post some sketches where it's like, you know, I pretended to be like a paraplegic who's like getting fake jerked off by his nurse. And, uh, and my mom, I commented like, no, God, no. Turn this off. This isn't funny. I don't like this at all.
1:30:29 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:30:30 Speaker 04 It's in Arabic.
1:30:31 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:30:33 Bobby Lee? But can I make the argument that funny wins?
1:30:36 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:30:36 Speaker 04 Always.
1:30:38 Bobby Lee? I, I, I've always felt that in any situation, I'm funny wins.
1:30:43 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:30:43 Bobby Lee? No matter what I say, you know, but, um, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe funny doesn't always win.
1:30:48 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:30:49 Speaker 03 I think ultimately it's just whatever you want to do, you know? I go off of that. I don't have like super hard lines, but I just feel my inside of me. I'm like, do I want to do this or do I not? And if I'll do an accent, I do land sometimes and that's an accent. So it's just sort of like, I have to, I have to feel it or.
1:31:04 Bobby Lee? So if Bad Friends did a movie.
1:31:05 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:31:06 Bobby Lee? And we want you to play a Lance like character, you know, at a club?
1:31:10 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:31:10 Bobby Lee? Would you do it?
1:31:11 Speaker 03 Yeah, probably.
1:31:11 Bobby Lee? Okay, yeah.
1:31:12 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:31:12 Bobby Lee? If you said no, it would be the last thing we ask you for.
1:31:16 Speaker 03 Yeah, I mean.
1:31:17 Bobby Lee? Yeah. It's, in fact, we were in the car and I, we were, I remember the underground comedy movie and that, the, the scene and the, have you seen this?
1:31:26 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah.
1:31:26 Bobby Lee? So I, I, can we say it? Can we show it again? Or is it too dated? We've done it already.
1:31:31 Speaker 05 The. I'll try to find it.
1:31:32 Bobby Lee? No, we saw it.
1:31:33 Speaker 05 Yeah, it was a great.
1:31:34 Bobby Lee? The whole movie and he had, he had to kind of find the scene.
1:31:37 Speaker 05 Yeah. Yeah.
1:31:37 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:31:38 Speaker 05 Girls, right?
1:31:38 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Yeah. With girl, with a girl. So I want to tell you, I was.
1:31:43 Bobby Lee? Doing open mics, I was probably twenty-two, twenty-three. And literally, three weeks in, the Shamwow guy shows up. Vinnie.
1:31:51 Speaker 03 He was at Montreal one year.
1:31:53 Bobby Lee? I know. R.I.P.
1:31:54 Speaker 03 What's his association with comedy?
1:31:55 Bobby Lee? Nothing.
1:31:56 Speaker 03 Okay.
1:31:57 Bobby Lee? He just happened to be at the La Jolla Comedy Store at open mic.
1:32:01 Speaker 03 Huh.
1:32:02 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and he used to hang out there. Okay, so push pause.
1:32:05 Speaker 03 Just for reference, yeah.
1:32:06 Bobby Lee? Yeah, okay, push pause. Push pause.
1:32:08 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:32:09 Bobby Lee? So, um, Vinnie. Great way to pause. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, everyone's listening. Everyone's mics are on, so you can hear it? Okay. So he goes, he saw me do open mic. I had like, you know, two minutes of material.
1:32:22 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:32:22 Bobby Lee? And he goes, uh, you wanna be a movie star?
1:32:27 Bobby Lee? Terrible line. Yeah, it felt very like, you know what I mean, misogynist and he, yeah.
1:32:31 Speaker 03 Or it sounds like something you hear before you have to suck a dick or something.
1:32:34 Bobby Lee? Sleazy Hollywood.
1:32:35 Speaker 03 You wanna be a movie star?
1:32:36 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, or something like that. Yeah, yeah. And I go, yes, sir. You know what I mean? Cause I knew, cause I had, I would watch television. I knew who he was.
1:32:44 Speaker 03 Oh, for sure.
1:32:44 Bobby Lee? You're the Shamwow.
1:32:45 Speaker 03 Was he wearing the headset?
1:32:46 Bobby Lee? The headset? No, but you could tell he was the Shamwow guy. Huge deal. Yeah, yeah, it's a huge deal for me. I've never met, aside from Pauly Shore and Carlos Mencia, I had never met a celebrity. Yeah. Okay, so I'm like, oh my god, what movie? He's like, you're, you're gonna speak in it, but we're gonna dub your voice. Like, like, you know what I mean? And it's very, um, stereotypical and it's not really that, you know what I mean, it's, you're not gonna like it. He just told you right away.
1:33:17 Speaker 03 That's pretty bold. They tell you it's stereotypical.
1:33:19 Bobby Lee? It's really racist and it's like, so I can under, cause back then I still was like, I was like, what's up dude? I still was like a San Diego guy.
1:33:27 Speaker 03 Mmm.
1:33:27 Bobby Lee? I sounded more like a beach guy. I listened to Fugazi. I was just kinda like that. I don't really know much about Asia or whatever. You know, I grew up in suburbs, you know what I mean, skating, you know? Yeah. And stuff like that. So, you know, this opportunity, so I came to North Hollywood.
1:33:41 Speaker 03 Right.
1:33:41 Bobby Lee? And I filmed this beautiful piece of action. I was an open mic'er.
1:33:45 Speaker 03 Sure.
1:33:45 Bobby Lee? It made me do it, you know what I mean? You know, I got no money.
1:33:48 Speaker 03 How many days of shooting was that?
1:33:50 Bobby Lee? A day.
1:33:51 Speaker 03 For the, for the movie?
1:33:51 Bobby Lee? All day.
1:33:52 Speaker 03 Just one scene?
1:33:52 Bobby Lee? One, it's a sketch show, so it was like, we would do a sketch a day. And I remember driving back to San Diego going, I already ruined my career.
1:34:00 Speaker 05 Oh.
1:34:01 Speaker 04 Oh, you felt it. You felt bad.
1:34:03 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I go, it's over.
1:34:05 Speaker 03 So why'd you do it if you felt that on the car ride to San Diego?
1:34:09 Bobby Lee? Back.
1:34:10 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
1:34:10 Bobby Lee? After I did it.
1:34:11 Speaker 03 Oh, did you think, did you think it was going to be something different?
1:34:14 Bobby Lee? I didn't know what it was.
1:34:14 Speaker 05 Yeah, but it sounded like opportunity.
1:34:16 Bobby Lee? It sounded like opportunity. You know who else is in it? Michael Clarke Duncan.
1:34:20 Speaker 05 Whoa.
1:34:21 Speaker 04 Yeah, Michael Clarke Duncan.
1:34:22 Speaker 05 Green Mile.
1:34:22 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:34:23 Bobby Lee? I mean, yeah, I mean, there's so many people in it. So I'm like, Slash is in it?
1:34:27 Speaker 05 Oh, that's.
1:34:27 Speaker 04 Wait, he gave you zero dollars?
1:34:29 Bobby Lee? I have fifty bucks, maybe, for gas.
1:34:31 Speaker 04 Wow.
1:34:32 Bobby Lee? Yeah, so, you know, he's saying, I got Michael Clarke Duncan, Slash, and in my mind, I'm like, oh, you know what I mean? Now, watching it now, you know what I mean? It's like, oh, my God. How terrible is it?
1:34:44 Speaker 05 Yeah, that's, but it's not the end. You know what I mean? Like.
1:34:47 Bobby Lee? What do you mean it's not the end?
1:34:49 Speaker 05 Well, like, you feeling that bad, it's nice to know that you're fine.
1:34:53 Bobby Lee? I'm flourishing.
1:34:54 Speaker 05 That's what I'm saying.
1:34:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt so real in that moment.
1:34:57 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:34:58 Bobby Lee? It felt damning.
1:34:58 Speaker 03 A drop in the bucket, like, it's literally just anecdotal at this point.
1:35:01 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:02 Bobby Lee? Yeah, three years, or four years after that, I got Mad TV.
1:35:04 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:05 Bobby Lee? Yeah, no one knew about that.
1:35:06 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:06 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? But there was no internet, too.
1:35:08 Speaker 03 He goes, I have a sketch idea.
1:35:12 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I just rip it off. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, that, you know, you do things in your career that you're now proud of.
1:35:18 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:18 Bobby Lee? And, um, you know, if I had to take it back, I don't think that that had any connection with me getting mad and movies and all that stuff. It's just a part of my history where I could have gone, no, dude.
1:35:31 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:32 Bobby Lee? That did not help me.
1:35:34 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:34 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? But.
1:35:35 Speaker 03 I think it's your twenties, though. You just do a bunch of stuff.
1:35:37 Bobby Lee? Totally.
1:35:37 Speaker 03 And then you find out, you can't really be.
1:35:39 Bobby Lee? Dude, you're talking about nineteen ninety-seven?
1:35:42 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:42 Bobby Lee? Ninety-eight? You know what I mean? I mean, this is a long time ago.
1:35:45 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:35:46 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I mean, you, you wouldn't even recognize my body there.
1:35:49 Speaker 04 No, dude, you look great.
1:35:50 Speaker 05 I do.
1:35:51 Bobby Lee? You do look good.
1:35:52 Speaker 05 I was waiting for you to enter. When that guy was on there.
1:35:55 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:35:56 Speaker 05 I was like, whoa.
1:35:57 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I was like thin and, you know, and I believe that if that kid, you know, had the jokes I have now.
1:36:03 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:36:04 Bobby Lee? And I was that funny, but, but in this time period, 2006, that I would have done very well for myself.
1:36:10 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:36:10 Speaker 04 I think so too.
1:36:10 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had to survive that kind of racism in Hollywood.
1:36:15 Speaker 05 Sure.
1:36:15 Bobby Lee? Where those are the kind of parts I was offered.
1:36:17 Speaker 03 I think about the generation before me, like Ma's and Ahmed Ahmed and stuff like that.
1:36:22 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:36:22 Speaker 03 Like what they had to navigate, it's tough because we have the luxury of social media now where we could be a little more nuanced. But the stuff Ma, I mean, the stuff that they had to do or the roles that were afforded to them aren't, we have a better opportunity now.
1:36:35 Speaker 04 Aside from Bobby offering you that, that thing in the closet, were there any other offensive things, Fahim, that you were offered that you felt like were, you know, crossing some type of a line?
1:36:45 Speaker 03 I think my agents knew what I wanted to do and what I didn't want to do. So I just, I made those boundaries again. Be like, I don't want to go out for this type of stuff.
1:36:51 Speaker 05 Hmm.
1:36:52 Speaker 03 I don't want to be the terrorist in Homeland or whatever.
1:36:55 Speaker 05 Right.
1:36:56 Speaker 03 What does that do for me as a comedian? No one's going to be like, oh, that guy was scary on FX. Let's go see him this weekend. At the Funny Bone.
1:37:03 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:37:04 Speaker 03 The guy who almost blew up America on, on CSI.
1:37:07 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:37:08 Speaker 03 Let's, let's see, you're in beef, let's see the softer side of him. Let's see where they, when they don't put eyeliner on him.
1:37:14 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:37:15 Bobby Lee? And I've, I vowed never do an Asian accent again.
1:37:18 Speaker 04 Really?
1:37:18 Bobby Lee? Yeah, about, John, I was talking to John Cho and he goes, I've never done one. And I go, you know what? I'm done. And this last year I've done two.
1:37:27 Speaker 03 I think it's case by case.
1:37:29 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:37:29 Speaker 03 When I was younger.
1:37:30 Bobby Lee? I, I'm a whore.
1:37:32 Speaker 05 We have this conversation every year.
1:37:34 Bobby Lee? Every year we have this conversation. And, and is there an Asian accent? You have to do one. Okay. Yes, master. Yes, master.
1:37:43 Speaker 05 You did stand up to a pretty big Netflix movie, the vampire one. You said, I'm not doing it.
1:37:47 Bobby Lee? Oh, that, that, that one I did. Yeah. I had a big part in a Netflix movie where I had to do a thick, I'll tell you why. Because in that role, he didn't have to have one.
1:37:58 Speaker 05 Hmm.
1:37:59 Bobby Lee? He was just some guy in LA that sold weapons. You know what I mean? So I'm like, why does he have to? He's like, director, that's just my vision. I wouldn't have a thick Korean accent.
1:38:08 Speaker 03 Oh, weird.
1:38:09 Bobby Lee? And I go, yeah, but if I'm a Korean dude, you know what I mean? Because, you know, dumbfounded at all these kids that I know that grew up in that town, they talk like me.
1:38:18 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:38:18 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:38:18 Bobby Lee? So why can't he be that? He's like, no, Asian accent. And I just said, I can't do it.
1:38:23 Speaker 03 You also were Chinese man.
1:38:25 Bobby Lee? Chinese man, yeah, yeah. So I played Chinese man a lot, a lot.
1:38:27 Speaker 03 A lot, dude.
1:38:28 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, I'm really good at that.
1:38:29 Speaker 04 Michael Clarke Duncan played gay virgin.
1:38:32 Bobby Lee? Gay virgin?
1:38:32 Speaker 04 I love the names of everybody in here.
1:38:33 Bobby Lee? Slash was as host. Any other names in there that we know?
1:38:37 Speaker 04 KKK, it could have been worse. Vince Offer played JJ Cool. That definitely is not going to be racially sensitive.
1:38:42 Bobby Lee? I know Michael Wielce, Risi.
1:38:44 Speaker 04 Michael Clarke.
1:38:45 Speaker 03 Ant as gay man.
1:38:46 Speaker 04 As gay virgin? Wow.
1:38:48 Bobby Lee? As gay virgin, yeah.
1:38:49 Speaker 03 Transvestite? I don't even think you can say that anymore.
1:38:52 Bobby Lee? Karen Black is a name.
1:38:53 Speaker 03 Oh, did you look at this?
1:38:54 Speaker 04 The lawsuit. You know movies good when it's got lawsuits.
1:38:57 Speaker 03 Ramsey, read the New York Times review.
1:38:58 Speaker 04 Where's the New York Times review? Where is it at? Okay, let's see. The New York Times offered a scathing review describing the movie as a series of, quote, "A series of sketches built around subjects like masturbation, defecation, alienation, urination, necrophilia, voyeurism, casual cruelty, and mockery of the unfortunate." Yo, bars. That makes me want to see the movie.
1:39:20 Bobby Lee? I know.
1:39:21 Speaker 04 I'm like, whoa, that's good.
1:39:22 Speaker 03 Sometimes you're like, this might be art.
1:39:23 Speaker 04 I would put that on the poster of the film.
1:39:26 Speaker 03 Crazy, dude.
1:39:27 Speaker 04 Dude, it's so bad.
1:39:29 Bobby Lee? Anyway.
1:39:31 Speaker 03 The Farrelly Brothers were on there?
1:39:33 Bobby Lee? Anyway.
1:39:34 Speaker 03 Part of the lawsuit, yeah.
1:39:34 Bobby Lee? Anyway.
1:39:35 Speaker 03 Oh, I see.
1:39:35 Bobby Lee? Yeah, so it's good to have ethics, is my point, I think.
1:39:39 Speaker 03 Yeah, I'm less hard lined on it now. I'll do it next. Sometimes I did if the opportunity was big enough. I did that Tina Fey movie back in the day, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, where I'd play this Afghan guy. And I'm like, okay, he's, he lives in Afghanistan. He hasn't, it makes sense for him to have an accent.
1:39:53 Bobby Lee? Yeah, okay, good.
1:39:54 Speaker 03 And the people involved, it was like Lorne Michaels producing and Tina Fey's in it, Alfred Molina. I'm like, this is too big of an opportunity to have these hard lines.
1:40:02 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but no to Mad TV. I get it.
1:40:06 Speaker 03 I know. If I could go back in time, I would be in the closet.
1:40:10 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah. Alright, what are you promoting?
1:40:12 Speaker 03 Oh, my special on YouTube. Yeah.
1:40:14 Bobby Lee? Is it out?
1:40:14 Speaker 03 It's out, yeah. It's called Intrusive Thoughts. It's on my YouTube channel. Yeah, I'm proud of it, but time to move on.
1:40:20 Speaker 04 It's really good. I love all the clips inside.
1:40:21 Speaker 03 Oh, thanks, man. Thanks. Well, that's the other thing, too, is now I just gotta clip it up for social, so it's almost like...
1:40:26 Bobby Lee? So you do it in the main room?
1:40:27 Speaker 03 I did it in the main room, yeah.
1:40:28 Bobby Lee? Yeah, um, how many cameras did you use?
1:40:32 Speaker 03 Four? Maybe four or five.
1:40:33 Bobby Lee? How many shows did you do? Two?
1:40:35 Speaker 03 One. I wasn't even, this wasn't even gonna be the special. It was on accident because Ali Wong was gonna maybe shoot mine and have her direct it and produce it because I was opening for her for a while and I'm like, oh, let's, if I could get the Shang Wang treatment, that'd be awesome. Because Shang was opening for her for a while, and then we were trying to do that, and then at the end of my tour, I had this on the books. And I go, I like the room, and let me just shoot it just in case that falls through, because Hollywood shit doesn't always work out.
1:41:01 Bobby Lee? Did that fall through?
1:41:02 Speaker 03 It fell through. So I was so lucky that I had this.
1:41:04 Bobby Lee? Wait, wait, Netflix said no to it?
1:41:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, yeah.
1:41:08 Bobby Lee? But you were in the party.
1:41:10 Speaker 03 I was Hassan's plus one. I wasn't even a real, Hassan hit me up the day before. He's like, you wanna go to this thing? I go, I don't know. I don't wanna seem like I'm, I scaled a fence to be at this party. And he goes, no, I brought Prashant last time. It's not a big deal. A bunch of plus ones come. I'm like, alright.
1:41:26 Bobby Lee? You got in the photo, though.
1:41:28 Speaker 03 I didn't want to. Jeff Ross, he's like, get in this thing.
1:41:31 Bobby Lee? Uh-oh. Did they let you through?
1:41:33 Speaker 03 I guess. I didn't wanna get in the photo, but then Jeff Ross is like, this is one of those things. He goes, you should be in this.
1:41:38 Bobby Lee? Yeah, and let me say something. No one, I just found out that you were a plus one.
1:41:43 Speaker 03 Well, thanks.
1:41:43 Bobby Lee? So in my mind, I'm like...
1:41:44 Speaker 03 My next special's gonna be called Plus One.
1:41:46 Bobby Lee? Yeah. In my mind, I'm like, oh, yeah, Feem's here.
1:41:49 Speaker 03 Well, that's nice. Thanks, Bobby.
1:41:50 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, he said he wouldn't go.
1:41:52 Speaker 04 I wouldn't go. No, I feel...
1:41:53 Bobby Lee? As a plus one?
1:41:54 Speaker 04 I'd be, I'd feel too uncomfortable.
1:41:55 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Would you go as a plus one?
1:41:57 Speaker 05 That's integrity. No, I don't think I would. Yeah, I'd go.
1:41:59 Speaker 04 It's actually not integrity, I don't think, though.
1:42:00 Bobby Lee? Where are you?
1:42:01 Speaker 04 I think it's fear.
1:42:02 Bobby Lee? Yeah, where is a fear?
1:42:03 Speaker 03 Oh, I'm next to Norman in the back. Carol and Ray.
1:42:06 Speaker 04 Arms around Ted Sarandos.
1:42:07 Bobby Lee? Wait, wait, let me see.
1:42:08 Speaker 03 That'd be funny. I'm in the front with Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy and Seinfeld, they're like.
1:42:13 Bobby Lee? Let's see, let's.
1:42:14 Speaker 05 I gotta find a better photo, this one's too.
1:42:17 Speaker 04 These photos always like.
1:42:17 Speaker 03 No, you could see me there in the back.
1:42:18 Speaker 04 Yeah, there he is.
1:42:19 Bobby Lee? Where, just zoom in on it.
1:42:20 Speaker 03 Here, cursor to the left, cursor to the left.
1:42:22 Speaker 04 Dude, if a Ron. You can see Mark Norman.
1:42:24 Speaker 05 Oh, here.
1:42:24 Speaker 03 Yeah, yeah.
1:42:25 Bobby Lee? Oh, there you are.
1:42:25 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:42:26 Bobby Lee? Next, Caroline Ray and Mark Norman.
1:42:27 Speaker 04 This genuinely feels like a national security threat to me.
1:42:30 Speaker 03 But here's, here's the thing, though. I didn't want to go in this.
1:42:33 Speaker 05 Dangerous place to be.
1:42:33 Speaker 03 Jeff Ross was like, yo, you should be in this. And then, when I was at the photo, there were some comics where I'm like, I could be here.
1:42:40 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:42:40 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:42:41 Speaker 03 You know what I mean?
1:42:41 Bobby Lee? 100%, yeah. 100% dude, we're not gonna name those people, but 100%.
1:42:45 Speaker 05 If David Letterman's here, I'm here.
1:42:47 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:42:50 Bobby Lee? So, seriously, if next year I get invited and I'm like, hey, you wanna come? You wouldn't go?
1:42:54 Speaker 05 No.
1:42:54 Bobby Lee? Wow, that's good.
1:42:55 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:42:56 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I don't think I would go either.
1:42:57 Speaker 05 I can't do it. Well, I mean, you should go. Well, well.
1:42:59 Bobby Lee? If I'm, if I was a plus one.
1:43:02 Speaker 05 Oh, I see.
1:43:02 Bobby Lee? I couldn't do it.
1:43:03 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah.
1:43:03 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I gotta get invited.
1:43:04 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah.
1:43:05 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just my thing.
1:43:07 Speaker 05 Totally.
1:43:07 Bobby Lee? There's no way.
1:43:08 Speaker 03 I was trying to do that, but then Hasan like twisted my arm. He's like, it's not a big deal, dude, come.
1:43:11 Speaker 04 I think we're wrong. I think you're right.
1:43:12 Speaker 05 Yeah, Hasan was right.
1:43:13 Bobby Lee? I think you're right.
1:43:14 Speaker 04 I think you're right.
1:43:15 Bobby Lee? But also, they're not you.
1:43:16 Speaker 04 Yes, correct, also correct, yeah, also correct.
1:43:18 Bobby Lee? You should have been invited.
1:43:19 Speaker 05 Right. Other people should have said no.
1:43:21 Speaker 03 But I don't know, look, it's their own taste, it's their own party. If, if, if they don't see me as a non-plus one, they don't see me as a plus, non-plus one. And I'm not trying to do this Instagram thing of like, I'm gonna post that photo.
1:43:30 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:43:30 Speaker 03 I'm not trying to juice the optics of this thing.
1:43:34 Speaker 03 My, my friend asked me to hang out and I, I tried to get out of it and he said, no, come.
1:43:37 Speaker 05 If you posted it, no one would care or question it.
1:43:40 Speaker 03 I guess. But my soul couldn't let me do that. I couldn't be like, what an amazing time at the Netflix brunch.
1:43:44 Speaker 04 Thanks Ted, thanks Ted.
1:43:46 Bobby Lee? I didn't post anything.
1:43:47 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:43:47 Speaker 04 You never post anything, Bill.
1:43:48 Bobby Lee? I know, but I would, I wouldn't post it. And I'll, and I'll tell you why, okay? It's.
1:43:55 Bobby Lee? I have a real resentment toward legacy media and the elites.
1:43:59 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
1:43:59 Speaker 03 I'm with you.
1:44:00 Bobby Lee? In Hollywood.
1:44:00 Speaker 03 I'm with you, yeah.
1:44:01 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I, right? And they pick who they pick.
1:44:03 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
1:44:04 Bobby Lee? And it's not based on humor, it's not based on the streets.
1:44:08 Speaker 05 Fanbase.
1:44:09 Bobby Lee? Right?
1:44:09 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:44:09 Bobby Lee? It's based on anything, it's arbitrary and it's who's in the club.
1:44:14 Speaker 05 Yep.
1:44:14 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's a country club.
1:44:15 Bobby Lee? It's a country club.
1:44:16 Speaker 03 And I love how.
1:44:17 Bobby Lee? It's very elitist.
1:44:17 Speaker 03 The internet has blown that up and I love it.
1:44:19 Bobby Lee? I love it too.
1:44:20 Speaker 03 I'm way further along in my career now than trying to play the way Hollywood used to be back in the day.
1:44:25 Bobby Lee? And I tried to play it and, and sometimes I got in.
1:44:28 Speaker 03 Sometimes.
1:44:29 Bobby Lee? I got it, you know what I mean? I couldn't believe it.
1:44:31 Speaker 03 But you didn't realize how rigged it was until you see what's happening now with like.
1:44:34 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:44:34 Speaker 03 How much you're flourishing online and people just like who they like.
1:44:37 Bobby Lee? Yeah, I should have been. You know, there was always like a top five for a movie. Jimmy Oh Yang, Ken Jeong, Ronnie Chang. I was fifth. Every movie. So four people would have had to have said no for me to get it. And that's hence the Asian accent.
1:44:59 Speaker 03 Well, back in the day, you couldn't even get in front of people unless the Comedy Central guy liked you. There was no phones.
1:45:05 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:45:05 Speaker 03 So if the gatekeeper didn't like you, no one would ever see you, except you at a club or something.
1:45:10 Speaker 05 Right.
1:45:10 Bobby Lee? Alison Jones was the only gatekeeper that liked me. And I have to say that out loud. Most every movie, Hollywood movie I ever did or television that's worth anything was through Alison Jones. And she's in Apatow and Larry David.
1:45:27 Speaker 03 Yeah, amazing casting director. Those were huge.
1:45:30 Bobby Lee? She also, and I, she also believed in me. And so it's like, without her, I would have never gotten anything. I think Mad TV got on my own, but other than that, you know what I mean, it was Alison. But, but now it's like, um, and I could already tell who, you know, I wasn't in fully. And so now, what internet happened, I was just like, me and Andrew both, Andrew feels the same way, I can speak on his behalf. That we like, we didn't get in and we have a little bit of chip on our shoulders. And now we're doing our own thing.
1:46:02 Speaker 05 That's also encouraging, just like the failure thing where it's like you see carving your own way works out. You know, if like stand on what you believe in, what you like to do, it's funny.
1:46:11 Bobby Lee? Yeah. I'm also old and I've been in it. I survived every, and I'm thirty years plus in. I'm fifty-five almost. Do you believe it?
1:46:20 Speaker 05 No.
1:46:20 Speaker 04 That's crazy.
1:46:21 Bobby Lee? I could die, you know?
1:46:23 Speaker 04 I love, I love what we.
1:46:24 Bobby Lee? Thanks for coming out, everybody.
1:46:28 Bobby Lee? You know?
1:46:28 Speaker 00 You're on a list, dude, on IMDb, so that's important.
1:46:31 Bobby Lee? Behemoths?
1:46:32 Speaker 00 You.
1:46:33 Speaker 04 Where are you at, Bobby? Where is he at?
1:46:34 Speaker 00 Look, John Cho.
1:46:36 Speaker 04 You're showing him the wrong part of the list.
1:46:37 Speaker 03 This is just like a user-generated list.
1:46:38 Speaker 00 Nah, it's real, man. Bobby Lee twelve.
1:46:41 Bobby Lee? Whoa, come on, dude.
1:46:44 Speaker 04 Yeah, but he's not gonna look who he's above. He wants to see who he's below.
1:46:47 Bobby Lee? No, let's see what's below.
1:46:48 Speaker 00 Justin Chon.
1:46:50 Speaker 04 Rexley.
1:46:51 Speaker 00 Beatty Wong.
1:46:52 Speaker 04 That's classic.
1:46:53 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, good, good.
1:46:54 Speaker 04 Yeah, you do. This is pretty good.
1:46:56 Bobby Lee? Who's ahead of me, though?
1:46:57 Speaker 04 That's what I wanna know.
1:46:57 Bobby Lee? Yeah, it's me. Rand, Randall's ahead.
1:46:59 Speaker 00 Ken Long.
1:47:00 Speaker 05 Ken Long.
1:47:00 Bobby Lee? Ken Long's great, though. He was in Project Hall Mary.
1:47:02 Speaker 03 Pull up top 20 Afghan-American stand-up comedians.
1:47:07 Speaker 04 Fahima's first wife.
1:47:08 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, pull it up. No, they're.
1:47:09 Speaker 00 I don't think that's a list.
1:47:10 Bobby Lee? Okay, yeah. If I'm in top 12, I'm, like, go a little further in the beginning. These are Koreans specifically?
1:47:17 Speaker 04 Or is it Asians?
1:47:18 Speaker 00 It's just Asians.
1:47:18 Bobby Lee? Oh, yeah, Perry Chan, John's want to. Where's Steven Yeun? Yeah, what the hell?
1:47:24 Speaker 04 This is on IMDb, too, so.
1:47:26 Speaker 00 Sorry, my bad.
1:47:26 Speaker 04 14 years ago.
1:47:27 Bobby Lee? Oh, damn.
1:47:28 Speaker 04 Well, this might be shifted now.
1:47:29 Bobby Lee? That's 14 years ago?
1:47:31 Speaker 04 Wait, but hold on, Bobby.
1:47:32 Speaker 00 The first one that came up.
1:47:33 Speaker 04 Your star has only risen even more in 14.
1:47:35 Speaker 00 You might be one.
1:47:36 Speaker 03 You'd be one now.
1:47:37 Speaker 04 You'd be, you'd be at least in the top five.
1:47:38 Bobby Lee? And you know what? Don't even look it up. I don't even wanna fucking see it. Don't even look it up.
1:47:42 Speaker 00 I'm not looking it.
1:47:42 Bobby Lee? I'm 12. I felt good about that.
1:47:44 Speaker 00 Hold on to that. Hold on.
1:47:45 Bobby Lee? I'm gonna hold on to 12. Yeah, yeah.
1:47:47 Speaker 04 I think you're higher now. That's my, my.
1:47:48 Bobby Lee? I'll tell you why I'm not higher.
1:47:50 Speaker 04 Tell me.
1:47:51 Bobby Lee? There's this thing called the Golden Gala event.
1:47:53 Speaker 00 You get invited, don't lie.
1:47:54 Bobby Lee? I did.
1:47:55 Speaker 00 Yeah.
1:47:55 Bobby Lee? And I was gonna go. And I asked, all right, me plus my girlfriend, and they go, you don't get to bring a guest.
1:48:02 Speaker 04 Ooh.
1:48:03 Bobby Lee? Oh, shit. So I said, all right, I'm not going.
1:48:05 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:48:06 Speaker 00 Nice.
1:48:06 Speaker 04 You don't get to bring a guest? Are you kidding me?
1:48:09 Bobby Lee? Yeah, because I've been there before and I go, oh, there's John Cho's wife.
1:48:12 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:48:13 Bobby Lee? Or whatever. Right? I don't get to bring a guest?
1:48:16 Speaker 03 What if she, she got invited, though?
1:48:17 Bobby Lee? Who?
1:48:18 Speaker 03 John Cho's wife. She got an individual invite instead of a plus one.
1:48:21 Speaker 00 That's true.
1:48:22 Bobby Lee? It doesn't matter how my plus one is invited.
1:48:25 Speaker 04 I agree.
1:48:25 Bobby Lee? You know what I mean? And I had been there before, and what they do is they put the old, in their eyes, the older ones in the back.
1:48:34 Speaker 04 Elders.
1:48:35 Bobby Lee? It's me, Marco Cho, you know what I mean? You know, just sitting in the back there. You know what I mean? When you, you look in the front of the table. Who's in the front? It's Cherry Cola.
1:48:45 Speaker 04 Ronnie Chang?
1:48:46 Bobby Lee? Yeah, Ronnie Chang.
1:48:47 Speaker 05 Aquafina?
1:48:47 Bobby Lee? Yeah, John, John, John, Stephen Yu and Michelle Yeoh. They're all in the front. You know what I mean? I mean, I'm in crickets. And I still go, I get it.
1:48:57 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:48:57 Bobby Lee? Right? But I found it a little offensive. And I, I always need a war too. Right? Cause my war with, uh, other things have, I've won it. I, I win every wars.
1:49:07 Speaker 05 Uh huh, that's true.
1:49:08 Bobby Lee? And as, just to let you guys know, you have to win every war. And if it takes 10 years.
1:49:14 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:49:14 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:49:15 Bobby Lee? 20 years.
1:49:16 Speaker 04 Did you hear that, Trevor Wallace?
1:49:19 Speaker 03 You restarted it?
1:49:19 Speaker 04 You're reigniting it?
1:49:20 Bobby Lee? Restart it, dude, win this one.
1:49:22 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:49:22 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, restart the war, dude.
1:49:24 Speaker 04 So his fifth home. I got, he's, I'm coming for you, buddy.
1:49:27 Bobby Lee? Yeah. And so, um, your war with this person.
1:49:32 Speaker 03 Sure.
1:49:33 Bobby Lee? Is, um, I'm on your side on this war.
1:49:35 Speaker 03 Thank you.
1:49:36 Bobby Lee? I recently saw this person a week ago.
1:49:39 Speaker 03 Damn.
1:49:39 Bobby Lee? Unfortunately, I gave him the biggest hug one can give.
1:49:42 Speaker 03 That's fine, you know?
1:49:43 Bobby Lee? Okay, okay.
1:49:44 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:49:44 Bobby Lee? I did a head rub.
1:49:46 Speaker 05 Oh, wow.
1:49:47 Speaker 04 Oh, God.
1:49:47 Bobby Lee? Yeah, cause he's no longer in the business.
1:49:49 Speaker 03 Or, yeah. My, my only thing is, he was saying bad things about me that weren't true.
1:49:55 Bobby Lee? They're, they're not true. And, and, and all comics know that when they're.
1:49:57 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:49:58 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:49:58 Speaker 03 But it just sucks when you're not there to defend yourself and you go, okay, I guess these lies are just being spread and you can't do anything about it.
1:50:03 Speaker 04 And I guess if they're out of the business, then you won.
1:50:05 Speaker 05 You already won.
1:50:06 Speaker 03 I guess, yeah.
1:50:07 Speaker 04 You took them out.
1:50:08 Speaker 05 Thinking about them does you know.
1:50:09 Speaker 03 I don't think about them every day or anything like that, but I'm just like, oh, okay.
1:50:12 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:50:12 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all have those.
1:50:14 Speaker 05 I have, I have a big war. My mom, when she was a servant, when she was poor in Morocco, she helped two white travelers that were hitchhiking and.
1:50:21 Bobby Lee? Here we go.
1:50:21 Speaker 05 And, uh, she helped them find shelter and took care of them and then took them to the bus they were trying to get to, to go to Algeria. And the guy in the group was like, hit me up if you ever need anything, if you ever come out to Canada. And he wrote down his name and his number and it's James Cameron.
1:50:35 Speaker 04 Are you kidding me?
1:50:36 Speaker 05 I swear to God.
1:50:38 Speaker 03 And you gotta use it.
1:50:39 Bobby Lee? Your mom, your mom has James Cameron's number?
1:50:43 Speaker 05 Well, his old number before he was famous. This was like the seventies.
1:50:47 Speaker 03 Wow. You could be a Na'vi.
1:50:49 Speaker 05 She hit him up. She was like, please, my son is doing acting.
1:50:52 Bobby Lee? You?
1:50:53 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:50:54 Bobby Lee? And he never put you in anything?
1:50:55 Speaker 04 Dude, this is crazy. This is crazy.
1:50:57 Speaker 05 Yeah. Yeah. She sent me a photo of his number. She's like, I told you I wasn't lying. And it's like in her book.
1:51:03 Speaker 03 It's just random numbers?
1:51:04 Bobby Lee? That's proof.
1:51:05 Speaker 03 I told you.
1:51:06 Bobby Lee? There's also, there's a lot of James Camerons in the world.
1:51:08 Speaker 05 No, she actually, her friend was a P I. And found out that it was James Cameron.
1:51:12 Bobby Lee? Oh, I see. I see, see, see.
1:51:15 Speaker 05 And that friend died in her sleep.
1:51:16 Bobby Lee? Whoa.
1:51:17 Speaker 05 She got too close.
1:51:18 Bobby Lee? Yeah. But at that point, this is pre Terminator.
1:51:21 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:51:21 Bobby Lee? Yeah. I mean, what would you play in that movie as a kid?
1:51:24 Speaker 05 Uh, well, no, no, no. She did it, I think, when I started like comedy. So this is probably like early Avatar, maybe, or no?
1:51:31 Bobby Lee? Yeah, so he had already made it.
1:51:32 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:51:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, but so then use the number.
1:51:36 Speaker 05 She reached out to him.
1:51:37 Bobby Lee? Oh, and he never responded?
1:51:38 Speaker 05 He never responded.
1:51:39 Bobby Lee? Oh, I see.
1:51:40 Speaker 04 So you have a beef with James Cameron?
1:51:41 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:51:43 Bobby Lee? Oh, okay.
1:51:44 Speaker 05 I can't let it go.
1:51:45 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:51:45 Speaker 05 I can't let it go.
1:51:46 Bobby Lee? Well, James.
1:51:48 Speaker 03 If you're listening.
1:51:48 Bobby Lee? We know you're listening. Yeah. We know you're listening.
1:51:50 Speaker 05 We could have left you for dead at that bus stop in Casablanca, but no.
1:51:53 Bobby Lee? Yeah. And this was so, when, 2018? What happened? The Casablanca thing?
1:51:58 Speaker 05 What, when he, when my mom helped him?
1:51:59 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:52:00 Speaker 05 No, it was like in the seventies. He was like a traveling stoner.
1:52:02 Bobby Lee? I don't get what you're saying.
1:52:03 Speaker 05 He was hitchhiking as like a twenty something.
1:52:05 Bobby Lee? Oh, so in the seventies, your mom called him, but he had never done movies?
1:52:09 Speaker 05 No, no, no. In the seventies.
1:52:10 Bobby Lee? Dude, get your story right. I don't understand your story. Start from the beginning.
1:52:14 Speaker 05 Okay.
1:52:14 Bobby Lee? Are you understanding the story?
1:52:16 Speaker 05 A little bit.
1:52:16 Bobby Lee? No, no, no.
1:52:17 Speaker 05 Backpacking.
1:52:17 Bobby Lee? Yes. Okay, tell me the story.
1:52:19 Speaker 04 So, so, uh, this guy was backpacking across Morocco.
1:52:22 Bobby Lee? In the seventies?
1:52:23 Speaker 04 In the seventies.
1:52:24 Bobby Lee? Yeah.
1:52:24 Speaker 04 He was stranded. He needed help. Zach's Moroccan mother helped him. And he said, if I can do anything for you, if you ever come to Canada, here's my phone number, call me. And so Zach's mother reached out when Zach started comedy and said.
1:52:37 Bobby Lee? This is years later.
1:52:38 Speaker 05 Years later.
1:52:39 Bobby Lee? You think he has the same number?
1:52:40 Speaker 05 I, no, no, no, but she, she found the address. She wrote him a letter. Fan mail.
1:52:44 Speaker 03 Wow.
1:52:45 Bobby Lee? You think he reads that?
1:52:47 Speaker 03 Who knows?
1:52:48 Bobby Lee? He gets a billion fan letters.
1:52:50 Speaker 04 Yeah, he should still read it.
1:52:51 Speaker 05 I don't know.
1:52:52 Bobby Lee? No.
1:52:52 Speaker 05 Are people sending that many letters these days to James Cameron? Letters, like handwritten letters?
1:52:57 Speaker 04 Bob, are you taking James Cameron's side?
1:52:59 Bobby Lee? Look, I get it.
1:53:00 Speaker 04 Over Zach Chaplone, who you?
1:53:02 Bobby Lee? I get it.
1:53:02 Speaker 03 It's a ride.
1:53:04 Speaker 05 Over a ride?
1:53:05 Speaker 03 But you know what? She helped.
1:53:06 Speaker 05 No, he stayed with them. He stayed in their home, they fed him.
1:53:10 Speaker 03 That changes things.
1:53:10 Bobby Lee? That does change things.
1:53:11 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:53:12 Bobby Lee? Yeah, so James, if you're listening, their son is on my podcast right now. He demands some lines.
1:53:19 Speaker 05 Turn me blue.
1:53:20 Bobby Lee? No, no, no, we're not turning you blue.
1:53:22 Speaker 05 No, let me go Avatar.
1:53:24 Bobby Lee? No, no, no.
1:53:25 Speaker 05 Come on.
1:53:25 Bobby Lee? No, we're gonna put you in a reboot of Terminator or...
1:53:29 Speaker 05 Ooh.
1:53:29 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah.
1:53:30 Speaker 05 I could do that.
1:53:31 Bobby Lee? Yeah, or The Abyss.
1:53:32 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah.
1:53:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, part two. You can play water creature, I don't know.
1:53:37 Speaker 05 I'm just a blob.
1:53:38 Bobby Lee? A blob.
1:53:39 Speaker 05 I'm an orb?
1:53:40 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll be an orb.
1:53:42 Speaker 03 Who was the big director? Was it a commercial you did? Not, it was like Cameron Lake?
1:53:46 Bobby Lee? No, we already, we resolved that.
1:53:49 Speaker 03 Ah.
1:53:49 Bobby Lee? And I'll tell you what happened.
1:53:50 Speaker 03 Bay?
1:53:51 Bobby Lee? No, I'm not gonna tell you who it is.
1:53:52 Speaker 03 Okay.
1:53:52 Bobby Lee? Yeah, cuz I went to spring it, we're good now.
1:53:54 Speaker 03 Alright, okay.
1:53:55 Bobby Lee? That person, I went to his house for Thanksgiving.
1:53:59 Speaker 05 Whoa.
1:54:00 Speaker 04 I know who it is now, yeah.
1:54:01 Bobby Lee? And we ate, I ate dinner with his mother, his fiancee, and a couple of his friends, and I had Thanksgiving at his house.
1:54:08 Speaker 03 That's it. That's pretty amazing.
1:54:10 Bobby Lee? Yeah. Beat that.
1:54:13 Speaker 05 I don't even know who it is.
1:54:14 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, no, no, beat that with Cameron.
1:54:16 Speaker 05 Oh, yeah. I gotta get Thanksgiving dinner.
1:54:18 Bobby Lee? One day, you're gonna have Thanksgiving dinner at James Cameron's, he'll be dead, but James Cameron's house.
1:54:23 Speaker 05 Yeah, with his hologram.
1:54:24 Bobby Lee? His estate with his hologram.
1:54:26 Speaker 03 The AI robot that has his consciousness will be eating with you?
1:54:29 Speaker 05 Yeah, he's like, help me up the stairs.
1:54:31 Bobby Lee? Zach, you wanna plug anything or?
1:54:32 Speaker 05 Uh, yeah, just follow my socials.
1:54:33 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, he's an open mic'er and he does, no, I'm kidding.
1:54:38 Bobby Lee? He's...
1:54:38 Speaker 05 I was in the last scene of Shameless.
1:54:40 Bobby Lee? Yeah, yeah, he works at the store.
1:54:41 Speaker 05 Speaking part.
1:54:42 Bobby Lee? You still work at the store?
1:54:42 Speaker 05 That's awesome. No, I'm a paid regular now, Bobby.
1:54:45 Speaker 03 We got passed roughly together.
1:54:46 Bobby Lee? When, when do you get paid?
1:54:47 Speaker 03 He got passed probably like, I'd say, five months before me or something?
1:54:50 Bobby Lee? Congratulations, I did not know that.
1:54:51 Speaker 05 Yeah.
1:54:52 Bobby Lee? Did I congratulate you? Don't get angry. Yeah, I don't have a fucking list or, you know.
1:54:56 Speaker 05 I don't, I got bigger fish to fry, dude.
1:54:58 Speaker 03 Got the new blur.
1:54:59 Speaker 05 I'm going after James Cameron right now. We're good, Bobby.
1:55:02 Bobby Lee? Alright, anything to plug?
1:55:03 Speaker 04 June 13th Comedy Store, please come to my shows. Uh, 7:30 Belly Room, we got Craig Conan, Esther Pivasky, me, it'll be a fun time.
1:55:09 Bobby Lee? Okay. Special, Feehem Anwar, what's it called?
1:55:13 Speaker 03 Intrusive Thoughts.
1:55:13 Bobby Lee? Intrusive Thoughts. Give Jim, give, uh, Feehem a round of applause.
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