JW Ep 15- Sam Tripoli

I am ready. Oh God. That was just a little preview of the fun that we're going to have a little bit later on in this episode with Sam Tripoli. Love Sam, known him for years.

We got into a lot of comedy store talk, a lot of conspiracy theories, a lot of talk about Mitzy Shore, the great Mitzy Shore who unfortunately passed away earlier this week. He tells his journey to the comedy store and it's a pretty cool story of how he developed there over the years. We'll get into that very soon. A lot of people have been asking me about Pat Reagan.

What's his status with Kill Tony? What's going on? So I sat down with Pat and asked him exactly what was on your guys mind. My boy, Patty Reagan.

A lot of people have been hitting me up asking me the question that I'm about to ask you. I want to get it from you directly. Why did Pat Reagan leave Kill Tony? Well, thank you for asking Jeremiah.

I left because I just needed to go do something else. I've been doing it for three years. I just had a growing feeling inside me that I wanted to do my own thing. I'm grateful to Tony and Red Band and you and Joel and Josh Martin and Ryan J.

Ebell and freaking Rick Cossack and We Man and freaking Leela Hart and Ali Makovsky and everybody. I met so many cool people. I had a lot of cool experiences. I had a lot of experiences that I'm sure made other people cringe, but made me cringe even harder inside.

I'm out. Thanks. There you go. Pat Reagan is no longer on Kill Tony, but he's doing the warm up.

There's no ill will or anything between him or the show. We love Pat. He loves everybody on the show as he clearly just stated. That doesn't affect anything that's going on with Reagan and Watkins.

We actually have been recording our album up in Ventura over the weekend. We're so excited to share that with you. We've got some music videos coming down the pipe here within the next couple months. Just looking forward to getting that out there.

We've been working so hard. Another reason why this intro is going to be a little bit shorter today is because I'm recording this in advance because we're recording all weekend up in Ventura. It's going to be a little bit shorter. I did want to say thank you to the sponsors of the Shell Bronx Born Pizza.

Video will be coming soon. I promise we're getting so close to that. It's been swamped with a lot of stuff going on, but beta will be coming up that very soon. Check out Bronx Born Pizza in Bend, Oregon.

Amazing pizza. I've had the recipe here in San Monica over at Grayblock. It's amazing. They've got like bagel crust pizza and a lot of good stuff.

Speedweed, my buddy Geno over there, marijuana delivery service, gets yo' fix at Route 66 with Geno. Yeah, over at Speedweed, hit him up on Twitter. And also Adrian Shabbos sent me in a song from his band Life Eats Life titled I Wish It Was You. I don't want to play that while I read these dates.

I'm going to be at Moon Tower, April 19th through 21st. I'm going to be in Utah, Salt Lake City with Tony Hinchcliffe, the Golden Pony at the end of the month, 2728. And I'll show tickets to that. And also, Sam Trippley, June 1st, the Tin Foil Hat Podcast with Eddie Bravo as his guest will be at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco.

Go to cobb's commi club.com for tickets to Sam's live podcast. It'll be great. And also email me at yourboydearmywalkins at gmail.com with any kindness challenge updates and any music that you want to try to get on the show, I'll be my best trying to make this as much of a group effort as possible. And my friend Zoltan at the Art of Getting Up on Instagram, he does all the artwork and posters for the show.

I've been looking for a car. Very quickly, I'll tell you this weird story that happened. I was about to buy a priest from this guy. I got sold out from underneath me.

He said, I have another priest. Come see tomorrow. And I'd already test her from this other one. I was like, OK, I'll come again tomorrow, test her up another priest.

I pull up there. And I call, he's like, I can't show it to you, but my dad will. This Russian man pulls up. It's a brand new toilet of Camry.

And he gets out of, she gets in. I'm like, OK, I'm here to see the car. He's like, great. OK, I'm going to get one moment.

He goes with his trunk, pulls out a bag. A Russian lady comes out from her house. He gives her the bag. They start talking in Russian.

She goes back inside the house. The guy gets back in his car without telling me. And he drives away. I call him.

I'm like, hey, are you going to get the Prius? He says, I'll be there in a couple moments. A different Russian guy pulls up with the Prius. I go and test drive it.

And the car is actually really nice. It has a low mileage, 85,000 miles. It's somewhat in my price range where I can scramble the money together. I go to the bank.

I'm happy with the car. I'm going to get the car. But I call the guy who listed it one more time. I had a couple more questions for him than my gut was like, Jeremiah, don't buy this car.

And I was like, last question. Do you have a car fax report for this car? And he goes, no, I don't. I spent 40 bucks on getting a car fax report.

I look up on the odometer. It read 85,000 some odd miles. Look on car fax, 270,000 miles dated in 2017 of January. So I call him back and I hit him up.

I'm like, dude, I just got the car fax. There's 270,000 miles on this car. And he swears that he didn't know that he feels like he got ripped off from the guy that he bought it from. I think something's fishing going on.

I think something's going on with the Russian mafia. I don't know what is going on. But crazy stuff. I kind of want to report them to the police.

It's huge fraud, huge crime to dial back odometer on cars and sell to people. I also don't want to get a hit on me from the Russian mob. Not sure what to do. Did it pull on Twitter?

80% of people said yes, report them. 20% said no. I still don't know what to do. I've been very busy.

I have not called the cops yet. I don't know if I should. What do you guys think? Tweet at me or hit me up on Instagram at your my standup.

This is super fun episode. And let's just get right into it without further ado. My friend, Sam Tripoli. Today is kind of a weird day.

It is. Comedy, man. For those of you who don't know, Mitzi Shor, the founder of the Comedy Store, the town curator and so much more, she passed away this morning. And it's definitely a weird energy to know that she's in a sense no longer with us here.

I don't know what it was like in your show. Because you had two shows in the bellyroom pretty much. Like your show. And then it was followed by the rose battle, right?

Yeah. It was a definite weird vibe in the main room. It was it was jumping. People were laughing.

But there was something missing from it. And even my girlfriend was like, there's just something weird in this room. There's just something weird. She's like, it's packed.

Everybody's killing. And there's just something weird. So we ended the show with a we love you, Mitzi at the end of the show. And then this morning I woke up to that thing.

You know, this is only the third time in the history of the Comedy Store that it is now closed. The first time was after 9-11. And then obviously the incident that happened on the patio. And then finally the passing of the Queen who, you know, I mean, I don't know if we'll ever see anybody like that again.

No, I don't think so. I mean. She's a rare bird because she never did stand up, but she understood stand up. Which I thought was almost more important than she didn't do it.

Right. Because it's like she's a she has the outsider's perspective, but she's around it so much. And she had such the eye for talent that she really knew how to groom people and have a completely objective opinion on everything. Yeah.

I mean, like, you know, I don't think she was she wasn't 100% right all the time every time. But she she really, really molded what we know. Sand of Comedy is. Yeah.

Do you know what I'm saying? Like for the longest time and still to this day, the Comedy Store is the the basically the only thing that I think Los Angeles County can can can rest its hat on. I mean, there's obviously the, you know, undergrad, uh, a practice and forget, but that's a certain time. But in terms of like, you know, it's either New York City Comedy or Comedy Store, in my opinion, you know, it's like that's kind of where it's at in terms of like this kind of showing love and respect to the art form.

I could be wrong, but that's just my opinion. Were you passed by Mitzi herself? I was passed by Mitzi. It's a very interesting story.

About a year before 9 11, Mitzi Shore says that for some reason she believes that Arab comics are going to need a voice. They're going to, the community is going to need a voice and they're going to have to have somebody who is the voices, their opinion because they're going to be, it's just this weird, like foreshadowing she had. So I get a call from Duncan Tressel and Duncan's like, Sam, I think, you know, Duncan and Mozzie Bronney, who is a G is like, I think we can get you into the store because I showcase like four or five times from him in terms of the amount of showcases and from Mitzi that was nothing compared to like R.C. Fears, which was like 38 times, you know?

You hear some kids are like, ah, showcase three times. I'm like, dude, you don't even know. It was like so crazy. So I literally got standing o's and one of my showcases to the staff was like chasing me out.

I'm like, dude, you crush and she's like, nope. They made a new category for me, which was called showcase regular, which meant I could showcase any time I wanted if I had like industry there or anything. So what happens, I get a call from Doug. He's like, Sam, are you Melissa?

I'm like, I'm Armenian. He's like close enough. He goes, I think I can get you in. So here's the rules to showcase in the Mitzi.

It was they would basically go, um, Duncan goes, here's a key. You do one joke about your ethnic group, one joke about either one of your parents and then you do your favorite bit. So I had a joke about being Armenian, going to the beach, taking a shirt off, baby, stuck right? It's like this is way early in the game.

And then I had a bit about my mom, power walking. And then I had this bit in which Joey Diaz said to me, he goes, it was this bit about Asians on ecstasy and about how they're like visuals are so much better than everybody else's because they're so much smarter. They got like high death, don't be digital sound. Why everybody else is like a bit Atari, right?

And Joey's like, dude, that bit is so good, bro. That's a great bit. So I went with that bit. So, so the whole thing about showcase for Mitzi at the time was that you were always worried about it was so hard because people would try to hijack your showcase, meaning because they only knew that that was at one time for them to get spots.

So they would swoop in and talk to her, trying to get in her favor again to get spots again. So the key was just like you prayed that nobody was sitting next to her. Well, I look out and who's sitting next to her is Paul Mooney. Well, a month earlier, Paul Mooney, I'd been doing the I did a gig before, before everything before the Rose battle, before I don't know it was even before the Rose battle, but even before whatever it was before the Rose battle, there was a show called Dublin's.

And it was like the greatest comedy show of all time. It was the first time in the history of Hollywood, I could remember that all the comics from all the clubs came together because when I first moved here, you could only play one. The improv would let you play under the improv would let you play. But Mitzi sure wouldn't.

The laugh factor, you weren't supposed to go back and forth. So each club had its own comedians. And this was the first time that they had come together under one roof to do stand up. And so before that, there was this thing called it was called the Hustler.

Cafe had a big comedy show ran by Johnny Montana. And it was like this actor who just seemed coked out of the skull all the time. He was really funny and put together this huge show. So I was doing stand up about how hard it was to be a white guy.

I get off stage and Paul Mooney runs out to me. He's like, oh, homie, you ain't white. Use up Armenian use up. Boom, he drops an N bomb on me, right?

Which is this weird thing coming from the guy who's basically copyright, the word the N word. Yeah, it's kind of an honor. It's kind of an honor. So it's this weird thing.

But at the time I didn't know if he liked me or not. So I'm showcasing this. Is this the good one or the bad one? Which one?

Right, totally. So I'm about to I'm doing a look out who's sitting next to her as Paul Mooney. So I don't know how to take it. I'm just like, okay, whatever, just go for blood.

So I get off stage and it turns out Paul Mooney at the time was a big fan of mine. And he told Mitzi, oh, oh, well, Mitzi, you got to pick this kid up. He's really funny. He's really funny.

So he actually helped me basically become a regular. So I get off stage and Mitzi, I walk up to Mitzi and I'm like, hey, Mitzi, how's it going? She's like, oh, Sam, you're so funny. Are you Syrian?

And I'm going to be honest with you. I didn't know what a Syrian was at that time. I didn't even, I mean, I'm public educated upstate New York. I had no clue what it was.

But I was like, yeah, I'm totally Syrian. I'm totally, she's like, good. I want you to showcase again for Joe and Jay Davis to show on Thursday night. So Thursday night comes.

It's me, Aaron, Kate, or Ahmed Ahmed are all showcasing. Mazarani is such a G. He wants to get our friend Brett Ernston. Yeah.

Because at the beginning of the time, it was me, Brett, Sebastian, Mascalco, and Mazarani were the four horsemen, right? And so Maz Heights, so they can't find him. They're like, Mitzi, we can't find him. We put this other funny guy up, Brett Ernst.

Wow. So Brett Ernst goes up, crushes. So that night, Ahmed Ahmed, Aaron, Kate, or myself and Brett Ernst all got made regulars on the same night. So the next day, I get called and Mitzi's from Duncan's like Sam.

Mitzi's going to do something she's only done one other time. She's going to make your first paid spot, your first regular paid spot, a main room spot. The only other person she's ever done that for is Roseanne Barr. So I'm like, oh my god, that's great.

Yeah, this is epic. So I show up. And so I'm going on after a guy named Charles Fleischer, who hasn't been there for a while. I've opened for him before.

Yeah. The John Lovitz called back in the day. I'm back in the day, dude. So but this time he was like, he was the beginning of this kind of thing where he went on where he wanted to let everybody know he was one of the great.

He's the most erudgier rabbit for the people who don't know, recognize that name. Which is a weird thing they've never remade that movie. Yeah, maybe it's coming, but who knows? Yeah.

Or maybe it's just one of those where they're like, ah, we can never remake something like this. It's down. Like there's a couple moves like that. But anyways, he would go up and he has this kind of like, with all crowd work people, there's like, it's like coming off top of your head, but it's always been set up out.

They've said it a thousand times. Yeah. So he's crushing. I didn't know he was.

So he brings me up and I go up on stage and I bomb for 15 minutes. Like I eat it for 15 minutes. What do you think it was that night that they caught? Do you think it was nerves?

Because there's like obviously stuff that you've been doing a lot at the time. Well, I was a street kid. I hadn't really done a lot of stand up in clubs at that time. And you know, I was a bar comic out of Vegas.

So you were going pretty hard in the park. And they're like, dude, whoa. And you know, you see a lot of dark comedy now, but that's because the internet's kind of brought people out to that. Yeah.

And it was like everybody wanted Seinfeld. So I bombed for 15 minutes and the next day I get a call and they're like, mincey, why don't you go up again in the main room. And that's when I realized that she was different. And the comedy club scene was, you know, this club was different.

And it wasn't about killing with her. And it was always about just, are you working on something, work through it, whatever you're comfortable with, you've got to sit in that and get through that. And that's really what it was for her. If you complain about following somebody to her, you would follow her, you would follow that person a thousand times, have a thousand times.

Like that was her thing. And it kind of changed over time. And you know, that kind of aspect of it's gone, but it was, it was an amazing, it was an amazing time. Wow, man.

That's, that's such a cool story. So many, man, so many, so many, how cool is that? Mazu Ronnie to do something like that. There's a lot of people who've made it.

I've seen a lot of people come and blow up and very few of them have not changed at all. He's not changed it. He is the exact same dude. And you knew Maz was going to blow up back in the day.

He's always been a nice guy. Not the name one's not nice or they're blah, blah, blah. It's just like, but he is literally the same guy. I, I met day one and he's the nicest dude.

And I'm like, yeah, so those four of us and we all used to go down together to La Jolla and we'd all rotate the, like it was me, Maz, Brett Ernst and Sebastian. And we'd all rotate on who closed it, who opened it, all that stuff. Who is the hardest to follow for you specifically? Well, back in the day, uh, Keparula was, when he first came on, he was unfollowable.

He was a destroyer. Dude, I remember whenever he used to get those back to back 15 minute spots, that would be a half an hour in the middle of the show. Yes. You know, that was, you know, that was my biggest problem with how Tommy ran it.

And I, I, I hope they invite Tommy back when they say goodbye. That's what I was, that was one of the first things I thought of actually, because I was like, like, that's a guy who like truly loved her. And there's a lot of, I know that you, it took you a while to get in and you have every right to be upset and Earl and Jason Tebow and a lot of these guys that he never let through. But you know, when I see this kid, this guy running these shows in these weird places, I just see a guy who's lost and like this, this, his identity was taken from him.

And he deserved it, man. You know, it's like, you just can't be in there forever, but I would like to see in some weird, more than anybody that's ever left that, but I think that guy needs to be allowed back in a, in a way just to, just to let him move on with his life or something like that. But he should most definitely be allowed to sink up by the mid-sea. Yeah.

Yeah. And he was, he, his problem was he allowed comics to get bigger than the club. That was my biggest thing. You know, there were people picking where they went and all that stuff.

Now, dude, you know, the club is the thing and everybody, and everybody, and even with me right now, my times at the store are kind of gone down and that was kind of hurtful at first, but then I realized that everybody goes away. Everybody goes away at a point. You have to go away a little bit and then you come back and it's like, I saw what Joe Rogan, Joey D, I mean, monsters, you know, guys who are on every, they weren't there for like seven years. Yeah.

And it just kept going. It wasn't good. It's now, but it just keeps going. I come back.

So, dude, you're, you're one of those people that I've, I've, I've, I've looked up to for a long time because I, whenever I think of somebody who is like funny and who hustles in comedy, you're one of the guys who I think of. You're always like producing cool shows. Like you got your hands in different podcasts and different stuff going on. Were you always like that starting off with comedy or is that something that you had to grow and evolve into like later on?

It's so interesting because, you know, my, my parents didn't give me a lot. They gave me two things of work ethic and a sense of humor, you know, and I just saw my dad work 90 jobs. So when I move out to Las Vegas, you know, you always hear no matter where you are in the country, you always hear New York City, dude, they go up like 27 times a night, dude. They're up a million times.

They're never getting off stage. You're like, fuck, that must be what comedy is about. So when I started comedy in Las Vegas, it was, there was one open mic every other week. So there was no, and there was three comedy clubs and they wouldn't put any locals up.

So we had to make our own thing. So I literally went every night in that town. I went and found a bar that had a stage. I go, what's your dead night?

And I had a show every night. And now that was like, that was putting out like, like flyers, no internet. There's no nothing. So when I peaked in Vegas, I had my own improv troupe in Fort Casinos.

I had my own stand up show on the Vegas Strip. And I was opening for different people at the Riviera, which was booked by, which was booked by Steve Sharipa from other Sopranos. So when I got to that point, I'm like, I've done all I can here. I have to go to LA.

And so I went to LA. And then I just, I've always booked my own shit. Always. It's so interesting.

And now I'm just like, after 20 years into this, it's like, you know, I'm not saying every show sells. I've had a couple of the dojo that have been weird, but for the most part, I can pack them out. And I've been blessed to see the store go from like, we were doing naughty shows in that main room to like 200 in the middle. And they're like, where is everybody?

This is what we can do. And now it's like, you know, just did the comedy chaos. Yeah. It's like 15th sold out show.

Congrats. That's awesome. And you do. I've always been watching you.

You know, you're a hustler, dude. You've found a niche in three huge shows and that's that setting stuff up for some really amazing shit to happen for you because you're in this thing. You've created your image. You know, when you got picked up at the Comedy Store, I was like, it's going to be very interesting to watch how you develop.

I go, it's going to be fun to watch because of style that you had, which was like these characters. And, you know, how you're going to adapt to how the Comedy Store style is, which is this magical thing, learning in the OR. So you're going to be able to take a little what you like and a little what the store teaches you and blend them together. So in this weird way, it's almost like you go from being a one man show, one man show to being a late night comic at the same time.

And that was, it's been fun to really watch because if you sit there and you just, it will break you that room. And that's what it does. It's broken me so many times. And that's what makes us better.

And that's why you grow. You're like, okay, this isn't work. I walked it with, I watched it with a lot of people. You know, I've watched that room.

I mean, court McConan, you know, feel Vaughn. Like it's really cool to see what's going on with the O right now. It's just like, dude, like Sebastian. I used to watch Sebastian back in the day when they were like, I'm not lying to everybody thinks like the commie stores like this place of like packed house and it is now it was like that before.

Dude, I mean, even before Tommy fully took over Sebastian was doing like there were like 15, 20 people in the OR Sebastian would run from his job where he's waiting tables, take his lunch break, run to the commie store, do his stand up in his like workout, work here, and then run back and do stand up, run back and wait tables at the hotel he was at. Man, it's so it's so crazy. And I mean, to see where he's at now, comedians and cars can be coffee, which are he's signed. All time on the on the grossing comments.

Yeah. And we used to switch back and forth. We used to go on the road where we would go back and forth on who headlined and whoever went second, the second half of their act would just tank because they were so tired from laughing. Like it was like, we're like 45 minutes of murder, followed by 45 minutes of like I kill them.

So the last 30 was just like, oh, yeah, I can't laugh anymore. Did you would you tailor your set to start doing like more story based stuff or anything slower pace like whenever you do that or would you just keep trying to kill kill kill kill kill. I've been slowing down a lot so funny. You're like 23 years in and like I'm still learning stuff.

When I shot my special to Viper room, man, I went super slow. You know, so I've done it before when I'm super slow. It's like boom, boom, boom. The problem is I've always wanted to be a cult leader.

So I end up doing this fire and brimstone shit on stage and it's a little too quick because I want to pop, pop, pop, pop, shit, but it's slowing down. But it's been fun to watch Sebastian knew who he was right from the gate to right from the gate. Now it wasn't hitting, but when it hit, it destroyed. Yeah.

Same thing with Theo Vaughn like that. I remember seeing Theo back and now it's like I've seen sets where it's like, oh man, why am I doing comedy? I might have a cult leader that's that's calling into the show and I think he's patching in. Hello?

Hello. Is this Sam? Tripply. Yeah.

Who is this? This is your one in fearless leader, Zicon. Zicon. Oh my God.

Dude, growing up, I love Zicon. Zicon was kind of what I based my comedy around. Now before your leader is Zicon. I'm on my knees.

I might not get back up. Good. Stay there. Oh, Jesus.

This guy uncomfortable. Listen, Sam, I need you to do something very important for me. What is I got? Anything you need?

I need you to start a subsidiary group of my cult. I like an LA based one and LA based one. Yes. Okay.

What union number with this be? One five nine seven two four five seven nine two four. Let me write this down real quick because I'm going to forget that. One one five nine seven two four nine seven two five.

How can this cold for four four four four four before we proceed? Do you agree with all of what I am about to say? Okay. Well, you know what?

Since I've been following you for a while, I will agree to it even though I know I will regret this. Okay. First initiation of the cold. Yes.

I'm not against it. I'll think about it for sure for you. Must be done. The internet is going crazy.

Is there a time period on this? Yes. Okay. In the next 30 seconds.

Okay. I don't see any hot dogs here. We lost icon. I don't want to use this.

I can't believe this is my pocket. What is going on with the hot dog thing? I keep the amount of tweets that I got whenever I was like, Hey, like some of these are questions for Sam. So let's explain to the listeners who are not aware of the bet that happened on punch drunk.

I am on a show called punk drunk sports. I it is a seven year old podcast. We've been doing it forever. Our viewership is very passionate.

It's myself, Arashifir and Jason Tebow. We have Johnny, Johnny Woodard is our like tech guy and then we have the fight nanny who is having a baby any day now. So that's our show. We talked sports and we decided to start doing a bag of bets and I love the idea behind the bag of bets.

Well, it started out as a fun idea and then you're seven years into it. It's like lose your ass have sex with his mother and like I don't want to do any of that. What are some of the weird bets that you guys have had to do for people who are not familiar with the bag of bets? I've watched two hours of hardcore gay pornography on ecstasy and boner pills.

What was that experience like because you know as a straight guy I'm sure that you haven't purposely tried to stumble upon that. Well, I mean if you watch enough porn you end up going down some slippery slope. So I mean like I used to be a lot of coke and watch a lot of porn and then eventually you stop watching like when you're five hours into a porn run and you're hearing the what I call the Coke birds chirping but let you know you. Which is just like you fuck your life up.

You're still up. You're doing coke. What are you doing? I'm just going to go for the sax.

You start watching for the cinematography. You're like hey man this guy understand the art in which he's filming and then it just starts getting weird. So eventually you start looking at some weird shit and I'll tell you that right now. That's a great swish pan right there on that shot.

Wow. Over under they called. That was a classic. Can we get a down shot?

No pun intended on this next episode. Eventually you're going to watch some trans shit and it is what it is at some point. So watching that was just like it was and made it worse. We allowed the fans to pick the porno so I never got any plot.

There was no plot in it. I couldn't like oh why is the why is the gardener in the bed. It was just like straight to like you know. Las Vegas fountain shop found shopping bang bang bang cut to all just you know.

So it was it was rough. I think I think we're getting another phone call actually coke had Sam is calling into the show right now. Hello. Cuckett Sam.

Hey man. Dude. I just got a new badge on porno. Dude.

Yeah. I watch so much porno. I just found out I'm a level 87 dick wizard. A level 87 dick wiggles.

Yeah. I use my powers for good or evil. I think my hearts about to explode. Wow.

The cinematography all the amazing this it's all about lighting and craft services. Okay. Okay. Sorry to interrupt but how long have you been doing.

I just had a heart attack. Got to keep going. How long have you been doing coke? Three days.

I mean like in it's well that's an impressive stint like right away but like even longer than when did you start doing coke? Can you guard on the new coke don't. Wait what? Back in the 80s I thought coke help calm kids down.

Everybody was doing it. They throw coke on your apples on your on your on your on your on your lunchables. You have a lunchable with a like ham crackers and napalm cocon side. A razor blanket and an ID.

Yeah. I just had another heart attack. Whoa are you okay? No I got great this porn is.

No no no. Wait you're still looking at porn while you're falling into the show. It's called multitasking. Is that your only like hobby that you have?

Yeah. It's a pill. I can pay Bitcoin. You can pay them Bitcoin.

Hey. That doesn't sound like a combination at all. I just got group on for three transsexual workers. I'm Sam.

I can pull them. Okay. Sam. Hey.

That's the cops in the door. Okay. Okay. Okay.

We just lost coke at Sam. We're listening to the conversation that I was having. I was using the bathroom. Yeah.

But he was making me feel like I was on cocaine. I started talking faster just listening to him. He's trying to keep up with him. That's crazy man.

He's got plans dude. He's got a lot of plans business plans. Something about fucking group on and training hookers. He's always talking about it.

Why did you start hanging out the store? Oh so I started hanging out the store like where I would say like religiously where's like every week most days of the week that was in the summer 2011 July 2011. Those are that was still fun years there. I mean it's interesting because it's jumping so much right now.

So that's a fun time too. But there's also these very dark times. There was a lot of fun to store too. I went so I went to the first time to the to potluck in 2010 and I was like it was too much for me.

I was like I need to I need to build up material and not ready yet. Like I could feel you know when you walk those halls for the first time and you're looking at all the headshots and you see all the names and the walls and everything. It was literally like I do not want to disrespect this place. Yes I get that.

Like I went away and I kept chipping away at open mics and built up materials so I could come back and have a lot of material. Well you definitely work hard dude. You do. Well even when I was there that was just like thought hanging out the store is putting in time and putting working on your art and it's like it's not.

Yeah. It is like go there watch the masters then get out. Yeah what I would do is I would always do open mics every night of the week but then I would go there after when there's no open mics to do anymore. That's when you go and watch the store.

Right. That's when you see different people handle late night and then like how everybody's approach is super different and that's I feel like where you can learn so much. I don't know if something like you know I'm gonna enjoy watching Jacknite growl. Sure.

Because that kid's got like mainstream appeal. He's already in love but in the story I love some but for some reason he's getting super late night spots and he probably hates them but I think they're great for him. Sure. I think those late night spots I think people don't realize especially now where it's like all you hear people do is complain about how like everybody's just going for blood constantly.

Like it's all murder sets. Like it used to be a great play like winning complaints about all the time like you can't work on new shit unless you're rogan which is like he's just a hundred pound gorilla he can do whatever he wants to you know he could bomb and no one's gonna ever say anything. It's hard work on shit and that's why I started dojo down the street just as a place to work out new material. I think that venue has a lot of potential.

It's going to you know it's a process you're literally starting something from nothing but it is about getting like young comics like yourself got people who are established a place to go work out shit work on new stuff kind of get the benefit that I have because when mincey picked up myself Brett Ernst and my Giovanni Sebastian and Ahmed like she is like this amazing thing she just cleaned out all the 80 comics 80s and you know seeing people that I start with get cleaned up the comic store. Now I look back at that and like how heartbroken some people might have been you know but it was this really amazing moment where she's like okay we gotta make room for this and literally she gutted the middle of the lineup. So it was like almost every night it was me, Maz and Ahmed and Aaron almost every night. Wow.

Yeah and it was like I mean we were going down the hoya every other month and it was like this amazing thing and you know something like that can't last forever because nobody wants to see the same people over and over again and then I worked really hard to get some big names. The guys who I thought were killers out there get them into the lineup because I figured out how to how to do it. I would sit next to mitzy and make sure that people couldn't get in the air you know like Kallen all these really great John Reap all these great comics I hope get in but then I got pushed to the end of the lineup but then it's like I always use it just to you know to learn and write and stuff. Now I'm starting a new hour after I shot my old one hour from scratch.

I'm gonna be scary right? It is man but you know kind of exciting to him sure though. Well it is because I've grown as a person. Yeah.

And this one's gonna be interesting every hour or album I try to work on something different to expand what I'm doing like you know diabolical which was my last album that was I wanted to learn how to tell stories. So I worked on storytelling which is its own weird crazy thing. So different from joke writing. It's completely different.

And then before that you know it was all about how much can I tag the crap out of this bit. Joke writing bit tag tag tag tag tag. So it's like it goes for it because I feel like tags tags and callbacks are the sign of like really great comics. Yeah.

So this one this new thing I'm gonna work on is like I'm fascinated with black comedy and it sounds really weird but when I watch somebody like when I watch like Tony rock where I watched like Earth quake like their ability to take these little things that we all see and just make them into this magnificent like this like five to ten minute bid. That's so original and you're like if you can actually break it down you know Sebastian does this a lot Jim Jim Jeffries does a lot these little things that we all like if you actually wrote them down what the premise was you'd be like oh I've heard that premise before but it's like their ability to just expand on it. Yeah. And it's still relatable to everybody.

Find the nuances and really explore that and then just like keep digging. That's really like whoa I never looked at this like that before. Yeah. So that's really what I want to do like I mean I'm always gonna talk about weird shit.

You said so you said you're in an improv group in Vegas. Yeah they were called a mutiny. The mutiny? Yeah it was a very interesting thing because we were part of this.

It's more of a hardcore improv group than most of the other names that are there like we're butterfly kisses. Yeah. Can we get a suggestion? We're the mutiny.

The reason we were called the mutiny. Just a suggestion or die. Yeah. Well this guy Elliot had started the mutiny I started this improv troop and we found out he was keeping all the money.

He was like the big things keep all the money. So we're all just like you know we should start our own. So the funniest guys got together and they were just like let's start what should we call ourselves. We should call ourselves the mutiny.

So once we went on our own Elliot just folded his thing we never heard from again. So we started we started in one we started in all the station casinos the fratellas who only use only of sea they own some casinos called the station. Boulder station palestation sunset station. We got sunset station then we started doing a bunch of other ones and we had like four improv shows a week and then they had a bunch of stand up going on.

So yeah. So I just found out like about three years ago that the mutiny had actually kept going and they just dissolved like three years ago. Oh wow. Like yeah we saw the mutiny in like 93.

That's crazy dude. It is crazy dude. It's like such a long time. Yeah and I would love to go back and I love doing improv.

I just I have too much of a stand up mentality where I'm always talking punch lines. Yeah well it's hard because yeah whenever you're doing truly proper improv you're not going out for the joke and we get so trained to go for the joke. Yeah sure. It might be hard but I haven't done like seen improv like or with a team here in a little bit but yeah it might be different.

Like if you say something like oh dude you're just cheap you're doing it cheap. I think Elliot might be calling in right now. Hello Elliot is this you? Samuel.

Samuel why did you leave me? You destroyed. You destroyed our empire. You've ruined it.

We had the greatest in-brought troop in Las Vegas and you destroyed it. Well I think Sam if I recall he had just said that you were kind of embezzling money from the group Elliot. Not true. Not true.

I broke the rules of improv. Yes and I was. I was. I was.

I was a fact embezzling all of it. I was going to use it on better uniforms and props. Oh so you were doing it for the right. So the right reason.

Yes yes of course. See Samuel how easy it is. How easy it is. How easy it is.

Why Sam? Why do you have to ruin it when we had going. I now work at an oil changing station. Hey do you understand how bad the improv is at Jiffy Loop?

Nobody knows. Hey so now that you work at Jiffy Loop Elliot I was wondering I know you're probably not supposed to do this but could you give me like a 50% discount on this oil change? Yes and some of the filters. And it's when you know that and you need this filter fix you're like I don't know if you're lying to me but I'll do it anyways.

So you get the filter. I'll throw the filter in for free. I don't know if he is so theatrical dude. Wow he's so theatrical man.

Samuel. I love the idea of somebody who's an improviser who moves on the rest of their life and they can't not say yes and with everything. I mean I guess it's kind of somewhat of the premise of yes and with Jim Carrey. But just like just asking just rather like about more like criminal activity or something is so funny like there's like a voice that voice modulator.

So where are you from? I'm from Kansas. Oh like it's so amazing. I mean like it's so funny I've had some people visit me like Kevin Brennan who was Neil Brennan's brother was just on my podcast yesterday and have a buddy of mine on Candids here and they just shit on LA the whole time and it's like I'm not a traffic.

I love it here. I love it here. Yeah. I think it's a thing to drive you crazy in Los Angeles.

There's so much opportunity that you can just build something else and you never have to deal with that. I love LA. I do too. Random guy.

How did that guy just patch into the show? I don't even know. Do you know how much I love LA Sam? I don't know.

How much do you love LA? Man, I love it so much. You know how much I love LA Sam? How much do you love LA?

I love it so much that I could live here forever in my beach house. I don't care about the traffic. I don't care about the sun damage that my convertible is taking every day. You know I'm a bald man, but yes, I might have seen case early top of my head, but who can't?

He is baby. I can just shave that off, right? Yeah, not a problem. Not a problem.

Is there a specific reason why you called into the show other than to say you love LA? No, I just heard that LA was the invention and I want to call and tell Sam that I agree with him and that if he ever wants to talk about LA on the podcast, I would love to be again. Some people love Los Angeles. I think I know that guy is that's the guy who skateboards down Venice Beach in a thong with American flagging and obviously that guy.

Yeah. Yeah. I think that was that dude. How did you know that was me?

Yeah, I can tell how much you love America. I love America, but you know what I love more? LA. Yeah.

Here's what I've learned about LA. LA is to United States, but the United States is to the rest of the world in that they love us, but they hate our entitlement. 100%. They love everything.

I mean, I don't know how they feel about entertainment now. It's getting a little weird out there, but they love LA, but then they think we're so entitled because we somewhat are. I mean, my mother called me yesterday. She is getting snow.

She's getting snow enough to stay in New York. Yeah, in Kansas, when we were talking about mom all the time, she's telling me like how bad the weather is like this time of year and stuff and I'm like, yeah, I get it. I used to live there. I get it.

Do you know when they said that the most people end up, why the people end up the one factor that causes people to move to LA the most? In fact, I hope I'm describing this correctly. Yeah. When people watch the Rose Bowl on television, they see how sunny it is.

Oh, how beautiful. And they're like, why am I living in this shithole? I'm an ice cube out there. And that's tons of people move after they watch the Rose Bowl.

They end up moving to LA. The Rose Bowl is a tipping point for people. Because they see how sunny and weird is that's why the some earthquake videos do some wag to dog shit. Earthquakes do scare a lot of people in the Midwest.

They scare me. They scare me. I mean, yeah, who knows? At any moment, it could open up and could open up.

There's so much crazy shit. Do you know that basically the United States is a giant super volcano? I've heard. I've heard.

It's ready to pop at any moment at different parts. If it pops, everything's gone except for like Australia. And so many like so many scientists and their kids to school in Australia. Because they just never know what it's going to pop out.

Crazy, right? Let's get into this next segment called Fanning Out. Fanning Out. Fanning Out.