Ep 569 - A Derosa Garden (feat. Joe Derosa)

24 Jul 2025 · 1 h 12 min · 24 chapters

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In short

The episode is a wide-ranging conversation about video games (especially tactical SWAT-style shooters like Ready or Not), controversial/violent mission design, and gaming culture (mocap, motion-capture work, and “game stealing” by practicing alone). They also debate movie premises and casting (Mortal Kombat, John Malkovich’s Opus), trade personal stories about anger during games, airport/VIP experiences, acne/skin remedies, and comedy-tour life. Key claims include: tactical games can psychologically prepare players; some missions are “too far” because you’re effectively the shooter; game studios may “reel back” on certain content; and mocap/real-time game rendering can feel like “getting into a video game” instantly.

Notable examples

clearing a “child porn sanctuary” in Ready or Not; a Call of Duty airport-shooter mission; GTA’s rumored pride parade leading to strip clubs; Mortal Kombat training/dojo mode; and a mocap role for a TV show inside a game.

Guests

Joe DeRosa (comedian). Backgrounds: DeRosa is a stand-up comedian who directed/produced his special I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (on YouTube.com/ Joe DeRosa Comedy) and discusses his motion-capture/comedy-industry connections.

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Gaming in the Tomb

0:45 to 2:08

Discussion about video games and the concept of 'the tomb' while gaming.

“Usually it's 100 % on the mission, which is, all right, so that's one.”

The Dark Side of Gaming

2:08 to 2:20

Exploration of the intense themes in a newly played game.

“If you're in like an industrial child porn place.”

SWAT Team Fantasies

2:20 to 5:05

Casual conversation about the appeal of tactical gear and gaming scenarios.

“It sounds like every dude's fantasy is wrapped up into one.”

Cinematic References and Humor

5:05 to 7:37

Humorous takes on movies and pop culture references throughout the chat.

“Wait, I want to look up when we were, I'm going to look it up at one point.”

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7:37 to 12:49

Promotional segment for Mint Mobile's summer sale and its benefits.

“So free yourself from big wireless and their gimmicks.”

Ad Break: Mint Mobile

12:59 to 14:18

Promotional segment for Mint Mobile's summer sale and its benefits.

“Some of their stuff is like borderline-y verodica.”

Comedians and Video Games

14:40 to 16:44

Discussion about comedians in video games and stand-up specials.

“But that guy, this guy Laszlo was like, he put Burr and Bobby Kelly, everybody in.”

Absence of Creative Voices

16:44 to 19:08

Exploration of the impact of key figures leaving the comedy scene.

“You would have put in, then you have to put in a setting for like, you should have settings.”

Airport VIP Experiences

19:08 to 20:55

Funny anecdotes about traveling in luxury and the absurdities of airport lounges.

Historical References to Fat Kings

20:55 to 22:28

Discussion about historical figures and the absurdities of power dynamics.

“Just getting up occasionally and be like, I'll have one more beer.”
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Gaming Rage and Sore Losing

22:28 to 24:59

Stories of getting angry over video games and the impacts of competition.

“there was one of the guys that Cortez linked up with who was like a rival against Montezuma.”

The Sore Winner Mentality

24:59 to 28:01

Exploration of the psychology behind winning and losing in games.

“Yeah, when I was a kid, I would get something out.”

Game Stealing and Mortal Kombat Discussions

28:01 to 32:39

Explore the humorous debate around game stealing and Mortal Kombat experiences.

“No, I downloaded the game and you go, don't get good at it because I'm not going to play it.”

Game Stealing and Mortal Kombat Discussions

32:44 to 33:59

Explore the humorous debate around game stealing and Mortal Kombat experiences.

“Have you left poop streaks in someone else's toilet?”

Travel, Skin Issues, and Comedy

33:59 to 34:11

Dive into conversations about travel experiences, skin care, and comedic anecdotes.

“I'll be at the Ovation Hall in the Ocean Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Saturday, August 16th, the year 2025.”

Travel, Skin Issues, and Comedy

34:14 to 42:00

Dive into conversations about travel experiences, skin care, and comedic anecdotes.

“The new material is coming, so I will have a whole slew of new stuff.”

Post-Travel Hangover Revelations

42:00 to 48:58

The hosts share humorous stories about hangovers and drinking experiences while traveling.

“Everybody's favorite thing to do is go, I'm not, you know what's crazy?”

Post-Travel Hangover Revelations

50:00 to 50:27

The hosts share humorous stories about hangovers and drinking experiences while traveling.

“So you were scrolling on Marketplace, and there it was, the bike you'd been searching for.”

Comedy and Performance Under Pressure

50:27 to 56:00

The hosts discuss the challenges of performing while hungover and the pressure of live shows.

“Dude, Britney's been getting a lot of people see her and go, oh, four-time WMDA star.”

Panic Attacks on Stage

56:00 to 58:19

The hosts discuss personal experiences with anxiety and panic attacks during performances.

“Then you know the B-dubs at the airport's just right there going.”

Stage Fright and Meltdowns

58:20 to 1:01:49

The conversation shifts to notable stage meltdowns and the fear of forgetting material during performances.

“I'll tell you a perfect formula for I'm going to have a heart attack on stage.”

Memorable Stage Collapse Stories

1:01:50 to 1:04:29

The hosts share anecdotes of comedians who have collapsed or freaked out on stage, highlighting the intensity of live performances.

“No, you don't think I can get out of this?”

Reflecting on Comedic Outbursts

1:04:30 to 1:10:04

They reflect on their own outbursts and how they manage rowdy audiences, sharing lessons learned from past experiences.

“i've i have i've been banned from clubs i've freaked on stage yeah you're a psycho yeah yeah You're a wild dog Yeah I got banned from the laugh factory in New York Did you really?”

Discussing Heather McDonald's Incident

1:10:04 to 1:11:50

The hosts talk about Heather McDonald's fainting incident and its implications.

“Time was finally like, that's enough, dude.”
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Transcript

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0:00The Wild Wild West. Two hours. We're doing two. Whatever you want to do. Yeah, just know the pace.

0:06Shane Gillis:I like that, man. I like that approach. Can you guys not release this till October? Can you say, I'm joking. I was going to say, I thought they're special. Yeah, totally. Also, I was waiting to share it for this episode. Thank you. I was in a tomb on Monday. Dude, trust me. When you hit me back, I was like, he just did it. He's in the tomb. it's in the tomb I sorry because discussing the tomb I was just in is the tomb was sarcophagus I was in I've risen I'm Lazarus right now this is the third day I'm actually what's the tomb like are you is the tomb the bed or the couch the tomb is I just played there's a new game called ready or not and I played it for two days that's awesome I played the entire I played the entire I played every mission meanwhile that's so long psychologically Logically, is the thought process all on the mission?

0:59Usually it's 100 % on the mission, which is, all right, so that's one. It might be a bad way to deal with stress because I'm just focused on that. And then you go, oh, shit, I forgot about all the problems. You know what I mean? You're not trying to work out any problems. You're going, we got to fucking clear this room, fellas. Breach, breach. But then while you respawn, you have 15 seconds. You get killed on some bullshit way. And then you go, yeah, fucking bullshit game. fucking this game sucks. Oh shit, I forgot my life sucked too. Fuck. Fuck, the game's awesome. I suck. Is it a war game? Yeah, it's just you're a SWAT team.

1:37Shane Gillis:Ooh. That's awesome. You're going to love it. And the video games are back, dude. These guys made a wild ass game. Oh man, I want to get that. You're breaking into like child porn fucking facilities. You're breaking, yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah, it's really a dark, fucked up game. I'm getting that today. Yeah, well, get ready to enter the tomb. How good does it feel to clear the child porn sanctuary? Feels good. Yeah, that's nice. It feels really good. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. So there's a blast. I was about to say, you blast everyone in there. Yep. You go, what the fuck are you guys doing, dude?

2:09Shane Gillis:That's totally fair. If you're in like an industrial child porn place. What? Yeah, you clear out like a school shooting. Can you run away? You can hide for a while. I would run away. Fucking A. Hey, this game sounds fucking awesome. It sounds like every dude's fantasy is wrapped up into one. It's like obviously stopping a school shooting. Obviously wearing SWAT gear. Just that alone. Everyone wants to wear SWAT tactical gear. Although ever since I saw the picture of Big Chungus at the protest during BLM, I realized I could never rock the SWAT gear. What? Too big to wear SWAT gear. How so? When you're a big guy in SWAT gear, it looks fucking hilarious.

2:47Have you ever seen it? Have you ever seen a big fat guy in SWAT gear? Never thought about it. I'll show you big chongas. I feel like you would look like a juggernaut. There is that. Yeah. There is that. I could wear the hurt locker fucking and just be a juggernaut. But juggernaut sucks. You get shot fucking nine million times. Do you play games, man?

3:05Shane Gillis:No, I can't have it, man. I won't stop playing it. It's like a complete time suck. You got a full family, too. Yeah. I'd imagine there's not a ton. But wait, do you play with the kids, though? Not yet. It's getting there, though. There could be some aerial cart with a five-year-old soon. he can't be the youngest

3:26Shane Gillis:he can't be the big junkie he didn't have the right gear his gear is too small yeah it's a getting too fat for your tactical gear would be tough yeah because then it's literally life or death you have you have viscera exposed yeah that looks like when they brought back Boba Fett but he was fat now and they didn't adjust the costume it was like up here some Australian dude's just been drinking for 10 years. And they're like, you want to do the role again? He's like, yeah. Yeah. I'm waiting on this coal. Fuck. His helmet's like a yarmulke on his head. I don't know. Boba Fett was an Australian man.

4:01Or he might be from... Because if that's the case, he lives actually on Tatooine. I think he's New Zealand. Oh, okay. Yeah. That guy, he was in that movie When We Were Kings, which I feel like... I don't even think I've heard of that movie. As I was saying it, I was like, I feel like Shane, this is a movie Shane would love, but I'm basing that only on the title When We Were Kings. It's just a movie you would love. It's just a drunk. What? Yeah. Fucking every night. We was kings. Yeah, what's the movie about? We were the fucking best.

4:32Shane Gillis:What's it about? The movie takes place at a bus stop. It takes place at a bus stop in West Philadelphia. We Was Kings. I think it's about like, I think it's kind of like Slumdog Millionaire except in New Zealand or one of those kind of movies. Oh, that's kind of cool. Okay. I think, or like City of God. Maybe it's like that. City of God's awesome. I've never seen either movie. I heard they're both great. City of God's awesome. Yeah, I'm a great title. I like subtitles, man. I'm a big subtitle movie guy. I like that. Let's talk movies. What? Let's talk movies we've never seen. Let's talk movies.

5:05City of God. City of God rules. You'd like it. Wait, I want to look up when we were, I'm going to look it up at one point. What, when we were kings. What would be the best movie analysis ever?

5:15Shane Gillis:I don't know what it's about. Like two movies I've never seen. I think it's a guy from New Zealand. I just saw one of the shittiest movies I've ever fucking seen. What? Opus. The new John Malkovich movie. Never seen it. Where? All right. Let me just shoot the premise at you. Yeah. And you'll immediately know we're off to a bad start. John Malkovich plays a once famous R &B pop singer. What?

5:48how does he do that who disappears he was like big in the 80s and he disappears and comes back 30 years later and for his opus he's putting out another album after 30 years of absence that always works yeah and it's john malkovich damn it'd be nice if it was like late kel's like yo pussy is a buffet i love your pussy i thought they were gonna make him like a you know like a fucking pink floydy dude yeah when i heard the premise and i'm like oh no he's like a dance singer like a fucking like yeah like like uh it's so but and then they so all these people get invited to his big compound to listen to the record and everybody starts dying and it's it's it's get out it's like the 57th time they've remade get out since fucking get out came out it sucks dick it is a terrible fucking movie who's the villain who's who's he is he is you're describing a pretty sick fucking movie you'd think you'd think it fucking sucks also sounds Sounds like an event that me and my squad should probably breach and tie up the civilians, make sure everybody's taken care of.

6:54You could have stopped it. I could have stopped it. You could have stopped the onslaught. There's going to be some people. This game's a hit, dude. Yeah. There's going to be some people breaching some houses. You think so? I think so. Because it does give you that desire. Yeah.

7:08Shane Gillis:Your ex-wife's got a new boyfriend. That would be exactly good. You get four of your boys. You go, all right, stack the door. Yeah. They should be doing school drop off. Shotgun the lock. Frag it. 745. They haven't left yet. They should be doing drop off right now. We're going in. This episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile's summer sale. I was hoping it was. Oh, yeah, baby. You know what time it is? Yep. Right now, all of Mint's plans are$15 per month, even unlimited. Whoa. So free yourself. That's pretty crazy. So free yourself from big wireless and their gimmicks. Dude, I can't stand that.

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8:21I'm not sure. Probably. Gran Turismo. Yeah. Oh, Gran Turismo. That's what it was. Yeah, that makes sense. That's insane, though, that games are getting like, I actually think what you're saying is, I think like these games actually could be like tactical training before you're in the field. I mean, you know? Yeah. Nate's all, I would have failed. a fucking civilian came running around the corner i was like oh he was running right at me everybody saw that scared the shit out of me they do scare you how do you distinguish there's a oh the worst one there's like a for real there's like a pulse nightclub what and the thing that they did in the game that always fucked me up from the actual shooting that people described it was everyone's phones going off that was dead like when the cops went in to clear it out you could just hear every phone in the building buzzing which is so sad yeah i didn't think about that and they kept that in the game that's in the game oh it's like a fucked up game yeah man shit that that used to be they used that used to get a lot of backlash remember there was a modern warfare where you had to take down the airport shooter yeah yeah there was like people were like this is fucked up this is too far and then other people were like no this is important well it's definitely not important but it's fucking crazy that mission was awesome that she was crazy i don't know i think it is important if you just sit there and

9:42Shane Gillis:do that for hours and hours and hours i do feel like if the real thing happened you might on some level be more prepared well that's exactly the problem because in this mission you are the shooters oh no first half you walk around with a machine gun in a fucking airport you're an airport shooter yes it's a tough one and the mission wait i don't remember that part the first part you were the shooter no you're not you're literally just going through killing every civilian oh my god yeah yeah yeah it's really bad all right that might be too far it's nuts yeah that's not good that's why that's why call of duty the old switcheroo Zombies.

10:20It's like, I'm a purple woman sliding. Yeah. All right. I see it. They hit the peak.

10:27Shane Gillis:They're like, we made the top of the mountain. Although in Grand Theft Auto, you're essentially doing that anyway. Grand Theft Auto, there's rumors that there is a pride parade in the city. No. Fellas, don't. Don't. Don't let me catch you. Don't, dude. Those videos are going to be fucking chaos. Oh, no. Every single person that downloads the game. Going straight to the grade. I do feel like, to be fair. They're going, no way, no way. And they go, what would happen? To be fair, it's time the hookers in GTA get a break. Yeah, true. The hookers are going to be watching and be like, thank fucking God.

11:09Shane Gillis:Finally. Finally, we can relax. They're next. Once you get five stars from the fucking parade, you're headed straight to the fucking strip club. they're really doing that that's so funny yeah they're doing that that's I wonder if they'll make it off limits I think they're gonna reel this game back it'll get hacked that game gets hacked too I think they're gonna reel this one back I was friends with this guy Laszlo that was one of the top developed guys he was the guy that put us all into the games and shit and he left I forgot you were in Grand Theft Auto yeah five that's fucking awesome it's wild that is awesome faces in it I did mocap it was insane damn i would that mocap's a nightmare it would suck how much did you feel like you must have looked nuts in a mocap by the way it was old school mocap it wasn't this fucking harrison fortune where they put blue dots on your face like i had a helmet on with a camera it was crazy you had to wear like a frog suit like green man what was your role what did you play there's um when you go into the safe house or the safe house whatever it's called there's a tv and there's shows you can watch and there's a show with the whoever the action star is in the in that series that's like the stallone type yeah it's a reality show about him and i play his new agent and i'm like this coke head and it's me and him we did like we shot like 30 minutes we shot a full episode of this thing whoa and it's in the game and then we went back and did additional content later that never got released that i just had to sign crazy ndas about i'm not allowed to talk about it whoa that's awesome but anyway it was awesome it was fucking fucks you in this yeah yeah yeah this episode is brought to you by vioree so there's a lot of sports out there obviously you've got basketball baseball and football but then there's running tennis mma climbing yoga pickleball and that's before you get into all the different ways you can train work out right but the good news is that you only need one pair of shorts for all of it the core short from viore that's right wear one pair of shorts all the time that's all you need to work out the core short that's all i do no one's gonna think you stink no not at all you can get two pairs you can switch them every day or just do morning and afternoon the core short is the short that started it all for viore fitness versatility one short every sport guys they're ideal for fitness running and training but also stylish and comfortable that's important that is important i want to be stylish i'm going to be stylish and comfortable they matter they soft they're pretty soft a lot of viewers how much do they weigh is how much do they weigh yeah pretty lightweight views the core shorts is it only three-way performance or how many uh i'd say it's pretty multiplex is it a four-way performance stretch yeah oh yeah yeah definitely the fourth dimension i can i can stretch backwards in them for sure.

14:07Shane Gillis:Also, the core is a little tougher. Some of their stuff is like borderline-y verodica. So if you feel my shorts right here, I'm actually wearing them right now. I'm actually wearing them right now, dude. They're pretty hot. Matt, Viori is an investment in happiness. And right now, you can get 20 % off your first order and free shipping on any U.S. order of$75 and free returns. So get your core shorts now at Viori.com slash secret. That's V-U-O-R-I.com slash secret. Exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. But that guy, this guy Laszlo was like, he put Burr and Bobby Kelly, everybody in.

14:46Yeah, that's awesome. And they had stand-up in, was it four or five? Yeah, I think Burr, no, Gervais is doing stand-up. I think Cat Williams. Yeah, Cat Williams is the one, go watch stand-up, and it actually has a comedian in it. That's pretty crazy. Yeah, but he's... Then you can bring your gun in there, and you can shoot Cat Williams.

15:02Shane Gillis:Bro, stand-up special, GPA animated. That'd be awesome. A special where you're just in a mocap suit. You perform live in a mocap suit, and they recreate it in GTA V. And people can just shoot people. Really? That's what I'm saying. That's fucking sick. It literally did that. That's awesome. You can walk in. There's a comedy club. It's Ricky Gervais. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It was nuts when we did it, because it was early days of that. Not early, but early-ish. Yeah, you should do that now again. Yeah. And just put it out as a game. Yeah, true. Just be like, this is my special. You'd shoot me.

15:31It's live. Nobody hears the first joke ever. they had this fucking we were in this green room and they had all these plastic like structures and like they'd be like that's your car so like open the door and sit in it whatever and you would do it and then they'd be like okay come over here and look at this it was rendering in real time so you'd walk over and it didn't look like it did in the game but it was like you getting into a fucking car in a video game immediately it was crazy it was fucking crazy this is like 2009 this is a while ago really but anyway yeah the game made five billion dollars i got paid three grand uh i remember calling laszlo and going i want a copy of max pain three and he goes you fucking comics man always looking for free shit i go your game just made a billion dollars you paid me three grand send me fucking max pain three right now and he's like all right that's fair dude okay i'll send you one yeah yeah when you put it that way but um i think it's the point i'm ultimately getting at is i have a feeling with his absence i feel like they're gonna they're gonna reel back in this one i don't i just don't think it's like eminem saying like look man time's changed nobody wants this anymore i'm just not doing it anymore i i feel like they're gonna pull back ready or not it's kind of proven everyone wants it yeah well that's a good point

16:59Shane Gillis:Yeah. That's a good point. It should be like in Mortal Kombat. You would have put in, then you have to put in a setting for like, you should have settings. If you want to play kind of like, you know, reeled back GTA, you can just hit a setting. If you want to go nuts, it should just be, you get to be Hunter Biden. Yeah, there was the blood, the blood code. Hunter Biden's rocking right now. He's rocking right now. That would fire me up. He might be, dude, he might put his hat on. He's literally the O 'Connor man. He is, did you hear the way he was speaking? I've had that conversation with O 'Connor 10 million times.

17:28I saw the clip. He's like, that motherfucker wants to fucking talk shit. And I'm like, damn, this is the O 'Connor man. I just fought him at La La's for fucking 10 hours with this exact conversation. O 'Connor, dude, is a psycho. You're a fucking idiot. O 'Connor is a fucking psycho. He's a bad. I've seen him get angrier. And I'm an angry dude. O 'Connor gets hot, man. O 'Connor, yeah. And I know exactly how to do it. And it's so funny. dude you're fucking you're batman dude remember batman in the in the justice league comics he had a way to kill every member of the justice league just in case it went sideways that's shane with every one of his friends i know exactly how to piss you off dude i'm gonna do it right now the comments just the i don't ever do that really to you guys

18:20Shane Gillis:you do get the o 'connor you get the comments It's really funny. He also, he knows too, though. He'll feel it. You'll start hitting the buttons and he'll go, I'm not doing this with you. And then eventually. You can't. You can't. He always is like, Shane, I'm not doing that right now. And then you go, yeah, you are. This is a classic Oconoroo. Ready? When he starts getting hot, he goes like this. Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? You've breached his wall. Yeah, you've climbed his wall. that point you're fully you're fully inside the citadel yeah dude we were arguing the trojan horse he fell asleep you're cutting everybody's heads off it's over shane and i were arguing about prince i was pro prince shane was anti-prince it was our argument go connor jumped in o 'connor got so i lost his fucking mind but hold on hold on that was you want to talk about great great drunks this was one of the all time drunks this was coming back from London back to the United States and we had like a private room we were flying it wasn't private but they have this thing they're cheap as fuck there's like a VIP thing at big airports for like a thousand dollars where they just you have your own security and then they just put you in a room with free alcohol and then they're like guys the flight got delayed by two hours and everyone in the room was just like green light shit we got we drank vodka for three hours and argued about prince for three straight hours and o 'kaman was my staunchest ally o 'kaman oh he went nuts anti-prince he was like play one fucking song play one fucking song and shane was being like appreciate your support chris you gotta back it off like you're going crazy right now they should have reached out to air traffic control like we got to get this plane up but this is a disaster we have a disaster smoke in the fucking room yeah we were smoking it was i didn't know this existed yeah either did i i did it once this is the second time i've done it i did it once at jfk and it was the biggest waste of money of all time really just a woman met me at baggage yeah and walked me through and then took me to an airport lounge and they were like and then she left and then they were like you can't come in here oh shit oh it sucks that's the closest i got it was just a regular lounge did you ever do someone in a wheelchair at the airport that's that's fucking vip status yeah my wife was super pregnant she got the wheelchair and you just go through like a weird corridor it's awesome yeah yeah that would be a flex dude if you gotta hit the regular airport hit the chair i should start hitting the chair anyway blanket blanket over my fucking head get it like a blackjack dealer poker player visor just get pushed through the airport

21:26Shane Gillis:start screaming about prince from a wheelchair just get the stephen hawking set up for when you're blacked out just blank like you want another you want some more peanuts just go start blinking. Tony, you should get toad. Just getting up occasionally and be like, I'll have one more beer. Just walking up. Get toad by the cart. Have the Egyptian guy scream, get out of the way! Just get toad behind the chair.

21:51Shane Gillis:That would be nice. Or squat up. Just have like six or four. Get biker vests. Hit the Mario Kart. You're saying turn the JFK into Toad's turn bike. Isn't that insane, though, that somebody could get so fat, they'd just get VIP? That's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy, dude. It's like ancient times. Someone was super fat back in the day. Yeah, I think if people found just vague records of our civilization, they'd be like, they worshipped fat people. Yeah. They did everything for the fats. Dude, when I was reading about the Aztecs, there was one of the guys that Cortez linked up with who was like a rival against Montezuma.

22:33Shane Gillis:He was a fat king, and he had servants literally hold his belly up for him. So he would come talking, like, yo, we got to fuck up Montezuma. And he had two guys the whole time just holding his belly while he talked. That's what it used to be like doing YKWD. He'd get in there, there'd be five dudes just, yes, Bobby, yes. Like, dude, you're a fucking punk. It's crazy. Yes, Bobby, get him. Shut the fuck up, dude. Yeah, fuck you. Don't fucking talk to me like that, dude. I listen to the regs. You ever listen to the regs? Yeah, it's funny. The regs is great. It's great. Yeah, it's funny. The regs clips come up for me.

23:11It is so funny. It's the best. Wait, wait. Speaking of dudes, it'll throw down the drama. Sody's another one. Sody will get fired up. Sody will get hit. They were playing college football. No, I've told this story a thousand times. I think Danny might hate it. I'm sorry. No, it's okay. Dan, I love you, dude. It's funny, though. He spazzed. I've never seen a hard... Obviously, I've seen you hit some hard spazes. I'm a bad video game spaz. You hit more...

23:41Shane Gillis:It's girl spaz. I'm running up the steps. Fuck this. This game sucks. If you're just stupid, you guys are wasting all your time anyway. Fuck this. Running up the steps to an air mattress. You guys are the fucking losers. I don't see why you waste your time. I'd literally played all day by myself. Like, I'm going to be chained in a video game. Got my ass handed to me. It was like, you guys are fucking losers. Wasting time with this shit and ran up the stairs. I get so mad. I get so mad. Just dick down on an air mattress. I fucking hate these guys. I get. Oh, dude. I play by myself and scream at the TV.

24:20Shane Gillis:Dude. I was playing Last of Us and I couldn't figure out how to get to this. I was trying to get a ladder down to climb out of this room and it wouldn't let me take the ladder down. There's nothing worse. And then you walk over to it and it's like, press A. you're like how the fuck did I miss that and the zombies kept attacking me and I was dying instantly and I was literally alone in my house in Pennsylvania and I was going well it's fucking stupid if one fucking bite kills you what's the fucking point dude my neighbors must have been like what the fuck is going on in there I lose my shit dude I used to bite the fucking cable on the NES controller No.

25:01That's nuts. Yeah, when I was a kid, I would get something out. I'd go, whoa.

25:11Shane Gillis:I've never heard the cable bite. The cable bite's intense. I would lose my shit. My friend used to cable whip his little brother with the PS2. He would pull out the PS2 controller and go, whoosh. That's a cable whip. It's a scary one. Cable whip is crazy. Did you ever see what he did? I'm sorry. I'll still get, like, when we, those Oklahoma kids were playing me in UFC. If it's a big game, the heart rate goes up. Oh, dude. Like that time you and me were playing, that might have been the most stressful video game of all time. That was. Just playing UFC in front of, I don't know. Hunks. Hunks. It was like Zac Efron.

25:43Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, and Christian McCaffrey. It was literally a dream threesome. That's hilarious. It's fucking hilarious. For real. And Matt pulled the ups. I choked under pressure. He's beaten me like four times ever. That was one of them. Yeah. Wow. I just choked. You didn't go to the ground. You could have went to the ground. That was honorable. I had to get me. It was too good of a fight, dude. It was such a good battle. Every kick that landed, people in the room were like, oh. He didn't get me. He didn't get me. Oh, dude. That's fucking good. Did you ever have somebody? I've had friends literally punch me.

26:20Shane Gillis:Probably. If I had ever. Probably. There's been fights. Well, we were younger, but it's like when we were 16 and Street Fighter 2 on Super Nintendo was huge whatever yeah i remember i was playing with my friend kevin if you and if you beat him he would literally punch you so and he would go i could beat the shit out of you big j's one uh that's a scary one really he doesn't get violent but that like it changes the day if you beat him in a game it changes like he gets the rest of the day a little like sad yeah he'll get you though he'll start getting you like what the fuck you being mean to me for oh yeah i forgot i beat you an xbox last week i'm also i'm a sore i'm a sore winner too i'm better with it now when i was younger i was i was always bad at video you are a sore winner so when i win i would do a thing where i would like just sit there i grab what i have a drink next to me and just go

27:13Shane Gillis:and just do shit like that dude for real stop doing that i'm like this is water i'm thirsty i'm just drinking maybe you're maybe you're upset and then start being like yeah you know It's just what I do. I kind of go low, and you kind of go high to me, and it's just, shut the fuck up, dude. I think the only time I've ever beaten you in a video game was when we played Mortal Kombat. Every other game we've ever played each other against, you've beaten me. You guys are out doing activities. MK is the Achilles heel for sure. I'm working on it. You've got better than MK. I'm working on it. No. Bring it, dude.

27:48Shane Gillis:It's coming. Bring it. I'm fucking swinging swords with Conan right now, dude. It's coming. Oh, yeah. You downloaded the fucking game and started playing it. Yeah, fuck. You actually said to me... That's bullshit. This was an insane thing to say to me. No, that's bullshit. I downloaded the game and you go... No, I downloaded the game and you go, don't get good at it because I'm not going to play it. And I'm like... Oh, I can't have fun because you're not going to play it. No, no, no. This is crazy. This is game stealing. This is almost worse than friend stealing. Coming over, going, oh, New Mortal Kombat's good because we were playing it together and having a nice time because we were just as good.

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28:26Go home and download it and practice? No, I want to play it. That's game stealing. That's coward shit. That game sucks. That game sucks by yourself. No, it doesn't, dude. You have not played with Conan, man. It's fucking righteous, dude. It's righteous. When you win a match, he goes like this, and they recreate the poster from Conan the Barbarian. How many times do you get to see that? I've never get told. Seven dozen. It never gets old. No, it never gets old, dude. It never gets old. And the guy doing his voice is good. T-1000's awesome.

29:03Yeah.

29:03Shane Gillis:Quest mode sucks in Mortal Kombat. One player blows. One player sucks. Yeah. One player. I've tried it. It fucking sucks. But training, just being in the dojo training and just being like, yeah, let's pop it on. Oh, what are you guys playing? 17-hit combo. You're like, what the hell? The fuck did I do that? Combos are nuts. The trailer for the new movie looks all right. Yeah, I like them more. Really? I disagree. I like that at the end when Scorpion flew in and they did the get over here. I didn't make it to the end. Oh, really? I turned it off with like 30 seconds or like 20 seconds. I don't think he's a good Johnny Cage.

29:39I think it's miscast. Who's playing? I think so, too. Carl Urban from, what's he on? The Boys? The Boys, yeah. Yeah. he doesn't look like Johnny Cage. Like, Johnny Cage was kind of modeled after Jean-Claude Van Damme. Yeah. And, like, Johnny Cage, he should be prettier. Like, he's not, Carl Urban's not pretty enough. The whole cool thing about Johnny Cage is that he's, like, a pretty boy. He's a pretty boy. But he's a badass. Yeah, he punches you in the dick. Yeah. It literally should be like Ryan Felipe. You know what I mean? Yeah. Wait, not Ryan Felipe. Ryan Gosling. I've never heard him called Ryan Felipe.

30:11No, Ryan Felipe's a dude. No, I know, but I always thought it was Felipe.

30:15Shane Gillis:No, I think it's Felipe I thought it was Felipe too Really? They should have Kevin Spacey as Johnny Cage Hold on a second By the way, shout out to Felipe We were just chilling with him He's a listener of the podcast Felipe's gonna hear that Oh really? Yeah, I'm a big fan of Felipe The way of the gun Yeah, he's the fucking cool Oh, you know what? Actually, Ryan, if you are listening I know that I know that you were friends with Sean Price, and Sean Price is, to me, one of the greatest rappers that ever lived. Game steal, friend steal. What else you got? There it is. Shout-outs to Sean Price. Shout-outs to Ryan Felipe.

30:55Yeah. But, yeah, Sean Price rips. Hold on. How am I first?

30:59Shane Gillis:You guys never heard of his? It's Felipe. I've always heard of Felipe. It's Felipe? Yeah, that's how I always pronounce it. This is nuts. My actor database is horrible. It's, like, embarrassing. People, you know, like, well, I'm like, I've never, no. It's got to be Will Smith, Robert Williams. I'm like A-plus actors. It has to be A-plus. How do you pronounce it? Guys, produce the show. I'm just crying. It's like, there's four dudes out there. This guy's just staring at us. Look at LeMaire. He's cashing a check right now. He's a mobile man. Oh, my God. LeMaire, you can't see it at home. LeMaire's feet aren't touching the ground.

31:35He's on a stool. Fully just. He's swinging his feet. You guys got me fully charged to talk about Mortal Kombat. Nice. We can get some MK going. I hate Mortal Kombat now. Why? It used to be. It sucks. The lore's bad. I knew it was Philippe. It is? Yes. Wait, who said? No, you can't go by the way the Google voice thing did.

31:54Shane Gillis:They probably actually. Oh, really? Everybody's always. It's Ryan Philippe. Whoa, I've been calling him Felipe forever. Holy shit. Felipe's crazy. Philippe. I think it's got a beautiful ring to it. Felipe I knew I wasn't wrong dude I knew me and Ryan were boys Dang Damn Damn you tried to friend steal And mispronounce his name Yeah he's probably furious right now That's crazy Dude I'm gonna play fucking Mortal Kombat With Ryan I'm gonna let my I'm gonna let my I'm gonna let my I'm gonna let my I'm gonna let my Wild Wild West I'm gonna go find a dude That pronounces it Felipe And he's gonna be my friend Yeah Yeah, timestamp that one.

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33:59Shane Gillis:Hey, guys. Just a quick heads up. I'll be at the Ovation Hall in the Ocean Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Saturday, August 16th, the year 2025. Please come. You can go to mattmccusker.com for tickets. There's also a link in the show description. Please come. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a hoot. It's going to be a good time. And, dude, the new material is coming. New materials. The new material is coming, so I will have a whole slew of new stuff. If you see me in Philadelphia. Guys, get ready. Get the fuck out. What are you waiting for? I mean, it's going to be, Ocean is a sick venue, actually.

34:33Shane Gillis:I opened that for you. It is. It's awesome. Yeah. So, please come. Matt, August 8th and 9th, I'll be in Louisville, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Missouri. My God. August 8th and 9th, Louisville, Kentucky, St. Louis, Missouri. Huge. Then August 15th, Detroit, 16th, Grand Rapids. Nice. Come on, y 'all. Come on, gang. Just come out. Get in there, Maze. Maze. You get in there, Maze. Oh, turn him around. Yes. Hey, everybody. August 5th is Optimal Noctis. And then also, at the end of the month, like the 26th to the 30th. Get the dates right before you come in here. August 26th to August 30th, I'll be in the East Coast.

35:13So please come check out Dojo's. Just on the East Coast. I'll be in the Philadelphia. No. I'll be in Baltimore. I'll be in New Jersey, the Dojo of Comedy. And then various other bars. So please, check out all that information on lamarily.fun. There you go. nice oh yes yes yes dang there you have it man that's huge i didn't know that

35:38Shane Gillis:yeah it's big dude i have actually i've had a huge development so you know i suffer from body acne you know i suffer in silence my stomach breaks out especially with the sweat and the heat down here i'm sorry yeah thank you man it's fucking dude i found i you know i went to a dermatologist and like dude those guys i i don't they don't do anything everything i'm like whenever i eat this you know why don't you shower all right thanks no they're like well there's no you know like whatever you eat whatever i'm like no dude if i dairy my whole stomach breaks out they're like there's no real science behind that i'm like dude it literally i've lived it it's a lit experience yeah it happens every time there you deny my truth so you give you all these creams and you read them and it's like don't use this more than two weeks it's like why what's gonna happen why should i put this on at all yeah dude recently uh it's been for real like groundbreaking because whenever you go to the ocean you know your skin clears up yeah so i was like how could i recreate that i got a bucket of dead sea salt and i just go in the shower now i wet myself and i just cover myself in salt head to toe and just let it sit let it sit on me for like five minutes completely cleared my skin up yeah my wife hates it i'm gonna have to grub you dude grub me up you better stop i taste i'm like wag you i'm like you're like grubbing yourself dude dude it cleared it up it's the only thing that's ever worked and it's salt it's fun you get a big bucket of it for 30 bucks Yeah, sun and salt water are the two.

36:55I had, I don't know why, I forget what happened, but I had like a full-on acne outbreak a year ago. Really? Or a year and a half ago, and it was in the winter. And I think it was, yeah, it was gross. It sucks, dude. It sucks being our age and getting acne. It's the worst. What the fuck is happening? But it was because I was still living in New York, and it was raining every day, and it was dark. It was definitely related to weather. and i went and i did the joker's cruise and it cleared up on the cruise yeah like it just cleared up immediately as soon as i got in the sun and there was like a saltwater pool bro i had yep i had an insane like a rare skin disease when i was younger that sucks like yeah just out of no i've told you that's peter isis yeah yeah out of nowhere i've never seen anything like it it was just patches of red all over me and it didn't itch didn't burn it was nothing does it look like a red spot like sunburn first one there's a herald patch that comes first i was just looking at mirror and i just had a big red mark here okay and i was like all right whatever i don't give a fuck and then started multiplying it was just all over me but it was only where sun doesn't get you so it's from your knees to your elbows like it was just where you wear clothes yeah and then my family and i went to the beach clear it up clear it up did it ever but i had to lay in public with a giant red skin rash.

38:19Yeah. Did it ever get like rashy and raised or was it always just like your skin? It was a little rashy and raised, but it still didn't itch or hurt. Yeah, skin's fucking weird because it is an organ. It's an organ on your body. You're right about dermatologists though. Like a dermatologist will be like, yep, that's pretty gross. You know, here's some cream. You know, like, and the cream, the reason you can't do it for more than two weeks is because a lot of it's, it will, it thins your skin. Yeah. And what I've had with the creams is - You must have used it a lot. I have, I get a thing called - No, no.

38:46Sensitive ass. I get a thing called

38:52Shane Gillis:Also I've had it washed down to my balls And my ball skin Would go crazy from whatever they were giving me Ball skin goes the craziest Ball skin goes the absolute craziest When that stuff goes down That's three years That's not going away for three fucking years It's the worst dude I actually dealt with an armpit rash For an entire year last year What were you using? A new deodorant with alcohol in it? It was the same old deodorants. It was almost like I got jock itch. Yes, I've gotten that before. And it just lingered. I think there's nothing worse than an armpit rash. Because you have to put deodorant on it.

39:27And it burns and it itches so bad. I was plowing through it. I was just putting fucking antifungal cream on and filming tires. It was while we were filming tires. It went from the summer into when we were filming tires. It was a nightmare.

39:44Shane Gillis:I don't wear deodorant. I'll put it on like once every now and again. Do you not sweat, though? I do. And I'll smell a little bit, but it's like, dude, my armpits get dry from deodorant. It's like I fucking hate. Remember Brute? Yeah. Dude, that stuff was flammable. I used to run it across the carpet and light it on fire and it would just go make like a line. Jesus Christ. Sick. The carpet? I fucked up a beach rental when I was a little kid one time because I would make designs in the carpet. You would light for two seconds. Just like little. I didn't do that. I didn't do the. Yeah, I did the swat.

40:17Shane Gillis:You know the coolest design possible to set on fire? I would do little loop-de-loop tracks. The one time, it did get out of control. I was like, fuck, fuck, fuck. How did your parents not know you were lighting the carpet on fire? I don't know. I would just do it and put it out. It was a beach trip. They were probably fucking shit-faced. But at one time, yeah, they were. It was a beach trip. It was 11 a.m. They were blacked out at the beach. Yeah, my parents never drank growing up, so they knew everything I was doing. I wish I had parents that fucking just got rocked. Sorry, I was a joke about it, but it is.

40:46it is the best yeah i mean you have a parent come home drunk you go for sure this is a fun day yeah

40:52Shane Gillis:yeah i missed out dad is awesome your dad gets drunk when you're little although the first time i did get scared because i read a book in the library saying like it was all about like hitting your what hitting your mom so it's like the book was called like why does dad hit mom when he drinks it was something like that first time i saw my dad drunk i was just like he's beating the fuck out of my mom right now and i was just a little coward i just sat in my room like i I hope he doesn't go too hard on her. He didn't at all. He was so friendly. You were saving private Ryan. He sat on the steps and cried.

41:19Yeah.

41:21Shane Gillis:I should go in there. He was just literally like. He would come in and be like. And I'd be like. Well dad don't fucking beat mom. Oh that's great drunk. Dad. That's super friendly. Top drunk. Phil is still that. He gets like. He comes in and goes. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Then you see him in the morning. He's like, how are you? You're a fucking punk. You're like, oh, you're hungover. I'm not hungover. He's never been hungover once. Hitting a girl with hungover is very funny. I've done it before. I'd be like, you're just hungover and being fucking great. I'm not even hungover at all. It's like, yeah, you're a little edgy this morning.

42:00Everybody loves denying a hangover. It's crazy. Everybody's favorite thing to do is go, I'm not, you know what's crazy? I feel pretty good. There you go. I'll tell you guys right now, I'm fucking hungover as shit. Really? Oh, yeah. That's why you asked how long this podcast was. No, no. I was literally just curious. Stop riding me, dude. That's too much lotion. That's thin skin. We were in London in the van, and you were fucking with me. I was like, back off, dude. You just kept going, I'm on your bumper, boy. I'm on your fucking bumper. You're trapped. You got three days in the UK. You're not going anywhere.

42:42Shane Gillis:You were on his ass in the UK? I was. That's so funny. Till we got off the flight. Till we landed back in the... I mean, we were screaming in the fucking airport. Holy shit, dude. We got prime... I mean, you guys might have talked about it already, but we got prime O 'Connor video over there. Yeah, we got some classics. Him at the height of his powers. Yeah. Running through the streets along the way. I'm from London. Like throwing shit. Yeah. He was a real problem. that's what i like about him though he turns up that hard and then you won't see him for two weeks uh he's got he's got to mend himself he goes home he lays there he enters the tent oh i saw him last i gotta read i gotta fucking cook i gotta become a good person and you go why don't you come out yeah yeah there's bounce backs are crazy it's pretty impressive i saw him last night we were in the green room we had two drinks and i was like what are you doing dude he's like I don't know I might go see Sadie and he fucking snuck out I was like he's dodging it he's trying to be good you gotta respect the dodge I get it man I get it I'm fucking terrible at it I let everybody talk me into fucking hanging out I'm the worst you do it just as much you're one of the worst perpetrators of it come on dude take a shot my birthday is next week I'm taking a thousand shots with you and every time you go, you never take shots.

44:09It's been literally years. Literally. We've taken shots together. We took shots together last week at Mitzi's. I did not take any shots with you at Mitzi's. Yeah, we did. We did? Yeah, at the corner. Well, you got me there. And you said it. I remember. You go, you'd never take shots. My dude. Every week. it's so funny it is usually late yeah if i'm taking a shot i was talking to carrie at mothership last night about she's like what are you doing tomorrow baby i was like i'm doing matt and jane and uh i was just telling her about when you just start pressuring to drink and i was like i'm gonna be sitting on that couch he's gonna be like come on come on let's get one come on let's go and i was like she's like wow and i was like i can't say no to the man no we gotta no i can't today i can't today stop dude no stop dude no i got spots tonight no i can't yeah all right i can't i've got to remain in the tomb dude i just yeah i put together a run i gotta true but i was just i was like friday it's true i'll make it to friday i don't fly out till saturday where you headed uh back up to pa because i got to do some pods in new york and then rhode island gigs and and then some other stuff we haven't even talked about your special yeah i'd love to talk about it yeah it was great thank you man i like the intro i like how spooky it was thanks man yeah thanks a lot thank you i appreciate it and at first i didn't like the blurry shots and then i came around all right thank you i i was a little on the fence about them too at first but then the closer we got to because i was i directed it too so i was very involved from start to finish with everything and um i was a little on the fence about it too but ultimately i was like oh no it works it's it's i don't know it's it was you know it was a nice device i thought or whatever but but yeah man i i appreciate you i missed the actual taping i was at the after party i you showed up right as the party was starting yeah yeah yeah i was bummed i missed that it was that was a good i was i was thrilled you you came down you rolled in with six right yeah yeah yeah yeah it's i was thrilled you came down dude it definitely got bullied into taking a shot Well, that was a special night It's always a special night Yeah, it's always a special night But yeah, it's called I Never Promised You a Rose Garden It's on my YouTube So YouTube.com slash at Joe DeRosa Comedy But anyway, I hope people enjoy it Yeah, it's good But it's the hardest It's a really good special Thank you, dude It means a lot to me to hear you say that because And Matt, feel free to jump in with a compliment

46:52Shane Gillis:I haven't seen it yet So I always feel bad I don't see it yet And I usually don't watch i watched yours a lot i haven't finished it yet but i've watched a lot of it i'm not blowing smoke up your ass i did the same thing with you like yeah i was like you're one of no no no no i'm saying though like i don't i hear you it's like it's it's kind of hard sometimes when you do comedy and you're around it all the time to jump into a special yeah yeah but you're one of the guys where it's like i'm like i was like excited and we've done enough shows where i know the material yeah yeah yeah it was i was stoked ask gardini he told me his special i'm that's going to be yeah it's a good special i can't wait to see that thanks guys they were actually singing your praises before you got in thanks guys i really appreciate how much they liked the i heard the way it started out and i was like awesome the starting the starting bit of material i was like that's let's not let's not i won't say any spoilers but fantastic i can't wait for the start of your special yeah can't wait no spoilers no spoilers but yeah i heard i i was here and i was like that's thanks brother perfect thanks dude it's the it's it's literally the hardest i ever worked on anything in my whole life that's like it was three years of uh of touring and i was going to shoot it at one point and ari shafir was like it's not ready it's not ready yet it's not ready you know and then like when i finally did do it like him being like fucking did it to you i was like all right that's awesome man good for him for because that's hard to tell someone but boy if somebody told me it's not ready when i thought it was ready we argued i mean yeah yeah already did argue i wasn't just like okay yeah i was like it's ready dude i don't need to do it for three years and he goes he goes oh yeah because you're the one and i was like god damn all right

48:32but uh but yeah like you but i don't know it's like it's nice having friends like again i'm not blowing smoke but it's nice having friends who also do comedy that when they put something out like when you put out your last one you're excited to watch it because it's like yeah it's easy to get comedy I have a friend who sucked yes like check out this special yeah yeah I'm excited for yours dude thank you man yeah you were talking a little bit about it last

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50:27Shane Gillis:Dude, Britney's been getting a lot of people see her and go, oh, four-time WMDA star. Yeah. WMDA star. And last night I was doing stand-up and people brought it up. They were like, talk about your four-time WMDA star wife. And I was just, I thought it was great. And now she's getting so much attention, I've just been like, shit was fucking hacked.

50:47Shane Gillis:Shit was a fucking hack. That's what I do. I mean, come on. Shit was hacked. Turn on her. I just got to take her down. She doesn't even look like an athlete. I don't know what the fuck the joke is. I kept saying last night, I was like, he should have dressed me up, man. He should have dressed me up. I could have done that. I was like, I could have done that. I know, the joke easily could have been NHL. I know. No, no. Or NASCAR or golf. Or black WMA star. Oh, you mean fucking. Let me put that shit on, dude. Well, then we wouldn't be talking right now, but we would be considered the greatest of all time.

51:27we wouldn't still be talking. I just showed up fully prepared for the role.

51:31Shane Gillis:What the fuck are you doing? We can save it. Oh, I thought she was. Oh, what the jokes about? Oh, shit. I got to take this off. Fuck, it's not coming off. It was. It was fun for me to watch it again. I'm sitting next to Jalen Carter. Fuck. I'm just like a black lady. Dude, I saw the rewatching and seeing the people behind us like clapping. And then it's revealed and they go. That was very fun to see. Yeah, the... You fucking asshole. We can save that one, though. Huh? Maybe I'll get another hosting job sometime. No, I'm not going to dress up as a... Yeah. Just funny to talk about. We can put an end to things.

52:10Save it for the Oscars. Yeah.

52:14Shane Gillis:I'll be Ryan Felipe. Ryan Felipe. Yeah. You got that bullet in the chamber. We got that one locked and loaded. when it's time it's time yeah it's time to hang it up you go you know what i got one more yeah oh yeah yes you're in the tomb on the come down of setting the internet ablaze yes yeah it's all types of things and also what you drank for a week yeah that's enough to yeah so like after the espies i had to go do kansas city and oklahoma city yeah and those you know you're doing a show like that that's that that's a lot of fucking stress i don't know how you also i flew home on friday and i for real thought i was right i thought i was gonna fall down friday sucked ass oh fucking yeah i had a later flight yeah but like not that much later i texted these guys like we're already there i was walking through the airport like i felt like i was like not getting enough oxygen that's how it feels because you were just so hung over i didn't have like the headache or anything but i was just i had like three hours we drank a lot of liquor fast yes i had like two hours of sleep and just walking through the airport with like my bag just like i for real might go down i was like lightheaded bro so bad so that day i woke up in the hotel going yes i have nothing to do today perfect and then i was like oh shit i gotta fly to oklahoma and do a show then the next morning i woke up like finally i can fucking go home fuck i gotta go to kansas This fucking city.

53:45Shane Gillis:God damn it. That sucks. I don't know what's going on. I guess this is what being burnt out is, but anxious dreams. Yeah. And then wake up going, I don't have anything to do. Nice. Fuck. Dude, you just did a thing that six people on planet Earth have done. Not just that, though. It was the movie. Yeah. The movie, filming a movie for a month and a half was. Yeah. I've never done anything like that. and then shows and then the yeah you're running you're running through a very unique it's time to it's time to lay down yeah yeah and oh yeah we filmed commercials that i'm seeing the edits to those i don't fucking yeah love them i go oh great yeah there's nothing worse than watching yourself in a way you're like i don't like that while you're anxious and hung over and you see a video of yourself you go it sucks it was fun i was trying to upload all the stuff from our drunk podcast that next day in the airport i'll just watch it and be like oh the anxiety of that podcast second half the second half's in the tomb forever nft until until one day yeah we're gonna sell it to martin screlly for six million dollars

55:09that airport hangover like honestly I like almost have a panic attack I carry Xanax for it because your gut is related to your anxiety and all that shit and when you're in that state you're walking you're like you might have to take a shit you don't know you can shit at any moment you could physically I could walk into a bathroom and take a shit while hung over at any if someone said take a shit right now i go no problem oh you mean like on command yes oh that's great one's chambered at all times yeah all right yes sir

55:43Shane Gillis:yes yes daddy yes daddy yeah that's just okay i'm like you can't know a clear gay joke i'm 103 degrees my face is i have like 103 degree fever and then i just woke up and i did the and I pounded coffee to like power through. So I'm having like heart palpitations. It was terrible. Yeah, heart palpitations for sure. It was terrible, dude. It's fucking nuts. Then you know the B-dubs at the airport's just right there going. It is. You're nothing without me, coward. When I did Kill Tony, when they did the HEB Center down here, I did the panel, and I was only supposed to do a set, and then I showed up, and he was like, I need you to panel, buddy.

56:26And I was like, all right. And I was so hungover. And I started the same thing, dude, dehydrated. I felt like sick. I felt like I had a cold. I started fucking pounding coffee to wake up. And then I was meeting it with booze to get like tuned up. Dude, I got on stage. My gut started turning. My hand to God, dude, I had a two-minute panic attack on stage. I was sitting there. I was so – I was hitting me from all angles. And I was sitting there. The first bucket pull came out. the kid was talking to us and my brain was like there's a lot of fucking people out there dude it was all it up if you watch the video you see me do this you see this is the desk and i just go like this i just put the mic down i just stare i'm gonna freak out right now i was like i was literally looking like where can i run off this fucking stage that's tough and then it just it just stopped and i was like oh that's hangover that's like bad anxiety i get that doing stand-up

57:28Shane Gillis:where like i'll like forget the next thing i'm going to talk about and it's like a 30 second thing in my head where it's like this is it dude you're gonna have to look at all these people and go i can't do this i'm sorry guys i don't know why i gotta and just walk off and you just power through and you're like all right thank god yeah no i've been there dude maria bamford said she used to like she said she would like take comfort in knowing that at any second she she had the option of running out of the club and never return it she was like that's the only way i can get through it like sometimes yeah it's like it is nice when you get on stage you go oh yeah i can do stand-up yeah after the first like minute you go oh fuck you yeah nice because for the last hour and a half i've been back there going what the fuck i can't do this shit oh fuck yeah yeah i've done the coffee pre-show coffee where i'm on stage and my heart's like and i'm like all right i'm gonna fucking this might be it and then i've done it where i'm like maybe i have a heart attack and i really leaned into it and powered through and i was like i was so proud of myself i had this horrible pain in my chest i was headlining it was like two years ago it might have been two or three years ago had a heart attack bro it hurt it hurt so bad that i i was like i have to get off stage yeah and then i was like well this is my last joke just fucking and i just did my last joke got off stage i was like i'm pretty sure i just had a heart attack up there yeah did you and you never got a check or anything people have little ones that's something i don't i don't think it was an actual heart attack i think people go in the doctor you've had like three heart attacks you're like what uh i was 34 dude i know someone who got one at like 24 years old i mean they were they're taking heavy sups and then other recreationals but yeah i was on zero recreationals yeah if you can have them without knowing i've definitely had them if that's an option there's no way i haven't had heart attacks there's no way well if i ever had one that was it yeah i mean that sounds like a heart attack that hurt my fucking wall.

59:35I'll be like, ah. I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Fuck. I'll tell you a perfect formula for I'm going to have a heart attack on stage. This has happened to me several times. You'll be at Mothership. You'll be in the green room. You look up and realize the guy on stage in the main room only has 30 seconds left. You go, oh, fuck. And you run all the way. Dude, you get on stage. I've done that. I can't catch my breath on stage. Dude, I'll do this on the stool. I'll lean like this and I'm sweating out the whole time like I think I might have a heart attack right now that is a fucking labyrinth back there you gotta go up and down five flights of steps

1:00:15Shane Gillis:I felt bad last night because we were all backstage and people are backstage like you were backstage and you probably had like four minutes I'll say something but I feel like a dick because I'm like hey DeRosa you're up next right and he's like yeah I'm going down I'm like I feel like an asshole like I'm like dude you better get down there no no i get nervous i do it i do it on shows i'm not even on i get nervous like yo that guy's fucking yeah dude i get nervous on other people's behalf so you never know when someone's gonna fucking just go that's it i know it was gd and he dug his heel obviously luckily he's a big stage hug dug his heels in yeah yeah you actually probably were like oh gd he's on he's gonna get along i was no i was real i get nervous when it's like eight minutes in i see the clock and i'm going like it's a while to get down there did you ever go on stage there and you realize you forget the dude you're bringing on his last name for sure yeah and you're like i forgot the headliners i forgot joe rogan fucking joe his podcast is an experience he's got an experience

1:01:17Shane Gillis:heather mcdonald clip fucked me up did you ever see her go down yeah yeah i think about that yeah watch it you know because i you know i've obviously laughed about it publicly so it's like i'm like That's going to happen to me now. It's going to happen. Dude, there's a trilogy. There's a perfect trilogy. Heather McDonald, Wendy Williams, and Gallagher. Oh, and you're forgetting the goat, Pablo Francisco. He went down? Did he collapse on stage? No, but he says that. That's a wild meltdown. Yeah. Yeah, that's a wild meltdown. That's the number one for me. He broke. We've heard me say it a million times.

1:01:52No, you don't think I can get out of this? oh okay yeah yeah so oh no you're in good you're in safe hand with all get down get to the chopper you don't think i can get out of this folks he just broke yeah yeah there's some of the videos that cuts and then it cuts them being

1:02:11that's what that's dude that's the one that made me just straight to the airport you don't think i can get out of this

1:02:18Shane Gillis:Oh, no. He got locked in a bit. He got locked in a bit. He's in like a K-hole with a bit. No. He can't get out of this bit. And he's going, I can fix it. But like, wait, hold on. This is fun. He's at the hospital like, it's not funny. Let it go. He's like, no, it's funny. I can get to the end of the bit. Just let me finish the fucking bit. Just keep interrupting. Top three. That's stage meltdowns. That's a different category, though. That's the number one of meltdowns. Tomb might go to Swartzen. The difference between Swartzen and Wartzen was awesome. He's just like, so, all right. He's so high.

1:02:57He can't even make sentences. And the lady just comes out and pulls him off stage.

1:03:02Shane Gillis:Dude, that's in the background of my head the entire time. You're about to, here it comes, dude. You're about to start rambling incoherently. Oh, my God. I thought the O 'Conn man was going to have one. When we did the Chicago Theater, he went out with Santino during the day and made day drink. I went out. I met him. I had like one beer. And I was like, we got Chicago Theater tonight. Yeah, yeah. I left. They show up. They didn't leave. He never went back to the hotel. They went from the bar straight to the show. O 'Connor walks in the green room like, what's up? And I was like, holy shit, dude.

1:03:40You're blacked out. And I was like, fine, dude. Get the fuck out there. Go out there. Yeah. He killed. That's awesome. God damn. That's pretty impressive. That's awesome. Oh, God. He killed. Oh, dude. He's from a fucking another dimension, man. He is. O 'Connor should be in the next Mortal Kombat. He really does. He might be the drunken master.

1:04:02Shane Gillis:That's insane. Wait, third. But wait, I got a number three best meltdown. The Lampanelli one is wild. Do you remember that one? No, it happened. where people are walking out and then people are helping her people are going like she's yelling at somebody and then people are being like it's okay lace and she's like shut the fuck up i don't need any fucking help from you and she's like turning on people supporting her and shit like it's a i'm not throwing any shade at any of these people yeah we're just it's just funny like i've i've i have i've been banned from clubs i've freaked on stage yeah you're a psycho yeah yeah You're a wild dog Yeah I got banned from the laugh factory in New York Did you really?

1:04:44Yeah because I told the audience I said I hope you all get fucking AIDS And die in a car accident on your way home tonight You're a bunch of fucking animals I got banned It's probably during like a decent set I just screamed at the end It was so rowdy dude It was crazy how rowdy it was And then I went back to the club And I was like I don't understand why you won't book me anymore And the booker was like because you told the audience, I hope you get AIDS and die in a fucking car. Do you think that's okay? I was joking around. I was like, well, they were shitty. I don't know. What was I supposed to do?

1:05:15Yeah. Have you guys ever freaked? I've lost my shit. I've spazzed once. I've never spazzed. The only one in Fort Wayne was I was just like, all right, that's good. It's the end of the show. I haven't done it in 15 years. I learned my lesson. I did it now. Bakersfield. That was a tough one. Spazz? They were wild.

1:05:34Shane Gillis:i spent one guy in phoenix arizona i like kind of just started traveling headlining and the weekend wasn't going well ticket sales weren't great and then there was like in this the one of their rooms is a copper blues was a they have like multiple ones i think there's one of those rooms where there's like you know like seating but then they have booths to like the right of the stage yeah so it's just a guy in a fucking like leather jacket talking so fucking loud Isn't it Tempe, what was it called? It's around there. It's Copper Blues. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They have fucking multiple. But this guy was talking, which was like, you know, I was like, whatever, shut up.

1:06:10Shane Gillis:But then at one point, Brittany went up to him. She was there. It was like, he'd be quiet. And he said something to her. And I just stopped mid-joke and was like, shut the fuck up, pussy. And spaz. It was like a fight. Fuck yeah. It was bad. And I was like, anyway, I was just fucking around, guys. Yeah, it's the worst. Pure red face spaz. had him I was like eventually I think I had him come up on stage and he just called me gay without a microphone I'm like it just backfired on me and I was like I'm gonna get up here and he's like you're just a fucking gay pussy and I'm like damn nice jacket bitch get off the stage this isn't working it's just go straight gay guy well your jacket's disgusting fuck you bitch he told me you have an uber driver jacket dude get the fuck out of here it was just they're always right around he was getting louder though he was winning the debate I'm like he's like you're fucking gay It wasn't really a spaz, but in that Tempe Improv, that was where that gremlin from high school got me.

1:07:02You remember that? This kid from high school showed up, and he was like, after the first show, he's sitting in the green room. He's like, I would give that like a C, C minus. And I was just like. And then he spent an hour in between shows talking about how I sucked at football and his class was better. And then stayed. It was crazy. I mean, I don't know how you didn't choke him. Other people were looking like, what the fuck's going on? I don't know how you didn't choke him. And then he stayed for the second show and I killed. And every time I had a good joke, I just looked directly at him just going, Yeah.

1:07:38Yeah. C - Oh, fucker. Every single joke for an hour. I was just every time going, what do you think of that? What do you think of that, you fucking cock? He was like, nothing to him. He was like, that was good. Now that was good. I love how people like that flip it. Now, that was good, see? Go fuck yourself. I'm like your coach.

1:07:59Shane Gillis:Yeah, that's weird. No, a spaz is always right around the corner. I've, without question, in recent years, I'm speaking way too liberally when I say I learned my lesson, because I'll still yell at an audience, but I figured out somehow to sometimes make it kind of funny to beat them in to get... But I could easily see having a full freak. at any, you know, it won't take much, dude. It doesn't take much. It takes a couple of annoying people. Let's start getting to your shows, you know? Yeah. What's that? Let's start hanging around the back of your shows. I mean. I just want to. Scott fucking sucks.

1:08:36The ultimate. I just want to be clear that I stand with Pablo, Lisa. Oh, for sure, for sure. Yeah. I'm not making fun of him. It's funny to see, though.

1:08:44Shane Gillis:I'm convinced it will happen. I'm like, it's, I'm going to join the pantheon of dudes who freak out one day. Yeah. just completely break and be like, I don't know why I do this. I'm sorry, guys. Please refund everything. I'm fighting it the entire time I do anything. But wait, you never saw Gallagher having the heart attack on stage? No.

1:09:08It's during the fucking watermelon. He walks over. It's just so fucked up to laugh at him. It's hilarious. Yeah. No, he goes over to the water runner. He picks up the hammer and he goes. Oh, fuck. He goes down. Oh, he goes down? He goes down. He has a fucking heart attack. He has a real one. Yeah, dude. Oh. That's what I was saying. There was two categories. There's collapse on stage versus meltdown. I mean, a prop. Yeah, because Heather McDonald's was pretty fucking elite. Hers was crazy because she was like, I got all the vaccines.

1:09:45Shane Gillis:Just let down. But a prop guy. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Prop guy going down. Oh, it's crazy. With a hammer, a mallet in your hand. Over his head, dude. What the fuck? The watermelon finally won, dude. The watermelon was like. He's literally doing a thing that would give any human a heart attack. He's doing it on stage at his closer. Yeah, dude, exactly. Time was finally like, that's enough, dude. Yeah. Take it easy. But wait, did Heather McDonald ever explain what happened to her? I haven't seen the explanation, no. I'm sure she talked about it somewhere, but I never saw it addressed at all. She just fainted.

1:10:26Shane Gillis:Yeah, but it was like... She just happened to be talking about how boosted she was. That was the worst part. I just jinxed it. Yeah, true. Wait, what was she talking about? She was bragging about how many... Literally, her last lines were like, how many boosters and how many times she's gotten the vaccine. Then her last line's like, so yeah, Jesus loves me. Yeah. And the worst part was the crowd thought it was a bit, and they were like... Yeah, it's timed perfectly. Yeah, it was fucked up. Yeah, that's a great bit. True. But yeah, I think she really got hurt. I think she hit her head, dude. She got fucked up.

1:10:57Yeah, she had a skull fracture.

1:10:58Shane Gillis:Oh, my God. Yeah, she got fucked up, and it was just like, these idiots who didn't get the vaccine. Ha ha, I've gotten all of them. Ha ha, God loves me. I've never even gotten. Ha ha, and fucking. Literally got killed. God was just like, yeah. Yeah, enough of that. Holy shit. Jesus Christ. The Wendy Williams one happened on TV. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. By the way, Wendy Williams rules. She does. I didn't know Wendy Williams ruled. I don't know much about her. Watch clips. She's fucking hilarious. Yeah? She is funny. She used to do a show at Comics in New York. Were you around when Comics was there?

1:11:35I'm going to pee my fucking pants. Yeah, I'm going to pee my pants, too. I can't move, dude. We'll see you later. Are we in an hour? Yeah.

1:11:42Shane Gillis:Oh, dude, let's slide to the page. Oh, cool. I've been fighting it for like 10 minutes. That could have been page right there. We'll see. Yeah, true. It was a lot of stand-up talk. Okay. We'll see. All right.

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