Marcello Hernández

Well, welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman. Ding, ding, ding. That'll come up in the fact check, Lily. Ding, ding, ding. And in the episode, Lily. That's right. Today we have, boy, one of the cutest guests we've had in a very long time. He's such a charming, talented, cute, fun-loving, effervescent, life-affirming. Smart. Ah, Marcello Hernandez. You know him from Saturday Night Live. He was in Happy Gilmore 2. He has a stand-up special out right now that is so fun. And unique and has such a vibe called American Boy on Netflix. So check that out and really just prepare to be charmed for the next two hours. It's so fun. This is such a fun episode. Please enjoy, Marcello Hernandez. We are supported by HubSpot. Did you know that most businesses, Monica, only use 20% of their data? That's like reading a book with most of the pages torn out. Yeah, or a pain for a coffee that's one-fifth full. Yuck. Point is, you miss a lot. Unless you use HubSpot, their customer platform gives you access to the data you need to grow your business. The insights trapped in emails, call logs, and transcripts, all that unstructured data that makes all the difference. Because when you know more, you grow more. And when you get a full cup of coffee, you can do more too. But I digress. Visit HubSpot.com today. He's an up-chance man. He's an up-chance man. He's an up-chance man. Let's do this. Let's have a boundaries conversation. Oh, God. No. Before we proceed. I prefer physical touch. Me too. I'm laughing that way, which is physical touch. Do you have a place here? No, I just came for this. Why are you in that sweet Panamera? I wanted one, and I never got it. So I just rented it. Oh, you rented it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great move. I definitely approve of that. Thank you very much. Are you going to buy one now? Let me buy you one. Yes, Dax, please. Dax will buy you one. If this goes to 15 million views, I'll buy you one. I like that. This is a cool little room you got here. Thank you. I got to tell you something, right? You got to be warned for something. OK. She said in my daughter promise, she would not come before the interview. But she was in her bedroom watching you get out of the car. And she said, he's got two bags from Marshall's. When I told her yesterday we were interviewing you, she started bawling. Oh my god. She's so cute. So cute. Her hair. She said we shouldn't talk about her. No, she just said they couldn't call her dumb names or something. A pig. Which why would we ever do that? She's not a pig. She said what? She said, don't talk about me. And we were like, well, and he was like, just don't call me a pig. We were like, why would we do that? Yeah, well, you've never heard me say anything. This couch is not for my height. I will say. What would you like to do? It's not for anyone. We have a pillow there. Do you want to? It's OK. I just don't want to put my feet on your thing. No, you could literally throw a knife in there. You can do anything here. We just want you to be so comfortable. Marcello, welcome. I brought you guys stuff. You did? I brought you stuff. What? Do you want to do it now? Get it out of the way? Yeah, let's do it later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always good to start with gifts. I was just on the way. Yeah, and you swung by Marcello's. I was on the way, and I didn't know. Are you sponsored by Marcello's? No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. But I think we're all sponsored by Marcello's. I got you some stuff. Oh, OK, great. We're going to start with you. So I got you this. I think you might like it. OK. It's just Christmas. I left the tag on. Look at that. Isn't that nice? It's really nice. It felt like your vibe. It's you. It's just you. It's you, really nice. I got you this as well. Try that. Tell me what you think of that. Open that up. Look at that. OK, that's not for me. No, that's not. Yes, it is. Because it looks like driving. The automotive aspect is definitely for me. Right. Good job. Toyota Supra. Toyota. But the style of shirt with the collar, you don't see me in a lot of collar shirts. I think you should try it. OK. Yeah, I think it might be good. And then I got you this. This is a big finish here. I got you this. You just bought me this. Turn around. Look at that. Now that is something, isn't it? This. Because who doesn't love that? This isn't. Right? For the listener, it's an elf. What is it? A sweatshirt? It's an elf thing. It's an elf draping. Because it's a good movie, isn't it? It's a great movie. And it was at Marshall's, and I grabbed it, and I thought you would like it. I was down in New Zealand shooting a movie when it came out, and we all went to the theater and saw it. And it was the greatest moment. Like two rows behind me, I hear this little voice go, oh my god, I love him. I love him so much. And I turn around, and this boy was standing. He was too excited to remain seated, and he was just screaming, I love him, I love him so much. Little girl has that effect. He really does. You love him, you love him so much. And then you. Here we go. Don't think I forgot about you. Because I know you like to get cozy, right? I do. I can feel that. I can tell you like to be cozy. So I got you this. I don't want to throw things at you. Oh no, that's so nice. Throw things at Dax. I can't do it with somebody. OK, this is a nice cardigan. Isn't that cute? This is so cute. Maybe you should wear that to the globes. It's for Christmas. Christmas is right behind the corner. Look at this. You like that? Girl dinner. Wow, girl dinner. Because for just in case if you have one. In case I ever have a girl dinner, I could wear this. You go, it's there, right? By the way, you have no idea how many girl dinners she hosts. That's what I'm saying. But girl dinner means something different. Oh no. What's it mean? Is it sexual? What is girl dinner? Girl dinner is like, oh, I have like half an egg, and then like a celery. That's what it is. And what do you call the thing you host? I host a dinner party. A dinner party for girls. For girls. But I'm still going to wear this for that. Girl, OK. I'm going to flip the script. And then I got you this because it's on the way. Because I was on the way. Shit. And I go, I mean, who's not? Who's not Santa's face? That's what I'm thinking. I love these items. You know what I mean? Can I ask you how long it took you? I feel like you were in Marshalls for a good hour. I was in Marshalls for a while. I got myself some stuff as well. I didn't bring it up. You can't go to Marshalls and not buy yourself some stuff. No, you can't. What time did you wake up today? 6 AM. Not normal for me. OK. Because New York time? I guess maybe. But you went to an award show yesterday. I went to the Extroyce Awards last night. Kristen Saw you said you did a great bit. Thank God. Did you do Sebastian? I did a little bit with Sebastian. He was awesome. You guys did it together. Yeah. Is any of the most lovable guy? He's great. I was telling him that I think he's going to be a hilarious author-in-law one day. Because the faces he'll make. Sebastian Maniscalco for people who don't know. Yeah, Maniscalco. Friend of the pod. Friend of the pod. I told him I was coming and he's like, it'll be great. Oh, good. Good. I can't wait to see him be a father-in-law because I think it'll be so funny for his daughter one day with the husband to be like. And I had to go to the doctor, but actually he couldn't come with me because he had to work and just the camera zooms in on him being like. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. My daughter. You know? I want to see that. I'd like to be in that living room. You're right. He could get a ton done without ever saying anything that could be repeated back. He's all face. In accord of law. He can do so much face. How old is his daughter? You could be the one. I don't know anything about the kids, but I do know that I want to see him as a father-in-law. I want him to hate the son. I want. I just want to see that. Want to hate the son. Nobody's good enough. Kind of energy. I like to see that. I also want to be that. I'm excited to one day have a baby and be the father-in-law and be like, so you don't go with her to the doctor. OK. You know that guy? Mostly it's about not going to the doctor. You really expect people to go to the doctor with your daughter. I mean, you know what I mean? You got to be there. And by the way, if she's bringing it up at dinner, she's saying he couldn't go because he had to go to work. That's a sign she wanted him to go. She wanted him. She asked. She wanted him to be there. She needed him. Let me tell you, it's a sign. It's a microcosm of a larger issue. I'm not going to get into it. I love him. I can't stop doing it. I was thinking this a lot when I was watching your stand-up last night. I had this moment. I'm not trying to call you out. I was just like, what's interesting is I learned in a Malcolm Gladwell book that there are no first-generation kids who have accents. It's the power of peer groups. You have one. A little bit, sure. And Manasculco has one. And I love it. It's a persona-ish. Sure. When I'm with you today, you're going to hear pretty good English out of me. It's going to be solid because I'm hearing you. And I can do you. I can speak perfect English with you here now. Now, you leave me alone in Miami for an hour. It's going to get a little bit spicy. I'm going to forget to say it normal. It's going to happen. It does happen to me. And you know what I've learned too recently is that I can write faster in Spanish. In Spanish, I can go off on an idea a lot faster than I can in English. Yeah. For some reason, I've been writing lately. I'll sit down with my assistant, my associate, Maddie. She's the best. And I'll just be like, bring up a topic and I'm just going to scream at you in Spanish. I've written a few jokes that way. And I think it might be my process. Wow, we nailed it. I think I might have found my process. Well, I was hoping we would discover what your process was at some point. We got my new process. Now, I want you to know if you somehow join my family, you're going to fit in beautifully because you're born on the 19th. My little sister is the 20th. My mom's the 25th of August. Wow. Yeah, of August. And then our best friend 24. Yes, me. So we're all Leo's. Is that it? No, I'm a Virgo. I switch right in the middle there. Yeah. She calls herself a double Virgo. I am a double. I don't call it. I am a double Virgo. Whatever it says about Virgo to you, it's double. No. Times two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If it says Virgos are going to have a bad day, you're going to have a horrible day. That's kind of right. OK. Wow. Another thing we've uncovered here today. Two X bad day. I'm a generational cusp. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because you're a Gen Z. Gen Z, but also I'm millennial. I feel in the middle in a lot of ways in my life. Which way? So let's get into it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Podcast. We want you to cry about it. I feel in the middle because I know I'm Gen Z and I'm good on the phone. Oh, sure. I'm good with the phone. I'm good with the internet. OK. Wi-Fi. I'll reset the router. I'll let me reset the router. You can reboot. Let me reboot the whole thing. OK. Don't even touch it. I'm going to do it. Oh, listen, I'll get into it with tech support. I'll do the chat. People go, I'm going to call. I go, don't call. Talk to the robot. They know what to do. Wow. They know how to get to the thing. I do all that stuff, but at the same time, because I have like immigrant parents and stuff and they put this in your head, I'm also on the millennial. I had that feeling of not getting too emotionally crazy. I think we can be dramatic, Gen Z's. And my immigrant thing made me older generation energy as well. And I do this, I'm grabbing. That's what millennials do. That's how I talk. I grab. I'm small so that. Ah, and I see this. And then you put it there. The beautiful. Visual guy. Incorporate it. Yeah, I do wonder if you're raised on the internet. Drama's the current. 100%. How could it not affect your overall? That's true. It's got to be really bad. Let's start with mom and dad. Yeah. And stepdad. I have a trio. I have two dads and a mom. That's nice that you said that. That means he's meaningful. He is. He's a meaningful guy. That's really sweet. Absolutely. He's a badass. You got lucky. I got lucky with a good stepdad. I think it's also a difficult position to be in. It is impossible. I dated a girl with a kid. I found it to be impossible. It's hard. Because I cared about the kid and now I want the kid to turn out good, but the kid doesn't want me to be his dad. He's got a dad. It's difficult. But my stepdad, he's a guy that didn't go to college, was in the Air Force, worked sales jobs, was like selling fire alarms or house alarms, and then made his way into the television advertising business and then became like a badass. Oh, really? And he's like, just kills it. Where's he from? What's his story? He's a crazy story. He's from Cuba. He left when he was very little, but he left without his father because his father was in jail, a political prisoner for 14 years or 10 years, 11 years. But he didn't meet his dad until he was 14. Wow. In Miami when his dad made it out and came here. And so he had such a difficult coming up. And my mom had a really difficult coming up because she left Cuba when she was little. How old was she? I'm pretty sure she was 12 when she left Cuba. And then she was in Spain from 12 to 15, 16. Then she went to the Dominican Republic. Really? How did she get to Spain? Her dad was Spanish, so he took everybody. He got lucky that we had a Spanish grandfather, got him out. And then she just had to work always. She never got to have that childhood. She never got to be like a little girl because it was always kind of stressful. And then I see that with my sister. I call my sister the vice president because my mom is the president and then this is the vice president. The little girl gets to do whatever she wants. And she gets all the fun stuff, random gifts. Oh, I want that you can have it type of thing. Yeah. And it's because my mom, I think, is living vicariously. She's giving her the child that she didn't give. I think so. Yeah. And then you were paying the price for all the men that were terrible. A little bit. OK, so wait, biological dad, how did they meet? Did they meet in Spain? I think they met in Miami. But he is Dominican? He's from the Dominican Republic. So they had a lot of mutual friends, I think, because she came here from the DR. Thanks you for that abbreviation. You can say DR. DR, boom. Yeah, going for Danny Ricardo. Danny Ricardo. And Dax Randall. And Dax Randall. Oh, that's your middle name, Randall. What do you think of when you hear the name Randall? Let's say it at the same time. OK, one. Three, two, one. McDonald's. What do you say? Monsters Inc. I said McDonald's. I said white. We said white. I think it was a single non-white person named Randall. This is a real generational thing here when this happens. Let's do more of those. Yeah, that was fun. I said Monsters Inc. because Randall is the villain. This could be like a weird fun game where you just say a name and then everyone's got to say what that conjures up immediately. Yeah, I'll produce the show. I'll produce the show. Thank you. OK, one, I'll produce the show. Lily. Lily's my middle name. Lily's your middle name. Oh, and you want to do the game again? Let's do the game. OK, hold on. Can we take one second to think? No, the whole point is fast. Yeah, Lily, ready? Three, two, one. Pond. Pond. Feminine product. We're close. We're close. What you said Pond. I said pond. He said I said frog. I thought of a Lily pad. And what did you say? Feminine product. Yeah, you're always in a different place. And that's what it's like. Because I'm 100 years older than Moby. He's always in a really different place. Feminine product. Feminine product. Well, because Lilac, Lily, like Fresh Sand, they're always trying to tell you how great that product smells. OK. What are you thinking? It's always floral. Oh, my. That's swell. You don't think they do floral a lot? Well, nowadays they try to do neutral scents. Nowadays. Nowadays. But in your day. But in 1900s when I was born. Yes, exactly. How old are you, Dax Shepherd? 51. Wow. As of two days ago. Yeah, you just turned. Wow. 51. And then going up, I'm watching like the Summer's Eve commercials and I'm watching all the different tampon commercials. And it's always fields of Lilacs and Lily's. Well, I don't know that there's fields of Lily's. They're maritime. They're more nautical. Yeah. But you said Lily pad, but my last name's Padman. So it is Lily pad. They really fucked me on that. They did that on their face. Look at this look on his face. This is a Europe dead look. This is my dead look. Ah. Ah. Interesting. It's very interesting. I promise you, I think this might be my first podcast since I was like 20 years old or something. Like since before anything good happened. Really? And you've intentionally turned them down. Yeah. Tell me why. Because I wanted to wait until they had something to watch of mine that I made. Oh. OK. Yeah. Yeah. You know, there was a lot of podcasts that I always listened to. I'm a big listener of podcasts. I just always felt like whenever I heard someone I really liked, I wanted to go watch their stuff. And so I didn't want to be someone that went on a podcast and then there was nothing to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But now there's something to watch. That's really thoughtful. That's really thinking things through. It is. It's like pushing down like, what do you call it? You avoid. Oh. You're avoiding. This is pressure. You know, the camera, other people, the talking. Is it? Yeah, of course. Yeah. I wanted to do good. I want to be good. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. I wanted to do be. I wanted to do. I want to be doing good. I want to be doing great. I want everybody to go. This was very good. He was good. It was perhaps amazing what he did out there. It's already great. I want people now running on our treadmill listening to this. Oh, that's right. You know, Spotify. OK. Back to your stepdad. Yes. Back to the stepdad. What age were you when he entered the picture? I think I was like four or five. So he's always been around. Did you see your dad? Yeah. I hung out with my dad a lot. He would always take me to Dominican Republic, me and my sister. And we would go all the time when I was little. I would go three or four times a year. I built a great relationship with the Dominican Republic. I have friends there. I went to a lot of summer camps. I played soccer there. I trained with the Dominican Republic U-15 national team. That was good when I was younger. I felt like patriotic with the Dominican Republic when I was younger. I was always very proud of it. Those Dominican kids, they are fast and they grow up fast. We call it tige-na-he. I don't know how to say it. It technically means of a tiger, like the axe of a tiger. I have a lot of jokes about it about how you take an American kid and a Dominican kid and they are different. The American kid is the age that he is, perhaps a few less. And the Dominican kid, he might be 12, but he's 40. It's a different energy to his kids. Interesting. They're fast. They learn to have attitude. I wonder why. Do you have any theories? I think it's being in a third world country. I think it makes you grow up a little faster. I think you see a little more. You less coddled. And I think English is also a more casual language. You can be a little more casual. Spanish is a little bit more elegant, not sophisticated, but more formal. So to hear like a little kid saying something in Spanish, it feels funny. And it's like eloquent. Yeah. A little kid being like, I'm hungry for some reason. It doesn't have the same energy as a little kid being like, tengo hambre. Like it sounds different. True romantic. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In English, you say, I have a tummy ache or my stomach hurts. We don't have tummy. So the little kid will be like, I have a pain in my stomach. Right. And he's a child. And that to me is funny. I'm suffering abdominally. Yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly, exactly. I have a little Dominican cousin and he's hilarious. And he sends me voice notes on WhatsApp. He thinks it's funny that I speak English. He came from the DR. For him, speaking English to him is like a fun thing to do. So listen to him. He'll send me a voice note like this. Good morning, ma mello. Can you call me when you can, please? When you have a free time? Like that's a nine year old child. You needed a doc. I mean, what is he? You're not. He's my like my nephew. I'm my uncle's kid, but he's so young that it's like, he's not my cousin. He's tiny. He's my nephew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's kind of, oh my God. He's making fun of me. He's going, good morning, ma mello. Can you call me when you can, please? When you have a free time? When you have a free time? He's different. I love him. It's different. Yeah. You're not getting a voice note from a nine year old American kid. No, you're not. I should take him to like Steve Harvey. You know that shows Steve Harvey? He should do it. He should say the darnedest thing. He says the darnedest thing. Yeah, yeah. This kid says the darnedest, the darnedest things. OK, back to Miami. Yes. So this is interesting. You found yourself in two different Jesuit schools. One, all boys prep school, right? And then you went to Jesuit college. So help me. I wasn't like I had this passion to go be a Jesuit all the time. I played soccer in high school. I went through a lot with the soccer thing. Like I wanted to be a professional soccer player my whole life. And I definitely had, I would say, some discipline issues. Discipline in school, discipline with training. I have ADD and I wish I would have worked harder looking back. I wish I would have hung out less at parties or whatever and done more work. But now obviously things have worked out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, that's not a regret. I had this interesting relationship because I wanted to be so good. And there were times when I wasn't that good and I always felt that pressure. And I had a problem because I behaved bad in school and then I would make the soccer team. And I told my coach, I want to be number seven or number nine or number 10, like these great numbers. And my coach to teach me a lesson because he goes, the teachers are telling me you're not behaving well in class. So you're going to wear 50. So I wore number 50 because my coach was trying to teach me like to be humble and to relax. And the following couple of years, I had a change of mentality. And then my senior year, I would wake up before school and work out and then go school. I was eating a certain amount of food. I was taking everything so serious. I went from my junior year having four or five goals on the season to 20 goals. My senior year, I was all day, all region, all state. I finally made it. I was the captain of the team. I was sending my video to colleges and I wanted to play in college. I wanted to play Division one. I wanted to be this Division one athlete. I'm emailing all these schools. I'm one of the youngest people in my grade because my mom skipped me a grade when I was really little, which is not good for sports, but it makes the mom feel good that the kids. Yeah, it's like this kid. Brilliant. I also started kindergarten at four. They do that. I like it. Also immigrant parents. If you want your kid to be exactly, I just want to get him out of. Yeah. Sorry, I'm finished so you can get to work. That's right. A couple of Division one schools I talked to, they looked at me as kind of way to year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Way to year and then we'll take another look. And I'm sure that after a year, I could have maybe gone Division one. But at the position where I was, the real interest was from a few Division three schools. It came down to Occidental here in California, where Obama went. Oh, my God. Hussein. Oh, yeah. Hussein Obama. Him. Holy. All right. Hussein on three. One, two, three. I raced. I didn't want to do that. Saddam. Saddam. But it was that school and then it was this Jesuit school in Ohio where the coach was really nice coach, Marenero, coach Modenovic. They liked my video and they wanted me to go. They helped me get a scholarship and it was this really rewarding feeling to have coaches want me to play there. Yeah. A scholarship. And I didn't want to wait. Also around this time, my mom and my stepdad were getting divorced and they're back together now. Oh, I love that. We love these. They got divorced and they got back together. And so I was feeling like I got to get away a little bit. I didn't want to wait a year in Miami. I was like, I want to go out of state. I always wanted to go somewhere else. So I just went to this Jesuit school in Ohio, which is great fodder for your standup and it ended up being the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When I was there, it was literally soccer for the first year, like crazy. And then the second year after my first off season, I tried stand up and I was like, Oh, no, I love it. Oh, no, I love it. I'm going to leave my wife and be stand up because I was my wife. So I'm like, Oh, no, I met someone. Yeah, your mistress was comedy. And my heart's beating so fast. I don't get this feeling with soccer anymore. I'm exhausted. I don't want to go to practice my lymph nodes. And then for standup, I'm like, wow, I started to feel like this is the thing. I took my roommate, I put him in an Uber to the standup club in an amateur night. And I did pretty bad. And then I was like, ooh, I got to go somewhere else. And I looked up on Facebook and open mic. I went to another open mic. I did even worse. Oh, wow. And then I was like, OK, I'm addicted. I have to be better at this. Wow. And so I started writing in notepads all day long in class. I'm writing jokes. I'm trying to figure it out. And then I was just like addicted to stand up and I started doing it all the time. And then in the summer, I did a bunch of yoga and soccer and stand up. That's all I did. What a summer. My freshman summer in Miami. And then I went back to Ohio and I was in better shape and I was better at standup. It got this weird point where I'm playing a lot more on the team my second season in the preseason, but I'm getting much better at standup. And then I win this amateur competition and they're like, we're going to pay you 500 bucks to host for the weekend. Oh, baby. You know, and then now it's this weird thing and I don't know what to do. One day I did a real Troy Bolton. I went to a I went to a practice to run the mile under six minutes. I did it with my friend, Alpha Freeman. He's from Sierra Leone. He was a gazelle. He could have ran that thing in four and a half. But I go, Papi, you got to stay with me because I need you to focus me. And he did. He ran with me and he got me through. I did it under six minutes. And then I swear to God, I told the coach, I go, I have to go to rehearsal for a theater play that I'm in. And he was like, OK, it was one of these off season practices. So it wasn't that big of a deal. But he was like, OK, so the kids doing theater on his off time. I didn't know what to do because the standup was so fresh and so new. And I loved her. But soccer had been there my whole life and it gave me everything. Brought you to the dance. Brought me to the dance. I feel so sad for soccer. It was sad. My mom and my stepdad were very supportive about it. My dad didn't want me to do it. My dad had gone to a few tournaments and seen me play really well. Yeah. And I think he had that always in his mind. Like, you're really good. I've seen you excel. I don't think you should drop this for something that you're not so good at yet. But my mom and my stepdad were like, if you want to do this, we're in. Yeah. Go for it. Oh, so I think it's hard for a parent, maybe sometimes. So when it's like that couldn't be further from your father's dream. But I'm sure never meeting your father. I bet he had a love to been a professional soccer player. For sure. Any dude would love to be a professional athlete of any kind. He was living it up. And he had also gone with me in Dominican Republic. I came home one day when I was like 14 and I was like, dad, they're going to let me train with the national team of his country at his old high school. Oh, it was like this beautiful thing for him, I think. And you should have. He was not with it. At all. But my mom and my stepdad were with it. That's very nice. OK, back to Miami. Yeah, I want to go back to Ohio a lot. I know, I know. We have to. What's the cultural differences between D.R. and Cuban? Like difference between your mother's culture, say, and your father's? Political stability. Dominican Republic has a past that was dark with Matista and they've had their dark times. Cuba just is more consistently dark. They still haven't gone to a democracy. It's still a different thing over there. And so he has a more relaxed energy, my dad. And my mom is more rigid. And now she's cool because her daughter is doing well and her son is doing well. But when I was younger, you could tell that my mom was very. She wanted safety for you. You know, you need to be doing well. And this is a woman that you are scared to show the sea to. That's the energy of this woman. Yeah, you're scared to show the sea. You're scared to not say thank you to the waitress. You're scared to not be an exemplary young man because she's spooky. And you don't know what she's going to do. Yes, she talks through her teeth like this. You know what I mean? And she's beautiful. You see my mom? I did. Of course. She's gorgeous. The first thing I wrote in my notes of your stand up was your mom's kind of a babe. She's beautiful. That's literally my first note I wrote down. She's beautiful and she doesn't age. Well, that's because our power doesn't age. That's because she's spooky. So when they decided to get on board with your stand up, that's a big deal for someone who wants you to get straight A's. That's a big release of expectation. I think she was giving me a little bit of a line because I was in college. And I was studying and I did it. You both got lucky in that way. Yeah. She is the only Indian parents that didn't tell her to become an engineer or a doctor. Well, they wanted me to in their head or they just really just wanted me to have some safety. And I was like, I'm going to go be an actor now. And they're like, oh, no. They were not supportive at first. They were like, don't do that. But then they had to get on board. What are you going to do? That's nice when they get on board. Yeah, it is. But I was crying too. I was with my mom. I was like, I don't think I'm going to be as on your planet anymore. And my mom was like, you relax. Yeah. It's OK. I think my mom also was like, you're not that good. You know, she's realistic. This woman's realistic. Right. Practical. Practical woman. The moment I think that was the fire in my butt to do this as hard as I can was I went to my coaches. My mom was like, you have to tell them. And so I went to my coaches, the guys that had recruited me, that had made my dream come true, that had got the scholarship and everything. And it's D3. So if you quit the team, you keep the scholarship because it's an academic scholarship. So I had to go to them man to man and tell them, like, hey, I'm leaving the team. I wanted to stand up. You get racing saying you bet on me and I'm bawling. It's ugly cry. It's that helps. So that helps huge sympathy. And there was a combination with them of like, all right. And also Jesus, dude, just start crying. Yeah, right. Like, OK, this is a lot. And then the big moment is the coach looks at me and he goes, you're going to tell the guys. I'm not going to tell the guys. You're a big boy. You're making a big decision. We have practice in an hour. Go tell the boys. I literally blacked out. I don't remember what I said. I just remember going into the locker room. All the guys are ready for practice. I can tell coaches not happy because I was like a new guy that he was starting to play. And I think I had a little bit of promise and he's like, hey, fellas, Marcelo has something he wants to say to you guys. And I'm like, you know, you love it. Monica loves crying, by the way. I do. I do. I do. I can cry at any time. Oh, wow. Whenever you need me to. Whenever you want to. I can get at any time. If I take a story, a certain thing, I'll just start crying. I'll describe something and I'll be like, it's amazing. But I don't cry often. I never cry. That's why I can. Oh, miscounterintuitive. I never cry. I cry all the time. I never cry. That's why I can't. Yeah, you never cry. I always have one in the chamber. I don't remember what I said. I just remember looking at them, telling them the stuff. Everybody's looking at me kind of confused. There's like one or two guys that I had kind of told that were like, you know, we know this was coming. And then it's like them going to practice and saying goodbye. And are you having second thoughts at that moment? It's like when you break up with a gal in the next three days, you're like, well, I fucked up. I'm completely in love with her. I'm pretty certain you just do that. Right. That's tough because when you do that, that's love. Right. You leave love and then you go, what do I do now? But with something like your career or your passion, because it was so difficult, all of those second thoughts I had, I was able to kill them by just working so hard on the stand up. Every time I would be like, damn, the team is winning. I wish I was there. They're at this game. They're at this game. I wish I was there. They're going to the national tournament. I wish I could go with them. I would just work super hard, do five shows, do six shows. And that's why I took any job I could in Ohio. I was doing every little room. Stay tuned for more. I'm an expert. 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There was these guys, Bill Squire and Ramon Rivas, who were doing a bunch of local shows and Ramon knew people from New York. And that was his advice to me was go to New York every once in a while, meet people. This guy, Jim Tuz, I don't know where Jim Tuz is. I haven't heard from him in a while, but he was a funny guy out of Cleveland that moved to New York. And so it was this energy of like, OK, that's where the stuff is. That's where the stand up is. And then this guy, Sean Patton, you know Sean Patton? He was on the English teacher, he's the gym teacher. Oh, love him. He's very funny. Love him, love that show. So he gave me the big piece of advice of come to New York every season. Once in the winter, come once in the summer, come once in the spring, come once in the fall and make connections. And then when you move here after you graduate college, you'll have a network. What a genius bit of advice. So I did that. I would get on a bus or on a train and I'll go to New York. I get on a bicycle. I get on a skateboard. I get on a roller blade. I don't give a fuck. Get to the airport. This guy, you see, this guy's on a motorcycle. This guy rode a fucking surfboard. Where's the suitcase? He's traveling with the helmet. So you put the clothes, he put the boxers in the helmet. I love Sebastian, but I can't stop. But that's kind of what happened. And then that's what gets me to SNL. It's like I'm in New York a lot. And I want to be in New York. One last question about Miami and the Jesuits. So it's all boys school. All boys. What are you doing about girls? Oh, man, I mean, listen. Yeah. Tell me something. My friend, let me explain something to you. When you are with boys all week, every single day, right? You're going to find the way to get to the, at some point. OK, out of necessity. I argue that we maybe, you know, especially on weekends, that's why we went out, I think, so much is because we never saw girls at school. So we would go out a lot. We'd go to parties, getties to get together in Miami. We call them getties. Oh, I like that. I don't know if that's still a thing. Why don't you start a clothing line called Getties? Getties. Yeah, it's really fun. It's like life affirming and positive. Getties. Getties. Getties. What do they call them here? Parties. Kickback. Kickback. That's the equivalent. The kickback. I don't know that either. Oh, this is Gen Z. I've heard of a kickback. That's somebody told me that the Getty is the kickback. Here they call it the kickback. I guess we don't call it anything anymore, but you get to an age where you just let's meet at a place. You get to an age where you stay home. Right. That's true. One of my favorite parts of your stand up, American Boy, is you're talking about the vibe in Miami where you left before you went to Ohio was the goal is roughly four guys in six to 700 girls. When you're planning a party, it's just like, where are we getting more? And we need more. What do you mean there's 50 girls coming? There's four of us. That's true. And then you got to Ohio. What was the vibe there? It's boys night, boys night, boys night, boys night, boys night, boys night. Oh, wow. Boys night, boys night, boys night. Let's drink beer and watch football. I go, we're getting fat and there's no girls. It doesn't make sense. The boys there are like, how many beers do we have? Yeah. It's not the girls. Like, six cases. What, there's four of us. Literally. It's just a flip. And then see, that's where I'm from, Michigan. Guys are like, let's go to the field and we need three K's. I go, there's no girls in the field. Oh, yeah. They're not going to the field. You're not going to get girls to go to the field. And then in the house, you want the house to be welcoming to the girls. Sure. You want it to look nice. Like my boys, when we were playing something, you put the drinks together. Yeah. You know, cups need to look nice when you're here. You know what I mean? Maybe who do you want to feel nice? Yeah. And if you know that the girls drink this, you want to make sure that that's there. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. In Ohio, they go, we're going to do what we're going to do. And if you guys want to be here, you can be here. You know what I mean? It's not the same. And by the way, they're sweating, right? They're jumping. Of course. They're wearing a jersey with a hoodie under it. Yeah. Does that make you think that's cute? I am at that age. And when I'm in Miami, I'm wearing this. Yeah. I've been wearing this since I was 12. Yeah. These guys, they don't do that. Yeah. They wear hoodie and they wear sweats. A house party in Miami, you dress not. If I had a dollar for every jersey over a hoodie that I saw, I'd be a millionaire. A bazillion. It's everybody. Girls like it though, because girls are falling in love with these things. Yeah. Yeah. But I was very much confused. Did you wear the jersey over? Were you trying to adapt? Of course. Yeah. I'm trying to roam. I figured it out. I didn't want to look very different. And then I met the Latin people. There's like 12 of us in Ohio and we would hang out sometimes. We'd go out. We'd go to DC. I joined Model UN. I had an identity crisis. I quit soccer. I went into theater, comedy and Model UN. I became a different guy. Yeah. I'm representing Lebanon at the Model Arab League. I joined the Model Arab League. Did you know what that is? No. The Model Arab League. It's like Model UN, but for the Arab League. So it's like, you guys Model UN, that's interesting. Try it in the most difficult place. So we're doing that. Wow. I'm representing Lebanon and Kuwait. And you guys are like finding peace. We're having meetings. I was in environmental affairs, which is where they put the funny people. Because, you know, the other stuff, it's too difficult. You have to know a lot. But for environmental affairs, it's very much. Off the cuff. Yeah. I won. I won. Wow. I won. Outstanding delegate. Oh my. The delegate's from Kuwait. We won. Because Kuwait has money. So we would be like, we're going to fund this project. It's all about networking. I would want my kid to do it, honestly. Because you have to meet the lady from Egypt. So I don't smoke cigarettes, right? I go to the Model Arab League. There's people that came from Egypt to do it. There's people from the schools. Obviously, there's a lot of people that are from these countries that want to do this. And they smoke cigarettes. Sure. It's a thing, cigarettes. Right. And so you're five hours in a room and then they give you a break for 30, 40 minutes. And in that break, it's cigarette time. Everybody goes outside, smoke, so I'm smoking. I'm banging darts. I'm banging darts with Egypt. I'm with Egypt. I'm telling her, I go, listen, when we get back in there, I'm trying to do this big environmental project. OK. And we have a lot of nuclear energy. There's a couple of things that we want to do. And so we're literally doing this crazy stuff. And I thought it was so fun. Yeah. You're kind of playing a character. You are. You are. Yes. How else does a kid like me, that is a comedian in Cleveland, Ohio, get to flirt with a girl from Egypt? Yeah. It's a Model Arab League. She came from Egypt. Was she beautiful? Oh, my God. Gorgeous. I'm sure. And the men, too, to permanent care. And they're wearing good clothes, nice clothes. They're no jerseys there. Oh, my God. At the Model Arab League, it's unbelievable. And the smell, the cologne. I felt, I felt amazing in there. And you're having fun. I'm telling, you know, Sudan. I go, Sudan, stick with us. We'll help. How can we help with the environmental issues? And we won. And it's just me and a Guatemalan guy. And he's from my school. And we're representing Kuwait. I thought you were representing Lebanon. We did both. Two years in a row. My mentality was, I'll go to DC and then I can do stand-up there. So I did shows when I was there. So I was really just going crazy. How did you handle bombing? Could you let that roll off your back? Yeah. I'm good. Soccer is failure. I thought you meant like in Kuwait. No. Like, how did you deal with the bombing situation? What was the bombing strategy? After you guys built that nuclear reactor, were you going to carbobomb any places? Dude, when we got them to accept nuclear, it was crazy. There's so many people. No, we can't do that. Sure. And we were like, guys, we're going to do the nuclear. I already talked to Egypt. Egypt loves me. Also going out to dinner with Egypt. Talk to Saudi Arabia. There's a girl from Saudi Arabia. Me and my delegate partner. We started talking to her. When you have Saudi and Qatar supporting your nuclear plan, it's going to be hard to say no. So we passed it. There's a judge lady and you're passing resolutions. Oh, wow. Oh, my God, girl, that I passed resolutions that day. I was passing resolutions left and right. I couldn't stop. Line up the resolutions. Bombing in Santa. In Santa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Santa was very clear when you're bombing. When I made that switch to comedy and I was really in waters I didn't know, I went to zero. Like in soccer, I was like a guy that knows. And then in comedy, I went all the way down to like truly the lowest you can be. And I held on to that. And I still have it. As we get into SNL, how big of a fan of SNL were you as a kid? Were you watching it a ton? In my house, my parents loved politics. My mom was kind of into watching it because of that. I think the show, for a lot of people, they love to see that cold open. They love to see what they're going to do with the candidates and stuff. And my mom was also very into it because she was kind of new at, I have a vote and it matters. And you have to vote. Being informed, yeah, like civic responsibility. So she liked it. But me and my sister, we would watch Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. And on Saturdays, because I'm at an all-boy school, you go out. Gettys. Yeah, Gettys. Sounds like Gettys. Gettys time. So I wasn't really a lot at home to watch. My stepdad, I would watch like Boardwalk Empire with him. Oh, yeah, I just started that. He was watching that type of stuff, like war stuff. And then my mom, she watches, I don't even know, they watch The Housewives. And she watches all the series by herself in her room on the computer. On the computer. Why are they always just watching stuff on the iPad? In the bed with the computer. Yes, why? The computer's hot as hell on the bed. Burning our thighs. Burning the thighs. We would watch George Lopez, all of us together. That was like our show as a family. But that was like a weekday thing. After we're done with everything, we'll watch the two episodes back to back, and then you go to bed. Oh, his sitcom, not his interview show. The sitcom, the sitcom, the sitcom. I think it's probably good that you maybe didn't grow up with it being such a massive goal. Because then you would have had so much pressure. OK, so how did you get the audition? So I was selling tickets on the street. That was my job. I sold tickets on the street. I also sold electricity. I love it, because you got to get the bill. You got to get the bill, and they won't give me the bill. OK. They don't want to give a 19-year-old the bill. I'm dressed in a suit. I'm 19. I'm having the time of my life. And it's a scam. It's definitely a scam. Oh, it's a scam? I don't know if it was a scam. Well, when the guy says he's going to pay you in a year, it's a scam. It was a loophole. It was a loophole. Also, people don't need to sell electricity in New York City. That's not how electricity works. Yeah, I don't even get it. Like, think about selling water. Oh, yeah, we're selling water to your house. What the fuck are you talking about? It's a room where this guy was like wolf of Wall Street-ing us and being like, what am I saying? Bill, you say, give it to me. You know, like that type of energy. And we're competing with Con Ed, right? And none of us were good in school. We were like, are we going to win? I don't know if we're going to win. He liked the way I talked and stuff. And I was doing stand-up and I told him and he liked me. He's like, you have a lot of profits. Bring you to dinner. And then you go to dinner with him. I never sold a thing. I never made a dollar. You tried to get businesses to give you their entire electrical bill so that you could then circle a bunch of things and then write, oh, we're going to save you this. Yes. Oh. Imagine cold calling Chipotle headquarters and going like, hey, so I'm going to need your electrical bill. And we're not cold calling. We're pulling up. You're pulling right. I was walking around Brooklyn. That's the best way. Knocking on the door, walking in. They probably didn't know that you found peace in Lebanon and Kuwait. And so like, you should have maybe led with that. Yeah, it's interesting. I should have done that. The environmental issues I could have fixed. So I was selling tickets on the street in New York, doing electricity during the day. My friend that you saw earlier, Santiago, we lived together in a dorm for a summer. I got a scholarship from my school for theater. They awarded me a theater scholarship on top of mine because I did well in theater. My mom was like, OK, we can take this money. We can pay for your summer in New York. So I spent a summer in New York doing this electricity stuff and doing the tickets. And then when I graduated that next semester, I moved to New York. My parents helped me a little bit with rent. And I was living in this guy's apartment in the lower east. Well, first I lived in Bushwick for very little money. And I could kind of afford it myself. And it was bad. What form of bad? Like cockroaches and dirty and the trash is full. Smells everywhere. People are hitting each other all the places. And then I leveled up a little bit to the lower east side with this guy. This guy was very interesting, the guy I lived with. He would drink a beer, a little bit of a beer, and then opened, put it back in the fridge. It would be opened cans of beer in the fridge. Interesting. So I'm living there. I'm doing the tickets. And then the pandemic hits. That's the worst job to have when the pandemic hits, is you're standing on the street selling tickets. So the streets are empty. At the time, I'm in Chicago staying on a friend's couch doing shows. I got to apologize. It's insane that all of his success is post-pandemic. That is wild. It feels five minutes ago. I know, but it's been a while. It's been on for six years. So pandemic hits, I have no money. I have $800 to my name. I take it to Miami. My mom makes me fly to Miami. I fly to Miami with all my stuff. I move back in with my mom. I give her $800. She goes, that's nice. And I'm just living with her. And I have a full mental situation. I go mental. I'm moping around the house. I'm not helping. I am obsessed with COVID. I'm obsessed. I'm spraying everybody. My mom gets back from the supermarket. You got to get naked. Give me the clothes. Give me the clothes. You're doing undies. Give me the clothes. I'm throwing it in the wash. You and my sister, they hate me. These two hate me. It's us three in the house. I'm spraying them. My stepdad is in Puerto Rico. He's working there at the time. And I'm like, just spraying the crap out of them all day long. Spraying everything. I'm spraying my sister. I'm spraying my hands. My hands are dry from all the sanitizer. You were unraveling. I'm a real nightmare. And my mom makes me get a job. So that's when I get a headset sales job. I'm calling people 65 and over and telling them that through their Medicare, I'm able to take their medications out of CVS and do a home delivery at no additional cost to their insurance. That's right. Sold. And you're working with an assassin. A gal that's clearing six figures. She's unbelievable, Jamila. I'm thinking Jamila's on the phone going, good evening, how are you doing today? Absolutely not. She goes, hello, I am Jamila. Calling on behalf of the health center. I am here to reach out. That sounds official. That's smart. That was her move. I was trying to do, hey. Wine and dine them. They don't want that. No. They think you're scamming them. When you're old and you're in Florida, your phone's ringing every 30 seconds with someone trying to rip you off. Let's be honest. And dude, I'm calling Florida. If I wake up late for work, then that means I stay two hours later. I call Texas because there are a couple hours behind. And I'm calling LA at Colorado late night. I'm seven PM in Miami calling Colorado. You understand? Middle of dinner? Yeah, I'm doing the same. My headset, I'm doing the same. I mean, my mom's house doing that. I was making 1100 bucks every two weeks. Great. But it was keeping you distracted. You stopped spraying everyone. My mom is loving when I'm working. But it took a couple months. She was so mad at me for those months. I was a nightmare in the house. And then she's like, finally, you got a job. She bought me a desk. She goes, I'm so excited she bought me a desk. She's like, you can sit in the desk in the house and do the job. She works from home. She's talking. I have the doors closed in this little room. And she's opening the door going, what did you sell? Just a picture. This is when I start to have a real panic of like, I'm not a comedian anymore. What is happening to me? It's horrible. I don't want to do this my whole life. So I start making these horrible little videos with a little tripod in her house with a horrible mic. And I still have them. I have them save these old horrible little videos. They're not doing well, obviously. And then I do one video that is things in Spanish sound better than in English. And it does a little bit better. People like it. And then I'm still a panic about the COVID. And my mom and we're getting into this big stuff because my mom and my sister are there in Miami and they want to go to lunch. And I mean, you can't do that. There was a lot of fights about this at that time. So they go to lunch and then I don't want to talk to them. I go, you're disrespectful. You're going to kill everybody. So I moved to my dad's house in Miami. Because he is out and about all day, but it's just us in the house. So I feel like, you know what I mean? More manageable. I feel more manageable. And I have this protective thing about my mom and my sister where with my dad, I'm like, we're just a couple of guys. So I move in with him, doing the cells. And then I step up the videos a little bit in his house. I get a ring light. I get a camera. I get a microphone. I teach myself to edit on Adobe Premiere. Now the videos are stepping up. I'm waking up before work. I'm jumping rope in underwear, playing music in his backyard. The neighbor said, I got to stop doing that because his kid is watching me in the underwear. He doesn't like that. And the music's too loud and it's too early at 7 AM. I'm jumping around. So I'm waking up. I'm jumping rope. First, I'm writing for an hour. I'm doing the morning pages. I do the three pages, stream of consciousness. I'm writing every single day. Then on Friday, I'm going to my buddy, Gio's house, smoking pot. I don't smoke pot anymore, but we're smoking pot back then. Yeah, great. I'm smoking pot with him. I'm telling him all the jokes. And then he's telling me what he thinks. And then we find the one for this week. I go home, I film it. I edit it myself and I put it out. I think video number four went crazy viral. Okay. Like millions of views on TikTok. On TikTok. What was the premise of the video? I use an accent when I feel uncomfortable. If I go to a supermarket and I don't know where the ketchup is, I can't go up to someone and go, hey, where's the ketchup? They go, what the hell? Go find it. But if I go into the supermarket and I go, excuse me, do you know where is the ketchup? How do you say? For the papitas. And then they go, oh yes, we'd love to help you. Oh, wow. You know that's why. So I did that and that went crazy. I did a part two. I was back when you were learning that, okay, do the same thing again. And then I did a bunch of these videos. I think it was an earlier video that happened, which was I hate the club. I don't miss the club. The club is the money Olympics. It's a bunch of people rooting for you to make a financially irresponsible decision. Yes, yes, yes. So I make that video and Miami people really like it. And then I get a call from a girl that I knew from Getty's and she goes, I'm working with this Instagram account in Miami. Do you think that you could do a meeting and do some content for them? And I'm like, I would love to. I do the meeting. I tell them I'll do the videos for them. And I go, and there's one idea I have. But if I tell you the idea, you have to let me do it. You can't take my idea and give it to someone else. And the guy is like, okay, whatever. And then I go, you know how Dave Portnoy tries pizza? We're in Miami. I would like to go to all of the best cafeterias and try croquetas. And the guy's, he loved it. He goes, ah, that's an idea. Like that. He smacked the guy. He smacked the guy. That's what I knew I had. Oh, classic. He's too good. He smacks the guy. And I'm like, okay, I got him. And so I start making these videos for them. The people hate me on the account. My mom makes an Instagram for her dog and starts responding to the people. Sure, sure. The whole thing. But now I have a job. I'm working the two jobs at the same time. And then I can tell the guy, you gotta give me 500 bucks a week so I can quit my other job. He goes, fine, but you're gonna have to be the creative director of the whole page. So now I'm literally doing everything for the page. I'm up 24 hours a day. I'm updating the stories. I'm doing an ad with Headquarter Toyota. I'm going to Toyota. I'm figuring out the ad. Oh my goodness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm writing the lines. This is great. I'm doing all of this. Yeah. This is a great way to learn everything. Exactly. I'm learning as I go, pretending like I know what I'm doing. Yeah. It's powerful. And then at this time, this comedian, Tim Dillon, he says he's going to Miami and I had met him in passing in New York. And I sent him a DM. I go, I see you're in Miami. I work for this account. We've met before. Do you mind if I open for you? And he said, I don't care. And then I took that to the club. And I go, he doesn't care. Come on, let me do it. They let me do it. And then Tim goes, why don't we go on the road? I don't care. Great. So now I'm touring with him, living in Miami, making 500 bucks a week, 2000 bucks a month. My cousin is also living in Miami. He goes, why don't we move into an apartment together? I go, that sounds like fun. We move it into an apartment together. I'm paying 1000 bucks in rent. Got this nice little apartment in Miami. Now I'm like, okay, I moved out. I have a thing now. This is going great. Now I'm working that job full time. At the same time, I figure out that this other guy knew was working at a YouTube channel. I go, let me write for you at the YouTube channel. He goes, I'll see what I can do. They start giving me 200 bucks per video that I did with him. So now I'm driving up to Boca to do that with him once a week, writing with him for four or five hours for 200 bucks. Now I'm making a little bit of money. I'm on the road. And then I find another guy at this comedy show and he's like, I want to do standup. And I go, let me write your standup. I'll help you write your standup. We'll sit down. I'll interview you. He's a rich guy. He had just sold his company and he wants to do standup. I go, I'll sit down with you in your apartment. And I'll write down stuff that I think is interesting about you. We'll make you some jokes. So he's giving me 200 bucks as well. So now I'm 200 bucking it. You're building a quilt out of 200 bucks. And then at the same time I start opening for this guy, Mark Vieira, this Puerto Rican comic. He's taking me on the road a little bit. And then at the same time, Gilbert Gottfried, I get hit up through a friend of a friend to open for Gilbert. So now I'm opening for a few guys doing standup in Miami, traveling a bit. And Tim Dillon tells me, if you don't move back to New York, I can't keep you as my guy because I need you to be working. I need you to be active. And in Miami, there's just not enough. So when he tells me that, I'm like, all right, I have to figure it out. And thank God I have another friend that I call. And I'm like, hey, man, are you thinking about going to New York? He goes, you know what? I am. And he has family money. And he's a very, very close friend of mine. And then he starts sending me apartments. And I'm like, oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah. I can't do that. He says, he keeps going that. I don't know if we'll figure it out. And then I'm like, no, no, no, you don't understand. We're at two very different places in our life. Ultimately, he lets me pay him very little money to sleep. Oh, that's nice. Oh, for one year in New York. So I moved to New York. From New York, I'm doing the zooms with the guy to write the stuff for $200. I'm doing the zooms with the other guy to write the stuff for $200. I'm doing my videos from my bathroom because people can't know I'm not in Miami. Because I'm doing a weekly news video about Miami. And those videos start to kind of take off. I do it on the toilet. I sit on the toilet. I thought that would be interesting. Sure. And people start to like the videos and it's going better. And then every night, I'm doing five, six shows in New York. Hosting is the easiest thing to get if you want to. Because nobody wants to host. Yeah, no, yeah. So I'm like, I'll host every single show. So I'm hosting all these shows. And then Just For Laughs comes over to New York during this year. The club goes, you've been hosting so much, we want to put you into a audition. Wow. So they put me down to audition. I audition for JFL. I get the callback. I get JFL, which is like a huge moment in my life. I go to Canada for JFL. This is towards the end of the year. I'm figuring out what am I going to do when my rich friend doesn't let me sleep on his couch anymore. I'm going to go back to Bushwick. And I go to JFL. I go to Canada at JFL. I finish my six-minute set. And I meet a producer from SNL. They go, we love your set. I go, fantastic. Thank you. I'm not ready for this. Continue. And then they go, we'd like to see you audition in New York. So I auditioned in, I think it was UCB. And then a few weeks after that, I get a callback. My buddy's like, we have the apartment till August. And this is just when all this is going down. And I go, you've got to extend the lease. You can't do this to me right now. And he did it. He's just helping me. And I'm very grateful for him. My boy, Cole, I was at his wedding. I spoke and everything. I love this guy, my sponsor. So I do this thing at the UCB. I call my mom after she goes, how did it go? I go, I don't know, mom. My mom's freaking out. My mom starts smoking cigarettes again. I'm going back to soccer, mom. I'm freaking out. And then I get a callback to go to the studio. I go to the studio and do it. I've heard you retell it in zero laughs, right? Yeah, yeah, zero laughs. I might have heard a cough. It could have been a laugh. It sounded like a cough. And then you ask someone else who had auditioned, like, did they laugh? And they're like, yeah. Uh-oh. What could be scarier? That's scary. So at no point during it where you're like, I think I got a good shot. No. And then I get called back again for meetings with the writers where you sit down and you talk to the writers. And they're like, what do you want to do here? And I'm like, I do the Latin stuff. And then they're like, OK. And then I have those meetings. And then after the meetings, they sit you down in this room, the people that were all called in for the meetings. And it's me, Devin Walker, Michael Longfellow, Molly Carney, and Chloe Trost. And then they call one of us into a meet with Lauren. Devin was first. I'll never forget it. Devin goes in, talks to Lauren, comes out, and we go, so? And he goes, I got it. Wow. And we're like, oh, god. He tells you, Devin says, oh, wow. He's like, you got it, dude. This is amazing. We're freaking out. But also, are you like, well, fuck. There goes one slot. You have to. You feel like the slots are in the issue. They are finite. You know, we're hugging it. We're like, it's amazing. And he's like, all right, guys, bye. And we're like, OK, bye. He leaves. Now it's four of us. I'm drawing. I'll never forget it. I was drawing a boat. I was so nervous. And then I go in. We just start talking about the show and what do you love from the show and all this stuff. And then he doesn't give me truly the feeling that I got it. Right. It wasn't clear. Yeah. He didn't say, like, I'll see you soon. Yeah. See you in a bit. It was like, OK, nice to meet you. Oh. Then I come out and they're like, so? And I'm like, you know, I don't know. Yeah. Then I walk out. Oh, no. Call my mom and she's like, you get it? I go, I don't know, mom. I have no idea. She's like, oh my god, Marcelo, these people. They don't tell us anything. I don't know. Pause. And then a couple of weeks go by and you get the call, where it's all your agents. Yeah. And it's either yes or no. And they're like, they're offering you a spot on the cast. And did you cry? Yeah, I cried. I cried. I called my mom. I cried. Oh. I was a good cry. I was so happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, a job. She loves it when I get a job. Of course. But that specifically. So that's it. That's the story. Oh, great story. OK, your stand up, which I watch, American Boy. Did you enjoy it? So much. And I watched it with my whole family and we all fucking loved it. You can watch it with the family. Well, my family, you can. Kids can watch it. 11 and 12. Nothing crazy. No, it wasn't nasty. There was nothing. There's no cursing, really. There's some sexual dancing. A little bit of dance. Can dance now. What did you call it? Not nasty, grimy, filthy. Don't make me get nasty. Yeah. I mean, there's so many wonderful things I want to talk about. From the stand up, but also I don't want to ruin any of it. Right. But the whole party scenario was fantastic. Thank you, man. Let me be clear. It's wonderful. And you're very specific. You're very unique. You know exactly what you are. Are you sensing a butt coming? I, I, I, I, yeah. But I think it's going to be a good butt. It is, it is, it is, it is. I want to be very clear before I get into my, like, curiosities that are how the sauce is just made. Right, right, right. Without saying, just straight loved it. Took me a long time to make it. First of all, just visually, it's kind of a throwback one, which I love. There's just so many stand up specials now, unlike there was 15 years ago, we didn't have these. So I think to break through that clutter and have something unique to offer is just an enormous accomplishment. It's just very authentic and you're very comfortable and fluid and it's lovely. You talk so much about getting hit. A bit, yeah. Yeah. A bit. Getting hit. Growing up, getting slapped, getting your ear pulled, getting taken into what he calls the coliseum, the bathroom of the Macy's or the fuck mom's shopping. And I love it because A, I grew up that way too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone got hit. My grandparents who love me and raised me, she had a yardstick, she was from Kentucky and she's like, I'm getting a yardstick and she'd hit you with a three foot piece of wood. And never too hurt. I wasn't beat. Exactly, and that's wrong. Yes, you say it perfectly. You say I was hit a lot, but never hard. Exactly. I was never hit hard. I was hit a lot. Yeah. And that's it. This was my thought. This stand-up routine existed. And then they had the thought, a lot of people were not hit. A lot of people are uncomfortable with this. Yes. But this magic trick happened, which is you are introduced by your mother. You come out on stage, we see this impossibly beautiful relationship. The best. They dance together. It's so beautiful. And I was like, someone figured out if we start the show this way, we can enjoy all this stuff without being uncomfortable. Yeah. Did that math happen? No. It didn't. That just organically happened. I just wanted, yeah. It's an enormous tool. I didn't even think about that. But for me, the reason I did that is because for a long time, my grades weren't the best. And I was never like this exemplary child. And she worked so hard. My mom, as a person, is truly an example. Someone that is moral, that takes care of her family, that is nice to people, that is respectful, gives her time back. She's just a beautiful human being. And she went through a lot of really dark stuff. And she communicated that to me quite a bit. I know this stuff. Anytime. Anytime. Maybe she could. Yeah. When you grow up like that and then something good happens to you and you feel like you've made it, the first thing that has come to my mind all the time, whenever I'm doing an interview or somebody's all I can think of is like, I can't believe that she gets to see this. And having her out, I mean, she's done commercials with me. She's been on Fallon. She's done a lot of stuff. And to me, it's just like, you deserve this thing. If I was a car salesman, I'd buy her a car. I'd do those types of things. You do whatever you can with what you're doing. So because I'm doing show business. You're bringing her along with you. Exactly. And so her introducing me was also perfect because it's like, you should take a look at her and you should see how we are because I'm going to talk about her a lot. Yeah. And so it'd be weird if I'm talking about her and it's like, where is she? There's no reference. Exactly. And you're worrying. You have this natural fear like, is she cool with him saying this? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. The magic trick, which is uncalculated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think about it. You go, who's going to bring you out? We're going to do a voice of God. Is the host going to do it? Who's going to bring you out? I'm like, oh, that's easy. It's like the first thing in my mind. Yeah. Because, oh, that's easy. Your mom will go out and do it. I know her. I know her personality. I know she's going to come out. She went out like this. Ha, ha, ha. Stay tuned for more Armchair Expert, if you dare. You know, when you go see by the friend's house and they drop you back off and your mom comes out, she goes, hi, nice to see you. Thank you for bringing him back. And then the mom of your friend goes, he's a great kid. My mom is the mom where they go, he's a fantastic kid. And she goes, mm-hmm. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, I'm sure. Come in the house. Like that was the energy always was like. I know him. Exactly. And I always had the thing of like, I know every football player's name. I know every baseball player's name. I know every soccer player's name. But I didn't know my time's tables. I did bad in math. And so she always had that thing where you go out to dinner and we're with like another couple or something. I'm talking to the husband and I'm like, oh my God, yeah. I mean, Jake DeLome in Carolina, what he's doing with that program is unbelievable. I mean, he's really playing well over there. And you know, Nazar Mohammed and Steve Smith, I mean, they're just a great wide receiver core. And it's unbelievable the way that they're able to make both of them happy when they have such talent. And I'm bringing up all this stuff. I'm like Brian Erlacher is just a leader of men. And I'm talking like that at 12, 13. And then at some point she goes, you know all of that about seven times nine. And I'm like, okay. So that was kind of the vibe with her. And I got a detention all the time and she worked all day. So if I got detention and I missed the bus home, she was like, I'm picking you up at eight o'clock at night. That's just what it is. Yeah, you made your bed. Many a time a stress that this woman that has been through so much did not need. She shouldn't be worrying about my grades. I have nothing to worry about. I have a home, I have food, I have water. There's no reason I should be getting bad grades or putting her through. The dean of my school calling her telling her that I cheated on a test or that I started a riot or whatever the stuff, stupid stuff. I did start one riot, but I never got in trouble for it. Now that people know, but it's okay. It was a riot, but we put it in a contained space. And I always felt like, damn dude, like I stress this woman out so much for so much time. And now I get to do the opposite. I give her good experiences. Talk about her fondly. I want to do the opposite now. We had a lady that my mom hired, this woman that was back then an illegal immigrant. There's nothing you can do about it now, she's a citizen. But she lived in my house and my mom traveled a lot for work. So someone had to stay with us. And I remember vividly like those nights when I'm being a psychopath. And this woman has to call my mom who's in Belgium working her ass off so her kids can go to school and everything can be fine. We can live the life that she wants us to live. And she's like, your son is being very difficult. You won't drink the milk. And she's like, when I get back there, I had a lot of those. Tell him to enjoy his ears because I'm twisting them off the second. So many of those. But listen, if you weren't that kid, you wouldn't be this person. You wouldn't be this person on stage. You wouldn't be at someone at us. And I like, it's all one thing. I was telling my boy today, because my boy, Santi, he's a star. He went to Brown. He's a stud. He's a female. He's a Polo player, Division I player of the year. Okay? He's at a different level. Played for the Peruvian national team for real. I trained one time with my national team and it's Dominican Republic. He played for Peru, you understand? It was a savage. He's incredible. He won state championships. He was an unbelievable player. Stanford was recruiting. And his mom was always so nice to him. His mom would pack his bags. He goes, I'm going on a trip. She'll pack the bag. This kid, he came to my lay. He didn't bring pants. He brought one pair of pants. The pants just got here today via FedEx. You understand? He's a star. And he's almost 30, right? And he's almost 30. And he's my best friend. And I know my mom was always like, it's there. Yeah. He had perfect grades. He's studying. He's doing all his homework. I'm not studying. I'm showing up late. I'm doing the whole thing wrong. And he's doing everything great. And then I realized, I'm like, the reason that my mom never packed my bags or didn't do random acts of kindness for me is because I didn't deserve them. It's like, you have to deserve it. And that's something that's lost in today's America. You have to earn it. You have to deserve it. And looking back when I was like, damn, bro, you tell your mom you're hungry and something appears. Think that's unbelievable. My mom does. And it's like, it's not because my mom is weird. Or he says he's hungry and she says, what are you in the mood for? Stuff like that. Can you imagine? There's options. There's snacks. There's a different energy when you are a star. And if I was a star when I was a kid. You would have been treated like one. I would have been treated like one. That's a good point. So if you're a kid out there, you're not being treated like a star. You're getting what you deserve. There's a reason. Oh my God. Now I understand that every time I've sip this tea, it's at the perfect temperature. And it doesn't get cold. And I go, what's going on here? There's some sort of voodoo. The coaster is heated. Well, you can take it off. The coaster charges the battery within the cup. And then you can keep that cup anywhere. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's shepherd. Isn't that great? It's high quality here. There's a level in Hollywood that you get to. Yeah. That it's unbelievable. This is what I'm talking about. I know. I'm sorry. No, just you were saying. I'm up two minds. Because what's funny is now I'm in the different category, which is now I have money. I'm raising kids and I have money. And I've privilege and all these things. And yeah, I'm not hitting my kids and I'm talking with them. I have the time and patience. And I'm not stressed. A different thing. And I'm with that. And I value the shit out of how I grew up. And also, I think it's important to say that there's a way to hit them without hitting them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, sure. Without anger. My mom didn't hit me my whole life. There was a specific couple years that wasn't this long term thing. Parents don't like it. It gets weird. No, I know, yeah. It gets weird, yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially when you're fast. Once the kid gets fast, you're chasing. You don't want your kid to run away. It's a metaphor. I never was like, I have a bruise. That's so wrong and bad. It's always the fact that it got physical in any way. Any tiny way. It's like, it's a different thing. One time, and I don't talk about this on the special, but one time I was on my mom's computer in her office. And she thought I was playing on the computer. I was doing my homework. I might have been playing, but I switched it up at the right time. And when she came in, she goes, what are you doing on my computer? And I go, look. And she looks, she sees it and she goes, mm-hmm, okay. She walks away and I go, yeah, that's right. Uh-uh. Let's just say she tickled me in a way that was not enjoyable. I haven't yet forgotten. But those are important moments to have as a kid because I am a thank you please stickler. And I'm so proud of that. My stepdad is a very generous man. My stepdad is always the extra tip. What's your name? He gives respect to people. He gives respect. And I think that those are things that you want to do for the kid because then they get proud of it. I'm proud of it. I tell my friends, if you're hanging out with me, you don't say play. I go, come on with the fun. I know. I find it fun. Me too. That's why I'm excited to have kids that cannot wait to go, are you out of your mind? I think that's fun. Remember when you were little and you would see a teacher? She would go, if you can hear me clap once. And everybody goes, I saw that. And I go, that's fun to control, to have the power. It's fun. I kind of want it to be a teacher, to be like your mind, whatever I say, I do. And I think that's part of the stand-up thing. It's like I want these people to listen to me. Of course. Give me a moment. You have control of the scenario. Yeah. I like that. But what's happening in this subtext, what's fun about it is it caused a lot of conversation posts watching it where I was like, you know the thing I think is being somewhat poked at here? Not explicitly again, but I look at Anna. And this girl's on a Zoom call with her entire family, like 30 members of her family. And they party over Zoom. It's the cutest thing in the world. And some are in Spain. Some are here. The closeness, the emotions that are on display, all of it to say is like, there is this elite problem in this country. And we call it white in general, but that's too generic. It's some percentage of this white world. White people come in every color. You don't have to be white to be white. I get what you mean. In some ways, obviously you can't change your skin tone. And I have a lot of white friends. I want to say that. I haven't seen any, but that's fine. I'll believe when I see it. Some of my best friends. But I think there is an issue in this country. And it's infecting politics. And it's infecting how people are voting. And it's really this elitism that is a problem. It's these fucking like six generation people. And they know everything. And science proved it. And academia proved it. And this is how you raise your kids. And this is how you do everything. It's like, OK, well, what's the result of that? Sometimes it's really good. But of all the people that you're saying are raising their kids wrong, why is it that at every fucking Christmas, all 40 of them are there and no one wants to be with their parents? There is no extended family. What are the results of all this? Whether you're saying it explicitly or not, it's very there and it was hitting me. I think a big thing is it's important in my mind, not that I know anything about having kids. But I think it's important for you to show the kids that when they do wrong, it affects you. For me, over my life, whenever I did something bad or wrong, my mom was never OK. It was never fine. It was never like, ah, it happens. And I think that's a big problem. It shouldn't be OK. It's OK for it to not be OK. And to the extent that you want to do it, it's up to you, your family. But I do think it's really, really important to show the kids that when you do something bad or wrong, it affects you, it hurts you. It doesn't make you feel good. You're not an island. You're affecting everyone around you. She wants you to be responsible for what you're doing in the world. The outcome is yours. I wrote it a thousand times on a paper. I will be responsible for my actions. And I stepped that. We used to do lines. You're going to do lines. Time to do lines. I will be responsible for my actions. I probably did that specific sentence on like three or four occasions on like a million pages. Now, has that backfired at all? Do you think you're too much of a people pleaser? Perhaps. But also I am a big accountability guy. Yep. I am a big that was bad. I did a bad thing. I was wrong and I'm wrong. I'm proud of that. Yeah. And then you get very, very with a loose grip. You get into immigration in this very wonderful way. Thank you. I do a smile. I can't say it because I don't want to give away kind of the ending, but I just love the movies. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It's so fucking good. Because yeah, when white people get weird, I think Chris Rock had a joke about it. Some black community had a joke about that. He's like, getting an elevator with a white guy. He might be tiny and stuff, but he might also eat people. Like they're fear you have. Exactly. He's like, does this dude eat people? White people are curious. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Some of us are fucking kinky, huh? Oh, yeah. There is. And to me, it was just like, dude, I never was like a kid that was worried about politics. My parents never let me go there. My parents always made me think about what's in front of you. It's your day to day. That's kind of our passion. What are you working on? How are you making money? How are you surviving? And that stays my main focus. I really don't get into it. Again, not to be dismissive, but it's like a luxury to be worrying about all this other shit that's outside of your entire world. I said this one time because I always thought about my dad and about my mom and about how they reacted to my problems. I don't know if I came up with this or someone helped me come up with it, but it helped me understand them and accept them in a beautiful way. I've said it to myself a million times and it is this. You cannot expect from a person that comes from extreme circumstances, a moderate response. Yeah. You cannot expect a moderate response from someone that comes from something extreme. It's not that they can't do it. It's that you can't expect it. Right. Anybody in the world that says something crazy, the trumps of the world and on the other side, the people that are going hard, everybody's going hard. When I hear something that is striking from anybody, from either side, I immediately go, they probably come from an extreme thing. And that's why they're saying extreme stuff. That's generous. Saying it's generous, it's like, I'm doing it for them? Yeah. No, I'm doing it for me. Yes, no, I know. I say that so that I can calm down. Exactly. So it doesn't make you out right. I don't expect you to be moderate. I don't expect you to be this perfectly eloquent or well-mannered or politically correct person. Because I know where you come from. Yeah, this was my defensive TI, he got in trouble. And I don't like what he said. He was like, you're going to go to the doctor and make sure his daughter's hymen's intact. And this was a huge uproar. And I was like, yeah, that's rough. I don't think that should happen. But you're also talking about a guy whose mother was a prostitute and was supporting the family at nine years old. So guess what? He may have come up about 55 fucking levels and you came up 0.5 from this great house and then you're in judgment of that guy. Kind of fuck you. I'm not about judgment. It's not healthy. And to your point, there's this great book, The Body Keeps a Score. Maybe you've heard about that book. But this doctor's work starts because he's working when he's young in the VA hospital. And he's watching these vets come in and they're getting confronted with something that's just a little difficult, like it's paperwork. And he's watching people have this insane flight or fight reaction. Full 180 heartbeat per minute, unraveling. And he goes, man, something's going on. That's like a crazy reaction from my point of view to that. So why is that happening? It's like, well, fuck you just left Vietnam. You're heightened and you're gonna stay heightened. You can expect it to be chill. Yeah, yeah. I stepped out of the same thing. I stepped out and went through everything he went through. So when I was younger, I was like, damn, this guy's like a tight, this guy's high strong. Yeah. What's going on with this guy? And my mom's high strong. My dad runs hot. You know what I mean? What the heck? And my dad says crazy stuff. I'm like, what the heck is up with these people? And then I get a little bit older. And I think about that and it calmed me down. So I started thinking about that, about not expecting it. And then I apply that to everyone I meet and then I get to be calm. I affect myself. I think crazy stuff. And then I go, damn. But when other people do it, I go, ugh, you come from a thing. Yeah. Okay, this is my last question. And it's because I'm newly obsessed with her. Through my daughter, thank God. I went and saw Sabrina Carpenter month ago with my daughter. I just love her. Monica's been making fun of me. I think Short and Sweet came out like a month ago. And I'm just obsessed with the other two. You know it's been out for a bing. I think she did another one. No way. There's another one since then actually out. So you're pals with her. Are you pals? Yeah, I would say we're pals for sure. How did that start? The Domingo thing. I don't know if there was something before the Domingo thing. I don't know if she was on the show or if we did something, but the Domingo thing was big. Yeah. And she was all about it and it was so cool. And it felt for me like I was on that plane to LA after SNL. It was on a Sunday after SNL. So it feels very Hollywood. And the writers, of course, I'll shout out the writers too because I love to shout out the writers. Kerosolivan, Jimmy Fowley, Suity Green and Ally Levitin. And they all came with me from New York to LA to the forum. Now to 14, 15,000 people were thinking about what I'm going to say, what the bit's going to be. It's so fun. And my best friend, Santi, came and his girlfriend came too. Now his fiance. Congratulations to Santi. Of course, a guy like that gets married. Of course. A guy like that has to get married. But it was insane. It felt old school in the sense that like a character from a TV show, you want to see them in another place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Truly a unreal experience. And Sabrina's really down to clown. She's down to think of something funny. She's an actress, obviously. That's why I've become obsessed with her because she was hosting SNL. And of course, my daughters are so excited. So I watch it with her. I'm like, my God, she's fantastic. And then while we're watching the episode, I'm now wikipediaing her. I'm like, oh, right. She was an actor on Disney forever. She was an actor before she was a singer. Of course, she's great. Like I'm having all these realizations. And they're so good. The young actors, Sabrina, Ariana, Samuel. Yeah. They do it all. Kenan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Watching them at a cold read, they're great because they've been doing it for so long. Now, if I'm you, again, and I'm 28, I'm going to try to date her with all my might. Are you not trying your hardest to marry her? I'm in a relationship with a Dominican girl. She's an architect. Oh, wow. She's unreal. She went to Yale. Oh, wow. All right. But Sabrina's awesome. Yeah, she's really funny and cool. She's great. Marcello, I really like you. You're adorable. I think this is my first one. I feel very honored. Me too. My first one since everything happened. We're going to count it. We're going to say first one. It's our first. OK. American Boy is on Netflix. Please watch it. It's hysterical. Also, I'm so excited to learn that you're also, you did a movie with Kevin Hart. You're doing it right now, 72 hours. Yeah, we filmed it already. It'll be out in July. Is that a nod to 48 hours? Is it a similar concept? No, it's more in the world of it's a bro bachelor party. Oh, OK, OK. I wish we could combine those words somehow, bro patch. Brochela. Brochela party. Brochela party. We'll get there. We'll work on it before the film comes out. A little bit formal for what happens at those. That's right. That is correct. It's like your nephew is speaking English. Exactly. OK, this was delightful. Thank you for the gifts. Yeah, I'm going to wear my new clothes. I'm so excited. I went to Marshall's, bro. Old school. I have a very strong feeling we'll do this many times. I hope so. This is fun. I like this. Thank you. Be good. I sure hope there weren't any mistakes in that episode, but we'll find out when my mom, Mrs. Monica, comes in and tells us who was wrong. I have so much to report. Let's hear. Well, I went home to Detroit, Michigan. Cute sweatshirt. Thank you. This is our thousandth, one of our thousandth episode merch items. It is really cute. I love it. I'll show the back. OK, yeah. So the back is important. Well, that's super cute. I hadn't even seen that cherry with a bazillion names inside the cherries. That's great. Your cascading hair did block a good deal of it, but I think that enhances the thrill of trying to see it. All of our guest names are in there. That's cool. So I went home on a Wednesday, and it was when I landed. It was just we just landed on ice and snow. And it looked like Fargo out the window. Ton of snow. And I traveled light. I had a backpack and a roll on. Get in the car with my friend, Jonathan. Oh, I love Pony. Shout out. He's so young. I keep forgetting how young he is. He's younger than you. Barely. He's not that young. He's 35. Yeah, that's not. He's pretty young. He's like. He's a kid. And I think another kid on the way. Yeah, he's my boss, though, you know. Anyways, get to the hotel at 10 30 PM. And I think, huh, I'm going to go to Lafayette Coney Island and get a couple chili dogs, maybe a loose burger and some fries before I hit the hay. What's a loose burger? It's ground beef on a hot dog bun and then covered in the chili sauce, onions, and a mustard. OK, and tell me how that's different than the Coney. The Coney has a hot dog in it with the chili all over it. Oh, it's just without the hot dog. And ground beef. It's called a loose burger. Like, imagine that the burger is not a patty. It's loose. But it's on a hot dog bun. It's very fun, loose burger. That's what my mom always gets. My mom doesn't fuck with hot dogs. Right. She doesn't trust them. Now, does the Coney's sauce also have beef? It does, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beef on beef on beef is the goal. That's what I just wanted to get it straight. And also, like, I had sent my brother and sister and mom a picture and they were, someone pointed out, like, you know, people really rage, but you're not supposed to put ketchup on them. Right. Which makes no sense, because you put ketchup on everything that ground beef's in. You know, like a hamburger. Yeah, but the Coney, the chili sauce. But then you also put ketchup on a hot dog. No one's freaking about that. It's the chili that you don't put ketchup on. I know. Yeah, but anyways. I'm with them on that. So as it turns out, I am staying almost directly across the apartment. I lived at in Detroit. OK, yeah, that's fun. And I'm sure I've told enough stories on here what the buy was in 94 when I was there. So before I go, I think, OK, I've got to take about 24 bucks and put it in my left pocket without any of the credit cards I need and care about. But I need to put one dummy credit card in there. So that if I get mugged, I can hand them all that stuff. It'll look like that's my shit. And then I've hidden my rest of my money in my normal credit card that I would not want to lose elsewhere on my body. Oh. This was standard operating procedure, SOP, when we lived there. Yeah. You just hit you. That's what you had to do. So I go through all this work of like getting myself situated to get mugged, right? Yeah. And because unlike in my 20s where I was willing to fight over the money, I'm no longer willing to fight over the money. So I'm just going to hand it over, right? Yeah, that's right. OK. So also, there's like four inches of fresh powder. So it's so dreamy outside. I'm like, I start walking. What time is it? Now it's about 10.45 at night. OK. Really late. Late. And I walk across the street. And I'm directly in front of the apartment on Griswold where there's this little park. And again, I'm like, I'm peeping everywhere. Who's going to roll up on me? And the first thing I come up to is a very frail, like 60-year-old man, white man, walking two pugs in sweaters. Sure. Now what you expected. And I'm like, this guy would not have lasted 11 minutes out on the street in 1994. He would have been relieved of the dogs in his wallet, for sure, if not killed. Dogs too? I don't know. Who knows? Maybe someone's girlfriend would want a dog. They were cute. They were in sweaters. Oh. And as I'm going up to my favorite chili dog place, there's two cars out front just running because it's so cold out. Whoever's eating inside just leaving their car running so that the heat's on. Oh, wow. And then I go inside and I eat. And I just sit there watching. There's two cars running. I mean, Monica, this is inconceivable. Yeah, time's changed. Inconceivable. Places changed. They changed. And I did not see this coming. I couldn't have been happier for the city of Detroit. And I'm like, I could have fucking kept all my money in my left pocket. And I could have held my phone. And then as I'm walking back to the hotel, there's a goddamn Gucci store next to the hotel. Yeah, that's right. Now my mind is exploding. I'm like, what has happened down here? I mean, this is the ultimate glow-up I've ever seen. Yeah. Couldn't believe it. Then I get into my room. It's gorgeous. The Chanel hotel. I'm like, oh, my God, there's a gorgeous hotel on my own down in Detroit. So I get back to the room. I don't know what it is, 11.30 at night now. I also have a commitment in the morning at 11 AM, which is totally fine. I'm going to be fine for sleep. Yeah. And then I'm hanging in the room for a little bit. And then I think of something I want out of my backpack. I go to get my backpack. I don't have my backpack. And I'm like, oh, that's rough. Like I panic on it too. For about 10 minutes, I started thinking like, OK, well, I do remember bringing it to that car. OK, so I was left in that car. Where do we find this guy? The guy already said that the car services were fucking overwhelmed because of the snow and everything else. And they have to get back to the airport. They're going to be whatever. And then I remember I have brought my memoir with me so that I can write in it. You should. I know, I really probably shouldn't travel with it. Yeah, you can't. And then my journals in there too. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, my God, I'm so devastated at the thought that because I have one of the four books I've written in a notebook. And I'm towards the end of that notebook. I'm like, if I lose 90 handwritten pages, I don't even remember what I covered in that section. I wouldn't. I'm so devastated that I'm like, I don't know that I would resume writing it. I think I would be like, I can't possibly rewrite the 90 pages I lost and blah, blah. So I am really now fucking panicked. Yeah. And we get ahold of the driver, but only in as much as the driver says, I'm with somebody. They're reading a really interesting book in the back. Yes. And then they're going through your journal and they are on the phone with TMZ. And so I mean, this is as fucking bad as it can get for me. And I'm really trying not to panic about it and just stay optimistic. All to say I do get it back, but I get it back at like 2 45 a.m. Yeah, it's late. But I'm so relieved, whatever. Did you try to like look and see if it had been tampered with? I didn't. Like I just, I saw that my memoir was in there and my journal and I was like, OK, I don't care about anything else in the world. I have these two books. Right. You idiot. Why don't you scan it? Blah, blah, blah. Why can't you bring in some self abuse? Sure. I guess I'm piling on, but I do. Do you want you to? I'm sorry, but I really do need you to like back up, you know. I know you can't really back up handwritten stuff. I saw the handwritten thing was, I mean, tough. But you can scan, you can scan and you should scan. And that has been suggested to me many times since this event. And then I imagine myself sitting in front of a fucking copy machine and how many hours that would take. And then I have to go do my real life stuff, which is seemingly unrelenting at this moment. You have to squeeze in just a couple hours so that this just never happens. Like a six hour ordeal page by page. It's pretty. Oh, if you there's a scan doc on your phone. And you literally just take pictures. OK, I'll give you 25 bucks an hour. I mean, I have a lot going on too, but I'll do it. Go to like King goes to like Kinkos and you got the whole two pages at a time. OK, all right. I guess I'm off to Kinkos. I should do it. I haven't been in a Kinkos in a long time, speaking of which, I don't even know that they're still around, but I hope they are. I do get about 45 minutes to an hour with Ricardo. We do go out and a raptor and find some snowy roads and drift for a while, which is its own hilarious thing because you can't imagine how terrified he is as a passenger, if you think I'm bad. I can. I understand why he's in control of the car as his livelihood. Yes. And I totally get that. And he was screaming. And I was saying to him, Danny, if we crash, we're going really 20 miles an hour. Sure, the back ends all over the place because we're drifting, but we're not flying. I mean, that's just not the nature of that have helped you. I was passenger while he did it. Right. But. And he's not as good at it as me. Now, look, he's a much better driver than me, but I grew up in Detroit, driving on snowy roads, Europe and Australia with no snow. Right. So I just think, you know, this isn't a bra. He said he's like, I don't like that you're better at this than me. OK, so that's a brag, I guess. But I just am only I would have never come up if you didn't force me to say like, I was tolerating his asking because you're the one that's like I you can't handle being a passenger. So I'm like, would that have alleviated your fear? Well, I had already worked through that because it started with him driving and I'm in the passenger seat and I'm like, I don't know if he's got it. You know, we might crash into a fire hydrant, we might crash into whatever. And then I was like, am I going 20 miles an hour and it's got airbags and we'll be fine. I have a question. Why do you feel fine when I drive you? I think you're a good driver. That's nice. Yeah. But you think people are good drivers that I think you still wouldn't want. You're not driving aggressively. No. You're driving completely normal. I can handle being in a car. It's if someone's trying to show off and drive fast. I hate it. Oh, I thought sometimes I think the opposite if I'm driving you like, oh, he's going to be like mad that I didn't. You're not driving aggressively enough. No, no, no, no, I prefer. No, I like a nice boring ride if I'm in the if I don't have the break pedal in front of me or the steering wheel. Yeah. Stay tuned for more armchair expert. If you dare. I mean, I do think you're right, though, that I think a lot of people that are into this also are terrible passengers. Yeah, they love the control and they understand what the car is supposed to be doing. So when it's not doing the thing, it should be doing your I think you're hyper aware of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think to some degree, if you're riding with me in this situation, you just got to you surrender the notion. I know what I'm doing. Sure. Right. If you were to come on a racetrack with me, you'd be like, yeah, I guess he knows what to do. I would, but I'm not a driver. Like that's the whole thing. Also, I love that feeling. So that's that's the irony. I also love feeling out of control. I love it. This is when like we went off roading Chris and I in Hawaii and she drove and we were sliding down the sill. I'm like, oh, my God, we're going to go into a fucking tree. But I was just laughing uncontrollably because it does pass that point where I just have no response but to start laughing. So I can enjoy it. OK. OK. As long as I don't think death is on the table. So that was great. That was a nice little thing. Host the event that goes well. I didn't get to hang with Versapin like I wanted to. I met him. I shook his hand. You know, it was cool. Yeah. Baby steps. Do the event. Blah, blah, blah. That night, go back to the room and go to sleep. My son picks me up the next morning and I'm going to add one more thing that you don't care about. Oh, when I left. Oh, when I left Detroit 30 years ago, cars did not some cars had analog breaks, not all of them. No cars had traction control. No cars had stability track. So what this has done to the driving in Detroit, because we're on crazy snowy roads and everyone's going 50, 60 miles an hour, no problem, because they have all this assistance now, the car is very good at keeping you when you're starting to slide around. It corrects it. That's good. So that was like a real adjustment. I'm like, oh, your average knucklehead is now going. What would have been insanely fast on these roads in 1994 when I left. OK, that means car safety has really increased over time. Yes. I like that. Go to Aaron's house and I luckily I had the kind of confidence to say to him, because normally it's like, let's party time. Let's go do this and we'll see this person. And I go, dude, if you're up for it, man, I want to rewatch Patriot, which will be the fourth time for me. And I think the third or fourth time for him. And I want to sit on the couch and he fucking made a fire. And we sent my son and I sat on that couch, Monica, for nine hours and but we ordered food. It was I can't tell you what it did to my nervous system. That's great to be with my love like that. We spent the week. We watched the entire first season. I love doing that. Oh, and then the next day, we tackled the town a bit. Also, we were hanging out with his son, Wade, my grandson, yeah, who's so tall and handsome now. Do like Wade and Groot get along? Because, you know, it's like two grandsons and I don't know if. They haven't met. So I can't really say. Wow. Yeah, but we'll try to schedule that. OK, anyways, we went to a Highland House, my favorite breadsticks. And then we did our thing. We went through we went to my old house. We went to his old house. You went to our old junior high. We went and looked at other friends' houses that we missed. It's true because you don't go to Michigan a lot. Let's remind people that. Like, it's not like you're going home once a year. I did that every time I went home, like drove by old place. And you go to your childhood home. That's my. Yeah, stay there. Yeah, but there are others that were before that. But like, if I did that every time, that's a lot of times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't get to do that very often. That's really nice. Also, we don't recognize shit. The town we grew up in is so fucking nice. Like anyone has heard me talk about how blue color my town was. And now went there. They bet he's so full of shit. Fucking liar. Oh, my God. There's so many beautiful houses. The downtown is like so storybook. Oh, cute. They redid the little central park with like very architectural. It's unrecognizable, but it's adorable. OK. So while you've been talking. Yeah. For a while. Picking things off your body. I've been picking off all my fingernails. OK, your Lee Press nails. My gel nails. And I've made a little collection. Mm-hmm. Here. A cute little collection. And I'm going to put it right here so people can see it if they want. Oh, great. And see what they think. And I'm pretty confident you'll forget to move those to the trash can. And it sort of reminds me of the hair wall. Mm-hmm. And the hair saga. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That we talked about. Did anyone comment about hair walls? Have you seen? I haven't. So you watch the Patriot. I also have television news. The pit is back season two. And I got excited. Obviously, I was so excited to watch it. And I turn it on and watch the first episode ready for the next one. You know, I'm planning on watching like 10. Yeah. They come out week to week. I forgot. You forgot. I forgot they come out week to week. And I got so mad. Irrationally upset. Tantrum. Tantrum. Yeah. We love a tantrum. There are certain things that trigger my tantrums. And as you know, this is one this happened during last dance. Yeah. Where we thought we had more than we didn't. So I just like I understand it. Yeah. But I don't like it. Yeah. I don't like waiting. But it's nice that for the next two months, you have something every week you get to enjoy. It's just making me agitated. I want to know what others. Who died. What other stuff he's going to say. He's just so hot, you know. He's so hot. He's still so hot. And I have an update too. OK, maybe like last year. Or something. Yeah, probably last year you said that you were getting into slippers. Oh, funny. I wore slippers the whole time I was at Aaron's. OK. So you were getting into slippers and I was like. But I didn't. Sick. I know. I don't wear slippers at my house. OK. Yeah, I haven't seen you in slippers or anything, but you you were trying it on. Ding, ding, ding. Yeah. And I was like, you know, like that's. I don't know why I think I'm like that's old. Grand Prix. Yeah, it's Grand Prix. Yeah. And after the Golden Globes at the Netflix party, they had slippers there, which I think they do at some parties for women in high heels. Yeah, it's like you can take them off and wear them at the party, which I didn't do. Great idea. Great idea. But then you have like hold your shoes and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Because as we talked about, your purse is too small to hold your shoes. Not even. It's ceremonial, the purse. Yeah. So I did get the slippers. I didn't wear them that day, but I was like, I'm taking my souvenir. So I got my slippers. And then they just sat in the room for a minute. I didn't I wasn't thinking about it. And I just put my little feet in there just to see. And I've been wearing them so much. You love them. I love them. You're a Grammy. Yes. And it actually, because I really don't like getting out of bed in the morning. I'm not a morning person. I have gotten myself out of bed a couple of times thinking, oh, I get to put my feet in those slippers. You're eventizing your wake up. Yes. You're smart. And I can wear my slippers to go make my tea. It's changed everything. Oh, wonderful. I know. So I. It's an exciting new era for you. I highly recommend slippers. Yeah. The page, just Patriot. I keep saying the Patriot, but it's just Patriot. The pit. Pit and slippers. So it's Patriot and the pit. Interesting. Yeah. That's where there's confusion. A slippers. Just slippers, maybe. A slippers. And I I'm really, I think this is a good omen for the year. It's a slippery year. Yeah, great. So I'm happy about that. Great. I also did something fun on Monday with our friends, the Avit brothers. Oh, yeah. You love to say what it is. I don't know if I'm allowed to say. But you did some acting. I did some acting. In a Avit brother project. Yes, that's right. And I had not, as we've, as you've talked about many times, I also haven't acted in a really long time. Yeah. And I had some some dialogue. And I was like looking at it and thinking, God, am I going to be able to remember this? Am I going to be able to memorize this? I haven't had to do that in a really long time. Yeah. I was able to do it. Good. Thank goodness. But it is funny. It's funny returning back to that. And it was a really fun time. And of course, like scene work is so fun. But yeah, there is a lot of like, there's a lot of twiddling your thumbs. Twiddling and sitting around and waiting. And I just am not used to that mode anymore at all. It's a mindset. The whole time we're here, we're working. Yeah. There's no moment we're not working. Yeah. Unless we're taking a duty break. If we're taking a duty break, which you just did. Yeah. If you're doing that, you know, I'm checking email or I'm editing or there's stuff to do. There's always stuff to do. And you can't really, you can do that on some sets if you go to your trailer, but I didn't have one. So I was, and then I did have a room, but it was too cold in there because you know, I get too cold. And you hadn't brought your slippers. Exactly. And I was also in a very specific outfit, which eventually you guys will see. Do you want me to send you a picture right now? I'd love to see a picture. Okay. I'm sorry for the audience, but you will eventually see it. But I want to get Dex's reaction on Cam. On camera. Oh, my heavens. Rob, I'll send you. I mean, the outfit's one thing, but the hair. Exactly. How many days did it take them to get your hair to look like that? Okay. I mean, they did it quite, they did it much better. And are you getting married in this thing? Yes. Okay. That makes sense. Now. Wow. It's really something, huh? Wow. Did you see it? Yeah. I also. How long is it you to undo that? That was my. Were you in the shower for a year? So I was starting and I kind of said this on an interview we just, we just did. So spoiler, I guess, but I was finding myself like feeling like a real diva. There was so much hairspray in that hair. You probably took a year off your life with all the fumes. So much hairspray. And then continuous, you know, touch ups. You forget. Touch ups. For 12 hours. At one point I said, I don't, I don't know if my hair can take any more hairspray. I also knew. I was like, it doesn't need it. It's not changing. It is what it is. It's a brick. And like, and I would accidentally like graze my hair with my hand and it would come off. Shones would crack off. Yeah. Break off. Yes. I was like starting to have like some panic about that. And then same with the makeup because it was like, we're just, you know, a constant powdering and a painting. And I'm like, but I'm not going, I'm not going to be in the scene for a while. So like, we don't need to do this right now, but I can't, I can't really say that, but I know it's true. So then there's some panic. Like I don't want that on my face. Some. So it, yeah, it was like, we're so, I'm, I've become a brat. Like we're used to being in control here. We created an environment where we have all the control. Yeah. And it's so nice. You kind of forget how nice that is. I did, I mean, I did have a lot of fun and I would definitely like do that again. But I was thinking, man, do I have a great job? I love my job. It's so good. And then we've had like multiple interviews over the past two days, especially yesterday that I was like, oh man, this is so good. I had just some luck. So lucky. So I, you know, and it was so, it was so weird. Because I obviously came here to do that job. And again, incredible job, great job. But the fact that this other thing popped up that in my opinions, way better is like, so wild and amazing. But I was also proud of myself because I was like, oh, I can like, I can still do this. I can still memorize stuff. And I can still, and I think because we have this, because I don't have a, my life isn't riding on that being so good so that I can get more jobs. It was like fun and easy and I didn't feel. Zero expectations. Yeah. Like there was a couple of times I would like start them on this monologue and then I would say, you know, oh, I'm going to take that back. And then I would do, I would never have done that before. I would never have felt comfortable. I would have been so, I had any little mistake would have made me feel like, oh my God, like I'm so bad at that. Yeah, they're going to fire me. They're regretting hiring me. Yes. And I was like, oh, it was just interesting. I just had such a different mindset that I think makes you better. But of course, you can't get there without it. It's a very mental job. It is. It is so mental. There's so much about it's like what? Yeah. Yeah. So much so. But there was a really, there's a really cool aspect of this acting job. Again, that people will see that it's so unique and cool. That doesn't involve me, but just like with part of their whole thing. And it's really amazing. But yeah, so, so I just, I was grateful for doing it. I was grateful for our job. Those are good. Those are good. Yeah. You know, one thing I didn't, I guess this is like a complaint. But I had a tampon in for 13 hours. Oh, toxic shocks. And I was also like, so then I was kind of panicking about that because as time was passing, I was like, I have this tampon in and I don't want to go take it out because I was in this wedding dress and you know, you're mic'd up and it's connected to your underwear. So I was like, that's all. And I was like, I'm just leaving it in. Sure. We're going to have to roll the dice. And I'm really tired today. Oh, I think I might have. You've taken it out by now, I hope. Yeah, I wrote it in my calendar because I was afraid I was going to forget. But I took it out and I think I'm okay, but I couldn't wear my Nixie's because it was a white wedding dress. Sure, sure, sure. I was like, brides have to wear, that's a lot. I bet brides are real bummed if they're on their period during their wedding day. But it happened. You can't, you don't pick it. Was there anything else? Okay, slippers, the pit. These are the things I write down. I'm like, oh, oh, oh, facts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, remember those? Oh my god. Is this for Marcelo? Yes, Marcelo. What a joy. We just loved him. Oh my god, ding, ding, ding. Huge dingles for my first fact. So we played a game, me and you and Marcelo played a game where we said a word and then, because he said, what do you think of when you hear Randall and then we all said it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we did it one more time, Lily. Yeah. And I said Pond and he said Frog or something. You said like feminine product or feminine hygiene. Yeah, feminine hygiene. You said something like that and then we were like... You guys were embarrassed for me. Yeah, it was just like, you're not on the same page. And you thought it showed my age and perversion. There was a lot baked into. Yeah. And then you're like, no, because the smell, like Lily, like they want to make fresh smells. They always have them in the commercials. It feels like lilacs and lilies and... So then I, so the first fact I looked up was most popular sense for feminine products. Okay. Okay. The most popular sense for feminine products center on fresh, clean florals, rose, jasmine, warm vanilla. I've never experienced that. Subtle musk and sweet fruits, berries, peach, creating an alluring, soft and comforting aura, often found in bed. God damn it. Best selling perfumes. Oh, you really shit the bed on this one. I was like, I don't know about musk. I don't think anyone's going for musk during that period. What the fuck? I need a nice musky dish. AI doesn't understand feminine products. They think, oh, they think anything that has to do with... Well, yeah, feminine hygiene. Oh, wait. Oh, yeah. But I mean... I think hygiene's the operative word. Fine. Let me type that. Okay, I see where you get it. Hygiene products. If it says Lily, I'm going to be so pissed. My. No, it doesn't. Okay. In 2024, popular feminine hygiene sense leaning towards fresh, clean and naturally comforting profiles with light florals, Jasmine. I mean, hold on one second. You must admit that Lily's is in light florals. No. Why? What is your argument? It doesn't... But you're going to present your case. Listen, it says light florals, Jasmine. Full stop. No, it has, it says it. Parentheses, Jasmine, peony, rose. Now it's just improv and though it's like, it's all the, though what it associates with... No, listen. This also says subtle fruits and also says vanilla and skin sense, musk amber sandalwoods. Guys. I mean, one thing says green tea. It's Lily, right? Lily's was the... Lily. Are there any Lily scented feminine hygiene products on the market? Question mark. Searching for feminine hygiene products with Lily scent. Yes, there are feminine hygiene, intimate wash products on the market that feature Lily or Lily of the Valley scent, often blended with other floral notes. I could read you the brands of them. Ziazha Lily of the Valley, Intimate Hygiene Gel. Ziazha. Y-U-R-I-R-O Intimate Wash by White Lily. Oh, White Lily. Gyneaucure, Lily Women Cleanser. Delicate Flower Intimate Lady Wash. Okay, so these are all washes. Summer's Eves has one. That's the standard. That's the gold standard. Okay, so those are washes. Okay, pads and tampons and stuff. Okay, most popular scented pads generally feature light cleaner floral scents. Like Musk, Vanilla, Chocolate, Cocoa. Lavender and Allo. Lavender, yes. That is something they kind of try to add into all these things. Yeah, but not Lily. Oh, Honey Pot. All right, well, I prefer neutral scent. Just saying. I mean, the funny thing is, is like, nothing, no, like for us guys, like there's nothing that can keep us away, you know, you don't need to worry too much. I thought you were going to say like, it's all that you still smell it. Well, you know, that might also be true and we don't give a fuck. Okay, did Obama go to- Beggars can't be choosers. Did Obama go to Occidental College? Yeah, he went there and then he went to Columbia and then he went to Harvard. This guy was bouncing around like a basketball. Like a door-to-door salesman, pot and pan salesman. Okay, he said, this was really cute. He said he pulled Detroit Bolton when he was dealing with soccer and like comedy. And I didn't know what that meant to you. I don't know why they're not- Okay, and we wouldn't, you know why? Because he's the protagonist of a high school musical. Oh, okay, great. That's a great analogy. I of course thought it was a sports reference and so I just as a man had to act like I knew that player. Like, oh, of course, he's like Bojack. High school musical, I guess he was a basketball player. Is that Zac Efron? That's right, basketball player and I assume in the high school musical. Okay, he said that when he was growing up and they called them, they called parties like hangouts, like getties. We thought that was cool. That was new to us. You cannot imagine how many times I have thought since we interviewed him. Because I'm going to Miami to shoot. And I have thought I'm going to reach out to Marcel and see are there any getties happening while I'm there? I want to see the getties firsthand. Do you think he's like still in the scene? No, I don't. That's why I have yet to do it, but I have had the impulse. Wow. They're like, wow, I might have an invitation to a getty through him. And I, you know, I want to see everything in life. So just pictures, 51 year old rolling into the getty. It's just a hangout though. Then he said, oh, we were making a whole to do about getties because we'd never heard of that. And he said, what do they call it now? And I was like parties, I think, and or he said, he said kickbacks. And I was like, no, I've never heard that. That's what you do when you want to land an account and you pay the purchasing agent some side money. That's right. That's a kickback. Exactly. But then I did Google, what does Gen Z call parties? Gen Z doesn't have one single slang word for party, but uses terms like kickback, hang out, get together or rager. Okay. Those are standard. But not kickbacks was in there. Yeah. Yeah. I'm saying the others. Yeah. Ragers have been around forever. I know. Major rager. For larger events, focusing more on vibes, wellness and smaller gatherings like, quote, soft clubbing, quote, house parties are, quote, live chill. Ew. Live chill is an online hangout. Oh. Although we were just talking about how Anna has online hangouts with her family and those do look really fun. That's different. That's a family. Hang. Chit chat. Yeah. I don't think that's a live chill. Okay. All right. That's all. Those are great. I love him. I love him too. He's so cute. He was so funny. I was saying it's when I left, I was like, I love when people are still hungry. It's so infectious. Like he said it. I'm like, I want to do good. Yeah. I love that. When you go do stuff, you should want to do good. It's a shame that some people lose that. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. That's really true. But he's young and vibrant. He's on SNL and he's cute. Yeah. He's got that smart girlfriend. Yeah. I sure know. Good for him. Good work. I love you. Love you.