Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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You guys are kind of like that.
Basically. You guys were dancing around it for long enough. It's a lot like a coach saying, you get hurt, this guy's going to go in for you, and you might not get your job back.
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Chapter 2: How does ZipRecruiter help with hiring challenges?
But you wouldn't say it was purposely cruel.
Bill comes in a little later. You kind of wait. Oh, hello. What?
This is gonna be, oh.
The party's started.
You look nice. Is everything wrong, what's going on? Well, I'm gonna need more Kleenex than this.
For Christ's sakes, Billy, you know, here you are with kind of the perennial senior motif, all right? You got like the Troy Donahue man cave. I know.
Is he what I mean?
I know.
I'm going to need more than that.
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Chapter 3: What are the challenges of stand-up comedy today?
Well, you do have a Peter Pan complex.
No, we don't. Is this on? The funny thing is if someone says... And this always is the same loopy conversation, but if someone says, okay, some guy dated a 27-year-old and he was older, and they go, he's married. I mean... You know, pull that shit when you're single. You're married. If you're single, hey, do whatever you want. And then you're single and you do whatever you want.
And they go, we don't like that either. Can I make an observation?
Because I like to. No, this is not the forum for that. It's random. Biochemistry is interesting. Genetic predispositions are interesting. For some reason, as I've gotten older, my brain's evolved into being attracted to older women. And if you don't have that brain chemistry, because we all want the Playboy Bunny in high school, right? And I just moved on, that's all. You're sick.
Yeah, you're sick as fuck. You're not alone. No, I'm not kidding. No. I am kind of. He's just basically saying he likes it much. No, what you are is lucky. Uh-huh. Lucky. I do find older women really, my wife is very, very attractive.
That is a, that is. It's not. That is, I'm sure you're being honest. No. And it's just something that is rare. Let's just be honest about the facts of it. It's rare. It's more what's going on in our brains. And I'm always going to rope you in with me.
God, I was fucking immediately roped in. I mean, come on.
You were born with a reputation.
Well, it kind of slowed down. Also, I will say, in my defense, I also didn't want to lead with it. I didn't like anyone knowing that. Pete Davidson, he's got the new SNL. They would say, oh, you're kind of like with Spade. But I think he... was so outward with it, I wanted to warn him and say, don't do that because then no one talks about the comedy, you know? They gotta say what your job is.
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Chapter 4: How do comedians navigate their careers and public perception?
But if you're still single and haven't been married, I don't think you've been married. And so that's a little bit of a stigma. Nor have you, right? Yeah, so that's a little bit of a stigma where people get some free shots, like, never been married. I'm like, I would be more normal if I was married and divorced. And then be like, well, at least you did it.
Well, that's why they have the expression confirmed bachelor.
And I would say you two are confirmed.
Doesn't that mean something else?
Does it have another meaning?
I know Paul Lynde was a confirmed bachelor. Who? Paul Lynde. Oh, you mean, oh, that was cover for that? I think that's the cover, yeah. Right. Okay.
Well, let me tell you, if they didn't know Dennis Miller, they're not going to know Paul Lynn.
Yeah, I listen. Our references are fucked.
You know what? I do this for the young people. I'm never going to get the ones who don't care about... like a million things that I care about, which is probably 90% of them, but 10% are always very smart and they're like probably we were when we were at that age, which is we were more interested in something we didn't know.
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Chapter 5: What are the benefits of joining the Naked Wines community?
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This guy's like this. squeezing things, droplets. I'm like, do we need to get out of here?
I know. The powder comes out.
Again, the way your mind leaps to... And jumps, yeah. Yeah, why would that be... Well, you're busy over there.
Because I can't say those jokes.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of being a lifelong pothead in comedy?
You know what? I'm a lifelong pothead, and potheads, it is true, when they sit down and talk to you, it's a whole culture of like... Tinkering. Like, it's...
I smoked pot constantly for a while. For one year, I smoked a lot of weed in 79.
Is this the orb they found in Brazil? And what happened? Oh, yeah. You smoke weed. What happened?
You cried again? I cried. No, no, I loved it. I mean, in 78, this isn't funny, but my friend and I, we were seeing Neil Young at the boarding house. And he was doing, you know.
Got a small venue?
Yeah, 300 seater. And he was working out. Russ never sleeps, but we didn't know that. So we smoke weed, we go in, he's got all the guitars and 12-string, and we thought he was playing to pre-tapes. It was so fucking magic. But a lot of Neil Young that year comes the time.
But this is after he was already big with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Yeah. So he was just dropping into like... Work out this new album, which the first time... Just like us. Music comedians don't do that. That's like what we do. Go to a small club to work out.
What do you do now? Do you go to the comedy store?
I don't do it anywhere now. I don't do anything.
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Chapter 7: How do comedians prepare for performances in different venues?
But for all those years, this whole century, I never went. Once I was out of the improv, I was out of the improv. I never felt I needed to try out new stuff.
You don't practice at all before you go on the road and do an hour?
No. It's all those years that one reason I stopped and people said, you know, well, you could do it, just do Vegas. No, I was always in shape because I was always doing it.
Where were you doing?
Everywhere, just like him. I was on the road every other weekend. I was in Detroit and Chicago and then it was Memphis.
So you're working your hour.
I always had it going. And I used to use that you know, a music stand and have just my bullet points. So I was never fighting memory. I knew, you know, there's none of that, what's next? What else? Not what else with me. It's like, no.
That's me. What else is going on? What else is going on? You know a comedian is dying when it's like, so what's up?
I'm going to tell you what else and I'm not going to pause. I love that. And I would work, I would take my, shit home, those bullet points, and it was in my computer, and I would edit it as what happened that weekend. I loved that process. So I always had it, you know, like, bing, bing, bing, bing. You don't do crowd work, do you? Yeah, sure, if somebody, you have to sometimes.
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Chapter 8: What insights are shared about the evolution of comedy and heckling?
Boom, right? 2020, I don't come to your job and slap the dick out of your mouth. And that's the difference. Sorry, folks.
No, no. We did that in 1982. Oh, you did? Absolutely. You did that, Joe? I remember that when I was in the club starting, and that's the early 80s. I don't come down to where you work and knock the dick out of your ass.
That's funny.
We weren't, like, afraid to say that in the 80s. I didn't know that. Was this the 1880s?
No.
I was a Christian comic. I didn't get out much. Oh, no, no. I actually had... a guy knocked the dick out of my mouth when I was working. And I was like, was he a comedian?
That was not Kevin Nealon. You've heard this story, but you're not.
No, I miss the fuck out of it, but I don't miss the, oh, the mishigas to get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And to, even with the plane. That became a headache because all these crypto assholes are chasing too few planes. Unless you own it, and I never wanted to own a plane.
That's too many headaches.
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