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Oh, man, what's up, baby? Joe Rogan. Good to see you, brother. Dude, thanks for having me, man. My pleasure. This is a fucking pleasure. How fun was this weekend, man? It was insane. It was not since Cher was at the Garden has there been so much pandemonium. Bro, when Brian Holtz was screaming about Billy Joel.
You're going right to that, because I was like, how long are we going to wait until we talk about Holtzman isolating the room? He was amazing. He was amazing. Seeing him at the Comedy Store, which we've seen him many times, and then at the Mothership now, seeing him in an arena like that go full-on Holtzman is a real treat. 16,000 people, and he went just like he's in the OR.
He opened with, fuck Billy Joel. And then he's like, I don't care if your family's here!
It's your daughter! Fuck them! We get it! You play the fucking piano!
I mean, yeah, it was wild. It was amazing. The surprises on that show. I want to hear from your vantage point real quick from obviously doing arenas for a while now. A show like that, getting to see you for a moment before you walked out backstage and you were just like, it was cool to see you looking at it like, what the fuck? This is wild. I was blown away.
First of all, I have seen Kill Tony evolve from the very beginning. Yeah. So I saw some of the earliest episodes in the belly room. But you were telling me, Tony came to you and was like, will you do my show? I got this new. And you were just like, yeah, fucking all right. I'll put Buddy out. And then you have no idea what it was. No. When I first did it, I was like, OK, let's have some fun.
I think I first did it. He brought up, I might have first did it at the Ice House. They used to do it at the Ice House in the little room. Yeah. So that was probably one of the first ones that I did. And I did a bunch in the belly room. And then it moved to the main room. And then it... moved to Texas when everything shut down.
They were trying to do it in the main room for a while with no audience. They did quite a few episodes with zero audience. It's just a story of persistence and getting- That's what I keep telling you on comics. The consistency is so overlooked in this business. And Tony just-
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