Chuck Yates Needs A Job

0:20 All right, so I think the craziest moment you and I had together is we're sitting there a side stage at the first YDC Rose that you came to write for and Cola was like hanging upside down, coming

0:35 down onto the stage of the House of Blues. I don't know who that guy thought he was. I don't know. He was like the new Lady Gaga or something He's coming, yeah, he goes, I want to come down from

0:47 the ceiling, I'm like, what do you have? Vampire bad or something? What are you doing? Yeah, I remember that. He wanted the whole, like, Broadway production or something. I was like, are

0:59 all the Rose going to be like this? All right, let's level, let's level stuff for the audience. So, so as most people know, I throw the YDC Rose teacher YDC after school literacy program for

1:13 Houston's fifth ward, kind of that's our roughest and tumbless neighborhood and we got built a great school up there, do a lot of good work for the kids up there. And we roasted Lisa Stewart the

1:25 fourth year. And what always happens the day after the roast is I call the man of the hour and I always go, Hey, I'm just calling to make sure we're still friends. So when I called Lisa, I said,

1:37 Hey, Lisa, I'm calling to see if we're still friends. She goes, I was gonna call you and ask the same thing. And I go, Well, why were you gonna ask me? And she goes, Because I chose the

1:45 shittiest roasters on the planet. And that was the most unfunny thing I'd ever seen. And so that's why we had to go find comedy writer extraordinaire, Mike Faroochie the next year. And that was

1:57 calledYerakoff CFO,

1:60 like you did. Like, on the rockboard, remember? Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to forget that one.

2:05 So we met 'cause of Ross, didn't we? How did we get hooked up? I forget. That was Jeff Ross. Jeff Ross is the guy who got me into sort of got me into roasting in the first place. I never told

2:18 you that story. Tell me that story. We used to be writers on a man show. Do you remember the man show? Oh yeah. You remember the man show? When on trampolines. Yeah, that was the most popular

2:32 thing. You know, they had guys calling Jimmy and sending emails like, Can you just give me a endless loopwith those girls on trampolines I can watch all the time? They didn't give a shit about the

2:42 rest of the show, you know? That's why he played it at the beginning and the end. People were mesmerized by it. I was mesmerized by it to tell you the truth. But Jeff was a writer on that show,

2:53 and I was, and he came into the writer's room one day and he said, I gotta do this roast at the Friars Club. Jeff was like the new young member of the Friars Club, you know, they were trying to

3:02 get 'em to get young people to join, 'cause all those guys were dying off like dinosaurs over there. So he's like, I gotta do this roast. Anybody here know how to write roast jokes and I'll pay

3:11 you, And that's what got my ear on like. I'm always ready to make more money. So I said, yeah, I'll do it. And I never had written rose jokes. I mean, I've watched a lot of comics and those

3:22 old school guys. I think Jeff and I have that in common. We're both pretty familiar with all those old, you know, those old school comics. I said, I'll do it. And I wrote him a bunch of rose

3:32 jokes and he killed, destroyed. He goes, okay, well, that's great. And who else would know more about baseball bats and Italians, you know? So he killed. So you talking Joe Tory? This was

3:42 Joe Tory? Oh, that's awesome. Joe Tory, right, right, right, right, right. And he killed, you know, and he's like, oh, great, then he had to do, you have to wrap. So I wrote on that

3:53 one. Oh, give me a Hugh Heffner joke. Oh, yeah. This is great. This is my favorite Hugh Heffner joke. He's like, You Heffner has six with three women at a time. One, he's having six with

4:04 then two, move 'em back and forth.

4:08 That's so old.

4:11 That's awesome Yeah, so he loved that one. And then, you know, one thing led to another. We did an MTV roast.

4:20 That was like, MTV wanted to start this thing. They said, we want to do what we call a rock and roll roast. We want to roast different rock stars. And then they just did that one. And they're

4:33 like, yeah, we don't know. Maybe we'll do it. Maybe we won't. But then he brought the roast thing to Comedy Central and, you know, the rest is history. So they did like 20 years. I think 20

4:44 of those 20 of those. Yeah. So I so because the way I met Jeff Ross is, you know, I've always just kind of been a Ross fan. And when we did the first two rows, we actually had Rocky Blyer, the

4:59 old Pittsburgh stealer, uh, fullback, because Mike Len, who was the first man of the hour, um, his he was, uh, a Pittsburgh stealer. and Rocky Blire was his hero. So I tracked Blire down and

5:14 Blire emced it. And Blire was actually really good the first year. He did a joke. He said, he, he said, yeah, Mike and his wife one night, little romantic, having a glass of wine. And she

5:27 said, time me up and do whatever you want. And so he did and he moved to Houston.

5:33 But Blire was, Blire was great. But in the first year he came, he showed all these football highlights of the Steelers and the Oilers playing back in the day. It was really great. The second year

5:45 though, that he did it, it just didn't have the same connection because you didn't have a Steelers fan up there. And so the third year we were, we were having Ken Hirsch of natural gas partners be

5:58 the man of the hour. And we really wanted to amp it up. So I literally googled, how do I hire Jeff Ross in his Facebook page popped up and he had like, started his Facebook page three hours before

6:13 I did that Google so I had 27 friends and I reached out on Facebook and that's how we hired Jeff.

6:21 Well that was a good choice because he's the man, he's the guy. You know we've got we've got so many people that come back to this roast so it's Wednesday November 13th, Bayou Music City, sell you

6:36 a table two minutes before the roast starts if you want you know we the charity needs the money but um and I'm gonna tell you something I'm telling you Chuck I've been I've been okay let let me break

6:48 this down for people that know how there's so they'll know how this works right okay every year you find a guest of honor and then you find a dais it's usually guys who have worked with the guy or

7:01 friends with the guy or relatives screwed by the guy in business like that guy like that guy with his son that joke I do. I've been mad. Oh, God. Okay. Hold on. You got it. You got to tell that.

7:13 You tell that joke real quick. It was it was Brian Sheffield who was the man of the hour and his dad, Scott Sheffield CEO of Pioneer, arguably the most prominent oil and gas CEO is one of the

7:25 roasters. We lay the joke on us. Can I use the F word? Sure. Well, this guy, Brian Sheffield, he had been married three times and he had a little stuff filled, Scott, the father had been

7:38 married three time. Yeah. His son had raided his company and stole a lot of his employees when he started a company of his own. So the joke was Scott, he said, I've been married three times, but

7:51 no one's fucked me more than my own son.

7:56 The other joke he wrote that night that was like just the best was I tried to get my son into sports when he was young, only nepotisms, not Olympic event.

8:09 Right. Yeah. That was, that was a fun one. That was a fun one. And it was on Mike Tyson. Remember Mike Tyson showed up. That was a couple, just that was only a couple back, I think. Yeah.

8:20 That was, that was three years ago. Mike Tyson showed up and one of the roasters, Aaron had paid Mike to tell four jokes about Brian. And instead, Mike Tyson told four jokes about Bob and then

8:32 ran off to the parking lot.

8:36 We had him on one of the Comedy Central rows. You know, and you know, you had to come out and read poetry. Yeah. Well, that was actually, if you could, I don't know that I can set it up, but

8:49 I remember that roast that Tyson was on. I forget who you were roasting, but he, oh, you were, who's the guy that writes family guy? Charlie Sheen. No, who's the guy that writes family guy?

9:03 Oh, Seth Farland McFarland. Yeah, so. He came out and said, Tyson said, uh, you know, Seth, I've studied all the classics. I went back in a red and just like you, I've been inspired by

9:19 Homer. That was like, that was hysterical. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good one. And we didn't think anyone was going to get that one to be honest with you. Well, Chuck Yates and Richmond, Texas

9:31 did. I thought that was really funny. No, that was good But, you know, speaking of this roast, if you've never been to one, if you're listening to this right now and I hope you are, everybody,

9:41 listen to Chuck, tell your friends, let's get them up to a million followers, ladies and gentlemen. And this was besides the bots in Ukraine or whatever. But yeah,

9:53 but this is going to be crazy. Because the way we do this is Chuck gets people to roast. He gets the dais I talk to the dais members and I ask them for stories about the guest of honor so I could

10:05 write their scripts and write jokes about them. And man, I got some stories this year, I couldn't even believe about this guy. You know, I talked to John Jacoby, the most laid-back, nicest guy

10:18 I ever want to talk to. But the stories they were telling me about him were crazy. I was like, man, I can't wait for this roast, you know? So if you've never been to one, this is the one to go

10:27 to. And if you have been to one, this is definitely one to go to. This is going to happen up because, you know, it's always funny I feel like every year when we do this roast, because I think

10:39 this is the 13th year you've done this with me, you know, I feel like like there's always someone that just way crushes it. I mean, just you had no idea they had it in them, they get up there.

10:53 And then there's always the roaster, the bombs, but they're sweet and endearing. So you kind of, you kind of appreciate that And so, so you have been talking this up that like each one of the

11:07 roasters has a has a story and it's going to cross stories. They all have good stories. I think Doug has the best. He's the one I talked to first. I'm going to do Doug Doug Brooks who is a who's

11:19 been CEO of various oil and gas companies. So he's going to he's going to be one of the roasters. That'll be going to open it if that's okay with you because he's got two crazy stories that are

11:29 going to be hard to follow. Believe me. Oh, nice. Okay. And then the next guy has a pretty good one too Two. And yeah, they all have good ones. I mean, Doug has probably the two craziest ones

11:42 to be honest. Okay, so does it. So and so and Jacobia will get the mic last. He'll get his his rebuttal. Yeah, I was actually working on his rebuttal this morning. And we talked about it. And

11:55 he's funny because he goes, you know, Mike, I'm not funny. And I'm like, just hearing you talk is funny to me. There's nothing funnier than somebody who doesn't think they're funny, but they

12:04 are actually are funny they don't know it. I go, you just saying these jokes the way you're talking to me, hopefully it'll be funny. Yeah, he should crush it. So

12:17 give me some comedy central roast stories that are pretty funny 'cause I've watched every single one of those 'cause just to step back, I know you've had to sit through the story. I don't know that

12:32 the audience had but I have the dirtiest sense of humor of anyone I know I mean, I just peaked when I was a 13-year-old boy and where my sense of humor came from is I sat on my grandmother's lap when

12:43 I was a kid and we watched Benny Hill and we watched the old Dean Martin Rose. And that

12:51 was like the happiest time of my life outside of having my children. And so I've always been a roast guy. Well, good, you know, the private roast and it's hard to find tapes to those, they're

13:04 available But they would have these things called smokers. at the at the prior school. Those were the filthiest roasts of all. I mean, those are the ones that you really had to be a member to see.

13:15 But Johnny Carson, all these people would be telling the filthiest, dirtiest jokes about each other. They were hilarious. I've heard a few of those, you won't believe it. You won't believe

13:24 Johnny Carson's saying in itself and like, well, you can go up yourself,

13:30 you know? Well, you know, but hearing them say things like that is unbelievable But as far as the Comedy Central Rose goes, the speaking of

13:40 dirty material, when we did the Bob Sagarose, we had, we wanted to hire, you know, we had, we had Betty White do one, and we were trying to, you know, we're all sitting around, who should we

13:55 have this year? And I said, well, Betty, wait, they're good. Let's get another one of those sitcom people to do it. And I said, how about Chorus Leach? Now Betty White was like, she was kind

14:05 of like prim and proper Horace, which was like the dirty old woman on the mirror. He was always talking about getting laid and everything. You know, right. So I said, let's mean into that. So

14:18 let's write a script about that. So I did myself and a few other people. We had all these jokes about, you know, I don't know if I'm supposed to swear on this. I swear away. While her opening

14:33 joke was, um,

14:36 I'm, I'm not here to throw a spot tag and I'm here to fuck John's name.

14:42 That was our opening joke. Okay. But anyhow, here's how the whole thing started. I gave away the, I gave away the punchline. When I wrote, when I worked on her script, it had jokes like that,

14:54 dirty jokes. I, I did a, uh, show in Tijuana with a donkey. That was easier than the show. You know what I mean? I'm glad I shave for this and then she looks around and things like that. So he

15:07 said, Are all these jokes like that? Okay. So she gets the script and she calls the producer and she starts screaming, Oh my God, how could you send me filth like this? I want a golden globe. I

15:24 want an Oscar. I want an Emmy. How dare you? And she's going on and I'm standing outside the producer's office. And I can hear, and I hear him and I'm the speaker point. I'm like, Oh, I'm

15:34 gonna get fired That's it, I got, you know, I shouldn't have done this. She screamed five minutes, and then at the end of it, she stops, she goes, Ah, I'm just fucking with you. I love it.

15:43 I'm gonna

15:45 do it. You did it word for word, word for word, and she got a standing ovation. So the, the. Yeah, she said to me, I will only do this roast if I'm funnier than everyone else. And I said -

15:58 And she was. And she was, she got a standing ovation.

16:05 So the single funniest thing that Jeff Ross has ever said, and I tell this to Ross every year and he always gives me that sentimental hug and says he loves the fact that I love it, is his clothes,

16:17 when he was roasting, Saget was, you know, Bob, if you'll notice, I didn't say a cuss word the whole time 'cause I couldn't compete with you, the master, 'cause I don't know if people really

16:28 knew, but Saget's comedy was like dirty. I mean, he was not full house dad. He was very, very dirty. He goes, I couldn't compete with you, the master, so I didn't say a cuss word the whole

16:41 time, but in honor of George Carlin, who died three weeks ago, I want to say seven other words that will never be heard on television. And the Emmy goes to Bob Saget. Yeah, that was a great joke

16:56 God, that was - That's a flash. Yeah, that was, that was a. That was the best. You know, Sagitt was such a good dude. You know, Jeff introduced me to Bob and we all had dinner one night in

17:09 Vegas and you know, Bob's just like, oh, you're in Houston. So when Bob came to Houston two or three times, he'd look me up and we'd go eat dinner before the show or after the show and stuff.

17:20 And he was just the greatest guy. I think that's one of the things. I'm gonna say this about you. I'm gonna say this about Jeff Ross I'm gonna say this about my friend Tishon Shannon, my buddy

17:32 Charlie Shannon. I'm gonna say it about Bob Sagitt. I'm gonna say it about Chris Rock. You know, guys, I kind of know a little bit is, you know, insult, comedian and all that. Y'all are the

17:43 nicest human beings on the planet. You really are. I mean - Oh, thanks, John. I appreciate it. I mean that, I mean that sincerely. 'Cause you're like, you and I hang out a bunch. You'll come

17:52 in for the rose. I mean, even Ted Collins said that about you Ah, really? That's nice to hear. Yeah, I know I work with Chris. I actually work with Chris twice this year so far. I mean, I

18:05 live in Oakland now. So I have to drive to LA, but one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. And I was very intimidated. I've worked with him a few times. I worked on him on the Oscars, the BET

18:16 Awards. He loved the first joke. The first time I ever worked with Chris Rock was on the BET Awards. And I'll tell you, man, I gave him this joke. And you can't be afraid in these writers' rooms,

18:27 man This joke's like half black, half white, you know? All these black comics and writers. And I was a little nervous 'cause I'm looking down at the end of the table and there's Chris Rock, man,

18:37 I don't, you know what I mean? It's like, and the first day I couldn't do anything. I'm just sitting there. I was like, I go, holy crap, you know, second, I gotta do something, he's paying

18:46 me, you know? So we're trying to think of all these jokes about the BET Awards, gonna have all these gifts. Rick Ross was gonna be one of the guests

18:56 So I gave him this joke, I said, all these rappers are. getting their own headphones down. You know, it's like, Dr. Dre has beats. Rick Ross has diabetes.

19:08 And he loved that joke. And although and there was a big black guy sitting across me and he was like, God damn. And they all laugh. But I was like, yeah, you gotta just go for it. You know what

19:20 I mean? And he ended up doing the job. And then he ended up hiring me for the Oscars. Yeah, I wrote the I wrote on the that was an experience, man. You know, if you're a writer, a comedy

19:32 writer, that's like the Super Bowl, you're working on the Oscars. I'm glad I had a chance to do it at least once. But

19:39 when we did the Oscars, who was right in the middle of Black Lives Matter. And like, Chris just want to go out there and do jokes, make fun of everybody like Ricky Gervais does. But he was

19:49 getting all this pressure. It's like, Oh, you got to talk about inequality. And you know, black actors aren't getting the same breaks. He's like, okay. So then we did made the whole show up.

19:59 The whole show was jokes about that, you know? And I was like, I gotta come up with the first joke 'cause everyone's waiting to hear what he's gonna say with the first joke. I said, I gotta write

20:09 that one. And I gave him this joke, which he liked. He really liked it was a welcome to the White People's Choice Awards.

20:19 That was the first joke he did. And it got - Guys. Yeah, and it got published and I printed out some variety and everything. It was great I was really happy. When you can make like one of your

20:32 idols laugh, it makes you feel good, you know? Yeah, no, that's, I always say that, that, you know, they have these fantasy baseball camps where old guys go and play professional baseball for

20:48 a week. I always say the roast is mine 'cause you and Ross come to town and we sit up and hang out one night, we drink jokes. And the thing I always tell people Is everybody crazy laughing? And

21:01 I'm like, you know what's weird is when you're with, you know, Frucci and Ross and same thing, I've written jokes with T-Shawn Shannon before. Nobody laughs, you just kind of point, hey,

21:12 that's a good one. You know, you know, you've scored when Jeff Ross goes, that's a good one, Chuck, you know, yeah, it's the home run, you know, yeah. Exactly. When we worked with him on

21:23 the burn, he showed, I worked on it for two season, he commented to the writers, he goes, oh, I want his home runs, I just want home runs, you know what I mean? So, you know, yeah, I

21:35 worked on that. You know, I just worked on, oh, I can't even say his name, but he's a legendary famous comedian over the last few days, worked on that. Oh, no, what's his face? Kill Tony?

21:47 Yeah.

21:51 You know, somebody asked me about that, you know, And, and my, my whole thing on the kill Tony is I'm not the right guy to ask. 'cause I literally once a year do a roast, it raises money for

22:03 kids and we get Ken Hirsch up there, we get Will Van Lowe, all these people and everybody just makes fun of themselves. And so I just think that's kind of like part of life. Y'all ought to be able

22:16 to laugh at yourself, but then again, it's when you

22:20 got Ken Hirsch and Will Van Lowe's money, it's pretty easy to laugh at yourself. Right, right, right. Yeah, that whole thing is crazy I mean, Tony's a roast guy through and through and no

22:31 matter where he is, that's what you're gonna get, so, you know? So it didn't bother me that much. But yeah, I mean, that's what you kind of look for in these things is you got to get the home

22:42 run joke, you know what I mean? Jeff is really good at that type of thing. What I love about him is he knows what's perfect for him, you know? Right. Right, like long, you know, he likes one

22:54 liner. He's a one liner guy. He's like me, you know? I like the one lighter jokes, you know? Right. I was thinking about some jokes I might have regretted writing. As you get older, you know,

23:05 and now that I'm married, you know, I think my wife's softened me up a little bit 'cause she's very sensitive. But I think back at some of the jokes I wrote for people and I'm like, man, that was,

23:18 I got a little - Lay at least one of them on me. Well, this is the one that haunts me to this day because I hate to, anyhow, it was for Lisa Lamp and Ellie. Remember her? Yeah, I was like,

23:31 I hate to. It's like Lisa Lamp and Ellie will never have a Coke problem because it's too hard for her to look in a mirror.

23:42 out. Let me write that about a woman is nasty. You know, that's the worst thing you could say. Yeah, but it was a good she loved it though. She she did. But I think I heard later on like her

23:54 and Sarah Silverman would sometime get together and go, you know, that really kind of feelings.

24:02 But we've gone like when I started working on the Rose, the head writer was this guy named Ray James. I

24:11 said, well, what's what's where's the line? You know, these jokes. He said, well, there's no line. Those don't give yourself a line. He said, go as far as you want and let them pull you back.

24:24 Don't pull yourself back. You know, let comedy central pull you back. They'll tell you what you shouldn't do. So that's the way I always did it. And I just wrote the nastiest, meanest, craziest

24:36 stuff I could write. And sometimes they pull you back and sometimes they wouldn't. And most times they wouldn't to tell you the truth. So that's how we got a lot of stuff in. I don't know how it

24:44 is now. They haven't done the roast in a few years now, mainly 'cause of the whole wolf situation, probably. But yeah, you know what? You know what I found interesting in terms of comedy,

24:57 'cause I kind of like to actually sort of study it. Conan O'Brien one time was talking about, 'cause I don't know if most people know, but he was the head writer for The Simpsons for a long time.

25:09 That's kind of his, I think he came there pretty quick after graduating from Harvard. But he said, once we figured out that Homer Simpson was a puppy dog, yeah, it's gonna pee and shit and chew

25:24 on everything, but it's still lovable. That's where we found our groove with Homer. And I think what you just said about Ross is so important Jeff knows who he is, what he does well, what he

25:39 likes. And at the end of the day, I think that's the key to any type of content. It's gotta be authentic, it's gotta be genuine. And I think it needs to be somewhat vulnerable too. In terms of,

25:51 I mean, Jeff, Jeff makes a lot of Jewish jokes and about himself, et cetera. And so, yeah, so I think it really, I think comedy is way more important I'm getting serious here when I shouldn't

26:06 be, but it's just way more important for the fabric of our society than we realize. Well, we need it now more than ever. I mean, people need to laugh, you know, there's a lot of horrible shit

26:17 going on in the world. But, you know, the one other thing about Jeff is, he has a good sense of humor about himself 'cause all the stuff he dishes up, there's a million jokes about getting made

26:27 about him at every row. Right. And he just, you know, he shrugs it off. It's just part of the job.

26:34 No, I think it's great. So

26:37 I always wonder why people even do it, to be honest with you. I mean, why they even agree to get roasted? I don't know if I'd be comfortable doing it, to be honest with you. Well, you know, so

26:48 this was the interesting thing. So at the second roast, we're roasting Will Van Lowe. And anyway, my stick that night was, because Will had just raised a2 billion fund, it was like a really big

27:03 private equity fund. And so I was doing all these jokes about, if I raised2 billion, or if I had2 billion, what would I do? And I said, you know, if I were natural gas partners and I raised a2

27:17 billion fund, I still wouldn't buy a table to this roast, you know, just to jab at them for not having done it. And then I made the joke about them, because they had just sold 50 of themselves to

27:29 Barclays, the big British bank. And I said, you know, people were wondering why they did that. You know, they said it increased their global reach. Other people were cynical and say they got a

27:40 big payday. I said they did it so they could talk in a British accent and not sound any more pompous than they already are. And so, I immediately got a text from one of the NGP guys, Hey, what

27:52 did you say about us? Okay. And I said, Well, let's go eat breakfast tomorrow. So the next morning I get up, we go eat breakfast And the guy that texted me, he and I have always been friends.

28:05 And so the first 10 minutes of breakfast is this uncomfortable. How are you? How are your children? And finally, he's just like, Dude, what did you say about us? And I told him the two jokes

28:17 and he just busted out laughing. He was like, Oh, it was John Winzer all. And John was like, Oh, that's funny 'cause we thought it was so much worse. Like, No, I was just jabbing it, y'all,

28:26 we're all friends And I immediately figured out in that moment. that when you want somebody roasted, you don't go ask them, you go ask somebody that works for 'em. 'Cause somebody that works for

28:39 somebody always wants to see 'em roasted. So I was like, how do we get Ken roasted? And Winesville came back and said, said, yeah, okay, me and Billy will work on this. And John calls me one

28:50 day and says, Ken's expecting your call this afternoon. So I'll call Ken and I kind of have this nervous, rambling story about the kids and all the good it does and be roasted. And after about 20

29:04 minutes, Ken goes, hey Chuck, can I just cut you off? What you're telling me is, if I'll get my balls busted for an hour, a bunch of really poor kids will learn how to read. I go, yeah, Ken,

29:16 that's what I'm saying. He goes, I'd have to be a real asshole to say no to that. It's not, you know, that's sort of everyone's. And I think in the end, that's everyone's attitude. It's like,

29:25 yeah, so what? And I keep telling them, this isn't gonna be on television, you know? I mean, it's only gonna be people you know there basically. And they'll all be over before you know it.

29:34 Have a drink, sit there, take some shots, and that's the end of it. You know, it's not nothing to get. And I always tell people, don't be nervous when you do your set like the roasters. They

29:44 all think, well, I'm not funny. I go, no one's expecting you to be Jerry Seinfeld. You're not a comedian, that's Jeff's job, you know? Just do the best you can, do it in your voice. I try to

29:54 give them, you know, jokes they can do And some people are better at it than others, but that's just natural, you know? Some people are like you, you're like a natural performer type of guy. I

30:05 mean, your roast was the best one we ever did, really. Oh my God, that was so much fun. We had my priest crushed it. I know, I wrote his - I mean, well, that was so funny as Patrick was

30:18 trying to write his script the whole time. And finally, he called you and he just said, Hey, Mike, I'll, uh. I'll say anything so long as it's been in the Bible. And I think your line was a

30:28 little bit of Leviticus is going to go a long way tonight.

30:32 Well, we had a long talk. We had a long talk about it. And he always said, he said to me, goes, you know, I always wanted to be in a show business guy, you know, and something I've always

30:43 been interested in for some reason, I didn't work hard or whatever. And I said, well, this is your big chance. So when he, I didn't expect him to get a standing, I thought he'd do good, but

30:54 man, he killed it. You know, people give him a standing ovation. That wasn't, that was great. And Joel too, Joel was great too. You know what's so funny about Patrick, my priest, is people

31:05 this day still come up and say, hey, who was that comedian you hired? Yeah, yeah, he was a natural. I'm like, no, that is literally the guy at five o'clock service yesterday. He was in there

31:16 preaching to me about the gospel according to Mark, you know, so No, he was a natural. And tell the Jules story, Jules showing up is great. Oh, the Jules, yeah, yeah. She was really nice.

31:31 She gave me a compliment when I wrote her parody songs 'cause that's a pretty good song you wrote there, you know? Well, that was nice to hear it coming from her, you know? But that was one of my

31:42 favorite Rose Stemol. That was a lot of fun. Well, you know, the funny part about Jules, I remember you calling me like two days, you're like, hey, I sent her the script, I haven't heard

31:53 anything, she had many changes. You think everything's okay? And I was like, trust me, she's gonna crush it. And she did. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you know, I think she may have looked at the script

32:07 on the plane here, you know, she, she crushed it. And then I wind up getting a tattoo on my ass, which was a, which was

32:16 a lot of fun. I remember that. I was like, is he really gonna do that? And you did They got love. Well, you know, it's all great. So Wednesday, November 13th, so a week from today, if

32:31 you're listening when this just dropped. YDC Rose, Bayou Music Center. We got John Jacoby of Covey Park fame. We got Mike Faroochie writing the stuff. So Doug Brooks is gonna rock it. We're all

32:46 gonna rock it hopefully. Hopefully. Yeah, they're all going to

32:51 rock it. And we'll have another good time. And Mike, you're cool to come on and chat, Rose. My pleasure, man. It's always great to see you and it's fun. It's always a fun conversation, really.

33:07 I should come on more often, but I don't know anything about the oil business, so. No, none of my other podcast guests do either.

33:16 It's fun. Drill baby drill. Yeah, it's, you know, one thing, I could tell you this off the air or not, since I'm having so much trouble with my old email, as we discovered earlier today, can

33:29 you send me everyone's emails to the new email that I never got in the old email? Because I want to send a group email out to everybody about their scripts. Because apparently people are trying to

33:39 find me and they're not being, they can't contact. There we go. Yeah, we'll make, we'll make sure that happens so that, uh, so that everybody's got their script. Cool. Mike, everybody know

33:49 they're coming, you know. I have to get through the election first. It's hard for me to concentrate on anything right now. Exactly. Exactly. All right, man, thanks for coming on.