The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly - Living in the Shadow

Episode Date: September 30, 2021

The guys talk about how good it feels to be back in studio. Jay started comedy with Kevin Hart and talks about finding his own lane after seeing him skyrocket to fame, and how Kevin is now also the face of SiriusXM in the new TV commercials.Stream "The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson & Dan Soder" for 3 months free on the SiruisXM app! Offer Details Apply: www.SiriusXM.com/Bonfire Follow us on all social media @TheBonfireXM @DanSoder www.DanSoder.com @BigJayOakerson www.BigJayComedy.com

I'm Dan Soder and I'm Big J. Ocarson and welcome to the Bonfire podcast. You can hear our full show every day on SiriusXM. Go to SiriusXM.com slash Bonfire for a special offer. And now the Bonfire with Big J. Ocarson and Dan Soder. Working man, sitting in studio again. I'm already used to it and I love it. I love coming back here. We're having a party, man.

Except our Jacob a Todd. Not with us. Isn't it bizarre though? Isn't it Florida? Isn't it bizarre though? Like how come back in? We were out here for a year and a half. Yeah.

18 months maybe? You're in a little more. 18 months, right? We were out. And it's like when we came back in, it's like walking down the hall, it all seems normal again. I mean, it's not the building's empty

The building's empty, but like today in studio doesn't feel weird We do two episodes terminator timeline for Thursday because we're gonna be in Austin at Moon Tower this weekend But we did Thursday's episode earlier today Got on the elevator for the first time since being back in studio. It's stopped at another floor Which was like I didn't even realize how much that used to happen. It was like, ordeal. Ordeal. If we were going down, if we were going up to do an episode

and going down to smoke and coming back for another episode, it would fucking take 20 minutes to get down, because we're high up, we're on the 36th. Well, it's also the NBC has several floors, and everybody takes the elevator. No one takes the stairs. Yeah, no one takes the stairs. No one in NBC takes the stairs. So they the elevator a floor but now we're all of them

fucking down and up baby so yeah guy stop what's going to completely bad guys the question is silver lining down so my question was was it all that bad we got a little bit of rest got a little bit of home rest but yeah it's fucking fantastic being back. Is this your six or seven? What are we on? We're on six into seven? Six into six into seven?

Six into seven I think, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the nice little two month break, we didn't see coming. Well, you know, you have to change it up a little bit. But we're bizzac. Yeah, man, we're back in studios working here.

Guys, remember for 10 years, for 10 years. Uh, well, technically we've been only been working here for a few months. We were leasing space apparently. So funny. Like, you got to get out of here. Come and search the radio still exists. Yeah, that's weird. Yeah, it's like they broke up. They broke up. But they were still, yeah, they told us they were like, there's a radio still exists. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah.

It's like they broke up, they broke up with us. But they were still, yeah, they told us. They were like, aw, we're folding guys. So just, you know, greener pastures, make it out there and do your thing. It's like when a dude tells a girl he's just not looking for a relationship right now, he's like, ah, he's.

And I thought they were gonna solve it. And it's like, it's like comedy central's folding completely and it's like, the Charlemagne, the God, you know, like, what? I thought they're folding, they're just like, they got rid of Tosh. 0. Did they really? Yeah, Tosh point is done. Yeah damn dude. I remember just caring about cable shows No, but I'm saying like that's bizarre. It's like Charlemagne the God show on comedy central. God Yeah, Charlemagne the odd

Hey, he's a former guy. I know he's a very comedy adjacent. That's a guy, cord alumnus. Well, I'm saying he's comedy adjacent for sure. Like, yeah, so it's like, I don't not get it at all. There'd be weirder person. I thought they were gonna be weirder people. I'm just like, I don't know what it is. I thought, but it seems now they're doing that daily show,

South Park, and that's it, right? And Nora from Queens. And Nora from Queens. Well that's just like yeah I can't with that but uh de-cracker vacation okay with Charlemagne the God to cracker-fi America okay all right so it's not for me um you know I'm gonna say it's probably not for me yeah that's for more of more. And then the Comedy Central Radio would just be funnier if it was just two comics. Just like they do the bonfire, but without us. Oh, it's coming. Don't you worry. We just figured maybe we

try like a different path. Oh, it's called the cookout. And it's two black comics. And you're like, which leads us into our subject. Buddy, so far. And I know you want to talk about this, because what's crazy is I'm on a plane flying back, seeing this commercial, and immediately wanting to talk to you about it. So I say all the time, you know, look, there was my career path, was the path it was,

took time it took to get where it is today. But I'm okay, I like where it is. Yeah, yeah. I'm happy where it is today, but I'm okay. I like where it is. Yeah, yeah. I'm happy where it is. I hope it continues to grow. One of the funniest people in the game, super respected, loved, you know what I mean? You have a lot going on.

You got a great show, you got Skanks, you got SDR. I mean, you got, yeah, standard. It goes like work wise while overworked, it's great. I was severely underworked for many, many years, so it's far, you know what I mean? I remember one of my favorite Legion's Gangs is when you get to call, you got the hour special. It's such a moment of true friendship on a podcast that I don't think like, you know,

now we're all you guys are at. It's just on YouTube. Yeah, love it. Yeah, all great and stuff. However, you know, I've been in the shadow of the career of Kevin Hart in that like well, it doesn't help the world. Not to the world, by the way. They don't they most people in the world know our relationship, probably through me saying it. Yeah, I guess he wrote about something in his book a little bit, but like, you know, it's just all like the hearsay of like us, me telling stories about it really or if he ever does. But it's strange because we're both friends with Nate. And so when you see one of your friends become very successful, it's cool, but what happened with you was you saw someone

you started with at the very bottom skyrocket to a level that it's like he's a brand. It never stops going like Nate is just in space golf pants now That's yeah, but Kevin Hart is a brand Kevin Hart is in movies people who don't know comedy at all no Kevin Hart Yes, oh, yeah, it's your one of the most famous people my 94-year-old grandmother knows who Kevin hurts Yeah, and she is racist No, and she's trying to stop him. Yeah, she is trying to come down.

No, but everyone knows he is like the household, he's a household name. Absolutely. That's just what it is. Absolutely a household name. And it's a, and it's a guy that used to drive up here with Keith Robinson. Yeah, and do fucking Boston.

Oh, dude, little shit open my, it's just like 5 p.m. shows, you know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. Which is crazy because everybody, listen, not if you're in the entertainment industry in any industry, in any business, when you have a job, when you work with someone who fucking skyrockets to the top, no matter who you are,

it's gonna fucking- Chelsea NV, you're gonna get it. Yes, you're human. So it's like, if you work at a fucking law firm and someone makes partner and you're just like, fucking going to the bar after like, fuck this guy, or if you're at a fucking Taco Bell and a guy gets put on manager,

and you're like, this guy fucking sucks. This guy doesn't even try. Right. And then you're like, he's not even good at this job. Everyone feels that. Yeah, everyone feels that. And Kev was very good at the job, but it was just like, when he was too young for the jobs even and too green and new and like didn't have the skill set

to be where he was, his blind, amazing confidence got him through it until it was real. Yeah, he willed it. I believe he didn't know. I believe he was in major board meeting business, like meetings in his life before he had any fucking clue what was being said in that meeting. And he was kind of like going like, but he would put himself with the right person, but I'm sure he knows it by now. If we were doing a fantasy draft of comedians and someone was like, you're going to go into a boardroom and make a major deal right now. I'd be like, give me Kevin Hart. Oh, yeah.

Give me Kevin Hart as the head of that fucking team. If it's comics, I don't think he has probably, I think he's a level celebrity that they won't tell. If he goes, I want to do a five-picture deal with Warner Brothers, they just go, okay? Really? You will? Yeah. And I mean, listen, there's like insane benefits, obviously.

And then there's drawbacks because when it's comedy, you can't, I mean, you can get to a certain point where you're doing like a football stadium, but then it becomes almost like you're a product. You're not a person. And so you're listening to like, so I said, I've gotten over the envy of the career and the fame because I don't,

when I've seen of what he has, I don't want that. Yeah, I love the cash, but even his lifestyle, this is not my thing. I love the GNP of a small country. Exactly, yes. Yeah, the cash for sure I take, but like the football stadium,

so I had no interest in that. Trish,ish you're gonna go cause terror on tuskeny Yeah, I'm gonna fucking let you go like the Tasmanian devil, but the reason I was able to have such Upstart beginning to let go of those things in my brain Was cuz I was like you know what man like I found my little lane Mm-hmm in broadcasting I started doing skanks, and then me and you started doing the bonfire, and where we're at with the bonfire are so great, and it's amazing, and we're saying,

how good we feel with the company now behind us. Jim McClure, everyone we've met here's just been fantastic to us, and this new contract, particularly, has been just, we've been treated so well. Well, to highlight that, where we were coming from, on Comedy Central, we gave them their first original show with immediate results. Immediate results.

And then kind of toiled because they chose to push Nikki and made her the face of the company, which we joked around about. We really understood that that was a beneficial position for us to be in because then we weren't being monitored heavily. Sure. So we could do whatever the fuck we want. But you also knew who the darling was. We knew that we weren't, we did it on the live at the seller when we went on stage together.

We joked around that we were the first marriage kid, that they didn't give a fuck about us and all they cared about was the new marriage baby. And it was a joke, but also based in truth. So then we moved to faction and it is. Jim has been fucking unbelievable. And they really do make us feel like he's even remarked on our jokes about the posters we've made. Where he's like,

he got DJ Loot stop saying the F word. It's crazy. And that's literally, he's in my phone as Lou. Hmm. We're just, cause he says it so much. So in my phone as Lou. Hmm. Whiskey. Because he says it so much. So. I have his Lou.

Hack. Oh, wow. Playing with the boys, Whiskey. Yeah, it's, but to come to this station and to be, you know, welcome back, he broke us into the studio early. Yes. We're still ahead of everybody. Yes.

No one else is back. Jim and Sam, but I mean our channel. Sure. If you want it to, he fought for his channel to come in and do shows because we know how fucking important it is. Yeah, and it's been absolutely great. And here, I know, you know, I watched the app, I mean I'm on the app and everything, I listen to things on the app.

So, I see he goes, look, Kevin Hart got a channel here, these two was named one. So does Eminem. So what? Yeah, so does L.O. Cool J So they're not involved now. It's a name plays just like the foxhole right Jacob shout out foxhole Yeah, she had a foxhole. So yeah, it was it's a name stamp on a thing Kevin Hart's L.O. L. Comedy show chair Play him and his friends like comedy and I think he does some interviews here. If him and his boys sit down and record something and put it out as a show.

Sure. That's what we do. He has fun with it. And by the way, it may have 10 times the listeners of this show. I don't know. I hope that I doubt it, but let's say it does. Because it's just a different medium for what he does. Sure.

But let's say it does have that. I'm finally going to go, well, that's his followership. Do you know what I mean? We have our superstar. Absolutely. They do now. It's like why it's the reason Schumer's shucking mayonnaise. Yeah. I'm watching fucking superstar and they're like, hey, sell helmets. I'm watching. I'm fucking fucking fucking shit. Hey, man. It's the fuck.

I saw that. I was like, no one in her can't get it. I'm fucking fucking fucking shit. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that.

I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. I saw that. Superstar and they're like hey sell helmets I saw that I was like no one in her camp. Hey, no one in her camp is going like hey me. Oh Hey, would it be mayonnaise?

Hey, do you want to be that's like asking me to be like a fucking fart-cent cleaner. He always plays one of these. He's one of these aerosol. The answer for it at her level, but the answer for it when you go, it's like, hey, are you mayonnaise? And she's like, whatever it costs to buy. House and Coast Guard. Yeah, exactly. We have a cost. So I'm going to say I'm mansion Cape Caution.

Oh, that compound that I have on Martha's Vineyard? Yeah, that. Whatever that is. What it is. So when you. That's what mayonnaise is. Also, I bought me and my family tickets for the spaceship to the new earth And what did you say?

You know you man is mayonnaise man is you fucking grub person Okay, but I'm watching football we all are 49ers giving a tremendous As the week goes on a week. Yeah,. I just as the week goes on a week. Yeah If it this as the week goes on we get more and more detailed about how the Niners beat the Eagles as you call on it the It's took all my brain power to get out of the Eagles funky. I'm sorry You were talking about watching football and the commercial keys ball. He's popping up the first one

Let me say this though. It's weird because like I Kind of caught what was happening the first commercial. I didn't really over even was it the one with Dave Grohl? No, I don't know whatever when it was I just heard kid, but that doesn't mean anything And he does credit card commercial The next door to Neil Brunner. Yeah, it does he? No the capital one commercial. Oh, yeah Right here Kevin. So There Yeah, he does all these commercials. It's a big thing. But then I started just heard, whatever it seemed like serious XM at the

end of it. And then your ears per. By the second time I wasn't paying attention to the variety. I go, that is a series. And then I started realizing there was three separate commercial. The only through person through all of them is Kevin Hart because Kevin Hart is now the face of serious X that Unfucking What a reveal Unfucking believable. He just kind of came in here You know messed around a little bit and now TV commercial the TV even get a nod the TV or the

Just betting tin or Jim and Sam or fucking right. I mean nobody but in their Howard in their mind. How do I wouldn't do this? I know. But even a reference in their mind. They're they betting tin, Jim and all those people go, oh, it's Kev, Kev super famous. So I get what they do it. I have that also just in my head. I'm like, could it be of something besides serious X? I mean, yeah, could you go be the be the space of Television or just in general the television you are the face of television yeah, or even I mean CD wrong Spotify

something yes YouTube YouTube What come on man the one thing? Yeah, dude it is What come on man the one thing yeah, dude it is The one thing I had the Kevin Hart was dominating me at if this clip if this clip ever gets the Kevin Hart Please go into crowd work just go for the trifecta and do it all Crowd cam y'all dude if you said someone fingerless gloves for a hunger the pop and crowd working like dude. It's a word He's like that's like a logical warfare. I'll tell you what that would be so fun Dominate if he would just rode you down and was like you know what I'm gonna start doing something a little gloves

I love that idea and then he just comes for all of our necks I'm a big head comic I go I'm the big head come Hey Big Hago I'm a big head comic. I go, I'm the big head comic. Hey man, I'm the big head, big head go. Why, is that bell? I'm the big head comedy. Big head go, whoop, whoop, there you go. What, I'm the MC Hammer, don't hurt him. But I go, big head.

But I go whoop whoop. This is the thing, I'm a big head. I say whoop whoop big head. Yeah, serious XM and then it's all, we're the people that just work on the grounds. They should have had us. Seriously, listen, anyone listening at Sirius XM talked to your marketing department to have the real radio show, just let us just be extras on the next Kevin Hart commercial.

Please. Can we just have Dave Grohl cooking a lasagna and then it's like Christine, or Lou is leaf blowing in the back with that? I wanna touch CEO. I wanna touch CEO. I wanna touch CEO. I wanna touch CEO. I wanna touch CEO. I wanna touch CEO. Leaf are lose leaf blowing in the back I Yeah, this one versus you just caught me to see like it's just me and you fixing the pipes. Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, you have to get the guy accepting mr. I'm a maybe a maybe I'm wearing a tuxedo and serving him

Food all this is fine, dude. Can I pull a dead critter out of a fucking fucking like it was funny is I bet we could film that whole commercial have it on the air and everything. Yeah. And Kevin won't realize that everybody that was in the commercial was actual talent from series like actual on airtale. Yeah, please can we do that? You guys is next round come on we need it. You can get us help us get our sad cards Jimmy come on Jimmy Jimmy baby Jimmy come on baby like family Jimmy baby

Jason and Daniel put us in the put us on the big screen. I'll be Kevin Hart. This is Lou Leif blowing Okay, everybody. Hey, bro. Yo. Hey, I think it's What are you saying bunny Mr. Hart to me or your cabernet I will 1,000% be Dave Grohl's driver in a serious XM commercial Or is Rody I'll be as serious XM commercial or as Rody I'll be as I'll be as lasagna Rody. Oh, it's tattoo lotioner. Yeah, no, you're not tattooing so they pop I think whatever you need yeah, get the real You come in there and put your finger in and go. Oh, that's a hot lasagna. He goes who are you?

Just finger my food for you get you with a hot pot Yeah, man, you know what hey, I bet this can somebody find out where they're shooting the next one I'm and we'll just crash the shit. Oh my god. I won't come in there with my badge. I'll be swinging badge Yeah, seriously, I don't know I work here. So I'm a real product. It's coming on we're a production go It's a poke here guys. I'm ready for 10 years dude. It's got 1.1 million subscribers on their YouTube channel What that's so many subscribers. Let's go guys. What million subscribers on their YouTube channel. What? That's so many subscribers. Let's go guys. What are you doing?

We're not even on there. Come on. Damn. Come on. Damn, man. You know what? What? I never saw this one.

That's Dave Grohl. Oh, yeah. He doesn't have a channel though, does he? The Dave Grohl experience? Is it like 115? There must be a full-figures pop-up here. Yeah. Oh, yeah pop-ups They got the Metallica pop-up because the black album shut out our good friend Kirk Hammett. There's like food fighters They'll be like the food fighters

Terri is there's your boy cutting a dude look at that studio. He's got a 360. That's almost for drops dude Yeah, it's a 360 dude. I worked in radio. I mean drops dude. Yeah, it's a 360. I worked in radio. I mean, dude. That's a prop. He doesn't know how to work that fucking sound effect. It's not even. I bet he can't loop it either. If you wanted to record in and cut it, by the way, look how bright and perfect it looks yet. He is in a darkly, uh, lit, like, purple lit room, which I would love. We would love that. That's the, they come in here and they got a fucking, they got a fucking they got a Shinas up so they have people hanging lights from the goddamn rafters. They're hit us with UFO lights

just a fucking music Venus flytrap. All right y'all and that calls with cave. Yeah dude I think we should be in the next commercial and I think Can you play this 30 seconds The Dave roll no this yes, no, we're just on is it no it's Dave girl making a lasagne. He yells up to Kevin. Okay. That's this one. I saw Dude think about us betting tin just raking leaves on the front right at that first shot just a Ron betting tin You know what I mean? Sam just doing something up on the front, right at that first shot, just a Ron Beddington, you know what I mean? Sam just doing something up on the roof. Do you know what brings back the fucking veins in the corner of my eyes?

When I see things like this, it's with these things where like, Dave Grohl, like Nick Foles and so many others, were psyched to me Kevin Hart that day. Oh yeah. Like that's what fucking kills them. And I knew who Dave Grohl yeah. Like that's what fucking kills them and I knew who Dave girl was. Like, Kevin, I bet Dave girl this day. Oh, what's your

Nirvana? Come on who? Damn Nirvana. Damn. You do anything since then? Shit I'm. Damn. Who fun is that? James got a show of his shit. Damn. Cancel it. Kantsley. Dude, if I got the fucking notice, if I got the red tag of my locker because of this episode, it would, I would tell you this right now, break my heart, but make me laugh. Very hard. I'd have to get through days of laughter before it hit me that I'm like, oh, I'm jobless. It would take days of laughter for Kim Hard to call that thing just pull the plug.

Pull the plug Six years of consistent. Well, even be mad at Kevin. I go dude falsie smooth dude Talk about a dick flex right there. You know guys. I would send him a DM up I would send him a DM that was never read that just wrote well done. Yeah, dude game and point Let me see if I could pick up some lunch shifts at those comedos. Oh Dude, game and point. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, They were so funny they were pumped Commercials Do I make the money shot? I mean they could have put us in the background that would have been so much better There's a lot of things could have been done a lot of things could have been done different. Fuck that would have been so great.

Geez. Let's talk this commercial. Kevin, do you want some lasagna? Basically like a barrel. I made lasagna! What? I made lasagna! Was that a big dick joke?

No, I think like a barrel. Basically like a barrel? Oh, I don't know. I didn't pick up on that. Go back. It's only a 30 second. Go back. Can I just say how lovable Dave Roll is? Oh, yeah.

Look at his boyish excitement to meet Kevin Hart. He's the best. Dave, if you're listening to this, that's just one half of the opinion. The other half is a boss bitch, dude Yeah, you're so boss that Kevin Hart decided that you'll play the woman making him lasagna whatever true queen You dropped this queen it's a crown Here Haven't you want some lasagna?

Basically like a barrel. I made lasagna! What? I made lasagna! Who's lasagna? What? What? Kevin!

Do you want some lasagna? Who's that? What? What? What? Brett Farve? Yeah. Brett Farve was hanging out.

I don't know who the other person was either. Who is having it? I don't know. But by the way, also they let him in this commercial brag about his, which I can confirm, humongous fat cock. Huh? Yeah. Make sure it's like a piece of shit, but yours is great.

What are you doing? No, I'm going to the white, and the white world dude, you're a show-improver, but, but, but, but, I'm a Princeton guard, baby. Kids got a three pass on. Three pass on shoot, but I, yeah. Duncan NBA big. You could dunk off two feet, baby. Kids got a three past one shoot, but I don't gonna be a big. Are you a dunk off two feet too? But like our Venus.

Yeah, but Cavs Dick is like it's like a Greg Odin. It's like a once generation size. I think I like Brett Farves is having a soak in this commercial. Yeah, for a guy that got in trouble for showing his peg, you think that was dangerously close? He's like, you wanna grab my rubber decky? Hey, sorry, sports reporter. She just called me now, right? I think now she's just a reporter again. Jen's dirt, juror. I think you're right. Yeah. What? What? I made lasagna did they did they Jacob did everyone clap after the commercial

well now this was like the company wide meeting so we were all on zoom and there's like we got a special uh we want to premiere this commercial that's about to air uh we're really excited about it and then they showed it to everyone and did every company wide zoom meeting did everyone clap at the end It you could feel the excitement Was palpable do you want to watch the yellow cool jam? Yeah, I do oh who took our studio. Yeah Yeah, sure I remember I've heard studio five all the classic radio we made in there that yeah yeah yeah it's got walked LL cool would you

building while the show was going on yeah building his studio every one of these commercials every one of these commercials is so excited for days before they filmed this that they were gonna work with Kevin Hart oh my god yeah dude he's a box office hit holy shit Roll it out I am you don't need a car to listen to serious sex and you can listen anywhere you know that right what Kevin you could use your phone I like stuff like heaven hurts laugh out loud radio on serious sex in dizzy. I know you get no What? What? Alexa, play Kevin Hartz Lafayette Radio on Series XM. Does he only?

This is how I know you get known. This is what? What? I don't even know what's happening. Guys, quick question about this, and we'll tweet these commercials out because of course the property of our great company. So why wouldn't we? Is he only listening to his own stand-up on his own channel?

Yes, but why is he keep screaming? Because he loves his own stand-up. What? Maybe you should write a joke that makes you pop like that. Yeah. We're never, I write jokes that I love. Yeah, I just say it's a Kuzawa. I put on my fucking Pandora and Katie just knows

that I just get pumped to hear things that I already know I'm going to say. I know it was just classic. But dude, this is where life is the funniest. That like, you have, you have your dream job. You get to have fucking, we get to have fun for work. Yeah. Things that we would get fired for.

The conversations that you and I would get fired for for working at a bed bath and beyond or a fucking UPS loading center. Yeah. You fucking get to pay for it. Pay for it. And health insurance, it's great. Do we get health insurance?

No. We're just looking to that. Because I think mine's gonna be fine. That's coming out of pocket. I think mine's about to run out. We're all fucking cagilians. Yeah, that's what happens. Yeah, I had a couple years of like just doing like

the specials and whatever. Yeah. And it was like, yeah, and then when they just call and they go, by the way, it's, I mean a couple years of like just doing like the specials and whatever. Yeah, and it was like Yeah, then when they just call and they go by the way, it's I mean you're out Just like you're paying for it now, but like it's not free with the aftertame. We're like My point being is It is hilarious that life is like I'll now the guy that you started with that you compared yourself to at one point, I'm just gonna have rain over you. Yeah. In a Caesar like. I mean, there is going to be branding of Kevin Hart now with the TV commercial. I'm gonna have to get Terry's Kevin Hart,

serious ex-em sweatshirt. Kevin Hart, LLL channel. Yellowirt. Kevin Hart, LOL channel. Yellow L channel. Yeah, I know. You're like, Mom, where did you get that? Just like, just show it out. I don't know. Just show it out here. At the door.

Yeah, family at my door, put it on. Yeah, I think it's just like, but it's also what makes you so great is like, comedy's funny when you're not winning. Oh, yeah. No, it's like, and I said, when I saw it, I said, it was a great, it's a great, it's a great, I was just angry about it only.

I'd sit at home and soak about it. It's hilarious to me that, after finding my, this is, I think, I love broadcast, I love doing radio. Like if Kevin, if, if, Kevin Hart tried to joke around about this, him being at the top and you being at the bottom, he'd look like a fucking asshole. Oh, yeah

But it would be but it is funny that it happens to be the case. Yes I mean, that's what I mean that you know serious what yeah, all right. I'll do the commercial. Oh, that's a guy from Nevada Oh, hello cool Jay nice to meet you Pandora's cool, too. No, he knows the company Pandora's part of the company though. What? Oh cool No, he knows the company Pandora's part of the company though. What oh cool? Do you yeah, man? What if he got into serious and then just became a fan with that weird you out? If he was like man, I've been listening to you guys because I get free serious because I'm the face of serious They insist I listen to because I'm the guy check the product usually I listen to myself and do stand out I bet he's got I bet now The game is Zillion shares of this place

Not as much as Howard though shares wise yeah Whoa the equal no Me you hear what they said the thing the fact that came out to these commercials like everyone was so excited that he's doing it Lou were you on the meeting? No. We are getting, we are getting ready to ask if we can be in the series xM commercials to what we can almost guarantee as a no.

Oh, 100%. I absolutely thought it was not going to get past that. The whole company can't believe Kevin came out of his castle to do it. Actively prepared for us to be fired and they probably helicoptered him from his bedroom window to the set. I wouldn't say I would be I would not be surprised that they filmed it next door to his house just to make it easy. It's very possible. The whole set. Kevin we built a house. Building house next door is for sale. Come on over. We got three commercials. We'll bang it out in three hours. You can give me

Dave Grohl L.O. Cool J. There's no way three hours total was handled on those, those sets. Oh, no, no. I mean, I know it was, but it really, it was because of dicking around stuff and lighting and stuff. What they did filming 16 hours. I mean, no, no, but I mean, they did nothing. Like I'm saying, Kevin Hart was bothered like for an hour

of that day. Just showed up. Nothing. He just did the say three lines. Took a break from listening to the bonfire, went to set, Like I'm saying Kevin Hart was bothered like for an hour of that day. Just showed up nothing He just did the safe three lines took a break from listening to the bonfire went to set just three lines Damn, that's so funny. That is so fucking funny mother fuck He's the face. What was the first part of it? When did it first start happening that you were like? Oh, cat is taking off of it. When did it first start happening that you were like, Oh, cat is taking off. Cause as your friend, soul plane billboard outside of where I went

to eat and queens really, and he was on it. Yeah, wow. Yeah, yeah, that was the first moment. Cause I saw the I saw how the sausage was made on a couple of the other things he did. So like, there's a movie that got popular in the black community called Paper Soldiers that he did with Rockefeller records. And sometimes coming up with them to those like days. So like, so Dave Sash, it was surreal. It was surreal me being in Rockefeller studios as like, I mean, just coming out of being

a teenager. Yeah. Like they were the biggest jazzy. You see Jay-Z in the elevator one time. We wrote the elevator with them and I'm like that's crazy. Yeah, and I talked to Damon dash several times and a bunch of the people that were in the movie and stuff Couldn't weasel my way into it. I was here hanging out a lot. They couldn't find one thing for me I guess I haven't got David Lewis and Z rock. Yeah Now what are you gonna do?

So you're talking about paper solvers. So I'd go'd go with M.C. paper to do paper solvers. And that was like a thing. It came out and it was like a hood hit. Sure. Patrice was in it for a moment. I mean, I was like, oh, it was ridiculous. But I didn't really strike me saying anything. He went to L.A.

He did a pilot, which looked pretty cool because Judge Reinhold and Amy Polar were in it. And Jason Segal. Okay. So it was people that were in it. And I was like, oh wow. I know that guy. Like you're the thing with a real people here. Yeah, I Just before how I met your my all that was that's Jason Segal's. Yeah, it was before all that and everything so

It but I was still a judge for Reinhold. I was like, wow, this is crazy. Amy Polar was a somehow maybe at that point S&L But it was a pilot that went nowhere shut out Patel directed maybe at that point, SNL, but it was a pilot that went nowhere, it's Joe Dapetel, directed, pilot that went nowhere, and then they just, then they put Kiv, I heard that he'd done spots, oh, he's still in Philly. Yeah. He had done spots on freaks and geeks.

Yeah, okay. No, not freaks and geeks. 40 million version. No, he did another one after that, another show after that called like undecided or something. Undeclared. Undeclared. I remember undeclared. He did a couple of guests spots on that, and he was in a show and that called like undecided or undeclared. I remember undeclared.

He did a couple of guests spots on that and he was in a show and I'm like, whoa, I'm crazy. And then he went to Montreal. No, that was all after Montreal. He went to Montreal very quickly. That's what happened. And when you saw him get Montreal to explain to the people at home, a little more than bonfire context.

Comedy context. Comedy context. The Just For Last Montreal Comedy festival is a very big deal where in the 90s and early 2000s, you went there to get representation, a fucking deal. A deal. You could get a development deal. You're at least a holding deal. You get it.

If you did new faces, if I do well, I'll probably walk out of this with six figures in my life for the next year at least. Yes. I knew... From broke, from broke. They stopped doing that. They stopped giving away deals, and then I remember.

I think you were a million dollar deal to a one that failed and you killed himself. Exactly. Michael Chicken Roof. Yeah. And then I remember when later, much later, after you had done Montreal, it was like five years after, I remember the first person I knew

that got a development deal at Montreal again was Kumail Non-Jiani. You got a, and like he was doing bar shows with all of us. And then he came back from Montreal. He's like, they fucking signed me. And you're like, that's crazy. Remember Smoking weed with him and talking about he was going to buy a TV in the new Mortal Combat. It was like such a simple thing. He's like, I'm going to get a TV and I'm going to buy the new brand new Mortal Combat and play it non-stop. And I was like, look, yeah, dude, that's awesome. And then Montreal kind of became, it still

is a massive festival. But it now, Kevin is part of the festival. Yeah, it's stuff like that. Now he's literally part of the festival. What are the owners of it? Like they pay new faces for their sets now, and he puts it on his LOL. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Or they did it one year. They did it in 2019 when I was there. I think they are though. It's a special thing they're paying. But they're also hilarious that you're like telling his story, his rise.

And then you're like, he went to Montreal, which he's part of. But he, um, no, so it's just like, it's interesting that, um, well, we're the world. Because we were talking about undeclared. Oh, it being on the show. So when he, when he really popped and I said like, he told me he was doing soul playing. I was talking to him told me he was doing a soul plan. I was talking to him still when he was out in, uh, in LA.

Yeah. At that point where you guys, when did the consistent communication search to dry up when he was like doing, I mean, months into being in LA. Yeah. So he was just in LA and then I was like, I'm in LA. Uh, he just, I get it. Dude, he's, it's, it's why he's at where he's at. I mean, he just drove every day,

I bet there was not a wasted minute. Besides probably like pussy getting issues or wanting to get pussy or whatever, or we actually moved out there with Tori though, so maybe not even right out of the gates like that. He was just focused, man. He was just like, but every day was like a thing. Yeah, just moving.

Yeah, I'm meeting with this thing. I mean, it's crazy. I'm just gonna show meaning, Edwards are writing a show. Me and Ian Edwards are writing a show Me and this one are writing a show. We're trying to get this pitched over here. We're doing everything and the same thing was like I'm gonna wake up, you know But man didn't go pick up. Yeah, play Madden. So I go pick up Cav to play basketball I said before I pick up kid play basketball. He's like I did this today. I film myself for an audition for whatever

Dude chill we're five months in yeah, like today I film myself for an audition for whatever. What the fuck? What was I do? Chill. We're five months in. Yeah. Like, relax. But even what you were saying earlier, that determination, that fucking drive and focus is why he can go into a boardroom and talk to CEOs like I got the idea. Oh. And they're like, sure, fuck yeah.

I mean, kept getting a meeting with like Steven Spielberg with the fuck. Now, but I'm talking about when you were saying early on when you have that kind of focus you go in there and you're like, him with like Steven Spielberg with the fuck out. Now, but I'm talking about, yeah. When you were saying early on, when you have that kind of focus, you go in there and you're like, you know, I remember the first page. He pitched a show, like, I mean, the first show he pitched, he got. I'd he booked it, and that was that, and that ends up being short lived, they got six episodes and canceled, but like, got six episodes on NBC or whatever. That's crazy. Cause pitch meetings basically, you go in and there's just a group of people that are like,

what do you got? Yeah. And it's all how you fucking sell that shit. Yeah. And I have on who you are, but I mean, the Kev wasn't like a name at the time. No, but that, so he moves to LA and that's when you guys stop talking.

I mean, I went out there one time, I stayed with him once overnight one time. And then he was kinda telling me, I said it was funny, it was like, I then he was kind of telling me, I said, it was funny, it was like, I'd say, this is gonna happen to me. I think on this card that I'm getting now, but he remember he called, he goes, it's crazy man, it was actually a grand Cherokee too.

He goes, crazy man, what on a car? They asked me, they called me up, they were car, were color, blah, blah, blah, they dropped it off with a key, paperwork was all done, and I'm like, what? He was just, he was just, so many years ago, I had a business manager and a person, paperwork was all done. And I'm like, what? He was just, he was so many years ago, I had a business manager and a person handed all that stuff. We have this now, me and you,

but if you wanted a car, you don't have to go to a car dealership. Yeah, I'm bad at that. Me too. I'm bad at doing the new way very much. I am also, but I'm saying we have the ability to do that, I'm saying. We have a person to do that.

Manages your finances. He had the ability to do that, where you don't have a person the ability to do that. Man is your finance right here The ability to do that where you don't have to go into a cardio ship Three years in the comic, you know, I'm saying like that's insane I was eating staff meal from my fucking restaurant job Six years in the comedy just being like God if I could get fucking drink tickets at the I Yeah, I the Comedy Central and I still waiting tables. I'm sure on TV and I still at the restaurant, right? Yeah, I get comedy central and I still have waiting tables. I mean, I ate seller food to nauseam because I was there.

I was there six, seven nights a week. I'm eating that night. Six, seven nights a week I was eating there. Yeah. And it was just like, it was, but it was half price. The only, which is not the same at all, but the only comparison I have was B was knowing Pete when he was 15,

16 and then 17 feature in forming that him being like, Nick Cannon wants to manage me. And then you're like, all right. And then it's like, Nick Cannon's going to pull him out while it out. And then it's just like up and up. And then of course, SNL. And then we're still even the way that we're friends with Pete now where he's like, oh, I'm not going to do one time. Pete still reads to me as a as a younger kid. You know, I mean, like still reads to me as a younger kid. You know, I mean, like to me, still like a younger guy. He's a far more accomplished in entertainment than I am. He is put out on his own movie.

No, no, of course, as I'm saying. So if he's far more accomplished in it, but I think me and him also still even kind of keep in some way. Like, I don't think he feels bad for me that I know like that his kind of famous. Do you think Kevin feels bad? Do you think he felt bad for me that I know like that his kind of famous. Do you think Kevin feels bad? Do you think he felt bad for you like when he started getting famous?

No, no, no, I'm just saying when a young person, she's like, there's, I wouldn't say the names, there's comics who like, person now, if you don't like it, I go, yeah, I sort of just feel bad for them because I never really popped the way they wanted it to pop. Yeah, sure. And it is what it is.

I don't think Pete feels bad for me that it knows that he's far more successful, financially and everything and fame wise than I am. I don't think Pete feels bad for me that it knows that he's far more successful financially and everything and fame wise And I think I think he still sees like oh, I'm just like in one of the older comics that was nice to him and treated him well I mean, I saw I saw him last week and he acted very he's the same Yeah, but then he's like, you know, I'll tell you a story where he's like I'm vendors all called me Crazy yeah, no, he's living a crazy life. But I'm just saying like, I just we don't have that kind of difference. Like, Kev was your friend that came up with and then went to California and we lost touch. Neither of ours fought more than the others. But we lost touch

and, uh, and yeah, but his life was like, I mean, like, the next thing you'd see was like, I was got invited to a party on the way and weights, but, you know, I mean, like, to tell us some story on something and you're like, whoa, dude. And I'm like, I remember got invited to a party on the Wayne Wades, but you know, I mean, like, to tell us some story on some thing and you're like, whoa, dude. And I'm like, I remember like talking about sports stars could be played video games together. You know what I mean? Like, you can play with the Wayne Wade against me. You're like, now is boy.

That's wild. You can hang out. You can call him. And then I just don't even know when it just went from like that to like, then I'm seeing the line around the, around the mall for his movie. Yeah. And that was when Isabella said, don't you know him? And I was like, yeah, she goes, why don't you have a movie in the movie theaters? And it's all goes, and Karla goes, isabella don't?

I go, well, don't tell her she's wrong for saying. So you're telling her that it's like your dad's upset that he's a loser. Yeah, don't point out. Don't point out his shit. Don't point out your dad's shit. You can be like, well, I don't have a movie because you because of you, I guess, because I couldn't go out the LA and chase that. I guess that's how things worked here. No, man, but that is that's a very interesting is your friend because I know you post Kevin. I know you is I moved here in 07.

We became friends, smoke and cigarettes playing video games. And you were just my buddy who also was like a headliner and I wanted to like open for me like me Lewis and Dave would be the guys hang it out. You know Lewis and me but that I'm so funny that we've seen that's like my headlining was so in free. So you guys were going with me on the once a month that I did anything but that's what's crazy about Nate was Nate. I became friends with and he just started headlining. And he was like, you all be my feature. And it was like, we all knew how fucking hilarious Nate was. Always, but then like, now to see him.

And I'm like, I called him the other week. I'm like, teacher hanging out with Jay Cutler. And he's like, I know, it's crazy. But he's like, dude, we used to watch, like I remember when Jay Cutler was on the Broncos, Nate would cheer for the Broncos because he loved Jay Cutler so much, because he was a bandit.

He was a winter Vanderbilt. And he's like, I taught, he's like, I text with him about Vandy football, I'm like, come on, dude. Come on, that's fucking wild. That's fucking crazy. It's like no one in the offensive coordinator your favorite team. Dude, but here, I usually,

I'm joking, I'm fucking with him. You know, I get poor, you get cock. But I only get a small amount of time to enjoy this. I only get, like I said, it's like my buddy asked me at the Lions game. I know it's a good deal. You're a good deal. You're a good trade in the same way he does.

Like, when he gets traded, or if you go somewhere else, you're going somewhere else. I got, that's what I mean. Yeah. Like when Chad was like, hey, you're going to come, you're going to come with me when he takes a new job. And I'm like, yeah. Psh.

Psh. Uh, do we? Sign me up. Chargers, home opener. You're gonna come with me when he takes a new job and I'm like yeah Do we sign me up chargers home opener? You've been listening to serious XM's bonfire new episodes every Tuesday through Friday mornings and full shows always on SiriusXM!