I think everyone should be in therapy, especially more men need to be in therapy. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But they're very reluctant. Men are very reluctant. My best friend, his name is Josh. He's my age. He just went through a second divorce. He's been very depressed. And I told him, I was like, you should go to therapy. And he was like, nah, running, running. That's my therapy. And I was like, oh, that's so interesting, because sushi. That's my hair cut. What the fuck are you doing? We. We need. We need to treat depression like the disease that it is, right? Yes, yes. You know, you wouldn't tell someone with diabetes to run it off. Cause you need both feet.

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We'Re gonna get pretty stoned and go to the mall tomorrow and see the seals. And, you know, it's these poor seals. Cause, you know, at least at a zoo, they recreate a natural habitat. But, like, I don't. I don't think any of these seals grew up next to a Spencer's gifts, and that's gonna be tough for them.

The next episode of the commercial break starts now. The 30th of the morning. Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is not my mission. Missing best friend, Kristen Joy Hoadley. She is away in Memphis, seeing yet another concert, being at yet another festival as her husband plows through May with a concert or festival every single weekend. So best to you out there in the podcast universe. I'm going to be your only host today, Brian. And as you're listening to this, I'm probably getting a tooth cracked out of my head while my eyes are still open. It's literally my living nightmare. Uh, but why listen to my drama when you can listen to today's TCB infomercial with one of the funniest touring comics out there, g on Marco Sorosi. We actually interviewed Gian Marko a while ago, but because he is in the frozen tundra of Canada when we interview him, his Internet was really spotty, and he dropped off a few times, no fault of his own. We love this conversation with Gian Marko. It took me a while to edit it in a way that is listenable, and so I think I've got a good one on deck for you today.

Gian Marko is on a forever. He's touring forever. You can go to his website, gianmarco source.com dot. Don't worry, you don't have to know how to spell it. I'll put a link in the show notes and you can see if he's coming to your town. He probably is coming to your town because he's got dates through December 31. You know, a comic is good when they are touring 160 nights in just the last six months of the year. I mean, this guy is everywhere all the time. He's also got a hilarious podcast that I have started to listen to, and it's called the downside with Gianna Gianmarco Sourcey. And tune into the latest episode where they decided whether or not he's actually turning into Jeff Goldblum. It's a weird conversation on alternate universe theories. I think you're going to laugh a lot, and I think you're going to like it. So let us not delay, let us not waste a lot of time listening to me drabble on because I have to go and, you know, get x rays of my jaws. They know where to put the bone graft in my head. Brush your teeth, kids, brush your teeth.

That's all I got to say. So, Gianmarco Sourcy, here's our interview with him. Why don't we do this? Normally I ask Chrissy about this, but I'm going to ask you, the podcast listener, why don't we take a break? And then when we come back, through the magic of telepodcasting, I will have Gianmarco right here in the studio. A couple of months ago, a while ago, recording an interview with our dear friend Gianmarco Sourcey. And enjoy this special Friday TCB infomercial. I know you're gonna love it, so let's take a break. We'll be back with Gianmarco.

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Oh, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good.

You're in very cold Edmonton.

Yes, I'm performing in. It's a mall. It's one of the biggest malls. It's a comedy club in a mall. It's the second biggest mall in North America.

Oh, really?

Yes. They have seals. They have a seal show.

Wow.

Yeah, because that's why. Because these colder places, they have to make it all.

Yeah, we were talking about that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Not the seals. We weren't talking about the seals. We had no idea about the seals. But we were wondering. So we had heard. Maybe this is just like, you know, one of those rumors you hit. Legends. Like, urban legends.

Canada legend.

Does Canada. Do they have tunnels where they can, like, walk from place to place?

No, you're. You're thinking of the hasidic Jews in New York City. I think. I. I don't. I mean, I haven't seen any. I don't know.

Certainly maybe covered walkways. I don't know. Maybe just. They have huge malls. That's.

I think so. Like, there's definitely, like, tunnel like, things that I walked through to get to the comedy club.

There you go.

Minus one, bro. That's way. That's what minus one, but feels like what minus one feels like. Minus ten. I grew up in Chicago, and minus one is. That's even cold for a guy from Chicago.

Chicago, sure. I mean, I don't know how you grew up in Chicago. I can't even imagine.

I didn't have a choice in the matter. But now I'm down here in Atlanta, and I'll never go back because I don't know how people live in that terribly windy and cold city. In the summer, it's lovely and hot, but in the winter, it's not. Gianmarco. I have more important things to talk.

To you about, and it's a pressing question.

It's a pressing question. Inquiring minds want to know. Christy and I do. You like your dental hygienist?

You know, I am glad you brought that up. I appreciate that. I used to be on the actors union insurance many years ago, and then I did not make enough money to qualify, so I had to, like, downgrade all my doctor. I had to lose. I lost my whole team. And so the doctor I see now they're in Chinatown, and they. No one at the office speaks English, which, honestly. Okay, it's fine. There's nothing. There's nothing wrong with that. It can be, you know, I think when they lecture me about, you know, what I should be doing, I don't follow. So, you know, I don't feel bad.

They're just saying, floss more.

Floss more. That's what they.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's it's going. It's going. Okay. You know, I don't seem to have a lot of cavities, and I think that's just genetics, you know, that's really.

Good news because Chrissy and I were just talking off air about this pressing problem we have with our hygienists. Just to fill you in on why we would even ask the question, please. Ridiculous.

Is that.

Is that Chrissy, I like to talk.

Yeah, we have chatty hygienists. And when we. You know, when you got somebody sticking things in your mouth.

Well, then you. You should see my guy. We have no conversations at all.

See, that's perfect.

I want the name and phone number because my idea is you're gonna go to Chinatown. I'm gonna go to Chinatown.

It's cleaning.

I wish we had a Chinatown. My identist likes to show me pictures of her dog while she's cleaning my teeth and then wants me to react to the dog. And I'm like, honestly, I don't care. I mean, I could care, but I really don't. Now's not the time to talk about your dog. Let's go. Let's get this.

They're holding you captive?

Yes.

Yeah. I think you always. People. People need to understand when they have a captive audience and go, like, if in this situation, I should be. And think about, she's showing her dog to everybody. She doesn't get tired of showing this dog.

Well, she doesn't get tired because no one can tell her that we really don't want to talk to her about her dog.

Everybody seems enthusiastic. I guess.

I wonder if she's ever, like, on a date and, you know, the dates not paying attention to her. So she just puts her hands in the mouth just to be like, you know, let me talk a little.

I don't know if I could even look at another human being the same way. If I was a gynecologist or a hygienist or a proctologist, I'd be like, no, I'm good with humans. They're all good. You have a really funny bit that I was watching about men going to therapy and how when you ask, when you tell your friends, you're like, hey, man, you should go see a therapist. You should do some therapy. And your friends will respond with something like, no running, jogging. It's my therapy. I feel. I go to therapy and I love it, but I feel like I get this response from a lot of my friends too. They'll be like, no, running is my therapy. No, I do things on Saturday. I'm going to cut the grass. It's a meditative state of mind. Or drugs and alcohol. That's my therapy. But I totally agree with you. Are you a longtime therapy guy?

Yeah, I think I was skeptical for a little bit because both of my parents were deeply in therapy, and it didn't seem to do shit for them. But, you know, I went through. I went through, like, a bad breakup. More. More like someone I dated for five years, and then they got married to someone else. And so I finally went to therapy. And, you know, it's tough because it's twofold. One, I think we need to reframe therapy as, like, it's just getting advice from someone outside who isn't, who doesn't have an investment or, you know, their own motivations.

Totally.

But I also think, like, there is kind of a more conservative angle of, like, don't go to therapy. And I think the reason is, if you really pent up your problems, that gives you the kind of energy to do things like storm the Capitol and go to war. And I really. I really do believe that, like, some of the propaganda against therapy is simply that, no, we need you to be pent up so we can direct that frustration towards a very specific cause.

Yeah, I like this line of thinking right here, because I've always said, you know, I think we have a loneliness problem in this country. Like, people are extraordinarily lonely, grasping at straws, hoping for meaning in their life. And a therapist could probably tell them, you know, hey, there's. Listen, there's no hope or meaning. You just kind of got to trudge through from one to the next. But you'll be okay, bro. But I kind of. I think I might agree with you for this. People aren't as angry and fearful if they're a little bit self aware. So it's like, you know, then they don't, you know, go so crazy.

It's the same thing with, like, masturbation. You know, I think religions go, you know, don't jerk off, because then if you don't, you get so mad. You're like, we all need to go to church on Sunday, and you need to give the money. And it's. You know, it's. It's that. That's the real impetus, I think, for that kind of thinking.

We have a. We've given bumper stickers out. We support men's prostate health.

Yes, we do.

And our. We need to stay healthy with our masturbation. We have 21 EPM stickers which means 21 ejaculations per month. That'll bring your chance.

We're doing our part.

Yeah, we're doing our part.

For a second, I thought it was per minute, and I was like, whoa, I gotta. I gotta go, guys. I'm behind.

That's our time.

And that's our time with Gianmarco today.

Thank you very much.

I love your name. Obviously italian, right?

Italian. I'm much more jewish, but they, you know, I'm probably like, God, God knows, a 10th, an 8th Italian. It's humiliating, but that's the name they gave me. Yeah. It just feels like a lie. My name feels like a lie sometimes.

I love the name because I used to work at a trattoria, like, a place called La Strada Trattoria, you know, an italian restaurant owned by a. Like, a real, like, an italian, off the boat Italian. Wonderful restaurant. Made great food. Neighborhood restaurant. But one of the managers, his name was Gian Marco, and so Gian Marko, he would sit at the corner of the bar smoking cigarettes. At the. At the corner of the bar. This is how long ago it was. He'd be on there smoking cigarettes, and, you know, people would come in, and he'd be like, Brian, send them a bottle of Chiante classico. And it was this cheap swill that we had boxes and boxes in the back. And so he'd be like, oh, get them two bottles of ga chiante classico. Give them cayente classico. And then inevitably, I'd go, yeah, Gian Marko, what do you want me to do with the bill? You're gonna void it, comp it, whatever. He'd be like, wait, Taco Bell. Put it on the bill. And I'd be like, what? You just told me to bring them two bottles of chiat classico, and you charge $50 for this fucking swill, and now you want them to pay for it?

They drank it because they thought it was free. Sure, yeah.

I mean, he sounds like me. An italian jew. I wish, you know, I did Rosetta stone for Italian twice, and the only word I remember is Rosetta. So it's been. It's my dad. He pretended, like, when I was a kid, you know, he's my dad. He's probably a quarter italian. But he told me growing up that I was, like, 100% italian. And I believed him because I know I hadn't learned about fractions yet. And I was like, okay, that makes sense. Jewish mom, italian dad. And he would. He would. He. Like. I mean, we watched the Godfather. Like, it was like, a home movie. He would. He would tell us, in my family, he. There's this. There's this symbol. It's like a sicilian or italian symbol. It's like three legs around a head or something. And he would tell me, be like, son, that's our family crest. And I don't know. It's like he never. He thought I would never grow up. He thought I'd never, like, Google, what is this image? So it's just, my life has been a lie. And I wish there were more, like. Cause with the Jews, when I was younger, I did the birthright trip, and I wish Italians had a thing for, like, the Vatican or something.

I think that would be fun, though. I don't know. I think if the Vatican was like, oh, yeah, we give a free trip to little boys, I'd be like, that's okay. I'm gonna slide on that one.

Let's rethink that.

You gotta get to the Vatican when you're young to dissuade you from believing that the Vatican is just really a holy. It's like a bank for the richest human being in the world. I mean, I don't know if you've been to the Vatican, but I have.

No, I did when I. When I got older.

Yeah, me too.

And every. Every piece of artwork, they're like, this one's priceless. This one's priceless. Remember? To help the poor. And you're like, exactly.

Then they have the collection plate outside, and it's like, I want you to. For what fucking reason do you want.

The collection plate is like a Michelangelo plate that costs $10 billion. You're like, sell the plate.

Exactly. I was in the Sistine Chapel, and there was a guy walking around with a basket, and I was like, you got to be fucking kidding me. You got the Sistine Chapel above you. Sell a piece of that, you'll be fine.

Yeah.

Saying this as a good Catholic. Of course. So, Gianmarco, you have this podcast that I think is really funny. How long have you.

Downside.

The downside. How long have you had the podcast for?

Oh, boy. Maybe like two and a half years. It's crazy to think you guys have been.

Yeah, that's a. That's a long time in the podcast industry to have that.

Yeah. 2020.

Yeah.

We've been like everybody else.

Oh, so smart. I wish I had started in 2020. That was. That was the time to do it. Yeah, I did die.

It looks like you've had a little bit of success.

Listen, your studios, prettier than mine, I'll tell you that. It's a beautiful studio.

You can't. That's just what you see on tv.

That's just what you see on tv.

The other half is chaos.

Yeah.

Wires hanging everywhere, taped stuff.

Don't worry, John Marco, it won't look this good forever as one of my children will eventually need their room back. So. Sure, sure.

That's going to be something. A whole generation of kids who had to sleep in a podcast studio.

Right?

I keep on telling Chrissy that this podcast, you know, most parents are going to give their children reason to go to therapy. As a matter of fact, I think parents have been keeping therapists in business for a very long time. But Chrissy and I are just loading the gun full of ammunition for my children. They're going to be years in therapy just to try and unravel. Unravel what's going on with my friends. That's right.

I pay for my own therapy now. But it was very funny in the beginning when my parents would pay for me to go tell a stranger what pieces of shit they were 24/7.

Wow. So your parents were paying for your therapy when you first got into therapy?

Yeah, yeah, they felt, I think in the beginning they felt responsible. You know, my parents are divorced multiple times, and I felt justified in being like, you know, you owe me this.

You owe me this to each other or two separate people. Divorced and remarried.

Yes, they got divorced. No, never. There was no parent trap situation with.

Them because that happened to me. So.

Really?

Three times. Three times they got married to each other.

Three ceremonies.

Yes, three ceremonies.

How many people were at the third ceremony?

There was, you know, the courthouse.

Yeah.

Wow, that is. That is pretty incredible.

Yeah.

No, definitely not. My mom married my dad's former lawyer. It was part of the divorce settlement and part of it, but they got divorced and then my dad got married and then lots of girlfriends. Lots of long term girlfriends. But he's single now. Single, yeah.

Is he on hinge? Is he on.

No, he's more on, like, kind of the russian mail order type sites. Like, he's doing a lot of Google translating for his. For his messages.

That fits right in with married at first sight. Yeah, we love.

Maybe your dad has a chance to become a B list celebrity on TLC. You just keep prodding him along and ending to this. I know it.

I don't think so. I think. I think he would. He'd be a great reality tv character, but I think I would be canceled by association.

Do you watch certain shows on tour or when you're traveling, do you get, you have a couple go to?

Do you have any, like, comfort food for your eyeballs?

Trash tv, if you will?

Yeah, I try. I have more, like, comfort podcasts. I'm more like, I'm more into, like, you know, if succession is when that was playing white Lotus, I save it for, like, the really good I can talk about with friends. I'll watch curb your enthusiasm now and then, Seinfeld now and then. Those are my comforts.

Those are good ones.

Do you enjoy being like, you're on an epic tour right now? I mean, just a scan of your website. And by the way, you were exhausted. You can get tickets on Gianmarco's website. We'll put a link in the show notes. But I feel exhausted just looking at your schedule. You're like, five nights here, four nights there, three nights there.

It seems like exciting places, though.

Yeah. At least they're nice places. Places to visit.

Yeah. I mean, it's, it's tough. It's, it's a constant navigation of, like, keeping healthy and my sanity and my sleep and trying to have fun.

Yeah.

And sometimes I'm alone and now I, I go with, now I'm able, luckily, to bring an opener with me who's like a friend and a pal and, you know, like, tomorrow, you know, I've been, I've been doing this. This is my third weekend I've done in Edmonton in my life, and the first two were tough. Going to a seal show by yourself is just, it's brutal.

Okay, so we lost John Markle there for a second, but I want to tell you that we usually wouldn't, like, tell you that we lost John Marker. We just, like, piece it back together. But here's the craziest thing. So, John Markle, while you were gone on your little break, Chrissy was, I said, that's what happens when you fuck with the seals in Canada. They cut your Internet. And Chrissy goes, oh, you mean like the guy, the singer? And I go, no, the animal saying.

When you went to a seal show, buy yourself, like, a seal concert.

She thought she would.

I see no, Seal. Seal would rather. Seal's not performing in Edmonton anytime soon.

Yeah, I don't know who is opening. Speaking about having an opener.

Oh, sure, sure. He's actually from Atlanta originally. Liam Nelson is his name.

Okay.

Very good. Very good comedian. And we're gonna get, we're gonna get pretty stoned and go to the mall tomorrow and see the seals and, you know, it's these poor seals because, you know, at least at a zoo, they recreate a natural habitat. But, like, I don't, I don't think any of these seals grew up next to a Spencer's gifts, and that's gonna be tough for them.

When you, you say you're gonna go get Ridley Stone. Is, I'm assuming weeds legal in Edmonton?

I mean, the weed was legal in Canada way before, way before us. So, I mean, I just, I remember the day. I remember coming to Canada, like, I don't know, 17 and being like, getting weed. It was like, whoa. And now in New York, there's weed stores everywhere. It's everywhere.

Reading about the debacle going on in New York.

What, which debacle? What did you read?

Well, I guess there's a lot of political, you know, mess, I guess, kind of who gets a dispensary, who's allowed to, who's not. There's stuff on every corner, people doing stuff under the table. I don't know. I just read a little article about it this morning.

Weren't. Yeah, they were.

Sure.

It's the weed dispensary. Licenses to family members. People have been convicted of nonviolent marijuana.

Well, there's, there's one, there's this first was just a workout studio. It's called Con body. And the. The instructors are all. Yeah, the instructors are all former inmates. They never specify of what. Because, you know, if my fitness instructor, if my fitness instructor, you know, killed somebody, I'll pay extra. That's the kind of motivation that I need. You know, just pull out a knife, be like, squat lower than this. That'll get me down. And it's a little bit. It's. It's a little bit hokey. It's. It feels a little weird. Like they're like, you know, the doors, prison bars and. But then they just opened a weed element to this company. So now it's like, it's this whole, like, hey, be a criminal. It's very surreal, but good. If it helps the people who went to jail for pot. Good. Give them the money. Give them the money, please.

Yes.

I couldn't agree more, actually. I think it's a fantastic.

Well, I guess there's not enough of that happening.

Well, I think it's just a slow process. It's like everywhere, you know, you start putting in red tape, and I understand there needs to be red tape and you need to be monitored and carefully, whatever, calculated and all that stuff. But I just want them to start making the weed gummies with an even amount of weed you know what I'm saying? Saying. Because if I eat one corner, I don't get it. I'm fine, and I eat the other corner.

Oh, my God. I've been talking to this. I've been talking about this recently. Cause I do that, too. I do the. I sometimes be like, oh, I just want five. I eat half. I don't feel anything. And I'm like, oh, I'm guessing getting. I guess I'm getting, like, immune to fives. And then I have the other half, and I'm, like, fucking dead. That's such a good point.

Yeah, because this is, like, a couple of months ago, and my. One of my friends brought back from California, like, these. Extremely potent, it says right on there, extremely potent. Caution. 50 milligrams per gummy. 50. Whatever it is. Micrograms, milligrams of THC. And I was like. He goes, dude, you got a nibble, bro? Nibble a little bit here, little bit there. Like, don't try and pack that power punch right into one bad boy. And I go, no, you don't have to convince me, like, I'm full of anxiety. I know. I know. Most weed is going to send me into a tailspin. So one night, just having fun, and I took a little nibble. Nothing. Not a thing. I didn't feel a damn thing. I was walking around the house just fine. So a couple of weeks later, then I nibble on the other side of it, and Gianmargo. I had a six hour long panic attack in the middle of the night, questioning my existence, wondering if my children were okay. And they were right there laying in the bed with me. And I'm like, are they okay? Should I go check out. Oh, there they are.

It was insane. They need to, like, even that shit out. They do. I think it's 2024. They have some technology. It's some technology to figure out.

Yeah, it's called. It's called mixing. Mixing the batter. But that's kind of fun. That's like. That's what it. That's what it used to be like in. In high school. Someone would make weed brownies with the butter and the melt, and you had no idea what kind of night you were gonna have. So it adds a little excitement into our life. Drugs are supposed to be a little bit risky. I think we forgot that. We're like, oh, this drug. It was a little surprising. Yeah, that's the whole point.

We were talking to Reggie Watts about drugs, and just a couple of weeks ago, you know Reggie Watts. You know Reggie Watts.

I did. I did cordon. He was. He was watching from the side.

Nice. Yeah, he did. So he was telling us about New Brew. Yeah, new brew. But then he was explaining to us about how he was experimenting with ketamine. He had gone through this ketamine phase where he's experimenting with ketamine, and the guy sounded like he had it down to an exact fucking little bit of this.

And then there's that. Talk to that person.

I take three milligrams of this. I take four milligrams of that. And I thought to myself, I need this guy to help me dose my weed gummies so that I keep myself out of trouble. The podcast that you have, you were named one of the very funny people in podcasting by podcast magazine.

Oh, yeah. Big, big publication. I mean, everywhere, every year, people go, what is podcast magazine saying these days?

Well, we. We share that distinction.

We share that distinction of having no one look at our podcast magazines.

I was like, they have a magazine for podcasts.

Wait, they have a magazine for podcasts? Where do you pick that up?

Like, we had a whole feature in it.

Yeah. Where do you pick one of those up? At the same gas station where you get that? These people were arrested last week. Magazine, talking about.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, in Florida, you go to the gas station, you could pay $1.50 to get mug shots of, like, it's a magazine full of mug shots of the locals that have been arrested. And I thought, maybe that's where they give out podcast magazine, because I don't know where I can pick up my local coffee, but I think it's. I think it was a funny concept. And Chrissy and I got invited to do, like, a, you know, like an expose, I guess is what you would call it. Just a couple of months after the podcast started, right?

We were excited.

We were so excited. We thought, this is it. We've hit the big time. They're finally taking notice. Everyone's there. Until the guy who did the interview just kept asking Chrissy to do a threesome with him and his wife. And I realized exactly why.

My wife, I think you're so beautiful, and blah, blah, blah, blah. I was like.

I want to know who made this threesome request. Was it podcast magazine or someone else?

It was someone writing. Someone writing on behalf of podcast magazine. We met him in a clubhouse room, if you remember. That was a thing for three minutes. So we met him in a club.

I do.

And then he started, and then Chrissy and I did a couple of live podcasts. On clubhouse. There were, like, 16 people in there. I mean, no one was in these rooms, but he was. And so Chrissy had her picture up on the thing. So then all of a sudden, the guy starts, you know, messaging me, hey, I want to do a feature for you guys in podcast magazine. And I was like, oh, this is so exciting. Yeah, podcast magazine finally taking notice. Finally after a month of podcast.

I mean, to be fair, this is. This is like when someone at a mall is like, hey, you ever want to be a model, kid, you should come back to my place. Let's take some pictures. You know, you should be skeptical. If anyone wants to feature your podcast in anything, you should go. They probably want to fuck. There's no way this is anything to do with the podcast.

True story. But, you know, we were young and dumb and naive. Yeah. We were just as bad at podcasting as we are now. And we just thought, hey, listen, maybe this is our break. Maybe this is something. But then when we started thinking about it, we were like, wait, there's a magazine for fucking podcasting? Does anyone really pay attention to this podcast magazine? And what we found out was, clearly, no. Nobody listens to pod. No one reads or cares about what anybody has to say about podcast magazines. It's a ridiculous venture.

Such a weird thing to, like, try to, like, pick up people, try to hook up with people in podcasting, a career notorious for people who have chosen to not be on camera. It's like. It's like, you know what? I'm not great at this. I'm gonna go for the people with the face for radio. That's who I'm gonna try to.

Yeah, the guy got on a Zoom call.

It was interesting.

I'm telling you.

You even got a butt dial right from the guy later with his wife in the hot tub.

Yeah, they were in the hot tub. It was just a whole weird scene. I mean, I don't want to get into, like, how do you get it?

How do you get a butt dial in the hot tub?

I'm not sure. I'm not sure it was a butt dial.

Oh, I sat on my phone. I'm in a hot tub. You want to join? That's insane.

Sorry. My balls touched call. But while we're at it, let me facetime you. Let me dick time you. He was a character. I later found out that none of them got paid for any of the work that they did. So I guess he. I guess we got money paid for.

He might have picked up some mass.

Yeah, that's true. I don't know who would sleep with that guy, but, you know, to each their own.

Well, let me tell you how I got in podcast magazine. Go. Yeah. No, no. The joke was I fucked him. That was the joke.

But now I really want to know. How did you get in podcast magazine?

I guess I think it was my PR person must have partaken in the threesome. I got to give them a raise. They are really fantastic. They're really taking one for the team.

When you go out on the road and you do these long stretches, like, you're, like you're doing right now. Do you. I see that you're doing, like, four and five dates at a particular club when you do that. What is the worst part of it, besides being away from home and not your creature comforts? What is the worst part about being out on the road like you are right now? Because we like to keep it positive.

I mean, sure, sure. I mean, yes. Like, yesterday was. Was like, a super shitty day of just flight delayed, and there's no one who really gives a shit. And I almost miss the show, and you're like, you just have to. I think it's the real pressure of, like, if you cancel, some people, they traveled 2 hours to see you. They rented a hotel. They do all these things, and you really get, like, the intensity of how many people's nights you're gonna fuck up if you're not good. I mean, when I think of, like, Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, when she cancels a gig, it affects 10,000 people. I mean, it's like. And also the thing that, you know, recently, someone had a seizure at one of my shows in the middle of the show, and I believe they're okay. But then I had another show where someone had, like, they passed out. And I thought, like, I read a lot sometimes not to compare myself to Taylor Swift, but every you. You start reading, like, oh, this person, they died on the way to a Taylor Swift concert, or this person, they died on the way home, and why didn't.

And it's like you think, like, oh, the more people you involve, the more lives that you're involved with. And I just think there's probably Taylor Swift's game to a point where someone's gonna die at every one of her shows, statistically speaking. And that's. That's a lot.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So. So it's. It's just the. It's just the. The tough part is the feeling of you had a layover, flight was delayed. You barely get to the club. You feel like, shit. And there's all these people who are so excited, and you have to be like, I need to meet this moment. And I have never felt worse.

Right?

I never thought about that because, of course, we sit behind a microphone, right? So if we're having a bad day, we just don't do the show right that moment. Or we, you know, or we can delay it a couple hours or whatever, but I never thought about that is there's real pressure. And I think in that seven foot walk where you're like, man, I have to get it together because these people paid their hard earned money to come see me, and I can't. I can't afford to have an off night before them for that pressure of other people. And I'm sure there's lots of people who just don't give a shit. They're like, whatever. You're going to get what you get. And that's what it is. But you seem really professional in that manner. You're like, I really give a shit whether or not these people get what they came for. And that must be a lot of stress on days where you missed flights and shit's late.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And maybe you're just having an off day or an off week or an off month. I mean, that's.

I mean, I tell my girlfriend. My girlfriend doesn't like when I talk like it, but I go like, I get why comedians die on the road, because it just is. You got to push through so many things. You just got to push through feeling like shit and you're in a shitty hotel, but you just feel like, I got to make it. And, you know, it's a bleak thought, but I get it. I get why it happens in the motel room after the first show of a weekend.

But do you also get this sense, like, I think we were talking with Hannah Burner about this, that, like, the creation, your creation. Like, you get up, you create something that, you know, a form of art, right? And I actually think it's kind of a noble profession, but you get up there and you create something. But do you feel like when you create that, there's a great deal of satisfaction? You had a good night, the jokes came through. You. You jived with the audience. Is there a great deal of satisfaction that. Do you feel like, wow, I might have just. I might have improved somebody else's shitty day?

Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's the feeling that brings me the most joy is like, you do a new joke and it kind of works, and so you get to, like, really? I think sometimes I'm mostly drawn to stand up because I need a lot of feedback. I need, like, a real back and forth for me to make art. And so. So, you know, even if I'm feeling tired, if I get that. That new thought I had on the plane and it gets a little bit of something, I'm just excited.

Yeah.

And I feel like I did something.

Yeah.

And that's why, you know, I like. I like to. I like to go long. I like to do an hour and a half, usually 90 minutes. Yeah, yeah. I think, you know, if I had my way, I'd get away with 2 hours sometimes, but I'm not quite big enough to get away with that yet.

That's right.

But, yeah, that's the best part, is, like, making. There's very little room between me having the idea and me getting to literally share it. And I think I like, that's what I really love about the art form in general.

I think you're a very intelligent comic who uses his body on stage in a way that adds punctuation to your jokes. And I think you have to think quickly sometimes to keep up with what you're saying. I said, as a very slow human being, you have to think quickly to keep up with it. But I like your brand of humor. I think you're really funny, and you should get the credit that you deserve. And hopefully you will make it to Taylor Swift opening act at one moment. Because if there's anything that I wish for Eugene Marco, it's that Taylor sends you a bottle of chiante classico and then pushes you onto stage in her closet. Roll around so that you two can feel like a celebrity.

Sure. I mean, I had one. I had a Taylor Swift joke recently that went viral, and I was. I was nervous about it. I was nervous. Those guys are scary. Yeah, that's a scary fan base. But I'm still alive. I'm still alive.

We have talked a little bit about Taylor Swift on the show, and we get quick responses one way or the other on the text message line whenever we do something, Taylor Swift to the point. You know, it just like, there was, like, a little bit of over saturation, I think, there for a moment when we were leading up to the Super bowl, there's so much Taylor Swift talk. And that was a lot of the feedback we got most recently was like, okay, guys, enough with Taylor Swift. And I get it. You know, there's. We've talked a lot about it.

Yeah, I think I like to more. I think it's more fun to, like, talk about her fans. Cause my little sister is Swifty. And she told me recently, she was. She said, you know, Taylor Swift is more famous than Michael Jackson ever was. And I was like, well, you know, to find that out, she's gonna have to molest some kids, because, you know, there's. And there's loving someone. And there's loving someone despite the allegations. You know, let's. Let's see Taylor shake that one off.

I just played my first Michael Jackson song, like, a first Michael Jackson song to some of my children, and they loved it. And then I was like, am I going down the wrong road here? Because at some point, I'm gonna have to explain.

Yeah, you know, you should play him some. Some classic Bill Cosby records. They're very good. Still.

My dad still has classic Bill Cosby records in his record collection. And I told him, I said, dad, you gotta throw that shit out. And he goes, who the fuck cares? And I was like, I think, like, four or five women might give a shit.

Sure. Four or five. I think. I think it was 70. What was the last?

Well, you know, I'm just. My dad. He doesn't throw away anything. Okay, before we let you go, I have one question. I have one comment for you. You recently, on your podcast, said something that I think made a lot of sense. And Christy and I have talked about here on the show, and I want to get. I want to get your retake on it. Super bowl commercials suck these days.

Well, it was just all celebrity.

It was all celebrities all the time. Chrissy and I mentioned this after the.

Super bowl, right afterwards.

That's all I. The reason why I watch is for the Super bowl commercials. And now a version of entertainment, I guess, is just seeing your favorite celebrity star drinking, eating, or pushing product driving. Where did the originality go? Where's the good ideas? Where's the actual great commercials that they used? I feel like they used to do. And I think you had a good take on this.

Yeah, I think, like. Like, listen, it can work. You know, it can be fun to see a celebrity in a. In a unique situation. I think recently, Snoop Dogg had a campaign where he said he was giving up smoke, and it ended up being this smoker, which, by the way, the campaign. The campaign did well, but sales did not go up, and they fired the president of that company.

Oh, no way.

But I think it's. Yeah, yeah. Even though the campaign was successful. But I just think these ad agencies, they've gotten lazy. They. What happens is they get that star. And then if you're writing a script, traditionally with a sketch, you have beats of a sketch, kind of, where's the jokes? Where's the turns? And so many of these commercials, the turn was new celebrity, and then the second turn was a third celebrity. And when you have that as a tool, it just becomes so easy to keep using that. And you don't even need to take that big of a risk because you know they're going to like the commercial because Kanye west was in it. People are going to talk about it just because of that. And so I just think we really have reached a saturation point of so many commercials relied on this that I think people have actually been talking and will hopefully get a shift in the direction. And I also think there's a twofold. I think movie stars in general, they're making less money than they used to. Still plenty, but so now that a lot of them are more willing to do a commercial, I think we've gotten rid of the shame of doing commercials that we need to bring back.

And I also think these rich people, they're also like, the world's coming to an end, or certainly like, there's about to be a degree of class warfare. And I want to have a bigger bunker. I want to have a bunker that's big enough for company. And so Jeff Goldblum is like, sure, put me in a third commercial, even though I'm about to be in wicked. I mean, if you are in a trailer that is airing, then I don't want to see you in a commercial right next to it. How can I buy, how can I buy that you're the wizard of Oz when you're also trying to show me, give me. Just buy apartments. Like, get out of here.

Yeah, get out of here.

Enough.

Exactly. You know, it used to be that a list celebrities are, you know, movie stars. They would do a commercial over in China, or maybe they do one in India or whatever it was. You know, over in Germany, they would do one of those because you probably wouldn't see it here in the United States. The Internet was not as, yeah, only.

Only my dentist would know about it. But other than that, nothing.

But now they're all over the place. And I agree with you. I think it's over saturation and unoriginal, and I understand the need to make money. Get it while it's hot. I get that totally. But, like, you know, save something for the. Save something for the bedroom. As my mom used to say, save something for the bedroom.

It's a little more creative.

Save, save something for the comedian that doesn't want to go to Edmonton a fourth time next year, bro.

I just, I feel for your current situation. I hope the Seals treat you well tomorrow. I hope you get as stoned as possible. Chrissy and I have been recommending Cypress Hill on very stone days. So check out Cypress Hill. Small little band back in the nineties and two thousands. You might have heard of them. And thank you so much for spending time with us, Gian Marko. John Marco is now on tour giving away bottles of chiante classico at no tour stops he stops at. And then he's also very funny. You can google gianmarco and we'll put links to all of his pertinent details in our show notes. Thank you, gianmarco. Hope you have a great weekend. And edmonton, thank you, guys. Thank you.

Take care.

You, too.

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Loved talking to gian Marko. He is literally all over the place. He's gonna be in a town near you. I just know him. And there you go. So from the ascrack of Canada, Gianmarco sourcy. I hope he enjoyed his day at the indoor mall. I swear that I've heard somewhere where Chrissy told me, Chrissy told me, and I haven't verified this fact that they have tunnels from one building to the other. So because it's too cold up there to walk outside, I don't know. But I do have friends who've said that Edmonton is lovely. I just don't know that I can go that far north without, I don't know. I don't like cold plunges, so I don't think I'm gonna like cold, cold weather. But anyway, Gian Marco Sorosi, his podcast is the downside with Gian Marco Sorosi. His website is gianmarco sorosi.com. i will leave a link in the show notes. Also check out his Instagram, his ever popular Instagram. And yeah, if he's close, go see a show. Okay. Chrissy and I will be back Tuesday with the lovely Wendy McClendon Covey. The TCB infomercial airing on Tuesday, and then we'll be back with normal episodes next week.

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