So you've gone the other way.

I think right away, as a comedian, you went even I was a little reluctant to do online and zoom shows just like this is so depressing.

But you went right in right away.

Thio, Zoom shows Jack, I don't know where it's posted, but I have not seen you do any online shows outside of this one.

Yeah, I mean, no, I I only came here because I love everybody on this That's here.

Outside that.

I just didn't see a point.

I'm sorry.

I just didn't see a point to doing it.

And I felt that this was the time Thio learn some new and and build other parts of what you do as a comedian.

And so I've been doing mostly that during this period.

Like I missed stand up with, like, I genuinely go through phases from, like, all of this is not worth it without standing up.

And I like, sad about it.

I genuinely, like have those little breakdowns.

But I unfortunately found 2 to 3 other things I could do and and and have ready for when Cove, it is never done.

What are those things for someone?

That is because I've talked to two friends that are comedians that are really having a hard time with this E For me, it's like I, I like, live performing.

I hate this.

I like talking to people.

But I hate, you know, just performing like this.

What One of the things that you found that are fulfilling enough to keep you motivated, doing that thing, even though there's no end in sight, there's no promise that, like whatever you're writing is going to be made.

Or I just got fortunate that before everything kind of went down, I got lucky with some with Network, and so we're making a thing.

But it was It was just like diving into animation as much as I possibly can.

And even being a big fan of seeing what Maria has done on Big Mouth was like inspiration when itself and like, understand, like when you're such a stand up for the being part of your career, you kind of you know, other shit, but you don't know it.

And so I've just been going back and like doing my research and like so if I'm gonna have these conversations with these people.

I need to not just know Gindi Tartakovsky.

I need to know everybody that led to a guinea Tartakovsky I need to know everybody that led to a Ralph basket.

I need to know everybody that led to a Aaron McGruder on Boondocks.

Like I gotta understand these animation studios, these people is like the same way that us for can sit around and talk shit.

And we could name comedians from the 19 twenties till now.

I wanna have that same level of knowledge when it comes Thio.

And that's just how I feel.

That's why I've been on Well, you tell you lean heavily into enemy because of the sword behind you eyes that katana.

It is my girlfriend's birthday.

What's it from?

There must be more to that katana and just katanas air guns in Japan.

See?

They don't even make them there.

She had to order this from China.

Oh, my God.

It's fully functional.

This is a is a covert purchase.

Is there any plan of, like, pure Kobe purchase?

What?

What happened?

You pull it out when you're like making a salad, Do you just like, take a katana to the cucumber.

You have it in there.

I used to be on a daily tip where I would just like play Joe D.

C and play with the sore.

But now it's like I, like, hurt myself and didn't tell Nobody's so like I was just like, I'm not gonna play with hold up for E.

I cut the back of my cab and then, like everybody, you're gonna end up cutting yourself.

You're gonna cutting yourself.

I cut the back of my cab, didn't tell nobody and was just like, No, I just you know, it's it's more decoration.

I don't really think I should be like, you know, if Moses comes back with a weapon of some kind of gonna freak out Beautiful.

I kept this because I'm so embarrassed of this purchase.

You carry a sword with you on the road.

You're me, not on the road.

I bought this at 14 because I was very into Lord of the Rings and had hit no puberty.

So I looked maybe 10 and I would act out scenes in the backyard with this exact sort, not let go.

Let it go, because it's such an embarrassing purchase.

A lot of money for 14 I bought off eBay had had Thio intercept the package before.

My mom found it because we were not allowed to buy anything at all.

And I had was out around Moses.

I've got the same.

I've got the same thing these I had.

I also think it was this was made in Taiwan, not China.

Japan.

But it does.

Yeah, Probably longer than you've gotten into contracting, gotten scamming rich people out of construction projects and saying is to take way longer than it and it helps.

Maria, What was was there any apprehension or you just leaned right away into the zoom shows when Jack was like, Okay, let's do something else.

You're like, I need to perform again.

Can I mention again that I'm old and I've tried different things?

E tried script writing and stuff like that and he said, Oh, I just I'm not good at it.

And so I just I'm just doing the things that I'm good at.

So now I have Ah, I have some Internet, you know?

Oh, I give people stickers.

Um, let Za sticker during the show.

Kamala Harris, who is that?

No.

Guess what?

They have multicultural.

Also empowering female stickers at your local Michael's, Our craft store.

Also, you could just uh Oh.

What if I put out a mustache halfway through the show?

Michaels is for white people that have a lot of time on their hands.

Uh, you know, we're actually support you.

Here's what I made a side or you have a mustache.

Look at this.

This is what happened here.

Comedians don't have Stand up.

Some of us have stickers, and mustache is Stashes of us.

Have sore.

I am insanely into my air.

Prior e have a J air fryer.

And I talk about that every day.

That's how nothing e have nothing.

So all I do like, yo, I bet I could burn your sandwich.

Can you put Orioles in there?

Yeah, I put some flour batter on that motherfucker.

We could frost Orioles.

Come on over.

That's so fucking cool.

Coolest diabetic of all time.

Yes.

Fried that motherfucker.

I've made 22 batches of fried chicken since co vid, and, uh, it is very hard to make.

Uh, it is so good and then very difficult to make.

So, uh, we FC has a log that you can burn that smells like fried chicken they put out.

And so they sell it at Walmart.

And I don't know who would do that to the family.

Look at this air fryer Way to pull up with my air fryer.

We could get the chicken Really going with you, Moses, That seems so, so cruel along.

So you can you imagine if that started a forest fire?

And so, for, like, 90,000 acres of Southern California E hope is that smell burned in your memory?

Because, uh, Alex used to work at a KFC in, of all places, Penn Station.

I, um here's the thing people are like, Do you hate fried chicken?

I'm like, No, I just hate fried chicken that comes out of a bag frozen.

So every other kind of fried chicken, if I see it made and it's not coming directly out of a bag frozen.

I love that.

But I haven't been Teoh.

You know, I didn't go to KFC for years after I started working, um, in the fine dining game, because, you know, you don't return to Vietnam, but it was you could go back on vacation.

But it was It was really You start to smell like those places, too.

It's a really I have a great, like, sense memory.

And I dated someone in high school.

She worked at KFC, and it was just It was a constant shower.

It was just always in her pores.

And also you smell not just like you don't smell like fried chicken.

You smell like a combination of all the ingredients.

And I was a kosher Jew, so I couldn't eat bacon.

And my friends were like, I'm sorry, but you smell like a little bit like bacon and a bunch of other stuff.

So, like, why do you, like, smell forbidden?

What is going on here?

Did you ever as a zey Orthodox, you have to assemble a bacon ater e.

It was one of those hazmat suits.

I had to put it on.

Yeah, s so I actually had bacon once on accident.

My my roommate in college had some macaroni and cheese in the fridge and I asked if I could have some.

And as I was eating it, I was like the sun dried tomatoes are incredible.

And he's like what?

Son dropped.

Oh, no.

Like I was really theatrical about it.

I really milked it.

I went to the the garbage like, spat it out and everyone was like, You're still going, You know, it's not.

Do you feel guilty about it, or do you just feel like your best thing that's ever happened to me?

But he's eating backing all the time he has.

Do you have Thio?

You have to go talk to somebody after you do that.

Like, how do you renew your license after you plunder?

So in Catholicism's you have a priest.

But in Judaism you have to write a letter to Mel Brooks and No, no, you're fine.

You're fine.

You just you just keep you just keep going to do whatever.

Alex, Did you ever have the pay us knowing?

Yes, because So the reason The pace of those curly ear locks there's a biblical commandment that you have to keep some some of this around here.

So this is why I do that.

Like I have these because the idea to keep you celibate.

What worse haircut to keep you celebrate?

Yeah.

Yes.

They give you plenty of protection when you're young.

When you're a young man, but I put on to fill in every day those those leather things that you put on your on your arm.

And when I mean that there are these, they do a prayer over you.

I did this on birthright.

I think if your name is Moses, you can lie and say you're Jewish.

And now you went on birth, right?

Well, my dad is technically Jewish, and but you're only Jewish if your mom is Jewish.

But it was enough.

And they saw Moses and the whole idea behind Birthright.

Your half Jewish Moses?

Yeah.

Are you kidding me?

All of us are.

Everyone is.

You're such a perfect like you look like someone who would have been chasing me 70 years ago.

I You're Jewish.

I call Moses Moshe as, like a joke.

And the joke is because too May.

But that's that makes I mean, not culturally, but like free trip.

Absolutely.

Where a program is trying to get just the whole idea behind Birthright is that you will hook up with someone on your trip, move there and there'll be more of you than there is Palestinians.

It's like Rachel Dolezal.

I want you to be de awards.

Did she really e words?

But that would be amazing.

Eyes hosting the mass singer, which is not It's Rachel dollars.

Oh, it's so funny.

Because when you're in your early twenties, you wanna win every award you want to do everything.

I remember watching like the image Awards.

And I was like, How do I win one of those?

Like, how is that gonna home?

I going to get something some reward from, um, I gonna soul train award or something like that amount of outrage that you would get Alex settle men, my dad and on Chris's.

Yes, I would be.

This is true.

I would be the first white person to ever appropriate black music for their own benefit.

Will be I'd be the first one.

Absolutely.

First crazy.

I just love the idea of d c.

Young flat being like Alex boy.

Just come on.