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You look fantastic.
You have You've lost a You've lost some weight around two ounces.
Um, uh, I was gonna say about two ounces.
Yeah.
No, I stopped drinking, and I just kinda put the weight off.
Really?
So you stopped drinking.
And the way just because they say that's Yeah, that could really make a huge difference.
Yeah, I was having, you know, by a lot of vodka with sausage, and, uh, was the sausage in the drink?
Oh, wow.
Delicious, but bad for you.
Bad for you.
Uh, swizzle sausage.
I was getting in too much trouble with the drinking stuff, so I just kind of was there an incident that sort of Because everyone when if they stopped drinking, there's usually one thing that happens that makes them think.
Okay, now I gotta cut back.
This was about 20 things.
Um, one night I was walking.
That's it.
That's the story.
You just were like, I've got to stop walking.
This walking thing is terrible.
Uh, I was walking through New York and I was walking over towards one of the bridges to walk home, and I was in the Lower East side, and I had gotten into the whisky that night, and I was listening to my headphones and this guy in a jag Jaguar jag wire bar.
How do you say Jaguar?
Yeah, one of those cut me off when I was cutting crossing Ludlow Street.
Now, if it hadn't been a Chevy Lumina, I wouldn't have cared, Right?
But this is a jag and some fancy assholes in there, and yeah, And so as it cut me off, I hit the car as hard as I can with my hands.
Just like bam.
Hey, I was like, Man, Zach, your real cool on had some whiskey.
I got my headphones on.
I just hit a jack.
Yeah, and I You know, I just keep walking and, uh, tap on my shoulder about 20 seconds later and I turn around and it's 26 ft six guys.
Oh, 12 by 12.
And they were cute.
They were cute.
Anyway, there were two huge 6 ft six guys and I turn around, take my headphones off and they they both at the same time spit my face.
You're kidding.
And I don't know if you've ever been spit in your face non sexually, but but all I remember is being so stunned.
And they walked away.
I didn't really even say anything because I didn't know what to say.
Uhh!
And I remember reaching into a trashcan and grabbing a beer bottle and and saying to myself out loud, nobody spits And Zach Galifianakis face e through the beer bottle at the car and it missed on.
That's my story.
Yeah, unless you have said, nothing big happens.
But that's one of the reasons I decided to cut back.
Cut back.
Did the guys the guys didn't recognize?
They spit on you.
They obviously didn't recognize you.
What about me now?
I was wearing a Nixon mask.
I This story is changing a lot.
No, I don't know.
They didn't recognize If they did recognize me, they probably would have done more than spit my face.
Yeah, but I'm curious.
Do you like, uh, you know, we've known you for a really long time, and we've seen you blow up to become this big star.
Do you like being famous and being recognized?
I don't.
And I understand the irony of saying that on a talk show.
Um uh, but I I don't I don't I have.
I've had trouble.
I'm kind of private, and I tryto if I see a pack of teenagers walking my way, forget it.
I will run.
You run the other way.
I run the other way for sure.
Yeah, its's a tricky thing.
The to be noticed.
Do you notice that there's a kind of like it's a certain kind of person that notices you mawr than never anybody wearing a doctor smoke.
It's always somebody like with a who farted T shirt.
Never a surgeon, never a surgeon.