My father,

Robert Lee, of course, he had a refrigerator in our garage.

It was actually two refrigerators next to each other.

It was a big thing back in the 70s.

Yeah, and also a liquor cabinet in the garage.

And he was an alcoholic, and so as a young kid I would go, like before school, I mean the night before school, I would drink a beer.

And for like a 12 year old kid, a one beer, it knocks you out.

Yeah.

I forgave you before you even apologized.

All right.

So I think family members or whatever knew my mom and dad and they were introduced in that way.

But I do know for a fact that my mom left the state because my dad, he's an alcoholic.

So they met and they dated a couple times.

My dad got aggressive or she didn't like him.

I know that.

Oh, my God.

It's an integrity thing.

It's also night before is a dick move to cancel.

I've canceled the day of.

Wow.

That's fucking unprofessional.

Sold out.

Wow.

But

Oh.

You know what I mean? And we'd put the mic there, and, um, it was a blessing to watch that man, 'cause he was still super funny, even in that state.

Here's another dude that used to come in is Carlin.

When I was working the back door once, the first time George Carlin ever went there, and I was working the back door, and he came up to me.

I was so scared, 'cause I'm a fucking huge fan.

And he came up to me and he goes, "What's your name?" And I go, "Bobby Lee." "Nice to meet you, I'm George." He did a show.

He did it every year for three years in a row, and every year I doored.

Hm.

Really?

Yeah, and then one day I was, I would walk by the room and I go, "Oh, fuck, I'll do it." So I went in there and I did one, and then I did all of them.

And then, then, and then we came up with Tigerbelly and the whole name, but she did that.

Which, and now because of that, I'm selling out all over the place now.

But a lotta times if I, you wanna be friends with somebody and they're asleep, it's hard.

But here's the thing is, is that Theo Von, right, I, I honestly tr- just, I'm, just hear me out.

I honestly believe that you're gonna be a huge comedy star.

I, I think that your point of view on stage is so weird and so original, and you paint a world that is obviously a show.

Like, "I've done a great job." [laughs]

I mean, how would you approach that? I was a kid.

Your, your, your wife is allergic to the fucking, you know, I mean, cat, and I'm your kid.

Be real.

Yeah.

I'm not the president of Asians.

I, I seem to think that you, you seem to think that I'm their leader.

Like, every month there's a gathering, right, and I get all this information from people.

you're chilling like

this.

I just was like...

Yo, miss, I tell you, I'm done with school.

Like, stop calling my phone.

Like, I'm done.

Like, I'm not coming back ever.

out

Mm.

And I also, I smell...

How about some incense? You can get that, right? And can I just say another thing? Just if I...

I'm, I guess I, I'm, I'm, I'm full of grievances of course, and my f- my number one grievance is when you walk into somebody's house, especially you're a guest, and you've been asking me so much to even do this podcast-

Yes.

And I saw Ken, and the hug that we had was so deeply, um, moving to me because it was like two brothers who went to war, got lost, and came back, and we saw each other again.

Mm-hmm.

"And I remember why I got sober," 'cause this is terrible.

And I think what it is is that you have no connection to anybody.

The spirituality is gone.

You know what I mean? There's no reason to live, really, you know? And, you know, and then also the people around you quickly become...

Their diseases come out.

They're en- enabling and they're, you know what I mean? And you can see it, you know, people's, you know, and then you, you kinda go, "Oh, I'm back where I was." And now, now, let, now I, if I wasn't, if I didn't get sober when I was 17 and all those chunks of sobriety, I wouldn't be here today because the reason why I did stand up was because I was sober.

I mean-

And I think as you get older.

I think that, um, to survive, you know, in this biz, and also can I just say this too? You're adapting to the transitions of show business.

Like for me, it's like I saw the writing on the wall a little bit.

I was like, "I have to create my own thing."

Yeah.

I've done a lot of movies before, but I was always in the end credits, and 52 names would come down, and they would say, "Bobby Lee, Ken Park," but, like, no one's watching.

My point is that I've been in this business for so long.

I've been on sitcoms and series regular, so G- G- God bless America.

Oh, fuck.

[laughs] So he say, um, "Right, hold on to this.

The rest of stuff coming down soon", right? [laughs] I say, "Okay, cool." Boom, boom, boom.

I say, "Yo, I have family coming to Trinidad.

If you want, just send it to their address." "Nah, nah, nah, you don't wanna take up your family's space in their suitcase" and stuff like that, bro.

Mm.

"You have to look good for your shows, bro.

I have this." Kwasi went to Port of Spain and pack up, bro.

Yeah

... and like ha- uh, having...

Because, you know, back in the, um, 50s and 60s in New York and stuff, you know, comics would like go to a deli together, and that's why like, you know, this strong bond between like New York comics.

And they all help each other now.

That's why they're all like, it-

You just then give me the, uh, cards back and like do it again like it's just all part of it?

Let's suppose I go, let's say I'm doing it to you, right? And I pick out a card and I go, "This is the card." And you're like, "No, it's not." Right? I g- and then I can go, "This is the card." [laughs]

Is there any kind of change in what

we're talking about here? It's still the same topic that everyone's been talking about in terms of how to minimize mundane tasks and how to move forward to still continue to build relationship with customers and clients.

And more importantly, in terms of how do individuals look at marketing whilst implementing AI where it helps them? Because I think a lot of people still fear that whether it's quite new to them, they don't know how to use it, or it's more so...

they're not at the stage yet where they need to react to it.

And I feel like the people that's coming back around this year now, from what they've heard last year, it's sinking a lot more and I see a lot more people putting their hands up in terms of using some of the tools out there, especially...

Like we've seen with Claude being mentioned quite a

I find

that with the, from last year, especially with some of the tools that we've heard from or some of the guest speakers that we heard today as well, they've incorporated their platform with their tools to make a lot more, refine in the sense that whether we're talking about terms of document upload talking about packaging the deal together policies to broken notes all of that it's making it easier for us to simplify our tasks because the information was always there but it took us longer to get there but now it just saves us time to look at other things with a client in sense of like whether they are planning for going to Matlib or going overseas or buying a car or other ways to invest as well.

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I quit drinking 14 and a half months ago with my friends.

It's...

At this age, it's ridiculous, man.

They all start talking about Conor McGregor, and we talk about girls we was with, and then they start crying.

"My wife won't blow me." I'm like, "Goddamn." You're sitting there on your blow job, "Oh, there we go.

That's a-

I Am Rapaport Podcast.

You said to me, "Yo, you know, keep at it 'cause you let me rap for you." It was magical for all of us.

They went, "Ah, we made it.

We made it."

Yeah, we made it.

"I mean, yeah." I'm like, "We?" You know, I'm like-

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I Am Rapaport Podcast.

Yes.

And it would f- every scene they would write for me, I would fuck up.

And this is what broke my heart, and this is a true story.

I've never even said this out loud before, right? They made a tape secretly behind my back, and they would tape record my table reads, and they did a best of of me fucking up.

And I only found out about it, like, a year and a half later.

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Where are you?

I know.

I, I, I'm...

Dude, my flight broke down, dude.

Are you really getting eye surgery?

Dude, I, I'm opening my eyes up as big as I can right now, dude.

You

pooped on the bus.

Bobby, you want to talk about it? You can't poo on the bus, right? Easy.

Don't do it.

Great.

And I know the rule.

But at 3 in the morning, emergency.

easy.

they will hire anybody that even looks like that culture to work there.

So I could get a job at Yellowbelly?Yeah, dude Manager Huh? Management? Maybe assistant manager.

Okay.

[laughs] Okay, okay.

You know, maybe they- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah ...

they might let you manage on Sundays.

Yeah.

[laughs]

... you don't wash...

The reason why you don't wash, uh, Japanese raw denim is because, see these lines and stuff? This is what you want, like a really good fade.

Oh my God.

It's...

Listen, if you look at the comics or Dean Delray, Kevin Christy, these guys, we all do it.

Who cares?

He should get a tattoo on his face.

But my point is, is this, is that, um ...

But Ro- we were in a, we were in a strip club, and this guy goes, "Well, you know, I don't know..." L- Rogan was getting in a verbal ar- altercation with him.

He go, "What'd you say, bro?" That's when he said to Jo- Joe.

And Joe goes, "Hey, fuck you." And there was, like, a com- thing.

Yeah.

And, um, I had a 6:00 in the morning call time.

Mm-hmm.

Then we ah ha ha, we walk up and we're with, uh, Wachowski and Sarah and we're- they're in robes.

And we all come up to Bobby, and I'm telling you, in your defense, one line is harder than doing a whole scene.

Because what happens when you're doing one line-

Oh, that's right.

I did 15 episodes of that thing.

He wrote me wh- Like I was number one on the call sheet, like storylines.

It was the...

I would love that.

that."Now go hang ˈguk-mal hak-aya.

Ah-ruh-suh? Uh, ha-kyuh huh-nuh-neem, koh-joo, um, dong-saeng, ha-bu-ri-jee."

Okay.

Right? So when the...

[laughs] I don't know why I'm laughing.

But when the guy, you know what I mean, you, you know, he's, uh, the CEO or someone that works for the airline, he's like n- naming names of people that are deceased.