1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 i 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:46,520 We have an extremely special guest today. 3 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:54,200 So Pete Dominic, who is a man, a renaissance man. 4 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:55,840 Man of many talents. 5 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:06,080 A man of comic, news commentator, host, journal activist, panel moderator, so much more. 6 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:15,080 Pete's going to be joining us in the program today. 7 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:19,040 Sunlight Moonlight podcast is where we talk to creative people about what they do for 8 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:32,520 their work and about what working people do to be creative. 9 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,680 So Ryan, as we get started here on the Sunlight Moonlight podcast, what is your, I will ask, 10 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,560 what is your big item from this week? 11 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:41,560 Well I have two. 12 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,080 My son is sick with a clue. 13 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,080 Oh, I'm sorry. 14 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:45,080 There's that. 15 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,520 He's been out all week. 16 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,360 And then I have a show on Monday up in Catskill, New York. 17 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,560 So what kind of show? 18 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,200 If you know anybody. 19 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:04,440 It's my band, Ears with Eyes, which is a punk performance art type deal. 20 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,320 We set up like we're in an office cubicle. 21 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:15,120 I show up with crutches because I'm so damaged by the job. 22 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:20,600 And then by the end of the show, my shirt is off and I'm trying not to hurt people or 23 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,720 myself doing the best Iggy Pop impression I can do. 24 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,960 I, one of my favorite things, having played multiple shows with you, having seen you perform 25 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:40,760 live in several different formats and outfits, my favorite part is when your shirt comes off. 26 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,760 It happens. 27 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,760 It happens. 28 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,080 I mean, if you're going to go for it, go for it. 29 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,120 What I think is weird though is that when you take your shirt off, you're wearing a 30 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,640 sweater underneath your shirt. 31 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:52,640 I'm very hairy. 32 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:56,080 And I kind of want you to take that one off too. 33 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,160 Well, we can discuss that later. 34 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,200 Your suit. 35 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,720 Her suit. 36 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:05,720 My big item. 37 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:06,720 How about you? 38 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:07,720 Yeah. 39 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,840 Well, my big item from the week. 40 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,720 I'm wearing baseball is here for the, for the, um, one of my children. 41 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,960 And that's been a, I've turned into a sports psychologist for a seven year old, which is 42 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:25,200 really, really what I want to be doing with my time, trying to support him getting through 43 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:33,520 all of the mental machinations of the baseball diamond, the team dynamic, trying to hit a 44 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,480 ball off of a pitching machine. 45 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:38,480 All the skills. 46 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:39,840 It's harder than it sounds. 47 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,920 That's the whole thing. 48 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,960 And renovation for the home is underway. 49 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:50,360 We have no HVAC, which is why it's a little warm here today in the Northeast, but we're 50 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,600 tough in it out. 51 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:52,680 I'm really excited. 52 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,400 I've done a bunch of work for the show this week and talked to a bunch of people. 53 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:06,360 I'm also job searching, which is rewarding and very interesting. 54 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:12,520 And I learn a lot each day, but can be a little taxing on the psyche. 55 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,520 Yeah. 56 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:19,080 Trying to figure out where you fit into this world professionally while still trying to 57 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:24,040 maintain some sort of self or creative identity. 58 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:29,240 I should be looking for work, but I am not. 59 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:30,240 That's okay. 60 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,560 I can, I'm kind of like, I can do it for both of us. 61 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,400 Dude, hook it up. 62 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,400 I had an old boss. 63 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,200 We were both looking for work at the same time. 64 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,640 And I used to say to him, Hey, if you find one, find two. 65 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:46,640 That never happened. 66 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,160 That's probably your best saying. 67 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,160 It's good. 68 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,160 It's a good thing. 69 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,800 I have some other ones. 70 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:52,800 Yeah. 71 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,040 You have a few, but that's. 72 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,720 Don't eat yellow snow. 73 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:58,720 That's a good one. 74 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,720 That's a zappa song. 75 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:00,720 Is it really? 76 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,520 I didn't know that you did. 77 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:03,920 I didn't come on. 78 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,520 I'm not your much more yellow snow. 79 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:11,000 No, I know my favorite from Zappa is the boogerman. 80 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,200 That's a really good song. 81 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:19,240 I wish you could play those tunes on the show because we could do a whole Zappa show. 82 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,160 We're here on the sunlight, moonlight podcast. 83 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,520 Ryan Haver's Dom Dorman. 84 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:29,800 This episode's guest is our good friend and old coworker Pete Dominic. 85 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:35,440 Pete's a fantastic standup comedian was the warm up comedian for the Daily Show and the 86 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:36,440 Colbert rapport. 87 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:42,960 I actually saw one of Pete's warm up performances at a recording of the Colbert rapport back 88 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:43,960 in the day. 89 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:51,200 I did a great job and he's been motoring ever since for years and years over a decade. 90 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:56,640 Stand up with Pete Dominic was on serious, serious satellite radio, serious XM radio. 91 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,560 That's where Pete and Ryan and I all work together as coworkers. 92 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,800 Ryan and I work to support Pete and his show and all the other shows at Sirius, both in 93 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:12,200 network distribution and also broadcast engineering senses. 94 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,880 I think, I mean, Brian, let's not bury the leaders. 95 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,240 We bantered enough. 96 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:19,320 We should bring Pete on. 97 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,560 Let's get Pete on because he's a busy guy. 98 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,360 I can't believe how busy he is. 99 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,280 Yeah, I mean, he seriously does a lot. 100 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,080 I'm trying to get him on here. 101 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,880 Let me see if I can do this. 102 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,880 I believe in you. 103 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:35,880 There he is. 104 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:36,880 Here he comes. 105 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,400 Let's get the banner out of here. 106 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,560 There he is. 107 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:42,560 You're here. 108 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:43,560 There he is. 109 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:44,560 I'm alive. 110 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:45,560 You are him. 111 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:46,920 Gentlemen, wow. 112 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,920 It's so great to see both of you. 113 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:56,560 So honored and flattered that you asked me to join you, you two are, as I recall, two 114 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:57,560 of the good ones. 115 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:58,560 Oh, that's nice. 116 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,560 Thanks, man. 117 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,320 You know, there's a lot of good ones. 118 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,960 There was a lot of bad ones. 119 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,640 When you're working in corporate anything, corporate America, once less corporate media, 120 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:17,800 you know, people play by different sets of rules and you have to play the game. 121 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,200 If you want to keep your job, you can't rock the boat. 122 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:25,680 And it's, you know, I don't really judge many people for any of their behavior, but you 123 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,160 guys were always super supportive and kind to me. 124 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:34,200 And I always felt, you know, whenever I'd see it, feel happy to see it and secure knowing 125 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,920 that you were supporting the show. 126 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,880 And, you know, if anything went wrong, it was most likely my fault. 127 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:42,880 Yes. 128 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:47,040 And when that happened, we made sure that that was very clear. 129 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,560 Yeah, we wanted to make sure that you knew that. 130 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,200 Yeah, it would be like you guys would be like, Hey, Paul, I'm like, it's Pete. 131 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:54,200 And whatever. 132 00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:00,640 Well, you know, it's funny because Pete, I was going through some old photos the other 133 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:06,400 day, I have a whole photo, a folder on a hard drive that was all photos from when I was 134 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:11,960 doing remote broadcasts for serious satellite radio back in the day. 135 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:17,520 And I found a photo of a young Pete Dominic from from 2007. 136 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,600 We were down in Miami doing radio row. 137 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,000 And Pete was running his show from down there interviewing all what they would do is that 138 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,480 serious would send down a bunch of different. 139 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:30,480 It wasn't just NFL radio. 140 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,720 It was like a bunch of different entities to try and capture the, the, the not only the 141 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:42,480 sports well known folks, but the celebrity aspect of a week, a week long event like that. 142 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:49,280 And you were, you were so you were a company man wearing your little dog star hat. 143 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:50,280 And that was a really fun time. 144 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,080 I think that was probably one of the first times we worked together. 145 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,600 I mean, I know you were in studio before that. 146 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,880 I don't remember seeing you there. 147 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:58,880 I will. 148 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,320 I mean, I have the proof is that I took a photo. 149 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,560 I'm going to see the photo. 150 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:06,240 Well, tell everybody who the photo is in the photo with me that you sent me. 151 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,240 Well, all right. 152 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:12,440 So there's one photo that's just Pete and he's giving me the thumbs up and it's very, 153 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,880 very entertaining. 154 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:23,000 And then there's another photo where Pete is interviewing Jared from Subway who turned 155 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,320 out to be a horrible pedophile pedophile. 156 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:32,400 What's weird is I also that same trip interviewed Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State coach. 157 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:33,400 Oh, man. 158 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,080 The gymnastics Dr. Nasser. 159 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:37,080 No. 160 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:38,080 And Bill Cosby. 161 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,080 Jesus. 162 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,080 In the same week? 163 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,080 No, of course not. 164 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:50,120 But I imagine if I did, but the I just remember all I remember about that trip is that when 165 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,000 you're in as you describe radio row, they like just start feeding you gas and people just 166 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 come over. 167 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,840 But a lot of these people are kind of legendary. 168 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,040 And as the host, you want to be prepared, but I don't even think I had a producer during 169 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:02,040 that trip. 170 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:06,840 So I just I'm almost positive it was the very, very famous track star. 171 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,440 I think his name is Edwin Moses or something. 172 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,360 And they brought him over to me and, you know, he's a legend, but I didn't know anything 173 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:14,360 about him. 174 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,560 And it was just so embarrassing that I was sitting down with this legend and I couldn't 175 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:19,200 show him like the proper respect. 176 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,920 I was like, so you like running and jumping and stuff? 177 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,520 So you like professional sports? 178 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,560 It's a rough scene because it's so chaotic. 179 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,160 And it's so long. 180 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,160 It goes for this long week. 181 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:39,360 And actually, that was one of my one of my last events that I did in that role at Sirius 182 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,000 because after that, I kind of burned out. 183 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 I was on the road for a while. 184 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,680 I got mono and I remember that for a while. 185 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:47,680 Yeah. 186 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:53,960 And then I wound up taking a different role that was based in the studios at Sirius XM. 187 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,400 But that was that was a fun time. 188 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,720 And it was it was always difficult, you know, sort of dealing with different personalities, 189 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,440 because some of the folks were really nice. 190 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,680 Some of the hosts and talent were really nice. 191 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:06,440 Like Pete, Pete was always easy to work with. 192 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,240 And hey, can you turn up my headphones? 193 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,240 Yeah, of course, like that's not a problem. 194 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,960 But then other folks would be like, you know, don't you know who I am? 195 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,800 And I'd be like, no, but I can help. 196 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:24,400 I always watched people behave as I came up as a comedian and how they treated people 197 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,040 and how they treated me. 198 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:32,160 And I never wanted to be someone who somehow, you know, appeared better than when you're 199 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:33,600 when you're on air personality. 200 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,880 A lot of that can kind of happen. 201 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:40,440 But I really prided myself on making sure that I was it was never that guy and getting 202 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,680 to know everybody's name at the company that I possibly could. 203 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:50,520 And that's, you know, I mean, I just don't understand any other way to behave. 204 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,240 But there certainly is a lot of that. 205 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,360 But at that event, that was that was the Super Bowl. 206 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:55,600 And so it was like mostly sports. 207 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:56,600 Obviously, there are some entertainers. 208 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,640 I was at that point just in the comedy department is before I moved over exclusively to politics. 209 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:05,440 But those remotes, you know, the Super Bowl is one thing. 210 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,280 The Republican and Democratic National Conventions. 211 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:14,640 Now that was like crazy because the people that you would just that would just stop in 212 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,360 and sit down with you, talk about not being ready. 213 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,920 You know, it's like one minute you're talking to Newt Gingrich next minute. 214 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,640 The former governor of South Carolina, the guy who what was his name? 215 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,440 He left South Carolina and just had an affair and went to Argentina. 216 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,640 And oh, yeah, like Rick Sandford, I think. 217 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:31,640 I don't know. 218 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,680 Anyway, those conventions were just wild being at those. 219 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:39,440 But working in a serious exam was the greatest opportunity. 220 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,360 And I had such an amazing time. 221 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,360 I was absolutely heartbroken when it ended. 222 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:49,480 I still miss a lot of, you know, I miss live radio and some of the people. 223 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,520 And it was really such a fun ride. 224 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,800 I think it was almost 15 years that I was there from comedy to politics. 225 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,000 And I got to do everything. 226 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,480 It was really, really wonderful. 227 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:03,200 It's really cool and a really interesting journey for you. 228 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,480 So how did you how did that happen? 229 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:10,480 So like you were doing stand up, you were doing warm up for Daily Show and Colbert. 230 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,160 And then how how did the radio thing happen for you? 231 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,320 The comedy channel was before serious next to merge. 232 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,680 The comedy channel had a show called comedy by request. 233 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:20,680 It was like music. 234 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:21,680 Oh, right. 235 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:27,440 And and that show, they wanted a host that was an actual working, you know, decently 236 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,440 known comedian. 237 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:34,720 And so I auditioned like I was on panel on some other shows as a guest at Sirius at that 238 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:35,720 point. 239 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,400 So the comedy guys knew me. 240 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,080 But I auditioned against like five other comedians and I got the gig. 241 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,720 And it was a huge break for me because I wanted to do anything. 242 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:46,720 I could get off the road. 243 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:51,920 My daughters were my oldest one was really young, my younger one wasn't born yet. 244 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,320 When I got that gig and it was it was it. 245 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,600 I mean, it was $75 a day, but it was an ID. 246 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,240 And once you get Pete Dominic and ID, I'm going to borrow, borrow into you. 247 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:05,920 And eventually I just broke them down. 248 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,840 And, you know, when the companies merged Sirius and XM, they had this independent political 249 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:15,680 channel, which is when I pitched my show and they gave it to me for $60,000 plus benefit 250 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:19,960 which was to me a millions of dollars to a comedian who was on the road, you know, making 251 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:20,960 a pretty good living. 252 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,240 And I was still doing that. 253 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:23,240 So that's how it happened. 254 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:28,320 I auditioned and got that gig and then I turned it into something even bigger and better. 255 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,480 Did you know who else auditioned for it? 256 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,480 Yeah, I do. 257 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:34,800 Anybody who know or know? 258 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:40,600 Yeah, it was Gaffigan, Seinfeld and Murphy. 259 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,800 And it was also Sam Kinnison. 260 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:43,800 Wow. 261 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,920 The Ghost of Sam Kinnison. 262 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:46,920 Wow. 263 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:48,120 That's really, I mean, what a high profile. 264 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,120 Yeah. 265 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:50,120 I'm heavy hitters. 266 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:51,120 Yeah. 267 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,680 Well, talent, boys. 268 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,880 So I and the channel was Politics of the United States, right? 269 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:57,880 It was POTUS. 270 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:58,880 Was that? 271 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:04,040 Yeah, it became and the merger, it was that that was the channel I got put on. 272 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,000 There was another channel before that one, before the merger. 273 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,920 It was a whole strange thing, but it was just like such a great place for me to experiment 274 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:12,920 and grow. 275 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:17,960 And the channel I created was basically the anti political show, meaning all the political 276 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,600 shows, mostly they were right wing political shows that were popular. 277 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:26,120 There's some progressive ones, but they were only a few at that point and still really 278 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,400 that are very successful. 279 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,640 And I just thought like these shows are also stupid because the host positions himself 280 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:38,240 almost always a guy like he knows everything about everything, healthcare, foreign policy, 281 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,360 environmental policy, education, like that's not no one is that no one is that person. 282 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:47,120 So I just said to my audience from the very beginning, I don't know shit. 283 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:48,120 I have an associate's degree. 284 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,120 I'm a comedian. 285 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,120 I don't know anything. 286 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:51,360 I'm just really curious. 287 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:56,080 And so the whole show became me booking experts like one an hour, asking them questions and 288 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,080 saying, I don't know. 289 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,320 And my boss at the time, who was a radio veteran, I remember when I first started, he wasn't 290 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,800 even my boss yet, Dave Gorab. 291 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,160 He said to me, he goes, listen, I got to give you advice. 292 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,880 You can't host a show, a political show and say the words. 293 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:09,880 I don't know. 294 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:10,880 You can't do that. 295 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,600 I just said, well, I'm not going to watch me. 296 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,000 It would be lying. 297 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 It would be disingenuous. 298 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,640 It's disingenuous than anybody else does it. 299 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:24,440 And so the show really gained a lot of credibility and integrity because I was honest about what 300 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:25,520 I didn't, didn't know. 301 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:30,040 And more importantly, I was pretty good and still am really good at finding the best people 302 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:35,640 to talk to her, the most articulate, the most credible, you know, and that's what I did 303 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:36,640 there. 304 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:43,640 Well, I think, I think like some people in your position, they act like experts on really 305 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:50,080 complex, complicated topics that most people aren't experts in. 306 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,320 So I mean, I think you, I think you, you're doing a service to it by saying like, I don't 307 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,640 know, let me get some experts on. 308 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:57,640 Yeah. 309 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:05,000 I mean, if I'm interviewing a constitutional law scholar, I'm not asking him about COVID. 310 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Like, I'll talk to an epidemiologist and I'm not asking her about con law. 311 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,760 Like yet you have these hosts. 312 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,920 There was this guy, Andrew Wilkow at series XM. 313 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:15,920 I was just thinking. 314 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:16,920 Oh my God. 315 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,720 He was the biggest son of a bitch prick asshole. 316 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,680 He's the meanest, most insecure, most closeted piece of shit. 317 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:25,680 And I hope he hears this. 318 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,360 He was so mean to everybody. 319 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:30,040 He was anti gay, which was. 320 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,880 And he was so fucking loud too. 321 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,320 You could hear him on the other side of the building. 322 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:36,320 Yeah. 323 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,680 His tagline was, I'm right. 324 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:38,680 You're wrong. 325 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:39,680 That's the end of the story. 326 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,680 And I'm like, what are you for? 327 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:42,680 Yeah. 328 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,680 Yeah. 329 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:49,360 I remember having a run in with him and his producer at the Christmas party. 330 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:52,880 And we were arguing about the electoral college. 331 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:58,920 The greatest thing that ever happened was we shared a studio and he hated me and I hated 332 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,400 him even though we barely knew each other. 333 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,880 And I just hated the way that he treated people, his behavior, the way he carried himself and 334 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,080 obviously his views were reprehensible and still are. 335 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:13,680 But we both shared a studio and the Howard Stern guys, like one of the after show extra 336 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,040 shows on the other channel also shared that studio. 337 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,520 So, you know, it would always be a mess. 338 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,520 And they had sex toys in there. 339 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:25,320 And they left this huge dildo, like one of those big, almost like comical, like a rubber 340 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,680 one that like, you know, moved. 341 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:32,480 And so I'm walking out of the studio and Andrew Wilkhouse walking in and I'm like, hey man, 342 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,040 and I pick it up and I go, I think you left this here and it's like shaking. 343 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,720 And he screamed, he shrieked like it was a spider. 344 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,120 He's like, oh, get it away from me. 345 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:45,800 Get it away from me, which is, you know, kind of a sign. 346 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:50,760 And I just put it in my mouth. 347 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:54,880 Pete Dominic here on the Sunlight Moonlight podcast where we talked to creative people 348 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:58,840 about what they do for work and what working people do to be creative. 349 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:04,760 Pete, your journey there, stand up with Pete Dominic lasted almost 15 years. 350 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,000 Then it ended. 351 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,600 And then I remember this period when you took it upon yourself and you said, you know what, 352 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:19,200 I'm going to keep doing what I want to do and I don't need this satellite radio platform 353 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,720 and you built yourself a studio, right? 354 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,760 Well, Series XM had built me a studio and I was still using that and then yeah, I did 355 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,800 build a different one in a shed outside. 356 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:31,800 I remember. 357 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,360 Because I thought, you know, if I'm not going to be in corporate media anymore, I should 358 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:38,480 be really anti-corporate media, have a shed in the woods, what could be more independent 359 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:39,480 than that. 360 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:44,440 But yeah, it was the hardest part of my career in life. 361 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,480 I was flying high for years doing everything. 362 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,400 I was at CNN, I was at Series XM and Comedy Central all at once. 363 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,680 I was on TV every night. 364 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:55,440 I mean, for one point at one point and it was an amazing ride. 365 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,920 But I will say, you know, people often ask me, how do you have a popular, how have you 366 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,520 been successful with podcasts and how do you make money doing it? 367 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,520 I'm like, well, I was on national radio for almost 15 years. 368 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:10,400 So I, you know, without Series XM, I never could have done what I'm still doing now because 369 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:16,480 that audience, enough of them came with me and it's obviously always hard to build and 370 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:21,040 to grow and to sustain subscribers and listeners and so on, whether you're doing on your own 371 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,400 or with corporate media. 372 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:28,040 But yeah, I mean, thanks to working there for so many years, I was able to bring all 373 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,720 those, a lot of enough folks with me to be able to keep doing what I'm doing. 374 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,440 And it's, I can't believe I have been able to be successful because it's been really 375 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,120 hard and I do it all on my own. 376 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:41,920 But I, you know, I publish, I post a new show every day, sometimes six days a week with 377 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,120 like a whole news segment. 378 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:48,800 Every day it's, it's a lot, but I've gotten, you know, good at it enough that I can, can 379 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:49,800 do a pretty good job at it. 380 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,600 It took me a long time and once I figured out how to do it, I was like, what were all 381 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,080 those producers doing for me? 382 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,080 Yeah. 383 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,080 Those years. 384 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,080 Yeah. 385 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,920 We were talking about that before you came on, like you're, you're so busy and, and you 386 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:09,640 know, and, you know, like you said, you're live every day, six days a week. 387 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,640 So your workflow must be so dialed in. 388 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,920 I mean, that's a lot of work. 389 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:13,920 Yeah. 390 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,760 It's take, I've been doing it almost four years now and I've got it. 391 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:17,760 Yeah, it is. 392 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:18,760 That's a good observation. 393 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,640 I've got it down pretty good. 394 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,640 I couldn't edit audio when I left serious. 395 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:24,640 I had no idea. 396 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:29,280 And now I've got like wizard fingers and everything moves real quick and I, I, I've gotten pretty, 397 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,280 pretty good at that. 398 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,800 And you know, I've got no ego anymore. 399 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:33,960 It's gone. 400 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:39,840 And so I just do everything and work really hard and that's, that's hopefully enough. 401 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,800 And so far it has been, it's, it's, it's probably a little too much. 402 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,880 I don't have the work life balance I want, but my daughters are older now. 403 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:51,440 So I have a lot more, I have more time to do it and I love the work. 404 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,280 I love, I still love every day getting to interview what I, who I think are the smartest 405 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,040 people in the world about the most important issues in the world. 406 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:02,280 And that would explain why Ryan and I have not been invited to be on your podcast. 407 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,800 Well, if I wanted to talk about how to decorate your room with guitars, I would invite both 408 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:06,800 of you on. 409 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:13,640 Just let us know when, whenever you're ready, I can't talk when I can talk about most things, 410 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,840 but I've never been able to talk about music or movies or TV. 411 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,840 Like I can't have a conversation. 412 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,720 Those are my cultural blind spots for sure. 413 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,240 I can't have a conversation. 414 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,240 I love music. 415 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:25,240 I love listening to it. 416 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,400 But when people start talking about it, I'm like, I don't know. 417 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,720 You guys were talking about Zappa earlier and I'm like, yep, got nothing. 418 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,720 Can't name one song. 419 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:38,320 Well, and you know, hearing that journey, we're here with Pete Dominic on the sunlight, 420 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,200 moonlight podcast and where you wound up today. 421 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,440 And you're still juggling this. 422 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:51,480 So how do you sort of reconcile, you know, being, having this, this daily podcast that 423 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,080 is very demanding and very topical. 424 00:22:55,080 --> 00:23:00,080 And if you have to get it out or else it's old immediately with the fact that you're 425 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:08,680 still doing stand up and still, you know, doing panel discussions and appearing on these 426 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,320 political talk shows. 427 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,680 How do you make that all work? 428 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:12,680 When do you have a family? 429 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,680 Yeah. 430 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,680 How do you, how do you balance? 431 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,680 Yeah. 432 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,560 Well, I'm not doing as much stand up. 433 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,680 I mean, I do it when I want to do it, when it's lucrative and I'm doing out more speaking 434 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,920 gigs, speaking engagements, which pay a lot more and I'm in and out in one day and I'm 435 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,680 working now at last week tonight on HBO. 436 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:35,400 I warm up the audience there on Saturdays, but mostly I do the podcast and so, you know, 437 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:41,960 mostly I'm home and I've been able to kind of, like I said, figure it out, but you know, 438 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:47,560 I take what comes through and consider doing stuff, but I love, I love the speaking engagements 439 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,640 that I get to do with a whole bunch of different kind of nonprofits and generally speaking 440 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,560 progressive organizations or movements. 441 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,600 And so it's been, that's been a really great opportunity and I don't do too much of it. 442 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,480 And like I said, my daughters are 16 and 19, my older daughters are freshmen in college, 443 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:08,080 so she's gone and just getting her return to Texas is a huge achievement. 444 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:14,080 So you know, they don't need me for much of anything at all, which is by design, they're 445 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,840 both independent, confident young women and I'm really proud of that. 446 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,760 So I pour a lot into my work. 447 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,760 It's, you know, I do that and then I just basically do a lot of health and fitness to 448 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,680 maintain this perfect physique and facial structure. 449 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,560 Me too. 450 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:35,840 For those of you just listening who are not watching on YouTube, Pete is extremely strikingly 451 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:36,840 handsome. 452 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:37,840 Yeah. 453 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:38,840 And in great shape. 454 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:39,840 I'm 48. 455 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,080 My body fat percentage is lower than it's ever been. 456 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,080 I'm ripped. 457 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,080 Even my skull is more ripped than it's ever been. 458 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,680 You can see the muscles in your brain flexing as you speak. 459 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,000 It's really fascinating. 460 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,600 You are very handsome. 461 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,600 Thank you. 462 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,560 You're welcome. 463 00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:00,840 We actually have a question later on for you that I know from social media that you do 464 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,320 go to the gym and that you are, you take your health seriously. 465 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,040 And so I wanted to ask you a question about that. 466 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,240 We'll save that for later because it gets into a sort of a darker part of the, at the 467 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,760 end of the show. 468 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,760 It's a really good question. 469 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,880 It's, you're going to love it. 470 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:18,880 Yeah. 471 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:24,640 We, well, we do a segment at the end called easy uneasy. 472 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,600 And that's where Ryan will ask you a question that's easy to answer. 473 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,360 And then I will ask you a question that probably will make you uneasy. 474 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:32,360 Oh, boy. 475 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:33,960 I hope it's about your wife. 476 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:34,960 Yeah. 477 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:42,080 Pete Dominic here on the sunlight, moonlight podcast as advertised, expected nothing less. 478 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:47,280 We're having a great time talking to Pete with all of the, the, the booking that you 479 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,920 do for stand up with Pete, your podcast and stand up with Pete.com. 480 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,640 Who do you think would you say is your biggest get to date? 481 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,640 Henry Winkler. 482 00:25:58,640 --> 00:25:59,640 Really? 483 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,760 I mean, I'm thinking of celebrities. 484 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:07,680 I suppose that before, after the Emmy. 485 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,080 Before, oh, after the Emmy, you said, uh, I think both. 486 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,560 I become pretty friendly. 487 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,440 I mean, a lot of the people that I got, you know, on the podcast, they were guests of 488 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,560 mine at serious XM. 489 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,280 So I had a relationship and I had their contacts. 490 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:22,760 But you know, a lot of the people you wouldn't know. 491 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:28,840 I mean, the people that my audience loves are the smart policy experts, the health policy 492 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:35,080 guy, the epidemiologists, the climate folks, the political analysts that people just love 493 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,080 to hear from. 494 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,640 So I pretty much get anybody in that world to talk to me. 495 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,600 And the ones that are the best aren't necessarily the most well known because the most well 496 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:50,560 known ones have higher profiles often as a result of being kind of star fuckery sellouts, 497 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,080 you know, to say, they'll say kind of, you know, almost anything. 498 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,320 So so that some of the names you wouldn't know, but they mean a lot to people because 499 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,440 these folks help people understand what the hell's happening in the world, how it impacts 500 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,440 their lives. 501 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:09,360 So name a subject and I can name, you know, any number of guests that I've had on on that 502 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,360 subject. 503 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,920 But that's generally what we do every day on the show. 504 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:18,520 Yeah, I think, you know, watching and seeing through your promos through social and who 505 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:19,520 you have on the show. 506 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:24,440 Some guests have become familiar to me, some of the policy experts and the and the constitutional 507 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:25,440 law folks. 508 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:26,440 It's serious. 509 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,400 I interviewed a lot more celebrities, but that's because they wanted me to because it 510 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,160 was good for, you know, the network. 511 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,240 I didn't really, sometimes they were great, but a lot of times they were not fun to talk 512 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,640 to their, they might be great actors or artists on, but, you know, somebody else is writing 513 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,920 their lines and you get them in studio and say, what is happening? 514 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,360 But I mean, then obviously there are some comedians and actors who are the funniest 515 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:54,400 people you could ever talk to like Kevin Nealon or Jeffrey Tambor or Bob Saget was always, 516 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,400 always amazing. 517 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,000 I mean, so many, so many different people. 518 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,800 I love talking to those folks, but, you know, what I'm doing on the podcast is generally 519 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:02,800 speaking different. 520 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,640 We're, we're having such, you know, it's so crazy what's happened in the world and people 521 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:11,080 really want to understand it and they want to know that they're living on earth one 522 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,920 and in a reality with other people where, you know, Joe Biden won the election vaccines 523 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,840 work and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. 524 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,040 I interviewed Buzz Aldrin at Sirius and it was probably the most awkward weirdest thing 525 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,040 of my career. 526 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,240 He got, he's weird. 527 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,240 He's not good. 528 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:29,240 You're real. 529 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,240 Yeah. 530 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:35,040 He's very eccentric and he got, he got mad at us doing a misunderstanding. 531 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,040 Yeah. 532 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:45,280 The couple of clips I've seen of Buzz Aldrin being interviewed are not like, I don't know 533 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,280 if he's all there really. 534 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,000 Well, I don't know that he was ever all there, but, but, but the best clip of Buzz Aldrin 535 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:57,120 is a guy accusing him of not ever walking on the moon and saying it was all conspiracy 536 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:58,520 and Buzz Aldrin just punches the guy. 537 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,400 He's like, that's the best thing on the internet to me. 538 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:07,560 That's how I know, like if I ever get a little bit, have trepidations about, you know, was 539 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:08,560 it real like that? 540 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,760 Wait, you see that clip and you're like, no, no, no, that guy walked on the moon. 541 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:12,760 Yeah. 542 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,240 If I walked on the moon and someone told me I didn't, I don't care if it was the baby, 543 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,640 I'd punch that baby right in the face. 544 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,000 We're here with Pete Dominic on the sunlight moonlight podcast. 545 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,520 I think known baby puncher Pete Dominic. 546 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:26,520 Yeah. 547 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,320 Baby had a coming and Ryan baby Thanos. 548 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,600 Well, that's right. 549 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:38,120 We, I, you know, they did talk about going back to see baby Thanos and maybe just ending 550 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,120 it there. 551 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,120 Job. 552 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,080 I'm a big Marvel guy. 553 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,360 Fine, I think you had a question about controversial guests. 554 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,760 Well, yeah. 555 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,320 I mean, who is your most controversial guest to date? 556 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,880 Geez. 557 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,160 Most controversial guest. 558 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:06,440 There was a lot back at Sirius that I, that I interviewed, but on the podcast, I think 559 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,680 this stuff with the Middle East has got everybody fired up. 560 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,840 So people get mad at those guests no matter what they say. 561 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,040 That's for sure. 562 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:20,800 I think Tim Wise, who is like an anti-racist and one of my favorite guests, he's, he gets 563 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:26,160 people pretty fired up, but you know, the audience at this point is, is so kind of like-minded. 564 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:32,840 It's not too controversial at this point on, on the podcast, but yeah, I mean, I don't 565 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,080 have anybody on really too much that, that I have. 566 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:42,440 I don't like to, to platform people who are going to, I've got a debate over, you know, 567 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,720 vaccine effectiveness or climate or things that are settled. 568 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,520 And so I just want to, yeah, so that's, it's a tough question for me to answer in terms 569 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,760 of the podcast now, but I'd say probably the Middle East stuff. 570 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:01,000 I mean, the most controversial thing I've done is being on Joe Rogan. 571 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,520 If right before the pandemic, that's- 572 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,520 That's where I was going next. 573 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:05,520 Yeah. 574 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:10,080 I think it was hatred that I have ever gotten in, in my, as an appearance, I get a lot of 575 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,080 hatred locally because I'm very active in our school board fights. 576 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,440 So that's a whole different story, but, and they know where I live obviously, but you 577 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:22,060 know, the Rogan fans, you know, they, they all want me to kill myself. 578 00:31:22,060 --> 00:31:25,440 Well, for what reason, just cause you weren't a disciple? 579 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,320 It was almost exclusively because of the argument we had around guns. 580 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,320 Oh, around guns. 581 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,320 Yeah. 582 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,320 I watched those clips. 583 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:33,920 They're really interesting. 584 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,320 But yeah, I mean, Rogan fans are like, 585 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,400 you either totally are for Joe Rogan 586 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,800 and agree with everything he says, 587 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,200 anything that's contradictory, they're just against that. 588 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,000 Yeah, I sometimes get jealous of him 589 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,680 because I was doing what he was doing 590 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:54,880 long before he was doing it. 591 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,040 He was a guest on my show before he ever was a podcaster. 592 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,400 And I knew Joe for my whole career. 593 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:01,240 And so that's why you had- 594 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,120 You guys came up together as comedians, right? 595 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,280 Yes and no, he came up mostly in LA 596 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,840 and I was in New York Comic. 597 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,240 So it made me better than him and still does. 598 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,600 But in New York Comics, 599 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,680 we feel like we're way better than LA Comics. 600 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,360 And we are because the audience is in New York at Diverse. 601 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,440 And if you can make all those people laugh 602 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,120 versus a bunch of douchebags in LA, 603 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,200 it makes you a better comic. 604 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,080 There's no doubt about it. 605 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,200 You only go to LA when you're already seasoned, I think, 606 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,480 and you wanna sell out. 607 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:33,480 But I was on his show in 19, right before the pandemic. 608 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,360 He was always kind of controversial in a lot of things, 609 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,600 but it was COVID that put him, 610 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,840 kind of that I think sent him off the edge 611 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,520 along with a lot of his listeners. 612 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,240 And it's a shame because he used to have the best experts 613 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:51,120 on epidemiology and vaccine science on his show. 614 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,480 Peter Hotez and Michael Ulsterholm, like he had them on. 615 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,200 And I've talked to those guys and they're like, 616 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,560 I still text them and he doesn't return my text. 617 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,880 So like he knows better. 618 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,880 He knows better and he doesn't do better. 619 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,480 It's really disappointing and it's very shameful. 620 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,200 You know, one-on-one, he's probably treats people 621 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,920 as well as not better than any other comic. 622 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,640 But at the same time, if you're a halfway decent person 623 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,080 and you're making that kind of money, 624 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,840 you don't leave everybody behind 625 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,520 that you came up with too, you know? 626 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:20,520 Yeah. 627 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,000 And it's serious money. 628 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,000 I mean, he's got a compound in Texas and like that's like... 629 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,440 Yeah, no, I mean, he has like a... I didn't want to talk about it. 630 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:33,720 Well, something from his show that you were on 631 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,040 that stuck out to me is you had mentioned 632 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,840 and I'm wondering where you're at now with us. 633 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,280 You were thinking about running for office. 634 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,520 Yeah, I got recruited. 635 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,600 As soon as I left Sirius, I got recruited. 636 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,320 The Congresswoman in my district retired 637 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,520 and people were throwing my name around for like two weeks 638 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,760 and then other candidates stepped forward that were way more... 639 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,080 You know, I was more just a kind of celebrity 640 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,360 who knew a lot about politics, 641 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:05,040 but you know, this Harvard-educated black gay man named Mondair Jones 642 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,040 put his name in the hat and I was like, bye. 643 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,080 But then I did run... 644 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,160 I got recruited and then the run for town council. 645 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,040 I almost did that. 646 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,160 But in the end, my wife wouldn't let me. 647 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,960 I think I want to say that's a smart move, 648 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,120 not only because I really like your wife, 649 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:28,120 but also because local politics, I think, are for people like you, 650 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,760 I think your talents are probably better served elsewhere. 651 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,680 Like, you're doing more... 652 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,560 I think you're doing better work in this capacity 653 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,840 than you would be doing. 654 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,120 It's hard to be... 655 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,040 My closest friends told me I couldn't be a politician 656 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,000 because I was too honest and I would have to lie 657 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,960 and I wouldn't be okay with that. 658 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,240 You know, after three districts, 659 00:34:47,240 --> 00:34:49,680 you know, we might be in the same district. 660 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:50,480 That's possible. 661 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,520 So do we have... Who's your guy now? 662 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,080 Is it... It'll be Mondair again. 663 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,440 Okay, no, we have... 664 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,440 We have a Lawler who beat out Sean Patrick Maloney. 665 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,240 That's right. Lawler is my current congressman, 666 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:06,080 but he is going to be running against the guy who's seat 667 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,320 he took after it got rewritten. 668 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,120 So... Maloney, right? 669 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,360 Huh? Maloney. Sean Patrick Maloney. 670 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,320 No, he's out. 671 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,840 Mondair Jones is going to probably be the nominee 672 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,640 up against the current Republican, Mike Lawler. 673 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,240 And his just for men beard face. 674 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:24,160 So I don't like... 675 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,440 Yeah, I don't like dyed beards. 676 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,520 Yeah, I don't like congressman 677 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,320 who support Donald Trump. 678 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,960 Yeah, well, and... 679 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:32,800 Yeah. 680 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,640 Well, so here's... 681 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:35,760 That's a good segue actually. 682 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:36,720 I was wondering as it... 683 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:38,680 So you're wearing these different hats. 684 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:39,880 We're here talking to Pete Dominic 685 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,000 on the sunlight, moonlight podcast. 686 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,600 Stand up with Pete.com, Pete's Daily podcast. 687 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,040 So you're in these different roles, okay? 688 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:53,080 So as stand up with Pete and as a journal activist, 689 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,280 I mean, I feel like you've kind of picked a side, right? 690 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,520 You know, you sort of not... 691 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,080 You're not presenting yourself as somebody who's like, 692 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,720 I'm going to get people from both sides 693 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:02,880 and we're going to debate it like you've made decisions 694 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,040 in your life. 695 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,000 And I respect that rather than someone pretending 696 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,640 like they are impartial. 697 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,400 With Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee 698 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,640 for the Republican ticket 699 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:19,120 and close, very close tie with Joe Biden at this point. 700 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:24,120 As a comedian, do you, is there a part of you 701 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,440 that hopes Trump wins just for the material? 702 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:28,880 No. 703 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:29,720 No? 704 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:31,400 No, not even... 705 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,000 No, I have daughters. 706 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,880 No, no, I care about other people. 707 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,960 I would never want bad things to happen 708 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,840 to other people, to me, to the planet, 709 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:43,760 so that I could have... 710 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,120 I'm not even that good of a joke writer. 711 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:49,080 So like my stuff is about my own life so much as well. 712 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,080 And furthermore, like you can't even make jokes 713 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,360 about Trump anymore or political jokes very much 714 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,200 because you divide the audience pretty quick. 715 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,400 You do them at the end of your set, if anything. 716 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,400 So I don't even do that stuff very much. 717 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,440 People are always surprised I'm not more political in my act, 718 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,360 but like, you know, my best piece, 719 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,280 my best chunk right now is how terrible I am as a homeowner. 720 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:10,280 I can't fix anything. 721 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,880 You know, it's stuff self-deprecating things 722 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,240 like that that I talk about. 723 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:18,000 But no, I mean, I think that he is easily the worst person 724 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,800 in the world by magnitudes of... 725 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,800 I mean, I just... 726 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,680 He's a terrible, terrible person. 727 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:25,520 Nobody likes him. 728 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,360 His wife doesn't like him. 729 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,680 His kids don't like him. 730 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,000 And the people, you know, yet he's got a cult following still. 731 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,320 But no, so the answer is absolutely not. 732 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:38,160 I think that he is a danger to society, to the planet, 733 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,560 and to every living thing. 734 00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,560 Yeah, I mean, I think that's pretty clear. 735 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:43,560 And I also... 736 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,560 What always struck me about him, 737 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,080 even watching him come up, you know, 738 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,280 being a New Yorker my whole life, 739 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,480 and, you know, my father worked in real estate, 740 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,680 and, you know, Donald Trump was like his God, right? 741 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,080 He... or the deal came out, and he was just like a disciple. 742 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:00,280 And that's... 743 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,040 It was unfortunate for everybody around us. 744 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:06,520 But I always think it's really sad how, you know... 745 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,480 Okay, so if Donald Trump says he's a bad guy, 746 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,000 he was so wealthy, maybe he wasn't, 747 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,840 but now he is because of Truth Social. 748 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,720 He's got... he's so wealthy and ostensibly successful, 749 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,680 and yet still so kind of mean and angry. 750 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,360 Well, he always thought that was such a shame. 751 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,680 Truth Social is empty. 752 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:27,920 It's zeroed out. It's bottom out. 753 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,800 He'll get no money from that, so that's not even true. 754 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,880 And I'll push back also, and you said, you know, 755 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,640 when you said you're one of those guys who, you know, 756 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,720 is not shy about picking sides, I mean, there aren't two sides, 757 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:41,640 because I know a ton of Republican, conservative Republicans 758 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,640 who disagree with me on almost everything. 759 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:48,960 As long as you agree on the winner of the election is the winner. 760 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:50,960 Like, that's democracy. 761 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,440 If you don't agree with that, it's not a side. 762 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,360 Like, we have to have a starting point 763 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,200 where no matter what the election is, 764 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,760 whoever gets more votes is the winner. 765 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,960 And the fact that he convinced so many people 766 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,600 that he won, that it was rigged, is... 767 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:08,680 Well, those people are idiots, 768 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,480 because there was never any evidence of that, his own people. 769 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,600 I mean, at this point, I like, Ed, I don't have any... 770 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,600 I used to have empathy for people who believe certain things, 771 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,320 but I don't, you know, run COVID and other things 772 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,920 that are a little harder and more controversial. 773 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,280 But I have no empathy for anybody 774 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:22,680 who thinks that Donald Trump won the election, 775 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,160 because there was never any evidence of that 776 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:25,800 according to his own people, according to, you know, 777 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,280 every court in the land. 778 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,480 And so, if you think... 779 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,120 If you're okay with what he did around the election 780 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,960 and what it led to with January 6th and everything, 781 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,040 then you're on a... 782 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,240 It's not that Republican or Democrat, liberal, conservative. 783 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:45,520 It's you root for the Lakers, and I root for the Knicks, 784 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,240 and the Knicks lose, and I say they didn't lose. 785 00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:49,280 Like, who does that? 786 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,000 Like, no, it's gross. 787 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,960 It's not even... It's just beyond... 788 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,040 I don't know... If anybody ever did that in my life, 789 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,040 I wouldn't be friends with them. 790 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,520 Like, what do you mean? You didn't win. 791 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,040 It's okay that you didn't win. 792 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,680 You played hard. You didn't win. Sorry. 793 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,560 Well, I like that there's starting to be justice about that. 794 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,440 You know, the ruling against Giuliani in Georgia, 795 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,560 I think, was a huge victory for truth. 796 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,720 And you can't just call people criminals and liars 797 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:16,360 and get away with it without any evidence. 798 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,720 So, that made me really happy just to, again, 799 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:23,280 being a lifelong New Yorker and seeing the arc 800 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,360 of Rudy Giuliani's sort of ascension and dissent. 801 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,440 If you lived in New York, when I lived in New York, 802 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:34,160 I moved there in 95 and when he was mayor before 9-11, 803 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,360 if you knew any black or brown people, 804 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:37,640 you knew they hated him. 805 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,960 Like, he was only liked by people in Manhattan, 806 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,640 white people, wealthier people, 807 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,200 because of the bullshit he cracked down on crime 808 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:46,040 and all that stuff. 809 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,080 But I think I was always the worst. 810 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,440 He's always been almost increasingly 811 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,720 just an empty barrel and just a creep around women. 812 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:54,280 He's a terrible person. 813 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,360 So, I couldn't be happier that he's, 814 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,760 at the end of his life, been completely disgraced 815 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,240 along with almost everything else. 816 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,480 I mean, everybody, you know, Trump touches, dies. 817 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,920 Well, and also, I mean, he was married to Donna Hanover, 818 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,640 the reporter for years and had wound up cheating on her 819 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,600 with, well, she was Nathan. 820 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,200 I was just like, I liked Donna Hanover as a reporter 821 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,200 and that kind of hit me personally. 822 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:21,040 But we're here with Pete Dominick, standuppeat.com, 823 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,680 on the Sunlight Moonlight podcast. 824 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,280 We're coming to the end of our time here, Pete, 825 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,880 and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you being on with us. 826 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,600 We mentioned before that, for the end of the show, 827 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,240 we do a segment called Easy Uneasy. 828 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:35,720 And this is the part of the show where Ryan will ask you 829 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:37,280 a question that should be easy to answer, 830 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,120 and I will ask you in contrast, 831 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,640 a question that may make you uneasy. 832 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:42,680 Great. 833 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,520 This is a two-parter. 834 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,000 And I know the answer to the first one, 835 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,880 but I'm still gonna ask it because I wanna hear it from you. 836 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,200 Do you work out? 837 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,400 And how often? 838 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:58,400 Yes, as much as I can, almost every day. 839 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:03,520 And I was a personal trainer when I first started in comedy, 840 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,640 pursuing a career in comedy in New York City, 841 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,040 and I did that for like seven years. 842 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,200 And before that, I was a high school college athlete, 843 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,720 lacrosse and soccer and skiing, snowboarding. 844 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:14,560 And so my dad's like a competitive cyclist 845 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:16,400 and ski instructor, he's 80 years old 846 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,320 and he's still in great shape. 847 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,560 And so that's kind of how I was brought up. 848 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,640 And so yeah, I work out almost every day, 849 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:29,640 I eat pretty well, and I have a whole practice 850 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,120 that I do to take care of my emotional 851 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,800 and physical well-being every single day. 852 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,080 I mean, I'm not always consistent with any of it, 853 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:42,080 but I have a pretty well-defined meditation, 854 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,920 exercise, reading, writing, and I could do better on diet. 855 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,440 My problem with food is I sometimes forget to eat, 856 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:50,880 if anything. 857 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,280 I wish I had that problem. 858 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:53,200 Yeah. 859 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,080 Sometimes I forget to stop eating. 860 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:55,920 Yeah. 861 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,880 Which is, it doesn't end up well. 862 00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,600 I love chips. 863 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,320 So that's my weakness to fry is the end of May. 864 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,440 I will die of French fry inhalation most likely, but. 865 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,360 Yeah, that's easy. 866 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:09,200 That's easy. 867 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:10,960 What's the, did I answer it? 868 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:11,800 Yes. 869 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:12,640 I think so. 870 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:13,640 Ryan, are you satisfied? 871 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:14,640 I'm satisfied. 872 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,120 Okay, so knowing my joints, 873 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,800 I want to keep my joints healthy for as long as I can. 874 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,080 I literally, in my meditation, 875 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,920 I go through each one of my joints in my mind. 876 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:23,760 I really do that. 877 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,840 My shoulders, my knees, my back, I think about it. 878 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,640 I think about how much I sit in front of a computer. 879 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:29,640 I get up and move. 880 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:30,480 I stretch. 881 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,360 I do as much as I can to stay healthy 882 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,080 because I just think it's just nothing more depressing 883 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,320 than to be in some kind of physical pain. 884 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,520 So I'm happy to take the pain of exercise and stretching 885 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,320 and all that to make sure that I can stay this way 886 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:45,320 as long as possible. 887 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,800 I'm happy to take any kind of exercise 888 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,640 that I can do to help you get out of this 889 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,840 beautiful, beautiful specimen that I've become. 890 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,520 Yeah, I mean, when you have a vessel like that, 891 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:53,720 if you don't take care of it, 892 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:55,160 it's really not fair to anybody. 893 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,320 That's basically how I see it. 894 00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,480 Also, I like a good body scan. 895 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,120 You know, you go through every joint, 896 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:02,920 every, you know, all of your connections. 897 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,720 I go like checklist in places that people shouldn't be 898 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:07,280 just to show people that. 899 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:08,440 By the way, this is funny. 900 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,840 I'm 48 and now my beard is, you know, 901 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,160 I've been bald for 24 years. 902 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,320 pretty white. And so for the first time, I'm running the same 903 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,440 place I run, you know, a few days a week. I see a guy, you 904 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,960 know, maybe 10, 20 years old to me, and I'm running and this 905 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,240 has never happened. And he, he starts clapping. 906 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:29,960 What are you doing? 907 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:37,680 That's great. He's like, good for you, old timer. Yeah, I have 908 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,640 the great beard now too, which during a job search, so I can't 909 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,960 grow a beard until I get a job again, or else I'll just get 910 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,920 aged out of the market. But knowing how much you work out, 911 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,880 and how much you must be inside gymnasiums of different types 912 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:56,320 and around other men who are working out. When you're 913 00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,720 showering in the locker room, when you're hanging out in the 914 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:01,320 locker room, because I'm sure you spend a lot of time there too, 915 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:07,320 knowing you. Do you ever look around at other men's channels? 916 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:12,000 Not anymore. But I used to all the time when I was work at the 917 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,560 gym, it's basically all I did. I mean, I have tons of stories 918 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:21,200 about my early days in equinox. I mean, one time when I was 21 919 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:24,360 naive, I just moved in New York, I'm working at this gym, and I 920 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,400 just had no idea. But I'm in the steam room, and I'm sitting 921 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,960 there and I look across the way and there's some guy sitting 922 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,040 across me opens his towel, he's got a full bone. 923 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,080 And so I did that happened to me that happened to me in Midtown 924 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,080 New York Sports Club that happened to me. Yeah, that's how 925 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,600 we met. I was like, aren't you look at us now? Don't you work 926 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:49,920 it serious? It's so good. Turn my volume up. Could you? So the 927 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:54,400 guy like I got like really kind of like upset and I like left the 928 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,480 steam room and then he walked out and I got in the shower and 929 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,440 then he got in another shower and then I got out and he got 930 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,000 on he like nodded for me to go back in. I was like, I mean, that 931 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,600 was just one. I mean, there was so many other but absolutely I 932 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:11,520 look at naked men and compare and contrast, you know, all kinds 933 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,160 differences. I remember seeing like for the first time, like a 934 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:18,600 really old man's penis. And I could not look away from it. I 935 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,040 was just like, wow, we had just looked like a sad little burrito. 936 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,640 It was had a hood on it. And I remember, I remember, you know, 937 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,720 I never seen an old man naked like that. And I was like this 938 00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:30,320 guy and then they just like, guy, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, 939 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,920 this guy and then they just like guys like that just love to 940 00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,520 walk around naked in the locker room. So I feel like an 941 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:36,920 obligation to stare at them. 942 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,440 There's definitely an age to which yeah, I mean, the guy has 943 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:41,720 earned the right to just walk. 944 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,320 I saw that old guy naked for the first time. So I just looked at 945 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,800 him. I just I clapped just like you in the park. Just like the 946 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:49,160 guy. 947 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,240 That's that I should know better than to try to make Pete 948 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:56,160 Dominic uneasy with any question. 949 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:00,840 Well, but I'll make you uneasy on your show. I have a freely 950 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:07,960 inappropriate feelings about your wife. Because granted, she's 951 00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:11,400 a very attractive woman. But like, I met her once and we hit it 952 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:16,920 off. So like, we got along so well that like, when I see her 953 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,960 posts on Facebook, I'm always like, what a great, what a great 954 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:26,280 quality woman just beautiful, smart as hell, funny, confident. 955 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,960 So, you know, I'll turn it around on you and I hope that makes 956 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:29,720 you uneasy. 957 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,120 Well, you know, what I'd say makes me most uneasy is how 958 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:37,200 well your wife and my wife got along when we met like that. 959 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,040 That was got a little weird for a little bit. 960 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,880 You know, the actress Bridget Moynihan? 961 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:41,800 Yes. 962 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:43,760 She's she's to date Tom Brady. 963 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,040 Tom Brady's yeah, yeah. 964 00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,240 She's on blue blood. Beautiful woman used to be a model. And I 965 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:50,240 got to be pretty friendly with her. Because I interviewed her a 966 00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:55,520 few times at Sirius and we were at this concert that called 967 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:58,160 Global Citizen, the anti poverty organization, Central Park, 968 00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,880 and a whole bunch of like celebrities backstage and stuff. 969 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:05,000 So I'm hanging out with her, my wife and her husband. And so my 970 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,480 wife and her husband are hitting off. And so Bridget Moynihan 971 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,320 looks down at me. She's like six, three. And she's like, she 972 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:16,880 goes, Hey, our spouses are really hit enough. Maybe we should 973 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:28,040 swap without missing a beat. I go, Yes. Now, how about now? 974 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:32,160 Yes, we should. That's great, man. Good for you. If you're into 975 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:32,600 that guy. 976 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,000 That and Mandy Patinkin asked me to go to an orgy, but I 977 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:36,520 didn't go. 978 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:38,960 How do you say no to that? 979 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,640 I just I told him I was like I was I felt I was young, I dumb 980 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,760 and I had like a girlfriend. I don't know my girlfriend will 981 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,200 like it. There could have been a six fingered man at the orgy. 982 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:51,440 Really regret that decision. You didn't want to see an old man's 983 00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,080 penis. Oh, I did. 984 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,280 Sorry about that. My my seven year old son has just started 985 00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,280 pounding on the door, which means it's we're out of time. 986 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,520 We're out of time. So Pete, this has been great. Stand up with 987 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:10,240 Pete.com daily podcast. Look out for Pete warming up the last 988 00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:14,480 week tonight show every Sunday. It's the CBS studios, right? If 989 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,760 you're going there. Yeah, why don't you let your son come in 990 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:17,680 and meet his real father? 991 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,200 My boy. Thank you so much. I want I want to have you back. 992 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:29,840 Unbold again. Again. This is the Sunlight Moonlight podcast, 993 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:33,680 Dom Dorm and Ryan Havers. Thanks. And we will see you the next 994 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:45,440 time. Thanks so much. Thanks, Pete.