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What are you guys talking about? Oh, just, you know, the wonderful life of Las Vegas, Nevada. How pandemic doesn't exist there. Is it mask-free, like just a free-for-all? It's the same old Vegas. So the motto, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, does that apply to viruses? 100%. Well, good. Thank God. Welcome to Literally with Rob Lowe. It's me. Very few people can sell out the forum.
in Los Angeles, like just by going, you know what? I want to sell out the forum. But my guest, Joe Coy can. And Joe Coy is so funny. And I think you're going to love this conversation. And I am going to get all of the details that I've ever wanted to know about the Philippines, which I'm obsessed with, because he is probably one of the great ambassadors that they have. So I hope you enjoy this talk with Joe Coy.
Are you still doing your act in Vegas? No, no, no. That's the one thing. That's what's driving me crazy is because I already have five shows at the win. Already sold out. We even gave the fans an option to return the tickets, but they're holding on. They're waiting. But every time they give me a new date, they postpone it again. Yeah. I'm not understanding why the theater is closed, but Home Depot run amok.
Run amok. Run amok. Target, run amok. Theater, let's not open that up yet. And then, of course, the casino, packed.
I mean, I've seen people on the roulette table right next to each other, just, you know, throwing, you know, throwing their money on the table. But then you go to the blackjack table and they got cubicles. I'm like, okay, this makes no sense. Well, let me ask you this. So the roulette is, I'm the worst gambler in the world, by the way. Yeah. My, my, I let, I let my wife handle that. She's like, she's literally like Jimmy con in a blonde wig in the movie, the gambler. I love it. But so roulette is the one with the dice.
Uh, roulette is the, is the ball is the wheel. Okay. What about the dose? Uh, craps. Do they, you probably can't play that anymore, right? Cause everybody touches the same dive. Wait, they're playing it. I don't believe me, Rob. I don't understand it. Cause you're walking through the casino and you see blackjack, you know, the tables with cubicles, the little plastic clear separating each person from each other. And there's only like three people allowed per table. Then you go to the craps table.
There's no plastic guards and people just gambling. So I don't, I guess COVID knows, COVID knows which table to go to. And it's blackjack. Every time I'm behind a glass or plastic barricade barrier and other people on the other side, I remember, I just think of that scene in Midnight Express where Brad Davis sees his fiance. She's like, oh, Billy.
Yeah, it's not a good memory. Are you a gambler? Do you like to gamble? I'm really good. Okay. And here's the thing. I gamble for fun. It's literally just an activity. I'm not in there to try and take home money. I don't have the mentality to go in there and go, I got to win a couple grand.
I literally go in there and have a party and I always win. And I think it's just the attitude. I swear it's my energy. And I tell people right when I sit down, I go, you guys ready to win? Cause you look depressed. Let's let's, let's take the casinos money. And it always happens. And if I lose 200, I'm happy. I'm like, cool. That was fun. But I always walk away winning always. What's what's your game? Blackjack. I'm so good. God, I'm good. You know what? That's my son, by the way, Rob.
Oh, I like that picture you have behind you. It's very cute. That's my son. So the blackjack, here's the thing I've learned about blackjack is you got to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of basic math. Yeah. Basic math. Uh, problem for problem for me. Okay. Problem. It's problem. Uh, you also have to, you also have to have, uh, the, to know when it is your, uh,
How do I say it? When it starts to roll in your favor. So it's all about timing. And you got to know. And when it hits, when you know you're going to hit a pocket of like five or six in a row, that's when you start just throwing out on the table. You got to double down. Yeah, when you know you're on a run, for sure. The problem is it's hard for me to get on a run when I'm counting on my fingers all the time.
That's funny. It's not. It doesn't look. I do not look cool. And then I get like, then I get nervous that people are seeing that I'm counting on my fingers. And then I'm looking over at them. And then they think I'm looking over at them because I think they're looking at my cards. And it's like a whole shame spiral. It's just not worth it for me. You're the guy that celebrates at 22. Yes.
Oh, yes. I'm the guy who is reacting to it after everybody's taken their money. Yeah. So what I do is I do do roulette and I just do, I bet numbers from the 1976 Cincinnati Reds. That's, that's, that's,
how I do it. I'm like, I want to put a hundred dollars on Pete Rose, number 14 and on number on five, Johnny Bench, number eight on Dave Concepcion and 15 for George Foster. That's great. And that's, and a number, let me do 41 for Tom Seaver. Oh wait, no, Tom Seaver came in 77. Forget it. I'm not doing Tom Seaver. That's good. And of course that doesn't win.
No, you'd think that something having to do with betting on Pete Rose would help. You would think it doesn't. It doesn't. By the way, it didn't help him either. Not at all.
Are you a sports fan? You know, here's as far as my sports go. It's Seahawks, it's Mariners, and it's the Supersonics. Oh, bro, we have lots to discuss. It's time for a deep dive. Yeah, let's go, man. Okay, so let me just ask you this. How do you feel about your team being involved in the single worst coaching decision
in the history of organized sports. Twice. Twice. Yeah. By the same guy, same coach. Twice by the same guy. And I don't know if it was a coaching error. Okay, I know what you're talking about on the last one because I was there. I went to that one. No. I was there with my son. We were hugging. We were crying. My son's not even a Seahawks fan, but that was such an emotional game. We couldn't believe that
in a one yard line, send in, send in beast, you know, and send, send in B. So this is the Superbowl on the line. There's no discussion. No discussion. There's no, there's no game plan. There's no offensive coordinator. Shut up. Beast.
Every touch he had on that ball was at least a gain. By the way, I'll do you one better. He never had a negative carry on that whole game. I don't understand. One yard. Send him beast. Yeah. And by the way, I think also if you wanted to, you could have just not even tried and you could have kicked a field goal.
I think that's true. Yeah. There's also that, but, but that's stupid because the wind was there. We had four shots at the, you know, we had four shots to get in. It didn't make any sense. Ran the slant. I don't even understand it. And then they try and do the statistics all the time. My friend is married to, to the kicker, Ryan, John Ryan.
Remember? Yeah. Okay. So, you know, the one that threw the, you know, the fake play and he threw the, threw the pass for anyways. Yeah. You know, the green Bay game, the most legendary, by the way, I was at that game. I was at that one as well.
And, you know, it's a football guy, and it's a guy that's never played a day of touch football in his life. Okay? I'm just a diehard Seahawks fan. And here I am telling this pro, the guy that basically single-handedly saved that game in Green Bay, that that was the wrong play. That slant was the worst play ever. And here he is telling me, no, statistically, that was the right play, and he's breaking it down. And I'm like, hey, man,
You had beast mode, bro. Yeah. Just give him the ball. I don't, I mean, like I didn't understand it, but yeah. How do you tell a professional football player the right or wrong play? But I don't know. I, I, I strongly believe that that was the worst decision ever. And then Pete also, you know, I love Pete, but yeah,
You know, him for him to say it's, you know, I mean, people are always sticking up for him. It wasn't his fault. Offensive coordinator called that play. No, you're the head coach. Well, I can do you one better. You know who else should have stepped in is Russell Wilson. Because I because I promise you part of being a leader is being a leader. And I promise you if Peyton Manning is in that situation, I'm sorry. What you do? What?
And then he would, he would either blatantly just say, I'm not doing it. Or he would, he would audible at the line of scrimmage and say, he saw something he didn't like. Yeah. And he would have handed the ball off. But the notion that everybody just fell in line, like a bunch of sheep, it's, it's disgraceful. It was, they'll never recover. They'll never recover. Let me tell you, I was at that game. Okay. And people left, like people left, they thought it was over. And, um,
And I remember just like hugging my son and hugging, you know, hugging Seahawks fans because they were the only ones that stayed. Yeah. And I remember looking at Belichick and just the calmness was eerie. Like now that I look back at it, like it was really weird because I remember saying something to my son is like,
They're not even panicking. Like, I didn't get it. It was the weirdest, oddest, eeriest feeling. Like, if it was any other situation, people would be, like, losing their minds. Just like, oh, like, scramble, timeout. Like, you know what I mean? But Belichick was just like, like, there was a whole other half to play. Like, that's how he was on the side. And then we call, you know, then we throw that slant.
And it was picked off. I really felt like, did he know? Did he just know? Like, what was that? Well, they ran that play in practice. It was so crazy. Yeah, he knows. He's the man. Bill Belichick's the man. Here's what I've always wanted to do.
Um, you've, you've had to do press junkets and stuff where you have to answer a hundred thousand questions from the media. I, I've always wanted to do, or a red carpet, walk a red carpet. I've always wanted to do that. Like Bill Belichick and, and, and literally be like, uh, they'd be like, tell me about the, uh, perks and rec reunion for charity. You're doing. I'm like, it's, um, it's good charity. And, um, everybody was excited to, to, to be back together. That's so good.
I would, it'd be, how great would that be? Yeah, it's great. It's a charity. Charity. It's a, you'd have to ask Amy Poehler. It's not, not concerned with that. If you, you know what a charity is, we raise money and we've raised a lot of money. Next question. What? Yeah. What the hell is that? What do you mean next question? Why don't you answer this one? I just, I just did. Next question is my favorite. Yeah. Yeah.
And then I also like the athletes who do that and then get up like dramatically and get their hand purse. Yeah. And walk out of frame. That's my favorite. I think that's our, Cam Newton is our guy. That is an athlete's mic drop. That's their mic drop is grabbing their little tiny patented leather Louis Vuitton clutch. It's the best. It is the absolute best. Hey, what's in there, LeBron?
What is that? What's in there? It's so good. Your Amix black card? What's in there? I don't get it.
love to open and just see, is there like a, is there like a pencil with like, like a, like a kangaroo with boxing gloves? Like, what is it? What's, what is in your clutch that you need a clutch? I think we got to get to the bottom of the proliferation of hand clutches in professional sports. Yes. And find out, I mean, you know, people were concerned about doping, juiced balls in baseball. I'm concerned about the proliferation of clutches. Yeah. I just want to see what's inside the clutch.
That's a hard hitting investigation, Rob. That's a good title. That's a good title. Inside the Clutch. Dude, you and I, let's call it Netflix. In the Clutch. You're the man of Netflix. You can get this on the air. Your special's killing it, by the way. Your special's awesome. Thank you. Thank you, Rob. I tell you what I love about it is I'm obsessed with the Philippines and I've never been there. Oh, man. And here's why I'm obsessed with the Philippines. When I was a kid,
And I wanted to be an actor and I moved to Malibu. There was an actor who lived three doors down, a Hollywood actor. His name was Martin Sheen, but he was never there because he was in the Philippines. What? For years shooting this movie called Apocalypse Now. What? And then when he came home-
It was story after story after story of the Philippines. So in my imagination, the Philippines is this mythic, mythic place from all of the Apocalypse Now stories. That's crazy. I heard from Martin. You were living – how old were you? So that would have been 77.
When I lived there, it was from 76 to 81. And the cool thing about Martin, he was there also during the Marcos regime. So there was money there. There was a lot of money in that country. And it was very, it's not that it's not safe now, but there was an American presence there. There was a lot of Americans there and the Filipinos adapted to that. So English is the first language and people don't know that. Yeah.
You know, I mean, yeah, I mean, Tagalog is their first language. But I mean, everyone speaks English wrong to be in the middle of Asia. You're a two hour flight from Japan, if that. And these people speak perfectly good English. And not only do they speak English, they can sing an American song to the T. I mean, Arnel Pineda, you know, Arnel Pineda sounds just like Steve Perry.
No accent. Sounds just like C. Perry. Okay. How do you say his name? Arnel Pineda. That guy is a certified genius. Certified genius. Beast. I was really like, eh, this is going to be like a bad career. I'm so not into this. And then I saw them. Exactly. He's amazing. And the reason why, Rob, I'm sorry to cut you off, is when you get somebody that has to see
sing into a broken speaker and a crappy microphone your whole life, and you've got to figure out how to make this sound correct in your head, and then you go and play with the most iconic rock band to ever walk the earth? Ever. And now you're using real equipment, and now you're bringing...
That throat that you worked on for all your years. Dude, when I watched that documentary and I forgot who the lead, you know, the guy that writes all the songs for Journey. What he said, I saw this guy running back and forth like a marathon and singing. And in my head, I'm like, we still have an hour and a half to go. He's not going to make it. And then he made it.
His mind was blown because he's like, I've never seen anyone do that. And that's what Arnell brings to that band is just that life. It's amazing. I saw him at Dodger Stadium just two years ago, I guess. Yeah. And wasn't expecting much. And-
They blew Fleetwood Mac off the stage. Wow. They were arguably better than the Eagles that day. Wow. I mean, that's a that's a great. Can you imagine the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and Journey? I mean, I just got chills from you saying that. I know. It was the best. Yeah, that's that's that's absolutely crazy. And the reason I get chills is because it's you know, it's it's like literally one of my own.
fronting that band. It feels so good to have that, to be able to have Rob Lowe say that. That's awesome, man. Because for years, Rob, it hurt. It hurt to live here in the 80s. I had to deal with this identity crisis that I was going through. I'm half Filipino, half white.
I live on a, you know, I live on a base with a bunch of half kids. And then we go out into public school and people are looking at us weird. Like, what are you like? What is this? You know, I tell them I'm Filipino. What's that? You know, and I tell them what kind of food I've never tried that before. So it's always like this struggle living in America, trying to
I felt like I was an ambassador, always selling who I was. You know, I'm Filipino. We speak English. Try our food. It's delicious. You know, then I got Korean friends and I got Chinese friends and everyone knows about them. Oh, I love Chinese food. I love sushi. You know what I mean? I love Jackie Chan. I love Bruce Lee. And then here I am trying to sell being Filipino. And it was just like growing up, it was hard. And, and,
And when I finally found out that Rob Schneider was Filipino, I'm telling you, Rob, I know this is small, but it was the biggest moment in my life. Like it really was like, cause I still talk about it to this day, being on a date with this girl. And we went to go watch a Rob Schneider movie. And, uh, and in the middle of the movie, he goes, you're the guy that played Rob Schneider's dad in the movie goes, your mom made your favorite raspberry babinka for dessert. I'm telling you, Rob, I lost my shit.
I remember looking at the girl I was on a date with like, oh my God, like he's Filipino. And to hear that kind of representation, like I know it doesn't mean anything to you guys, but to hear like the food that I ate my whole life and to identify with someone that's at the biggest, like he was on the highest level.
You know, on the big screen, it was Rob Schneider. Like, you know what I mean? People waiting in line to watch these movies. And here he is saying, Babinka, dude, that's when I knew there was a chance for me in Hollywood because I was like, if this guy can do it, I can do it.
And it meant a lot. And that's why I brought that special to Netflix, because I knew how hard it was for me to find someone to identify with and inspire me. And I could only imagine how it is now, because, you know, to this day, people, when I go on Filipino, they're always like, oh, Manny Pacquiao. And I'm like, no, no, no.
There's a lot more than that. There's Chad Hugo with the Neptunes. He writes all the songs for Justin Bieber and Beyonce and Ill Mind and Rob Schneider and Tia Carrera. I keep listing off all these people.
And it always falls on Manny Pacquiao. It's just like, so I felt like, I felt like I had to do this Netflix special, not had to, I wanted to, because I knew how I felt when I was a kid. And this was that one moment where I could share the spotlight on the
biggest platform and bring some other Filipino acts and bring them to the Philippines and celebrate our culture and let the world know. And just, you know, knowing that Rob, Rob Lowe knows who Arnel Pineda is. And he went to that concert. That means a lot, man. And,
I'm rambling a lot, Rob. I'm sorry. No, it's great. I love your passion. It meant a lot to me. You know what I mean? I wanted people to, you know, just to hear our national language. Like my theme song was in Tagalog, you know, and it was a little kid that lives in the Philippines. And here he is rapping, and that's his dream to be a rapper in the Philippines forever.
And here he is. He had an opportunity to write a theme song for my special and, and, and it'll mine, a producer that has a Grammy for Jay-Z album is producing that beat for this little kid. Like that's a beautiful opportunity. And I, and I got to make that happen and, and, and, and to get DMS of people that aren't Filipino going, Hey, what's the name of that kid? That was like, like,
That that's a win for me, Rob, you know, it's a, it's a win for us as an audience, because, um, like I said, I, I've been obsessed with the Philippines and haven't been there yet. And, you know, now travel is tough and there are plenty of people in the world who don't have the access to travel as much as they'd like to in the first place. So when you watch a special like yours, um, and get to look behind the curtain like that, it's, it just, it's awesome. I mean, there's, what is it about the Philippines that every time I see it,
you like, it's like, you can feel the air. Yeah. It feels like there's a really specific energy. It is a beautiful country. And, and that, that's why, um, and of course I'm biased. I'm half Filipino, but, uh, I, I,
You feel it when you're there, man. The people are happy with what little that they have. They celebrate it. And when you don't have much, you know, I do a joke on my special about my mom always making me do the Michael Jackson, perform like Michael Jackson, perform like, until I was like 33 years old. That's a true story. And that's what it's like in the Philippines. It's like when the mom finds a little bit of talent,
You're performing, you know, and it's like we don't have we don't have we don't have a DVD player. We don't have we don't have much. But we got a kid that sounds just like Journey. Arnell, come here. Arnell, sing for us. You know, and that's what Arnell did. I bet you Arnell will say the same thing. I don't know how many Easter Sundays Arnell had to sing like Journey.
sing every journey song in front of his family. So that's just like me. And, and, and you feel it when you're there, when you, you feel these people, uh, not have much, but happy. So happy. Did you, so you were, you're, you're, you're obviously a big MJ guy, big Michael Jackson. 100%. Yeah. I mean, who, right. I mean, that music was, I, um, I have a picture of he and I backstage, uh, at, in Paris, he was playing and, um,
I'm pretty convinced that he stole my chin. That's good. I'm pretty, I'm actually not joking. I think he went, took the, took a picture and it was like that. Give me that. And he bought it. Yeah. It's called the Rolo. It's called the Rolo chin. Yes. It's available now. It's on Amazon. That's right. It's on Amazon or wherever you get your chins. Yeah. I think, I think that's very funny. Yeah.
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Qualifying plan required. Wi-Fi were available on select U.S. airlines. Deposit and Hilton honors membership required for 15% discount terms and conditions apply. Give me your, what's your favorite Michael song? It's Man in the Mirror. Are you kidding me? Yeah. It's the best song ever. Man in the Mirror. Man in the Mirror. It's inspirational. There's no way you cannot turn that thing all the way up to 10 in your car when that song comes in. Did you ever see him perform live?
No, and I had tickets to see him at the Tacoma Dome. My uncle Charlie bought those tickets. This, by the way, this is when Ticketmaster used to be in little booths. Ticketmaster? Yeah, inside in department stores. Oh, yes, of course. This is when you had to call on the phone and use your mom's credit card to buy tickets. And my uncle Charlie was a security guard at the Balmarchand. He bought me two tickets to see Michael Jackson, and it was the only concert he canceled was Tacoma. Oh, no. I was heartbroken. And they showed his playing land.
on, on news. I remember I was watching the news and I was so excited. I was like, mom, I'm not going to go to school tomorrow. She was like, no problem. I'm just going to celebrate Michael Jackson day. I'm going to get to the Tacoma dome early. I'm going to hang out. And she, yeah. And then we saw his plane land. And then all of a sudden the next day he was sick and he's going back to California and he canceled all five shows. He canceled. I, I saw him perform a number of times, uh,
And there's never, the only thing I can compare it to is watching Michael Jordan on the basketball court. Those two things are totally analogous for me. They're superhuman beings, like they had like a light around them. Yeah. And-
There will never, ever, ever be anything like watching Michael perform. I'm sorry. I don't care who you are, what you are. Forget it. It's completely different. I've always said that, too. I always feel like God always drops like just certain talent just to move the country forward or move the world forward. And I feel like Michael is that guy. I know it was basketball, but what he did for the world was crazy.
Like just basketball in China now that didn't happen. That was Michael that did that. And, you know, it was another level just watching him play. By the way, I went and saw him play at the kingdom. That's how amazing Michael was. 1988, I went to go see him play in the kingdom where the Seahawks played. The Seahawks weren't even selling games anymore.
And, uh, and by the way, the Sonics weren't even selling out games. And all of a sudden Michael Jordan came to town and they moved it from the Coliseum to the kingdom. And it was completely sold out. They put the basketball court like in, in the end zone or something like that. I had no idea that they ever did that. That's amazing. Michael Jordan was the only one to do that. It was at the kingdom. You mean, you mean Sean Kemp? Sean Kemp couldn't get that done? Uh, you know what? He came. Yeah. Deadlift, deadlift shrimp.
Yeah. Yeah. Could not get that. Sell that, sell that place out. Yeah. But you got to remember this was 1987. It was like 80, 88. So it was like more of a Dale Ellis. And it was the other crew. It was, they were still good by the way, but Dale Ellis and all those cats, you know, uh, what about my man? So Dale Threat, my favorite name ever. He was a Laker by the way. Uh,
But when he played for Seattle, he was amazing. I love you, Rob. I know you were sports buff like this. Siddell Threat. I just remember, it's like I wake up hearing the Laker announcer say,
announcing his name after he just buried his umpteenth three-pointer to beat the Lakers. He was a beast. Can I tell you something now that we're talking about guys with auras? So Ticketmaster, I called Ticketmaster, and this is like 1987, 88, whatever, 87. Don't quote me on the year. Research it. 87. I call on the phone. I get my mom's Visa card.
And I pretend to be my mom. Now, mind you, when you call on the phone and use someone's credit card, act like somebody, they usually question you. They're like, okay, you're not, you're using someone's credit card. But when you use a Filipino accent, they don't question you. And I remember I was, I was like 15 years old and I got my mom's credit card and I called ticket master. And I'm like, um, I'd like to buy two tickets to see Eddie Murphy at
At the Seattle Coliseum, I need two tickets, please. Your best seats available. Thank you. And the lady was like, oh, no problem, man. And sold me two tickets to see Eddie Murphy raw at the Seattle Coliseum. I was 15 years old and I was 15 rows from the stage. I saw that live.
Oh, was he wearing the red leather or the purple leather? No, he was wearing, no, our show, he wore all black, no t-shirt, wide open, and he had driver gloves on. He had like these leather driving gloves and he had a big ring, this big,
diamond ring. Like I forgot what finger was on, maybe his pinky or something. And I remember it was just lighting up the Coliseum. There's like 24,000 people there. It was just, it was packed. You want to hear the cool part, Rob? Rob, let me just explain to you. Cause I want everyone to know this. Cause you won't know this unless you went to the concert. If you watch Raw,
The beginning of Raw, he comes out. It's a silhouette of him standing behind this big red screen, and it's just a black silhouette of Eddie Murphy, and the crowd goes crazy, and they stand up, and they're going crazy, and he walks out. The screen lifts up, and it's Eddie. It's the reveal, and he walks out.
I'm going to tell you what that red screen was because no one knows what that red screen was. There were three of them on stage. There were two on the sides and there was one in the middle. And it was a highlight reel. It was a montage of everything that he's done up until that point. And it had like Gumby. It had, you know, 48 hours. It had Beverly Hills Cop. It had everything. And it was just running all his lines, you know, everything. James Brown, everything. Stevie Wonder. And it just kept getting faster and faster and faster and faster. All his hits.
And then, bam, it turns red. And he's standing behind it. And, bro, he could have said fucking goodnight, Rob. I've never seen. It was rock star, bro.
That was, it was rockstar, man. Like 24,000 people jumped out of their seats, screaming, rushing the stage. And it was just one guy, one mic and a stool. And that was the, that's when I said to myself, this is what I'm going to be right here. I'm going to be this right here.
And that was it. I had the horse flaps on and I never did anything but stand up. The minute I got out of high school, I was doing stand up. And that was my goal. And my goal is to play that arena. I was supposed to play it this year, the Seattle Coliseum Arena, but it was under construction. So I had to move my show to Kent and I played it in a hockey arena. I did two shows at a hockey arena there. But
I already told them. I go, I'm coming back because I'm walking on that stage that Eddie walked out on. I'm playing the Coliseum. It's under construction, so I'll be there. It's crazy to even say I'm playing arenas. It's crazy to even say that, man. I was going to say it is. I mean, I think. Did you play the Forum? I did two of them. Back to back. I mean, you played the Forum. Talk about the Lakers. They sold out in like less than like an hour, both of them. It was crazy, man. It was nuts.
It was crazy. It's unbelievable. You're so crushing it out there. Thank you. Eddie was – I knew him in that era. I knew him in the era, the 48 Hours era. Unbelievable. There's great pictures floating around online of young Eddie and me just getting into – you don't even want to –
know how much hey rob hey rob hey rob rob yeah we we still know we know we know we know we have long memories we still know we know about your we spent you ladies and gentlemen roblo rob thank you very much rob thank you
By the way, in my one-man show, I do a clip reel and come out like a reveal, just like, it doesn't have the same effect. People go, oh, is that, they go, instead of jumping to their feet at the end of my clip reel when the light reveals me magically on the stage, they go, oh, I thought we were seeing John Stamos. Yeah.
That's good. That's what happens. That's good. With my version of it. But I did know enough to put that in there. Someone told me you're a bit, and this almost sounds like too provocative, but you're a big like cannabis CBD guy. Is that, how is that like on my briefing sheet about you? I'm very curious to know how that makes it. You know what?
I do it for joints. And what I mean by joints, I mean joints. Those joints. Yes, it's for the joints. And it's, you know, it's more of the oils and the lotions. You know, that stuff is really cool. I love it. I really do.
Walk me through this because my I'm like active as crap and I'm starting to feel some of that stuff. Do I need to like turn into Bob Marley and the whalers here or like what's going on? I mean, it's I will never do an edible again.
That's that I retired from. I like the again part. What? Tell me about before the again. OK, so I'm good friends with the black IPs. OK, so that's a problem right there. You know, you're already a problem. And there's a guy already in that. That's another Filipino that the world doesn't know about. But Apple, the app is one of the guys, one of the members of the black IPs. I love him to death. Taboo and I were hanging out.
Uh, and we go cause apple has to spin at the hard rock already. That's a bad idea. He's like, Hey, I'm going to spin at the hard rack at this club. You guys want to go? I'm like, yeah, uh, let's go. Let's go up to my room, you know, hang out for a second. Okay, let's go. Uh, we go to the room. He whips out cookies. Okay. One cookie, eat the cookie, whole cookie, whole cookie. Hasn't hit me yet. And then, his assistants like, I can't finish this one, Joe, you want it? And she only took a little bite. I'm like, yeah, threw it in my mouth. I'm trying to be funny. I'm trying to be funny. Uh,
So I pop it in my mouth. I eat it. Now the room's spinning and Apple's like, Hey, we got to go. Cause he's got this after party that he's going to spin out. And I'm like, Hey, I can't, I can't. I'm spinning already. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I am spinning.
You're spinning me. So I'm like, Apple, I can't, I can't leave. And I'm holding on. Like, I remember I was holding on to like the wall. I'm like, I can't leave. I got to stay, man. Please just let me stay. And I have my roommate at the time that was living with me. And his name was Walter. I go, Walter, you got to stay with me, man. I can't go. He's like, yeah, I'll stay. So I'm staying in the room. I'm literally on the floor, Rob, holding on to this coffee table. And it's just spinning and it's spinning and spinning. I was like, dude, it's not stopping, man. This goes on until I fall asleep.
I wake up at about 4.30 in the morning. This is when you know someone's a rock star. And Apple comes back. It's like 4.30 in the morning. And I barely open my eyes. The room's still spinning. And I can't move. I'm holding on to the table. And I hear Apple go to the bathroom, right? He goes to the bathroom. And he's just throwing up. And I'm like, what's going on? I don't understand what's going on. That goes on for like 20 minutes, Rob. And then all of a sudden, it's quiet.
And I'm still on the ground and I'm just sleeping, right? And then all of a sudden I wake up at six o'clock in the morning, right? I know this timeline very well. And I just hear like, just eating something. Just eat. And it smells delicious. It smells like bacon. Oh,
And I open up my eyes. I'm still by the coffee table. And I look up. It's Apple to app in a short sleeve button up shirt that see-through. So it's kind of like lace, like a Prince, like a Prince style button up lace. I can see his nipples through it. It's open. He's got his hat. He's got these big giant glasses on. And then Versace. Versace.
swim trunks. Yes. The nice tight ones, the ones that come up above, you know, the highest part of your thigh. Yeah. I mean, the part where it starts to turn into an angle right there. That's what the shorts. Yes. I got with a belt. Don't know why it's spandex. I don't know why spandex needs a belt, but this one had a gold one with a nice little sun. God, you know, the, the gold buckle right in the middle purple. I think it was purple or pink and he's just eating his bacon. Yeah.
Like that. And I'm like, Apple? Apple? And he goes, hey, the pool opens in 30 minutes. Opens in 30 minutes. And he's just killing this bacon. I'm like, I can't call the pool, bro. He's like, all right, man. Bye.
eats the bacon and goes to the pool and the party starts all over again. I mean, I don't even think he slept. I just remember him throwing up and then he's eating and now he's at the pool and it's just the whole day again. I was like, man, this guy's a rock star. I can't do that. I don't know how people do it. I, it's, I, I,
I was on Willie Nelson's tour bus at Farm Aid. And it was the same thing. They passed me a joint. I've never been... I was never a joint guy. I had other things I was into, but I got paranoid. Hey, Rob, we know. We know. We know, Rob. Yes. I don't think it's more important to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know, Rob. The...
The pot made me paranoid and crazy and hallucinate. It was insane. And I didn't want to be rude. Yeah. And it was like Dennis Hopper and Willie Nelson. And I don't know what was going on. And they kind of passed it to me. I did like a fake, like fake toke. Yeah. Like, just like, it's like a bait, like nothing. It just stayed inside your mouth. It just stayed in your mouth. It never went down. Yeah. Oh, it definitely didn't go in my lungs, but I could not leave the tour bus for four or five hours. Wow.
That's amazing. I don't know how they do it, man. Impossible. I can't hang. I can't. My bus driver had stories about Willie. No man smokes weed like that, man. No. Smoke anybody out. Nope. That's so funny. And we'll be right back after this.
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So every comic in the world, and when I say world, I mean the world, is there for two weeks celebrating comedy. It's the biggest festival in the world. And just every theater is packed with comedians. Everyone from, you know, from Chappelle to Seinfeld to...
you know, to, from me to, to anyone, you know, it was, well, anyone, literally anyone, because they asked me to go one year. That's how, you know, it's, they'll even accept the dregs of, of comedy. And, um, I will never forget performing a spoken word version of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Uh,
at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. That was my big move. It's beautiful, though. You know it is. It's great, Rob. It's just the energy in that town. It just goes on for two weeks. And I got Stand-Up Comedian of the Year. It's, man, that was the best moment of my life, man.
That was it for me. That will do it. I also love that you... Do you have a ritual? Because when I go on stage, I think a lot of people have rituals before they go on stage or whether they're athletes or...
musicians are rock stars. Like I, I clear everybody out. I do a quick little prayer. I have to eat a certain amount of food, not too much, not too little. I have to have my espressos like doled out and lined up and one on the stage. And I have a whole thing. Do you, what, what's your, your ritual before you go on stage? We were almost the same. I I'm addicted to Starbucks, uh, horrible plug, sorry, but the little mini espresso cans, uh,
I have to have at least six of those in the fridge. Oh, you're a can guy? Well, the only reason why is because I like it iced. And every time I go to a city, they always get me the wrong iced ice.
americano so i don't like the flavor okay listen i'm gonna change your life okay okay okay yeah this is what i do and people think i'm crazy but you you what you do is you get what you want yeah you order so it's a what a double espresso or america yeah and then you separately order and i'd like a thing of ice ice i know
I know. And then you mix it up and I do this whole mixing thing. And you're right. I'm crazy. Yeah. And I asked for ice now. Okay. But, but for all my tour, I, you know, you forget to ask, it should be written down, but, but I always forget to ask. And then all it's always watered down. Don't you have a writer? Like if you're a famous, rich, successful community, don't you have a writer? Like only blue M&Ms. No, I have the best writer, man. It's literally just those espresso cans. And I have to have a, a,
Oh my God. Uh, essential water, the bottled water, Ascension, the brand Ascension. Do not give me anything else. That's what I walk out on stage with. It's the only one I want to be on stage with. And I always get mad when they give me something else. Uh, but I don't get mad. I don't like throw it around. But I just like, come on, you guys, this is such an easy thing to get. I'm not asking for seven bottles of Jameson and yellow, yellow. Just, just get me. Yes. You're stupid. Um,
I know a comic that does that, by the way. But I'm not going to say his name. But yeah, it's easy. So I get a little mad. Oh, by the way, I asked for distilled water also. And it's like medical reasons. I have sleep apnea. And the last thing I want to do is be in Minnesota at 3 o'clock in the morning trying to find a Walmart because I need distilled water to put in my CPAP machine. I can't sleep. So that's all I asked for. It's medical. It's not like I'm being a prima donna. I just don't want to die.
No, we don't want that. I don't want to die. Do you have, do you get like, I get, my only problem is in the, I get like nerve pee. Yeah. Like I've got to. Dude, that's me. I got to like pee a thousand times before I go on stage. I pee a thousand times. Cincinnati, Ohio. I will always tell this story. I was in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was drinking in the green room, which I don't do anymore, but I was drinking in the green room. I had about six of them back there. And, and then next, you know, ladies and gentlemen, Joe Coy. And I'm like, huh?
And I ran on stage with six beers in my bladder. And the first joke that comes out of my mouth, my penis was like, it's time to pee, buddy. No. Time to pee. And I had to be up there for an hour and a half. And it got to the point, a little dribble came out. And literally at the end of my show, I go, you guys, I...
I have to leave. I'm done. I have to pee. And literally, I said goodnight, ran to the green room, peed. And that was the last time that ever happened because now every show I force myself to pee. I don't drink before I get on stage. I only drink when I'm on stage. No, I don't. What I mean by drink, water. I don't drink anything until I have to be on stage. And I'll pee. I'll squeeze it out. I'll wring it out.
I'll bring it out like a shammy. I swear to God. Every drip out. I will not walk out there. You got to shammy that damn thing. Before you go on stage, you got to shammy the damn thing down. There's no... I got to shammy it, man. Sorry. I'll be out in one minute. I'm shamming. Hey, Rob, if anyone shammies it, it's you, Rob. And we know. And I got a lot to shammy, baby. Yeah.
Tell me about why did you name your do you have a Tesla that you named? I've got more interesting shit on you, bro. It's insane. I love that. I've got more cool details on you. It's really great. I bought my Tesla X. First, I bought the Tesla before that. So I was. Hey, can I just stop us right there? You and I both need to get paid from Starbucks. Yes. The water company you mentioned. 100% essential. And now Elon Musk can cut us some of his cake. Yeah.
I've been preaching Tesla. For this long story we're about to go into. I've been preaching Tesla forever. Okay. And I've had all of them. And I had the Tesla X. I was the first one here in LA. I will say that on record. You don't have to verify it, but I will say it. I want to know how you know or think you were the first one in LA to have a Tesla. Every agent in the world has a Tesla. I don't know.
I was the first one. I had the Tesla X. I ordered it way before anyone else, but they said that that was coming out. Every TV development person in the world was Tesla. It's my story, bro. The salesman said I was the first. I believe him. Did he give you a discount?
No, no. He charged me for the price, man. I bought everything too. I remember I bought the, uh, the ludicrous speed before it was even available. That's I'm just that guy. Anyways, long story short, I gave the Tesla X to my ex wife. So the X went to the X. So she's the happiest woman alive right now. And she's driving around right now with it. So just wanted to tell you that I gave my ex to my ex.
I love that. Yeah. I mean, my son was my son. My son's the one that he's the one that came up. He's like, Dad, you should give you should give mommy the Tesla X. And I was like, all right, that's what we're doing for her birthday. So I gave it to her. Well, what are you driving now? What's your whip these days? I got the Porsche. I got the Panamera. I love it. Yeah, I love it. Fully loaded. Yes. I love it. I got me one of those babies sitting in my garage. What do you have? I have the everything.
I have the Turbo Carrera, the big beast. Nice. It's fast as heck. I love it. Yeah, let's race one day. Can we street race? I'm down, man. That's what we'll do. I would love to street race with you. Let's go. I don't even care about anything. Me neither. I don't care. I don't care about anything. What about a ticket? I don't care. If everybody's listened to this podcast so far, they know I care about nothing. Nothing at all.
Nothing at all. Just street racing. We get somebody cool to like drop the shirt or whatever the hell they do. Yes. Yes.
Well, Natalie Wood, that movie where she did that. Do they still do that today when they street race? Is somebody out there dropping the... It's not a street race unless someone drops something. I love that. That's just how it is. Yeah. Can we get that as a Netflix special, you and me, street racing? I think there's something there. You and I, Rob, walk into a room and we pitch this whole thing about street racing. Yes. All right. We're going to be fast. Yeah. And we're going to be furious at each other. And we're going to be furious at each other. We're going to be mad at each other.
Fast and mad. I love it. I love it. Just live it with each other. Just furious. If we don't walk in to Netflix with something, Rob, then this relationship sucks. This whole time has been for nothing. This conversation alone has already developed four potential relationships.
At least three seasons on Netflix. At least. I agree. And then we go to the Philippines and we do like a whole street race thing there. I'm done. Jeepney. Jeepney street races. Oh my God, those crazy Jeeps they have. Yes. I'm going to buy you one. They're spectacular. I will buy you one. It's going to be that gift that you don't want, but you're going to want it. And then you're going to be like, I don't know what to do with it. I already want it. What do you mean? I saw it on the special. I was like, that's...
Insane. It's so good. What are they called again? Jeepney. Jeepney. They're American jeeps that were just sort of left and they've been repurposed as big taxis, basically, right? Yeah, the military left them there. But why do they all look like the Partridge family? That's, you know, it's so cool. You got to remember, man, the resources are,
Aren't there, you know, especially during that time. So what do you mean? There's more paint on it than any human being should have. That's so funny. And that's what they did. They, they made something that was extremely ugly, which was camo green with a white star on it and made it very beautiful and then extended it out and made it a form of transportation and a business. So,
That's, you know, when you don't have much, you make the best of what you've got. And that's what the Philippines is all about because that's an iconic – it's just – it's the most iconic thing. When you see a jeepney in the Philippines, it's mouth-dropping. It is pretty amazing to see what they've done with those jeeps. And they still run to this day. Oh, yeah. I love that sequence in your special where you're cruising around it. Let me ask you this. Did you –
Did you ever hear any Apocalypse Now stories growing up in the Philippines? No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I was so young. I was so young at that time. Yeah.
That was just crazy that it was shot there, man. It was, you know, it felt good. Like I said, man, it just felt good to be recognized or have some type of identity. So whatever it was, you know, to be able to walk around and go, Apocalypse Now was shot in the Philippines. You know that, right? It was like, it was always some form of conversation piece. Our first lady has 750,000 pairs of shoes. She is the original sneakerhead. Everything these kids are doing,
And Mel DeMarcos did it first. Like, yeah, it's true. We're the original shoe heads. By the way, I remember as a kid going, wow, that is unconscionable. Yeah, that is amazing. And then I married my wife. So true, right? It doesn't seem so, Mike. I don't see it being that abnormal. A lot of shoes. Yeah, that's the norm. That's what happens. That's what happens when you marry Rob Lowe.
The access to shoes. Well, let's face it. Let's face it. I have a proclivity for high heels, women in high heels. I think, you know, I think that's established. Hey, Rob, we know. We know. We know, man. We just do. We just do.
This has been great. You've been a genius. I'm so glad we got to meet because it's funny on this podcast, I've done a lot of people who I've really, really old friends with and we just talk, but it's always so fun to meet somebody new and just become a new fan. Thank you. I was really psyched to just do a deep dive on you and get to know you a little bit more and just blown away at your success on the road. If the road ever opens up, man, I want to come and
You can wear your black. What did Eddie wear? Black leather. I expect you to wear. Oh, that was the other thing. By the way, just in closing, I thought what you wore was dope. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I thought it was awesome. Which one? The In His Elements or my other ones? The one in In His Elements was like these kind of like short pants with like little ankle showing. I like a little ankle on a man. Those were Prada, by the way. Of course, yes. Prada capris. Everyone always asks me when I'm rocking the
So Prada Capri and the shoes were Louis Vuitton. Yes. Yeah. And the top was Louis Vuitton as well. Come on. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, it's too good. Yeah, I kill it. Tell your wife that she knows she knew when she saw my saw my shoes. She was like, I recognize those. That's in the back. That's in the back of the closet. Yeah, those are that's some it's some good stuff. I took some I definitely took some fashion notes. Oh, thanks, man. So I'm expecting big, big fashion leather. Eddie Murphy driving glove. Can you bring the driving glove back in your act? I will do that.
I just, I want to see the footage of Eddie Murphy taking off his leather outfit at the end of a two hour set. Just how hard leather has to be to come off of a sweaty body. Just absorbing. Just a shammy. It's a shammy.
It's a shammy. He's ringing the shammy. I think someone else is ringing that shammy. If I know anything about anything. Yeah, man. So good. Thank you, man. This is great. I appreciate you. And I can't wait to see you out on the road, man. I really can't. You're a funny, funny dude. You're the best, man. Thank you, Rob, for everything you do, bro. I appreciate you. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Love you, man. You're great. That was fun. Bye, guys. Bye.
All right, now I got to go figure out what car I'm going to street race Joe in and what I'm going to be furious about. Well, actually, ask my wife. That's a long list. I can be furious at any time about anything. Right? I think it's good. I think Netflix will buy this. We're fast. We're furious. What could be better? That might be the full extended title. Thank you for listening to the old cast this week, and I'll see you next Thursday. Bye.
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