Hey you guys, what's happening? Welcome to Ari Shaffer's Skeptic Tank.

Paulie's show on today's episode. Paulie's sure. I'm not going to talk to him about weasel shit or anything like that.

But here's the weird thing about Paulie and the stuff I've always wanted to know.

Is that he grew up before that fame or anything. He grew up as the owner of the comedy store's son in Los Angeles.

I remember seeing videos of him when I was working in the video room. I had a job for a while.

I worked at the comedy store and all sorts of different manners. I started in the phone room with Duncan Trussell.

We worked the phones together, answering new calls, telling people either how to make a reservation, what time the show is, or more likely when to call back to make reservations.

So someone else would have to do it. That was the best. Oh yeah, you'll want to call back when the reservation guy gets in. He gets in at 1 p.m.

That's what we get off at 12. So yeah, so I worked there. Then I worked the cover booth. I took tickets and stuff.

And for a while, I worked at Duncan's assistant when he became a talent coordinator. And then I, for a while, I worked in the video room.

My job was to log in all these old hi-8 tapes. And not many DVDs just way, way before that. Hi-8 and VHS tapes.

And my job, it was probably the sweetest job I've ever had, was, well, also I bought the website for a little bit. And that was cool. And then I sat down there in that office.

But the office is humongous. You could smoke cigarettes inside, which I liked at the time.

But this job was, I just had to watch these old VHS tapes that were unmarked and then just label them. Watch these old hi-8 tapes that were unmarked and then just label them.

It was really fucking rad. You would see like cool gym carry footage from the comedy stores like 20th anniversary or 15th anniversary show.

Just different angles. Some of it was just different angles from the like the, the fucking actual cameras that were shooting it, you know.

I saw this thing on dice. Not when he breaks down on a Cineo Hall. But when he was on our Cineo Hall and he goes into the crowd and did crowd work.

I'm fucking national television. I couldn't believe it. He did fucking crowd work. It was so good. And then, yeah, it was just an amazing job. Wait, why did I start talking about this?

Why did I start talking about jobs that I had?

Oh, so in that, I got it. In that time, in looking at all those stuff, I found all these backstage clips that people made, either for interviews for like 2020 or a nightline or like, or just local ABC news.

And in a lot of those clips, Paulie Shore, they had a lot about the strike when the comedians all went on strike. That made the news a lot.

But in all those clips, this young guy is Paulie Shore. It was like 12. That's what he looked like. We're just there in the background. He was doing stuff. What's something they do? Like a little sketch with them.

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