I produced it and the place went crazy. I didn't. People were screaming and clapping and the crowds just hit getting bigger. When you first were standing there going, oh my god, what's happening? What was your first thought of like, what was it that they were connecting so deeply? You can make them laugh, you can make them cry, or you can scare them. That's it. Can't do anything else to them.

And then bronze tail, I make you laugh, I make you cry, and I scare you. In the case of Swithy, it was our... Yeah....he gets you fired, you make a decision and it changes your life. I just don't need to say nobody cares. Nobody cares. Don't worry about nobody cares. You're better. Thank you for being on my show.

Billy, somebody I gotta be on your show, but today you're just one day, I love to have you on your show. I hope I got the year right. 1988, you're working as a bouncer in Hollywood. Is that a true story? Yes, yes. I ran out of money. When I first got there in 86. I hit it, I hit what I hit it, whatever you want to call that. I got guest star roles, I got on Hill Street Blues and Madalach and Dallas. And I was like, wow, I started really cranking, you know? I was an actor in LA. I mean in New York, I was on Broadway understudy. That was my first big break where I got an agent. But then I went out to LA and I started working as a guest star on some of these shows. And then if for about a year and a half I ran out of that money that I did, and I used to bounce in New York at Delimlite in Manhattan. So then I said, well, I better start doing that again and I got a job as a the doorman, doorman, but a doorman bounce. Yeah. Yeah. At this club in Beverly Hills. You certainly have the presence for that. You know what I mean? You know, I'm told and big and I could you know, I use the box and

Work out a lot of you know, I'm okay. I could handle myself You know, you always remind me of and I mean this is a compliment. Oh, yeah, it's George raft. Oh I love George. Your presence has a George just George raft It's like I buy that you like if you were the bouncer, you know what I mean? I buy it without you having to open your mouth, you know, well that's the idea

You don't want to be able to have the awkwardouncer, you know what I mean, I buy it without you having to open your mouth, you know.

Well, that's the idea.

You don't want to be able to have to open your mouth. You just want to be able to talk to somebody. I guess after years, I mean, I grew up in a very tough neighborhood in the Bronx. A lot of tough guys. But and I always say, if you put me on the scale of those tough guys there, I'm way on the bottom.

They were guys on my day with that one. That was just, my God. You know, they were just stone cold. But if you grew up around tough guys, I grew up around tough guys too. I grew up around Maffee guys. Me too. Yes. Or the grandkids. The grandkids. Yeah. Yeah. Tony, Tony, Tony, a cardo junior.

Right.

I grew up like around those kids that's

I'm learning the news.

I went to the father.

Yeah. Yeah, so so I grew up around a lot of those wise guys and their family So it's like no the vibe, you know, you know the vibe. Yeah, you know, so I grew up and anyway I had this job and the whole the way the name of the place in the place, sorry. Yes. It was called 2020. Okay. And that was because it was in the Beverly, the Beverly Center and it was like 20 D-dress was 20. Okay. And I worked there and it was a French guy, great guy too, for no, and it was really a nice guy. And I worked there for like two or three months. And after about the third month, that you know, everything was great. And the one night, this is how the whole thing started, Billy. One night I'm standing over there and all of a sudden, there's three rules of a door, man, that you don't break. You never say, do you know who I am?

Ever.

If you say those words, it's over.

It's over.

You're not getting it.

Can I curse? Yeah, of course. You're not getting it. And the second thing is you're never touched the rope. The rope that goes at you. Oh, okay, I didn't know that. Never. You do not to say to you know who I am.

You put your hands on our rope.

You know, because you're doing the,

yes, we're not getting it.

And the third thing is,

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