Welcome to Curious with Josh Pax, start the show.

Welcome back to the Curious podcast. My name is Josh Pax and I'm your host and your name is

listener and that's what you do. You listen. This is a good podcast, guys, and it's a long one,

so I'm not gonna bog you down with a long intro. In fact, I'm gonna get right to it.

Today's guest, Rick Glassman, a great comedian, a buddy of mine, you know, we're new-ish friends

to be honest and we've met in the waiting rooms of many in audition and Rick is one of the good ones

and he's one of those guys where I sit and I think to myself, you know what, if he got the gig,

I'd still hate him but I wouldn't hate him as much as I hate other people who got it. You know,

there's a few, there's three or four guys who sit in that waiting room, you know who the fuck you are,

who if they get it, I'm like, oh god, I'm like, it's like, it's like Trump getting, you know,

winning a second term. I'm like, why do they have to reward evil? But Rick's one of the good ones.

He's, um, he's an incredibly talented comedian. He has his own podcast called The Take Your Shoes

Off Podcast that allegedly he wants to have me on but, you know, he's really taken a while in

the booking process. I'm just saying, Rick, if this is your long way, if you're playing the long

game with me, Rick and we're just gonna, you know, we're never gonna get to it, you just let me know now

because you've had some high-end, he's had some, let me tell you guys, he's had some fucking

guests. I'll be honest, when he asked me to be on it, I was like, I don't know if I fit.

So if it, Rick, are you listening, Rick? If this is your way of saying, you don't want me on the

podcast, I forgive you and let's move on. I don't want there to be weirdness. Forgive yourself,

Rick, because I forgive you. Anyway, it's a great podcast and this interview is one of my favorites

because it starts out. I, I'm gonna venture to say pretty, pretty, Goddamn funny and I'm in the

jokes business, okay? Or at least I'm Joker Jason. It starts out really funny and then it gets

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