All right, hey, what's going on? It's Bill Byrne. It's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday

Monday morning podcast and I'm just checking in on you

As you can see I dressed up a little bit. You know I'm on a video here

On the internet whatever you call it on the super eight

You know I have a guest and I dressed up because he's always dressing up

This guy's one of the most legendary stand-up comedians of all time certainly of my generation a guy

I've looked up to forever and when I first started doing the road. I used to be like I want to be like this guy

I want to travel like that the one and only

Doug stand-hope thanks for having me. Sorry. Sorry about that

That was very awkward what just happened. I've an early year people and my people have been talking about show ideas and

All of a sudden a pitch meeting sprung up out there. Yeah, they said can you show up a half hour early?

And I was sitting there going oh, oh they told me I thought you were half hour early

That's hilarious. I thought you were dying or something. I thought you were dying

You're gonna be like listen to my last time to LA. Is that what happened? Why are they such fucking assholes? Yeah

Well, he said oh, I mentioned that to the guy the comedy death camp

But I go yeah, I remember that was an idea, but I didn't even know you like you produce shit

I haven't seen you in fucking years and all of a sudden they spring a pitch meeting. All right

I thought it was a nice way to reconnect

For me to sit up. Oh, it was funny as we would just sit in this shoot in this shift for like 20 minutes

And then I got in my head going like has it been so long that I saw that I've seen you that you felt like you need to

Connect with me. It's like I've known this guy for like 25 years

Which is what I was alluding to when we've

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