Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Byrd. It's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday, Monday morning podcast and I'm just checking in on you.

We're recording this thing. I don't know when we're going to put this out. I might just do a special episode because I'm now I'm already thinking that people are going to be like, well, how can you talk and you stay in the cup final?

Fuck an action here. I have with me. What am I? What are my favorite people? What are my great friends in this business since the late fucking 90s?

Yeah, he has a new documentary coming out on the All Things Comedy Network about the amazing Jonathan called Always Amazing. The wonderful

Talented. Mr. Steve Bern. Thank you. Thank you, William. He liked that. Can you follow that intro? Did I go too big?

I think you hit the sweet spot and I got to tell you I was thinking about this on the way over. You are part of the two greatest events I ever had because I grew up playing hockey.

And all right, you and I played you can actually play. I'm fun to skate around. I make you look good out this. You can play. We played at the United Center together in Chicago. Yeah.

And we had the whole ring to ourselves. And then you and I got to play in the Mario Lemieux fantasy camp. Well, back up Vince Vaughn set that up. The big Chicago guy. Yeah.

And I'm in business with Vince doing F is the family. Sure. Because of you because you you introduced me to Vince.

Well, I remember he. Oh God. I remember one. I was like when I I kind of move. I think you would just move to your something. Yeah. And it was down the improv. And he had come out to see you set. And you actually most L.A.

People would try to hoard that connection. Be like this. This A list movie star is mine. Right. And you were like, Hey, man, I'm doing a spot tonight. If you want to come down on the show, you ask because I wasn't even on that show.

Yeah, I said, I'm bringing Vince down. You should meet him and say hello. Yeah. And through that, I took a meeting with them. And that's when I was totally disgruntled.

Is weird. I'd moved to L.A. And I was completely over Hollywood because I could never get anything. And you just moved here. Yeah. Yeah.

That didn't take too long. That's me. That's me. No, no, no. I was already over it. I was just like, I'm coming out here. And I'm just going to do parts on other people's things.

Right. Because my things do not get picked up. And then you get into a deal. And then they just take you.

They take it takes you out of play. Well, he's in a deal. We can't he, you know, we would be second position to his project. And no one wants to be that.

So then your pilot wouldn't get picked up. You weren't in anything. And you just you were another year older. So I was just like, fuck this. Yeah.

So that's when I took the meeting with Vince's company with Peter Billingsley. And he goes, what do you got? And I go, nothing. What do you got?

And he was like, all right, I got dude. None of my shit gets picked up. Everything's considered misogynistic, homophobic, fucking something else.

As you're saying it, they're probably going ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. That's you're in the club.

Yeah. And it's just like every fucking thing that I do is like was labeled. So unless I had a it's get gotten to the point. This is pre me too.

Sure. Yeah. It was like, what if I had a guy come out with this junk tuck between his thighs? Okay. We like that. It was so fucking, and this whole fucking thing that they say women don't have power in Hollywood.

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