Transcript
Nick Thune (0:00)
Foreign.
Greg Fitzsimmons (0:09)
Hey, welcome to Fitz Dog Radio. Just back from New York. Hit the ground running here in la. It's nice. I enjoy the summer here a lot. It never gets above 80, never gets below 74. Not really humid. Went to the beach yesterday by myself. Rode my bike, takes me five minutes. Rode some waves, fucking sat on the sand and just thought about life. So fucking relaxing. And then today I played some pickleball. I'm embarrassed to say I played pickleball with my friend Mary Fitzgerald. She was actually pretty good. So I'm in golf tomorrow. I'm gonna play a little golf. I got Fitzsimmons, Fitzgibbons, Gibbons and Gubbins and Dickie and a couple other dudes. We're gonna play golf in Griffith park and then we're going to Tedeschi Trucks at the Greek Theater. If you ever get to see a concert in la, do it at the Greek Theater in the summer. It's nestled in the bosom of those hills. I don't know what those hills are. The. Whatever Griffith park is. The Hollywood Hills. Is that the Hollywood Hills? I don't know, but I love Tedeschi Trucks. It's gonna be a great day, great night. You know, fucking finish out the summer with a bang. The rest of the trip in New York went great. Went down. Did some shows at the Comedy Cellar. Bombed hard on one. I did four shows in one night. You know, they have three different rooms, and one of them, I tried to open with this pretty long bit defending Los Angeles, and they were not buying it. And it was not the way to start. It was such a rookie move. Never opened with a new bit. And then I was rushing and it was bad. It was bad. But then I redeemed myself at the next show. Well, the next show I didn't like E. I liked it, but I had my son and Mike Gibbons daughter in the crowd. And I just don't like having people in the crowd when I'm in New York City or la. It's just like. It's distracting. It's a lot of pressure. I feel way more pressure in New York and la. I want to kill every time. And you're following fucking killers. I went up after a guy named Chocolate Trump who's a black guy with a blonde wig who does a Trump impression and ends by singing YMCA with the crowd. I can't. You know, that's not an easy follow. That takes some concentration. And now I'm looking out at my son's face and it's too much. And then I get A text from Gibbons, his daughter, 10 minutes before the show. Is it. Is it under my name now? I don't know. Not that I love her like a daughter, but I love my son like a son. I didn't want him there either. I don't want anyone at my shows. Speaking of which, I'll be at the Comedy Store, Belly Room, Saturday night, but I'm inviting you, even though you guys are like family. I get it. There's some distance. I, um. Belly room, Comedy Store, August 16th. Doing a special one hour show with some special guests. Then I'll be in La Jolla at The Comedy Store, August 29 through 31. Dates coming up in Denver, Connecticut, Fairbanks, Alaska, Vegas, Chicago. Go to fitzdog.com, get some tickets. Why am I doing my dates now? I'm not done talking. What else? Hung out with my BU boys in New York, went to an Italian restaurant with like five of my closest friends from BU except for Gibbons. He wasn't there. But otherwise it was the. It was really My good buddies and what a great time. I just realized how old. You look at their faces and you're like, oh, my God, I look like them. They actually look pretty good. We look pretty good. We're the guys that took care of themselves. What else? All right, I don't want to talk much. My wife's inside waiting for me, so we can sit down and finish watching this show called the Night Manager. Holy shit. This is a good show. It's got the woman who played Lady Di in the Crown series. She's like a six foot two Australian woman, gorgeous, not afraid of a little nudity, which I'm a fan of. And the guy from House. What's that guy's name? Um, the guy whose house? You know, House. That guy. He's in it. What else? I mean, I was gonna talk about the government's corrupt, blah, blah, blah. Do we not know it? Why are people so upset that the Epstein files are not coming out? Why? Why? Person who's a normal status person in this country, why do you think you're going to demand that the President and the most important powerful people in the world, you think they're going to turn over some files indicting them as pedophiles? What fucking world did you grow up in? Were you in the world where the. The banking. The banking system collapsed because of fucking high risk loans that were. And that no one went to jail for? Were you around when Bill Clinton assaulted how many women? He didn't go to jail. Cosby is out. Cosby's free. Why is there a sense of justice? Maybe life just doesn't have that. Maybe you need to move on with your life and go. We're never going to know what's in the evidence. And. And if we do get the Epstein files, they're going to be heavily redacted. There seems to be. Ghislaine Maxwell seemed to have been moved to a minimum security prison. And now I heard she's getting out on work release. Gee, I wonder if that will affect who she talks about in the trials, huh? Interesting. But I don't expect that, though. I expect my powerful people to be powerful and to be able to cover some shit up. Because then, then I know that someday, if I'm powerful, I'll be able to cover my shit up. Stop expecting it. The Kennedys rigged the elections in Chicago. How he became president, I don't know if that's the only way he became, but he definitely rigged the elections in Chicago. We know that now. Anyway, the show, the Night Manager. Look, it's about MI5. How many fucking shows are there on Netflix about MI5 about British spies? If you were to get rid of all the MI5 shows, scrub Netflix of all of those. Get rid of all the spy shows on M A5. Get rid of all the women kicking guys asses shows, get rid of those. Any, like, unlikely badasses. Any, like fucking old guy who can kick ass, guy in a wheelchair that can get rid of all those. Get rid of a widow falling in love again. How about get rid of all those? Get rid of the person getting blowback for marrying out of their social strata. As in every English show ever made, every Indian show ever made, every show from the 1800s about America. And you know what you'd have left? You'd have Orange is the New Black and Tiger King. That would be all of Netflix's library. That being said, Night Manager is outstanding. Anyway, I'm gonna go watch that. In the meantime, hang out with me and my guest. He has done the Tonight show eight times. He's had specials on Comedy Central. He's done a ton of acting. He was on Love Life with Anna Kendrick. He was in Knocked Up. Millions of stuff. Millions of stuff. Millions of things he's got. I recorded this a couple weeks ago, so I think when I did his play plugs in the interview, I gave out some dates that have now already happened. So I'll just say, go see him in Dallas this weekend, August 15th and 16th. Anyway, here it is, my talk with the great Nick Th. My guest is Nick Thune, who's fascinated by the microphone. It's almost like Planet of the Apes where they. What do they find that they were looking at?