Lavetti Vegas Quits Comedy

Summary

Laugh with Me – Episode 151: “Lavetti Vegas Quits Comedy”

Host: Jeremy Ottoman & Jeff
Guest: Lavetti Vegas
Release Date: June 17, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode of "Laugh with Me," co-hosts Jeremy Ottoman and Jeff welcome back beloved Omaha comedian and entrepreneur Lavetti Vegas. Formerly crowned “Guest of the Year” in 2024, Lavetti returns for the first time this year with a headline-making (or not?) announcement: he’s quietly “quitting” stand-up comedy. Through a blend of humor, introspection, and classic crowd work banter, the trio dive into Lavetti’s reasons for stepping back from the stage, his pivot to full-time merch entrepreneur, the balancing act of parenting and performing, and a nostalgic detour through wrestling, betting, and shower-song debates.
This episode flows as a reunion between friends—filled with jokes, real talk about quitting, writing new material live, and playful back-and-forth about the comedy scene and life itself.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Catching Up and Lavetti’s Announcement

[02:30]–[07:59]

• Jeff kicks off with gratitude to listeners, emphasizing community and the show’s long run.
• Lavetti is warmly reintroduced, “stand up comedy’s finest in Omaha, Nebraska.”
• Announcement Tease: Jeff pressures Lavetti for his big “major announcement.”
  • Lavetti humorously resists:
    “Announcing nothing, man." (07:18)
  • Eventually concedes:
    “No, I’m definitely, definitely quitting. But it’s—no, there’s no announcement.” (07:41)
• The concept of “quiet quitting” comedy—no public spectacle, just a move on:
  • “Quiet, quietly quit is what they say. The quiet quit. Moving on, man.” (07:54)

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2. The Reality of Quitting Comedy

[08:02]–[11:18]

• Lavetti has canceled all upcoming shows (“No, canceled all my shows.” [08:02]), citing pressures of regular life, working, parenting, and the grind of writing comedy.
• “To sit here and try to keep doing something and I gotta write every day... is this really what I want to keep doing?” (08:10)
• Discusses seven years in comedy, not wanting to “shut the brain off” but seeking a behind-the-scenes role.
• Aims to help others get booked, run merch business (Vetti Lynn Co.), and “just have fun locally.”

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3. From On-Stage to Behind-the-Scenes

[09:20]–[12:22]

• Lavetti wants to:
  • Produce shows and focus on his merchandise business.
  • Embrace being “more funny when I’m myself” rather than performing scripted jokes.
  • Keep writing ideas and doing crowd work off-stage.
• Shift to a local, less public persona:
  • “None of my personal life is on [Instagram]. It’s going to be just a business, Vetti Lynn Co.... You might not even see me. You won't even see my face. It's gonna be just merchant.” (13:52–15:44)

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4. Creating New Ventures & Joking About “Quitting”

[12:37]–[16:19]

• Lavetti notes his regular “I quit comedy” cycles (“I do this every year.” [15:15]), but says this time is more real as he transitions everything to his merch company.
• Vetti Lynn Co. is now his focus: T-shirts, koozies, hats, sweatshirts, and possibly keychains. Social pages to promote this business only.

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5. Betting, Content Ideas, and “Life Comedian”

[17:01]–[19:36]

• Lavetti shares his love for sports betting, superstitions associated with it, and the idea of a betting-based content brand (“Bet It Up”).
• Considers diversifying content: sports, gaming (arcade), merch, and potentially sharing his betting slips for transparency.
• “So it's not necessarily quitting. He’s quitting comedy, but it’s not quitting life, if that makes sense.” (19:39)

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6. Writer’s Room: New Jokes & Comedy Mafia

[20:11]–[23:00]

• The gang riffs and co-writes new jokes live (“By the end of this episode, you're gonna be back in comedy.” [20:54]).
• Birth of “life comedian” as a new brand:
  • “Like I said, I think I’m a life comedian, not a stand-up comedian. That’s what it is.” (22:27)
• The “Comedy Mafia” concept is reborn, with Jeff seeking initiation and a humorous $500 entry fee. Old members, new possible recruits (including Jay-Z and Goldberg, for the joke).

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7. Deep Dive: Nostalgia & Wrestling Memories

[25:01]–[38:14]

• Extended discussion about pro wrestling, “biggest stars to transition from WCW to WWE,” and the mishandling of wrestling legends.
  • “Are we talking WWE made him not WCW?...It's gotta be Booker T, man.” (35:51)
• Wrestling tangents (Power Rangers favorites, ECW, New Jack, Rob Van Dam, the Invasion storyline).
• Parallels drawn between rising-falling careers in wrestling and comedy.

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8. Life, Dates, and Social Media Authenticity

[51:03]–[55:52]

• Lavetti riffs about his dating life—awkward dates, social media posts, oversharing, and boundaries.
  • “I'm not always on a date... but then I thought about it, how many dates have I been on in the past year?” (52:05)
• Reflects on the double standard of joke posting, consent, and privacy in the context of dating and internet culture.

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9. Movie Reviews & YouTube Inspiration

[56:08]–[57:17]

• Lavetti shares about movies he’s seen solo (“Obsession” scared him more than “Backdoors”) and how young filmmakers on YouTube are killing it.
• Reflects on how low-budget content can sometimes “blow up”—fueling thoughts of returning to content creation.

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10. Final Thoughts: Quitting... or Not?

[58:01]–End

• Jeff summarizes:
  • “You have made the announcement. You quit comedy. But we’re back in comedy.” (58:01)
• Lavetti:
  • “None of this shit's been concrete except one thing, and I didn’t make the announcement about that.” (58:13)
• They promote Vetti Lynn Company.
• Jokes resume about “Mafia with no standup” and “life comedian” as the new lane.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Quiet Quitting:
  “Quiet, quietly quit is what they say. The quiet quit. Moving on, man. Quietly quitting, man.” (07:54) – Lavetti Vegas

• On Comedy Fatigue:
  “To sit here and try to keep doing something and I gotta write every day... is this really what I want to keep doing?” (08:10) – Lavetti Vegas

• Refusing the Spotlight:
  “I want to produce shows for people, help people get booked, do the merch... more behind the scenes, man, and not really in the spotlight.” (09:20) – Lavetti Vegas

• About Recurring Retirements:
  “This is like my fourth, fifth time, maybe six time doing this. Yeah, but this time, this sounds for real. I’m serious.” (15:23) – Lavetti Vegas

• Life Comedian vs Stand-Up:
  “I think I’m a life comedian, not a stand-up comedian. That’s what it is.” (22:27) – Lavetti Vegas

• Comedy Mafia Initiation:
  “It's a $500 initiation fee because I’m broke.” (22:45) – Lavetti Vegas

• Balancing Comedy & Family:
  “Work is tough. Got a regular job... and trying to do comedy... and be a dad. It’s tough. Decisions got to be made, man.” (08:10) – Lavetti Vegas

• On Writing Jokes Live:
  “See, we just wrote new joke.” (20:37) – Jeff & Lavetti

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Memorable Humor & Callbacks

• Running gag on “announcing nothing,” poking fun at constant retirements (07:18, 15:15, 58:13)
• Playful debate about who’s in the “Comedy Mafia” and comical initiation requirements (21:15–23:00)
• Light clashes about race, personal life transparency, and crowd work style (“If it ain't white it ain't right.” [51:03]—with immediate acknowledgment of double standards)
• Banter about awkward dating, real jobs, and haircut expectations (54:32–54:49)

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Timestamps: Key Segments

• 02:30 – Episode and guest intro; Jeff’s thank yous.
• 07:14 – The big "quiet quit" announcement.
• 08:02 – Why Lavetti is stepping away from stand-up.
• 09:20 – Plans to shift to producing and focusing on merch.
• 12:22 – Branding changes; Vetti Lynn Co. focus.
• 14:20 – Going “dark” on personal social media.
• 17:01 – Betting, content ideas, “Bet It Up.”
• 19:39 – “Quitting comedy” as a transition, not an end.
• 20:11 – Comedy Mafia reborn.
• 25:01 – Jay-Z roots picnic and freestyle assessment.
• 35:06 – The biggest WCW-to-WWE transition stars.
• 51:03 – Dating life, social media callouts.
• 56:08 – Movie reviews, YouTube inspiration.
• 58:01 – “You quit comedy – but you’re back.”
• 58:32 – Vetti Lynn Company promotion, future content.

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Conclusion

“Lavetti Vegas Quits Comedy” is not just about quitting, but about transformation. With honesty, humor, and friendship, Lavetti Vegas explores why he’s stepping away from on-stage life—and how being a “life comedian” and an entrepreneur opens new creative doors. The episode is a celebration of reinvention, keeping things loose, and always finding new ways to get laughs—on, off, or far from the stage.

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Follow Vetti Lynn Co. on Instagram for merch updates and samples. Stay tuned for future “Comedy Mafia” antics… whether on stage, behind the scenes, or somewhere in between.

Transcript

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[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Welcome back. It's a brand new episode. This is Laugh with Me, the podcast with Jeremy Ottoman.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

I'm your host. Jeremy stares at the stats and shaking over takeout boxes. Johnny's already mapping hotels on a napkin with greasy crosses. They quit jobs. They kinda hate it. Tell their bosses. Catch the show. Boss just shrugs. Hope it's funny. Johnny grins.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You'll never know. HJo in episode episode 1 51. And we've got a very special guest on the way. He's a former guest of the year back in 2024. He's a stand up comedian, he's an entrepreneur and we're gonna get to him in just a little bit. But before we get to that, we haven't done this in a while. I just want to say thank you for everybody who listens to the show, downloads the episodes, who comments on any of the socials or even on the streaming platforms. We completely appreciate it, Johnny and I do. And you know, you're, you're the reason we're here at episode 151. So I just want to say thank you very much. Also want to thank everybody, all of our friends at iheartradio and at Inflection Network. So just thank you. It's so much appreciated. And we can't wait for the next 151 episodes as we get this ball rolling. But first we got to get to one of our favorite guests. Hasn't been gone in a while. He hasn't. And he called me out on it. We were texting and it was like, I was like, hey, it's been a while. And he's like, yeah, I'm usually on like, you know, four times a year and I haven't been on yet this year, so. True. We haven't had him on so we're gonna make up for it. He, he is bringing us a major announcement. So this definitely worth it. And it's, it's also, you know, it's always a good time to have, have my friend again back on the show. The 2024 guest of the year. He is stand up comedy's finest in Omaha, Nebraska. He is also an entrepreneur. He's got your merch for you. So we're gonna talk all about it. This is Lavetti Vegas.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It's been a long time since we've had you on, man.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Man, been a minute, been a minute, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I like to say it's your fault,

[Lavetti Vegas]

but it's definitely, definitely my fault.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Did you watch the Knicks game last night?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, I didn't know what's crazy is. You know, it was crazy. I'm actually going for the Knicks, but I was mad that they were last night just because how the spurs folded like that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

They folded hard.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But you know what a lot of people aren't talking about when it comes to that game. One, Wimby missed those free throws.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He missed the free throws.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Two, de' Aaron Fox. Hold the ball.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep. Hold the ball. Game's over.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hold the ball.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You getting fouled. You going to the line?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Make one, please.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep. Make one.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And then because they. They were cold from three. Yep.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, and they proved it because the game winning shot was a rebound.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I mean, yeah, it was a tip in. But OG also fouled him. I don't even. Oh, she found Fox. I'm sorry. Did you see that? He found Fox. He found him. But that's the best way to act like you didn't do. Is that like you didn't do.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, it start. Yeah. It starts with you can't blow 29 point lead.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And then that's what it starts off.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And then it goes to which. And they were the. It was funny because my son, he. He wasn't watching the game once. It was blowout. And then I went in, I'm like, dude, they're within four. There's four minutes left.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I swear to God. I was on the phone with my homie Phil down in Georgia and it was at 15. I said, I said, the spurs are shooting themselves out this game. I said, it's about to be over. I said, the Knicks are about to cut back.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, even before halftime, their shot selection. Wemby's just chucking it from anywhere. And it's like you're looking for highlights. Like this is not going to close up the game.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Shooting three pointer. The Fox should have. Fox should have gotten in the game. Even though he up a couple times. He slowed down the game. Fesel Castle, they're all going too fast. They. They all want to shoot fast. They was stealing the ball and then ready to go steal the ball and hold it, hold it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hold. Just hold the ball.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And they weren't doing that, man. So.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, just hold the ball. No, it was, it was actually. It was a really fun game. And New York burned to the ground last night and. And that was. They haven't won the series yet, but

[Lavetti Vegas]

they showed about 30 celebrities, man. They win this. This is up, man. It is up. It's actually pretty dope.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's wild.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, I'm excited to have you because you told me you have like a Major announcement.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Announcing nothing, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You said you got a major announcement. A major announcement.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I didn't say I was announcing anything. I said I told you something. And, and this is just the thing. You could do it for your episode, whatever, but this is the thing. I, I told you something. You can announce it, you can say whatever, but I'm not saying nothing.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So you're not quitting comedy again?

[Lavetti Vegas]

That. No, I'm definitely, definitely quitting. But it's no, there's no announcement.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

There won't be an announcement.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's just, it's a, it's a, it's a move on.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So you're, you're doing with, as the kids say, quiet quitting.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Quiet, quietly quit is what they say. The quiet quit. Moving on, man. Quietly quitting, man. Moving on.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So we have no shows but booked currently then?

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, canceled all my shows.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Damn.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Wisconsin.

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[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

How you feel about that? Like, for real, like, how do you feel about.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's, you know what, it's tough, man, but it's, it's, it's needed, you know, is, you know, work, work is, Work is tough. Got a regular job, of course. And trying to do comedy ain't trying to be a dad. It's tough. So, you know, decisions got to be made, man, and to be. To, to sit here and try to keep doing something and I gotta write every day and I'm not playing my son because I gotta do this. You know what I mean? Like, I'm. We'll get to it. But, you know, I do merch, but I can do merch while my son's not there. Sure, I, I can. Can I write comedy with my son's. Yeah, to a point. You know what I mean? But it just comes to a point to where, like, this was fun, man, but is this really what I like doing? You know what I mean? Is this, Is this really what I want to keep doing?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

How many years you were doing it?

[Lavetti Vegas]

It would have been seven in June. Well, we're in June. Yeah, it would, it would have been. It would have been seven.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So you, I mean, your brain isn't going to shut off, so you're gonna keep things popping.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Probably. I'm in that. You know, I'm in that. You know, that Michael, like I said that Michael Peele stage. Like, I want to do something behind the scenes. Not really in front. I wanna, I want to produce shows for people, help people get booked, do the merch. If everybody wants merch some more behind the scenes, man, and not really in the spotlight, not really showing where I'm at or doing this and doing that,

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

you're still gonna write ideas down. When I come, jokes, let them go into the universe.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Even when I do the. You know. You know, I do the barbecue tours and Kansas City. Yeah. I'll joke out right there. You know, I'm not saying I'm not funny on stage, but I think I'm just more funny when I'm myself.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So be yourself on stage.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, but you got to write it down. And that's. That's why I did crowd work a lot, because that's me. I wrote jokes down. But really, that's why the crowd work. Guys, who I am all day, every day, I can joke around. You can be dying, and I can sit here and be joking with you while you're dying. Yeah, it could be blood. I'll be like, damn, look at that. That's a lot of blood. You know what I'm saying? Like, damn, you might not surv.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

Alive.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's that. But that's me. But they was like, hey, say this to this guy so he could stay alive. Hey, man, hold on, man. You. You. You be okay, man. Don't worry about it.

[Questlove]

You.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You. You gonna survive this. Yeah. Yeah. It's a. It's two different. Two different people, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's why half your. Half your material is 911 jokes. Because you're. You're just really.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, that's too far.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, that's too far.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Soon, man. No, man. No, it's. No, it's not really that. Like I said, I think it's. That's. That's what I'm trying to do. Spend more time with my son. I can do something local. I ain't got to be on the road and, you know, do all that. So.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So let's say somebody locally, like. Let's say the warehouse is like, hey, come. Come on, Betty.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Come. Come. We're gonna book you.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Come on the show.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, I'm. I'm done. Like I. Like I said locally, it's with the. Like I said, we'll talk about the merch and stuff later. But it's just having fun locally and stuff like that. And I already did the warehouse last week. Shout out to Rachel and Tyler, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Tyrell. Tyrell, wow. Please don't edit that. The out.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, please.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Stabbing me, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Don't. Yeah, yeah, well, don't. Don't mention Rachel on here, because I'll get in trouble. You're gonna get me in trouble.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You by yourself, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You're gonna get me.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I didn't say that, man. I didn't say that, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Get me in trouble. Which. Speaking of the mud, I get in the mud, and then you're. You're just like, man, I knew you

[Lavetti Vegas]

was gonna do this, man.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

You.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You know, I'm cool with everybody. I'm cool with everybody, and I'm just. I'm just like, gosh, I could.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I could use the support if this was the old Betty. Be different, man. This is a new Betty. This was. This was 2024. You know, I went off. I didn't like nobody. I didn't really care about too many people. But this. This is the new Betty, man. And. And I don't do comedy, so.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's funny.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You kept it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You kept a pretty clear line on that one.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Still, even right now, you're, you know, I. It ain't gonna be posted or nothing. It's not gonna be posted. Trust me. I'm dark right now. On social media. At least on.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I mean, it was just two. Was it a month ago that you were. You were throwing fists, and now you're. You're like, it's over a month ago? Yeah, it was a month ago. How long ago was it that you.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, man, don't bring that up, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I'm just saying.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Don't bring that up, man. That was about a month ago.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Let's talk about Vetti Lynn Co. Yeah, let's. Let's talk about it, man.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, that's the. You know, we was built by Vetti. Now we switched to Vetti Land Co. Just more. Just. Just sounds better, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And that's the Merch Company.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's the Merch Company. Yeah. Merch. Make shirts. Koozies. Working on the keychains.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So keychains, Koozies, T shirts, hats. We. Are we doing hoodies?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Sweatshirts? Yeah, we do it all.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Posters. Can you do. Yeah, you probably can't on that, can you?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I don't think I can do posters. I haven't tried it, but I. I'll see.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And then you're. I. I noticed your Instagram, the name of it changed to Vetti Lynn Co. Is like, everything changing.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's getting down to where none of my personal life is on.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay, so it's gonna be business as usual or business change into business. Vetti Lynn Co. And then. And you can find priceless things and order information, samples your work, which is very good. I've got some merch from it, and it's very good.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Appreciate you, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So, yeah, definitely, if you're looking to order any of Those goods, if you make sure you find them at Vetti Lynn Co. As soon as we're back. Because we're dark right now.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm dark on dark on the Facebook right now. I'll be. I'll be back. I'll be back.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

When do you think we'll be back? Because we got. We got it. We got a podcast to promote. What do you think? We'll be back. What do you think? How long are we going, Doc?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I guess I gotta put it back up this weekend. What's this episode coming out?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

This one? Well, I'm gonna have to. Well, that's the thing. Here's. I'll be completely honest with you.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, that's funny.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I was going to hold off to put this one out early next week, but then I saw you in Dark today and I'm like, oh, well, now I kind of have to hit this thing soon because I was anticipating the announcement. So now I'm like, well, I'm not announcing. But there's no one. You're right. The quote unquote, no announcement.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You can sit here and say. You can sit here and say it and see. You know, if. If you listen, if you want to post to me, like, very squid comedy. First off, nobody's gonna believe you because I did this about.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, that's gonna be the name of the episode. I'm gonna tell you that right now. That's the name of the episode.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's cool. I do this every year.

[Questlove]

We know.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Every year. We all know this.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I told my daughter that before you showed up.

[Lavetti Vegas]

This is like my fourth, fifth time, maybe six time doing this. Yeah, but this time, this sounds for real. I'm serious. I'm switching everything. I don't want to lose no followers or nothing. I mean, what's hard is like, I will still do, like skits or something like that. Like videos, play around. Yeah, but post, like, if I. When I go to Kansas City, you ain't gonna know I'm against you.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You're just gonna be there working.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. It's gonna be a business. It's gonna be a legit, just a business.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Those. But that, that, that gig, though, that's. People are already going on this tour. It's not like you're trying to sell seats.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But what I'm saying is everything I post is gonna be business related. It's not gonna be. There's nothing that's gonna be posted apart. You ain't gonna see my son no more. You. You might not even see me. You won't even See my face? It's gonna be just a merchant. Yeah, this might be a faceless. You know, I might. Well, some people wear merch or whatever or, like, you know, might take a picture with, you know, shoeing your shirt, but that's it. It's not gonna be nothing personal.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So can I have the diabetes joke? I want the. I want the bed you're giving me right now, the diabetes.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You could. You could keep it, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You heard it. It's mine now.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You can keep it better. That's what you want. You can have it, man. Yeah, I gotta. I got a long extension to it. You can have it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I'm gonna go to the world.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's actually something I want to do, man. Hey, man, you keep making jokes about that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I'm going to the warehous and I'm gonna do the diabetes bet this Sunday. Yeah, at the open mic.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, see? So you need to start following people that you beefing with. There's no.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I know there's no open mic. Why do you think I said I'd be there Sunday?

[Lavetti Vegas]

You said there ain't nobody there Sunday, brother.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I already knew. I already knew. Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay. Checking on my bets at the same time, while we talking, they just.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But how are they doing? Like, that's.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm actually talking about my bets. I don't like superstition. I'm one of those superstitious dudes.

[SoFi/Thumbtack Advertiser]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You know, when I gamble, you know, I don't really like talking about, we'll put it on this side.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

No, that's.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Keep it on this side.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's legit. No, because I'm the same way.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Like, I. I'm a super superstitious.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I don't mind. Like, I'm. Well, I'm on the record of telling people what plays I make because I'm on a betting show. But. But when we're in game, it's wild to be like, oh, this is home. Like, this is it. Like, this is. We're gonna win this. Because, yeah, in sports, anything could swing into my heart.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Like, my cousin. Love them to dish out to my cousin. But he'll be like, oh, man, this just happened. I'll be like, I got money on this. I'm like, oh, my God, Please shut the. Oh, please. For the sake of everything. But, yeah, because I was even wanting to do something like that, like a sports thing, but I wanted to, like, make sure people seen, like, my actual bet, you know what I mean? And know I'm actually betting because, you know, some people might, like, do predictions and then do this. He was like, all right, did you put money on this?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Right?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Are you telling me to put money on it? Like the. If you actually see the bet, you know what I mean? And bet be like, oh, he did put money on it. It might not be big money. Nobody's ever gonna tell you to put. Billy gonna say, all right, man, put the house on this. I ain't gonna tell you to do no, no. But I'd be like, hey, this. This is who I like. And this is why we don't unit shame.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We don't need it.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And this is who I put my money on. And that's. That's what I want to show people. I wanted to do something like that. And then I tried, and I. I think when I lost the first two bets, I was like, man, this show. Yeah, you know, because I was doing. It was called bet it up, you know, and I was showing my ticket, but maybe I thought I was going to be hotter than what I was. You know what I mean? So.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, well, one thing too, though. Don't you kind of have to ride your losses as. As much as you ride the wins? Because not everybody wins.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You got to. And that's. That's why I should have just. You know what I mean? I should have just kept it wrong. I think it might be fun. We'll see what happens again.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Sometimes you get real hot. Sometimes you get real cold.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, but that's. That's why when you show the. When you show everybody, you know, that's. That's the whole thing about. If I turn this business page, I could turn this business page into a multi thing. Like, all right, this is. Or it could still just be me. It'd be like, look, but I also do Vetty Land company. And then I do try. I was trying to do the arcade thing. It just takes a lot of time. And my son, he has a switch now, so he don't really with arcade. So now it's just for me, hey, I could do the arcade thing. Then I can do the better up thing like I sold you. But then I'm just like, man. So it could be a multi of things. Actually, it's not a bad idea.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So. All right, so we're talking. We're talking this through. Talking this through.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm talking it through. But. So it's not. It's not. It's not necessarily quitting. He's quitting comedy, but it's not quitting life, if that makes sense.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So you're kind of transitioning into like content creator.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Sort of like a multi doing. You know, so trying to be a content creator after. This is funny. I just thought about this while we just talked, because if I just do the Betty Lynn Company, then it has to stick to shirts I can't post. But if I say. And again, it's the name of my click. Which was funny. Is Ben Webb used to be part of this click.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Mr. Joy on purpose.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Mr. Joy on purpose.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Let's. Let's remind the folks he is banned from ever being on Laugh With Me.

[Lavetti Vegas]

He's banned, which makes it a big hard B.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hard B.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's a hard B. It's better than a hard end. No, my bad.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Better than a hard R. I was gonna say.

[Hoda Kotb]

It's the.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Gets people in trouble, man.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's okay until it gets to the R. That's funny.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

See, we just wrote new joke.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's funny.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's the.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That is funny.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We just wrote new material.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Be. You know, that's. That's funny.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You need to be on stage.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That is funny.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

We need you.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's a good joke.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That is funny.

[SoFi/Thumbtack Advertiser]

This is.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That is. That is fun. That was funny.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That was funny. That was funny.

[Lavetti Vegas]

RB and A.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

See, that's what we're doing here. By the end of this episode, you're gonna be back in comedy.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I can say I probably. Probably won't, but. Oh, yeah, you know, Comedy mafia used to be like a comedy click. You know what I mean? So it could be. Well, then it has to be comedy. Nope. Never mind.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, hear me out. Hear me out.

[Lavetti Vegas]

All right, all right.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. Let me be a part of the comedy mafia.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Hold on, hold on, brother.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I don't know what kind of initiation has to happen.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You know, Everybody's gone, though. Everybody's not.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We can start the 2.0. We're like NWO 2.0.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That was trash, though. Nothing was. Nothing was better. Hold on, brother. Wait.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We got action. We got action. We're watching these bets.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Hold on, brother.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You're betting on volleyball?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, no. This mother. I wish I wouldn't even looked at it because now I think I'm jinxing it myself. Oh, yeah. We in there, baby. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay, Things are happening.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Let's go.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You know what? You know what? There's nothing better for an audio podcast than a lot of shushing and quiet. There's nothing better. I'm gonna tell you that right now.

[Lavetti Vegas]

There's nothing better If I would have told you what was going on and then it didn't win, I'd be like, see this motherfucking podcast, motherfucker?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And it's true. I would have been to blame. And that's. That's the game. That's the game.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Like I said, I think I'm a life comedian, not a stand up comedian. That's what it is.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I like that.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Life comedian.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I like that. I think you just created a whole new category.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I just thought of it just now, man, I'm spitting, I'm freestyling.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's cool.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I've been listening to the beats lately.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So I'm in the. I'm in the comedy mafia.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Is that what we did? We agree with a comedy. With a comedy mafia, you and me. Yeah. It's a. It's a $500 initiation fee because I'm broke.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, I'm spitballing. I'm like, who else can we get in the comedy?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I want. I want to be. Yeah, let's do it. I want to be behind the scenes.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Sometimes I want to be, you know.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You know, a lot of times.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Sometimes on stage, too. We just wrote a new joke.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Life comedian. And then hard beat, you know, in a hard, hard R. You know the hard R. You said that a little

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

too hard, and I regret it.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

Hold on.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You said it a little too.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

The second.

[Lavetti Vegas]

A little too hard, but.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And I smiled.

[Lavetti Vegas]

The hard R did go. It's not with anything. So you're.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

You're okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Original. I. I'm. I want to say when I said it, I felt bad about it.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

Why?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I mean, you are, you know, you're a hard R. Ginger. You know what I'm saying? You see, I said the hard arm. I feel bad.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Right?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I feel bad.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I would actually prefer if you called it ginger instead of ginger.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay. Yeah. Ginger. What?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It would make me exactly who.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You know what I mean? They OJ Song Ginger.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

What?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Ginger.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Who do you think I could be to the ginger?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Just know what Jay Z is.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You already knew.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It sounded like you was about to say something stupid. I was. That's. I just said no. I didn't even. I didn't know. I didn't know your question.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I didn't even.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I didn't want to know. I didn't want to know it. I didn't think about it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah. What. What's important is I'm in the comedy mafia. And I would prefer you to reactivate your accounts and tell people that. And then.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But. But you brought it hold on. You brought up Jay Z?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I did.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Did. Did you watch the Roots concert?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I did.

[Lavetti Vegas]

The Roots Picnic.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

What do you think of it? What you think?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It tore it up. Tore it up. Also, you talk about the freestyle at the top. How you feel about that?

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's going to be.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

This is.

[Lavetti Vegas]

This is. This is tough. This is tough. Especially with our skin colors.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Everything's tough with me with my skin color. I would say that right now this

[Lavetti Vegas]

is about to be a segregated opinion. I didn't think the freestyle was all that I've heard.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

I heard.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I've heard Jay Z off the top. I give it to him.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

To do it after all these years. Off the top. Yeah. But I've heard Jay Z freestyle before, you know, and it was better. It just. It sounded a little off key. What he was talking about was probably 100, but I felt like it could have been flown better.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I think that's what it is, and that's fair.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Here's what I will say. I actually have two things on the freestyle. One, my understanding, and I'm not a freestylist. My understanding is if you're not, like, in that world freestyle, often with your brain thinking like that, it's hard to just jump back in. I heard that from John Cena.

[Lavetti Vegas]

So you can't see me.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And he's. And he.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Apparently, the time is up. My time is now.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He's really good at freestyling.

[Lavetti Vegas]

My time is now.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But he said he's been out of the franchise.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Boy, I'm shining now.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Exactly. So, first of all, it's probably difficult for him to. I thought it was just epic that he responded. That to me was the important part. Not necessarily what he said or anything like that. It was that he responded. And now let's go. Like, where we go from here?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

To me, that was the fun thing. And it was just cool to see him put on, like, a solo set. Has been a long time. So.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Been a long time. I shouldn't have left you.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He's got a new album coming out, right? He's got to. No, I know he's retired, but he's got to. No, he's got to. You think he could be in our comedy mafia? He's funny. I'm just trying to recruit people.

[Lavetti Vegas]

We need to recruit people that we can actually recruit. Jay Z don't even know Nebraska exists. All right, that's fair.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's fair, man.

[Lavetti Vegas]

We can get some people, man 2.0. Like I said, everybody who was in it, man. You know, Mr. Joy on purpose. Your boy. My boy.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, wait. He's an original member, right?

[Lavetti Vegas]

He's an original member.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay, so we need to. As. As the current members, we're probably going to have to discuss whether he's going to be in the new comedy.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I am the. I'm the head honcho.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Me too.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I'm in.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You're all right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay. I'm Hefe.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And I'm Jeff. And I am Jeff.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm Michael Utito. You're.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You're Hefe. And I am Jeff.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, no. I'm Justin Timberlake. You Lance Bass with a rg.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

Damn.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Lance Bass.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm Kobe. I'm Kobe. You Derek Fisher.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Couldn't I at least be the like Joy Fatone? He's funny.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay. Be Joyful Tone, but just sells hot dogs. I'm Harry Styles.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You're Harry Styles.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You're One Direction. Whoever. Whoever. Whoever is in it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I don't want to be the dead one, so how about I forgot one die.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, my bad.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, I don't want to be the dead one. I'll be like Nile or something.

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[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, it's your ceiling vent. So I'm dripping. Could be the rain, could be the upstairs bathroom. Yikes. You could hire the guy your neighbor recommended, but I'm pretty sure that's just his cousin. Do we know if he's licensed or does he just own a ladder?

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[Hoda Kotb]

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[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I've gone through breast cancer and then helped my mother through breast cancer, and

[Lavetti Vegas]

that was more difficult. There's a lot of people who understand postpartum depression.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I was not prepared for postpartum anxiety.

[Hoda Kotb]

Listen to Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Questlove]

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[Lavetti Vegas]

The way that the country music community accepted post Malone vs Beyonce vs Shaboozy, like those are very eye opening things.

[Questlove]

Hip hop visionary, Fat five Freddy, genre bending musical genius, Thundercat. And the always legendary revolutionary voice, Chuck

[Lavetti Vegas]

D. Yeah, we changed tires, man. I had 18 jobs before this became my occupation, man. Okay, I wrote, I wrote Bum Rush

[Questlove]

the show as a messenger. From unforgettable stories to deep conversations about creativity, culture and legacy, these are the voices shaping the soundtrack of black music past, present and future. Listen to the Questlove show on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I don't know.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I don't even know. I won't place another bet, but we're on here. My cousin haven't even hit me back yet.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, you were waiting on him then. So when he hits you back.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we're gonna put this on.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

When he hits you back, we'll place another bet.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, no, we're gonna put this. No, no.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Or do you need to call him to play?

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, no, not, not like. Like that, but no. I'm putting on low power mode. There we go.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, low power mode is. It's actually life saving.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Life saving mode. Low power mode. I'm a Power Ranger. Leave me.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You're Power Ranger?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

What color Power Ranger?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I like the green Power Ranger.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

What?

[Lavetti Vegas]

You thought I was gonna be the black one?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I tell you, growing up, you know what's crazy? Growing up did not like that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Really?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. I was always. I always liked the Tommy, always like Tom, my brother liked Jason, the red Power Ranger. I like Tommy. Tommy was cool white Power Rangers. You know what I mean? The black one just thought he just. He moved too damn much, man. It's like now they made him the stereotype for real. The haircut was terrible. The was always dancing.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

The blue one was nerdy as I. I didn't like him.

[Lavetti Vegas]

What was his name? Cody Bodhi.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But the green one was always like that was legit. Like that was the one he aspired to be. He was the main character basically. Yeah, he didn't have to show up all the time. I mean, he was Brock Lesnar. He was even full time. He just showed up when he needed to show up.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I mean, all day. That's. That's legit. I tell you what, I'm excited about the comedy Mafia.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Hey, man. Hey.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

2.0.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You got. You got it. You got to pay 500.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But let's not call it 2.0, because.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, no. Yeah, yeah. Nobody called NWO 2.0.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Correct. We're just.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You just heard it. Down, down, down, down, down. I remember I used to hear that back in the day. Watching. Watching the tv. It didn't matter who came out. That's how. That's how over the NWO was. I remember Vincy came out one time, and I was like, oh, it's the nwo. Ken Norton came out one time. It just. It didn't matter if it was the main players, but that's what made the nwo. Sort of watered it down, too, after a while because you heard the music. So you're excited because, like, oh, somebody from nwo. But more likely it's not Scott Hall.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's not Kevin Nash because it started. You know, it's not Hulk Hogan.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It started as the three.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's Buff Bagwell coming out.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Buff Bagwell. But Buff. Buff was cool.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I like Buff, though.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I like stuff. I ain't gonna lie.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay. I should have stuck to Ken Norton events.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, exactly. Or Vincent. But that's. That's the thing is, like, Buff Bagwell, Buff the stuff. Underrated, in my opinion.

[Lavetti Vegas]

He lost a leg, too.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He did lose.

[Lavetti Vegas]

He used to be a prostitute. Not prostitute. Paid escort. Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah. Guy's gone through.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, my God. WWE did him dirty with that first. That him or that?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, all those. All those WCW guys, any of them that contractually didn't have to be paid out big money. Didn't. You know?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I know that pay cut. The. The. The. The goal.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Booker T. Did. Yeah. But look what. It worked out for him. Geez, did it work out? Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Ddp. No, they did DDP dirty.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And DDP was over.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He's a star.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But. But even when they made him the stalker, quote, unquote, I want to say I could. I could be wrong, but I thought when WCW was ending, he had the long hair, didn't he? Yep. See, even I think the stalker angle probably would have been better if he had. I think when he pulled up, it was like, oh, it was ddp. But he had a different look.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He did.

[Questlove]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It didn't look like.

[Lavetti Vegas]

So it didn't look like ddp, but I think if he had the long hair and everything, it might have went over. But why are you taking a baby face, right? Who was so over?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And it made him a heel. Yeah. You didn't do that to Goldberg.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He. Okay, so. All right, so we talk about Booker T. You think Booker T. Is the biggest star? Like, who ended up the biggest star that had come from wcw? The ended up Goldberg?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I mean, it just depends. Goldberg's definitely not, but. And the only reason I say that, because he was wrestling part time, and then he just wasn't really over. In my opinion, he wasn't. Goldberg in WCW was over. When he went. When he went to wwe, he was still over.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He sold out the Georgia Dome. I mean, he was over.

[Lavetti Vegas]

He's from Georgia. I hope you still you. He was walking around winning small, like. I don't know, bro. You know what I mean? Still, I was hoping to get spared by him. Spare me, please. I hope you selling off the Atlanta Georgia.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

You're from there.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You live down this street.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Do you think he can sell Georgia Dome right now?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yes.

[Hoda Kotb]

You think so?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Goldberg. Hey, man, I'm a fan of Goldberg. That's what I'm saying. I'm not really. I'm not knocking Goldberg.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

He tweeted me when I had Twitter. Yeah, he tweeted me. Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Could we get him in the comedy mafia?

[Lavetti Vegas]

We give him a common office. We ain't living in Nebraska no more. Yeah, I said he tweeted living in Atlanta. I said he tweeted me. Not called me. I didn't say, hey, I could pick up the phone and talk to Goldberg right now. That's not what I said.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay. All right. But Rey Mysterio may be the biggest star coming into. No, Chris Jericho.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Chris Jericho was already over there, though. I mean, we can still say wcw, but he was already over there when

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

they transitioned and he became a bigger star, I guess, in wwe then.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. Same with Eddie. Same with Chris Benoit.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah. Well, can we say his name? Are we allowed to say that? Am I gonna get Shadow banned in the algorithm?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I don't think you'll get Shadowed.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You know, the Radicals was cool. I, like, they didn't. They didn't last long, but they should have lasted a lot longer. Biggest WCW star.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It's gotta be Booker.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It gotta be Booker T, man. Scott Stone went over there, didn't do nothing. Kevin Ash didn't do nothing.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It's gotta be Booker. I mean, I'm trying to.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And I mean, I would say Jericho, but again, he became bigger after.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

After.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, he did become. Jericho became bigger after. And he was already over there before.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

The tr. If we.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Are we talking WWE made him not wc.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. So, I mean, if we talking. So we talking. Wait, that's after they got bought out. Okay, let's talk after they got bought out.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Let's line that.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And you weren't there before they got. So if he was there, if he was in WWE before they got bought out, that don't count. That's not what we're talking about.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's fair, because otherwise it'd be Chris Jericho.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It might.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Because Chris. I love Booker T, but Chris Jericho. Freckles.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. Yep. I. I gotta. I think I gotta agree with you, man. It might have to be Booker T, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Ric Flair, does he count?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Nah, I could count right now. And he wasn't bigger than Booker T. And he.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Man, he. Yeah, his time came long before. Yeah. Wcw, frankly. Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

So I would. I wouldn't. I wouldn't put him in there. I'm trying to think of some other people, man. Because if you even think of the

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Invasion, Logan doesn't count.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, it doesn't count.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Flair doesn't. The Invasion was trash.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I mean, they didn't have a lot of stars.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

They didn't have anybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, in fact, you had Stone Cold leading the invasion. That's the joke.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It was a WWE guy versus a WWE guy.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, I. I liked it. I will say when. When they did the. Did you watch the. When they did the Nitro Raw live.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, that was.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, was that. But.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But it would have been better if Shane let him.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That.

[Lavetti Vegas]

When that actually happened. That was crazy. And they should have kept WCW separate.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Kept it separate. Shane's running it.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Should have kept it separate.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Would have been incredible. Should have kept it separate without Shane.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, no, no.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Mix man on Nitro tonight we got Stone Cold. Yeah, you know, Exactly. Nitro. Stone Cold, Steve Austin.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, I've done numbers.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Just. Just imagine if they was. It was Invasion. They was.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And really, then they could cross shots. Really?

[Lavetti Vegas]

The invasion is what? Nwo, but bigger. That's all Invasion was. Yeah, that's. That's how Scott hall. You know, I mean, because they invaded. That's all it was. You know what I mean? So.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And then when they would have brought ECW back, I know they made it its own show, but it was kind of cartoonish.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I mean, it wasn't kind of. It was. It Was trash.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Hope Point, ecw. Every match was a hardcore match at ecw.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Now the. The original ECW Original. Did you. Did you watch it? Did you like it back then? I did too.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I caught it. I caught it, man. You know, you gotta like Tommy Dreamer, all the Dudleys. There was way more Dudleys than just them, too. Or even just Spike.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Sandman.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Sandman.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, he was New Jack. New Jail.

[Lavetti Vegas]

He wasn't that good.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But he would legit kill people, though. But he'll kill people.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But. But Sabu, Rob Van Dam, now that's.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's.

[Lavetti Vegas]

There we go. See how we talking now? That was. Now, who's the best one to come from east ecw?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

The second you said his name, both our eyes lit up.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Because you know what's crazy? I seen it when John Cena was on his little tour. Not little, but it was a retirement tour. They were showing stars on the side. I think it was his last match. They were showing stars on the side. He got, man. But no, he. Not. Not just a. He got a huge pop.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, he did.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, bro. I was like, the whole arena.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

My understanding is he can still go.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It sucks that they couldn't get him involved in something.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Something he couldn't get sober.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Ah, that's too bad.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's why he lost his championship.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Because he got caught with weed.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But he just couldn't stay, so he would just. I was watching a video. He was on some, like, small promotion helping somebody, you know, what they gig. I still go. I'll still go watch Rap Band Down. But sometimes, you know, because once you a star, man, it's. Once you a star, it's hard to, like, come down from being a star.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You know, like, even when, like, if Scott hall still alive. Rp one of my favorite wrestlers.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And. And if you watch a documentary on ESPN from where he was at and then where he. Where he. Where he came from, where he was at. Sad downfall.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Super sad.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But I would have still wanted to go take a picture and watch Scott Hall.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Even at the little high school gym he was wrestling in, I still would have wanted to go watch him.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So what about, like, the, like the conferences shoot, like the comic Cons and that kind of stuff where you can go. Yeah. I mean, is that. Do you, like. Have you ever been. Do you go to those.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I haven't been to one, so I wanna. There was a. Not a shot at him because I know he's a dad and everything like that, and he's a new comedian and then he had an idea and said he was talking to the old. Oh, Comic Con or something like that. Okay. And it was gonna try to do a comedy thing, but it never.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Never worked out.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Never materialized. He made it. I think he made the announcement before he had the actual answer.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Gotcha.

[Lavetti Vegas]

A lot of people do that. I used to do that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, you did that a lot, actually. I'm just. I can call you out because we're in the mafia together.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay, okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Comedy mafia.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. But I've done it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We keep it real. We keep it real in the comedy mafia.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's why I quit making announcements, though. I quit making announcements.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Until today. You may. Today we made an announcement, but we're kind of backtracking a little bit on it.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm not really.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Which I'm feeling good about.

[Lavetti Vegas]

We can have a comedy boyfriend. I'm not gonna tell no joke jokes, though.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You might like. I'm like, let's keep that open.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I tell jokes, but I'm not gonna tell jokes on stage.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's fair. Unless we have a situation. We're on stage.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

There's no.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

There's so no. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. What if.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay, well, that's.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Remind me of.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Who's that?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Jim Carrey off the cable guy. That's how you act. That's how you be. When we were messaging the other day, an absolute psychopath. I was messing you the other day. I was like, this dude going crazy over you. He was like, you bailed on me. I was like, you got to be joking. I was like, we didn't schedule.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You did bail on me.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I was like, he's really pissed off because I didn't hear a lot. It was a laugh a lot of.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Huh?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I was like, he's going jim Carrey cable guy on me right now.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He did.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I said, what's going on? Nothing. I'm watching the game.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I'm like, I was watching the game. That is fair. I was watching the game.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But, see, I didn't know you gamble. See, when I gamble, I don't talk to nobody.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I would have told you, hey, yeah, I'm watching the game. So now I know what you gamble. I understand. But at the time, I was like, I don't give a. This watching the game. You know what I mean? I was like, you scared me, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I was locked in.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, I could tell.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

No, I. You did. Let's keep it real. You did bail on me.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I did. You did.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You did bail on me.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But see, like, like, like, like a lot of us. We got real jobs.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

This cost me money coming here.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Not. I paid you cash for the shirts. For the T shirts.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, but not my time.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's just because we. Because we. Comedy Mafia.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Mafia dough.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep. Yep. That's what we're doing.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Come with E Mafia.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

No, I think, I think we've. We've written new jokes here. We've also decided we're back on stage.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, we didn't. That's a short ass. That's probably the shortest list you didn't have.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So here's. Well, here's the thing. I knew I wanted to open to talk about the Knicks because that was, that was huge last night. And I assumed you'd watch the game just because it was such a monumental game. And I know you bet. It's like, well, maybe. Maybe had some riding on it.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Put my business out there.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And then number two was the announcement. Now, the announcement from you was kind of underwhelming. I'll be honest with you. Because there wasn't an announcement.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay. Okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So I really.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You want me to say it?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah. Like, let's get the announcement part. Because I thought, well, we're going to spend a good amount of time talking about the announcement. And then I was like, we're going to talk about Vettie Lynn, because that's. That's big. That's important. That's the most important thing we got here. And then I wanted, I wanted to get in the mud a little bit because. Which we got in the mud a little bit.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No more mud.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We're not. We're not.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Take a shower.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We're going to take a shower. We're not getting in the mud anymore. In fact, all, all praise to Rachel. So we're.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You being sarcastic, though?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I've never been sarcastic day in my life.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And then from there I'm like, do you even have anything to promote? I wrote a question mark there and you don't. We, we discussed that. Off, Off.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Listen, listen. Okay, I do. I listen. I cancel Wisconsin, I cancel Illinois, and I cancel Michigan because I am not a stand up comedian. I am a life comedian.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He's a life comedian, which is honestly better. I think you have leveled up and this is going to be big, especially when we take this to the stage, which is the next step, really. We're going to take this life comedian thing to the stage. And, you know, crowd work's never been hotter. You know this, you go online, it's never been hotter. And you're very good at it. Let's level up. Comedy Mafia 2.0.

[Lavetti Vegas]

We can be Comedy Mafia. But I don't know. I don't even know if you do stand up anymore.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But it's been a minute.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's been a hot minute.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So I'm ready to get back to the game.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Comedy Mafia with no stand up.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, I'll tell you what.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I will sit down Mafia.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I will be back on stage as soon as you are.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Then you ain't never getting.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We're gonna do this together. I think we're doing this together. Hey, bookers, from now on, you're booking both of us. It's the Comedy mafia. Okay? It's 70, 30 split. And I'm gonna let you decide what that 70, 30 split is.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You see me yawning?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I saw you yawning.

[Lavetti Vegas]

This conversation, it's going nowhere. It's going nowhere. Nowhere.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, so famously, the song I like to sing in the shower is thong song.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Can we stop?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

No. No, we can't stop. I need to ask you this. I need to ask you this.

[SoFi/Thumbtack Advertiser]

What.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

What's your go to? What's your go to? Like, shower song.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Well, I'm touching my dick. That what you want to say when soap is on my dick? Ain't no go to shower. So.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

No, you're all. You're all business.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm all business.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah. So you don't play music, you don't.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I play, but not music.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But you don't. Life comedian over here. Oh, man, that was good. That was good. Hey, man, you're crying right now. That's good.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm crowd working, right? I can't believe I just said this. My bad. That was.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's good. See, I think you're finding your humor again. I think you're back. I think you're back. I feel like you're back.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Back on subject. Yes.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

See, the last thing I had on shower song. Question.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That is weird.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I wrote that down.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Weird.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I did.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I wouldn't even wrote that down.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, I wrote that down because I didn't want to forget. That's how important it was to me. Announcement and shower song. Those. I had to have that.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You want to imagine me in the shower while I made my announcement?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, that's. Yep. I wanted to make sure your wife Upstairs. Yeah. Here's the thing.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And your kid.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Here's the thing. Why is me asking you what song you sing in the shower make you feel so uncomfortable? You think I'm imagining you?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm not. You can imagine whatever you want, man. Hey, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, man.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's okay. Free country, man. You want a better big black dick? You the black guy in the shower.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

That's.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's on you.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

I don't care.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I was just like, damn. I ain't never had nobody say, man, you know, I, I, I just. I can't see me talking to a girl. Hey, what up, girl? What's your shower song?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, maybe you should be asking her that.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Have you thought, hey, man, I need to ask somebody because I. It's been a minute. Only thing I'm feeling wet is in the shower. Okay. Like, it's all bad right now, man. Maybe I need to start asking some more questions. Like this, This.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I think I. Here you go. You're a life comedian. I. Maybe I'm a life coach, and I just gave you some great advice, maybe, which is to start asking the ladies that. This is good. I think this is going somewhere.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I don't think it's going nowhere.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

This is going.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's going somewhere in the trash.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's going somewhere in the trash. Don't you have a bet to place or something?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Hey, man, let's see. Let's see what's going on. Let's see. Good. Let's see what's going on. I'm at 4. I'm at 4%. Let's see.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, you're at 4%.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, hold on.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, yeah, you're.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Did he call me? Yeah, he called me twice. Hold on. Sh. Should we call him? Should we Wait?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Let's call him.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Let's call him.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah, let's call him.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Don't say we on here. Hold on. Hey, what up, man? Hello? What's going on? On. Oh, yeah, what's going on? Oh, you call me. I'm still. I'm still. I'm still. I'm still at the p. Podcast crib, but, yeah, I seen. I seen it one.

[Questlove]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I know.

[Hoda Kotb]

If you want me to put him

[Lavetti Vegas]

in for you on tennis or something. Oh, yeah, yeah. Let's definitely

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

do your thing.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Call me back.

[Questlove]

I'm in traffic.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I got PT at one. Well, damn. I know. It's the same. It's the same one. Yeah, it's the same one. I'm laughing because I heard you say. I was like, damn, this is aggressive. Well, just. Just a little bit. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It's still guy. It's still guy. What's the dude's name? G. I. Yeah, guy.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Put.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Put 200 on it. On. On set two. Yep. 200 on set. 240. That's cool. I appreciate it, man. All right. I appreciate it, man. All right. I eat you up at the P to your pt. All right. All right. Look, That was.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That was great. Do you play tennis?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I used to. Okay. I want a Mickey Mouse. Rice. When I first played tennis, did you

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

really still remember then what happened?

[SoFi/Thumbtack Advertiser]

Because you.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That sounds like you were athletic. What happened?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Life, you know, don't get no respect to tennis, man. I used to have a joke about that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah?

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. I'm like, ain't nobody.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Let's bring it back.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You ain't never. I was like, man, you ain't never been in high school and the pep rally and, you know, they say, here comes the football team. Here goes the baseball team. You ain't never heard a say, here comes the tennis team? Nobody ever said that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

No one says that.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Best Tennis.

[Questlove]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You don't even get a letterman jacket when you play tennis.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, well, that's. That can't be true. You got to be able to let go.

[Lavetti Vegas]

So I'm writing.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, you're right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That was an old joke. That was.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay, all right. I see why it's old. Okay. That's. Y.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Like you.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's. Oh, hey, man, that's fair.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I ain't too far behind you. Pause.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I was like, that is fair. I'm. I'm up there. Fact. It's my birthday next week.

[Jeremy Ottoman]

Week.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

How old do you think I'll be?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I don't care.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

All right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm not even tell you I stole a shirt to you. That's all I care about.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's all.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That's.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It was a transactional exchange.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I need. Came over here. Yeah, I'm glad I needed this. I got a date tonight, D. Where you going, man? Well, first off, you know, if it ain't right, it ain't right. But we're going to Stories. Cough. I won't. I won't call it a day because she might listen to.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, if you. If you say, if it ain't white, it ain't right. It's okay. If I say that, I'm racist as hell.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No. No.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Is that. Is that fair?

[Lavetti Vegas]

You can say. You could say, if it ain't black. If it ain't black. No. If it's black, it ain't whack. You know what I mean?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Wait.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

All right.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But it might sound a little weird.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

It might sound.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I didn't want to do a skit where I put hats and I put proud black dad and you put proud white dad. If we walk around to see what reactions we Get.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, that would be funny.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah. Yeah, I think you get your ass beat.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I would get my ass. I.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I thought it'd be funny, though. I thought it'd be funny.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We need security.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You're gonna need some security.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

We need our comedy mafia buddies with us.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Jay Z and Goldberg. No stories. Coffee, and then karaoke. But it's not a date. It's a friend. She's cool.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay, so the other day, we were. I don't remember what we were texting about, but I said, you're always on a date. And then you were like. You shot back quick, no, I'm not.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm not always on a date. That's why I'm like, what are you talking. But then I thought about it. I'm like, well, how many days have I been on the past year?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I was like, man, you always.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I feel like I'm always on a date. Yeah, I had some girl. I was talking to her. She's like, yeah, so I'm gonna wait till our next date. And I'm like, I didn't know this was our first date.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, for real?

[Lavetti Vegas]

No bullshit. Then I had another girl.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Do you always pay?

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, this girl actually paid.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, really?

[Lavetti Vegas]

She was cool. She actually paid. And then there's another girl. She was cool. But we walked into a restaurant, and I remember we ordered whatever. We walked out, and she was like, did you see that? I'm like, well, see what? She's like, oh, the girl. All the guys was looking at me.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, damn.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm like, well, we walked through the front door. It has a bell.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

They're gonna look up.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I think people are gonna look up.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, they were looking at me. It's like, well, wouldn't they be looking at us? Because I walked. I walked in. Would you?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

She just wanted to be like, you're lucky.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Yeah, and you're lucky. And what's crazy is about that is, you know, I had a date. We kept a communication, and we was talking about, like, trying to go out again. Then she posted about. Or having another date, which I don't own nobody. But that's pretty bold to be talking about. It's bold going on another date. So I posted, man, you never. You never know how bad your first date is until somebody posts about it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

And she hits me. Well, no girl deserves you if that's what they're gonna do. So I messaged her. I said, I'm talking about your ass. Yeah, you just posted about. You had another date. We was planning on a date. Oh, hell no. That's a friend date. It's not even like that. Well, I think it is.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I think that's all I was gonna ask you. Cause you do post, like a lot of. Like, you'll. You'll post. Not a lot, but sometimes you'll post a. Like a little comment or something that is directed at somebody, but you won't say like. So then will you. Will you post that? And then will you then send that to them privately and be like this about you? I mean, do you do that?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I never do that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Never do that. Even though this girl, she was afraid. So this girl was like talking about all. And I don't know. I'm not gonna kid. Well, I'm not talking. She. She knows. She listened to this. She would know. But nobody else knows because I don't kiss until. But she was even like, she was. She was sending me messages, you know, just sort of weird because just sort of felt like she was getting jealous over another. We're not even together. But whatever. But you know me with the date thing, I guess it's hand in hand.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You gonna get a haircut before tonight's date or. I'm not saying.

[Lavetti Vegas]

You know, this is. You know what's sad, man? It's always some white person tells me I need a haircut. And it ain't racist. It's just true. The durag ain't working, man. I don't know, man.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Let me show you my hair. I need a haircut.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I mean, yeah, but you got somebody upstairs, they don't care if you get a haircut or not.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That's a good point. Actually, she did comment yesterday that, hey, you need a haircut, don't you? I'm like, yeah, I do.

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[Lavetti Vegas]

It is what it is.

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This.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But yeah, she sort of. That girl sort of went cycling, but then she deleted her. I was like, why you delete messages? Oh, cuz. I want you to screenshot this and post this and talk about me.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, she didn't want to be content.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I said. I said. I said, that's how we met. And I was like. And I was joking. Yeah, in that post. But that's how we met. What are you talking about? Yeah, I literally, literally was joking and said, hey, I'm gonna say this, you know, And I guess it don't really matter because I don't really do comedy no more, but that if I tag somebody or post somebody or whatever, I let that person know, hey, I'm about to tell you in this. That's what I want to let you know?

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Oh, okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Thank you. Yep. Yep. I'm just letting you know this is what I'm saying.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yep.

[Lavetti Vegas]

So I said that and then she was like, oh, why you. Why are you acting like a fake date when we could be a real date? Oh, okay. I was just joking. I wasn't even trying to get a date. Yeah. I wasn't even saying, yeah, whatever. So. Yeah. But yeah, today's not a date. Today is more of a hangout.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

So you said coffee, no. Movie. No, but you go to a lot

[Lavetti Vegas]

of movies by myself.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And I've noticed lately. And maybe it's not just lately.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I just missed Tuesday because now I'm back at my work schedule. Gotta be back at 4:00 in the morning.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Look, some.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It's some.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You. Horror movies. You've been going to some horror movies.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I've seen Back Doors.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I haven't seen Back because I know the lore of it. I did see Obsession.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Obsession, that was legit. I left the light on that night.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Did you really? You afraid to be somebody in the corner?

[Lavetti Vegas]

I don't know how these women is out here. I didn't leave a light on, but Bad Doors was pretty good. Backdoors, the end brought it together. But the hype of mine. I don't know about the hype. I like the Obsession. It was a little more dialogue. I think Backdoors was more mystery.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yep.

[Lavetti Vegas]

So.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Yeah. And that's based on what? I haven't seen it. Based on what I know of, you know, the YouTube stuff. Yeah, but the Obsession was.

[Lavetti Vegas]

That was.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

That was a ride.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Obsession was scary. Obsession was scary. Look at that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Does that inspire you at all to see like some of these YouTubers that are just making videos for a hundred dollars and then it's creating these multi million dollar.

[Lavetti Vegas]

A little bit.

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Yeah.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Because that dude was like 20 years old. That made it. Yeah, Yeah.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

I mean, you never know what idea gets blown up.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I mean, never know.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You never know, it might be the time to. To jump back in the comedy game. Honestly. That might be. This might be the time.

[Lavetti Vegas]

It might, it might. It might be time for me to take a too. I ain't gonna lie to you. I might. Bubble it. I ain't gonna lie.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, you're bubbling.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm like, all right, go to McDonald's. That's not too far down the street.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

You went to McDonald's already?

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, but it feels like it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Oh, gotcha. How you frequent that one here on the 370?

[Lavetti Vegas]

No, I don't. I'm saying I Got the good people work there. I said, I gotta. I gotta use the bathroom.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

All right, we can wrap this up. I was just saying.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Not the bad way. Not the bad way. No, no, not the bad. I mean, if I use the bathroom, we come right back,

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

but. All right, so just to wrap this up, put a bow in it. You have made the announcement. You quit coming. But we're back in comedy.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Because I didn't make an announcement or anything.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

This is Commie Mafia 2.0.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I told you about doing coke before we do interviews, man. I told you about this, man. I told you about doing these lines of coke before we do an interview. Because you'd be saying outlandish. None of this shit's been concrete except one thing, and I didn't make the announcement about that.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And then nothing to promote because you can't. You. You canceled them all, and that's. That's on you.

[Lavetti Vegas]

But no, we promote. We promoting. Betty Lynn Company Merch Company. I made merch shirts, hoodies, hats, keychains. We're working sweaters, you know, you name it.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

But when we. When we started the conversation, that was going to be the name of almost social media. But it's not gonna be now because we're going back to.

[Lavetti Vegas]

We're not doing nothing but comedy. But. So. But. But, you know, I might do some skits or something. I don't know how the skits will go with.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Well, I'm excited to be in them because we're. We're comedy.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I'm talking to Ben Webb first.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Okay. Yeah, actually, please do. Hit him up and then let him know I said hi.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

And he'll. He'll hear this. So it's not even. It's not even. You don't even have to tell him.

[Lavetti Vegas]

Okay.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

He'll hear this. But, yeah, this is. This is productive.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I don't gotta take a. Now I don't know what happened.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

Hey, so we're gonna have you back on again. We're gonna have you back on again even though you quit because you're back. So we'll. We'll have you back on now.

[Lavetti Vegas]

I got more time I could kill. Once above, man. No pun intended. Pause.

[Jeff (Podcast Host)]

All right, thanks, man.

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