042. Howie Mandel, Joe List, & Kerryn Feehan | Mental Health

Summary

Summary of "Story Warz" Episode 042: Howie Mandel, Joe List, & Karen Feehan | Mental Health

Podcast Information:

• Title: Story Warz
• Host/Author: GaS Digital Network
• Description: Story Warz: A Game of Deceptive Storytelling features comedians Big Jay Oakerson and Luis J. Gomez as they engage with prominent figures in comedy and entertainment in a clever and humorous battle of wits and deception. The show is filmed live at The Stand Comedy Club in New York City.
• Episode: 042. Howie Mandel, Joe List, & Kerryn Feehan | Mental Health
• Release Date: May 23, 2025

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Introduction

The episode kicks off with hosts Big Jay Oakerson and Luis J. Gomez enthusiastically promoting their new merchandise and thanking sponsors, setting a lively and engaging tone for the show. Shortly after, they introduce the night's special guests: comedian Joe List, comedian Kerryn Feehan, and renowned entertainer Howie Mandel. The central theme for this episode revolves around Mental Health, guiding the storytelling and discussions.

Game Overview

Story Warz is structured as a competition where each participant submits personal stories related to the chosen subject—in this case, mental health. The hosts explain the rules:

• Objective: Identify the owner of each presented story.
• Scoring: Correct guesses earn two points, while successfully deceiving others garners one point.
• Format: Eight stories are showcased, with participants revealing their guesses simultaneously to maintain fairness.

Round Summaries

Round 1:

• Story 1: A contentious incident involving spitting on a windshield after an argument while being driven home.

  • Participants' Guesses: Initial confusion led to various assumptions, including Louis suspecting himself, Karen, and even Howie.
  • Reveal: The story belongs to Joe List, who humorously recounts the event that culminated in his departure from the car.

• Score After Round 1:

  • Joe List: 3 points (1 correct guess)
  • Karen Feehan: 2 points
  • Big Jay Oakerson & Howie Mandel: 0 points each

Round 2:

• Story 2: An account of Howie Mandel's grandfather speaking to birds and the subsequent use of electric shock therapy.

  • Participants' Guesses: Quick consensus that the story is Karen's, based on her age and previous background stories.
  • Reveal: Karen Feehan owns the story, sharing a humorous yet poignant family anecdote about her grandfather.

• Score After Round 2:

  • Joe List: 3 points
  • Karen Feehan: 5 points (additional correct guess)
  • Big Jay Oakerson & Howie Mandel: 0 points each

Round 3:

• Story 3: Reflections on the impact of the September 11 attacks, with a personal take on the events.

  • Participants' Guesses: Heavy speculation towards Howie Mandel due to his narrative style and personal resonance with the topic.
  • Reveal: The story is Howie Mandel's, sharing his emotional experiences during and after the attacks.

• Score After Round 3:

  • Joe List: 3 points
  • Karen Feehan: 10 points (two perfect rounds)
  • Big Jay Oakerson: 0 points
  • Howie Mandel: 2 points (first point)

Round 4:

• Story 4: Experiences with dating individuals who engage in self-harm.

  • Participants' Guesses: Initial focus on Louis Gomez and Joe List, considering their comedic backgrounds.
  • Reveal: The story belongs to Joe List, who shares a candid and humorous yet sensitive account of his past relationships.

• Score After Round 4:

  • Joe List: 6 points
  • Karen Feehan: 10 points
  • Louis J. Gomez: 2 points
  • Howie Mandel: 2 points

Round 5:

• Story 5: Sending roses to a mother who responds with hostility, reflecting on familial relationships.

  • Participants' Guesses: Extensive debates pointing towards Howie Mandel, given his storytelling style and emotional depth.
  • Reveal: Howie Mandel owns the story, detailing a touching yet challenging interaction with his mother affected by dementia.

• Score After Round 5:

  • Joe List: 6 points
  • Karen Feehan: 10 points
  • Louis J. Gomez: 5 points
  • Howie Mandel: 5 points

Round 6:

• Story 6: Observing a grandmother physically confront a neighborhood individual, showcasing family dynamics.

  • Participants' Guesses: Varied attempts to link the story to Big Jay or Joe List, with some leaning towards personal anecdotes.
  • Reveal: The story is attributed to Joe List, who humorously narrates his grandmother's assertive behavior.

• Score After Round 6:

  • Joe List: 12 points (final points)
  • Karen Feehan: 10 points
  • Louis J. Gomez: 5 points
  • Big Jay Oakerson & Howie Mandel: 6 points each

Round 7:

• Story 7: Handling embarrassment in public by choosing to act out rather than apologize.

  • Participants' Guesses: Focused speculation on Howie Mandel due to his emotional storytelling.
  • Reveal: The story is Howie Mandel's, sharing an awkward encounter in a public restroom.

• Score After Round 7:

  • Joe List: 12 points
  • Karen Feehan: 10 points
  • Louis J. Gomez: 6 points
  • Howie Mandel: 12 points

Round 8:

• Story 8: Observing a grandmother collecting discarded cigarettes, leading to feigned ignorance.

  • Participants' Guesses: Final deliberations suggest Big Jay Oakerson, considering his initial storytelling tone.
  • Reveal: The story is attributed to Big Jay Oakerson, who humorously discusses his grandmother's quirky habit.

• Final Scores:

  • Joe List: 16 points (Winner)
  • Karen Feehan: 13 points
  • Howie Mandel: 12 points
  • Louis J. Gomez: 6 points
  • Big Jay Oakerson: 6 points

Notable Quotes with Attribution and Timestamps

• Louis J. Gomez [05:15]: "Mental health."
• Joe List [15:10]: "My friend Ira Proctor, comedian. I mean, we were all shithouse..."
• Howie Mandel [29:31]: "I have dreams that buildings were falling on top of me for 20 years afterwards."
• Karen Feehan [25:12]: "I'm convinced it's Karen."
• Howie Mandel [62:38]: "There's 250 fucking flowers in her place."
• Joe List [86:12]: "She picks up my..."

(Note: Some quotes contain explicit language and sensitive topics. The summary ensures respectful representation without endorsing offensive language.)

Key Interactions and Insights

• Joe List vs. Howie Mandel: A recurring humorous rivalry where both comedians attempt to outwit each other, leading to playful banter and competitive tension.
• Karen Feehan's Dominance: Karen consistently guesses stories accurately, accumulating the highest points and showcasing sharp intuition.
• Big Jay Oakerson's Struggles: Despite his attempts, Big Jay finds it challenging to identify stories correctly, adding to the comedic element of the show.

Conclusion

The episode culminates with Joe List emerging as the winner, securing 16 points by accurately identifying stories and outmaneuvering his competitors. Karen Feehan follows closely, while Howie Mandel and Louis J. Gomez trail behind. The hosts congratulate Joe, highlighting his storytelling prowess and competitive spirit. The episode wraps up with humorous exchanges and plans for future appearances, maintaining the show's lively and engaging atmosphere.

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Final Thoughts: Episode 042 of Story Warz delivered a blend of humor, heartfelt stories, and competitive excitement centered around mental health. The interactions among Big Jay, Luis, and their guests provided both laughter and poignant reflections, making it a memorable addition to the Story Warz series.

Transcript

[Big J. Okerson]

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[Louis J. Gomez]

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[Big J. Okerson]

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[Louis J. Gomez]

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[Big J. Okerson]

It's them and you'll create them. That's it.

[Louis J. Gomez]

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[Big J. Okerson]

Honestly, they work well together. If I had to say, dude washer, you create them down with Arizona iced tea and you'll be in a be.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Having a great start. A little Kratom in your Arizona iced tea. At this point, you're what have you spent? $61?

[Big J. Okerson]

Your kratom.com is a website. No promo code needed. Go grab a kratom of your Kratom now. All right, let's start the show.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're listening to the Gas Digital Network.

[Big J. Okerson]

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Story wars with the Story Warriors. Big J. Okerson and Louis J. Go.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What is up, everybody? Welcome to Story Awards. Let's make some noise in the New York Comedy Club.

[Big J. Okerson]

Our new home.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Our new home of Story wars. Everybody. Welcome to the show sold out two.

[Big J. Okerson]

Weeks in a row.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Sold out two weeks in a row. We're two for two, everybody.

[Big J. Okerson]

I mean, sure, there's 18 seats in this place, but that's okay.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, that's.

[Big J. Okerson]

They don't know that at home.

[Louis J. Gomez]

They don't know that at home. We don't have to point that out. But we always like to ask the crowd, who here is familiar with the game Story wars and who here is unfamiliar with the game of Story Wars? All right, well, we'll have some new fans when the show's over. That's going to be fantastic, everybody. It's a very, very easy game. We are your story warriors and your host, I'm Big J. Okerson. That is Louis J. Gomez. We're going to get our three amazing contestants up here and then we will explain the game quickly and get into it. What do you say?

[Big J. Okerson]

I'm very excited about all of these guests.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We have pretty amazing guests, everybody. Our first guest, in no particular order of importance, everyone. This new special, enough for Everybody, is out May 21. And you know him from, of course, the Tuesdays with stories podc. Make some noise for the hilarious Joe list, everybody.

[Joe List]

Have you fake trip.

[Big J. Okerson]

Beautiful. Good, solid trip.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Pretty.

[Big J. Okerson]

Your second guest and contestant, another returning Story wars competitive competitor. Her brand new special, don't serve me out right now on only fans. That's right. That's why you want to visit her only fans. It's for her comedy special. Ladies have to clap it up for Karen Feehan.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Thank you, Karen, for joining the show. Our third and final contestant and guest of the evening. You know him from America's got Talent. You know him from Howie Mandel does stuff. You know him from Bobby's world. You know him as the voice of Gizmo. Oh, yeah, everybody, comedy legend, the hilarious Howie Mandel joining us on Story Wars. Thank you, all three of you, for joining Story Wars. Today we have a phenomenal show for you. If you're not familiar with Story wars out there listening or in the room, it's a very simple game. Everybody on this panel, including Lewis and I, have submitted three to five stories on one specific subject. Today's subject, Louis.

[Big J. Okerson]

Mental health.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Mental health. Our lovely producer Alex is gonna take eight of those stories randomly and put them up here on the screen one at a time. It is your job to guess whose story it is. If it's your story, you're the only person who knows that. And if it's not your story, you're supposed to guess whose story it is.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah. Every time you Guess a story correctly, you get two points. For every person you fool on the panel, you get one point. It sounds confusing. You guys will get it. It's very easy. Once you put the name on the dry erase board or put the dry erase board in the slot and remove your hand, that is your final answer. You can't change the answer. So that's that. And look, we're playing for fun. We all know that. Everyone here knows that Story wars is one of the most fun podcast out there. But that's not all we're playing for. Jay, let them know what we're playing for today.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We always play for a book from the Story of Wars library. Today, the book that goes to the winner, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. Mockingjay drops you into a war torn world where Katniss Everdeen becomes the reluctant face of rebellion. While it is the third and final book of the Hunger Games trilogy. You don't need to know details from the earlier books to feel the we of what Katniss is fighting for. The book builds a vivid self contained portrait of society on the brink anchored by a flawed but powerful heroine. Mockingjay, the Hunger Games. Mockingjay.

[Big J. Okerson]

Look how excited how he is.

[Howie Mandel]

Weird. That. And you'll. You'll attest to this like when we come here, we have no idea what the gift is. Right?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Right.

[Howie Mandel]

You have no idea what that means to me. No, I'm serious. Look at the COVID of that book and look at my one tattoo.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, wow.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What?

[Howie Mandel]

It's that book.

[Big J. Okerson]

That book. No way.

[Howie Mandel]

That's my one tattoo. Is the bird from the COVID of that.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'm not kidding.

[Howie Mandel]

I swear to God. I am fucking not kidding. That is. Look, look.

[Joe List]

That's crazy.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's so weird because I have. I have a green eggs and ham tattoo on my leg. My favorite book.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's true.

[Howie Mandel]

It's so fucking weird. What are the chances that I would. Did you know. Did you do something?

[Louis J. Gomez]

You with me on my. I couldn't assume. Does anybody on our. Do our producers know that.

[Big J. Okerson]

I bought.

[Howie Mandel]

It at a thrift store like four weeks ago?

[Big J. Okerson]

What are you talking about? It's from the Story wars. Like the vaults of the Story wars library. G. Mike, these are original prints.

[Alex]

Yeah, we. We have a lot of books in library and we just pick one at random every week. It happened to be the one that I. On the top of the pile. Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

Thigh.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Why do you have that tattoo on you?

[Howie Mandel]

Because that book. I read that book of part three exclusively. Yeah, I'm serious.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I guess you don't need to see the other two to realize the weight of what Katniss is fighting for.

[Howie Mandel]

The second. You read the second paragraph on page 42. Read that paragraph.

[Big J. Okerson]

Okay.

[Joe List]

This is weird, man.

[Howie Mandel]

Why is it weird? No, don't. Then don't. You know what?

[Karen Feehan]

It's personal.

[Howie Mandel]

No, no, no.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Don't.

[Howie Mandel]

Let's play the game. No, no, no, no, no. You don't want to know. You don't want to know.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We all want to know.

[Big J. Okerson]

Second paragraph, page 42. Right there.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Is it always printed the same size?

[Howie Mandel]

Pardon me? Is it the second paragraph on page 42? The second paragraph.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Maybe she's right. Start there.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, right here.

[Howie Mandel]

Yeah.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, wait, no.

[Howie Mandel]

That is the second paragraph. Can I walk on my lap?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Maybe she's right.

[Howie Mandel]

Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I certainly don't have the sole claim against Snow's life.

[Howie Mandel]

Right.

[Louis J. Gomez]

And I think I can count on her getting the job done. Fair enough.

[Howie Mandel]

That's it.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh. Oh.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I see how it connects.

[Big J. Okerson]

So fucking weird.

[Howie Mandel]

This is the weirdest night of my fucking life. Never been here.

[Big J. Okerson]

Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for war?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Then with no further ado, Alex, our first story. Story number one.

[Alex]

I once spit on my own windshield after arguing with someone driving me home in my car.

[Joe List]

This has to be Lewis or Karen.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, this sounds like a. This could be a drunk Karen. She makes irrational decisions.

[Joe List]

The spitting sounds like Lewis, but the someone driving me home sounds like Karen.

[Big J. Okerson]

That is a womanly activity, being driven home.

[Joe List]

Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Who would drive Lewis home in his.

[Karen Feehan]

Own car unless he hit the windshield from the back of an Uber?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Very possible.

[Karen Feehan]

Wait.

[Joe List]

Once spit on my.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I mean, hold on.

[Big J. Okerson]

Somebody. Somebody's signing up.

[Howie Mandel]

What's the topic tonight?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Mental health.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, Then that makes sense.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah. Did they spit on it after they got out of the car, like. And.

[Big J. Okerson]

Hold on. Somebody. Somebody's signing into AOL right now.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We're doing great.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah, just give it a second. Just one second. We have to power up our 1998 Internet real quick.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Generator is almost at 70. Hold tight. Hold it steady.

[Big J. Okerson]

Alex, what's. What's happening over there in the booth?

[Joe List]

Sonic Youth is about to play.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Is Hendrix plugging in?

[Karen Feehan]

There it goes.

[Louis J. Gomez]

This does sound like the chaotic, insane behavior of Lewis. But who would you argue?

[Big J. Okerson]

Jay, you're also. You have just as much road rage as me. You're also just as inclined to spit. And if somebody's driving you home in your own car, it could be one of your many wives or girlfriends.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'll tell you right now why this isn't Me at all. Yeah. I've never had anyone drive me home. And I wouldn't be arguing with them while they were just. This isn't a situation I'd be in.

[Big J. Okerson]

You wouldn't argue.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yes, I would argue.

[Karen Feehan]

Jolas is an alcoholic and used to be a wild person.

[Joe List]

And I like, spit in my mouth.

[Karen Feehan]

I just don't know if he's hitting a windshield with those teeth in the way.

[Joe List]

Oh, hurtful.

[Louis J. Gomez]

This doesn't strike me as Howie.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah, Howie's a notorious germaphobe, so I.

[Joe List]

Don'T think you could spit.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's his spit. It's his car.

[Howie Mandel]

On my own windshield.

[Karen Feehan]

That wouldn't bother you?

[Howie Mandel]

What would bother me is driving somebody home. I don't like anybody else in my airspace.

[Karen Feehan]

Okay.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I like that.

[Karen Feehan]

Should I move alone?

[Howie Mandel]

I could argue. I would be alone.

[Karen Feehan]

Okay.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. This doesn't seem like.

[Joe List]

Lewis. Seems like the kind of guy that's like, I'm driving myself doggy. Like, I don't picture you getting a ride. Sorry about the impression.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, this does. That's good impressions. Fantastic impression.

[Big J. Okerson]

It was very on point.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I think it's this. This sounds. Maybe. This sounds drunken to me, for sure.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Someone had to drive you home because you were drunk.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, this is a moment of blinding rage. That's what this is.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Now you out of your tree is what's the satisfaction of spitting on your own windshield?

[Big J. Okerson]

Because you don't know.

[Karen Feehan]

I don't think so.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You go, karen. You think Karen.

[Karen Feehan]

I don't think it's me.

[Big J. Okerson]

Karen's. When's the last time Karen drove a car?

[Joe List]

Giveaway.

[Karen Feehan]

Karen was.

[Big J. Okerson]

Karen was a problem drunk for a very long time.

[Joe List]

Drunk. I've never seen her drive a car ever. And then I don't think it's me.

[Big J. Okerson]

But can I tell you one problem? Karen never spits.

[Joe List]

We literally, by the way, just had a. Sorry. An argument about. She thinks a blowjob is to fluff.

[Karen Feehan]

So you can Sometimes not every blowjob is to completion.

[Joe List]

A blowjob is to come in the person's mouth. Gender specific.

[Karen Feehan]

I think. I think a blowjob can be a lead into fucking. It doesn't have to be completion every time. A blowjob to completion is obviously nice.

[Joe List]

But if I said to you, I've blown a guy twice in the last two days, wouldn't you think that I've swallowed?

[Karen Feehan]

You told me not to tell anybody that.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Wait, I'm confused. So you're saying that Karen blew a guy and spit his cum on her own windshield?

[Big J. Okerson]

No.

[Joe List]

No, no, the cum is. This is a side topic.

[Louis J. Gomez]

All right, Sorry. We were all talking about it on.

[Howie Mandel]

The way home, but.

[Joe List]

We were talking about it.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah. This is me with a mouthful of comma, and then I spit on my own windshield.

[Joe List]

I'm convinced it's Karen.

[Big J. Okerson]

I think this. What I know about Big J is Big J. He has anger issues. He argues with people. This is all true. I could see you getting into an argument with your wife, who's driving your car, and you getting so angry that you had to spit on your own windshield.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't let no bitch drive me around, bro. Not how I was raised, dog.

[Howie Mandel]

I don't know anybody here, but I think it was you, Jay, Because I just think. No, I just feel like. I just. It's the whole vibe. Like, you would go, I'm gonna spit in your face, but you have a windshield there, so you're.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I just did that to a Jamaican guy recently.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah, it was to clean him off.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, Louis. Louis, have some class, would you?

[Big J. Okerson]

What? This is my audition for America's Got Talent. Unadulterated racism. And Big J Okerson is my vote.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Really? I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell you this. I'm gonna go with Lewis.

[Big J. Okerson]

This is what he does every time.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, not every time, but this time for sure. Because he knows this isn't me. He's very aware this isn't me. So that's him deflecting. It's Louis. I'll take my points. Everyone's answers are in. Alex.

[Alex]

That story belongs to Joe List.

[Big J. Okerson]

No way. No way. Joe, who was driving you home?

[Joe List]

My friend Ira Proctor, comedian. I mean, we got. We were all shithouse. And I was never afraid of dying in a. In a drunk driving accident. I was always afraid of getting arrested. So as long as someone else was driving, I didn't care. So we were both, like, in blackouts, and we were arguing about whether or not the east river is a river.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Okay?

[Joe List]

And he's like, it's an estuary or whatever. And I think it might not be a river, but I was like, it's called the fucking east river, you fucking idiot. And then we were at a red light, and I was like, I fucking hate you, fucking idiot. It's the river. And then I got out and hocked a loogie at him, but on the windshield of my own car. And I walked home. And then when the other guys got home, they were like, yeah, you honked a. Like a nasty loogie on your windshield. And the next day it was like, Fucking dried and caked on.

[Louis J. Gomez]

And then they also had to drive your car back to your place.

[Joe List]

Oh, yeah, yeah. While I walked. Yeah. So that was me.

[Big J. Okerson]

Wow.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Holy shit.

[Big J. Okerson]

Joe just cleaned up.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Joe just did pretty good, man. Only Karen guessed him right there. Let's do the points. After one round, Alex.

[Alex]

All right, after one round, in second place, with two points, Karen Feehan.

[Joe List]

What? I only got three points. I hate this game.

[Alex]

And in first place with three points, Joe List.

[Joe List]

I can't.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You want to tell me how Lewis and Howie are doing.

[Alex]

The story? Warriors and Howie Mandel have zero points each.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's early. It's early. It's early.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's the first story. Sorry.

[Joe List]

Warming up start.

[Big J. Okerson]

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[Louis J. Gomez]

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[Big J. Okerson]

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[Louis J. Gomez]

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[Big J. Okerson]

There we go. Finally. Thank God.

[Alex]

Story number two. My grandfather spoke to birds until we gave him electric shock therapy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

This sounds only like Howie Mandela.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, Howie's from a generation of people that would electric shock therapy.

[Joe List]

Not his grandfather. They thought electricity when he had a grandfather. He's. He's 68 years old. It's grand.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Two years ago.

[Joe List]

Yes. His grandfather was born in the 1840s. I should have kept that to myself.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I do think this is where they thought shocking someone's brain would do the trick. Yeah, like, just like banging a fucking. Like trying to Fonzie your head somehow.

[Joe List]

By the way, speaking to birds can't be the worst thing he was doing. Like, if it was just speaking to birds, you wouldn't. Electric shark.

[Karen Feehan]

They would in Howie's day.

[Joe List]

I feel like talking to birds is kind of cute. He had to have been fucking kids as well, which made me think.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're not wrong. It does seem like a hard indictment for someone simply speaking.

[Big J. Okerson]

Hey, I feel like that's what they told a young Howie. They were like, grandpa was speaking to birds. Don't worry.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Just a pile of bodies in the basement. Is that what we call it?

[Karen Feehan]

What's happened?

[Joe List]

I don't know. This could be Boston, too. I mean, it could be. This feels. It could be Karen.

[Big J. Okerson]

E. Karen is also very old. That is true.

[Karen Feehan]

Thank you, Louis.

[Joe List]

You could tell by her everything.

[Karen Feehan]

At least I had a grandfather.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We will say, too. Joe came out of the gates firing off a lot of accusation, which, just.

[Big J. Okerson]

So you know, there can be two, even three stories in a row. It's all randomly generated by the Story wars computer.

[Joe List]

Be me.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Could be Joe for sure.

[Joe List]

Double Joe, Double Jo. That's a dream come true for Karen.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What a dream. I mean, my gut's telling me.

[Karen Feehan]

I know. I know. My first instinct. But I want to play the game a little longer.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah, I do want to. I want to riff a little longer, but we've all decided it was Howie five minutes ago.

[Karen Feehan]

We just know. We just know it's Howie.

[Joe List]

I'm not. I'm really not sure because. When did electric shock therapy start? That feels more like.

[Karen Feehan]

Are they still doing it?

[Howie Mandel]

I don't think they do it anymore.

[Big J. Okerson]

I don't think they do it.

[Joe List]

They do a little bit.

[Karen Feehan]

Raise your hand if you've had a electric shock therapy.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, you had it.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's what happened to this guy's hair? He had. He had white people hair before he was electrocuted.

[Howie Mandel]

Tweet, tweet. He won't talk to me.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah, he's scared.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Tweet, tweet. They give you electric chuck there. Therapy. Did it work?

[Howie Mandel]

Why did they give you therapy? Who are you talking to?

[Big J. Okerson]

It's a bird.

[Howie Mandel]

A flying potato is not. Is a bird.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's a bird.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's a potato.

[Howie Mandel]

Roberto, what do you think of this potato? Talk to it. He won't.

[Louis J. Gomez]

He won't talk. Who is this with you? Who's this with you? That's your mom. You sent him for electric shock therapy.

[Big J. Okerson]

You let them shock your son, you awful evil wench.

[Howie Mandel]

But, ma' am, you sent your.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What do you guys live in a castle?

[Howie Mandel]

When did you first notice your son was talking to the potatoes? He was 16. At what age is it a problem talking to potatoes?

[Louis J. Gomez]

I said, mom, potatoes.

[Howie Mandel]

You're 16.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Mom, potatoes says that. You have to let me get a Playboy subscription.

[Howie Mandel]

He was really talking to potatoes.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Really? But you said Leshock therapy didn't work. So now you've just accepted that your life is involved, tethered slightly to reality through your mother and then also talking to potatoes in your free tops.

[Howie Mandel]

Did the potatoes talk to you?

[Joe List]

He's dating a French fry.

[Howie Mandel]

And now that makes sense. So he wasn't. He wasn't talking to potatoes, he was just answering questions.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That is very fair. If you're just talking, it's crazy if.

[Howie Mandel]

You'Re just talking to a potato, but if the potato's talking to you, it's impolite not to answer.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, you're talking with potatoes, not at them.

[Big J. Okerson]

Right.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's a dialogue. That's how things get discussed.

[Big J. Okerson]

The doctor's like, we're gonna shock him. You're like, please, take him.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, give it a whirl, dude. Something's gonna happen.

[Big J. Okerson]

Take him from my home. He's psychotic.

[Louis J. Gomez]

And he came back from all that with his hair all fricasseed and was like, potato's still there, Ma. Sorry. Damn.

[Big J. Okerson]

Was it just regular potatoes or a Mr.

[Howie Mandel]

Potato Head?

[Big J. Okerson]

Phillipe? It was a Latino potato.

[Joe List]

You think it'd be Irish?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Interesting.

[Karen Feehan]

Papas fritas.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yes.

[Howie Mandel]

Do you feel that your son is in a good space right now compared to where he was?

[Big J. Okerson]

Son, we're not here. We're potatoes.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, this is Philippe. Louis. You look like a bird potato named.

[Big J. Okerson]

I do look like. I look like a Puerto Rican potato.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're a Puerto Rican potato bird named Philippe. Damn.

[Big J. Okerson]

Did he just speak normal English or do you have an accent?

[Howie Mandel]

What's the first thing the potato said to you? Like, how do you like.

[Big J. Okerson]

Hello?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Was it polite?

[Howie Mandel]

He would talk about people as I was a rude potato. Like, give me an example of what the potato would say. This sucks.

[Big J. Okerson]

He's talking about your mom. He's like, she's gonna fry you, dude. Get out of the house.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Don't trust her, dude. She's got electric bolts in her eyes. I see it. She's power hungry.

[Howie Mandel]

And you, you had to go to. He was 16 at the time. And you, you got him help, which I love. I'm an advocate for mental health. But the truth is that what do you like, do you say, can you see my son? And they say, what's the problem? And you say. He says, the potatoes are talking shit.

[Louis J. Gomez]

And the doctor was like, phillipe, he's talking to Philippe.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, shit. I'm gonna get the voting going. This is great. I want to just interview you for.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The rest of the show about you questions. I'm sure we'll circle back.

[Big J. Okerson]

I'm going to Howie.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

Somebody took my pen. The potato took it.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Potato strikes again.

[Howie Mandel]

There's two, right?

[Karen Feehan]

I might have stolen yours and stuff.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, you did. Yeah. I'm going. Howie, Someone's going to sweep hard if this isn't.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah, this is Howie. And that's a potato for you, sir. Put it right on the board.

[Joe List]

Howie's going to be in a big lead if it's not him.

[Big J. Okerson]

If it's not Howie. That's crazy. Well, no, Howie doesn't get points for us voting for him. Somebody else is going to be in a big lead if it's not Howie. Him?

[Joe List]

No, no. He would get all the points if it's not him.

[Howie Mandel]

What?

[Joe List]

Doesn't matter if it is him. I mean, it really is if it's not him.

[Big J. Okerson]

Joe, you have no idea how this game works.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Joe, neither of those are right. Everyone's locked in.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah, everyone's locked, Alex.

[Alex]

Wow. You guys. This story belongs to Karen Feehan.

[Joe List]

I told you. Fuck.

[Big J. Okerson]

It was a clean sweep.

[Joe List]

Fuck. I said it was hers. I told you. This is like Boston Irish shit.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We forgot Karen's 70.

[Karen Feehan]

I know. I'm old, too.

[Alex]

Stupid.

[Joe List]

Oh, I fucking.

[Karen Feehan]

Oh, my God. Yeah, we zapped the shit out of my ginka. He was. He was talking to crows in the backyard. So my mom drove him like three days a week to this hospital. Starts with a B in Boston batshit.

[Big J. Okerson]

Crazy hospital.

[Joe List]

Now her dad talks to her crow's fiend Hospital.

[Howie Mandel]

Boston Hospital.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah, it's like Bellevue or something like that. It's like a cookie bird one. My mom would just like chain smoke outside while they zap my grandfather. But then he was good as gold.

[Louis J. Gomez]

But that's what I mean. They would like, like what's the rest of the day after a zap day? Like, does he go home and he's like, I'm hungry.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Really?

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah, like go like get some driving.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't know, God bless him, some mashed potatoes, whatever. And when he died, he was no longer talking to birds or anything. He was like. And did he have any like self awareness? Like that was crazy.

[Karen Feehan]

No, he kind of just turned into a different, better guy.

[Howie Mandel]

When he died?

[Karen Feehan]

No, like after he got zapped.

[Howie Mandel]

Dead now.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah, he's been dead for a while.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You guys have to be the better guy.

[Howie Mandel]

Backyard going, where's ginkgo?

[Karen Feehan]

They're bored. They miss him.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't know if that changed his brain chemistry as much as they treated it almost like a dog zapper where it was like, he's like, you know what, I'm not talking to birds. And then he sees him, and then he sees the birds outside and the birds are talking to him and he's just like, get out of here, dude. Get out of here. If I talk to you, it gets nuts.

[Karen Feehan]

So yeah, my mom always carried around like a taser just to like give him a little.

[Louis J. Gomez]

He's like, what do I want for an appetizer? I'm gonna go talk to that swallow outside and go plap.

[Big J. Okerson]

Wow.

[Joe List]

Swallows. For her favorite.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Favorite bird, she got a high five up front.

[Karen Feehan]

I eat guys.

[Joe List]

My, my crow's feet line was really big. Nobody heard it.

[Karen Feehan]

That was good.

[Joe List]

Oh, do it again.

[Big J. Okerson]

Joe, you're now not in the lead. But Alex, where our points at? After two stories.

[Alex]

On the scoreboard, with zero points each, Lewis J. Gomez, Big J. Okerson and Howie Mandel.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Okay, how you're doing? As good as the people who made the show.

[Howie Mandel]

I'm tied.

[Alex]

In second place.

[Howie Mandel]

If you look at the zeros, those look like potatoes. You should look at them, sir.

[Alex]

In second place with three points, Joe List. And in the lead with six points, Karen Feehan.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You got to respect it.

[Joe List]

First time she's ever been a 6, cuz she's an 8.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I thought we were all going to do like the sitcom audience mad.

[Karen Feehan]

You're so close. One more round, you're back in.

[Joe List]

I don't even like the game. I don't like it.

[Big J. Okerson]

You love it.

[Joe List]

I think it sucks.

[Big J. Okerson]

You're obsessed, alex. Story number three.

[Joe List]

Here we go.

[Alex]

Story number three.

[Joe List]

Here We Go.

[Alex]

911 genuinely didn't bother me.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Howie Mandel.

[Big J. Okerson]

I mean, bother. Bother is a weird way to put it. Didn't bother me.

[Howie Mandel]

Didn't bother.

[Big J. Okerson]

I was living in New York City during 9 11. It didn't bother me. I mean, I did have. I have dreams that buildings were falling on top of me for 20 years afterwards.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I know. I got a feeling, too. This is Louis, but he's like.

[Karen Feehan]

The way he's saying this right now, it's making me wonder if it is him, though.

[Big J. Okerson]

Well, no. I mean, every week I had to. This is a story that a lot of people know about me. On the. On 912, I had a rollerblade from 23rd street and 7th all the way up to Rockland County, New York.

[Howie Mandel]

That bothered me.

[Big J. Okerson]

That bothered the fuck out of me. So it literally. I mean, 911 probably bothered me more than about 4,000 people.

[Louis J. Gomez]

He said, when you had the right. That's one of my favorite things in that story is when you were rollerblading and you had to go over, like, to get in the way of cars. You had to go on, like, those.

[Big J. Okerson]

There was no cars. And so what happens is on the George Washington Bridge, there's the rumble strips, so you can't go too fast with the bridge. And I didn't realize it. So I'm fucking, and I hit a rumble strip. And it felt like they. Electroshock therapy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

After that, Lewis started talking to potatoes ever since that day.

[Big J. Okerson]

And I got up to exit 3 on the Palisades Parkway, and then some dude in a red car pulled over. He's like, you want to ride? I'm like, yeah. He was like, fuck you, faggot.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's better than getting raped.

[Big J. Okerson]

He picked me up.

[Joe List]

There's no way it's Howie because he's the only one with an actual career. He can't.

[Louis J. Gomez]

He can't just say unaffected completely.

[Howie Mandel]

It isn't me, but I'm Canadian, so it would bother all of you. It would bother me more. But. But I. It's not me, but I'm just giving you. I'm just. I don't know how I'm playing. I don't understand what I'm doing.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're doing great, but I know I'm.

[Howie Mandel]

Doing better than the kid who talks to petite.

[Louis J. Gomez]

If that's your bar for sure.

[Howie Mandel]

Yes. This could also be the word bother in 9 11, you know, doesn't. It doesn't. Bother is a small word compared to 9 11. Right? Like, it didn't bother me.

[Joe List]

It devastated me.

[Karen Feehan]

Well, it's either you're happy about it or not.

[Howie Mandel]

No, no, just. That doesn't matter.

[Big J. Okerson]

It just didn't.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't. If it's that cut and dry, you.

[Joe List]

Know, you're one of those.

[Big J. Okerson]

Or, you know, I can see this being Jay. Jay was living in Philly at the time.

[Joe List]

Were you trying so hard.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'll tell you this.

[Joe List]

Throw us off.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'll tell you this.

[Big J. Okerson]

Please put it. You're a fool if you put me. 911 literally bothered me.

[Joe List]

That sold it.

[Big J. Okerson]

It bothered. It bothered me, you idiot.

[Karen Feehan]

Oh, now he's off on the bother Big.

[Big J. Okerson]

By the way, Big J is playing the game right now. I'm letting you know it's Big J here. Question. Were you driving from Philly at that point?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, on 9 11, I left my ex. What became my ex wife's house late, late night. Drove by the area at like 7 something in the morning. And then on the way back to Philly, heard Howard Stern talk about it. Played basketball later that day. I'm not gonna lie to you. It didn't bother me that much. It changed my. But if we're going. But if you're going by your logic too, Louis, it bothered me for sure. Cause then my hour and a half from Philly every day became like. Like three and a half, four hours. So it bothered me in that regard too. The action of 911 didn't shake my foundation.

[Joe List]

I was devastated. I care about America.

[Karen Feehan]

Wait, now I think it's Joe.

[Howie Mandel]

I do think it's Joe.

[Big J. Okerson]

So what's funny is I work 9 11. I got a job selling comedy club tickets for specific on maybe the 6th of September at this comedy club specifically. So this is like the first comedy club I even ever entered in New York City. And what's funny is right after 9 11, the week after we came to see a show here. And the old New York comedy club logo used to be the new. The New York City skyline. And they had the twin towers. And the host, his name was Ozzie Baez, he passed away. But he was doing jokes that were bombing. And the third time he had a joke that he kept on doing this. Every time a joke bomb, he'd go. And the third time he had a joke that bombed, he went and crashed it into the. The twin towers on the sign. And it was maybe the. One of the hardest times I've ever laughed for anything in my life.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Ozzy Baez, rotten piss.

[Joe List]

Here's what's making me think it's not, Louis, is because you're supposed to tell your story after the fucking thing. And Lewis has been talking for eight minutes straight.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's bothered me. 911 bothered me. All right. I'm writing Big J. Everyone else is.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You might as well throw it away.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's not throwing it away. Jay just cleaned up. You guys are idiots. Jay just cleaned.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I hope I fools.

[Big J. Okerson]

You fucking fool.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're playing the long game here, Jay.

[Big J. Okerson]

Just look. Look at his face.

[Louis J. Gomez]

He just saw me. Everybody's locked in.

[Joe List]

Alex, hit me with the points.

[Alex]

That story also belongs to Karen Feehan.

[Big J. Okerson]

Two in a row. Karen. No. How is she so far ahead?

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't know if I've gotten one right in five.

[Big J. Okerson]

Come on, Karen. Talk about what an evil witch you are.

[Karen Feehan]

Upon reflection, I had a great day.

[Louis J. Gomez]

All four.

[Big J. Okerson]

Were you here?

[Karen Feehan]

I was here. I just moved here. I was 18. I got day drunk as fuck. I went. I had sex with two different guys.

[Howie Mandel]

I went to a store, commemorate Twin Towers.

[Karen Feehan]

I was like, we're doubling up.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Always remember.

[Big J. Okerson]

And they called her Building 7.

[Karen Feehan]

I did one in Astoria. Then I went back to Manhattan where my dorms were, did another one. It was. I mean, I consider myself not only unbothered, but I had a good day.

[Howie Mandel]

Wow, you're really a patriot. You are.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

You are so fucked up. You are.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You should do some USO stuff.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, my God. Your grandfather talked a fucking bird. You don't give a shit about 9 11. I'm not thrilled sitting beside you.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It can't be good to have next to you.

[Karen Feehan]

I know.

[Joe List]

That was a lot of points.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's a wild amount of points that Karen just got. That's insane.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's all the points you can get. God, she got.

[Big J. Okerson]

Literally. She got two perfect rounds just now. I don't know if we can catch up. Let's just end the show. Alex, where are points at?

[Alex]

On the scoreboard with zero points each, Luis J. Gomez, Big J. Okerson and Howie Mandel.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's okay. We can come back.

[Alex]

With three points, Joe List. And in the lead with 10 points, Karen Feehan.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Everybody.

[Joe List]

This is why the game doesn't make any sense.

[Karen Feehan]

I knew he was gonna say this.

[Joe List]

He picks the game. Points per time, you get picked.

[Karen Feehan]

Karen. Karen.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Even the name.

[Howie Mandel]

Even the name.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Everybody.

[Howie Mandel]

You're winning at being the biggest fucking loser I've ever met.

[Karen Feehan]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's the only show on NBC Howie doesn't host. Guys, keep your eyes on the prize. Get back in the game. We're playing for the Mockingjay, where the Games are over, but the real battle begins. The Capitol's grip is slipping, and Katniss is forced to become more than just a symbol. She must become a weapon. While there are two books that come before this, Mockingjay stands on its own as a haunting exploration of propaganda, trauma, and the cost of freedom.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's actually how I describe Karen's stories.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Nice. It's darker, more psychological storytelling, delivering action and suspense.

[Joe List]

Wow.

[Howie Mandel]

Especially page 42, paragraph 2 now, and.

[Joe List]

I quote, is one of the prequels called Mocking Lewis. Mocking J. Mocking Lewis.

[Big J. Okerson]

I got it.

[Joe List]

What do we got? The dumbest crowd ever here. What the fuck?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, half of them have been fucking electric shots.

[Howie Mandel]

Don't piss him off, he'll spit on your windshield.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Break your own glasses. Oh.

[Joe List]

All right, here we go. Big score coming my way.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The tides are about to turn.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, yeah. All right, let's take a quick moment to thank Turtle beach for supporting today's show. We love Turtle Beach. They've been a sponsor for a few of our shows now for quite some time. Their Stealth 700 headsets are absolutely incredible. It's what I wear to game. I'm not a massive gamer, but I'll tell you right now, when I'm chatting or if I'm gaming, being able to hear super clearly. They have, like, the surround sound hearing, so if people are sneaking up, you could hear it really easily. Plus, the microphone is podcast quality. It sounds absolutely great. Very often when I'm on the road, I bring myself 700 just to record the podcast with you guys on the road.

[Louis J. Gomez]

And not only the headsets, they have all kinds of gaming equipment. I believe we look this up, Louis. They are involved in the ladder of these new guitar controllers for Rock Band, which is pretty exciting. So Turtle beach is really thumping it all out there. The headsets got me through a Christmas looking like a hero to all of the gamers. And my family, my. My sister's both married nerds who love video gaming.

[Big J. Okerson]

So real virgins.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I mean, I can't. My sisters must be the only women they've ever. Because these guys are Dorics.

[Big J. Okerson]

But they love the Turtle beach hardware, I'll tell you that much.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I call them Turtle.

[Big J. Okerson]

Turtle. Turtle. Turtle.

[Louis J. Gomez]

A bunch of total ass nerds.

[Big J. Okerson]

Just look right now. Go to TurtleBeach.com and use the promo code WARS W A R Z to get 10 off your entire order today. Once again, that's TurtleBeach.com. use that promo code WARS with a Z and save 10 off your entire order after you purchase. They're going to ask where you heard about them. Let them know that we sent you. Get the ultimate immersive gaming experience with Turtle beach today, turtlebeach.com. all right, where were we?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Alex, story number four.

[Alex]

Story number four. I have dated three different people who would cut themselves.

[Louis J. Gomez]

If this isn't Louis.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah. I mean, it's so Lou. It's so.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I mean, one. One of them is Karen.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah, she cut herself.

[Louis J. Gomez]

She cut herself.

[Howie Mandel]

Karen Again on 9 11.

[Karen Feehan]

Yes.

[Louis J. Gomez]

All on 9 11. Yes. I. Three cutters on 9 11.

[Big J. Okerson]

I mean, if I dated. If I dated Jay, I would cut myself.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Hell, yeah.

[Joe List]

This one is slam dunk. One of the two of you, because how. He's been married for 55 years. Karen would not be around a guy that cuts. It's too emo. Guys I haven't dated three women.

[Big J. Okerson]

Guys that cut are crazy.

[Joe List]

It's one of you two.

[Big J. Okerson]

I mean, I've hooked up with a few cutters in my life. I will admit that right now, but I haven't actually officially dated.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The only reason this might not be Lewis is because he's dated more than three people who cut themselves.

[Joe List]

It doesn't say at least three.

[Howie Mandel]

Just. Just a little bit I know of you, Jay. I think this is you.

[Big J. Okerson]

Sure.

[Howie Mandel]

You were a party clown. You showed up where nobody wanted you.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yes.

[Howie Mandel]

I could see you with somebody who just never cut themselves and said, now I want to cut myself.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, for sure.

[Big J. Okerson]

J. Jay loves Marilyn Manson. He's goth. He just rolled down the street blaring slipknot out of his window.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Spit it out.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, you're an idiot, Joe. Oh, every time you do this, Joe. Every time you do this, you're dead on.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Right.

[Joe List]

I'm right.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're absolutely right.

[Karen Feehan]

It feels too obvious to be Louis, so it's making me think it's you.

[Big J. Okerson]

I think me.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Joe List]

You're out of your mind.

[Big J. Okerson]

Could it be Joe?

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah, maybe.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We don't think. No one thinks it's Howie picked Lewis.

[Karen Feehan]

Deflection play.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I agree.

[Big J. Okerson]

If this is Karen, I will punch you in the head. Karen, if this is you, and you get a third. Third story with. Absolutely.

[Karen Feehan]

Punch me in the head.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yes, I will cut you.

[Karen Feehan]

Punch me in my head.

[Howie Mandel]

It won't bother her. She'll just go fuck two other people.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Easy peasy.

[Karen Feehan]

Fuck the potato guy. Wait, wait. Because with Joe, he could, like, stretch and, like, make us like girls. Like, maybe they're not full cutters, but, like, they.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Like, they're pro accidents.

[Karen Feehan]

Paper cut Joe's like, that counts.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're sad. You got a paper cut.

[Karen Feehan]

You got a paper cut. Count cutter.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't.

[Big J. Okerson]

I mean, I know a few girls that you've dated. I don't know that they cut themselves, but I could see them cutting themselves.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't know if I've dated anyone.

[Howie Mandel]

You were explaining to us backstage that you have foot warts.

[Joe List]

Yeah. And genital.

[Howie Mandel]

And genital warts.

[Joe List]

You name a ward, I got it.

[Howie Mandel]

So do you think a woman that he dated would think, oh, maybe if I just bleed this out, I would be safer? Like, after spending time.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, very positive.

[Howie Mandel]

I think people like to bleed out, but I think it's. I think it's you, you. That's the.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Now I'm trying to think. Does Joe List masturbate with his feet?

[Howie Mandel]

Yeah. How do you get warts on your dick and your toes?

[Louis J. Gomez]

You gotta have double. You have to have double joints, for sure.

[Joe List]

No, they're unrelated.

[Howie Mandel]

What do you mean, unrelated? They're on the same fucking guy. They're related.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Both their last names are List. Yes, it's footwort list and dick wart list.

[Joe List]

Dick Wart. Warts is from women. And, yeah, Footwarts is from the men.

[Howie Mandel]

I think one little piggy went to market, one little piggy stayed home and the other one tickled your dick at a bath house.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Why was that piggy at the bath house? You know it's Tuesday, the gay day. Don't tell me it's cheaper.

[Big J. Okerson]

I don't think. I don't think this is Joe. I think this is Big J.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Do you believe it? To be yourself.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, it's not me.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It is.

[Big J. Okerson]

Okay, I'm going, Big J. I'm getting.

[Louis J. Gomez]

My first point Ski. You'll see. This is a slam dunk.

[Joe List]

That's Jay.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You think so?

[Big J. Okerson]

It's definitely Jay.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What made you feel that before? We say the answer?

[Karen Feehan]

Joe, the way Lewis is acting, I.

[Joe List]

Always get it wrong.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Me too. But, Joe, look at me. It's not me. Hit me, Alex.

[Alex]

That story belongs to Louis J. Gomez.

[Big J. Okerson]

Damn it. Damn it. I only fooled Howie because he didn't know anybody here.

[Karen Feehan]

Who. Who are the other two girls?

[Big J. Okerson]

I mean, I haven't dated, as, you know, whatever I hooked up with a handful of times. I mean, they. These girls were dark, they were black.

[Joe List]

Girls cut themselves.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Wow.

[Big J. Okerson]

I had one girl that did it in front of me. I went to her. I Went to her place in Harlem and she was all up alcohol. And then she was like. She grabbed a knife and started slicing herself and had a. I had to wrestle the knife out of her hand then. I was trying not to get my fingerprints on the knife. I was like, what if she kills herself? Then they're going to find my DNA and my fingerprints.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'm. Did you still her? Yes. Yeah. That's the kind of never say die attitude you need, young man.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah, they're. They're. I. I have a type, and they're lunatics. I've dated a lot of actual genuine lunatics.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Stop it.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

Do you not have a son here tonight?

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, he's right over there in the corner.

[Howie Mandel]

He must be so proud. That's the. That's your dad.

[Joe List]

Totally forgot he was your daddy.

[Howie Mandel]

He cutters. Is your mother a cutter?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, no. He said maybe not to the best of my knowledge. I don't think so.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, it wasn't his mother. It was before and after his mother.

[Louis J. Gomez]

No, but if anyone has. If anyone. If any one of these girls has a right to, it would be his ex.

[Big J. Okerson]

All right, well, Alex, where are our points at?

[Alex]

Okay, everyone, on the scoreboard, with zero points, Howie Mandel queue in the game. In fourth place with one point, Louis J. Gomez. In third place with two points.

[Big J. Okerson]

We're getting killed.

[Alex]

Big J. Hilkerson. In second place with five points, Joe.

[Big J. Okerson]

List, you're catching up. Thank you.

[Joe List]

Thank you.

[Alex]

And in the lead with 12 points, Karen Feehan.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's okay. There's a game happening here. This is a game. Wow. It looks bleak, sure, but trust me, it's a game. It's half time of the show.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, yeah, let's time we do. We do plugs. We, you know, and then we'll get into the second half in a second. But, Howie, what are you plugging, my friend?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh.

[Howie Mandel]

Yeah, I'm gonna be. After this. I'm gonna go back to the hotel and nap. I don't have. I don't have an. Oh, Joe, you're gonna be on my podcast.

[Joe List]

I'm on the podcast?

[Howie Mandel]

You're on. Howie Mandel does stuff. You've been on the podcast. Will you come on the podc?

[Big J. Okerson]

I would love to come on the podcast.

[Howie Mandel]

You'd love to come on the podcast?

[Big J. Okerson]

Karen would love to come on anything.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Okay.

[Karen Feehan]

Hey. Hey.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Your son's here.

[Howie Mandel]

You know what I want.

[Alex]

We're all trying.

[Howie Mandel]

All kidding aside, is there any way that you would come to LA and be on the podcast? We will have potatoes galore that'd be great. Just a guy talking to a potato for an hour.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That would be fantastic.

[Howie Mandel]

Who has that? Who has that?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, you had Bill Burr talk to Billy Corgan that one time.

[Howie Mandel]

That was so mad at me.

[Big J. Okerson]

It is kind of like a guy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Talking to potato sort of.

[Howie Mandel]

You have no idea how mad he is at me. Like really?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Bur still it's insane to be upset about this.

[Joe List]

Come on out, Bill. I couldn't be the world is a vampire.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I couldn't begin to guess why he's upset about this situation.

[Big J. Okerson]

Are they really brothers?

[Howie Mandel]

Problem is no one knows because and publicly we're saying his mother mother Billy Corrigan's dad. So when it kind of.

[Louis J. Gomez]

My mom used to local cops.

[Howie Mandel]

So she fucks everybody on 9 11.

[Louis J. Gomez]

True, but that's only on the high holidays.

[Howie Mandel]

I don't know. I guess the fact is that he realized that his mother was the pumpkin his dad was smashing.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The world is a vampire.

[Big J. Okerson]

Karen, what do you bought?

[Karen Feehan]

I'll be at Hilarities in Cleveland on June 8th. Please come. And then the following weekend I'm in Cincinnati at Comedy Comet. And check out my podcast. Check out my comedy special.

[Big J. Okerson]

Hell yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Very cool Joey list.

[Joe List]

When's this come out? I can't remember. Sorry. You told me. No, maybe you didn't tell me.

[Big J. Okerson]

Nothing comes out next week, right? This. This will be out next Monday on.

[Howie Mandel]

But the people who are watching it now know it's out now.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Right.

[Joe List]

Well Now, Wednesday the 21st, my comedy special, Small Ball premieres in movie theaters across the country. One night only. You can go to joelist small ball.com and then I'll be at the Atlanta Punchline May 29th and 30th, I think. Something like that.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Big J, BigJ comedy.com for all my dates. Levittown, New York. Governor is coming up very soon also. I'm all over the fucking place. I don't know the names of all these places. Charlotte, Texas. San Diego. American Comedy Company. Look for a city near you. BigJComedy.com Second half of my double crowd works special. They is out right now. So them they both parts out right now. Go watch them on YouTube. Check them out. Please subscribe, comment. All that hoopla. Listen to the bonfire five days a week. Faction talk, SiriusX. I'm 1103 with me and the great Robert Kelly. And of course right here on the guest digital network, the legendary legion of skanks.

[Big J. Okerson]

Come see me live on the road to bring five friends who are coming to a city near you. Next week I will be in San Antonio, Texas on May 22. May 23, Fort Worth, Texas. May 24, Dallas, Texas. Then I'm going to Europe. I'll be the end of the month, 28th. I'll be in Amsterdam, GL. Then I'm in Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester, London, and then I'm in Boston. And then it's all coming up until my next special that I'm taping in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, July 12th. Tickets are just about sold out, but you can get tickets for Thursday and Friday as well. If you guys want to watch me warm up for it, check out all the other pods that I do. The rags, Legion of Skanks, my bonus solo show. If you sign up for my mailing list. And make sure you guys. If you love this show, you should know that we do an uncensored ad free version of the show that premieres every Monday night before it goes anywhere else. @gas digital.com there's like 20 or 25 episodes that are on demand on the website that you can't get anywhere else else. If you guys love Story war, support Story wars by going to Gas Digital and using the promo code wars with a Z and you save a buck 50amonth in the premium membership and it supports the show directly.

[Louis J. Gomez]

All right, all right. Now we have four more stories to get through. And I know, Louis, you probably feel pretty low about yourself.

[Big J. Okerson]

I feel terrible. I know how he's not feeling good right now.

[Louis J. Gomez]

How he's probably feeling pretty low about himself right now, sitting there with zero. Sure he doesn't know anybody or any of our passes. We know all. All do with each other, but no excuse. But I feel.

[Howie Mandel]

I feel terrible. Thank you. But I'm here to tell you, no, I'm not. I'm not enjoying myself.

[Louis J. Gomez]

There's no reason to feel that way.

[Howie Mandel]

No, I thought it would be good. I thought it would be good. And then sometimes things don't live up to what you think. I'm sitting beside the most up person I've ever met. You have an audience of people that talk to potatoes.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

I have not scored a flower point. This is fun.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's not. It's not been a positive experience for you. I understand that to be true. But this all could turn around very quickly for you because for the final four stories right here at Story wars, we go double points. Thank you, Roots.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's anybody's game, Howie.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It is. Whereas before, if you fooled somebody, you got one point and if you guessed the right story, you would get two points. Now that goes to two double points.

[Joe List]

I'm excited. Can we get some popcorn? Karen wanted popcorn. Some of that popcorn that's going around. Karen was asking for it.

[Karen Feehan]

Never said.

[Joe List]

She said, I need something salty in my mouth. St.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We're all. We're all dying for the Mockingjay, here we come. Katniss, Alex. Story number five.

[Alex]

Story number five. I sent my mother roses for her birthday. And instead of thank you, she told me to go myself.

[Joe List]

I think we finally have a Howie story on our hands.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I was gonna say Joe List again. I was gonna.

[Howie Mandel]

I'm gonna say you. Your mother has a. Has a father.

[Big J. Okerson]

Howie just gave up on the show. He's not using his mic anymore, this whole show.

[Howie Mandel]

I'm sorry. I was gonna say say you. You. I think it's you because your mother sent your father for shock therapy.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Big J. Okerson]

So.

[Howie Mandel]

Which means she was up anyway, for sure. Her dad talked to birds.

[Karen Feehan]

She. My mother hates flowers.

[Howie Mandel]

You are this spawn of this. You don't give a shit about 4,000 deaths. Yeah.

[Karen Feehan]

Upon reflection, like, wouldn't that word would.

[Howie Mandel]

Bother you more in the moment, Maybe you don't realize what's going on, but when you reflect on it and doesn't bother you is even fucking sicker. So I think that you come from.

[Big J. Okerson]

The two men having sex with her.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

Right.

[Big J. Okerson]

She comes.

[Louis J. Gomez]

If I may, I think it was 3,000 something deaths.

[Joe List]

Yeah, I think it was just under 3,000, actually.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh. Yeah. So not that big a deal, I guess. Upon reflection. I guess. Upon reflection, what are we even talking about this anymore for?

[Karen Feehan]

Thank you.

[Howie Mandel]

I just think. I don't know anybody here, but I just think you come from the most up family of any of us.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Karen.

[Karen Feehan]

Do you.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't know, your family history month. Do you and your mom get along?

[Karen Feehan]

We do, but my mom hates flowers. Every time I've gotten her flower, she's.

[Howie Mandel]

Like, oh, there you go.

[Karen Feehan]

Flowers die.

[Howie Mandel]

Yeah, okay. There you go.

[Big J. Okerson]

Flowers die.

[Howie Mandel]

My. My point. I'm. This is the.

[Karen Feehan]

I mean, this isn't my story, though.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, there you go. Now you figured out how to play.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Whoa.

[Howie Mandel]

H. You weren't bothered by the rules, Joath?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. You said you fought Howie early.

[Joe List]

I'm thinking this is how. I'm not putting it down yet, but I wanted to show my flower drawing.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I like that.

[Joe List]

Those are flowers.

[Big J. Okerson]

Why do you think it's Howie? Joe?

[Joe List]

It just feels like. I don't know. I don't know Howie too well, but it feels like there's some. There's probably some pain somewhere. There from a younger time. A tough mother. I feel like somewhere in your life.

[Howie Mandel]

Maybe I come off tough mother. I come off like I had a really tough upbringing.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I feel, I don't know, Canadian mom might be like, you know, you're sitting here like a sissy instead of chopping wolf hood or something.

[Joe List]

But it, but it feels like it could be like, oh go yourself. You don't have to give me that.

[Howie Mandel]

Hey, how do you give a Canadian that accent? How did you do that?

[Joe List]

Oh, go yourself there.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Hey, go yourself. Eh?

[Howie Mandel]

Go yourself. Sorry. I'm sorry.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Mothers. Canadians are nice and mothers I assume are even nicer.

[Karen Feehan]

The way Joe just said go yourself. I feel like. Like it's Joe now. You're. That's your mom.

[Joe List]

My mother. I have done four late night television sets in a row without hearing a word from my mother.

[Big J. Okerson]

Wow. That.

[Howie Mandel]

Maybe I'll change it to you then.

[Big J. Okerson]

You can't change your.

[Joe List]

You is like a.

[Howie Mandel]

She didn't know the rules and then I can't.

[Big J. Okerson]

Sorry.

[Howie Mandel]

You know what? I don't think it's you now. Because I can't change it? No, because she had two in a row. What are the chances?

[Karen Feehan]

He didn't spell my name right. He can change it.

[Howie Mandel]

What's wrong?

[Big J. Okerson]

He wrote Karen.

[Howie Mandel]

What's wrong? It's the kc.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's Karen.

[Karen Feehan]

It's whiter.

[Joe List]

It's C U N T. Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

C U N T. It's spelled the way a girl would spell it if she fucked two guys on 9 11.

[Howie Mandel]

How do you spell Karen?

[Big J. Okerson]

There's two R's. Just like the two guys you fucked in 911.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Robert and Ricky. Unrelated.

[Big J. Okerson]

They're retards.

[Karen Feehan]

It's the train I took.

[Joe List]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

I love that you have explained the jokes it two hours.

[Big J. Okerson]

Let's see. Okay. I'm also leaning Howe. How. What's. What's your relationship with your mother?

[Howie Mandel]

Good. Good. I called my mother. I called my mother every day of my life when I moved out to la. I. I have such a non comedian upbringing. I come from such a coddled wonderful. I. I don't.

[Big J. Okerson]

He's lying to my face right now.

[Howie Mandel]

No. Okay.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We were Pete daily by the mill.

[Howie Mandel]

Because I think I'm right. I don't give a. If you think it's me. I. I'm. I want to get on the board.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I have a feeling this is.

[Big J. Okerson]

It could be Joe.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Joe.

[Big J. Okerson]

It could be Joe. Joe has a tiny mouth. He can only get one popcorn kernel at a time.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Each colonel so of Jewel.

[Howie Mandel]

I can't Change this to Joe.

[Big J. Okerson]

You can't change.

[Howie Mandel]

Why?

[Big J. Okerson]

That's the rules.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What you locked in?

[Big J. Okerson]

Who'd you lock in? How Joe. Could it be Joe again before it happens?

[Howie Mandel]

I think it's Joe. I cannot. Please spelled it wrong.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Can we do one pass? He's his first time.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's not us. I'm going to let the audience decide right now. If you think how we can change it, clap your hands. Well, hold on. We got to. We got. We got to see how many people think that. If you don't think how we should be able to change it. Clap your hands. Look at these. Look at these story warriors in the crowd.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's like there's rules.

[Big J. Okerson]

We ought to respect the rules. All right, well, let's.

[Howie Mandel]

I want to get.

[Big J. Okerson]

You know what you got.

[Howie Mandel]

Give me a point. Give me a fucking point.

[Big J. Okerson]

Howie. Howie. We're going to make one exception.

[Howie Mandel]

Point.

[Big J. Okerson]

One exception. You are the only person that we've ever bent the rules for. You can change your answer this one time.

[Joe List]

In honor of Howie, we should call it sorry, Warriors.

[Big J. Okerson]

Sorry, Warriors.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Sorry.

[Big J. Okerson]

Wars.

[Joe List]

Story Wars. I forgot the name of the show, but you got the joke.

[Karen Feehan]

Popcorn. So good.

[Big J. Okerson]

In honor of Joe, we should call it Story Warts.

[Louis J. Gomez]

With a Z still.

[Howie Mandel]

Did I spell Joe right?

[Big J. Okerson]

Yep.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Ish.

[Big J. Okerson]

Do I think it's Joe or Howie? Joe. Joe, look at me. Is this you?

[Joe List]

It's not me. My mother doesn't talk like that.

[Howie Mandel]

That.

[Big J. Okerson]

What? The only swear she does is, dude, I met your brother. I mean, dude, I mean, we should almost real quick tell the story. We've heard told it on other shows. But how we in the audience should know. Joe invited me over his house one time years ago, maybe the second time I ever met Joe in my life. I was on the road with Nate Barazi and Joe's like, come over, guys. Come, come hang out, drink. We're drinking beers in the backyard. And then I had to pee, so I was like, oh, can I pee? They're like, pee in the backyard. I was like, no, I want to go inside. So I went into Joe's house. Now, literally his parents. By the way, this is one o' clock in the morning. His parents are just in bed. I'm trying to find the bathroom, right? And I'm slapping my hand to try to find the light in the bathroom, right? And I just hear, excuse me, can I help you? I was in Joe's parents bedroom.

[Joe List]

And the craziest part was it was late. Like when they went to bed, I had to say, had surgery. I had Appendicitis. So I was like, laid up on pills. And I live, they live in, like.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The suburbs, like 15 years ago or something.

[Joe List]

Long time ago. So they went to bed and it was just me recovering from surgery, like watching a hockey game. And then like two hours later, there's a big Puerto Rican just with his hand on the wall. And my dad was like, excuse me. Hello. That's crazy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'm here to watch you sleep.

[Joe List]

And my mother didn't even say you then.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, she didn't.

[Joe List]

She let him.

[Big J. Okerson]

I'm, I'm going with my original instinct. Howie Mandel. I feel like there's some darkness there. I think there's a story.

[Louis J. Gomez]

He was coddled.

[Big J. Okerson]

Let's see.

[Louis J. Gomez]

All five answers are in.

[Alex]

Alex, that story belongs to Howie Mandela.

[Big J. Okerson]

Well, Howie, at the very least you're on the board, so that's good.

[Howie Mandel]

That's good, right?

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We changed the rule for him to just continue to fool us. That was, that was dope.

[Howie Mandel]

I was on St. Elsewhere for six years with Denzel Washington.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, that's the old, that's the old Ed Begley tactic. The old Ed Begley junior.

[Big J. Okerson]

So why, why did she tell you to go yourself?

[Howie Mandel]

Okay, so my, my mother, I had to put my mother in assisted living because, because she said I never help with anything. No, but I, I, she had dementia and she still has dementia, and, and I didn't know how bad it was, but I wanted to be a good son and she loved. I didn't know how far the dementia had gone, but I decided, because I'm very successful, I'm gonna send her a dozen roses every hour on her birthday. That's not the end of the story. You know, the story's gonna end with go fuck yourself. Why would you, why would you go, oh. But every hour I had a guy delivering a dozen flowers. It started at 9 in the morning and, and then I figured a dozen flowers would come and she'd call me and go, howie, it's beautiful. Thank you for the flowers.

[Big J. Okerson]

Then she'd forget about the flowers. Then an hour later, she gets another dozen flowers.

[Howie Mandel]

So she got another dozen flowers, and then she gets another dozen. And now it's 9 o' clock at night. You know, there's like 250 fucking flowers in her place. And she hadn't called me. So I checked on her. I went, mom, Mom. She said, what the fuck do you want? Go fuck yourself. I said, what do you mean, go fuck myself? And she's never talked like that to me again. You put me Here. You put me here. Go fuck yourself. And I said, why are you saying that? She says, because the fucking gardener is storing all his fucking roses in my apartment. That's a true story.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Did she turn around when you said, I did that for you?

[Howie Mandel]

She doesn't understand. She's got dementia. She didn't under. She wouldn't just go, fuck off. And I go, no, no, no, it's not the garden. This place is filled with roses. Mom, mom, listen to me. But you. Mom, it's a gift. It's your birthday. It's not my birthday, you piece of. You put.

[Big J. Okerson]

Didn't.

[Howie Mandel]

I had to hang up. And she never. So it started with. But it ended with you. That's my story.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You guys worked it out since you worked it out since I chose.

[Howie Mandel]

Well, now I don't send roses. I said, forget me nots.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You just get her tattooed like memento every birthday. I'm Howe.

[Howie Mandel]

She's Alex.

[Joe List]

911 flower.

[Howie Mandel]

Hold for the laugh.

[Big J. Okerson]

Where our point at?

[Alex]

Alex on the scoreboard. Tied for last place with two points each. Big J Okerson and Howie Mandel.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Feels good. Feels good to be alive.

[Big J. Okerson]

He's on the board.

[Howie Mandel]

I'm on the board.

[Alex]

In third place with five points, Luis J. Gomez.

[Big J. Okerson]

Wait a minute. With five, Didn't I get four points just for you guessing correctly?

[Louis J. Gomez]

You had one.

[Alex]

Yeah, and you had one before.

[Big J. Okerson]

Fuck you, Alex.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's five. You need shock therapy. You need a zap, dude.

[Karen Feehan]

Zap him up.

[Alex]

In second place with nine points, Joe List.

[Joe List]

Thanks, guys.

[Big J. Okerson]

Joe.

[Alex]

These losses fester and in the lead with 16 points.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Jesus Christ.

[Alex]

Pitching a perfect game so far.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Really?

[Alex]

Karen Feehan.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Wow.

[Karen Feehan]

Perfect.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Nobody's gone the distance on a perfect game.

[Karen Feehan]

Who knew?

[Big J. Okerson]

Well, I mean, it's. She. Both of her stories. She got full points and she's guessed correctly every single time.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Big J. Okerson]

This is crazy.

[Joe List]

Oh, that's what they meant by perfect.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Big J. Okerson]

Shut up, Joe.

[Karen Feehan]

He's so mad.

[Big J. Okerson]

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[Alex]

Story number six. When I was a child, my mother fist fought the neighborhood crazy lady in front of me.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, I will admit that I have this story. My mom fought a lot of people when I was a kid.

[Louis J. Gomez]

In front of you.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah. My mom was also the neighborhood crazy lady. So some other kid has this story.

[Louis J. Gomez]

This is Joe's story about your mom coming to his house. Wow. We know when pushed to a limit, Howie's mother can get pretty wily.

[Joe List]

Yeah. I was thinking, when she hits a.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Breaking point, she doesn't hold back.

[Big J. Okerson]

Has Jay not had a story yet?

[Louis J. Gomez]

I haven't. I think.

[Karen Feehan]

I'm thinking Jay.

[Big J. Okerson]

Jay's mom was trash.

[Joe List]

What do you know?

[Big J. Okerson]

Jay's mom was white trash.

[Louis J. Gomez]

My mom's 5 foot tall and like 98 pounds. She wasn't a fighter.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

It'S always the little. It's like. It's like if you have a. You see, like a chihuahua will go after a great ding. Your mother was a little tiny that went out.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Sure, sure. Tattoo donor. Learn.

[Howie Mandel]

I'm in.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's an early. That's an early crazy guess. Sometimes just.

[Howie Mandel]

Just saying your mother is a. Is fun for me. Talk like this, son. America's got Talent. You're not allowed to say that. Can't go. That was a great dance. But your mother's a. You can't say that. But here you can. More fun.

[Joe List]

This could totally hand you.

[Howie Mandel]

And the next guy's going to talk.

[Louis J. Gomez]

To a potato dude. If you go. If you promise a golden buzzer, that'd be great. Just push him through the live right crowds.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, you're going to Hollywood.

[Joe List]

This could be Karen again. Yeah, this feels very mosh.

[Big J. Okerson]

Karen, did your. Did your mom get into fights when you were a kid?

[Karen Feehan]

It was more my dad, but yeah. My mom's not like. Wasn't like a fist fighter. She like, pushed him to shove. She could if she more just hit us.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, geez.

[Karen Feehan]

A little. Not little. A little like spanking, like in a hot way? Yeah, like spanking.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, just like some light bomb discipline.

[Joe List]

Yeah.

[Big J. Okerson]

Joe, your mom's not fist fighting people.

[Louis J. Gomez]

No, no, my mom's tiny. She's not fist fighting people.

[Big J. Okerson]

Being tiny doesn't mean anything. People fit.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Lewis has done the move he does where he tells us. He goes, hey, this is my story, by the way. He goes, I have this exact story.

[Joe List]

I mean, obviously. This certainly could be Louis.

[Karen Feehan]

He's like, this week. I feel like you're phoning it in a little. Louis, you're like cutters. Crazy. Mom, I'm tired.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Would you do this in a red light?

[Howie Mandel]

Light.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Did you send these in at a red light today?

[Howie Mandel]

Yeah.

[Karen Feehan]

I feel like he just whispered to Alex when he was walking up.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You know, just fun facts about me.

[Karen Feehan]

Mental health.

[Joe List]

I could picture Howie's mother pulling the sweater over the lady's head and hockey fighting.

[Louis J. Gomez]

A real Canuck beating.

[Karen Feehan]

Oh, like giving a noogie.

[Joe List]

Yeah, that was a hockey joke.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, and it could be the. I would usually argue against Lewis on a story like this, but. But it says, when I was a child, and Lewis's mom died when he was a little bit older. So a lot of times the mother stories change.

[Howie Mandel]

Well, he could have died way after.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The fight for sure.

[Howie Mandel]

He didn't.

[Big J. Okerson]

She didn't. No. Jay. Jay's playing the game right now. I'm letting you know right now. This is Big Jay Okerson. He's.

[Joe List]

You let us know earlier.

[Big J. Okerson]

And. Was it me?

[Karen Feehan]

And it was you.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, you did the exact move. Dude, you're out of your tree. You're out of your tree.

[Joe List]

But who uses quotes? The quotes is throwing me off. It doesn't feel like neighborhood people are.

[Karen Feehan]

Characters in Lewis's mind. Like, this is how we talk.

[Louis J. Gomez]

They're not real people.

[Big J. Okerson]

It is not me. I'm letting you know. You're going to let Big J clean up on points right now. And it's. It's.

[Howie Mandel]

If I knew you better. Which one of you who writes in this font?

[Joe List]

So if you're saying jay, clean up on points, why aren't you already writing J?

[Big J. Okerson]

I'm writing. I'm going to write Big J. I think it's Big J.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Write. Write it.

[Big J. Okerson]

I will.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Thank you.

[Big J. Okerson]

Here, look.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, you're crossing it out.

[Big J. Okerson]

I genuinely think it's Big J. I was trying to, you know, stretch out each round I'm hosting.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You can still talk.

[Joe List]

I got a gain on you. You're putting Lewis.

[Big J. Okerson]

Karen, Karen, I'm letting you know, I swear on my son's life. I'm looking at my. I'm Looking at my son in the eyes. I swear.

[Karen Feehan]

Cheat on me.

[Big J. Okerson]

I swear on James's life. May, James gets struck to death by lightning tonight.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, my God.

[Big J. Okerson]

This is not me.

[Howie Mandel]

He does this a lot, but.

[Big J. Okerson]

Have I ever been on your life and lied?

[Howie Mandel]

He hasn't had enough. He's the mother. He's a son of a cutter, dude.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, Joe. No. Don't take your. No, Joe.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Look how frazzled he's getting. He's losing these boys.

[Karen Feehan]

I'm trying to look at James.

[Big J. Okerson]

May. May James be struck by lightning, dead tonight. If it's me, Karen, you're an idiot. You're giving Big J more points. Probably. Big J?

[Howie Mandel]

Is that why you talk to potatoes? Is your dad like that?

[Joe List]

Says she.

[Big J. Okerson]

May he be electrocuted by the doctor that electrocuted this kid. You're an idiot. You are fools. Karen, is it you? Oh, it might be Karen again. If she got a third story in. I'm gonna my pants right now. No, dude, no. With double.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The game's over.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, no.

[Joe List]

It'll be a record for sure.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Everybody's locked in.

[Joe List]

Alex makes me think it's Karen. Fuck.

[Alex]

That story belongs to Big Jerson.

[Big J. Okerson]

You idiots. You fools. I told you, baby James, I love you. I would never bet on your life unless I meant it. Jay, Your little tiny mother was a problem.

[Louis J. Gomez]

No, my. You understand. The neighborhood crazy lady had got it in her head somehow, possibly because it was true, that my mother was having sex with her imaginary boyfriend who was an actual local radio DJ in Philadelphia called like Turntable Harry or something. And my. I forget. I really forget what it was she told me today again.

[Big J. Okerson]

He didn't even have a good name. There was no alliteration.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'm trying to remember the name Turntable Terry something Harry something Harry, Hurricane Harry or something. But he was a. And she believed that she was in a relationship with him. And just me and my mom were coming home from the grocery store one night. She was holding a bag, and I was holding a bag. And we. We walked up the steps to our duplex apartment outside. And the lady just came up. All I know is she got in my mom's face immediately started screaming at her. And my mom, I think almost as worried because I was there, dropped the bags and beat the shit out of this lady. It was awesome. And then we went inside. And to this day, I will tell you. This is what I know about my mom. I love her to death. And that's such a badass moment. And I told her on the phone, even today I'M not quite certain. This lady was crazy. She was not dating this dj. But there is a strong chance. My mother fucked that dj. She fucked her dj. His name was JR But I'm sure there was others.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, yeah. She dropped those groceries. Jay was like, no.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, my man. My mom's puss was all over the afternoon drive, traffic and weather on the ones. They called her.

[Big J. Okerson]

Alex. After six stories, where are our points at?

[Alex]

All right on the scoreboard. Tied for last place with six points each. Big J. Okerson.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Alex]

And Howie Mandel.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Two Hollywood elites.

[Alex]

In third place. I also have a tie with nine points each. Louis J. Gomez and Joe List.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's right, Joe. I'm coming for you, Karen.

[Karen Feehan]

This is not in me anymore.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, come on. My son's right there.

[Howie Mandel]

You're very sensitive about the kid. I know.

[Alex]

And in the lead with 16 points, Karen Feehan.

[Karen Feehan]

I like how nobody's really rooting for me.

[Big J. Okerson]

Well, you ruined your perfect game now.

[Karen Feehan]

I know you did.

[Big J. Okerson]

I told you. I looked you. I looked you in the eyes. I swore on my son's life, and I said it was.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's not the first time he's done that to you.

[Big J. Okerson]

I sure.

[Karen Feehan]

I was like, same, same, same, same.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'm mad.

[Karen Feehan]

I'm mad now, though.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Our final two stories. Alex, story number seven.

[Alex]

Story number seven. Whenever I've made an embarrassing mistake in public, I'd rather act crazy than sorry for my mistake.

[Big J. Okerson]

Everyone.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah, but I don't have the ability to. I don't know. That would freak me out more, to act crazy.

[Big J. Okerson]

Well, how do you. How do you define crazy?

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't know.

[Joe List]

Yelling at people, shouting, you know? All right, well, I've never seen Louis be sorry.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he makes a lot of embarrassing public mistakes, and he acts crazy. This does feel like Lewis to me. Yeah, it's so. It.

[Howie Mandel]

This does seem like. This is not fair to me.

[Louis J. Gomez]

All right? Because exactly. Like, you can't act crazy in public or it's all over news.

[Howie Mandel]

No, it doesn't seem fair to me because this seems like this could be anybody's story, and I don't know anything about any person.

[Big J. Okerson]

Just your mic, Howie.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, here you go.

[Howie Mandel]

Use my mic. See, that's. I didn't want other people to hear what I was saying. I was talking to you guys.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, let me fill you in. I'll get you a little background before you make any crazy decisions here, okay? Lewis would do everything involved in this story, but who wouldn't? Me. I wouldn't act crazy.

[Big J. Okerson]

Because you act crazy in public all the time rather than being.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't understand. Like, if I fall, I get up and go, like. I bet you do that. And start, like, biting a wall or something. I don't know what it means. I don't know what this means.

[Big J. Okerson]

Weeds.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah. I don't. Like. Like. I think it's Joe. Joe, like, drops drinks on strangers.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Joe's face got so boyish and impish when you said that. You go, I bet it's Joe. And he went.

[Big J. Okerson]

Do you?

[Joe List]

I don't.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Wait.

[Joe List]

Drop drinks on people. What are you on your mind?

[Karen Feehan]

He texted me last week. He was on a flight and he dropped his whole green tea on the girl next to him.

[Joe List]

I did do that.

[Karen Feehan]

He's like, I'm panicking. I'm panicking. What do I do?

[Joe List]

But I didn't say I was panicking.

[Karen Feehan]

It's like three. It's like three paragraphs.

[Louis J. Gomez]

So you start, like, biting the stuffing out of an airplane seat.

[Joe List]

Just. I was sitting next to a. Like, a hot lady. It was New York to la, and she was very hot. So it was like a hot, cool lady.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah. Even hotter when you dropped your hot tea all over her.

[Joe List]

And I.

[Karen Feehan]

Stupid.

[Joe List]

She was steaming and I knocked.

[Howie Mandel]

Wow.

[Joe List]

She was bo.

[Howie Mandel]

Talk about teabagging.

[Karen Feehan]

Right?

[Howie Mandel]

But then allowed to say that on America's Got Talent.

[Big J. Okerson]

Either.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I think you could probably thinly veil it.

[Joe List]

But anyways, I was embarrassed. And then I didn't act crazy, though. I took a. On her foot and acted like a.

[Howie Mandel]

So now she has warts just like you.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I think this is patient zero over here.

[Joe List]

I think this is Karen or Lewis.

[Karen Feehan]

It's Lewis or Joe or Howie or Jay or.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'm so stoned. I thought Joe was just telling this story and we'd already figured out that it was him.

[Big J. Okerson]

I can see this being Howie. Howie. You have a little bit of a wackadoodle energy to you. I can see you.

[Howie Mandel]

Okay. I mean, I'll tell you that. I. This is my problem with this. I. I have done this. I'm telling you, I've done this. I think everybody has done this. Like, you want to cover. You're embarrassed, so you just continue. So I get it. I think it's you because. Yes. And this is why I think now you're playing the game by saying you don't understand that. To not understand that you're embarrassed so that you act crazy. I don't believe that you don't understand it. So does that. Am I making sense for sure?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yes. I I do understand what you say. I genuinely don't like I don't understand like the. I'm trying to picture a thing of embarrassing. Like I try to open a door that's not. That's locked and I feel silly because it says it's. Or push, pull and then I go understanding the thing. I think it's Jo List.

[Karen Feehan]

Like if you walk in on somebody in the bathroom right. Like you're in a public bar or whatever.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Show me a wee. Show me a wee.

[Big J. Okerson]

Show me.

[Joe List]

This is Lewis or Karen because you guys are like soulmates to the same thing. Could be one of you two.

[Karen Feehan]

It's jealous.

[Howie Mandel]

I would say this doesn't. I. I think this applies that not only everybody here, everybody there. This applies.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't.

[Big J. Okerson]

I don't really. I just don't get embarrassed.

[Karen Feehan]

Me neither. If I walk in on you in the bathroom. Cool. I'm cool.

[Big J. Okerson]

Yeah. When's the last time I was embarrassing? I just don't get embarrassed.

[Howie Mandel]

It's kind of like I'm thinking like even if you like when you. You wave at somebody and then you realize it's not them so then you make.

[Big J. Okerson]

So then you pull your dick out.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'm off my mids.

[Karen Feehan]

That's beautiful writing of my name.

[Big J. Okerson]

Am I thinking this is Jolis.

[Karen Feehan]

Why are you doodling my.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, that's how you spell it.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Oh, popcorn.

[Joe List]

Oh, I'm putting Karen J.

[Big J. Okerson]

Look, he's embarrassed. He's freaking out.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Joe List]

Wow.

[Karen Feehan]

Too much much going too.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I sort of think how he keeps guessing me cuz it's the only name he knows how to spell for sure.

[Joe List]

How he's just done touching his marker. He just puts you for every touched it.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah, it's true.

[Big J. Okerson]

You know what? I'm going with my first instinct. Howie Mandel. This is it.

[Karen Feehan]

This was a good one.

[Big J. Okerson]

This is.

[Joe List]

It's Lewis.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's not.

[Joe List]

It's Lewis. Someone's about to get a lot of points.

[Big J. Okerson]

Let's see who. Oh if it's Joe. Oh, Joe.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Who is it? Alex? All the answers are in that story.

[Alex]

Belongs to Howie Mandel.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, Howie just cleaned up so.

[Karen Feehan]

That's so good Howie.

[Howie Mandel]

Thank you. How many points did I get? How many Odell talk about that after.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

A story now. And when I tell a story, you want me to use the microphone. If you want to can hear it.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Listen, you're a pro.

[Howie Mandel]

I just quietly want to tell myself the story.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Trust your instincts.

[Howie Mandel]

I'm acting crazy. This happened.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Tell it to the potato.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh.

[Howie Mandel]

So I'm In a. I go, I'm in a public restroom, and I'm in the stall, and there's a person in the next stall. And the person says, hello. And I say, hello. And then I hear them say, how you doing? And I go, I'm doing good. How you doing? And then. And then I hear them say, nobody showed up. And I go, well, who's supposed to be here? And then I realized I'm fucking idiot. That guy's on the phone. So I don't know, Want him to think that I didn't know that. So I just continue the conversation. Is it still seven?

[Big J. Okerson]

Well, why is it blue then?

[Howie Mandel]

Tell him to get out. He finishes. I hear it flush, and as he's leaving, I'm still screaming. And you tell Cheryl that there is no way it was 11. That's my story.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That is. That is better than waiting for him to hang up the phone and go, sorry, I thought you were talking to me while shitting. Sorry. I thought we were having normal. As normal people do with shit conversations.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, man. And the public restroom is just a fucking great place. Embarrassing. I love when people are uncomfortable. I don't like when I'm uncomfortable. I used to. This used to be my act when I was a kid, even in school. I used to take a chocolate bar in there and I'd rub the chocolate all over my hand. And I'd see somebody in the next stall, and then I'd stick my hand in there and go, you got toilet paper, dude?

[Big J. Okerson]

I would do the same. We did that at a Burger King. We took a chocolate bar and rubbed it all over the toilet seat and on the walls. We were drawing swastikas. We were fucking. And then we'd wait outside of the bathroom until, like, the employees would, one by one, go in. You watch them come out and refuse to clean it up.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It was, you know, James, kid stuff, just kids horsing around.

[Big J. Okerson]

I would do that.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Throwing swastikas and chocolate.

[Howie Mandel]

Why'd you have to have the swastikas in? Because of me.

[Big J. Okerson]

Oh, come on.

[Howie Mandel]

Oh, you're right.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You're right.

[Howie Mandel]

I don't.

[Big J. Okerson]

All right, Alex, where are our points at?

[Alex]

All right, everybody. In last place with six points, Big Jay Okerson.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Points of points, man. I'm here for the game.

[Big J. Okerson]

Game.

[Alex]

In fourth place with nine points, Joe List.

[Big J. Okerson]

A.

[Joe List]

Drop to fourth place.

[Howie Mandel]

This is double. We're on the double round. Idiot.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Hard head out of your ass.

[Joe List]

Got popcorn in my hair for a bit.

[Alex]

In third place, with 12 points, Howie Mandel.

[Howie Mandel]

Thank you. Sit Down.

[Joe List]

Sit down.

[Howie Mandel]

It's crazy. This is a crazy crowd.

[Louis J. Gomez]

They're insane. They are unhinged.

[Alex]

In second place with 13 points, Luis J. Gomez. And in the lead with 16 points, Karen Feeham.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's close.

[Joe List]

Spuck on 16.

[Louis J. Gomez]

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[Joe List]

Great book, but the COVID is kind of dumb.

[Howie Mandel]

What the fuck are you saying?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, right, right. Alex.

[Joe List]

Great Cavs.

[Howie Mandel]

Pardon me?

[Louis J. Gomez]

No, Lewis. You. You clam climbed out of the gutter and I did.

[Big J. Okerson]

This is close.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Go ahead. Sure. You. You. You sort of got on your son's life that it wasn't you, which it wasn't a weird tactic. We could all say that I'll kill myself if it's not me. We could all. We could all threaten reality to the game.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's not against the rules. It's above board. Alex. Our final story. Story number eight.

[Alex]

Story number eight. I once saw my grandmother pick an old box of cigarettes up off the ground because she collected Marboro Miles. My friends witnessed it and I pretended not to know her.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Louise. Louise, it's me, your grandma. Shut up. I don't know you. Crazy old lady.

[Howie Mandel]

Louise.

[Big J. Okerson]

My great grandmother, first of all, did you smoke Marlboros? She might have smoked Marlboro Lights. She did not collect Marlboro Miles. And she was not letting his grandmother. My grandma Jane was also white.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Uh huh. You think white people didn't click Barbara Mentos?

[Big J. Okerson]

Well, you were doing a Latina.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I know because it's your aunt. That was part of the bit, dude. That's all. Hey, I'm Lewis's white aunt. This is how it all. Hey, I'm a blanca. They call me a blanca because I had the white one in your family. Yeah, see.

[Joe List]

I already got Jay written down, but I'm not. It's not my final answer.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Okay, so something. I swear that I way after the show, I will go find my daughter and put a bullet between her eyes. She's 22 and I love her to death. And I will murder her dead. If this is me. If my. You know what for this is me. If my grandmother smoked cigarettes. Never one day in her life. Jay, I'll I will call my daughter right now, threaten her.

[Big J. Okerson]

We know you're not going to kill your daughter, but you. You're not swearing. You're not swearing on her life that the Lord may strike her down the.

[Louis J. Gomez]

My daughter. Oh, yeah, the Lord, sweet Lord, take her, but painfully take her eyes first and make her suffer through that. And then all of her senses one at a time. And then maybe her limbs. Literally learn to live without things. And every time she gets a new zest for life because she's going, okay, you know what? Sure. I don't have eyes or arms and nothing where I can't hear, but I can still. I find joy in one other thing. We take that from our too. God will take it away from over the course of. Let's call it six excruciating years.

[Big J. Okerson]

You know what?

[Louis J. Gomez]

If my grandmother got Marlboro Miles, I. I believe him.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's not Jay.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Thank you.

[Howie Mandel]

Wow.

[Big J. Okerson]

I'll tell you right now, it's not Jay Lewis.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Who are you willing to kill in your family to prove to me it's not you? Any other family members?

[Big J. Okerson]

I would not swear in anybody's life. That's against my own personal.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh, no, no, it's not me. That's it. It's just not you.

[Big J. Okerson]

I sw. I mean, the only person I care about is my son.

[Howie Mandel]

It's not me. And I swear on Lewis's son's life. May. No, I May.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What should happen to him? What should God do to him?

[Howie Mandel]

May you die. May you. How old are you? How old are you? No, not you. His son. How old are you?

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's his girlfriend.

[Howie Mandel]

Seven second delay. What kind of kid do you have here?

[Joe List]

Oh, it's a lot longer than seven seconds.

[Howie Mandel]

May you be struck dead, young man. And you know how much I care. I don't give a about you. But you know, it's not me. It's not me. I would never. My family didn't smoke. My family doesn't. And Marlboro's an American brand. I grew up, up in Canada, so. Nate, God strike you dead, little boy. I'm not allowed to say that on America's Got Talent.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, Howe, I don't mean that you might want to talk to S and P about that. Cuz I believe if you are telling the truth, you can say those things. So.

[Howie Mandel]

I think it's Karen. Did I spell it right this time?

[Louis J. Gomez]

No, no.

[Big J. Okerson]

K A D. Cad. Drink.

[Howie Mandel]

That's a six. The six is silent.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Oh.

[Joe List]

I wish the six was silent.

[Big J. Okerson]

Good one, Joe. Did your grandma smoke oh, this is a tough.

[Joe List]

My grandmother, I think she smoked for a while, but then stopped.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's a. You know, Boston trash would collect Philly trash.

[Joe List]

That's why I thought Jay. And then I erased no for sure.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Well, listen, I will murder my daughter dead, and then also God will take all of her senses one at a time.

[Joe List]

It feels very.

[Big J. Okerson]

Did your. Did your grandma smoke?

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Big J. Okerson]

What'd you smoke?

[Karen Feehan]

Like the skinny ones, I bet.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Capris.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You come a long way, babies.

[Joe List]

By the way, you can get Marlboro in Canada.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You can, but it's a whole.

[Howie Mandel]

Why would. If you smoke if you're picking them up from the ground.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Howie Mandel]

You're not importing them and it's.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Nobody finds a sweet importance to go. You never find a. A Benson and Hedges on the ground around. I like you.

[Big J. Okerson]

Show you.

[Joe List]

I like that I wrote Karen or jam and erase one.

[Louis J. Gomez]

The fact that you think Karen. You know, Karen Wells. Making me think Karen.

[Karen Feehan]

Yeah.

[Louis J. Gomez]

This could also be Lois, though.

[Joe List]

It feels very moshfield.

[Big J. Okerson]

I mean, I. I personally, I collected Marlboro Miles. I would find cigarettes on the floor and. And I would tear things up because I thought I was gonna win a leather jacket or a jet, but it was never gonna happen.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You did get the sleeping bag, though. He still uses it.

[Big J. Okerson]

No, I. I mean, I. I. Because I had the Marlboro Miles catalog, and I always thought I would collect it off and send them in, but it. When it came down to actually getting an envelope and sending them in, it just never happened.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah. You got a towel and a butt plug and a trip to the Marboro Ranch.

[Joe List]

I don't even think I have a chance. Does anyone have a. So it's just Lewis and Karen are.

[Big J. Okerson]

The only two with got a chance.

[Louis J. Gomez]

That's not true.

[Howie Mandel]

What do you mean? If we're in the double round. Don't you understand how this acts?

[Joe List]

What's double. It's four points.

[Big J. Okerson]

It means you can get double points.

[Howie Mandel]

Hey, hey, hey. Where the. Are you going?

[Big J. Okerson]

Where the.

[Howie Mandel]

This is like that.

[Big J. Okerson]

We're right on the precipice.

[Louis J. Gomez]

We are.

[Big J. Okerson]

It's crazy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

This is the crux of the game. Game?

[Big J. Okerson]

What kind of.

[Howie Mandel]

I've never been on an episode of this.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What the.

[Howie Mandel]

Are they walking out?

[Joe List]

That's crazy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Crazy.

[Joe List]

We only started 45 minutes late.

[Big J. Okerson]

You.

[Howie Mandel]

But they said, what, do you have.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Dinner plans or reservations?

[Big J. Okerson]

You.

[Howie Mandel]

Where would they go? Where would they go?

[Louis J. Gomez]

Christ only knows.

[Big J. Okerson]

Okay. My grandmother. I can see this being Big J. That I really could see this being.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Big J. I could See, this being Big J, but it's not. I don't want my daughter to die like that.

[Big J. Okerson]

I don't think you. I don't think you believe in spir spirits the same way that I do.

[Joe List]

What do you mean, going back to the instinct? You always go with your instinct.

[Big J. Okerson]

You know what? I'm gonna also go with my instinct. Big J Okerson.

[Louis J. Gomez]

It's. It's Carter. Lewis.

[Big J. Okerson]

Lewis. What a fool. What a fool Karen is. All right.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Go, Karen. All right.

[Big J. Okerson]

I, like, feel.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Feel.

[Big J. Okerson]

All of our answers are in Alex.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yep. The six is silent, though.

[Joe List]

It's tattooed on my lower back, if.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You wanted to say it. That's how she gets her whole stable. Everybody's in. The final story belongs to Alex.

[Alex]

The final story belongs to Joe List.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's insane.

[Louis J. Gomez]

What's the story, Joe?

[Big J. Okerson]

Joe, the story was.

[Joe List]

I was at. I was on the track team. It's a big surprise. I know. And I was a big, big distance runner, ladies. And my grandmother literally did not smoke, but collected Marlboro Miles.

[Louis J. Gomez]

She loved tents.

[Joe List]

My grandfather smoked. I had an uncle that smoked, and she literally would just pick him up off the trash and ask everyone she knew who smoked cigarettes, and then she picked them up off the ground. And all of the kids in the team were like, yo, that old lady just picked up some fucking cigarettes. And I was like, oh, shit. That's crazy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Joe List]

Oh, ew.

[Louis J. Gomez]

You gross old.

[Joe List]

And then later on, I love you.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I'll see you later on.

[Joe List]

I. I did see her. It was, like, chatting with her. A couple people were like, wait, do you know the old lady that picked up? And I had to be like, yes, that's my grandmother. She picks up my meaw.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Give her the actual namey go.

[Big J. Okerson]

That's insane, yo. I mean, Joe.

[Karen Feehan]

Did Joe just win?

[Big J. Okerson]

Let's go over the final scores right now. Alex. This is crazy.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I don't know.

[Alex]

All right, our final scores. In last place, with six points, Big J. Okerson.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Showed up. I showed up.

[Big J. Okerson]

He tried.

[Alex]

In fourth place with 12 points, Howie Mandel. In third place with 13 points, Lis J. Gomez, your winner tonight with 17 points, Joe List.

[Big J. Okerson]

He's finally. He's finally a story. Warrior Joe. You win bragging rights, you win the. The option to say double points. You win.

[Louis J. Gomez]

J. The story of Katniss the really the end of her story. But it doesn't matter, apparently.

[Joe List]

You know what I'm doing? I'm getting this tattooed on my chest that's original as.

[Howie Mandel]

Will you just rip out page 42 and give me 42. I love that. Paragraph two in page 42. Will you just rip that out and.

[Louis J. Gomez]

Give me that one more time? Maybe she's right.

[Howie Mandel]

Maybe she is.

[Louis J. Gomez]

I certainly don't have the sole claim against Snow's life, and I think I can count on her getting the job done. Fair enough. Thank you so, so much to our entire panel. Congratulations to our newest story, Warrior Joe list. One more time for Karen Feehan. One more big round of applause for the great Howie Mandel joining us. Thank you. We are your story warriors. We are here at the New York Comedy Club every Wednesday night, 7:45. Until next time, everybody. Peace. Sa.