Impish Jews with Ian Fidance

Summary

The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson & Robert Kelly

Episode: "Impish Jews with Ian Fidance"

Date: May 4, 2026
Guest: Ian Fidance
Hosts: Big Jay Oakerson & Robert Kelly
Location: SiriusXM’s Faction Talk, NYC

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Bonfire delivers the usual blend of riotous, uncensored humor and inside stories from the stand-up comedy world. Regulars Big Jay and Bobby are joined by comedian Ian Fidance for a wide-ranging, unpredictable chat. The trio swap stories about heroics, wild nights, comedy beefs, antisemitic run-ins, and the absurd current state of pop culture — especially around Kanye West. With their signature bluntness, irreverence, and quick-witted banter, they dissect everything from the nature of free speech to the spectacle of Kanye concerts (and why "black people rule").

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Key Discussion Points

1. Banter, Friendship, and NYC Comedy Memories

Timestamps: 01:13–04:00

• Bobby reminisces about old barbecue photos with Ian and fellow comedians.
  • “[That was] the first time we all hung out… I brought you to my house.” – Bobby (02:12)
  • Ian jokes about Jewish friend representation at Thanksgiving.
• Light teasing about Ian’s last name (“Findance”) and botched name intros.
• Jay roasts Bobby’s guest-promoting skills.

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2. Heroic Deeds: Near Drownings, Street Rescues, and “Ethnics Only”

Timestamps: 04:10–08:42

• Bobby and Kim Congdon are labeled "heroes" for life-saving acts (e.g., Bobby saves a drowning girl in Costa Rica; Kim saves two lives in Puerto Rico) (05:14–06:52).
• Jay and Ian rib Bobby with a recurring inside joke: “Turd in the punch bowl.” (06:04–07:09)
• Jay: "At what point do we start thinking you guys are trying to give people that… Munchausen by proxy?"
• Shaggy stories about helping people in distress, with Jay retelling his own minor act of charity (paying for mentally challenged diners in North Carolina) (08:00–08:51).

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3. Ian Fidance Knocks Out a Nazi

Timestamps: 10:00–12:59

• Ian recounts knocking out a violent antisemite in Austin who was harassing another comedian: “I flicked a cigarette at him. I was like, yeah, I am a fucking Jew. And then I knocked him out.” – Ian (11:48)
• Quote: “When he got knocked out, he fell… His body went into the shape of a swastika. Good job, dude. You get the last laugh.” – Ian (12:14)
• Ian and Jay discuss the legal and moral nuances of defending people vs. free speech.
• The aftermath: Ian's friends almost get involved; security knocks the guy out again.

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4. On Masculinity, Emotion, and Crying at Musicals

Timestamps: 13:23–14:36

• Bobby describes crying at "The Outsiders: The Musical" and defends his emotions to Jay and Ian:
  • "Did you [cry at The Outsiders]?" – Ian (13:35)
  • Bobby: "Several times. Well, two times. Two and a half…" (13:36)
• Quick riffs about not crying in front of pets and having “crying corners.”

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5. The “Austin vs. New York” Comedy Beef & Free Speech

Timestamps: 14:36–16:58

• Ian’s altercation becomes part of the “Austin vs. New York” comedy scene rivalry, poking at Louis J. Gomez’s competitive streak (15:14–15:27).
• Discussion of how the police handle fights (“he said, she said”) and the limits of intervention.
• Ian: "The three of us Impish Jews unite. Yes. By the powers of three of us combined. We can eat soup." (17:01)

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6. Jewish Identity and Family Stories

Timestamps: 24:34–25:01

• Ian reveals he only found out via 23andMe he's part Ashkenazi Jew:
  • “I brought a menorah home to light with my mom, and it set the dining room table on fire. And I was like, this is a sign.” – Ian (24:55)
• Christine: “Set our curtains on fire with the menorah this year.” (24:59)

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7. Kanye West, Antisemitism, and Pop Culture Outrage

Timestamps: 25:03–32:26

• Debate over Dion Cole and the comedy community’s reaction to Kanye West appearing at the Improv.
  • Jay: “I just think [Kanye's] a guy who's off medication at times… If he's not onstage going ‘Hitler!’ I wouldn't even think twice about it.” (25:14)
• Dissecting Kanye’s controversial “Hail Hitler” song — and how people bleep the N-word but not "Hail Hitler":
  • Ian: "People were bleeping out the N word but saying Hail Hitler, and it's like, what is what? Oh, yeah, that's kind of strange." (26:01)
• Jay lambasts the “karaoke” nature of modern rap concerts, especially Kanye’s live shows where he raps along to his own recording (33:30–34:43).
• Christine fesses up to supporting Kanye through his antisemitic controversies:
  • “He's a mental patient… What's his album called? I'm Bipolar. It's awesome.” – Christine & Ian (43:07, 43:12)

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8. Free Speech, “2A” Gun Rights, and Legal Loopholes

Timestamps: 31:44–32:38

• Discussion of the limits of free speech—comedians agree that disrupting shows or threatening people isn’t covered.
• Gun freedom: “Yeah, you are [allowed], but you're making it weird for everyone just to try to prove a point.” – Ian (32:20)
• Jay: “You're allowed to hook up with and date an 18-year-old… Shouldn't. It's weird. You shouldn't weird.” (32:38)

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9. Stand-Up, Race, and “Black People Rule” Merch

Timestamps: 36:32–38:10

• Jay describes the lessons he learned about performing for black crowds (“black people rule!”) and turns it into a running merch gag:
  • Jay: "I'm going to make six figures this year off those shirts." (37:52)

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10. More on Kanye, The Sphere, and Live Show Spectacles

Timestamps: 33:07–35:58, 43:27–44:34

• The hosts marvel and rag on the spectacle of Kanye's globe show at Sofi Stadium — debate the quality and visuals versus the lack of live performance.
• Christine shares her progression from Kanye-hater to super-fan.
• “It’s like an experience.” – Ian (40:56)

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11. Closing Riffs, Plugs, and Inside Jokes

Timestamps: 45:00–46:59

• Light teasing about producer Jacob leaving during Ian’s segment.
• Show plugs:
  • Ian’s tour and Ian Do: An Odd Guy Doing Odd Jobs (YouTube, YMH Studios).
  • Bobby’s dates at Comics Roadhouse, Jay’s “Black People Rule” shirts, and more.
  • “She’s about as Indian as you are Jewish… She’s half black.” – Jay & Bobby (46:51)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• Bobby Kelly (about heroics): “We saved human beings’ lives.” (05:14)
• Big Jay Oakerson (on being a hero): “So hero, I guess by actions, not by words.” (06:28)
• Ian Fidance (on knocking out a Nazi): “I flicked a cigarette at him. I was like, yeah, I am a fucking Jew. And then I knocked him out.” (11:48)
• Big Jay Oakerson (critiquing Kanye): “It’s just him, he stops the music 15 times. I start that shit again. They play it and goes, no, stop, stop, stop. You guys aren’t getting it right. The lights are all weird.” (27:15)
• Ian Fidance: “His body went into the shape of a swastika. Good job, dude. You get the last laugh.” (12:14)
• Christine (on Kanye): “He’s a mental patient… What do you people… Are we not realizing that?” (43:07)
• Jay (on merch): “I’m going to make six figures this year off those shirts.” (37:52)
• Bobby Kelly: “Black people rule.” (37:17)

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Notable Segment Timestamps

• Early Comedy Friendships: 01:13–04:00
• Heroics & Life-Saving Stories: 04:10–08:42
• Fidance vs. the Nazi: 10:00–12:59
• Crying at Musicals: 13:23–14:36
• Free Speech & Legal Fights: 15:57–17:44, 31:44–32:38
• Kanye West Antisemitism Debate: 25:03–32:26, 33:07–35:58
• Kanye’s Concert Spectacle: 33:07–35:58, 43:27–44:34
• “Black People Rule” Stand-Up Bit: 36:32–38:10

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Tone & Style Notes

• The tone is fast-paced, brutally honest, deeply irreverent, and self-deprecating.
• The hosts and Ian riff constantly, rarely letting a joke pass without a punch-up.
• The content swerves between crass comedy and insightful glimpses into stand-up’s underbelly.

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For New Listeners

If you crave behind-the-scenes stories from club comics, aren’t easily offended, and love spontaneous, boundary-pushing banter, this is a quintessential episode of The Bonfire. The chemistry between Jay, Bobby, and Ian is palpable, and their ability to turn dark or awkward anecdotes into gold is on full display — all while lampooning pop culture’s absurdities and keeping the laughs rolling.

Transcript

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[Big Jay Oakerson]

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[Christine]

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[Ian Fidance]

Oh, no.

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[Bobby Kelly]

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[Ian Fidance]

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[Big Jay Oakerson]

Liberty.

[Ian Fidance]

Liberty. And now the Bonfire with Big J. Ulkerson and Robert Kelly.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Everybody ready to laugh now? Woo. Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome to a bonus episode of the Bonfire podcast.

[Bobby Kelly]

Hey, Crackle crackle. Everybody please enjoy this never before aired episode of the Bonfire. All right, here's us with Ian Finance. Oh, here's us with Ian Finance. What is it? What's his dumb name?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Take out the end of Finance and

[Bobby Kelly]

add the D. Find Dance. Fi. Dance.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And the word dance.

[Bobby Kelly]

Hey, check it out. It's us with Ian Fi Dance.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah,

[Big Jay Oakerson]

dance. You'll never get it right again.

[Bobby Kelly]

I was just looking at pictures on the comes up on my Amazon TV of my early barbecue. And a picture of Ian came up back in the day when you first moved to New York.

[Ian Fidance]

Really?

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, it was just. But you were sitting there. It was Stavi. It was you. It was all.

[Ian Fidance]

You know, I've been in New York for forever. That was like the first time we all hung out.

[Bobby Kelly]

It was the first time I brought you to my house.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yes. Oh, so when I was. I only went to the one.

[Ian Fidance]

Yes.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I only came to one. The one where we got in the pool and shit.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

I've also been to Thanksgiving at your house.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah. Yeah, I saw that picture too.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

Who were you with? Norton. Right.

[Ian Fidance]

I was alone. That's why you invited me?

[Bobby Kelly]

No, but I didn't have family. But we had other people there, right?

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, I think it was like. You mean Norton Nikki, I think. Was Louie there?

[Bobby Kelly]

Louie did come.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Nikki doesn't have a hot trans as a friend to Bring for Thanksgiving for Ian.

[Ian Fidance]

I know.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Real nice.

[Ian Fidance]

It was up.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, Louie came and he. After dinner he did that Louis thing where he's like, I'm gonna take care of the dishes. I'm like, back the off.

[Ian Fidance]

I thought it was the other thing.

[Bobby Kelly]

I was like, please, I'm a jerk off about your life.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It was fun. It is fun though, when you have to have a 7 foot tall trans woman leave her high heels at the door. Cause you don't do shoes in the house. And then me and Bobby just marveling at the size of those shoes.

[Bobby Kelly]

We went downstairs and we were just coming up from downstairs and the shoes were. It was just everybody's shoes. And then these Shaquille o' Neal high heels.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, it looks like a novelty high heel that you're supposed to drink something out of in a foreign country. I'm gonna do a high heely.

[Ian Fidance]

That's a shoe the old woman lives in.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You know that voice and you love that voice. It belongs to Ian Finance who's joining us, everyone. He's got so much going on. He has a new Travel show on YouTube produced by YMH called Ian Do An Odd Guy doing odd jobs. New episodes premiering Every Tuesday on YouTube.com Ian Phi Dance Comedy. I'm gonna do your plugs because Bobby doesn't know your name, please. Ian's also gonna be in Hartford, Connecticut at Hartford Funny bone this weekend, April 10th and 11th.

[Bobby Kelly]

Dick.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Then the Laugh Stop in Calgary April 23rd through the 25th. After that, Los Angeles, Point Pleasant, New Jersey and Albany, New York for tickets and all of his tour dates. Ian fidance.com.

[Ian Fidance]

yes.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I don't know if you know, Bobby's been doing most of the promoting for you. That's why you're behind the other side.

[Bobby Kelly]

Every time we have a guest on. Jay fucking pegs them against me. I made a mistake. Just back off.

[Ian Fidance]

That was interesting language. Jay pegs me.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Pegs them against me is also a weird way to put it. I have to jump in.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, I meant it that way.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I have to jump in early because Bobby and Kim Congerman here yesterday and they forgot I was on the show.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm sorry.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Talk to both of them. And then I'd watch them both literally do this.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, no.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And I go, oh, my God, I'm talking.

[Bobby Kelly]

Can I just say something? No, she. She was on ketamine.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

She blamed Bobby completely, by the way.

[Ian Fidance]

She was on ketamine.

[Bobby Kelly]

But also too a little bit of it.

[Ian Fidance]

She told me today on the podcast she's done it like five or ten times and I was like, today?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, well it was nine before yesterday.

[Bobby Kelly]

I could give you a pound on that. You just stole my off air joke and used it.

[Ian Fidance]

Yes, I did. Repurposed it, repackaged it and put for say nice.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Came out good though. Came out good.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, you got understanding that we're both heroes.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'm a hero too.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, we're. We're like you and J. We're full heroes. No, him and Kim, me and Kim. She saved a life. She saved three lives in one day. Oh, one weekend I saved. We saved human beings lives.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah. No whites though, ever.

[Ian Fidance]

Wait, three lives.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

They only save ethnics to get.

[Bobby Kelly]

Because. Because you're in the water.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

What happened?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Bobby saved a drowning black girl in Costa Rica.

[Ian Fidance]

I already know about this, but I know he wants to hear it again, so tell me.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, it's okay. Kim Congdon as a hero.

[Bobby Kelly]

I do.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'll give you a quick version of it. There was a little black girl on the beach screaming that her sister was in the water and she couldn't swim. Bobby came over and then Bobby, as he started putting on his shirt to go into the water, he said, I

[Bobby Kelly]

have my shirt on.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, he started saying, he started saying, turd in the punch bowl. Turd in the punch bowl. Because no, he always coughs. He always coughs when he knows he's lying. He'd go, turn the punch bowl. And then the little girl was confused and Bobby goes, you're too young to get it. And then he went in and saved her life.

[Bobby Kelly]

I never said turn the punch bowl. This is Jay's.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And then when he goes. And then the father couldn't swim, so Bobby had to swim his daughter over to the father. And he goes, sir, you're turd.

[Bobby Kelly]

I did not say that.

[Ian Fidance]

That is ridiculous.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And then out of breath, when the news came up to interview him, he went, turn the punch bowl. I gotta get it out. He had to get it out. That's not true. It's crazy.

[Bobby Kelly]

I never said turn the punch bowl.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

So hero, I guess by actions, not by words.

[Bobby Kelly]

I've never said that. And then Kim wound up, she was in Puerto Rico and there was a man went under. She went, grabbed him. As she pulled him up, he was holding his nine year old son had went down, so he went down to save him. The kid and his father almost died. She saved two lives.

[Ian Fidance]

Literal definition of an anchor baby.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

1016 of a person. Kim Sa, 1016.

[Bobby Kelly]

Then later she was surfing and there was a old white guy out There drowning. And she went over to him. Do you need help? He's like, I do. Saved him. Took him in from a.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

At what point do we start thinking you guys are trying to give people that? What's that? Munchausen by proxy? Yeah. It's like you seem to be the person who's always there.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah. Bobby's just going up to black people. Like, you should go swim.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, swim. Rocks in your pockets, playing the odds. I don't know how to swim. And you go, it doesn't matter. And they go, what about my hair gets wet and drags me to the earth's core?

[Ian Fidance]

And then he goes, turds don't know how to swim in the puncture.

[Bobby Kelly]

Wow.

[Ian Fidance]

Wow. Crazy wow.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

The turn. The punch bowl thing was low class.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, I didn't say it.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Even for you.

[Bobby Kelly]

I would never say that.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Wait, did I tell so much that I'm starting to believe that it did happen and it didn't happen.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's what you're saying? Oh, I did save a guy's life a couple weeks after that, too, who was dying on the streets of New York. And I called the police and I called the ambulance that came and saved his life.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And then Yamanika told the people at the park while she was hanging out, childless. Strange that somebody was dousing the bathrooms in the children's park with gasoline. How Yamaneke came across that. That's one of the questions I'm prepared to ask.

[Ian Fidance]

That happened. Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Then to a much greater extent, I had what I thought was a homeless lunatic come up to my table at a restaurant in North Carolina, and I kind of shooed him away and then realized that he was a mentally challenged adult. And he went back to his table. And then I felt so bad for kind of shooing away that I gave him what he was pointing at on my table. Fried green tomatoes. Fried green tomatoes.

[Bobby Kelly]

He did draw with them.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Fried green tomatoes. And then I paid for the handlers and the retarded people they were taking care of entire meal.

[Ian Fidance]

Two things I bet they wouldn't want you to say.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah. Yeah. It was too late. I already paid for the meal. They've already accepted it now. I think I paid for that without saying anything.

[Ian Fidance]

Doing that. That allows you a pass to say that.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Of course.

[Ian Fidance]

And you probably now have an N word. Pass for life.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, the father did say that. The father did give me an actual pass. He had him on him.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He did. It's funny when. When he said at the end, he was like. He was like, hey, man, he goes, by the way, thank you so much. Saved my daughter. He goes, turn the punch bowl. Thing was a hit. And then he did the behind the thing. Finger. The finger touch. Turn the punch bowl. Love it.

[Ian Fidance]

Look at all these heroes.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And then. And then to an even greater extent, I mean, that was. My heroics paid for a retarded guy and their handler's meal. Without them even. I left. I left. Took no kudos, and then Christine. Took no kudos, and then Christine.

[Bobby Kelly]

Thank you.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Told me that. Came in the house one day and told me that I forgot to unplug the extraordinarily safety featured. What do you call? Space heater.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And she let me know that she unplugged it before we left the house.

[Ian Fidance]

Hero. Oh, my God.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

She stopped us from having a 0.6% chance of having a house fire.

[Ian Fidance]

Wow. I knocked out a Nazi in Austin.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Whoa.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yay.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Can I hear that story? I heard there was two. I heard you want to fight and someone else got their ass. Who got their ass kicked?

[Ian Fidance]

The guy.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, no, no. Multiple fights, same weekend. Another. I don't want to say the wrong person. Red band or something. Do you know who was it? You know, I thought you lived down in Austin. I thought. But in the same week that I was down there, they were like, holy shit, Ian. A couple days ago, knocked somebody out, and the other person got knocked at her in a fight in front.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, I don't know nothing about that.

[Bobby Kelly]

What happened with you?

[Ian Fidance]

This guy went up to another comic, this Jewish comic, this girl or mash, and I was in the bathroom, and he went up to her and was like, are you a Jew? I fucking hate Jews. I want all Jews to die. I, like, walked away, and she was like, what the. And I came back, and everybody's like, ash and white and was like, what? What happened? They told me what happened. I was like, do you guys do anything like, no, we just. I think someone's telling the bartender world are we living in. I was like, do you want me to, like, confront him? Are you okay? Like, what do you need?

[Bobby Kelly]

The American has to stick up for the Jew again.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

This is.

[Bobby Kelly]

This is.

[Ian Fidance]

This has never happened before. I, I, I just. I, I, I don't know. And then we saw the guy get kicked out. So we all, like, piled out of the bar, and we're outside smoking, and he, like, walked down the street, and then he came up and he started mouthing off again, but this time he was, like, gesticulating and, like, kind of, like, ramping up and, like, moving his, like, it looked like he was going to get violent.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

So I took my rings off and I was like, prepare thyself and you

[Bobby Kelly]

don't want to kill him.

[Ian Fidance]

He was like. Well, he was like. He started going off about Jews again. He's like, I want every fucking Jew to die. You fucked you like all this shit. And he looked at me and goes, I bet you're a fucking Jew. And he, like, stepped towards me.

[Bobby Kelly]

Was it Dave Smith?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And I was fresh off a rogue and he's feeling hot.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, it gets crazy off a Rogan.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah. And I. I flicked a cigarette at him. I was like, yeah, I am a fucking Jew.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's such a badass move.

[Ian Fidance]

And then I knocked him out.

[Bobby Kelly]

One question real quick. When you flick the cigarette, did the ash like a firework?

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, I wish. Oh, didn't it just, like, hit his chest and then fell? Oh, and I knocked him out. But I. I would have done that for anyone. Like, if it was any race, I would have been like, I'm Chinese. Like, knocked him out. Like, it was very. It was wild, man. He was like, like, really, like, it felt like it was going to get, like, violent. And he fell on the ground. When he got knocked out, he. He fell. His body went into the shape of a swastika. Good job, dude. You get the last laugh. And then, dude, he got up, was like, who hit me? Who hit me? And, like, started charging. Like, a group came up. He started charging at us, and the bouncer swung him, took him and choked him out. And he passed out again. And then we got up and I was like, I gotta get the out of here. And apparently Red Band said he, like, got one in on him. And then I had my idiot friends from home with me, and I went inside. I was like, yo, I gotta get out of here. They're like, why are you leaving? I was like, I knocked some guy out. I gotta leave before, like, you know, something happens.

[Monday.com Advertiser]

And.

[Ian Fidance]

And my buddy's like, you, I'll kill him. And he, like, runs out, chases the guy down, starts, like, yelling at him, and I grab him. I'm like, stop. You have a family. Goes, my family. This guy's gonna die. I was like, no. And then when he turned around, the guy, like, swung on my friend and my buddy put him in a headlock. And I didn't know my friend was, like, hitting him in the face. I just saw the guy grabbing.

[Bobby Kelly]

Can you stop crowding?

[Ian Fidance]

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Bobby Kelly]

This is my brand new outsider's hoodie. The new musical.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, I Thought you went to the outsider's house.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, no, no. That would be masculine. He instead went to the musical and cried in front of his son.

[Ian Fidance]

Did you?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Several times.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, not several. You can't do that.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Well, two times. Two and a half. The last time was because they made Dallas Black.

[Bobby Kelly]

I dare you to hear these songs and not cry.

[Ian Fidance]

Not in front of my son.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, you don't have a son.

[Ian Fidance]

Well, I would not cry in front of my cat.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's the gayest.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I wouldn't cry in front of my dog. I wouldn't cry in front of my dog at all.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah. No. I go to my crying corner in my room.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You have a crying corner?

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, yeah. I look like the guy at the end of Blair Witch

[Big Jay Oakerson]

no One Loves Me.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah. I didn't know. Yes. This guy got his sp. Like, three times. I didn't know someone else, but I do know I went to the green room at the mothership on, like, Monday, and all these people were like, well, you knocked this guy out, blah, blah. And Lewis was there and he spun his head around, was like, what? Who? No, Ian doesn't knock people out. He's gay. I do. Hit me. Show me how hard you hit. And then I was like, no. And he's like, you're a pussy. I don't believe you knock someone out. And then that night, what a challenge that night. That's when he got drunk and tried to fight that guy at the creek.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I bet you that's 100%. What it was, was he had to get involved in something, the show, like. Because I'm telling you, you did that. I thought I was down there with Lewis. That's what it was when we did, like, story wars last time down there. And there was somebody else. Got no fight beside you because it was the thing. It was like somebody else. I think a comic got hurt in a fight.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, no.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You knocked somebody out in a fight. And then I think Louis, like, shortly after. Yeah. Got into the thing.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah. Well, it was funny because that was like the whole Austin New York beef was going on. So all these Austin comics saw it, and they came up to me afterwards and I went, this is for Louis Gomez. New York's on top.

[Bobby Kelly]

Shashayed away and Lewis fight brought us back down to the bottom.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, yeah. Shadow boxing fight while Lewis was out there, he said, like, as soon as he was walking outside, I think it was, I'm not involved in this fight. I don't want to. And also, once the guy's outside, it's over.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, that AI dance is so funny. I. Dude, I'm so lucky. No one caught on camera. They can't. They scrubbed the security cameras, so everything.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

But why would you be in trouble?

[Ian Fidance]

And what I'm saying didn't even happen. It was just a joke.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Why do you feel you'd be in trouble?

[Bobby Kelly]

If something come from that you hit somebody first, it's assault.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

If they're charging.

[Ian Fidance]

I.

[Bobby Kelly]

If they. If they.

[Ian Fidance]

I felt that there was like a threat.

[Bobby Kelly]

If they physically touch you and you hit them, it's fine. But he could say he hit me.

[Ian Fidance]

Well, he's also saying, I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill all you.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah. And then also, Yeah, I don't think this guy's gonna cool down when the cops get there. He's gonna go, like, what does he mean?

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, but I love Jesus.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that that's the, like, the. The thing is, I also don't think that somebody.

[Ian Fidance]

I did.

[Bobby Kelly]

Without them touching you, it's assault. Like, if you punch somebody and they. You. They didn't touch you. It's just that you.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You go to jail, I think, on that street, though. Yeah, they stop it, you're fine. I'm telling you, they stop it. You watch all the videos. Those Texas street fights, they. The cops, really. What they try to do is separate it and get everybody going different direction. Like, they just.

[Ian Fidance]

And if anything, you just go to jail. You get a death ticket. You got to be.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, in New York City, if people fight, they'll be like, we got to bring you both downtown. No, you both. If you both have to file a

[Ian Fidance]

report, it's he said, she said. And if the cops don't witness it and there's nothing stolen, you'll get off on misdemeanor, and then you won't have to face any time. That's been like, a huge issue with things going on in the city is someone can assault you, you. To the police, I'm like, well, we didn't see it. You can file something. But, you know, we really don't know what happened, so the cop has to, like, witness it. It's crazy.

[Bobby Kelly]

I got to a fight, and the guy was like, you.

[Ian Fidance]

You.

[Bobby Kelly]

He says you hit him, you hit, he hit you, blah, blah, blah. You both have to deal with this route we're going to both take.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

But you were 11 in school.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, it was when I was in New York.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh.

[Ian Fidance]

I got tackled outside of the. The stress factory a couple years ago.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I remember that yeah, the towel. You were the towel, right?

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, yeah. And this guy tackled me on the concrete. I'm like hitting him in the ribs. He's like, his friends pull him off. I found the police and I was like, look, I'm not going to press charges, but can you ruin his night? Can you just. I actually said, I was like, can you handcuff him? And I like yell at him behind you. And like, no, matter of fact, you can't do anything. We didn't see anything. It's. He said, she said. So you can. He can get a ticket but nothing's gonna happen, so just go about your way. And I was like, oh, you were

[Big Jay Oakerson]

hurting from that one? A little bit.

[Ian Fidance]

It. My elbow up my glasses, but yeah, my glasses. Pretty funny. Yeah. And then Louis Katz and Natel were like, what happened? Do you need help? I was like, yeah. From the two least helped men of all time.

[Bobby Kelly]

Are they gonna make him laugh him to death?

[Ian Fidance]

The three of us Impish Jews unite. Yes.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Just take back the night. Yeah, yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

By the powers of three of us combined. We can eat soup.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, you want to fight? Is that what you want to do?

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, yeah. But I mean, look like in hindsight I probably shouldn't have done that, obviously, but it was great.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

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[Bobby Kelly]

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[Christine]

Hey everyone.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

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[Christine]

What is this, your first date?

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, no.

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[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, the bird looks out of your league.

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[Ian Fidance]

Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty.

[Bobby Kelly]

Are you Jewish?

[Ian Fidance]

From, like, my neck up, I'm ashkenazi by, like, 23andMe. I'm, like, such a small percentage. I never grew up Jewish. I grew up Italian, Catholic. And then when I found out from the 23andMe I'm. I'm Jewish, I brought a menorah home to light with my mom, and it set the dining room table on fire. And I was like, this is a sign that was Jesus.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm not supposed to do this. Yeah.

[Christine]

I said, our curtain's on fire with the menorah this year.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Really?

[Christine]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Did you see a. I don't realize there's people again, comics, like, coming out against Deon Cole.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah. Because he brought.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Because they brought Kanye on stage, the improv the other day. Oh, really? For, like, whatever. The show that. The D Ray show, I think is. And Dion Cole. And I just. I didn't think anything when I saw it. I was like, oh, I was probably cool for the crowd. Kanye west is showing up. And then I forget. It's like. Not that I forget all the things Kanye west has done, but I just think he's, like, a guy who's off medication at times, and then he's off. And I don't think it excuses anything, but. But I'm just like. I wouldn't think anything. I'm like, oh, is he not in, like, a. If he's not on stage going, Hitler. I wouldn't even think twice about it. About him showing up at the improv, like, okay, great. And there's comics that are like, dion Cole, what a letdown, man. Do you forget this guy made a song called the catchiest song ever called Hail Hitler?

[Ian Fidance]

A song that puts two things in your head, but you're allowed to say one and not the other.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, my God, the most sold merch. Jesus Christ.

[Ian Fidance]

That was so crazy when that song came out. It's so good and catchy. But then, like, people were bleeping out the N word but saying Hail Hitler, and it's like, what is what? Oh, yeah, that's kind of strange.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

So now it's funny. You see their mouths are saying all the things, but now it's changed to hallelujah.

[Ian Fidance]

No.

[Bobby Kelly]

He change it or did they change it? He changed it.

[Ian Fidance]

They shouldn't change it to, like, an opposite good word.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's crazy. Well, I don't. I forget what this line they changed

[Ian Fidance]

because it should make it a gospel

[Big Jay Oakerson]

song because all my N words. Nazis. N word. Hail Hitler. Seems like a strange. I don't know.

[Ian Fidance]

Hallelujah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I don't know what they changed the. I don't know what they changed that first line to. But. But. But. Hail Hitler has changed the Hallelujah. But you see their mouths are still saying Hell Hitler. I hate this kind of music, though. Just auto tuning. Everyone's like, do the concert at Sofi Stadium. Looks to me like he just kept stopping and complaining in auto tune. Because he would start the song, he'd be like, come on, guys, what's going on? We need a little. You guys gotta do the lighting, right? Those lights aren't good. They're corny, man. We gotta start this thing. I mean, really. Yeah, it's just him. He stops the music 15 times. I start that shit again. They play it and goes, no, stop, stop, stop. You guys aren't getting it right. The lights are all weird. You need to fix the lights.

[Bobby Kelly]

Where's my water?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I need a water. Anybody. If you want to go to the bathroom, now's the time. We got to get a couple of things fixed.

[Ian Fidance]

Anybody got a Tylenol? I have a headache.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Do you have him complaining?

[Christine]

Yes.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

When he keeps stopping. Come on, y'. All.

[Bobby Kelly]

Is this. Where is this?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Sofi Stadium.

[Bobby Kelly]

And that is, like, a thing that he's on top of.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's insane looking. I mean, as far as a place to perform. I mean, a half globe is pretty dope.

[Bobby Kelly]

Is he just on top of it and they're tethered.

[Christine]

It's wild.

[Ian Fidance]

I thought they froze his bank account. How'd he pay for this?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

They fronted it to him.

[Bobby Kelly]

That swastika hit. The T shirt money really got him back.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I think they said. What was it? It's a couple tens of millions a night he made, or was it the whole run?

[Christine]

Thousand sold out each night, and there was like, a million people in the queue to buy tickets.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, the whole run. I think he made, like, tens of millions on this three nights.

[Ian Fidance]

Wow. Oh, wow.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

So it's funny how you can just build better.

[Ian Fidance]

He's gonna donate that to, like, a Jewish church. Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Christine]

Well, he did get. He was.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

This is all going to a. Senegal, Senegal, Senegal.

[Ian Fidance]

Did he sing Al Hitler? Did he sing it?

[Bobby Kelly]

No.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Those days are.

[Ian Fidance]

That wasn't his opener.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, no, he's. Didn't you see. Did the whole article in the Wall Street Journal where he apologized again for all. You didn't see that? He did a real apology a couple months ago, and he was like. Specifically for the Jewish hate thing. And he's like. He just says what he says every Time. He's not. I believe him. He's like, yeah, well, I start feeling good. Then I get off my meds, and then people are like, you need to be on your meds. He goes, why? I feel great, and I've realized that I. Hail Hitler. You guys will understand.

[Ian Fidance]

But that's like.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Once I get the word out to everybody, they're gonna understand, too. And then everybody turns on him. He goes, I guess I do have to go back to the hospital.

[Ian Fidance]

Dude, that happens so often. And it's like, yeah, he's, like, saying these important things, but it's like, dude, this guy needs help. Help.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

But no one's gonna help you when you go. When you go, hey, man, here's 80 grand pocket money just to not get me help, please. Yeah, he could do that all day long.

[Ian Fidance]

Well, dude, I. You know that. That. That kid that was like, you know, that I knocked out. It's like, I. I talked about in a podcast, all these people in the comments, like, free speech. You don't believe in free speech? It's like, dude, I don't believe in

[Big Jay Oakerson]

getting somebody's face and barking something.

[Christine]

Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

If you're getting in someone's face and you start, like, ramping up and moving your arms, like, I'm going to kill you Jews. I'm going to kill all. It's like, yeah, I think that's different than, like, him singing Hail Hitler when he's not on his meds.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's interesting. It goes to, like, kind of what we were saying, and it's like, if

[Ian Fidance]

you want to say that on stage or, like, jokes like, like, I'm not going to run up on stage and knock you out. But if you're an insane, crazy guy and you're, like, threatening a friend or something, go yourself.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Just know Ian will knock you out.

[Ian Fidance]

I'll knock you out.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Ian say, knock you out.

[Ian Fidance]

Ian say, knock you out.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

If I didn't say, knock you out.

[Ian Fidance]

Hold on, I got to. I got to put my clothes on backwards.

[Bobby Kelly]

It must suck to get knocked out by a guy who goes, hang on, I got to take my rings off.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, yeah. It also, like, do you really think I change his mind? The last thing he sees before he gets knocked out is literal Jewish propaganda because he's going to wake up and be like, I've changed my music. I've just created anymore.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He was. I got just punched out. I was punched unconscious by that Nazi drawing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

And I did stand over and go suck my matzo balls. Come on, Bobby, laugh.

[Bobby Kelly]

That'd be. I was laughing. That'd be funny if you had a star David ring and just put that on his forehead.

[Ian Fidance]

Well, I couldn't take my scar ring off because it. It might think I had too much salt. And so it would have been so funny if I. He had a scar from arcon.

[Bobby Kelly]

From the matzah bread from all the matzah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

But, you know, it's funny. It's. It kind of goes with. I said, like, the freedom of speech argument thing. It's. We were talking to that guy last night on your show that was talking about, like, going to a Kamala Harris event. I couldn't give two fucks about Kamala Harris. It means nothing to me at all. I have no emotional tie towards that.

[Ian Fidance]

Totally.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It was that they were like, oh, we went to one of her things, like a speech or, you know, speaking engagement she was doing. And when she would say, like, and of course, you know, he whose name we dare not speak, you know, talking about Trump, he said they would be like, trump, Trump. And, like, just kind of like barking shit out, like, to be like a nuisance. And I'm like, I don't like that.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, no.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Even if you don't agree with Kamala, I said, it's the same we've said for your Corey Feldman. Like, please go, everybody. We'll send thousands upon thousands of people to Corey Feldman shows. We say all the time, do not with his show even a little bit. Don't be a cunt. Don't fucking yell things out. Don't dog whistle the show. Just go watch him give a thousand percent effort for zero talent. It's the funniest thing in the world to watch. You don't need to fuck with him.

[Bobby Kelly]

And you put them in the right mood to enjoy it. If they know how we what it is, then you get to actually experience.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Go to the Kamala Harris thing and gather information to go talk about on your podcast. Sit there and interrupt the show.

[Ian Fidance]

Free speech on stage, in songs, in movies, whatever. But, like, when you act like a fucking dickhead like that, it's like you're being a piece of shit. Like, I fully believe in two A owning guns, great. But when those guys. Guys show up somewhere to, like, a chick fil a with a machine gun around their neck, and they're like, I two way, man. Yeah, I'm free. I'm allowed to carry you. It's like, dude, yeah, you are uncomfortable doing that. That's weird.

[Bobby Kelly]

Leaving your dumb truck.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, you're making it weird for everyone. To try to prove a point, you know?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, you can.

[Ian Fidance]

You know it's legal to an animal in seven states.

[Bobby Kelly]

What? What states?

[Ian Fidance]

Wisconsin, Kentucky. It's like, yeah, you're alive.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Just left those two places without out.

[Bobby Kelly]

No.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You.

[Ian Fidance]

No.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Well, it comes. It's the basic. Like you're 50 years old. You could. You're allowed to hook up with and date an 18 year old.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Shouldn't. No, it's weird. Weird be weird. And you shouldn't weird.

[Ian Fidance]

I have to say publicly,

[Bobby Kelly]

Louis.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Well, an 18 year old trans is like a 33 year old. Anything else, I mean, that's in trans years. Please play a Kanye west getting mad in auto tune. Makes me laugh. Come on now. I thought y' all professionals.

[Ian Fidance]

Kanye. This isn't sound check. It's a real show. My bad.

[Bobby Kelly]

You're standing on a million dollar globe.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Get on with Captain Eo. Shoulder pads on.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh my God. After he got over these little hiccups, was it fine?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'm sure it was grimy. People said they loved it.

[Christine]

Oh yeah, it looked amazing.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And he just starts. It stops again. But again with this also shows what

[Ian Fidance]

I hate brain tells him when he's taking his medicine. Pause, pause. Don't do that.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'll tell you the main reason why this show actually sucked to me. I would go there and think it sucked is because you are going to a high spectacle listening party. Because you could hear from the way he keeps going, bring the track back in. And it comes back in. It's not. He just raps over himself. Rapping on a. They're just playing the cd. All rap does that now.

[Ian Fidance]

So it's like karaoke almost.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Not even karaoke. It's not. It's singing in the car with yourself. It's like he's.

[Christine]

They had Lauryn Hill came out and did All Falls down with him. Like that was I. I. She was definitely live.

[Bobby Kelly]

She was walking down the globe.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He's live, he's singing, he's rapping live. But he doesn't have to do. He'll not do three words in a row because he's like being like DMC to his own run on the recording.

[Ian Fidance]

The backup track has it.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

The backup track is playing his voice the whole time he sings. He sings a lot of it, I'm sure with him. But if anytime he doesn't just chooses not to like, it's just playing.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, see I. I like, like hardcore like punk singers or like even like metal bands do this where the singer will stop and the crowd's singing along and they'll. Their voice will carry, or they'll give the microphone to someone. That's cool. But not like your own backing track to, like, pause and catch a breath while your backing track is still singing.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, yeah, play it, Play it.

[Christine]

Meg the Stallion at Coachella. I think I was surprised. I watched some of it, and it really. I was like, oh, wow.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You're just, like, just dancing your own music.

[Ian Fidance]

She can do.

[Christine]

No, I love her, too. I think she's a great. She was live.

[Ian Fidance]

Makes me so happy. Does he sing Jesus Walks? I like that song.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He does. I think by the end of it. It's on the end of the set, right? You saw the set list?

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, it is. It's pretty epic. She does put on an epic visual. Holy.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No. He is listening. Him and Kurt Metzger should be in the same fucking padded room.

[Bobby Kelly]

You think that look, standing on top of a fucking globe.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's pretty dope.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's dope.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And I'm saying, like, no, I mean, it's like him and Metzger, by the way. You're watching actual genius. Like A Beautiful Mind and all that kind of shit. These guys, they can't have their lives together, right? Because their minds just work in a different way. And it's like a mega talent in so many ways. And then you're like, you know, hey, do you lock your front door at night, Kurt? And he's like, I don't have a lock on my door. Like, he's the guy. He was like. He's like a crazy in so many ways. You know what I mean? And. But also, like, is one of the funniest human beings ever, the way his brain works. So I think Kanye west is like. I'm not even a huge Kanye west fan at all, but, like, I acknowledge the guy's like, a mega town at what he does.

[Ian Fidance]

Catalog's prolific, right? Incredible.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'm saying, it's not my.

[Ian Fidance]

Like, this happens. And then people try to act like they never liked it.

[Christine]

It.

[Ian Fidance]

You know, like, well, I never. Like this. Or, like, I'm not listening to this again. It's like, dude, I listen and watch all this stuff. Unless it's like, Jimmy Saville. It's like, no, no, no, no, no.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Bad, bad Marilyn Manson. It was a little bit weird there for a minute, but it all kind of went away. And he got. And at the end of the day, I'm just like. I don't. He's, like, such an old shell of himself now anyway. He's the thing that it's like doesn't really matter.

[Bobby Kelly]

I still love Michael Jackson. Everything Michael Jackson did, all of it. I know, Love it. I know.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And then you liked his music and dancing.

[Ian Fidance]

He never did anything wrong. I believe it.

[Bobby Kelly]

You believe anything.

[Ian Fidance]

I don't think he did.

[Bobby Kelly]

You don't think he kids. No. You don't think he looked at a kid's.

[Ian Fidance]

No.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Really?

[Ian Fidance]

I think that documentary was.

[Bobby Kelly]

You think he just had.

[Ian Fidance]

Those guys were attention starved. And that one guy always wanted to be in the limelight. Yeah, that was like.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

There he was in the limelight.

[Bobby Kelly]

You think a major 50 year old man had an amusement park built in his house and he didn't kids because

[Ian Fidance]

he never had a child. And it's a up thing. And I think you're giving him the excuse he wanted was someone has to.

[Bobby Kelly]

So what? Slept in the bedroom?

[Ian Fidance]

Look man, I came up in black rooms. What do you want? And Cosby did nothing wrong either, okay? They took him down because he wanted to buy NBC.

[Bobby Kelly]

Buddy. Buddy. I know. Black people rule. Black people rule.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No one knows that more than me.

[Bobby Kelly]

Nobody.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, by the way, I saw your clip. I was on the subway, cackling, slapping my leg.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You watched everybody talking about it, right? Like Dan and everybody.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah, yeah, from the show. Dude, and your face. I mean I was on that like slapping my leg like I had, I had like some sort of mental issue.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That was back when I was Jay. The reveal. Okerson dude. Non stop reveals.

[Ian Fidance]

Insane, insane. Amazing.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Black people rule.

[Ian Fidance]

I love that.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'm going to make six figures this year off those shirts.

[Ian Fidance]

Are you making them?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Absolutely.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, dude, that's the best. Absolutely, that's the best. Yeah, but on the back you should go, just kidding.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, no, on the back we're going to put in because that's the other thing I say non stop and blah blah, blah. And what?

[Ian Fidance]

And, and, and, and everybody ready to laugh now.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Ready to laugh now.

[Bobby Kelly]

Everybody ready? Laugh now.

[Ian Fidance]

Nothing for real.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And then, but when I, when I, before I realized that black crowds don't like you doing gay stuff in a joke. They don't like the, whatever that template of the old, you know, guy says if I suck his dick, he's going to give me this. So I'm sucking his dick. Whatever that. And then so at the end of that one joke and I go, yeah. He goes, you know he's getting in the. I said I got arrested for something stupid. I go, you know I'm getting in the ass that night. And here guy go, oh yeah,

[Ian Fidance]

Black people rule.

[Bobby Kelly]

There's also one too. There's one guy. One guy goes like this. He goes, boo.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You hit one at the end, they say it's boom. That's my time, y' all on Big J over there. And they're like,

[Bobby Kelly]

one guy. Just. Just a black ghost.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, you got it. You knew it was getting up the ass that night in jail. And you get the boo if I suck boomi off the stage. You know, I mean, just. Oh, I didn't know. Someone booed me right away.

[Bobby Kelly]

We didn't hear that one.

[Ian Fidance]

That's. I edited that.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, okay.

[Bobby Kelly]

But it's real booze.

[Christine]

Like some drops.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

If I suck boomi off the stage, you know, I mean, just.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, my God.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

But that's Faye. He made that with real booze.

[Ian Fidance]

Those were.

[Announcer]

Those booze happened, but not there.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Not there. But you have the one at the end.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's the last one.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty rough.

[Christine]

Do you want to hear this?

[Bobby Kelly]

That's not him. Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's stupid. That's a dumb way to do a concert.

[Bobby Kelly]

Do they. But do they do that with rap, though? Don't they double the voice any like on rap songs?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, but when they do that, that's when your DJ is supposed to do the line with your. Whatever this is. That's. That's a cheesy way to do it.

[Bobby Kelly]

I thought they. I thought they always doubled the rap voice just to give it more oomph because it doesn't sound.

[Ian Fidance]

Can I say something? I now agree this is, as Bobby said, dope, because I am now seeing him on top of a globe.

[Bobby Kelly]

Jay said it was dope.

[Liberty Mutual Spokesperson]

When everything.

[Bobby Kelly]

That was the first time I used the word dope.

[Ian Fidance]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

I just followed it.

[Ian Fidance]

But now it sounded like it was, like, up close. I was like, this is pretty.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's on the earth.

[Christine]

When I saw the videos after the first night, I almost flew to California

[Ian Fidance]

to go to the show.

[Bobby Kelly]

But it's funny because as Israel comes over, he actually. Israel isn't in the globe. He took that part out.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Nice.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

Good for him.

[Bobby Kelly]

He just made it all Palestine.

[Ian Fidance]

Did he walk over Gaza, though? That's a question.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

A bit disrespectful, but he brought his daughter out and she sings over track also, like, everyone just kind of like. Like I said, really just coming to watch his music with him, I'd go see that.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's pretty.

[Ian Fidance]

It's like an experience.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Listen, if you were there, you'd go because of what the spectacle it is. But I said his songs, like, he

[Christine]

just not Mine deal that's coming out and doing this. Apparently she recorded the original vocals for it, and it was stopped.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, this song. This song also blows.

[Bobby Kelly]

Is that Mary J? No, it's Lauren Hill.

[Ian Fidance]

Say Mary J. That's Lauren. Is Mary J. I thought the bonfire was in the background of this concert.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I know.

[Ian Fidance]

Have you done.

[Bobby Kelly]

We sponsored this concert.

[Ian Fidance]

That's hilarious.

[Bobby Kelly]

We sponsored this whole show.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

We watermarked the TVs.

[Bobby Kelly]

It's funny. You can see the little lassos holding them on so they don't fall off.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Well, that's all liability right there. Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

Wait, so that. That's not light.

[Christine]

Huh?

[Ian Fidance]

They're on a mo.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's nuts.

[Christine]

It's a screen.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, it's not moving.

[Bobby Kelly]

It's all.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's like this. It's like the sphere screen.

[Christine]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

They just took the sphere and put it.

[Ian Fidance]

I think I have too feeble of a mind to comprehend what's happened.

[Christine]

And then above them is a round screen that looks.

[Bobby Kelly]

How great would it be if that thing snapped and she just rolled off the globe?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I also as. I mean this too. I think he also dresses stupid, and that takes away from the music form for me.

[Ian Fidance]

Also, he looks like a medieval knight that just got out of battle.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah. Like this weird fucking puffy shoulder and his dumb boots suck.

[Bobby Kelly]

He looks like a minor on Mars.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

Like a future.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He wears those boots to go up to his knee, and, like, they're just clunky, ugly. I don't know his things. He's just not my thing. Christine loves him. I acknowledge he's mega talented, but I couldn't give two shoes.

[Christine]

And I used to hate him. I actually gave him up. He came to comics to see Aziz on Sorry. And I didn't want to wait on him.

[Ian Fidance]

No way.

[Christine]

I gave him up as a team.

[Ian Fidance]

Why?

[Christine]

Because I just. His energy. I thought he was a fucking. Like. I just didn't like his whole thing or his whole vibe. That was in 2009.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah.

[Christine]

Somewhere along the lines. Probably, like, 2019. I just became a huge fan, like, of Pablo.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

She did not have a problem with his racism towards Jews at all.

[Christine]

I was like, he's crazy. I'm like, what are. He's a crazy person.

[Ian Fidance]

We all know this.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It is nuts that Christine stood by him 100% through that and never stopped. There was nothing that shook her about Kanye West. I was shaken by the Marilyn Manson stuff.

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Initially I was like, ah, fuck.

[Christine]

No. I was like, he's a mental patient. Like, what do you people like? Are we Are we not realizing that?

[Ian Fidance]

Yeah. I mean, what's his album called? I'm Bipolar. It's awesome.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Ian Fidance]

Like, how Much more transparent.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Christine's also Armenian, like the Kardashians, so she thinks if she keeps saying nice things, eventually he's going to swing down and scoop her up, take her on top of that half world. Take her on top of that half globe with him.

[Ian Fidance]

Would you?

[Christine]

I do not want to love Kanye west, believe me.

[Ian Fidance]

Would you see Metallica at the Sphere for how expensive the tickets are?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No. The reason I won't go at all of that, and I'm not even shaken by not going like fomo, is because they're doing this five entirely different shows. It's not enough catalog for that.

[Bobby Kelly]

Did you know the Sphere?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's totally insane.

[Bobby Kelly]

The Sphere too. They have a whole section of seats that suck. You can't see the top.

[Ian Fidance]

I thought so.

[Bobby Kelly]

There's all this underneath. No, there's a whole section that's underneath.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's like scary almost. Really. Right at the top back, you can't

[Bobby Kelly]

see the top of the room.

[Ian Fidance]

One person I've ever talked to about the Sphere has lied to me.

[Bobby Kelly]

You have to, you have to get these in the, like, the front to see the whole experience.

[Ian Fidance]

It's.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, no, no, no. You could be like. But no, it's just the very top.

[Bobby Kelly]

There's a whole section that has a roof above it, and you can't. All the stuff that's happening, you don't get a view.

[Ian Fidance]

I would love to see Metallica again.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

They're great.

[Ian Fidance]

But I would not pay that much.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It goes well. I wouldn't pay that much, I said. Because also, like, you're gonna get, like, they're gonna hold off the songs that you love. You're not going to hear is because they're holding it off for another night. That sucks, dude. I, I, that's a bad idea.

[Ian Fidance]

Play a different set. Each time thing, it's like, oh, God. It makes it. Because you want to go to every show, obviously. But it's like, I don't have the money or time for that. I mean, I do, but I don't. But I want to hear what I want to hear.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'm gonna do tool with the Sphere for sure.

[Bobby Kelly]

You know what sucks?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'll tell you what. They ain't changing their set. They did a three day festival for themselves. They did a three day Tool. Did a three day festival on a thing and just played the same set every night. And the crowd was like, what the. And they're like, what?

[Ian Fidance]

That's so funny because they had like a.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

They had like a. What's the big deal?

[Ian Fidance]

You know what funny is? Ever do the same set sets?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No.

[Ian Fidance]

So it's like we're such.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'll tell you what really sucks is that how much Jacob doesn't like Ian.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah. What the.

[Bobby Kelly]

He just left.

[Christine]

He's having to load the show for. He's having to leave segments to load the show.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Get a job. It's a song from the 50s.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's just trying to give Jacob two more hours of work tonight.

[Ian Fidance]

Jacob, did you leave because you had work or because you don't like me? Both.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He never leaves like that normally.

[Bobby Kelly]

Never. He's never left and he's never left on people he doesn't like.

[Ian Fidance]

Is this because I imitated you at. I think it's because you five years ago.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, get over that. Oh, sure, it's haunted you since, but get over it. Ian Finance is going to be in Hartford, Connecticut at the Hartford Funny bone. For tickets and all tour dates, visit ian finance.comf I D A N C E. And he also has a new travel show produced by YMH called Ian do an odd guy doing odd jobs. New episodes premiere every Other Tuesday on YouTube.com Ian Finance Comedy. Follow them on all socials. I animal 69 on Instagram. Ian do show on Instagram. And Bobby Kelly go to Punchup Live. Robert Kelly. He's going to be a comics roadhouse. Stay tuned, everyone.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, make sure you check out DJ Lou's. Go to comicrebels.com and get his new shirt that's out right now.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Help him get one of a couple shirts, couple models.

[Bobby Kelly]

He has to get a dowry to marry his Indian wife.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's absolutely correct. You're not wrong.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's got a lot of shit.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He does. He does.

[Bobby Kelly]

What is he giving you?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You have to do something to my father.

[Bobby Kelly]

I want salt, paprika and myrrh.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Just so you know, she's about as Indian as you are Jewish. But that's our impression of her now.

[Bobby Kelly]

She's half black.

[Christine]

Black.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

She's half black.

[Bobby Kelly]

Half black.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You know what I mean, homie? You know what I mean, homeboy?

[Bobby Kelly]

You gotta get her one of Jay's shirts. Black people rule.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Black people do rule. Crackle, crackle.

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