Name: Aziz Ansari | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #617
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Aziz Ansari | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #617

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you guys today's guest is a stand-up comedian he's an actor and a filmmaker um
he just directed his first film called good fortune uh which we're going to
talk about and i'm looking
forward to getting to meet him really we never even known each other so we're
going to do that now
today's guest is mr aziz ansari
sweet man i get a hit of this what do you drink man what's your do you have a
beverage of choice kind of
yeah just espresso and water really i mean not not together but i drink
espresso a lot
and then um and then water and then if i'm drinking like you know wine or
whatever a martini or whatever but
check check check you good okay yeah do indian people react well to martinis
are your is your family indian
by nature yeah by nature they are indian yeah okay um yeah my family's from india
i was born in south
carolina yeah yeah wait are we going now or no yeah we can be yeah whatever
okay wait so where are you
from you're from louisiana i'm from louisiana yeah okay because you know
whenever i hear someone else
from with a southern accent it's almost like when i see someone that's indian i'm
a little like oh
i need to but i we've never really met i don't think properly i've i was around
you were at chris
rock's birthday party i saw you there but you know that was a crazy thing i
didn't really get to say
hi but do you have that when you when you hear someone with a southern accent
because to me there's
so few people i don't have one but i'm from south carolina i lost my accent it
comes out when i start
talking to other people that have it even the guy that picked me up at the
airport he was from
atlanta and i and i started and i like it started seeping in yeah but yours has
stayed strong
mine is gone but uh i remember when i met danny mcbride because you there's so
few people that have
certain accents that are in our kind of acting hollywood that's kind of true
huh strange i think
right before our generation it was more prevalent before well there was the
whole like uh blue collar
right those guys those guys they had their run that was that was there they all
had southern accents
yeah larry the cable guy definitely southern accent yeah he's going back on
tour i just saw
um yeah i remember when i was a kid you know i grew up in a small town in south
carolina called
bennett'sville there's like 8 000 people there no one ever toured there or
anything and i remember
some kids went and saw jeff foxworthy and he came to florence south carolina
which is like 45
minutes and like we saw jeff foxworthy that was the first time i'd ever heard
of someone going to a
a live comedy show oh wow by the way i'm shivering a little bit because so i i
you know i came from
i was in chicago and i had to get up at like five in the morning and you had a
cold plunge and your
producer was like if you want to jump in the cold plunge and i was like are you
are you kidding are you
serious because i'm a little tired and i didn't really sleep yesterday and i
did it but like i'm
a little cold a little bit it'll rattle you yeah no i'm glad you got in dude
yeah i got in i was in
there earlier this morning i get in now because i don't want to so i'm like let
me go do something
that i don't want to do to start my day and i think it adjusts my attitude
which i need a lot
um and dude i just went to i just went to university of south carolina we had
we met a chauffeur over there
his girlfriend had thrown fettuccine like hot thing of boiling fettuccine on
him yeah and he had to be
like into like dude it's crazy that that story took a dark turn really fast
that's the last thing i
expected to happen to this guy in the story is is a is boiling fettuccine
thrown on him bro a hundred
percent and but he was with the water not yeah okay because because if it was
just a fettuccine that
that's not too bad yeah water in the mix too though that's that's that's a
crime yeah oh it was a
crime and his yeah his neck was like dripping off of him and stuff it was he
went through a lot but
anyway met him he's a chauffeur over there uh stan he's out of the he's out of
the bronx originally
but we just had him come in he was just like kind of a unique character so um
but hey trev will you cut
the ac off just in case i don't want to lose aziz am i looking crazy no you
seem fine okay i didn't know
if i was just sitting there but no i know what you mean sometimes if you get
that in and that ac's on
it's kind of a lot um dude is it is this true uh and thanks so much for coming
in today man oh man i i
really appreciate it and you know i i'm not really super familiar with a lot of
podcasts and i haven't
done a big press tour in like a long time because you know the last time i had
something come out i was
doing covet so that was weird you didn't really do the normal stuff and then um
i've been working on these
films for a bit and and um so before i was like they were like oh do all these
podcasts i was like
well i'm gonna listen to episodes and i and i listened to a couple of years i
listened to the
bernie sanders one oh yeah which i really liked and and to me really connected
with my film because
the stuff you guys were talking about um you're talking about something that i
hadn't heard where the
the the number one cause of bankruptcy is is medical bills yeah and in in my
character in the film you're
never really given a clear explanation of what happened to this guy the guys
you know he's lost
his job he's sleeping in his car but oh in good fortune you mean yeah yeah but
but it made me think of
that what your conversation with bernie sanders and i was like oh man this is
really um on the in
the same kind of realm and then um and i loved your episode with arnold schwarzenegger
i'm always
fascinated by arnold really yeah because i think he's so i think he's so smart
and and um
yeah i don't know why i i i think you realize like the more you're in this
business especially the
in the kind of movie acting world to like be an actor that's kind of had a few
hits like a lot of
things have to come together and it's not an accident you know what i mean when
these guys have
this run of hits like they've got to be really sharp yeah yeah it was pretty
fascinating i guess we went
to his office and there's like the his like conan thing is in there and like
the sword he's like
wait did you meet that little donkey he has i don't know if the donkey was
there there was some hair
that's in his house this was his office oh no this was his office yeah there
was some hair on the
floor but i don't know what it was from i don't think um oh my god yeah there's
a donkey
oh because i think he's very dutch like that or something oh he's very oh my
god yeah those are
mini donkeys they look mixed too i met a small donkey in nashville once oh
first off i love nashville
i i i go to zany's a lot when i'm like working on sets yeah oh i think i
remember that's what the
last thing i remember i remember hearing you came to zany's and did like six or
seven nights or
something over there yeah and one time one of my favorite shows the power went
out and i had to do the
show like the power went out and we're like what do we do and the staff there
was amazing they like
immediately brought candles out and i was like yelling my set and then some guy
like brought
like a speaker and a microphone it was incredible oh dude i think didn't they i
think it was an article
or something about that i even remember i remember seeing a picture about that
or at least just hearing
about it like in local lore you know um one thing about nashville is dude it's
a very small city
like it's small it's like people it's you something happens you hear about it
it's not like it just
feels like a huge town like how long you lived here a really big town i lived
here for i think almost
four years but where were you before the pandemic i was in la oh okay yeah and
i moved directly from
there because during the pandemic i remember seeing like kid rocks bar you know
and people are having
a blast there and meanwhile like my landlord is like making us wear hazmat
suits to get our
fucking mail and chickens everybody's all paranoid and shit out there and i was
like
fuck this shit um i gotta go you know i i've always loved nashville i i did a
series for netflix
uh and we filmed an episode here and i always come here for stand-up i did the
rhyman i'd never done
the rhyman i'd always done some other theater i did the rhyman on this tour
that i uh a few months ago
and that's that's one of the best best places i've ever performed yeah yeah
there's that thing yeah that
was it yes that isn't that so crazy yeah a power outage force comedian as he's
already finished his
set in the dark monday night dude that was cool that was like one of those cool
cool moments that was
fun but when i was here for that trip to get back to the donkeys my wife uh she's
danish and she loves
she loves donkeys and there was some fair here and they had miniature donkeys
oh beautiful and we
sought him out and we we said what's up to him one of them his name was uh his
name was roger and he
was born october october 4th so roger 10-4 so we met roger and there was
another little donkey named
lily but i she was she was a little big i don't know if she was a micro donkey
rod roger was straight
up micro lily was a little big i don't know if she was micro at that size i don't
judge their weight
to be honest with them you know i'm saying because the bodies there's already a
lot going on you know
it's like yeah i think i i think that i mean look i think they're beautiful i
remember i met the world's
smallest horse one time when when was that and where and this is his name was
tom thumb and i met him in
alameda i believe and how did that how did that intro come about well people
people like you got
to go meet him and and i remember i'd been in a bar alameda is where california
california okay
so you were doing a show in alameda and then like you gotta you gotta meet the
smallest horse
no we'd been out there for a i was just i think i'd heard about it i think i'd
been in conversations
about like smaller animals and amelia generally uh the world's whoa the one i
met was tom thumb and if
you can also look up separately um on perplexity here if you can just look up
uh theovan tom thumb i
did a post on it it was pretty fascinating what's perplexity perplexity is like
a different ai it
does for me i like it because it's uh it can help me like edit and pull clips
out of things like you
can put something in it and be like like the what clips do you like in this
what do you suggest that
sort of thing oh well so it's kind of like it's like a it's like an ai you know
it's far beyond my
what i don't know any of this stuff dude what are you talking about do people
how do your parents feel about that that i don't know uh perplexity that you
don't know about the
ais i mean i know what it is i i i uh i don't really use that stuff much yeah i
don't really use
internet or phone or anything very much i try to stay off yes oh here we go
right here let's take a
let's i am into this superhero right there how long are you gonna be here today
for
he'll be here all day how small is he
what people are doing dude but yeah so just to let you know i guess we have a
lot of symbiosis there
in our love for the small ho