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Ari Matti | Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast

Welcome to another exciting edition of Are You Garbage?
The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals
or absolute trash.
Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley.
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This is Are You Garbage?
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It's that little show we sit down with your favorite comedians, and we find out
if they're good to be classy or just a big old piece of trash.
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And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean
incredibly, special guest here with us today for the first time.
He is a very funny, very successful stand-up comedian.
Performs all over the world.
Kid came over here to scene hard, hit the scene quick.
He's one of the stars over there in that Kill Tony universe that just keeps
getting bigger and bigger.
Give it up for Mr. Ari Matty.
Yeah.
Hey, pal.
Hey, pal.
Look at you.
What's up, legends?
Good to see you, buddy.
Thanks for coming.
You look like he just came from the gym.
Yeah.
Got his sweats on.
Do I?
Got his shirt.
I always look like I'm in the gym.
I know.
He looks like a European assassin is what you do.
Always with the tracksuit pants.
I know.
Yeah, right?
Put the RPG down.
Yeah.
They look good, though.
You got to look.
They're comfortable.
They're comfortable.
I'm with it.
That's good.
Give us the back story, because I'm intrigued here.
You were born in Estonia, right?
And then do the comedy first.
When did you start doing stand-up?
I started stand-up in Melbourne, Australia, because there was no real comedy
scene in Estonia,
but I was backpacking slash trying to be an MMA fighter.
Okay.
That's a good combo.
I didn't know that.
All right.
And then I met this crazy bitch from the U.S.
Okay.
She's like Mexican blood, but the U.S. passport.
Okay.
One of the most powerful combinations of confidence.
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know.
Uh-huh.
This is in Australia.
This was in Thailand.
We met at a hostel.
Wait, what the fuck?
Kids all over the fucking place.
Yeah, I know.
No, no, no, no.
When did you start backpacking?
How old were you when you go out on this backpacking trip?
I went with my girlfriend to Thailand when I was like maybe 19 with my Estonian
sweet angel girlfriend.
Okay.
But then you go to Thailand and you're like, I think I need to come back alone.
Sure.
I got you a flight home.
I'm going to stay for the week.
Thailand's one of those places, you know.
Sure.
Sorry, baby, I couldn't find a hotel.
You're just fucking on a getting blown by three dudes.
What?
That's a vacation, baby.
Beautiful angels.
Those men are there, huh?
Sure.
I love it.
It's literally the perfect skin.
Yeah.
Okay.
No transitionary issues.
No, no, no.
Like literally the transition in Thailand from a guy to a gal, it's literally
seamless.
It's cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's over in sunglasses.
Only the organ.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you go over there on vacation with your girl and you're in Thailand and then
take it
from there.
And then I tried comedy in Estonia because I watched Eddie in my head.
See, this is the plan.
I was like, UFC, middleweight champ, maybe light heavy.
I'll see how it feels.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
And I'll do an HBO special on the side.
Okay.
Just for fun.
Because Eddie Murphy seems funny and I'm riffing in school.
I'm funny.
He's just talking.
I'm just talking.
So I started comedy.
The delusion of a comic.
It's insane.
Of a comic who before they start doing comedy is crazy.
It's insane.
I had it myself.
Exactly.
You have to.
Two, three months I'll be doing movies.
Yeah.
Because, but I mean, I saw Dave Chappelle a little.
I saw the For What It's Worth clips.
Where did you see Eddie Murphy?
First time I saw it was, I was downloading peer to peer.
There was a, do you know LimeWire and Kazan?
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I tried to download Beverly Hills Cop.
Remember how you always get the wrong file?
You always get the wrong thing, yeah.
Always a guy's dick or something.
And you waited like three days to download it and then you open it up, yeah.
So I see Eddie Murphy.
It says Eddie Murphy.
I want Beverly Hills Cop.
And it says it's seven megabytes.
And in my head, like, oh, what a deal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't even think this is going to be on.
So it was an audio file of.
I've done that too.
Yeah.
You just get the audio file.
He's delirious.
Okay.
And I remember being like, because you don't even know why.
Why is there so many people laughing?
Like, what's the bit?
And that's always like crazy that, you know, he talks about his grandmother
falling down the stairs.
And there's like projects there.
And I'm like a white suburban kid in Eastern Europe.
Why would I even know what he's talking about?
But that's when talent exceeds the reference.
Sure.
You can put it in your brain.
Then it was Dave Chappelle, For What It's Worth, he's talking about, hey, baby,
you know, the crack baby.
What do I know about crack baby?
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the talent is just there.
So that was my first exposure.
Then I remember I saw Louis C.K. clips.
You know, I'm like, this fat guy, he's also.
Because before, I only saw Dave Chappelle and Eddie Murphy, and I was like, oh,
you got to be black.
You got to be, yeah, you got to be.
I like his Eastern European, honestly.
You have to be black to be funny.
Sure.
But then I see Louis.
So you have to be black to be a comedian?
Yeah.
Louis C.K., and he's like, you know, looking top of shit.
Yeah.
And I'm like.
I love you, Louis.
Yeah, we love him.
One of the greatest of all time.
One of the true kings.
Sure.
One of the true kings.
Love his, love the work.
Okay.
So then, yeah, you start getting exposed.
What age is this?
This is, well, the exposure starts maybe 13 to 17.
How old are you now?
I'm sorry.
32.
Okay.
Okay.
And then, so the first time I did comedy, the first three times I booked, maybe,
I booked
like a bar show, and I knew enough people.
I got 80 people in there.
Did an hour and a half.
Your first time?
Bang.
Full bomb.
Also, he still has the delusion of like, I'm going to do 90.
I'm going to do 90.
Literally.
I fly, I got 80 people in there, about 45 minutes in, I'm bombing so bad.
This is a bar in Estonia.
Yeah.
What language are you doing this in?
Listen.
A little bit of everything.
A little bit of Thai.
A little Spanish.
This is how I did it.
I went all in.
I did two shows.
I booked a tour of four.
Okay.
Bang.
Off the rip.
So I go two in Estonia, but Estonia only has like a million people.
I go, let's go international.
Why?
Let's think bigger.
Take this over to Broadway.
I don't speak English properly, so I did two English, bam, two Estonian.
The first show, I was having such a panic attack on stage.
How many weeks in the comedy is this?
No, no.
I didn't even have a spot.
This is like day one.
I go on stage.
I respect the confidence.
I did like a, I did street show.
I did everything I've ever thought.
Half a delirious in Estonian?
Everything.
Sure.
About 45 minutes in, I'm having like such a, I'm having a panic attack.
So then I call a break.
I don't need, I didn't even know there's an intermission.
I hate all the time now.
I literally, about half the crowd, even my best friends leave because it's
embarrassing.
About 40 people stay.
And then out of panic, you know what I did?
I was like, let's do a quiz.
So I just did a quiz, but no questions.
I was just, I took a laptop on stage and I was Googling things.
And then the quiz just falls apart.
As they do.
Yeah.
But I had three more days booked.
So it's slowly three years.
Three more days.
What the fuck?
I mean, yeah.
So then I did two, one more in Estonian and then I did two in English.
I mean, and the crowds went from 80 people to maybe six by the last.
Sure.
Now, is the comedy, I mean, obviously four shows, whatever, isn't that, is it
getting better?
Are you getting better?
I can't remember.
You can't remember.
I just remember full panic.
There's no, there was no, was there any type of comedy scene over there?
At all?
No, there actually was rumblings.
But these guys, you know, I go to the website.
These guys couldn't do an hour and a half.
Exactly.
Did you know?
They've never even seen Eddie Murphy.
I go to the website, they're like, you got to sign up and do five.
I'm like, five minutes.
I do 90.
Doing a weekend.
So that's when I moved to Australia.
I met the sweet angel.
So you moved.
You proper moved to Australia.
No college.
No.
I went to college for banking for two weeks.
Got that down, Pat.
That's all I needed.
I had that.
Dude.
I had that to fall back on.
You know how I left?
I literally left my laptop that the school gave me, all my textbooks in the
classroom.
I took a piss and I looked out of the window during the piss.
It was a sunny day.
And I saw on the way to college, to school that day, I saw that there was from
nine to
10, 50% off on baby back ribs.
Sure.
And you know what I did?
Mid piss.
I just left school.
That's like, that's a good will.
And I actually went to eat baby back ribs and listened to a Joey Diaz album, I
think.
Wow.
I just decided I'm never going back to school.
And that was it.
And were you fighting?
When did you start fighting?
When did you start doing MMA?
Like 15, 16.
Like actually doing it?
Like you're training in the gym and all that kind of stuff?
I was never good.
Listen, I was never good.
But I competed.
Okay.
So then, yeah, yeah.
When I started coming to Melbourne, then they were like, no, no, the three
minute, there's
an opener, don't do the street.
Then I started learning the rules.
And you moved to Australia for comedy?
For pussy.
Because I met a girl in Thailand.
And she was living in Australia.
Yeah.
And she was like, you're not a fighter.
You're funny.
And then she gave me that confidence.
So you met the girl while you were on vacation with your girlfriend?
No, no, no.
That's when I went back.
You went, damn, who the fuck goes to Thailand twice?
These Estonians move quick.
I like it.
I know.
Confident and move quick.
I was doing a theater over there.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So you meet her over there and then she's in Australia.
Yeah.
So you want to start doing comedy.
You want to get out of Estonia.
You decide, I'm going to move to Australia.
Yeah, because there was a scene.
Melbourne was great.
Of course.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
So that's where you started.
All right.
Got into it.
And what were you doing for work over in Australia?
Like pay the bills.
Barback.
Bartender, barback, thief.
Slash thief.
Really?
What were you stealing?
Everything.
Everything.
Like from the bar or like from stores?
Everything.
Were you like one of those guys on the back of a scooter?
Like a two-man?
No, but listen.
If you put an Eastern European in a bar with all that cash.
They're going to figure it out quick.
Yeah, yeah.
Something's going to happen.
I told you I went to school for banking for two weeks.
Also, all these bosses are hammered.
I'm fucking athletic.
I'm doing mixed martial arts.
I'm sharp at 3 a.m.
I'll give you that fucking-
You're fake drinking and making them think you're fucked up.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All these scams.
I love it.
All right.
And what's the Mexican girl doing over in Australia?
What's she doing for work?
Stealing, lying, and fucking-
Really?
Oh, we're fucking-
We would go to-
We need