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AYG Comedy Podcast: Josh Potter - Buffalo Garbage

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This young man is a very funny stand-up comedian.
He performs all over the country.
You know him from your mom's house with Tom Segura and Christina P.
He's the fucking pride of Buffalo.
But the big question in everybody's mind today, is he garbage?
And I got to say, he was 15 minutes late, and he's sitting in front of Venetian
Blinds.
So I'm going to go with a fucking yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Mr. Josh Potter, everybody.
I am so sorry for being...
I was going to apologize up front about being late.
I'm so sorry.
Oh, don't be sorry.
I said 545, but I also was getting in a fight with my landlord about...
That's what we want to hear.
I was going to ask you why you were late.
That's good.
Duke it out with the fucking super.
Once I saw that it was 2.30, I could have easily had been able to have jumped
on.
But my landlord and I were arguing...
I have...
I put my cigarette butts in...
That's it.
That's it, Josh.
Thanks so much for being a guest, buddy.
I diligently put them in empty cans, and then I put the cans in...
There's an old barbecue that's here.
Oh, my God.
I moved in, and I put the cans in there.
And then when enough cans compile, I give him to the hobo named Redfeather that
lives
at the corner.
Oh, you stick him with fucking cigarette butts in the cans when he's got to
deposit it?
Hey, if you can't do a little bit of work, you can't just do...
You can't take handouts.
Free money.
I mean, yeah, come on.
You got to keep him honest.
Yeah, he takes a couple minutes to take the butts out, and then he's got all
those cans.
But so I have this system, and then he's telling me he's finding cigarette
butts, and I go, they are not mine.
How dare you?
If you check the old barbecue inside the Red Bull cans, sugar-free, I might add.
Ask Rusty the Hobo.
He'll back me up.
Oh, that's fucking great.
Redfeather is his name, and he's down right at the corner, and I'll bring him
down here to testify right now.
Holy shit.
I knew we were going to hit it off.
That's awesome.
I love you already.
I'll tell you that.
I was wondering why you might be late.
I was thinking that you were microwaving some nachos or something like that,
fighting with the landlord.
That is fucking perfect.
Josh Potter, we're happy to have you.
So where was it left with the landlord?
I showed him.
I said, this is my system.
I'm like, how dare you...
He pull out the charts and stuff?
He goes, I apologize.
I'll deal with the others or something like that.
The others?
Jesus.
Well, the other smokers or whatever.
It probably was.
Where are you coming at us from?
I'm guessing it's not the Hamptons or Kenny Bunkport.
Oh, no.
I live in East Hollywood.
Nice.
All right.
Okay.
That piece of picture.
In East Hollywood, California, right in the shadow of the Griffith Observatory.
Ooh.
An aristocrat.
An aristocrat.
I like it.
Nice.
It's not very...
No, it's not.
It's...
When I say the shadow, it's...
It's behind the dumpster.
It's like Times Square for L.A., basically.
There you go.
That's where they filmed Rubble Without a Clue, wherever the fuck it was called.
James Dean?
Yeah, not but a couple miles away is where the subway exits out of speed, you
know, when
it's not finished.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know where the subway explodes out of the end?
That's at Hollywood.
That's at the Hollywood and Highland Station.
Ooh.
Ooh, where they ran out of money.
Yeah.
Now, originally, you're from Buffalo.
I am indeed, yes.
Which is a blue-collar town.
Adult, yes.
30 years I spent there, pretty much.
Ooh.
What was the situation growing up now?
Did you have brothers and sisters, mom and dad?
Tell us the origin story.
My father is an immigrant from the Middle East, who's a, well, he's Greek, but
he grew up
in the Middle East, and then he came to Buffalo, and my mom never lived
anywhere else in her
entire life.
Okay.
Lived in Buffalo forever, so.
I love that.
Those are the two dynamics.
I love that.
I love that.
A trait in a person.
Wow.
Hunkers down and stays there for the long haul, dude.
Not only that, up until two months ago, lived in the same building, same
structure.
Wow.
Holy shit.
Like, born, raised, grew up, bought, had a family in, and then I thought it was
going
to die in, but then decided to sell it at the last second, you know, housing
troubles and
whatnot, economy and all that.
Yeah.
Like a little bit of cash.
I feel that's like a, is that a Buffalo?
That's, that's, I don't think I've ever been to Buffalo, but the picture I have
in my
head is like, it's one of those towns, like the blue collar, it's like lifetimers,
like
they're in there and they just stay forever.
It's like hard to break out of that cycle.
There was like an exodus at one point in the nineties.
I remember like, you know, it was one of those places that was booming during
the rust belt
times and factories and all that shit.
And then, you know, the late eighties, early nineties came and everything was
like tech,
you know?
So like when everything was surging, like when Clinton was president and
everything was
like blowing up and everything was like the economy's out of control and places
like
Buffalo, it was, people were leaving in mass.
It was tanking Charlotte and Nevada and like all this other stuff.
So then when 2008 happened, it was like, everyone caught up to us.
You guys were ahead of the game.
You're like, well, yeah, it was a home game for you guys.
So it's pretty easy on us.
We were like, this is just what we've been doing.
Welcome to Buffalo, everybody.
Yeah.
Right.
And then when global warming comes in and everything like that, Buffalo is
going to be like a destination.
Be beachfront property.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So did you grow up in a single family home?
Did you grow up in an apartment?
Were you in?
We had like a, so like my mother's grandparents, so my great grandparents or
whatever, built a
home and they, it was like a duplex, like an upper, upper and lower situation,
two family
home and they always kind of did the, like, so the one family lived in it and
then one of
the kids' families and then they'd switch and another kid's family and it kind
of just
kept going.
Even my sister did that for a little while.
She lived in there and, and then finally, like it came to the point where my
sister was
like, I'm buying my own house.
And then I was like, well, I'm never living there ever.
The family shunned her after that?
Yeah.
And my parents divorced, so like my mom was like, I can't afford, my dad is
such a financial
genius, um, that he decided to refinance a home that he like completely owned
to give
a loan out, uh, right before the housing bubble burst.
Oh, holy shit.
My mom was paying rent on a family home or rent or mortgage, whatever it is on
a family
home, uh, you know, here in 20, you know, the last 10 years or whatever, a new,
a new
lease or a new mortgage, a new mortgage on a house that your family built and
once owned.
Yeah, exactly.
So my dad fucked her with that.
Then was like, you know what?
I'm out of here.
I think we should see other people.
Yeah.
Mortgage is in your name, right?
I'll see you later.
What did I, I'm going to go.
What did your dad do for a living?
Uh, he always worked in restaurants.
He like would run them or classic Greeks.
Yeah.
He's owned diners and sold them.
And then he owned a diner called hot dog heaven for a couple of years.
Ooh, I'm listening.
That's right on my fucking alley.
And yeah.
Come to Buffalo.
It's there.
What's the typical Buffalo?
What's the typical Buffalo dog?
What's the style?
Uh, it's like that slimer.
I mean, it's like any other Greek diner, dude.
It's like, um, it's like you're in New York basically, but I don't know.
They, do they have them there?
It's like the, the fucking, um, like brown sauce with the mustard and the
fucking onions.
And we don't do the brown sauce.
I don't know what that is.
It looks like dog shit, but it's, it's great.
Chili sauce.
Yeah.
Chili sauce.
Maybe I think kind of something like, it's not though.
It's something else.
I don't know.
I mean, it's like a mixture.
It's weird.
It's, they call them like slime dogs.
We have like a couple of Texas red hot places.
They call them.
It's like all Greek.
Oh, there's like a guy named Louie, Texas hots and Greek slime dog.
That's mafia shit, dude.
It's fucking weird in Buffalo.
Jeez.
Food shit.
It's a slime dog.
Oh yeah.
The Greek restaurant crew and Buffalo's fucking, it's the thickest thieves.
I presume the Sopranos.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So when you grew up in this house, who lived, who lived in the one above you in
the, in the,
my, my grandparents that my mother's parents did.
Okay.
And it was you and your sister, you said.
Yeah.
And your parents split up when.
They waited until I was an adult.
Nice.
To do that.
All right.
So I was already moved out basically.
Very nice.
And would you go on vacation with your grandparents and all that stuff?
The family was really tight.
We did for a little while, like, uh, you know, up until there was like a point,
I don't know.
There was like a point where like everyone, like my, my grandparents have four
children,
including my mother and everyone would go camping on vacations and shit.
And then there was like one moment where there was like a fight amongst people.
Of course.
Of course.
No more of that.
Like, it was like we were on an Island or maybe my mom did something.
Must have been my family because we ended up being.
You guys are the odd man out.
That's so drastic though.
That's such a garbage.
Same thing with my family.
There's like aunts and uncles we don't speak to.
And it's like, anytime the, anytime the lines get blurred between like family
and like boss
and employee or landlord or neighbor, like when the family's that close
together and there's
like that garbage DNA in it, it's going to fall apart at some point.
It's so funny.
Well, it's, and it's also like, cause I, I still get along with pretty much.
I mean, if anyone talks to me, I'll talk to them.
Sure.
They hold such like petty grudges.
Like my mom will be like, your aunt did so.
And you're like, who gives it?
Who even gives a fuck?
I know.
Do we talk about it?
We go home and they're like, well, you know, John was late for dinner last
Tuesday.
I'm like, we're freaking taking enemy fire up here in New York.
Who gives a fuck about dinner?
You're costing me five bucks and a birthday card.
Make amends with her, will you?
Jesus Christ.
It's wild.
Some o