Comedian Paul Mecurio tells Nestor about his Permission To Speak tour of comedy conviviality coming from Broadway to Maryland Hall in Annapolis on Saturday, November 23. From Wall Street attorney to writing jokes for Jay Leno, he now spends time with Stephen Colbert and tries to make us all laugh a little.
Paul Mecurio discussed his transition from Wall Street to comedy, sharing anecdotes about his early days, including giving jokes to Jay Leno, who used them on “The Tonight Show.” Mecurio described his unique comedy show, “Permission to Speak,” which involves audience interaction and storytelling, directed by Frank Oz. He emphasized the show’s improvisational nature and its ability to connect people through shared experiences. Mecurio also mentioned his upcoming appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and his ongoing stand-up tours. The conversation touched on the therapeutic aspect of comedy and the importance of genuine audience engagement.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Maryland crab cake tour, Jay Leno, Wall Street, corporate law, stand-up comedy, Jaywalking, car collection, crowd work, Broadway show, Frank Oz, audience stories, election night, comedic therapy, holiday gifts, Annapolis show
SPEAKERS
Paul Mecurio, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T AM, 1570 towns in Baltimore and Baltimore, positive. We are taking the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road this week to lick our wounds after that. Steelers loss on Sunday. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. We’ll have the Raven scratch offs to give away. On Thursday, we’re gonna be in Hampstead, beautiful Hampstead. We’re gonna be having crab cakes, some really delicious crab cakes at Green Mountain station, also brought to you by friends at Jiffy Lube multi care if you are tuning in here at any point next couple days, we’re back to a piece on comedy and our live show coming down to hot Napoli’s this weekend with our friends at RAM said at Maryland Live our Maryland Hall. But for me, music has been such a big part of my life. If you’re hearing stuff that’s music oriented this week, it’s because Friday’s International Music Day, and I’m just like bringing it all out to Baltimore positive not a chance that Paul Mercurio on do a little comedy. We all need a little comedy. I saw the election two weeks ago. I know it’s coming in January. And say to my wife, what day she said, January 20. I said, Well, let’s comedy begin for all of us, tragedy. Comedy, however it is, you are bringing your show to town. And look, you sit with the best of the best from Leno and Colbert. Thanks for making a little time for schmuck from Dundalk to come on to Annapolis. Man.
Paul Mecurio 01:19
You know Providence College, my alma mater, my hometown, you’re no schmuck. You’re my brother, right there. Don’t come on. Well, you know, you’re always billed as this Wall Street guy, man, it feels like a long time ago. You’ve been a comedy longer you ever did that. Right? Yeah, I, I didn’t plan on this. I was doing. I went to law school in Georgetown, in DC, and then started doing corporate law, M and A mergers and acquisitions son, write jokes to hobby. Didn’t think I was going to do anything like this. I mean, I always love stand up as a kid. I don’t know about you, but I love watching it on TV, but I’m like, I’m not going to think do it right? And then I had all these jokes written one night, we got our firm, got invited to this function, and Jay Leno was a private entertainment and I just went up to him, and I said, I don’t know if you need jokes, but I got all these jokes, and I’m never going to use them. You can have them. And he was like, okay, was he already doing jaywalking? Then he was, he was doing, I mean, he was on The Tonight Show. He had just gotten it, well, he’d been on for a while, and he was doing jaywalking and stuff like that. But it was, I never talked to him in person at that whole like, and it hangs like that, and it’s sort of like somebody’s letting helium out of a balloon, like, very slowly, you know, and then so, but he took him, he took the jokes, and then a couple of days later, my phone rang, and it’s like, hey, it’s Jay Leno. Is Paul there? You’re in a car with him, one of his billion dollar cars. Or No, no, yeah, I have, actually, yeah, I’ve been to his, his his car warehouses, plural, is insane. Like, he basically in one part of La rented, like, two blocks of, like, old warehouses. So you go into one warehouse, which is about 100 yards, and you’re like, oh, okay, there’s a Bugatti, there’s a Rolls Royce. He’s got, like, anything that’s in it, got an engine in it. He’s, like, obsessed. He’s got a he’s got a world war two Royal Air, Royal aircraft engine from, like, one of the fighters in World War like, everything. So you go in and it’s like hundreds, and then there’s a doorway, and then there’s another one of those warehouses. Then there’s a doorway and there’s another one I’ve seen video
Nestor Aparicio 03:22
of it. I’m thinking, like, if you went for a ride with him, What car did you pick that? You know, that’s the most important thing,
Paul Mecurio 03:26
right? Yeah, he he took me in a Corvair. Another time he took me in a Ferrari. He was just whatever he felt like driving that day. It’s also
Nestor Aparicio 03:33
comedians do this. You guys go out. You work on each other the whole time you’re like, working on it to you know, what’s funny, what’s not You made me laugh. You know? How does that work?
Paul Mecurio 03:41
You know, if you’re stuck on something, you do, you kind of like you, you like, you run something by somebody. You know what I mean, like, Is this funny? Or I’m missing something like, I you know, you’re close, and you can’t like, like. But then there are some jokes that come like, super easy. Like, I was literally in a cab. I live in New York City, and I was going across town from one club to another, and I had some, put some Vaseline on my lips, and I thought I came up with this joke that’s like, that ended up killing it’s like, how do the people who make Vaseline make any money? I’ve had the same tub of Vaseline for my entire my Vaseline was handed down to me by my grandfather in a will. I literally went on stage and said that, and like, the joke was done, and then I added some lines. So, so Jay was really cool. He took the jokes, he called me. I thought it was a prank. I thought it was my buddy, like Dave, who likes to do impressions. He goes, Hey, it’s and I go, Davis, I’m in the middle of a deal. I don’t have time. He goes, No, it’s Jay Leno. I go, Dave, I know it’s not Jay Leno stuff, and because it’s Jay, really is Jay Leno. And I snapped, and I went, Well, if you’re a Jay Leno, I actually said to Jay Leno, you do a lousy Jay Leno. And he’s like, that’s funny. And then he said, a couple of days later, he did one of my jokes on The Tonight Show. He paid me 50 bucks. The deal was, whatever he used, he would pay me. And it just and then he did the joke. And, like. Blew my head off my shoulders, and then I became, like, obsessed with writing jokes like i i would love. I was living this like secret double life where I was a lawyer by day and at night, I’d sneak around New York City doing open mic nights dive bars, trying to get stage time in my like, little like Wall Street suit, completely like not belonging in any of these. One of the places I worked was actually called Downtown Beirut, 222, either franchising these shit holes or somebody blew up one. And it was basically hecklers, homeless people. Pam’s hooker hooked her. Hooker worked out of there, and she’d give you notes on your joke. She’d come off stage and go, you should be doing that joke about the taxi. It just needs one little thing, like I was getting notes from a hooker. I was like, What? What am I doing? And that like became, and I was like, you know, look, get off your knees when you talk to me. And that’s when you knew you had to do comedy. Yeah, that’s what I knew. I was completely sucked lowest common
Nestor Aparicio 05:53
denominator. Check. There you go. Paul mccarrios here, he’s coming on the episode. So a couple, tell me a little bit about the show and what I guess. And I definitely want to discuss roots of comedy with you in my own special way, because I get invited all the time. The funniest people around here think I should be on a stage doing comedy. I’m like, no, no, I do radio. I took phone calls forever in sports inspired by like the grease man and good sport radio, and like all that, Louie Anderson sat with me and and swore to me that I could do this. And he ran into me in Las Vegas before we lost him, and he came up to me by baggage and he said, you doing jokes yet, you know, like he crushed me before he died. And now I feel like I’m 56 I’m figuring it worked out for you. I mean, I’m seeing other people making money doing this, yeah, and I’m figuring what you’re doing on stage a little bit of and I’ve seen your things that you’ve done for a long time. I remember you doing circuit stuff coming through. I mean, we’re in Baltimore, you’re in New York. I remember when Seinfeld would come down here, before he was Seinfeld, just, you know, doing stand up. Because you work?
Paul Mecurio 07:00
You work the clubs. There’s, there’s a Baltimore comedy factory there, and there’s a couple of other places I work that you just work, you know, you that’s what you do. You work theaters. You work clubs, and you work theaters. This is a, this is a show I was doing off Broadway, and then Broadway directed by Frank Oz. And basically it’s born out of me. I like talking to audiences, and, you know, crowd work. Everybody knows crowd work is like, Oh, I talked to you about your hat, but I’m just going to make fun of your hat, or make fun of you, or I got a joke about a hat, and I want to make it look like I just came up with the joke off of talking to you about your hat, but it’s bullshit. Like, you could tell, like, when a comic is doesn’t care about what they’re talking about, they’re just using as a setup. But I found as I asked more and more questions, because I have this like, crazy curiosity. I was getting these amazing stories, and some people, Broadway producers, saw me doing this in New York, and they said, well, those people plants. I’m like, no, they go, Well, how did it work out? Those stories are always, like, hilarious. I go, I think everybody’s got a story, and if you give them an opportunity, they’ll tell it. And you know, you interview people all the time. It’s not that first question, it’s the second, third, fourth question, and then you get gold every single time. So we put this show together, and then Frank Oz got involved, because the premise of the show is we’re nameless, faceless, disconnected, divisive, especially politically. But if we get together and share stories and have some laughs, we realize we’re all in this boat together. We have more in common than we think. We don’t have to beat each other’s throat. We don’t talk politics in the show. But what ends up happening is it turns into like we’re hanging out in somebody’s big basement, having drinks, telling stories, instead of like I’m presenting a show. So I go up, I got jokes, I got stories, and then I just start talking to audience members. Might even bring people on stage, and I’m getting these insanely incredible stories that like I had this woman. I said, What’s your name? She goes, Nydia. I said, Lydia. She goes, No, Nydia, that’s all. I said, What’s your name? I go, that’s an unusual name. How’d you get that name? She goes, Oh, just matter of fact, my father got my mother pregnant with me, but at the same time, was having an affair with a woman named Nydia, and he named me after the woman he was having an affair with.
Nestor Aparicio 09:00
Yes, yes. That opens, that opens for more questioning, yes,
Paul Mecurio 09:04
and then, and that’s where it goes. I had another guy. I’m like, You seem like you’re in a bad mood. He goes, Yeah. I go, what have you I just broke up with my girlfriend. I go, why? He goes, Well, I told she wouldn’t listen to me, and I told her not to shoplift at CVS. And then he keeps. I go, Wait, stop, did you say at CVS? He goes, Yeah. He goes, Yeah, yeah. He goes, I taught her how to shoplift anyway. I go, No, not anyway. Back up. You taught Your girlfriend how to shoplift. Now, everybody in the audience head exploding because this sounds made up, but it’s not. He goes, Yeah, I that’s how I make money. I steal stuff. I’ve been stealing stuff since I was like 10. Like, I would steal bikes to the neighborhood from my friends, and then I’d make them, I make them buy them back from here. I beat them up. And now the audience is like, what the school went out, right? So I go, what happened? He goes, Well, my wife, my girlfriend, saw me getting this really nice stuff. You know, I was shoplifting at good places, and she wanted, I go, No, I’m not going to teach you, because you’re just going to waste it. You’re going to shoplifted a stupid you don’t understand the guy’s not even. No self awareness. He thinks this is normal, and that’s what’s beautiful about it. He’s not trying to be funny, and he’s not making it up. I go, what ended up happening? He goes, Well, she taught she nagged me. I taught her. Sure enough, what does she do? She goes to CVS. She gets arrested for the shoplifting lipstick in a mirror. She calls me up. I go, what happened? He goes, I go down to the CVS. He’s in the back of the squad car. We got in a huge argument. He goes, I told you, you go to shoplifting. Good places. I go, what happens? I broke up with her. He goes, I go, when, like later. He goes, now in the back of the squad car. He goes, screw this. I didn’t need this hassle, right? And he breaks up with her in the back of the squad car. So you hear these stories, and you go, that’s how other people live their lives. It may not be believable, but it’s true, and that’s what’s really cool about it. So we’ve been getting these really great stories, because everybody’s got something going on or something that happened to them that’s like, sort of out of this world, or it could be, like, kind of intense or even sad a little bit. But like, we’ve been getting these really fun, really cool stories. Paul Mercurio
Nestor Aparicio 11:00
is the guest. He’s gonna be down on Apple. Somebody give everybody links to to get the tickets for the show and have a good time. And the show has been on Broadway, and your background in Wall Street and all of that, and then trying comedy at some level on stages. Did you ever like study improv, or any of that sort of thing? Because this feels a little improvvi and crowd. But do you identify people in the crowd that may be of it? These are people that paid to come to your show, right? Yeah.
Paul Mecurio 11:29
I mean, you know, I mean, look, I’m lazy. I let other people do the work. Screw it. It’s like, you know, and I’m drunk half the time, so I just show up and I stick the mic as obviously, no, I don’t pre screen. I don’t know who I’m talking to ahead of time. I don’t want to do any of that. I just go up, I talk about the show, I give a little introduction, and then I launch into some of my stories and jokes and stuff like that. And then I just randomly pick people, and people say, Well, how does it always work out? I’m like, well, because I think everybody truly has a story, and a lot of times people want to tell their story, or need to tell their story, and they don’t have a place to say what they want to say, and this is what this is. So there’s no plan. And Frank Oz really loved the show because he feels like it’s connecting people. And he goes, we really need that. And by the way, try being directed by Frank Oz. Okay, for people who don’t know, he created them up as with Jim Henson. He directed dirty, Rotten Scoundrels, little shop, bajars, Marlon, Brando Robert dinner. He’s the original Yoda. Try being directed by Yoda. Okay? It’s a little intimid and the backwards talking thing, he never stops. You go out to dinner with him. Steak. I will have. I get it. Frank, your Yoda. Stop. Enough, right? What
Nestor Aparicio 12:34
is his role in this? Because when I see because it feels to me a little bit like Tony’s in Tina’s wedding, where, like, anything’s possible that creates entertainment or creates a hush in the crowd or a laugh, and it’s your role to pull that out of people. But the notion of what permission to speak, when I say the show is permission to speak, what? What does that represent for someone coming to the show that isn’t all that isn’t all that familiar, but wants to laugh and get out and have a good time, and more than that, maybe be participatory with you. Yeah,
Paul Mecurio 13:05
I think if anybody’s been to a comedy club, it’s, it’s an extension of that. It’s if you take crowd work and just take it to another level, where the audience gets to really talk and not just be there and be made fun of the I’m not making fun of anybody, or whatever Frank’s role and it is, he’s directed it, and directs me to make sure that I’m not pushing too much, trying too hard to take this, take the spotlight away from somebody, and just kind of, you know, be the governor on me a little bit, because, you know, as you’re a comic, you’re on you want to go, go, go. But what happens is people just like, I mean, I said to a guy like, I was just asking, I don’t know why, I said to his wife and this thing, I other guy, go, What? What? The wife. I go to the wife, what do you worry about? She goes, my kids and the guy. Go, the guy, the guy, what are you worried? He goes, dying in my sleep, places like, what? And so. And then we went on from there. And so that’s an
Nestor Aparicio 13:57
only white game, a little bit right, like asking both sides what they think you could do that in any relationship, all night and find comedy, I’m sure, right, God,
Paul Mecurio 14:05
I mean, the stuff that we get, like, and then how people meet? Like, I had this couple, yeah, I don’t know they’re like, in their 70s, they just got married. They were, yeah, this was a show in New York, actually. They just, they were there for their, like, honeymoon, really cool couple. And I said, How did you meet? And she goes, spank me.com. I’m like, what she was, spank me.com. He goes, Yeah. He goes, we’re into sexual role playing during the s, m, she’s a DOM, she’s a, she’s a DOM, he’s, he’s, he’s a and, and so
Nestor Aparicio 14:39
you meet people 20 years ago, before the internet? That would be my first question. That
Paul Mecurio 14:44
was exactly right. But you look at these people and they look like your grandmother and grandfather, I swear to God, he’s got like, LL Bean pants and shoes on and a little Bucha.
Nestor Aparicio 14:54
Maybe it’s something about the crowd you’re bringing in from Colbert and just people with a sense of humor and a general sense of. Everybody in there is ready to play along. Would you agree with that? Yes, yeah,
Paul Mecurio 15:03
absolutely. And, and more than that, like, I’ve had a bunch of people say this is almost like comedic therapy, like I really needed to say that. I’m really I never got to say that before. So, like, there’s this cool thing, and then they’re connecting after the show, like they’re going up to each other because, like, you’ll go on stage and say, Oh, you’re from, you’re from, I don’t know, you’re from outside of Baltimore, yeah, what neighborhood, same neighborhood you start, they start connecting people who wouldn’t talk to each other before that. And so for five minutes, there’s this cool hang that happens after the show, all of which is built around this comedy and just people kind of relating their stories to each other. But like, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s been, like, really cool, because I’m there to, you know, do my thing, tell my stories, tell my I mean, you know, like, we talked about my, my life story, I’m, I get in confrontations all the time because I think I’m going to change people’s minds. I’m constantly, like, losing, losing my shit with people and people, but people relate to that. I talk about Halloween and how Halloween just passed, and how ever you can’t do things now that you could do years ago, like every Halloween. I don’t know about you, but my parents would dress me as a hobo. That’s what they called it, right? It’s daddy’s old clothes. They send you out, right? You can’t do that now, because it would be considered insensitive. Things are more correct, like because a hobo is a homeless person. And if you think about it, and I talk about this on stage, it’s kind of weird. Think about my parents stressed me as a homeless person and sent me out onto the streets at night to collect free food in front of real homeless people. And it sucked. I never got candy every house, baked beans and a harmonica. That was it. That was it, weren’t
16:42
you grow up? I
Paul Mecurio 16:45
What’s that?
Nestor Aparicio 16:45
Where’d you grow up?
Paul Mecurio 16:46
Man, Providence. Rhode Island. Providence. Rhode Island.
Nestor Aparicio 16:49
That’s very providential. I would say for you. It’s like Baltimore. Come on. Oh man, well, you know why we have row houses here? Candy, candy apples, all that. I had a good job chunky as a kid. I was Husky when I had to go shop because of, yeah, man, Halloween dipped me in. The show is Saturday nights a Saturday and the turkey comes afterward next week. I know you know anything you do, because the Ravens don’t play until Monday night. Show is at eight o’clock at Maryland Hall. Um, that’s a great space that RAM said on stage been a part of. And, yeah, I’ve been going down a ramp, said forever, and seeing shows all the time. But this is sort of a little bit of a bigger space, more stagey. And I know you played the other RAM, said, as well. You’ve done stand up for a long time. Do you still do normal stand up, as we would know it? I would think you’ve done your 10,000 hours plus, right? I mean, yeah, and then some Yeah. And
Paul Mecurio 17:41
I’m going to be doing another appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in January. So I’m getting ready for that and getting that set together. Oh yeah, I got my stand up too, my stand up. And this is combination of my tour one week ago, do stand up. And we’re doing we’ve got a set, a really cool set, with this show designed by the set designer for the Late Show. We got animation by JJ settlemeyer, who did Beavis and butt head and all this SNL TV, Fun House video. So it’s like, it’s a multimedia show, but it’s still comedy at its core, uh, stand up stories. But, yeah, I’m out there doing my stand up all the time. I’m touring everywhere, plus this. But this has been fun. This is different. And you know, it’s nice to do what you do in your core thing you do, but then, like, you branch out and do something kind of related it. It’s like a fresh it’s like a breath of fresh air, you know? It just kind of gives you a little more juice, you know? Yeah, I’ve
Nestor Aparicio 18:29
been doing this for 33 years, taking phone calls now I talk to comedians. I always sort of mix this stuff in. But the week we lose to the Steelers 18 to 16, it used to be like nine days of self loathing that was involved in this and horrible versus horrible. Now it’s just like pumpkin or mint speed or you think we should go with the sweet potato or the Apple next week, and how are we gonna do the leftovers in the little muffins with the leftover stuffing? Paul, you know, I wish you luck on the show and bringing things out. I do want to talk to you about the root of comedy and your involvement in advice anytime I have somebody way funnier than me and guys that are on Colbert, and certainly in an era where, like, Trump’s about to take over again, right? We lived through this once. Yeah, some of that could be comedy because we lived through it. But I remember the masks, all of that. I’m certainly on the Colbert side of where good common sense is. I walk the streets. I This isn’t a punchline, but you’re a comedian, you’ll make it funny. I booked a trip to go to New York on Wednesday and Thursday after the election, thinking it’d be like a celebration. I landed in New York at like, 930 on Wednesday morning after the election, and it was like there was no music on the streets. There was like the sounds of silence I’m walking. The pastries were good, you know, the food was the pizza was good. You know, I’m in New York, and
Paul Mecurio 19:51
you’re there to come there. Half the city just moved out of the country. That’s why I
Nestor Aparicio 19:56
might run into Deepak chop or to cheer me up or something. But. I mean, like, other than that, it was just sort of like the bars were open, I promise you, you know,
Paul Mecurio 20:05
you know, we normally do an we do live shows for big moments like election night, or, like, every two years when there’s a congressional votes election, we didn’t do a live show this night, but when Trump got elected in 2016 we did a live show, and it was people walked out. It was like Dawn Of The Living Dead. They were looking out like, what the what the like every because everybody came in thinking, everybody
Nestor Aparicio 20:34
remembers where they were that night.
Paul Mecurio 20:37
I’ve never done a show where people were crying, not from laughter, but from sadness, leaving a comedy show. And that’s, that’s what happened. I mean, everybody was, like, teed up here, like, I think around, like, a lot of places around the country, and I did, I hosted this thing comics for Kamala, where we raised over $600,000 for her. And, you know, everybody thought there was momentum, but, yeah, like, it’s, look either side gives you, gives you. You You know, we go after the we go after the left too. We go after buying. We we do do our share. I always say, because I worked on The Daily Show too, in the Colbert Report, like we just, you just go after whoever deserves it. Like, if you’re acting like an ass, then you’re going to get your head handed to you. And so it’s not like, you know, we think we’re changing the world or anything. But, yeah, I know exactly what you’re talking about. Because everybody in the next couple of days in the city was just like, it was like, eerily quiet, like I was
Nestor Aparicio 21:27
going to go see the Pink Floyd show at the garden. I’m like, I just, I don’t need that tonight. I don’t need, you know, us and you know, I mean, I did not need that. I just stated stout on 33rd I made a right, I found an Irish bar. I worked on some rum. And, you know, the stuff that I work on in Manhattan, I hope you work on a full crowd. Tell everybody about coming down to this that hasn’t been up to Broadway, that may be familiar with your work, that this is, this isn’t just like a stand up. This is like a Broadway thing you’ve done, yeah, many, many times, but it’s literally kind of like a Pearl Jam show, just never the same show twice or spring.
Paul Mecurio 22:05
Yeah, that’s the other thing, and that’s what I say in the audience. It’s a really good point. And by the way, you’re very funny. If you’re not doing stand up, you should. Secondly, I’m a Patriots fan, so talk about someone who’s in a bad way right now. Yeah, we had it going good for now, but thanks for Belichick. He screwed that up. So I want to be a rave. If I was
Nestor Aparicio 22:23
on stage right now and I didn’t have an FCC license, it just would the minute you said, I’m a Patriots fan, I would have said, I would say tuck you, but Tucker missed two kicks this week, so I can’t even say that. So you know, what’s going on with him? Is he? I don’t know. We aging. It’s happened to all of us. You know, I’m not as good looking as I you might not be as funny. Excuse me. Wait, he doesn’t kick as well as he you know what? I mean, we all lose it, right? I mean,
Paul Mecurio 22:48
Jesus, you know. So, you know we Yeah. So the show, like, what ends up happening is, I say to the audience, this show can never repeat itself, because we’re never going to be together again, right? Like, because it really is about what’s happening in the room that night. And I think that’s really cool. And I really love that, like it’s our show. And people do leave feeling like, wow, this is, like, this was a cool thing that I’ve never been to before. It’s stand up with crowd work. But there’s, it’s really more personal, but in a cool way. And people are really good at telling their own punch lines too. Like they’re they know how people know how to tell stories, because they’re comfortable, right? And so we get these stories, and it connects people. And so, yeah, that’s the thing. Like, that’s what I like about it. There’s some parts of the show, like, I tell certain stories that I repeat, but for the most part, like, 98% of it, it’s new every time. So I’m having people come the same night. If I’m doing two shows in a night, they’ll get tickets and come to the second show because they want to see a whole different set of people. So it’s really cool that way.
Nestor Aparicio 23:48
I’m always the guy at the show. Don’t call on me. Don’t, don’t call on my wife. Come on, dude, you know, like Rogan, Rogan crushed my wife one night in Phoenix because we sat up front, like, it’s just, you know, I don’t need that kind of pressure at all. Yeah, but you’d
Paul Mecurio 24:02
be good. You can come back. You’re quick. You can do this. I can see you could be like, you know, you can handle yourself. Look how slender you are now. You’re not Husky anymore, yeah? Well, it’s all
Nestor Aparicio 24:13
like, it’s all the hot yoga I’m doing so that deep breathing that I need for the next four years to keep my sanity. I know, you know Paul material is going to be down at Maryland Hall. It’s a beautiful space down in Annapolis. I call it hot in apples. Hopefully you’re not eating tourist crab cakes. Hope you know better. The folks at rams that will not allow that to happen down in Annapolis, they have provided a Paul to come on here. Hopefully lift the spirits during the holiday.
Paul Mecurio 24:41
There’s something going on, you know, for everybody, like the holidays. I got a holiday tip for everybody. Buy good gifts for people. I’m not one of these people. I got a kid. I don’t know if you got a kid, you know, like I’m always you don’t have to give me a good gift. Get a good gift. This has been a sting in my head lately, like I got a sister in law whenever. Every Christmas which she gives me is a lottery ticket. She gives me a freaking lottery ticket just like this, yeah, yeah. Well, that’s fine. That’s fine to go, long as you’re 18 years of age, exactly, but don’t give it as a gift. I’m sorry. I don’t care what you say, because nothing says I care about you. Less than a one in 400 million chance of getting a gift, okay? And then she gave me a $2 lottery ticket and put it in a card that was worth $8 the card is worth four times the price of the gift. Okay, that screws with people’s head. So, you know, give me a nice gift. If you’re coming
Nestor Aparicio 25:30
to live in New York, you have everything. What do I give somebody that has everything? You’re
Paul Mecurio 25:35
gonna come to New York and come to a late show taping? Why don’t you tell me when you’re coming? Wow,
Nestor Aparicio 25:40
I’ll tell you what you know. I know right where that is. I’ve walked past that theater many, many times with my nose pressed up to the glass, and Letterman’s in there. I can’t see him. Where did he go? You know, you
Paul Mecurio 25:50
don’t have to do that. You can come walk right in. You
Nestor Aparicio 25:55
don’t taught me to coming to New York. Dude, I’ll come to New York anytime, just for the pastries and just for the walk. The flat walk through Paul Mercurio is a walking all the way from New York down to Annapolis. You’ll be there on Saturday night, hoping that you come along and play along. It is permission to speak. It’s a whole lot more than just a comedy show. It is a it’s an inclusive, exclusive extravaganza coming to to Annapolis. Thanks for coming on and being fun. I really appreciate you making a little time. I appreciate the fact you’re not a Steelers fan this week, because I can’t take that, you know. I mean, patriots will live with you. You’re like, doing nine again. Good luck with that thing. Ever since you stopped cheating, things have gone kind of sour. Oh, here we
Paul Mecurio 26:33
go. Here we go. You guys just don’t
Nestor Aparicio 26:35
know how to play football.
Paul Mecurio 26:39
I’m Brady Mike, the goat, the goat, you know he’s the goat. Look at me and say he’s the goat. You
Nestor Aparicio 26:45
and I are better broadcasters than he are. He is, that’s true. He is. We are, I am Nestor. We are, W, N, S T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking. Little comedy, little sports, little fun. Get on down to Maryland. All check out Paul show on Saturday night with the RAM. Said, folks. Now.
