Comedian Mo Mandel on The John DeBella Show
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00:00Joining us once again, well, I'm saying once again like he's been here on a regular basis.
00:18Last time he was here was 2013.
00:21Did we say something?
00:22Mo Mandel is here.
00:25You should know spiritually I've never left.
00:27Oh, that's nice.
00:28I've been here every morning with my chakras with you guys, so yeah.
00:35So what, you get up at 3 o'clock in the morning out in L.A. to make sure that you're listening?
00:38Again, spiritually I get up.
00:40I would say physically I'm very much asleep.
00:43No, it is nice to be back.
00:44I recognize your mustache.
00:46So you're still rocking that look?
00:48Yeah, yeah.
00:48Well, it's been there since 67.
00:49No sense in changing it now.
00:50There's no sense in taking it out now.
00:52What if you took it off on your life change in amazing ways?
00:54Right.
00:55Wow.
00:56Is there any reality where you cut off the Hannibal mustache and all of a sudden you're
01:00like, you can slam dunk?
01:02Or you always know the lottery numbers?
01:04Right, right, right.
01:05You know, you get an extra inch down there.
01:07What if that mustache, which you have stuck with, has been keeping you back all these years?
01:11You know, I never thought of it that way.
01:13For the lottery, yeah, not a problem.
01:14I mean, for a number of things, that inch, bah, well, you know.
01:17Yeah, I mean, at a certain point.
01:18This is like a crappy take.
01:19At this age.
01:21At this age.
01:21It's like, you know.
01:22When you're talking with nine inches, you can spare one.
01:24Am I right?
01:25Fellas, high fives all around.
01:27Uh-huh.
01:27Some of the ladies, high fives.
01:29Nothing.
01:30Speaking of down there.
01:31Now, look at this straight.
01:32We saw a picture of you and some woman in a podcast that you're doing, and this woman
01:36is your girlfriend, and your girlfriend is a urologist.
01:39Yeah.
01:39Right, right.
01:40And that's not how we met, by the way.
01:41I want to make that clear.
01:42Okay.
01:43Just so people know.
01:44All right.
01:45And she's smoking hot.
01:47Very good looking, yeah.
01:48I thought I backtracked in my search history.
01:50Yeah.
01:50It was like, you know, off hours.
01:52Sexy doctor, eh?
01:54I've seen that video.
01:55Yeah.
01:56Exactly.
01:56So I do this podcast with my girlfriend, Dr. Ashley Winter.
02:00It's called The Full Release.
02:02And it's like Loveline.
02:05Although, I'm going to have to murder her, because she was on Dr. Drew's podcast yesterday.
02:09And this is how she plugged me.
02:11Yeah, I do a podcast with my boyfriend, who's a comedian.
02:14Great plug.
02:16Wow.
02:17Now all we have to do is Google boyfriend comedian podcast.
02:21It's wonderfully done, babe.
02:23Great work on sharing that Dr. Drew fan base with me.
02:29Yeah.
02:30So where are you originally from?
02:31Because you live in L.A. now.
02:32Yeah, I live in northern.
02:33I was from northern California.
02:34Oh, really?
02:35You're a real Californian?
02:36Boonville, California is the town.
02:38Boonville.
02:38Boonville.
02:39Yeah.
02:39Is it still there?
02:40It's still, yeah.
02:41It was wiped out in the meth fire of 86.
02:44No.
02:45Yeah, it's still there.
02:46Actually, my parents still live in the house I was born in.
02:48Oh, wow.
02:49Yeah.
02:49Okay.
02:50Now you were born at home?
02:51Home birth.
02:52Yeah.
02:52No doctor.
02:53Came out on my own.
02:55Really?
02:55Because I don't take any orders.
02:56You know, I decide when I do things.
03:00But actually, there really wasn't a doctor, because we grew up in this teeny little dirt road,
03:03and they were always getting flooded out or whatever, and the doctor or whatever that
03:07day couldn't get there.
03:08So we had a, I think it's called a doula.
03:10We had like a midwife.
03:11Okay.
03:11Yeah.
03:11All right.
03:12I love the way Dave's shaking his head.
03:14Oh, yeah.
03:14Yeah.
03:14He was re-
03:15I live in Quakertown.
03:15We know all about this stuff.
03:16Oh, really?
03:17I'm backwards.
03:17Is that a Quaker thing?
03:19No.
03:19It's big time.
03:20I have a great Quaker story.
03:22This is a, one time I was doing some gig out in Lancaster.
03:25Okay.
03:25And I got a flat tire, and the guy comes in, you know, whatever, his rental car, so I'm
03:31like, I'm going to change this myself.
03:32You know what I mean?
03:32Okay.
03:32So I got somebody to come change it.
03:34This guy comes out there, and he's saying all these very racist things about Quakers, like just
03:38really going on and on and on, and I don't know anything about Quakers, because I'm from,
03:42you know, I don't, unless you, you know, how would I know who a Quaker is really?
03:44So I'm just sort of like not saying anything, just sort of like, all right, I'm going to
03:47let this kind of racist guy do his Quaker rant, and then his big closer is, yeah, they're
03:53even worse than the Jews.
03:55I was like, dude, you're holding my ID.
03:58Like, you clock the name.
04:01Your name's very inconspicuous.
04:02Mo Mandel, clock the name, dude.
04:05And it was like, it was like a perfect example of like that old thing where like, they came
04:10for them, and I said nothing.
04:12They came for them, and I said nothing, and then they came for me.
04:14I was like, oh, that's real.
04:16Okay.
04:17They came to change my tire, and I said nothing, because I wanted to get to Perkins and get
04:23it.
04:24Weren't you engaged the last time you were here?
04:27No, I was never engaged.
04:28I've never been engaged.
04:28You've never been engaged?
04:29No.
04:30See, that's that mustache getting at you, you know?
04:32I got a shaver.
04:33You're probably right.
04:34I was, that's so funny.
04:35I was probably saying I was going to be, because 2013, I was right when I was four
04:38years into another relationship, yeah.
04:40Oh, okay.
04:40All right, all right.
04:41So what was that?
04:41But then I realized, I need someone to get me some Viagra, so I upgraded to a urologist.
04:47Now, yeah, I had a girlfriend for four and a half years, and then we broke up, and I
04:52was single for three years, just hardcore doing the apps and the Zoloft, and that comes
04:59with them.
04:59And, yeah, then I met this, I never would have thought I would date someone who has
05:05a real job, you know?
05:07Or more, I should say, I never thought someone with that kind of a job would date me.
05:11You know what I mean?
05:11Because if you go to medical school for 48 years, why are you like, I need to find myself
05:15someone who does comedy at 1 a.m.
05:18And eats chicken wings, because they're free, and the club, you know what I mean?
05:22Like, it's just a weird, terrible decision on her part, but I mean, you know, at this
05:25point, you know, things seem to be working, so she may be stuck with me.
05:28Now, Steve told me that you're a gamer.
05:31I do some video games, yeah.
05:32All right, well, that probably has to be with you, because you're on the road.
05:35Yeah.
05:35All right, all right, so what's your game?
05:36And I'm like, God forbid I accomplish things.
05:41Do you have a game of choice?
05:42I mean, I've always liked, like, my old school favorite game is Gears of War, you know?
05:47Always people know that I'm going back a little bit.
05:49And then the new Red Dead Redemption, I'm digging that.
05:52Are you online gaming?
05:54No, I pretty much just play by myself.
05:55Just by yourself?
05:56Yeah, I'm an antisocial guy.
05:57All right, all right.
05:58Although, I have so many friends who tell me to do it.
06:00I don't know why, I just haven't really, like, I don't know.
06:02Well, the time of day, I mean, more than likely, it's what you're doing to kill time.
06:06That's what comics do all the time.
06:08You know, they get over a city, I don't really know about it, they sit in a room and out of
06:11the watch, dollars, you know, or game.
06:13If you're online gaming, you're just going to run into little kids.
06:16Right, well, that's exactly, like, and I do a bit about that, where, like, you meet
06:20little kids and they just trash you, and then you're just, like, getting, like, you're
06:24losing a trash-talking battle to, like, an eight-year-old, you know?
06:27Like, because I had this kid who was, uh...
06:29You stink!
06:30Yeah, well, like, they're even meaner than that.
06:32Like, I had this kid who was just, like, trash me, and I was like, dude, where's your
06:34mom?
06:35And he goes, dude, where's your wife?
06:38I was like, dude, I just crushed my soul.
06:41Like, that's, like, a certain kind of immaturity when you're losing a video game to a kid and
06:46then also losing an argument with a kid, you know?
06:49You're like, ugh.
06:50I just became an uncle, too, and so I'm, like, a little untrustworthy of this baby, because
06:55through video games, I do know how mean kids can be, so he's probably got, like, three months
07:00until he's a real prick.
07:03Mo Mandel is our guest, and he will be appearing at Punchline Philly.
07:07There's one show tonight at 8 o'clock, one tomorrow at 7.30.
07:10You gotta get an early night.
07:11I have to get a, you know, I have to go around and get cheesesteaks.
07:13Okay, that's it.
07:14You know, or...
07:15Isn't it annoying that everyone that comes to Philly is like, Rocky and cheesesteaks,
07:19huh?
07:19That's what you guys do here.
07:21I get it.
07:22Most of the city would agree with that, too, though.
07:24Yeah.
07:24I will say there's, like, 400 cheesesteak restaurants around my hotel.
07:28Really?
07:28This is this necessary, huh?
07:30Embrace them.
07:30Yeah, I mean, we embrace the cheesecake, we embrace the pretzel, you know, we embrace Rocky.
07:35What got me was, is one of our newspapers, the Daily News here in Philadelphia, they
07:40said, you know, they had a magazine section, right?
07:42And they decided to call the section, Yo.
07:46Yo?
07:47Yo.
07:48With an exclamation point, like Jeb's campaign.
07:50Right, right.
07:51Yo.
07:52And I'm like, yeah, that really proves our intelligence right there.
07:55Well, I love when it was that you guys had John Kroc and Pete Incavillia, that old-school
08:00Phillies team where it was like, you couldn't...
08:02I mean, I love that team.
08:04Beer and Dingers.
08:05Yeah, you could not have, like, a less classy bunch of delegates for your city than these,
08:10like, just shoes.
08:12And such great shape.
08:14They're all just like, what?
08:16These guys aren't just, like, local guys working at, like, a Jiffy Lube?
08:19These guys are athletes?
08:21Oh, that was my favorite team.
08:22Was it Pete Incavillia, John Kroc, Mitch Williams, right?
08:26Nails.
08:26Nails.
08:27You know what?
08:27He's serving, like, 40 years in jail now or something like that.
08:30Yeah, Wild Thing.
08:31Hell yeah, man.
08:31They were great, dude.
08:32They're the current GOP ticket, right?
08:34Wait for it.
08:35Wait for it.
08:42Wait for it.