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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I said John Jay Rich afterwards podcast. Our special guest
is Murrh from Impractical Jokers. Impractical Jokers has made such
a huge impact in my family's life. We've had Joe
on the show before many times, but this is the
first time talking to Mr very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hi Murr. Is it the first time, really, first.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Time that we've had you on our show?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, that's crazy, man, Thanks for having me. I appreciate
it right on.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I mean it. It would be awesome to have you
in the studio someday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Are you guys in Phoenix?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Where you we're in Phoenix, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'll come by for sure. I'm there all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I saw you somewhere and I was on a video
and I was like, dang, why do you come in
our studio? So it's part of your tour in Phoenix,
I would hope, right, that's why you're well, we're on in.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
A bunch of cities.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I already played Phoenix like a few months ago, and
I did temp I did Tempion as well. But I'll
come back all the time, man, Like we go to
the improv there, uh and uh you know, so yeah,
I would love to come by because uh so we're
on there. You know, Arizona's my favorite state. Arizona Colorado
number one and two favorite states.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So you must be.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
They must have booked on our show because we're also
in all over Colorado, so you must be.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Is that part of your tour?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah? Absolutely, I go to Colorado Springs all the time. Okay,
it's last year. I did a TikTok live two years
ago and uh whichidentally I let a fan join my
live and he worked for Space Force based out of
Colorado Springat so last I was like, dude, can you
give me a tour Space Force? So last summer I
(01:29):
did a whole tour Space Force. It was wild.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Did they give you any like any like Space Force swag?
Because I have yet to see that out in the
wild like you have.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I got an into Probe, which is what they do,
like they reverse engineered with the aliens US great Refresh eight.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Have you seen that show in Hulu called Paradise No?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, it's about It's it's about Colorado Springs and Space
Force and pretty much living in the mountain inside the mountain.
It's a cool thing. It was number one on Hulu.
Right now, boy, let me shift care. I'll talk about
practical jokers real quick. This show that you and your
buddies have made through I have. I have three boys.
I have a twenty two year old, a twenty one
year old, and an eighteen year old, and their entire
(02:11):
lives because of impractical jokers and family. Guy, I believe
that my kids have a well rounded sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, I don't even say they have a warped sense
of well.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
To me, that's well rounded. That's well rounded. So I
mean they've seen you live, you guys. All you guys
came out here a few years ago or five, six,
seven years when you're all together, and they saw you
Live and they loved it. And I love the authentic
laughter of a child or young people and anybody. And
I can remember my kids being in there another room
laughing so loud, and I was like, what are they
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laughing at? And I go in there and it was
you guys, It was your show.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh that's awesome, man, that's awesome. We I mean, last
night was the he was Infinale Season eleven. And we've
already started shooting seasons. Well, we started a few weeks ago,
and that comes out this summer and to get this
as of last week. Well, I've been filming the TV
show for fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That is nuts. But let me tell you so last
night I was with my youngest son.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
We're watching you know, March Madness basketball yep, And I
said to him, I go, hey, I think Murr's gonna
be on the show tomorrow. And this dude, who is
not affected by anybody, goes what And he goes you
got to ask him about Then my oldest son, he
came home from college for the weekend. He's sitting there
and he goes, what, and both of them start going
over episodes and this is what they said. Novacane the novady.
(03:29):
They filled his mouthful of novacane and then he had
to go wait tables or wait on people.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Right, that's brilliant, right, Yeah, I had to teach a
class on foods across the world to like a room
full of people. But they right before I walked through
the room, they had a dentist probably broke the law
and injected me with children milligrams of novacane, which is
like the legal limit, right, Like if he did two
hundred and one milligrams, he'd go to jail. That kind
of thing. Yeah, and it got worse and worse as
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the Novacate hit, but he ended up by halfway through
the workshop, I was a babbling idiot. I was literally
drooling taste testing all these foods while teaching the students.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, they kept saying, you kept saying like billion base
and it was funny. I remember a couple weeks of
how you had worked out on your teeth and you
just had a little bit of overkay.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It was like.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Steel for you in that situation, because it's hard to
talk when you can't feel your mouth. In the episode
last night, I lost the season finale of eleven, and
they had me at the Liberty Stegn Center in Jersey.
They have this exhibit called the Touch Tunnel. It's pitch black.
It's like a tight tunnel you crawl in. It's like
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a maze. You crawl and feel your way through the
maze in the complete darkness, almost like a sensory deprivation
kind of thing, you know what I mean. But unbeknownst
the patrons crawling through, I was also in there something
like halfway through. But they had to be dressed like
Gollum from the Lord of the Rings, like a ole
uh and uh. In the pitch black. I also could
not see anything, but the cameras can see because they're red.
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And they had me breathe in this gas that makes
my voiced like ten octaves deeper, and it was. It
was horrifying and hysterical. It was so much fun. Man,
it was a blast.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So also I got to tell you this a couple
of weeks ago. This is so again, I'm excited to
talk to you. A couple of weeks ago, my family
was talking about Impractical Jokers and what their favorite episode was,
and I said I hadn't seen that, and they all laughed.
They go, we got a cute up for your dad.
So they cued it up and they actually brought it
up again. Last night was and they say this was
the funniest and that you were the you were so mad.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
The parachute jump, Oh my god, god, that was that
They threw me forcibly out of an airplane.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
He's afraid of heights. They took about an airplane, airplane
that would pass out. But you hear about that, what
is it like exposure therapy? So maybe they thought this
was like you confronting your fear. And they wouldn't be
scared of heights afterwards.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's all bs. I think it was. As soon as
you pull the cord, you're gonna generally float. You gonna
see the earth, and the curventure of the earth may
be at one with piece of nature. Bullsh you know what, Well,
it's not true. I was terrified until the moment I
was on the ground.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, even watching that just makes me me cringe, Like,
why would you jump out of a plane that's working? Fine,
makes no sense at all, makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, it's just you know, it's like if you remember
back to like high school or college, gravity is nine
point eight meters per second squared, which means mathematically that
like two seconds before you land, you're like thirty feet
up in the air. Whatever it is, right, So it's
different to the last two seconds your parachute fails, you
still die.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oyeah.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You would never play those sons in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So let me tell you another one, which I think
is so classic, because they'd said that the ulossa beat
and had to shave his head in this whole body.
Now we've all heard or seen shave your head lose
a bad shave, and they shaved this eyebrows. They shaved everything, right,
so you've heard of something like that, right, sure. Then
the second part of the that path then he had
to go renew his driver's license.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So that's his proof, that's his picture, is fres You've.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Got the best in Mena's friends ever.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm a I'm in Ohio right now on tour and
I flew here yesterday. My driver's license is still has
no eyebrows. Oh really more year ago. I look like
I look like I see something. Say something. Man, My
driver's license looks like looks like, let's Luthor's penis.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
I know you guys like so on our show, we
sit around and we come up with that Dan's and
some of them are a little too hot for the radio,
you know, a little too strong. Is there a prank
or a situation that you guys haven't been able to
figure out yet that you're still chomping at the bit
to do.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Good question? I mean, I'd love to kill Sal. I
don't know I had a bullet off.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Just kill him.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, I know how to do it legally. I'm trying
to figure out I got it close last season. I uh,
I will see the eleven and a half. I say
my own death. That's the next level stuff. Like Sally
thought I was the one that lost the episode, and
he strapped me and Q strapped me to the windshield
of a race car as it raced around the track
(08:13):
at high speed. What they didn't what Sal didn't know
Q's in on it was that a key point racing
around the track, I would pull around a bend, a
duplicate car would pull out at speed with the SUNTI
on top. Right. But it looks just like we dressed
just like me, everything like that, and Sal would have
not known that we did a switch through and the guy,
the driver takes a turn too tight and the sunt
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guy goes flying off the car, and Sal sees it
from across the track, and the whole crew, all sixty
crew members had practiced with me for hours to react
instantly and go running toward the seat of the accident. Meanwhile,
I strip off my fire suit, I run into an
ambulance nearby. I have an EMT outfit on, and I
race around the track as an ambulance guy, as an
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EMD worker, and I run out with the other EMTs
and I'm working on quote unquote my own body on
the ground and with Sala, of course, and Cuba's running.
Sal think this is all real. Sally was running over
to see if I'm dead, and I'm okay, And at
the key moment, I stood up, took my hat off
and revealed that I was safe and sound the whole time.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And it was.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It was next level prank man. And it was not
until hours later that night, like it's like midnight, I'm
brushing my teeth and my wife's sex to me and
I turned her. I said, did I go too far?
But me thinking my death took three real years off
my friend's life.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
How was Sal's reaction? Was it appropriate for you being dead?
Like or was he still laughing?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
He was appropriate. He he was horrified and like really
really worried and uh and then when he realizes a
double cross, he turned and put his head in his hands.
An hour after we were done filming a real medics
took his blood pressure and there's still one eighty.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
What a good friend.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, I like that guy.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Now, like you know another one that came up and
I think this is you. I don't know because you
know again it was a couple weeks. Agore and my
kids were just like Dad, you got to watch the scene.
Was it somebody dating your sister?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I married South sister.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
You married South sister. That's it. That's it. Joke, a joke,
so funny.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's just crazy because you have to understand, like I've
known his sisters since we were literally children, Like we
all grew up together. But then she grew up and
got hot.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
All right, So how do we find out where you're
going on tour? What's the website?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah? Man, I'm all over the country. I'm doing shows
all the time. I'm in everywhere from Kansas City to
Long Island, Jersey. Uh, Oklahoma City, upstate New York. I'm
literally all of West Coast, Pennsylvania, New Orleans. Right, I'm
all over the place. Just go to our murr live
dot com. Uh, murr live dot com from my tour
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dight from Salt Lic City and so and so forth.
Yeah and uh and obviously jokers just finished this season
last night.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
But that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Season twelve. We'll we'll be back on TV in a
few months.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know, my my wife and I have a dog rescue.
We've had we've had Joe Gatto in and do stuff
with our dogs. In fact, his dog's Pamoni, he adopted
from us in Vegas at the Iheartrating Music Festival when.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You guys are all there.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
God, I remember that. I remember him telling us that
he just walked back. He said, I got a dog.
I was like, Joe, and I was like, how are
you gonna ship it back from vetheis.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, that was my dog. That was one of our dogs. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
As a matter of fact, my wife's going to New
York on Monday. She'll be there for a few days
and she's actually meeting with Betsy and Joe.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Betsy.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh that's great. Yea, yeah, Bey, Yeah, that's great. That's great.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, she's gonna hang out. Yeah yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So there's a there's a big connection with in practical
jokers in our show.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Very cool. Well, listen next time I'm down there in Phoenix,
let's uh, let's get together, have launched something. I'll come
by the studio a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That would be awesome. Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Website is murr live dot com. Thank you, mur thanks
for being on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Bro You got it. Guys, take care, Bye bye.