We chatted with you in November for our 2-minute interview. You’ve been getting kinda famous since then. I don’t think of myself as being anybody other than someone who does this and has met Zach Galifianakis. But I have been mentioned by Zach and Bradley Cooper in TV interviews for [The Hangover Part III].

Zach talked about you on Conan last week, about meeting you when you worked as his stand-in on the new movie. Yeah. It was pretty funny, too.

I laughed when he joked that the only reason he was locating you was so he could take his cut of whatever money you make. (Laughs) Yeah. Any time he talks it turns into a joke of some sort. But everything he said was true. I am a little weirded out by this whole thing and he is, too. When I did the stand-in stuff, we were at a gas station out in the desert, so he’d film his scene at the pump and I’d stand in the gas station and then we’d switch. During [filming] he seemed cold, uninterested. He didn’t really acknowledge me at all. But at the end of the day, I dropped off my wardrobe and I heard someone calling my name. It was just the two of us in the middle of the desert, one trailer and one car, and he was calling my name and waving me over. He had this big grin on his face and he was just shaking his head, speechless. It’s crazy … because of him I am able to have this life now, support my family and take care of some people. I told him how this all started.

How did this all start? I’m from Pennsylvania, outside Philadephia. It started in 2011 when I bought these sunglasses that looked like his character’s from [The Hangover]. I’d go out and people would say I looked like him. I’d go to big cities and these things would happen—strange women coming on to me, people buying me drinks, getting freebies. One thing [Zach] said was: “Make sure you make it clear you’re not me.” (Laughs)

How and when did you end up in Vegas, working the Strip and taking pictures with people? I just came out here for fun and to see what would happen, in early 2012. I ended up staying and living in three different casino hotels all summer.

During the movie shoot, Zach visited while you were working, too. That day they were filming in the desert, when we were talking he asked, “Are you working tonight? I’m thinking about coming to see you.” So I was there, on the Strip near the Forum Shops, and at about 9 o’clock I got a weird feeling. I looked over and I see this guy coming out with a visor on and the beard walking toward me. I just walked with him and we made small talk. We walked down the Strip, just talking about life in general and people were looking at us and taking pictures and yelling at us. I realized: “This probably isn’t a good idea, because you’re kinda incognito and I’m dressed as you. This defeats both of our purposes.”

It sounds like you make a lot of money doing this. I don’t discuss numbers. It’s pretty funny, actually. Some people think I make a couple thousand a day. “You’re making more than I am!”—I hear that a lot. But then there are a lot of other people who come out of a restaurant and give me their leftovers. I just tell them, “Thanks, I’ll give them to the next homeless person I see.”

So are you adjusting your act to align with any elements from the new Hangover movie? I am. I had a custom monkey built a couple months ago but it didn’t come out the way I wanted. It’s very detailed but the face just wasn’t like the monkey from The Hangover Part II. But the place that did it, they had a giraffe [which appears in Part III], so I worked out a deal to swap the monkey for the giraffe.

Is the giraffe big? Yes. It’s an antique taxidermy giraffe. I’m a little concerned PETA might come after me. For the record, I didn’t kill this giraffe. But it is big, and the tiger already is about 60 pounds …

Wait, the tiger? Yeah, I have a tiger to represent Mike Tyson’s tiger from the first movie. So I lug around the tiger, the giraffe, a cooler and a tip bucket. But I have an assistant who helps move this stuff around and takes pictures.

Are you going to keep the satchel and the white pants for now? Right now I’m sticking with this outfit, until I see the new movie.

It seems like you should be able to see the new movie before the rest of us. That would be cool. I’ll definitely be there Thursday night.