Best of the Bus: Nate Bargatze On Going From Tire Recycler To Touring With Chris Rock

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:20):
that was twenty twenty one on the bus in the church.
What do you think of this compared to the church?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I like this.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
You know, I used to work this area. I used
to do I was a delivery guy. Uh and we
used to deliver appliances and stuff like that. And we
I was over I would do it over here, and
I mowed and I and I worked for a guy
to cut grass once and his thing was right back
over here too, So I used to go over here
a lot.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yeah, you have Mowen jow you had Mowen jobs. I
had one. It's Mowen's the worst, dude.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's it's uh, you know, like I would cut grass
going up like your neighbor's yard.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Ors.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I had this old lady, excuse me, I got five
bucks they cut her grass and then, uh, this was
nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
You got Yeah, that's a whole bunch of salary right there.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Back then, I remember I could go there was a
candy store. This is I mean, I'm forty four. It's
not like I'm one hundred. But there was a candy
store in old Hickory and you could go.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Five bucks was a lot. Five bucks was like.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
The twenty I think now like if you give a kid,
if you give a kid five now, I feel like
they don't even respect it. But twenty is, you know,
it's like fun. We were like, eh, but we so.
I mowed grass for a little bit, but I mean
just doing businesses and it's just man people that mow,
you know, like landscape and all that. That is brutal work.

(01:39):
It's so hot and you're just out in it all day.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I quit after one day of landscaping. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, it was brutal. It was like a hot ninety
eight degrees. Like my mom wanted me to go do this.
You know, I was lifeguard this summer before next summer,
I got thrust it into a landscaping job and I
quit immediately.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
The first day.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, we went, we went and got lunch and got
sandwiches or whatever. I text my mom, I said, you
got to get me out of here, dude. The first
I've never mowed along in my entire life. Really, not one.
I grew up in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, only rich people had brass and so got the turf. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, people got turf or people got rocks. Like that's
really what you get to deal with out there. So
coming out here or even being up in Michigan, the
maintenance is nuts.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And I feel like land like a landscaping deal isn't
as bad because they have like the cool mowers that.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
They can kind of move around. You're sitting the whole time.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, they're all. They got the whole garment and everything on.
I'm sure as a boy, you were just short.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
And so shorts. I was, yeah, I was never I
wasn't that high.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Up, so you'd be weed eating, which is I mean
just no fun, or you're doing all the weird kind
of like where you gotta be like you got to
push it because they can't get a thing on it. Landscaping, though,
was the if you have no college, if you've no
chances of going to college, always starting a landscaping company
was talked about pretty heavily.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Dude, I have like four friends to have a landscaping company.
They you just go in town.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, when you're like I can't I'm not smart enough
to go really, I can't get in college or any stuff.
And you just have a group of people that'd be like,
we'll start a landscaping dude.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
But if somebody doesn't high school, they're the man for
a minute because they can afford all the when they
go whatever. Yeah, because you're you're collecting a lot of
money being mowing lawns.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
But then they're doing it still because they're you know,
didn't go to college.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I have a buddy mind his brother, he actually owns
a landscaping company.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
He was a he was a kid that just started
cutting yards. Was like smart enough to realize like, oh,
let me start building this up into a thing.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
And it is them.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
They got money, like they saved money and like you're like,
you know someone's got like three grand and you're like what, yeah, yeah,
like unheard of, unheard of is someone sixteen, Yeah, sitting on.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Three grand and then they pull like you know, a
business gig or a corporate gig, and their mowing those yards.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Like you lived with my parents. Give that money thousand dollars.
Imagine seeing three thousand dollars in high school. It would
have been unimaginable. No, that's that'd be way too much.
Is that the worst job you've ever had?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Being a landscaper? Uh?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I Also, so the guy I used to deliver with
over here, we did another job where we recycle tires.
That job was on dirty jobs and how do you
recycle the tire? So you would go and pick up
Uh you remember, I don't know if you remember, but
there's a big Ford. Uh they did the where they
did a call back or recall on all the tires.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
For Ford one. Uh, Chevy would never and.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Then uh, there's and and so we had to go
get all the tires. So you go get all the
tires and then you pick them up and you take
them to Australia. I'm in Australia. I'm going to Australia
this week.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
It's on.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
You take them to Atlanta and then they have a
thing and then they cut them up and you know
whatever they do recycling, whatever recycling is.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I'm pretty sure sure fields have like tire peloton them.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, yes, yeah, so that's where they don't know what
to do with it, so they just put it in
the field. Uh yeah, So what why was so hard?
Uh So you had to go pick up all these tires.
Water sits in the bottom of a tire, and that's
where mosquitoes lay eggs and that's where it are. So

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the whole time you're just getting lit up of mosquitoes.
That's just your day. I was doing this job when
nine to eleven happened.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
That just like it was. It was remember when I
remember when, Yeah, I remember it very well.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
You heard that Alan Jackson song. You're like, I will
forever know where I was.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, And uh so I did did the mosquitoes there.
And then we had one time we had to go
pick up tires out of a cave. So if someone
would pay you to come get the tires and then
you would go recycle them and then hopefully make some profit.
But one guy would just get the tires and then
just go dump them in a cave, and he wasn't
getting them recycled, so he's so he's just making straight

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profit from taking tires. Well, they found out that guy
would ended up going to jail. And but then we
had to go get those tires and they were all
in a cave. So we had a backup trucks just
in this cave and you gotta like run them up
your chest and like bump them and then they and
then then stack them up into the back of a
like a is it too where you got to pick
up fucking you see a big trick.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
You're like, oh, let's go do the shop and get
a couple of tires. And then they're massive tractor tires.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Uh yeah, I don't remember that.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I don't necessarily ours were all car tires because this
was again the recall, so it was like everybody around
here had so many tires because all these tires got recalled,
so they everybody was like it was a big kind
of booming business at that moment. And uh this when
this one guy just figured like I'll just dump them
in a cave Jesus, and we had I mean, there
was so many tires in this cave, dude. We just

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drove backed up in there and just there's the most
tires and you're like all right, and you.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Just all right, I would be good at it.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
They would you you would run it up your body
and then bounce the tire off your chest.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
How would you would it? Started the toes like you
get the toes up a little flick you kind of.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, you just kind of run it up and it's
all in one motion and then it's probably a work.
Now you probably pay you to get a trainer or
make you do it. Yeah, but yeah, you just do
it and you roll it back and then you got
to stack the tires like kind of criss crossed.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh where you found that physique of yours? Dude, that
muscle memory.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
You have, you know, you're probably probably was a pretty strong.
Yeah you're strong, like you're like, uh you know, like
uh blue collar strong where.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
You're yeah, country boys strong, weird strength. The metior hands
throwing the hay bales out there, they just got a
grip like a motherfucker.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, that's a tough job.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Another job that'd be tough is like, uh, have you
ever heard like college hunks and junks?

Speaker 3 (07:32):
That company? Uh No, was like two man are at
uh truck.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, it's kind of like that, but like their whole
promo of the whole thing is essentially hot college guys
come and pick up your trash. Yeah, and we use
them and they come in and they're like they're not hot,
Like they're like thirty five, forty years old, Like, yeah,
bad tans.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
You hired them? Oh yeah, I call them up. I
want to see what this is all about.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
If this is your branding, you were not the guys
on the fly when I called them out to them.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
When they get you go, y'all are not hot. Yeah,
what's the deal with that promise?

Speaker 1 (08:05):
The funny thing is they'll just look at all the
trash you have and they'll go three hundred like all right,
and they just take it and they leave.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
And that's their job. That's a wild job to have. Yeah,
no living, Yeah, for your retired one. What'd you get paid?
I don't even know if I remember. I mean no,
I mean nothing like uh or what you know? Enough
I was twenty, so it's like enough to give buy
like whatever you know you're living and I might used
to have lived at home or you're at an apartment. I

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mean back then it was just everything was so it
was you know, you your rent was probably four hundred
a month or some hand in a month, like you
had an apartment.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
I don't remember being that crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
You know when you were when you were twenty years old,
you were still here. I know you guys talked about
the last podcast, But when did you make the trip
to New York?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
When did you decide that's where I'm going.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
For So, I moved to Chicago first, and then uh,
because I had a buddy. We were reading water meters
and uh Mount Joiet, and so he wanted to go
to Second City in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's where a lot of SNL people come out of it.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Farley came out of Yeah, and so we went to Uh.
So I was like, oh, I think I want to
start comedy. And so we went to Chicago and uh
uh moved up there and I did that very briefly.
Then I kind of started doing stand up and then Uh.
There's a there's a great documentary with Seinfeld called Comedian.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
It's on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
It's when he's like he's starting a new hour and
so he's writing it and shows all this New York
He's going to all these New York clubs and doing
this stuff. And so then I saw that and when
I saw that. It was like I got to go
to New York and then that just went so I
moved to New York and oh four Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
We just had to Stefano on the podcast and he
was talking about how like New York is the spot.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
There's no other place like that.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
You have to like literally run through like five thousand
dudes to even make it out of there, because he was.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Saying he would never move away from New York because
it's all, yeah, you can make it out of New York.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
He is New York, He's New York. Yeah. And then
I grew up there.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, I can't imagine Tennessee boy, and then going up
to New York it was, Yeah, it was a lot
like Christy's like a lot younger than me. But uh,
I remember when he got a great dude and then
when he came on the scene, you do you have
to go.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
It's the best. The big saying was like go to
New York. Uh to get good in LA to get famous.
That's saying I heard once in that but it always
made a ton of sense to me.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
But New York is like it is where you go
and you're just grinding out in these comedy clubs and
just we're all doing spots. You're all doing shows for
five people. I mean it's a lot like the beginning
is most of your careers in front of five six people,
you'd be happy.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, because you talked about how you'd stand outside and
handoff flyers just to get a few people in.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, one of your boys is performing, You're like, hey,
come check it out.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's and you and you get paid in
stage time, so you you would just do that and
then at the end of the night you get to
go on stage like midnight and do five minutes, and
then you go do it and the next day.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
But it's a world, I mean, you become you.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
You just you fall in love with it because you're
seeing like back when I did it was like you're
seeing Bill Bird. Bill Burr's probably doing comedy ten years
when I was h in New York at the beginning,
and so like, but no one knows who he is
and patersa O'Neil and all this, So you're you're you're
like kind of like, I can't believe these dudes exist.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
How'd imagine in your world?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Like it's a you think, like you know, if you're
in high school and you're the top football player in
your and then you go, oh, there's other people that
are so good yeah, and then you like and it
makes you love it because you go, oh, this it's
a whole nother level, Like it's let me see if
I can make it here, let me see if I
can make it yeah, because you can be whatever in
your own little small thing, but you gotta always change

(11:42):
it up so then you can be like, let me
see if I can run with these guys.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I'm with you growing up in Bontero.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
When I went to college, I was like, oh shit, yeah,
white guys play football.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah you know, let me see I start. Yeah, let
me see if I can run with these guys.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah, how you have to work out for you at
first in uh college?

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah you know it's intimidating. Yeah you know how it
is absolutely yes, Like it's it's.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Intimidating, but it's like once you get that first compliment, dude, hey,
this white boy can play.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's all. Hey, you're pretty this for a white guy.
It's okay. We've we're making it out here. That's where that's.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Why it might be one of the best athletes of
all time. Yeah. Yeah, there's no question about it. You
are you really think you're him at that point.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, when you're in New York and you're sifting through this,
you're seeing guys like Bill Burr, who wasn't Bill Burr
at the time. How do you when you're trying to
find your own voice, not steal from these other guys
or not get influenced too much by being around all
these other people all the time. Because I'm sure you
watch a set and you're like, damn, that's shit, that
is funny, and it's kind of up your alley of
humor because it's such a subjective like career. Like some

(12:44):
guys you just don't think are funny.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Some guys you do.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Like when you see it, dude, they do a bit,
you're like, man, how do you not steal it?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Uh, well, steal your bit?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
You wouldn't do because it's uh, their cadence is a
big thing.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, so you can sound like them.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
So the way someone tells a joke and makes it
funny is, uh, there's something that that's that's something that
can get taken that. I would always talk with my
buddy Honis about it, or he honest would always bring
up like that's worse than stealing a joke because it's
like you're stealing the way to tell the joke. So
it's like the other stuff doesn't really matter. It's like,

(13:18):
you know, Roan Reagan has a distinct like thing when
you know when, like you know when to laugh, you
know when to do it. David Tel does too, Yeah,
and so you'd have to catch yourself sounding like them.
David Tail is a big one that when I was
a lot of people sounded like David Tel. I could
catch myself in a little rhythm of David Tel. My
accent would hide it, so I don't think anybody realized it,

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but I could feel it. Like I was like, oh,
I'm like watching him too much, and so you gotta
and you don't want to start writing jokes like that,
because then that's when you can see a comic they
get too far. You're like, oh, you sound like this right, like,
even though you're doing jokes that are different, but you
sound like him.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
And that's the part that.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
You wanna If you want to be your own voice,
you got to be super aware of that.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
If you're sitting through the comments section on one of
your posts on Instagram, is that one of the more
insulting things to see is oh, you sound like so
and so.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
If they do uh yeah, I mean I don't know
if I can distinctly remember, I would have some like uh,
you know, people tell you they or they've heard this
joke before they the joke stealing thing they got all started.
I don't it's not as I think, as crazy as
people think it is, Like it wasn't. It's it's just

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not you know, they made it into this big thing.
A lot of times when jokes are stolen, you can
really look at the joke and be like, uh, it's
a it's not a super original idea, and you're like,
I don't know, dude. I mean like I could see
two people coming up with this thing and you really
look at it like that. I mean, there's comics. There's
only so much we're all doing the exact same thing.

(14:52):
There's only so much that anybody's doing. If you're in
a world that like you're single and you're going out
and you're drinking, well that's fifty comics that are goal
going out and drinking.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
So what are they gonna talk about?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
They're go all, you're gonna all talk about the same
kind of things, right, So that stuff gets thrown in
a lot that it's you know, you're like, I don't know.
I think it happens in movies though, something like that
that's over like Star Wars and Harry Potter, like any Yeah,
like writers in a movie, like I would say, writ
a TV show writer, like you could. There's stuff like

(15:23):
that that I I mean, I don't know if I could,
you could ever, I don't know if there's an example
to say it, But like that stuff you get nervous
about because I mean, someone writing a movie, like they
could just grab a joke from some comic and just.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
The joke in the com.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
Talking like if I happen to be some writer and
I'm liking your stand up a story you tell, it's like, oh,
I'm gonna put this in that movie.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, or it could be influenced by it. It could be.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
There's a lot of things and I mean that's and
that's masked so much that I mean, you can't even
how you're gonna, you know, be like that that's my
joke and you're like, well they say it like.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
I want to say that that's been talked about.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
That really be wall Uh that Wahlberg's uh the Boston
bombing the movie Wahlberg about the Boston Boston bombers. I
think there's a joke about an iron or something at
the beginning of it, and I want to say that
joke might be something that's like from a comic.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
And now that I'm thinking about it, I want to
say it was like THEO talking about uh oh, yeah
it was the the show Dave right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
But he was digesting it. I mean you could tell
he was alluding to it. He wasn't.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
I don't think he was being like, all this is fact,
because ultimately I guess.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
You you don't, right, yeah, right, But yeah, that's a
good point.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
You hear something he says that of yeah, and you're like,
I mean they're gonna you got the and how did
not say all these writers are writers are not doing
the majority of we're not doing it. But it's like, yeah,
I been you know, yeah, it's like they're gonna be
You're gonna be influenced by you wanna hear things here.
There's so much content now, so you're hearing stuff all

(17:03):
the time. You you might not realize like where you
would have possibly heard that.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, but the still of the joke thing seems like
other comment like, I mean, there was there was one
reference like I was a big dang Cook guy growing up.
I was like right around my middle school time and
Dan Cook we.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
All loved it. We all loved him.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
There was a big time where people were like, Dan
Cook stole a joke, the same joke as Lewis c
K told.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
About having a kid.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
He doesn't have a kid right now, but when he
has a kid, he's gonna name something ridiculous, like just
the one letter five of them and then he like allegedly,
I haven't really looked too much into it, so I'm
kind of just speaking out of pocket here, But Dane
just changed the letter essentially and did his like his
cadence and all that, because they're totally different comments.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, I think there's another like his itchy butthole or
something was another joke like that, and it was, uh yeah,
I mean I remember all that stuff going on, Amy Schumer.
I was around Amy a lot, and people would blame
but it's like, I just it's some of it you're
I mean, the Dane and the Louis thing. I look,
I don't know, I mean maybe they did, it's uh,

(18:09):
and they maybe subconsciously did it. I don't know if
I just find it hard to believe people are like
on purpose doing this stuff. Yeah, not saying that's right
to subconsciously do it, like you should somewhat try to check,
but it's overall you're like, I don't know, dude, Like
they're not comics, are not just taking each other said
where you gonna go do this?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
You know? Yeah, where you're gonna get caught. You're gonna
get especially.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now with And then the thing that was frustrating is
it makes it then everybody like, so if you have
a joke similar to someone else, someone's like, do you
steal that joke from that person? You're like, no, dude,
we're all talking about the same thing. Like, no one's
stealing a joke. They're just people are talking about stuff.
It usually goes to you gotta look at what the
joke is to be like, is it that original of
an ideah?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
And a lot of times it's not.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
And then it's like something that's kind of like there's
jokes out there where you're like, I think I've heard
my uncle say that joke. You know that person's not
stealing that joke. It's like just telling kind of a
hacky joke. Japi, are you catching all that rain in
the headphones?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I keep seeing Garrett look back and forth and stuff
like that.

Speaker 4 (19:12):
You just you hear the rain get even harder, and
you're just like, fuck the one hour we're getting Nate on. Yeah, perfect,
as he's telling a story.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
You just hear it get louder and louder.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, when uh, just make sure the tornado doesn't Yeah,
we don't need that.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yeah, we definitely do not need that in our lives.
Do you catch that? It's absolutely going off. There's like
flood warnings the median. Do you ever get just tired
of being funny?

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Like when you're doing you're like, you know, you kind
of fall in love with it in New York and
you're grinding through it and even now it's just like
you're just you've blown up. Like as a comedian, I've
always I don't know why I never asked him, but
I'm just thinking, do you guys just ever get tired
of just being like everybody every room I step into,
I'm expected to be funny.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, I mean you have to be on that's the
part of that's hard, but I think you all would
experience that. You know, how many times you got to
feel like you're on? So when you go out to
a public event, when you go to something or like
that kind of thing, or you meet people and like
it's it's the being on is the thing that gets exhausting.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
That's for anybody.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I mean, people could feel that if they go to
work and they feel like they have to kind of
be like, all right, I got to turn it on
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I gotta be better. You know, we're gonna die about
this fucking funny.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
That like out of this stuff we're in like a garage.
All stuff that I don't think you're supposed to be
in inside of a storm is we're in a garage
and you're like, all right, well that you should be
in there, but at least you're not in a bus
inside of it. You're like, oh, we're in a bus,
one of the old buses that look like it's driving
around trying to be struck by lighting.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Uh yeah, yeah, we're in danger right now. We are
in danger.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
The being on thing, the being on things true because
anytime you come across like fans and everything else, you
want them to be like, you know, you don't want
to like let people down or all of a sudden
you're like an ass on that You're like, you know
that you're fucking not even.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, because it only takes one bad impression for them
to be off you forever.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah. Yeah, you know, you meet somebody and it's you.
It's either you or not you.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
So like usually when you meet if someone meets someone
famous and they're kind of stand office whatever, you're like, yeah, man,
that person's probably like that in real life. Yeah, And
otherwise it's yeah, it's like the crowd and the audience
should not feel my tiredness or my whatever.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Like that's not on them to do any of that stuff. Ye.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
So there's like little moments like that, But I mean
I don't think I ever feel with an audience. You
feel it with like, you know, the business side of
sometimes just because you're like the audience you're like grateful
for because that's the reason you're here. Sometimes you gotta
go do the business.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Side of things, and then you're like yeah, but business
side you can like kind of turn it on and off.
I feel like the the being on thing is like
when you're just walking somewhere and someone's like, hey, I
like you for this, and then you feel like, okay,
I have to make sure this person has a good expltperience.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
That way, it's like the move It Forward or what's
that movie? Hey, everything paying Forward? And then just like
one person tells two people, it's like, we got to
make sure yeah, yeah, this person's happy with their experience
and move on. If that happens too many times, that's
when it kind of gets a little draining.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Be nice and the mid of that's what's so that's
the easiest part about it. It's really a lot easier
just to be nice and move on. And it's like,
it is funny if you someone that doesn't want to
be like that, you're like, well you make it much
harder bout being kind of mean.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah, you could just be nice and it would move
very quickly. No doubt.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Has there ever been a person that you've like kind
of looked up to and then you meet him and
you're like, fuck, don't meet your hero type thing. You
brought up one person that universally seems like people are.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Not a huge fan of that's Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah. I
so I've only been I've talked to him once.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
I'm a giant Seine Fold fan, so I I still
want to go to so I don't have. There was
a lot of people that have said that they didn't
he can be kind of staying office er.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
He can be and they would be that with comics
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
I mean, I don't look at that too much somebody
because the year he's sixty something years old, like doing
comedy for forty years or more.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Uh So some.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Of that I look at, like, yeah, does he want
to talk to Like I mean, I'm an open micer
to him, Like you know, he's done comedy so much
longer than me.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Like not that I'm an open by, but you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Like it's like you're so if you were having talking
to some seventh grader about being aligneman or something like
playing football, you'd be like, what do we go to
talk about?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Dude? Like I don't, I can't, you're too new.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
So sometimes like I think of it like that, like
people were like, ah, he wasn't not like comics specifically,
could think like I I didn't like the way he left,
and you're like, what do you want him to do?

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Like just I don't know like that. So I've had
no Luis c K.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
I thought I had a little bit with when I
first started.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Now it's not.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
I mean, obviously he's come back down to reality a
little bit. Uh, it happens, a little bit happens a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Have you heard Pete Davidson's a bit about that he
talks about I guess, Uh, Louisy K was hosting SNL
and then Pete Davidson got high and he was walking
through to go to the elevators, and like luisy K
caught up with him and he was like, hey, stop
getting high. You're ruining your fucking life. Blah blah blah blah,
like kind of dug into him. Yeah, and Pete so high'
is like that didn't happen. There's no way that actually
just happened. And the next day, whoever, who's the guy,

(24:23):
is it Lauren that Lauren's like no, yeah, he calls
Pete into the office and essentially it's like people have
done coke here before, Like just I guess, don't let
Louisy K smoke. And then his whole bit is going
into so you'd be so happy when I found out
on one great day that he was jerking off in
front of ladies and stuff like that, and it's a
it's a pretty funny deal.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah, it's like he uh, Louie's been I have like now,
it's not been back when I was when I I
remember I opened for him once a long time ago,
and uh, he was just kinda like, I don't know,
he was just I mean like at one point Louis
was on top of the world, like, so, you know,
we're in New York, like, I mean, he is the

(25:03):
biggest comic on the planet, and and it would come
off sometimes you can meet him and he'd be kind
of like jerkier, like you know, just not nice, not
being nice, and you're like, you know, and you're a
young comic and you're just thinking, like I'm just said,
I'm nobody, dude, Like just I'm not in you know,
I'm not trying to have You're trying to get out
of his way. You're trying to do all these things,

(25:23):
and he would just you know, everybody would just say,
like you I brought him up on stage and you'd
be like, all right, everybody York started to see your
headliner tonight, please welcome Louis C. K like, and then
I brought him on stage and he's like, don't introduce
me like that and look in a weird way, there's
a valid point and to be like they are there
to see him. I don't really need to say anything

(25:45):
but please welcome Louis c K. But the other side
of it, I've been doing comedy six years at this point,
I don't know what to do. I'm nervous, like like
it was part of you, like, why don't you think
about the situation that we have. I'm getting I can't
believe I'm here. I can't believe I'm getting to go
up in front of you. Uh, this is it's a
sold out room. I've never been in front of a

(26:06):
sold out room.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
There's a lot of things playing into it. So you're
like there was like that kind of stuff with Louis
where he would just like say to you.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Like, what do you want me to do? Dude? How
do you how'd you introduce him? You just where you're like,
all right, y'a excited, you know I'm from.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
You're like giving his credits and all this stuff, and
it's just like, you don't sell my credits. You don't
they know who they're here to see which is true,
and that makes you don't need to say it like yeah,
but it would just be like he come tell you that,
but in like kind of an aggressive way, and you're like, Louis,
I don't know what to do, dude, I know, I'm
so nervous about this whole experience. I just don't want

(26:41):
you to be mad. Yeah yeah, like I and you're
mad clearly, and then now I don't know nothing.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
He's that mad.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
But it's just being like, just be regular, man, Just
be normal. You don't even say I don't even know
the green room, like I'm trying my best. I'm trying
to like, hey, I'm just doing whatever I can do.
I did a joke and then he went up and
made fun of my joke, and that made me so mad.
I was so mad about this. I was so mad
about this for a long time because it was just
like it was like, dude, we're nobody's man. I'm I'm

(27:11):
I got paid seventy five dollars that night, like I
think for hosting, so pray seventy five bucks. That's it,
and I'm fine, and I it's I would do that,
would do that game for free.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
But you're like, what do you I'm again, I'm not,
I'm just so.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
When you got off the stage, he came up and
made funny make fun of the yah. I was pretty
upset about that.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
You remember the joke. Yeah, it was a joke.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
The joke I had about, uh uh, if if I
don't have a gun in my house, I have like
a knife or something in my next to my bed.
So if my if I but I have my wife
sleep next to the door so if someone broke in,
I can shove her at it or and then it
was something like that joke I'm not great at memory,

(27:53):
and then other ones that would I take a bullet
for my wife? That was it, and I was like
and I said yes, because how could I ever take
a bull? That's pretty fast, you know for a gun
to be You can't like hear a gun go off
and jump in front of it. It would hit her
so quick. So you're like, I just would say, yeah,
I will take a bullet. I'll take a bull for
anybody because I'm never gonna be able to get in
front of that bullet.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
And that was like kind of the joke.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
And then he was like, well, you stand in front
of him when the person holds a gun.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
You didn't get in front of her.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
He like just like he described it the way like
my wife would describe it and make it like not fun,
like why you have Like your parent would just be like, well,
I don't know if it's going to work like that.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
You're like, yeah, it's a joke. We're just trying to
have fun. She just knows the whole crowd's gonna laugh
because it's.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
They laugh like then making fun of me, and then
you're like and then you're just like sitting there like
you know, I'm twenty seven years old, Like.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Why would you? What do I have to do with anything?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Right?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Like, please leave me out of this. Yeah, you're I'm
just doing a spot, dude, I'm hosting. Hannibal is supposed
to be on that show too, Burst and he didn't
even show up to the first show and uh he
was hosting and then like that was mad at that.
I'll tell you that was mad at the whole night,
snowballs me.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
I'm like, I'm here, Yeah, we Hannimal didn't show up
like I did.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Like a little more time, yeah, because handle want to
show up and you're still making fun of me. This
was Hannibal is like starting to because I started with
Hannibal and Hanbal was like you started writing for U
and l At this point he was on thirty Rock
I think, or writing for thirty Rock. Man hands great
and so he was like starting to like really kind
of blow up and we were and I was just,
you know, still at the bottom. So I didn't care

(29:27):
for the whole thing. But now it's been fine. I've
never told Loui that. But while I would hopefully watches
the show show up, You're like texta, Hannibal, did you
know this is gonna happen?

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, Well you guys had it out for me. Huh yeah, Hannibal. Well,
Hannibal was late because of thirty Rock. But I remember
I just remember thinking, why, like I'm the one here, yeah,
and I'm just getting trashed.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
If I wasn't here, there be no one else but
you on the show.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, you know, you're just saying it to Hannibal. He
was excited. Hannimals on the show. Hannibal was like again
starting to kind of rise and do good. So it
was like it was cool to have Hannibal.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Or you thinking your head at the time, I'm never
doing this again. No, I mean I you would use that.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
I mean honestly, I would use it for like I
hate this dude, and like I will make sure he
knows me right, like you honestly not to act like
a brag or anything, but in your head at the moment,
I would always just flip it to like, all right,
I will be positive that you know. And he would
never Louis would never remember any of this, as he

(30:31):
probably shouldn't. He shouldn't remember it. I was really there's
no reason he would know me at the time, you
know what I mean, Like, I don't expect, but these
are moments that I would use. I would be I
was so mad about the situation. And then you're like,
all right, all right, well then this is where I'm
at in comedy. So I need to be get to
a level that like I'm not gonna get treated like this,
And so you just use that drive to like chip

(30:54):
on your shoulder.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, telling yourself whatever you can whatever.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, make sure that hey, people will know some day.
But I'm laugh now.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, some other person could probably look at that situation
and be like, dude, he like said he liked you,
and Mabe he was making a funny joke at the
beginning about you. It was all very sweet. In my head.
It's like, I mean, it's armageddon. I'm like, right, But
someone else could be like, no, well he was being nice.
What are you talking about? Like I could have read
the whole situation wrong. Yeah, but I did, and I

(31:21):
read it the way I read it, and then you
just like kind of go all right, we'll grint it.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
You know, man, I wonder what you were feeling during
his like whole what if he did an hour or whatever,
just kind of sitting there and slowly like that seed
of anger started. Oh by the end of that hour,
it had to be a full plant, Like you had
to be fucking ready.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I was like, yeah, I mean I think I did
one more show. We're doing a show for his school,
for his daughter's school, like a fundraiser. Uh so, uh
because he was at We're at Carolines, and he wouldn't
be because I mean he's at this point, he's doing
massive square garden, so he's just doing this for a
fundraiser and uh so, yeah, I mean it all built in.
I mean I sit there and watch him though too

(31:57):
like him obviously he's he's unreal. Like it was like,
you know, you're sitting there watching me and that's you know,
that's part of you that it hurts. It's like because
it's like the dude you're like sitting there going like
that's the main guy.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Like Burr, I always had much.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Burr was very nice to me and would say things
and like be very so you just would have like
little parts of you know where who you got treated
by this person. And I'm not trying to reflect on
what they are now or anything, but it was like
these were little things that you'd be like, they really
stick with you.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, who's somebody now might be Bill Burr, but who
are who are? Who is a comic or a couple
of comics that have been like the most encouraging that
you actually think about back then when you're younger and
building these chips on your shoulders and people have kind
of pulled you aside or given you any kind of
advice or something where it's like, man, this really stuck
with me. This this comic might have no idea, Bill Burr,
this stuck with me throughout my entire career.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, Burr was. Burr was a big one because Burr,
I rememberer. Uh he told me. Uh it was at
Carolines and uh because we go watch Burr like before
he blew up, and he'd be like you could go
sit in the back of the room and watch because
it wasn't sold out. And then I remember the next
year it was it was like they wouldn't even let

(33:14):
us come in the room because it was too sold out.
And like so but Burr like when you just when
he knew your name, when he like he knew he
knew you, and uh, it was it was a really
big deal. And then I remember him saying like, look it,
uh it takes the route that guys let us go.
It takes us a long time, but you gain fans,

(33:35):
and you gain fans for life. And I remember, and
I always thought about that throughout my whole career, like
how like you know, like this build up it take.
I've been common twenty years and uh, it's all just
like a slow like kind of just always going up.
Not a bad thing, but it can be frustrating. It
doesn't happen as fast as another one some one said
was like it's not as it's not as fast as

(33:58):
you want, but quicker than you think like and so
you have these moments that just like it kind of
takes a slow kind of thing and you got to
just kind of grind it out. And so yeah, Burr
was a big part of that. At Mayor Marin was
very nice to me and uh foul and obviously to
do a lot of stuff for me, and uh so
there's just a world of people that end up, you know,

(34:20):
doing things that are very they're just nice to you
or there they see it and they go like, you know,
this dude's like the real deal, and you're you know,
you just need that little confidence that right.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Then, that like a little bit of yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, you want the validation from your peers. I mean
that's all that really matters, is uh what other comics. Yeah,
that's that's the beginning that you feel like what do
they think of us?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
You know?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Is that process different though? When you like you've been
doing it for twenty years, you see a guy's been
doing it for maybe five or six years and they're
trying to accelerate their career. Do you ever sit with
those guys like, hey, just take your time, Like some
dudes are you know, trying to do too much too early.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I think a lot.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I think sometimes people can do they can go too
they can do too much stuff. That's like, uh, you
know they're like, I'm gonna do sketches, i wanna do
a podcast, I'm gonna do stand up, I'm gonna do
impro like and it's like, well, go be great at
one thing. If you can be great at one thing,
you can do all the other things. But you have
to you can't just be kind of fine at a

(35:23):
bunch of things. You need to really learn how to
be great at one thing. And that's then you know
how to be great at other things because you know
what it takes to become great or really good at
one thing. So I think soon as like younger comics
can spread them stuff out and there there's too much
stuff that they're trying to do.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Uh, so you can see.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
That I'm a big like younger comics like, I'm a
big I'm a big act person. Like there's a lot
of crowd work stuff. Look, I know people can do crowdworks.
It's easiest to post content on social media's the crowd
work and stuff like that. But I'm a creating an
act is a If you can create an act it's uh,

(36:01):
it's it's it's the best thing you can do, and
it's it's the most reliable, and it's Uh when people
come see you in d a live show, they I
mean they want to see an act.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
They want to see a whole kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
And stand up is in such a great spot right
now where like we're doing arenas and they're doing there's
a lot of comics doing arenas and doing these big
kind of venues and uh, stand ups in a pretty
wonderful spot. And you know, guys are selling out and
doing big things, and so it's you want them to
be like the exhausting part. You gotta create. You got
to create an act. You gotta constant use stuff coming

(36:35):
uh coming up with stuff on the fly. Like you
look at like Shane, like I know they are, you
know with Shane Gillis, Like Shane gils Is, Like I
haven't seen someone like Shane in a long time. And uh,
he's he's unbelievable as a comedian and like seeing him
like I know his what his next special is going
to be, and it's like it's gonna be great, and

(36:57):
he's I've i mean, I've seen the hour he's run.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I didn't see the taping.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Yeah we saw was Dudeah, I I really I think
it's feel the smiles creeping up on our faces the
minute you said Shane like we means the I mean,
so Shane is yeah, like I mean, I, uh, Shane's
I wasn't really there when Shane was there.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
I don't. I think I was gone. I've been a
comedy forever.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Shane's Like Shane's also reminder how old I am, Like
when you used to realize, like, I mean, he's been
a comedy for a little bit now, and uh, he
was just he was like I remember hearing about him
when he first came out. He would go out with
Dan Soder a lot in another comic. That's an unbelievable comedian. That's, Uh,
SODA's really hitting the road now. Soda is a great
comedian that if you go watch, like me and Soda

(37:44):
are very close friends, and like he's friends with Mike McDaniels.
There is and uh, but SODA's like was doing the
Bonfire with Big Jay and uh then now he's doing comedy,
He's really going to go hit the road really hard.
So Soda, like that's what you got to do like
you got to go on the road and you got
to just stay in these and build this stuff up.
And if you build these are guys that if you

(38:04):
build these acts, and they will because they their acts
are gonna be you start producing hours. If you look
at Louis or Carlin or Chris Rocker all this kind
of stuff, you know, you're you're you're building these hours
that you can go specials. Gaffkin's just putting out a
new special. It's I think it's coming out this week maybe,
uh it's his tenth hour. It's you know how hard
it is to write ten hours of material. It's basically impossible.

(38:29):
There's no one that's really that you know, that can
do it. The limited amount that can do it is
it's a very small group.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
And uh so it's.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Like, go try to be in that group, Like that's
what that's what I look at like, stim try to
be in that group to go produce stuff. That's why
I think some people get it's it's hard to do,
it's tiring. Uh and so then you can flip into
slide into this other stuff where it's like whether it
be like if your whole act becomes I'm not trying
to crack.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Some people are so great at craftwork.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
But if your whole act becomes that, then and it's
like you're not really creating, you know, it's like you're
just I think you get stuck. Versus if you build
an act. I think an act can go because people
want to go watch the show. I mean, you can't
go really watch in an arena and just be like
sitting in the top watching a guy get made fun of,
you know, in the front row. That's not gonna come

(39:17):
across as fun for that person up at the top.
So it's always as big as it can get, I think,
And so like the ones that are creating the act, because.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
You're never actually like working on something, yeah, I knowing
your next show, thinking you can not like write I
don't know, I'm assuming like you're just not writing things
down or trying to work on bits and be like
I'm gonna go take it here.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
You're just leaning on the fact that you can do
crowd working.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
You can go sit and like yeah, and I mean
that stuff's super fun. I mean it's like I and
guys are really really great at Big Jay Orgerson's. Big
Jay's one of the funniest people I've ever met in
my entire life, and he's the best and he does
all like he does it and not.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
And it it.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
But Big Jays can tell stories and he's so great
at stories and all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
So it's U. I always to people think I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
I trash crowd work more than most people, but I'm
I just see with young girl. I just hope that
some still like. That's why I was so great seeing Shane.
And like when I saw Shane for the first time,
I came he came to his aenies and I went
down and watched him before I really knew him, and
but I've heard about him. We've kind of like said
what's up. And I watched him and I was like,

(40:22):
oh man, this is crazy, dude, this is like and
it was and I got very excited because it was like, yeah, yeah, dude,
Like this is this Dude's gonna be you know, obviously
he's super funny in this situation all that, but he
has an act and he goes up with an act
and goes out and destroys. I mean we saw him

(40:43):
in Charleston and uh it was like, dude, I mean
they stand up and you could just get a standovation immediately,
like you saw, people are so excited to see him,
and he's so fun and funny, and it just feels different,
and it's like it doesn't feel serious, and I think
comedy's going that way back that way, which is a

(41:04):
good thing.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Where it's comedy that's like.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Being like, yeah, dude, I'm not No one's trying to
tell you what to do or you know, Shane's not
telling you how to vote. He's not telling you how
to do any of this stuff. It's like just being
funny and like anybody can watch it. Anybody can like
just you know, it's like I'm just having fun, man,
not everybody, not everybody.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
I had a clothes boyd Yeah, he's the boy.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
But we saw his stand up in Austin and shortly
after he came on the bus for the first time.
We really didn't know about Shane, like we knew I
got fired from SNEL. You know, he's a comedian on
the up, and we're like, hey, we're excited to have him.
He crushed it on the podcast. He was so funny.
So then we took the time to like go watch
his YouTube special in Austin and it is I'm like,
I'm by myself, laughing my ass off. And so I

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go to Arizona and see this family that I lived with. Yeah,
and one day like the dad is you know fox
News dad, he's a Fox News dad and his bit
about Fox News dade.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
I was like, hey, you've got to watch.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
His stand up and I put it on, and in
the first five minutes is him essentially making a fun
of Fox.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
News dads and like the Wall and all that, and
I'm laughing. Still.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
It's like the fourth or fifth time I've watched it,
and he doesn't laugh, doesn't make a noise, and he
just grabs the controler and goes, let's watch something else,
and then it turns it off without taking a vote
from anybody else.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I thought, man, you got to open up, you got
to open it up a little bit, bro. I told
him that a dozen times, like you've got to rewatch it.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
But then I'll rewatch it, and then I'll hear the
Trump stuff and I'm like, hey, maybe he shouldn't watch it. Yeah,
maybe he shouldn't into your gay yo. He does sit
down your gay bro.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
The military bit that he does with the Taliban when
people get to see that you were with him in
Zanies a couple of weeks ago, right, Yeah, I bet
the people at Zany's were so fired up because he
had hit us up.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
It was after Beer Olympics.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Yeah, he's a hey after Yeah, the day after we're recovering,
he's like, hey, Nate and I are gonna we're gonna
go on a Zanies at like nine thirty or ten
thirty or something like that.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
I was like, oh, man, like I'm out, Like y'all
had a pretty big day.

Speaker 4 (42:57):
Yeah, yeah, like I was fucking hurt. Bro, he was
bruised up, probably prime telling you about. He kept showing us,
He kept showing us his body. That's more on him though,
But I saw him because you.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Tackled in the photo.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, and like you're it's like, y'all just don't like realize,
like because Shane's big too, but he's not like strong
like y'all, and so I feel like he gets meat.
It's like a big dog. Like it's a dog that
you're like that tries to play with them and then
you're like, well, I don't know if i'd play with
he goes, don't go, don't go full on.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
You don't have this laboratory retrieve. Yeah, show on Instagram
man just being on top of Shane and because it's
started off if him, like you know, he gets there,
he seems very unenthusiastic to be there.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
He's like, we're gonna get buried.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Whatever it is, what it is he gets, he does
one chug, like the first event was was a chug,
and then after that anytime he lost an event, be
behind me and will just talking ship, like you guys
are pet hosts.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
You guys are nasty quick being that they're all laughing
at you. I'm gonna remind you they're all laughing at
you when you chug you.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
I go in one of my one of the rooms
and he's there talking ship, sitting on a chair and
he's like, you dude, you're a pussy dude.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
I'll beat your ass right now.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
So I start wrestling him, and the whole rest of
the day like turned into that.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
And then he's talking about all the bruises.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
It's like, but you gotta get out in the sun
if you don't want a bruise like that, Like he
literally has michelin Man type of skin.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Is that what you have to do?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
I mean, I feel like you gotta weather it up
a little bit, right, Is that what you have to do?
I think I do well. You say older dudes. You
see older dudes, You're like, what does their skin look like?

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Leather?

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Yeah, Leather's tough, it's durable, it's reliable. It's like the
Chevy Silverado.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
If you don't ever go out in the sun like
one little hey, how you doing a little slap on
the lake, there's gonna be a welt there. Luckily Will
got some nice thighs and he's got a little sun
tent on there.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Shane Shane just welted up easy to like that. I've
never heard anything like that.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
It's just it's like, well, you know, want bruises, just
get on the sun right there, just jumping the city a.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Little bit and then bruised.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
That's all you got.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
Do you just make that up?

Speaker 4 (44:54):
It's like, did essentially make that out? But it gotta
makes sense when you really think about it. I guess
it does. Chandler on me, dude, Michael Chandler. I mean
he could stand up on this bus, no problem. I
have plenty of room, little or guy. But he wrestled
me in the pool and I almost drowned about six times,
and then the rest of the day it was like
he was.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Being Yeah, he's a little bit pool. It was his
right hand man.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
It was his guard so strong. Oh, dude, Fandler is
just and the best, due, the nicest guy.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
You're way too nice to be in the octagon like that.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Yeah, I know. Yeah, he's a wild thought. Yeah, but
he like enjoys it.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
We were at his, uh his house for Labor Day
weekend last year, and his pool is like four feet deep.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Yeah, and it's the late night.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Everyone's been drinking a little bit and I see somebody
something dive into the pool, but their feet don't go
in the water, so he essentially dove in the pool
and hits his face and comes up. And I'm in
the middle of a conversation with somebody. I look back and hey, Mike,
did you just hit your face on the floor of
the pool. And he's like no, no, He's like laughing,
just having a good and then all of a sudden,

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his face just starts bleeding everywhere, and I'm like, you
gotta go wipe your faces, like, don't tell my wife,
don't tell my wife. And I was like, she's gonna fine,
look at you. She's gonna find you. Look like you
just got done with a fight from forehead to chin
road rash. And he's like helped me out of the pool.
So I literally grabbed him by his hips, like right
like here. I just remember thinking, he's just a fucking
dense ball of muscle. That's all this fucking dude is.

(46:24):
He's just so goddamn strong. Yeah, he's so strong. Yeah,
and then he takes my big ass and throws me
around the pool like a child.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
I was humbled. It was a humbling experience for me.
I forgot that would be.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
That would be the people always wondered, like a fight
would be like you and him with your sighs, even
anything else.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
But if I had any training, I'm sure there'd be
more of an evil fight.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yeah, no training, right me? Yeah, no, I'm getting bank. Yeah,
he's gonna absolutely tae me.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
I've wrestled himsh Yeah, we were.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
In the Oxygen one time. I did sneak him with
a spinning backfist.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Luckily for him, I stopped because my the awareness, but
that would have probably taken him out, would take him out.
But he's got He takes me to the ground, it's
over and he's gonna get to these legs be not
an issue at all.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
He's excited about it.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
No, Yeah, he sees these little sticks and he's like,
I'm gonna take advantage.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Yeah for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
But the whole whoever was at Zany's, I mean that
was a surprise, right.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Yeah, so we.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Did, Uh, we were hanging out because I knew he
came down because I talked to Shane quite a bit,
like Shane's going uh not that I just like talking
to him because he's I mean, he's I think he's
very funny and then like he's just where he's at
in his career and he's starting to like really, I
think after this next special, I mean, Shane's going to
really be uh one of the top touring acts. I
mean he already is a very top touring act. He's

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gonna be one of the top. And so he's a
good dude and just uh so we were just in town.
So we were hanging out just that day and then
I was like I kind of was I've been kind
of wanting to go up, uh and then I was
like you want to go up? And then He's like yeah,
So we were like let's just see and then so
we you know, it was I won the people I
don't think expected me and Shane to do.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
And then so we just called Zani's and they were
like yeah, and they put on selling and sold out immediately,
which we both you never get used to that.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
You're both like in your head like is this gonna
sell it? Like you think like there's no way you
thought that. Sweet, you have a moment, dude.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
You just you know, when you put yourself out there
a little bit and you're like, what if it doesn't
like imposter syndrome. Yeah, like yeah, and you think like
you're like, all right, me and Shane gonna do a show.
And then everybody's like we're good. I mean because it
was in let me make a call at like four
thirty and the show's at nine or nine thirty.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
How quickly did it sell out? I think in fIF
in like ten minutes or it was like it was like.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Oh, if you're going yeah, yeah, when you're in Nashville,
you have to catch that.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
You're fired the fuck up getting to watch Shane and you.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
It was I want to do it again because it's
like the people that I, uh, we went in there.
Actually we had did some work I needed to. I
needed to like kind of run my hour and like
pull something. I needed to just figure out some time
stuff with my hour, and then Shane just went up there.
And but we went up there together at the end.
And that's what I think people like the most is
just me and him on stage hanging out and talking

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and so I mean we talked about we want to
do it again, like it was because we both really
enjoyed it, and uh, I really like him, and uh
he's and he's a great I mean, he's a truly great, great.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Comment possibility you guys tour together now, I mean, the
only thing I'm clean.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
So it's like I couldn't the audience that comes to me,
even though a lot of people that would see me
love Shane, but I wouldn't. I mean, I my kids
can come to my show, like it's all ages. So
it's I wouldn't want to put that much, you know,
like someone if that's our part of being clean, you
kind of on your own. And the fact that like
there's only so many I mean the comics that bring
out with me, not that they're all they're not all

(49:42):
clean outside of me, but they have to be clean
when they come to my shows. So uh, outside of that,
it's it's like kind of hard to be like because
it's like my crowds are I just can't.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
I just really can't do it.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
But so it's like that's why a situation like that
where we just like kind of pop on last minut
it yeah, is because then, you know, I think it's
people that are comedy fans and.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Right, they completely understand that this is like an anomaly
of Nate and shit coming out there.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
It's not like there's versus like, you know, I might
have an entire my real show, Like there's be an
entire family comes, bring your grandparents, the grandchildren, and I'm
gonna be like, they're ready for Shane, and I think
they think we'll find Shane very funny. But they also
might be like, we didn't expect to hear all those words.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
I mean, dude, we had that situation this past weekend
with what Kittlefest and Laser.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Yeah who uncle Laser is? I think I've heard his name.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
He's a he's a comedian out of Austin, Texa's Yeah,
he's hilarious And I went and saw him at Zany's
a few weeks ago, and it's all, you know, pussy
eating ass.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
It's as dirty.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
As a gat mom jokes young gun like yeah, yeah, exactly.
So Kittle meets Laser at Beer Olympics and reaches out
to Lasers like, hey, I have Kittlefest coming up. Would
you like to come to it and do some stand
up like ten minutes? And Laser's like absolutely, I'll go.
And so once I caught wind of this, I caught
wind of it at the party, and I have seen
his stand up and it's you know, me and Will

(51:12):
are there, A bunch of our friends are there, but
there's also his aunts, his uncles, his grandparents, like there's
an older crowd as well, buttoned up wearing their Sunday
best type of stuff at a frat party.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Essentially, I told him I was like, brother, have you
heard Laser's stand up?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
He's like, no, Yo, all right, okay, and he's the
first person to go up, and dude, it was probably
the most mixed review thing I've ever watched in my
life because there's like me and Will.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
Are literally like probably standing there like smiling doing this.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
So I mean, it's funny.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Spur a crowd that's you know RiPPs Marlboroughs and wears Nascar,
you know what I mean, Like it's you're not scared
of hearing the language, but then some people are can
be surprised at how dirty something can actually get.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Yeah, brings out us harmonica that talks about one's the
pussy and one's the ass, and that's how he learned
to eat out chicks.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
And I'm just looking at the.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Grandma and she's like, oh yeah, she's looking like leans
over her husband, like did we He's got.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
The harmonica playing that.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
It gets him out of They can just get you harmonica,
all right.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
It was so funny because he didn't hold back, He
didn't look at the crowd and go I should probably
tighten a couple of things up.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
He went full boored right into it, no doubt that,
I fully believe. His eyes glazed over and he knew
the situation he was in. He's like, I just gotta
fucking get through this. Yeah, you gotta run.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Yeah, I mean some of you get You're like, it
is what you do. So it's like just go do
what you do. And then you know, they either get
they laugh or they won't. What was the choice for
you to go clean. I just started that way, like, uh,
it was just how you know, grows from the South,
Southern Christian, Like, well, I wasn't allowed to watch anything
that stuff like that, and so my uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
We saw that we were watching some of your bits
before that ship was hilarious.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
Yeah yeah it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
I mean I wasn't allowed to watch And there's so
many movies I've missed because I just was never allowed
to watch them and never watched up. Yeah, and I
still I know, uh, I never watched it. When we
weren't allowed to watch Simpsons, that was a big deal.
When I was young Simpsons came out. It was like
because bart was like against authority, Like it's like a
lot of parents didn't like that.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
It was like this kid, did your dad watch the Simpsons?

Speaker 4 (53:13):
No, no, no, one be like Sunday night football is over, Simpsons,
come on.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Yeah no.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
It was yeah, it was just very I mean, I
I just when I grew up, it was just a lot.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
It was just different.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
There was the South was pretty strict and like what
you could do, I mean, you couldn't dance or I
went to Donaldall Christian Academy that they did.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
We didn't have a problem.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
We had like a banquet, and then you couldn't dance
because it was like dancing was not and it wasn't
like the parents don't believe dancing is bad. They believe
dancing is bad. But it's like you just would have
you know back then, I mean an eighty year old
in nineteen ninety seven that she thinks dancing is bad.
So you're kind of like not doing it to be
like kind of you.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
Can get a little space, leave some room for the lord. Yeah,
you just go, well we would we could, you could go.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
The parents with then they would rent out of room
and then everybody could have like a more of a
prom dance kind of after you would do a banquet,
like it's kind of a proper thing for like, you know,
those older people to be like we're not you know,
and then you go do the dance thing after.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Yeah, it was you know.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
So it's like I grew up. You just grew up
in under those like, uh standards. So it's like I
just started. I just started clean and then uh, I
was always clean and and then you know, once you
start it's like kind of just the only way I
go now dide.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
You've had a glow up about you.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
I remember seeing you in NASCAR and you had that
your haircuts not that way, but you were laced up
with a skin fade.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Yeah, compared to years past.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
I mean your stand up a couple of years ago,
the way you were a couple of years ago. You've
aged very well. Your skin I've noticed the entire time
is phenomenal. But you're like you were like one of
the dads where you show up at the barbecue and
you're like, oh, I hey, Nates here, this will be
a fun time.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Now it's like you show up at the barbecue. I
hate Nates here. He's you guys, he's pretty fucking big, ticking.
I'm going no bread. Yeah, what's what's the glow up? Like,
I'm not fun? I brought my own food door. Yeah,
you know, you don't talk to anymore.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Yeah, Yeah, it's been I mean the whole you know,
my whole run.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
I'm forty four, So I quit drinking in twenty nineteen,
and a big part of that was like I was
just getting I knew I was like starting to go
to theaters and all this stuff. I knew if I
wanted to get where I wanted to go. I couldn't drink,
Like I wasn't able to when I drank. It's like
it's not like I just drank at home or did
all these things. Some people can drink and they you

(55:30):
might think you don't have a problem because you're not,
like your ago a week without drinking, But it's like
I didn't when I started. I didn't know how to
stop and like all that stuff. And so I knew
when i'd go on the road. It's like I start
Thursday night, it would be a fun night out at
a club, and then you drink that night and then
you're just hung over the rest of the weekend. So
then you then then you're just trying to get through
the shows because you don't feel great. And so I

(55:50):
was like, if I need if I want to produce
the material that I want to produce and tour and
all that, I needed to stop that. So that was
that was the when the first one and happened because
I just stopped drinking and something just literally drinking will
just help a lot of things. I still don't eat great,
and I'm trying now that's the second one. I'm trying

(56:10):
to overcome because it's like being on the road again.
It's like hard on your body. You kind of gotta
treat it like not an at like not a full athlete,
but as both y'all. Like, but it's like half of
it at you have to somewhat be so mentally you
can handle all the things that you have to go
do and so you can be in good moods and
be fun and then not be like just on edge

(56:33):
all the time and all this. So I'm trying to
work on that as well. But yeah, I man, we
had a good time. I mean the whole beginning of it. Yeah,
there's a lot of drinking. I mean, me and Hannibal
said we because I don't think he drinks anymore. I
don't know if he does now or not, but he
didn't a few years ago and we were talking about
Hannibal said something that always stuck with me. He was like,

(56:53):
you know, he goes, I look at it. He's like,
we put up some good numbers because we did good.
Because a lot of times you get drinking, everybody thinks like, wow,
it's being fun. You're like, no, I did all. I
did what you're doing right now. I did I already
did all this and you just weren't you were not
old enough to be there. But yeah, you're like, I
already went and did all this and it was a
fun time and I had to And then there's a
then you just hit a point where you get older

(57:14):
and you're like about forty, start going like all right,
You're like, I mean, just stuff starts hurting, like you
just You're like, I can't wake up and feel like
this every day, Like this is brutal.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
It's a brutal feeling. That fog. That fog is terrible.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
But it's the most fun in the during it for suing,
it is the most fun. I mean the Senior's Beer Olympics,
like that looked like it's the it's a wonderful, wonderful time.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
It was awesome. It was so much awesome. Man.

Speaker 4 (57:39):
You ever want to come out of retirement for a day, Yeah,
I know, I'm more than welcome.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Yeah. There's always moments where you're like, you know, I
hung out this weekend that I feel like I could
get your uh not to football because I did the
American Century Championship.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
John Elway, John.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
When meeting John Alway, who's bad on Alway is a
good time oh yeah, And I was telling dance Ow
does a giant Uh John Alway fans just he's from Denver,
And I was like telling Dan, I was like, John
Elway could make you quit drink, come out of retirement
and drink.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
Dan doesn't drink either, and uh, because.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
He's like just like a good like You're like, this
dude's the most fun and you don't think have you
met him.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
No, I've never met John, but I hear a bunch
of stories.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
You don't stories, like you think he's gonna be his
son is awesome to his son's a big Shane Gills fan. Uh,
his son's great, big comedy fan, roight, big fan of
you guys.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Like, does Shane know that his son's a big Shane
Gills fan? I think so, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
You know, yeah, Shane nuts over football players and you know,
but he was like someone that you're like, you know,
this dude's the bad I mean, you just think he's
gonna be stowing like this.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
It's John Alway, so you just you just think he's
gonna be like you'll meet him, like how you doing this?
And you're like, this guy is a good time man.
Just like what a lot of charisma, A lot of charisma,
like laugh a lot you say anything, he's laugh at it.
Fun Like you just feel like you're gonna just be
with him and he'd be like You're like yeah, he's
like they take the boat out, and you're I didn't

(59:08):
go on the boat, but he's like you just he's
talking about it, like, oh, the boat showed me the boat.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
You mentioned a boat. I think I could have gone
out of this.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Yeah, but it was just like it was just like
a very surprising meeting someone that you're like, oh, dude,
you're not what I thought. Like you realize Peyton maning
going to Denver, You're like, yeah, dude, Like yeah, yeah,
put anybody in.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
A room with John Denver. You're John ellwooy, You're gonna
be like, yeah, I'll go.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Dude, you're the best, best fucking cool man. Who else? Like,
who else have you met?

Speaker 3 (59:38):
This been? Like, oh, dude, you are fucking because that
is the best feeling.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
Like we talked about the people you meet and you're like, man,
don't meet your heroes, but the people you meet and
they're either exactly like you thought they would be or
even better, like you're saying, Yeah, that's the best feeling.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
A lot of like Cable guys like that, Larry Cable guy,
Larry's aweah, bro, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:57):
I would have loved to join you in that enthusiast.
He's obviously a massive Nebraska fan. So when we had
our one of our tailgates last year at Nebraska, well
he came on the uh we had the podcast out
there at Nebraska, and he's just the nicest fucking dude.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
He's just so funny, just salt of the earth, exactly
like what you kind of see on camera, and even
better just like you're hanging out with him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Yeah, that that's the part that you want, is like
when you can see when you meet someone in there
like super nice and they're just it seems like they're
like a girl.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
I met Devonte Adams this week and he was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
He was like kind of a funny dude, like uh
and just like kind of quiet and but just my
experience with him was very nice to talk to and
like it was just super fun.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Vrabel was there. I met very Rabel's a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah, you see why you want to like, yeah, you
can see why you want to play for like you
get it. Like that's what's interesting, is like when you
when you go, oh, this is why people like like
you and want to play, like cause you're like you're
you're He just feels like he'd be one of he'd
be you, Like he'd be like if you played for him,
you'd be like, he's just you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
There's a totally different dynamic though when you're his player
like him now with us is great. Like we had
him on the podcast very recently. He came on yesterday.
I know, but I'm trying to play because this this
comes out forty or whatever. Yeah, he came on yesterday. Yeah,
and the three of us have a group chat, me,
Will and Braves and it's our podcast. Was every bit

(01:01:25):
of that group chat. Like it can be awkward at times,
it's funny at times he gets serious, Like you just
don't he like Rabel's a guy that dictates how the
conversation is going to go, especially when you're the player. Yeah,
in the first year we sit twenty eighteen, he's got.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
That alpha energy and you could just tell, like the
dynamic even on him on yesterday, you just you know,
there's still those nerves of like, you know, is he.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Yeah, we're growing mad for this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
Will's turning thirty thirty three this year, right, Yeah, I
literally turned thirty two in less than a week. Yeah,
and we're there's literally nerves where I'm being around another
man like, hey, yeah, but he can't hurt us anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
We can't. There's nothing he can do. We start joking
about fighting that I really thought, is he does he second? Yeah?
But he is like a good time Rabell has got
to be the best time. Yeah. He's a guy that dynamic,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
I but I've always liked the New York comedy had
a dynamic like that. Like you always like the people
that started that were the bigger comics above you, and
not even necessarily like fame wise, but just the you know,
there's guys that started before you. There's always ah, there's
always like a respect that you're like, you know, like

(01:02:30):
you just the older guys. I remember Robert Kill, Bobby Kelly,
who does uh podka, who does a bonfire now with
Big Jay. Bobby is like so funny and uh. But
Bobby's like a guy that like I feel like Bobby
told me to go do something, I would just have
to go do it because he was he's you know,
he just looked up to him so much. He started
out open for him a lot and did this stuff.

(01:02:51):
So like the I've always liked that, like kind of
like in stuff. I think it's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
Yeah, like a like a natural just subtle power dynamic
that happens just never really get talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Keith Robinson, Like Keith Robinson was in Is in New
York comic that was like, would he you know, Jay
big Ja and Kevin and they would he did. He
helped him a lot, and uh, you know, Kevin Art's
obviously the most famous person on the planet and Keith
is most people would not know who Keith is. But
I think Kevin's got to feel like a little you know.
It's like there's a little like Keith could Keith and

(01:03:25):
say whatever he wants to Kevin, like the situation Raybel
could sit down and say whatever he wants to you whatever,
Like You're still gonna feel like you gotta just take it, Like.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
And that hurts, like it hurts to agree with that,
but it's totally true.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Got them pizza feet And I'm just like, yeah, yeah
he did say that to you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
Yeah, Yeah, who's somebody who's somebody that you've met that
you've been absolutely fired up to fucking meet.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
I met Tiger Tiger Woods. That's a solid one.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
And that was before or after after again, very humble,
very cool. Uh tell you what, people just need a little.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
People need a little.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
I can tell you if you think someone's like getting
a little too high on the horse, Uh yeah, there
could be.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
I got the you got the pill to make that
all better. Uh. But he was Yeah, he was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
I mean yeah, he just felt like I did a
corporate gig for the PGA or something. It was him
and Rory were there. This was and uh, I didn't
get to meet Rory. I would like to meet Rory,
and uh, I just didn't get to meet him. But
Rory seemed very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
And then but Tiger was there and they I was
like kind of like it'd be really cool to meet him,
and the lady was like, yeah, we're having and he
kind of came up and I just gotta briefly talk
to him and then we just talked about it. He
went on the Tonight show and talked about foul and
and uh, kind of quick we gotta I got a picture,
like that's not just me and him. It was just
taking picture of kind of the moment and uh yeah

(01:04:52):
where you like just take a bunch of pak like
I don't I don't want to ask, make sure you
have your camera out. Yeah yeah, And so that that,
I mean, that was like one that I was like,
you know, Jordan would be another one. Uh, but Tiger
was probably the is the biggest for me because Tiger
I watched his whole thing, like when he turned pro.
I mean, I'm he's forty eight or nine or something

(01:05:13):
like that, and I was just at the age of
like watching that guy's whole existence. So yeah, Tiger was
one that where he was like You're like, this is crazy, dude. Yeah,
I'd imagine meeting like Tom Cruise would be like that.
There's like big ones.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Yeah, he's very nice. Yeah, he's just nice. He's someone
that you should want. You should meet Tom Hanks. Yeah,
one of those Like he's like one though that you're
like go you like if you if it's like if
you saw him out and someone's again, don't meet your hero,
like you can go meet Tom Hanks. That dude's a
good dude. Yeah, he's a he was very very nice
very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
I wonder what Tom Cruise is about. I wonder what
he's think.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
I've heard scientology, right, yeah, it's like that's like I
do movies and then scientologist.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
I'd be scared to meet him because I would probably
become a scientolgst.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Have you been on a scientology building on eighth Avenue? No?
I haven't. There's one right on eighth.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
You go down and every once in a while there'll
be a little thing out there that says free personality test.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
I've been tempted to just pull over.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Yeah, there's a there's a I get nervous signs like
they're they're good, and I think they could you go
in there and you're like, all right, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
They can they Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
They go yeah, if you if you just have any
which I think is how you should live with any
question of anything.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Just question everything a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Uh, And then you go see they go into the
scientology and then Tom Cruise was in there like that.
Dude's the most charming person the people that have met him.
I knew a guy that worked as a director and
a writer and they had him writing on one of
the Mission Impossibles a while ago and they said that,
Uh they told him when he when they met him,

(01:06:50):
they go, look, when you meet Tom, they go, just say, no,
you're gonna think y'all are going to be best friends.
Like that's how charming he is. Is He's just eat
takes over and you were just like this dude's.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
The best.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
And you're like, we're gonna you're like, we might be
hanging out every day ever. Yeah, and that's just what
it's gonna feel like, because that's that's what he is.
It takes that kind of charm to be that. And
then they were he was he went into a hotel
room on the top floor. Uh, they rented the whole
floor out. You know, I mean, you can't that guy
like is a walking Walmart, Like he's a billion dollars.
Like it's just you have to be like and I

(01:07:26):
think he tries to get on a motorcycle alone and
just drive off and you're like, yeah, you're like, you're
like the most important person a lot, dude, You're here,
all these movies, all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
You can't just run away from us like that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Yeah, But you know, like when he gets on a motorcycle,
like just all of a sudden music starts playing too,
like as he drives off.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
So my buddy said, he's sitting in uh, he's sitting
in uh the hotel. So they tell him that. So
Tom Cruise is here and he's facing the window, and
they're sitting on the couch looking at Tom, and they're
talking about like all right, we'll go do this for mission,
but then we're gonna and Tom's kind of going to
the whole thing. And then they see Tom start to
squint because the sun was setting, so the sun's coming
in the window and start a squint. So then they

(01:08:05):
say he says, Tom just pushes.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
A button on. I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
It might have been like an iPad or it might
have been something pushes a button. Two people come in
with sunglasses. He's got an option, so they both have
a pair, and he just looks and then grabs this
pair and puts it on, and but just keeps talking
the whole time and then never says yeah, yeah, those
are my sunglasses, people, or whatever you should say to

(01:08:30):
go like hey, what was that like light the version people?
It doesn't make sense, like you're like, are they just
back there? Does that button just for sunglasses? Like you
have people just for sunglasses or like, how would they
know they came out of a room offered two per
He's still talking and just goes puts it on.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
They leave, and then he still just keeps going. You know,
like if you're in there and you just kind of
like look around, nobody says you're gonna ask, I would say, like, hey,
who were they?

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
It's probably one of those moments where you look around
you see everybody still die.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Then you're kind of just too scared to say anything.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
He's I think he's taken over the situation. He's talking
so much, and he's probably and he's into it, like
because he's like doing these stunts.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Yeah, he does all this stuff himself.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
So he's like you know, and you're just kind of
like caught up in it, and you might almost expect it.
To be honest, you might sit there and go, yeah, yeah,
that's what. They should have brought him sunglasses And that's
insane that y'all made him push the button.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
You should have just felt it. Somebody just got fired.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
You know what, it's five o'clock, the sun's starting to set.
Let's go be around Tom with sunglasses and then you
just get on that side. You could remember once I'm
talking to super rich dude that said like he was
running by a house and uh, he said, you know
because with the master bedroom only had one bathroom and
he said it like that, and I was like, what,
like master bedrooms only, like they have two full bathrooms.

(01:09:53):
And but then the moment when they say it, you're like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
Yeah, dude, screw that house. Are you out of your mind?

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Why were you embarrass thing is that that they build
a house with just one bathroom, yeah, in the master bedroom.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
To thirty squire foot house.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Yeah, he's like they didn't have two bathrooms in the
master bedroom. You're like, well, that's I'm glad you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Didn't buy it. Yeah, you know what they yeah, they
never sell. Yeah, and that's a good point. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
You start realizing, like, my stupid house, I got one
bathroom in the master bedroom, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Look like an idiot. I hope god he never comes over,
I hope. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Yeah, you can't invite him. Yeah, man, that's crazy. You
look at the window. Yeah yeah, I changed my bathroom.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
I didn't even know that was a possibility to want
two bathrooms, Like that's a dream that you're like, I
didn't know you, I could even have that dream. But
now I'll think about every day when I'm fuling.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Like two full bathrooms. When I look at two bathrooms
two showers in the master bedroom, that didn't make any sense. Well,
that's unpractical.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
And next time you look at your dumb wife brushing
your teeth next to you, like you should be in
your own bathroom, and you're just furious, like you go,
what are we doing all scrammed in here?

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
Pissed off? Yeah, you gotta share a scene, ma'am. We
got a I know, I feel like I hit the
first one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
What is the shittiest moment of your career?

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Uh, there's been a bunch. Uh, it's trying to think
I bombed on a cruise once.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
And uh. And so you're on the boat with these
people and get off.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
I remember, like I had to do three shows, and
so I do the first two shows. One show goes
the point when you would do them you have to
do three shows of half an hour, so you'd have
to do a half hour clean, half hour dirty, and
then you'd have another show that's like a half hour.
And so this is a show actually that a lot
of crowd work. Comics that can do crowd work are
very good at cause it's like that's kind of the

(01:11:47):
best thing because you can just go do talk to
the crowd. Every every crowd is different, every show is
different because you're talking to the crowd. But for me,
I didn't have like enough, I'm not a CrowdWork person.
I didn't know how to do it, and then I'm
not great at it, and then I'll add material, so
I go do it and like I just bomb, like
because they they've all heard the jokes because I've only
had like basically an hour. So I split them up

(01:12:08):
into the two of those thirty minute shows, and then
the third show, I was like, well, maybe those people
won't come back. Well they come back and they just
and I wrote I remember that show. I wrote an
elevator with guys and they were saying, they were like, yeah,
there's two comics and then go, this one comic was great.
The other guy they loved him, and im me, they
go that other guy is like not good, and I mean,

(01:12:28):
my shoulder is touching that man who's saying that. But
I have like my hat on and not that you
even know me. So that was a pretty tough like
I was in h I was in an elevator in
the ocean. I think it's a moment that you would
think you'd be happy and you just I mean, I'm
just and I just got off whatever floor was, the
next floor.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
I just walked off.

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
God, that would be brutally something body being on a
cruise ship.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
He did. He did some shows and he bombed.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
And he's on the elevator and the guy, the gentleman
next to me, there's a you know, a crowd on
the other He's wearing a hat, so they can't they
don't recognize who he is. They're talking about how you
know this one comic they loved him, and then but
that last one, like he just.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Wasn't very good and he said he's he's just standing there.
That's tough. You ever get over that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Uh yeah, you remember, you know, it's always funny afterwards
because you're like, you're glad it happens, like, uh, you're
glad in the sense that it's a funny story to tell,
like you know, uh, but yeah, it's pretty tough.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
One of the ones that hurt me the most was
I auditioned for Last Comic Standing when Gialdo hosted, and
uh uh and Craig Robinson was on it because he
had his he had a movie. Very funny joke that
Girado said, Craig Robinson had the movie a hot Tub
time Machine. And uh and so write and you see
because I got a new movie, hot Tub time Machine.

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Drawda goes, Oh, what's it about? Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
This is very funny because obviously it's about a hot
tough time. There's no way to describe it, but hot
Tub time Machine.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
So when I audition for that, I did not get it.
And I thought I always thought like being clean. I
was like, oh, I'm gonna get like all the you know,
I'm the only one clean, so like I can do
this stuff. And I didn't get it, and they and
I and I never got close with the last converstanding
and that that was the one that that was like
a one that was like it hit me and I.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Like it hurt.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
It really hurt because you just think like, all right,
I'm gonna go on this show, I'm gonna do this.
You kind of get your career kind of mapped out
a little bit. You think all this stuff's gonna happen,
and then it just doesn't happen.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Another But man, when it, you know, when it, when
you're in it, you're like, what am I doing?

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
Dude? Like it's so frustrating.

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
Yeah, then our last one drunkest you've ever been were
the scariest.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
You seat you up and you're like, man, I gotta
fucking correct.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
You wake up in that shay, you have to dim
the lights, get a quill and some ink out, dude,
and write some free hand poetry while the candles are lit.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
That type of stuff. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
I mean some of this I've talked about on my
in my act. So usually anything that I've already talked about,
it was uh. I mean one was at h I
guess an Indian casino or Native American casino.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
Uh canceled Washing Football team casinos Washington Football.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Why didn't they keep Washington Football? I know it's such
a good name and the commanders a good Washington football.
I was like, you may just think, well every team
we should be the Tennessee football team.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
Yeah, I was like, stupid makes it easy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
But so I went to that and I remember it
was like three hour drive from Phoenix, and so I
was out in Arizona. I drove to this casino to
do this little one night er. I mean, this is
you know, I'm nobody making no money talking stickers.

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Uh. I wish this was not even that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
This was I think I did some other kind of
it was like a it was something I was making
one hundred and fifty dollars. But it was like, you
know what, I'll just go drive to the middle of nowhere,
Arizona and then go back to Phoenix and then fly home.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
So I go out and I was like, oh, it'll
be fun, and uh, you know, I'm thinking, like I'll
just go to bed early, get up, have a nice
drive back because I'm like, I'm not gonna be hanging
out with anybody. And then so we get doing the
show that I'm ma on, Likexino. Then you just end
up meeting like some fun dudes. And next thing you know,
it's like it's five in the morning and I'm just
trying to go to bed. I gotta get up at

(01:16:17):
like eight to drive three hours back. So I get
up and I'm driving back and I mean, I'm so
I feel so awful and uh and when I and
I have this in my joke, I walked out at
the casino and there's like wolf like uh, and this
really happened. There's a wolf like in my path to

(01:16:38):
go to my car in the parking lot and just
sitting there staring at me. And I was like, uh,
you know, like I don't know what this is. Like
it made me really dude, and I swear it was
a wolf. And so I was like this is insane,
you know, because I was like, I don't you know
what is that?

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Is it a wolf? Is it the guy I hung
out with last night? I don't know?

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
And so I went, yeah, he turned into a wolf,
and now he's like, good day, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
So I just went back inside and I remember I
just rolled my stuff back in the casino and I
just stood there. I'm not talking to anybody, like it's
and I just kind of stood inside for a second,
and then I went back out and then the wolf
was gone. And so then I went to my car
and then I drove back and uh. And then when
I was driving back, Uh, I'm in the I mean
the middle of nowhere, Arizona, just on a road alone,

(01:17:29):
and a helicopter lands in front of me and picks
up like a life support some guy on the side
of the road and then takes him and flies and
I have to wait for that to happen, and so
and I'm so hungover that I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Like annoy it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
I'm like, here we go, like you know, I mean,
I've never had to stop for helicopter in my life.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
I don't expect to ever do it ever again.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
And I handled that moment hungover, just like and want
look at this every day, every day, every helicopter every
day there goes every day. Look I'm not I should
have video of this, I should have pictures. I didn't
do any of that. I just was like, hey, well,
I was like, can I get around him? Like it's
a hell. I mean, he's just in the middle of that.
There's no buildings, there's just me, this helic there's five

(01:18:16):
us and it's the helicopter people, that guy and me
and uh. And then finally it took off and I
kept driving and so that was like that was a
tough one.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
That was where all that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
I I think, so, I really, yeah, cause it was
it was the day after.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
It feels like so far away now, but yeah, that
I do believe that all that stuff happened, and that
was stuff like when I drank like I cause I
talked about that my special and like uh on one
of my specialism. But uh it's uh yeah. Those are
moments that you're like, such fun moments that you think
for when you first start drinking.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Stop drinking. You're like, well, I'm not gonna not be
fun anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
You want the moment to live forever. Keep it going,
keep it going. Yeah, ma'am, dude, thanks for coming on.
I know you have a hard stop at five, so
we'll let you get out of here. Thank you for
coming on and think this fly for being with us
as well. That motherfucker's going around has been ripped around.
He's been living his best life. Yeah, just rips around on.
Just sit and you hit that damn light about Yeah.
But thanks a lot, man. This has been fucking awesome. Absolutely, man,

(01:19:14):
congrats you guys to y'all. It keeps blowing up. I
love seeing it. Thank you, bro man, Thank you all right.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Out of here. You gotta you gotta host something

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