Soder - 2nd Generation with Yannis Pappas | Soder Podcast | EP 8

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

This episode Dan is joined by comedian Yannis Pappas! Drop us a rating on itunes and subscribe to the show to help us grow. Dan is on the road all 2024! Get tickets @ https://www.dansoder.com/tour JAN 5 & 6th, 2024 - Baltimore,MD Sat, FEB 3, 2024 - Stamford,CT Sun, FEB 4, 2024 - Manchester,CT Boston | Feb 17 2024 FEB 22 & 23rd, 2024 - Cleveland,OH Thu, FEB 29, 2024 - San Antonio,TX MAR 1 & 2nd, 2024 - Comedy Mothership - Austin,TX Follow Yannis https://www.instagram.com/yannispappas/?hl=en Connect with me! Twitter: https://Twitter.com/dansoder Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansoder Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dansodercomedy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dansoder Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@dansoder.comedy #dansoder #standup #comedy #entertainment #podcast Produced by  @homelesspimp  https://www.instagram.com/thehomelesspimp/?hl=en

Where do we go from here? Is that what you're asking me? I think it's all back up. What are you kidding? We're out. We're fucking circling the toilet. It's over, dude. I know.

You're the dogs of war lose. Who knows what's going to happen? My favorite. We're going to have to grab swords and fight the Crusades. Oh, dude, that'll be funny for front lines. Yeah. They go. If you were silly, you have to get on the front line against China.

Didn't you hear just like there was a congressman or a senator? I can't remember which one who's just like hey I we what we need to do is make these migrants fight and then they can get their citizenship I was watching this going like what the are we here? Yeah, he's gay. Did you hear did you know about this? No, so I don't know if I thought you're really about to hit me with the Jay Leno. Do you see this? So, I don't know if... I thought you were really about to hit me with the Jay Leno. Did you see this? You heard about this? Did you see about that? We have him.

So, apparently, these migrants... You're not listening to the news? But... So, yeah, he's a Democratic senator or congressman. I can't remember his name. Maybe we can look him up. But he goes... He gives a speech on Capitol Hill, and he's like, this is my plan.

My plan is, you know, nobody's joining the Army, so we need the migrants. We offer them citizenship if they fight for us that's wild so i mean we are circling the drain my friend that's wild they hit him a gun and they go you're not gonna like this but we're heading you we're sending you back to where you came from to kill your family yeah yeah for us turns out there's a mineral deposit yeah right off the coast you're my favorite i think like um doom and gloom time yeah you're my favorite person to talk to yeah i'm called mr sunshine because i'm always optimistic i forgot which story i was telling but uh i was telling katie recently about we saw someone oh the i was making fun of the rock

because the rock wears glasses now yeah you know and he's like i'm very i'm very in depth brother you know he's like he's full of shit but I remember one time I came to do Bar 4 and I wore glasses because I used to wear glasses before I got LASIK and on stage Giannis goes oh

Soder's probably gonna hit us with a serious set he's got his Eminem interview glasses on and you compared him to where Eminem wore glasses and was like

I'm listening yeah I remember that stage yeah yeah that's how you would wear glasses to interviews that's what I miss you can't interview you can't wear glasses when you're rapping no so he would be yeah he'd put them on push it up after you fucking flame someone yeah i want to feel the music yeah you're like and that's why i fucked your bitch yeah okay anyways

you do one of these and then your glasses go like that yeah yeah no are there any rappers that wear glasses used to be cool modi and that was about it. Now Cool Moe D's morphed into Tim Dillon. I mean, Tim Dillon's got Cool Moe D glasses on every podcast episode. Yeah, he really is. Him and his African Mambada hats. Yeah, he looks like he's about to drop like a 1979 rap album.

It's all like synthesized and shit. Yeah, he's also wearing like Balenciaga fucking jackets. He goes, here's the deal. My name is Tim and I'm here to say, the way the United States is going is pretty gay. Yeah, I mean, he drives a Bentley with purple leather lining. He is a rapper. Dude, I never thought about that.

Yeah, he's a rapper. Tim's the first rapper in comedy. Yeah, every time I see a clip of his podcast, he's just got straight up cool. Modee glasses on. 12. He's like, I eat, I eat snails and I throw money at waiters. 13. I'm like, why are you wearing like a car mirrors over your face? I love it. Dude. I was walking my dog over on seventh Avenue and I just such a New Yorker now. We're in

like an apartment building, right? Feel like like it. Yeah, I walk my dog. I took her to the dog park. Yeah, I took her to Madison Square Park. And I went up to pick up a Pellegrino. And then I took her to Bryant Park. And we had a muffin on the day. You know what my favorite old Giannis impression is? Yeah.

From way back in the day? Yeah. My name's Dan. I'm from Denver. Hi, my name's Dan. I'm from Denver. Yeah. That was always the best impression.

Your voice sounds like Denver come to life. Well, now, I mean, I've been here for 17 years now. Yeah. the best impression yeah your your yeah your voice sounds like if denver come to life well now i've i mean i've been here for 17 years now yeah there is a thing where you don't realize how you people fucking wash off on us so now i go back to denver and i'm like yeah yeah move yeah and they're like you're mean yeah you're fucking mean yeah your wife's from new york too right yeah well she's from long island it's not exactly new y. It's more like New York's Kentucky. It is. Yeah, Long Island's a different thing.

I mean, only in a place like Long Island would they elect George Santos, who lied about everything. And then back him still. Yeah, they still. The people in Long Island were like, I don't know, it's kind of funny. All you got to do is hit a couple of buzzwords to win. We could run in Long Island and win. All you got to say is close the border, get the gays away, get rid of MS-13.

And how great is America? And get rid of the commies. And then they're just like- No socialism, go America. And they'd be like, I think I'm gonna vote for this guy. And then they go, make the Walt Whitman Mall open for one more hour. And they go, I'm voting for this guy.

They go, oh my God. Also, they made the LIE like mad fast. I want three fucking cop cars in every cul-de-sac in my area. We had all these Jeopardy's DVR during the pandemic. And it was like the last election. Wait a second. What?

Yeah. Like during the pandemic. Jeopardy's. Oh, yeah. Love a Jeopardy's. Are you 80? You don't like Jeopardy? Do you watch it with applesauce?

I love applesauce. You and your wife sit down? I mean, common law. What are you guys doing? Fiance. Fiance. That's right. Congratulations.

Thank you. It's weird to say fiance and then look at a Hulk Hogan doll. And look at a rubber wrestling doll from the 80s. It's like the 40-year-old version movie. She was on Celebrity. That's my doll collection. Yeah. She was on Celebrity Jeopardy.

She was? She's in the semifinals. Yeah. And that's what's funny. When you call her Katie, I always want to just refer to her as Katie Nolan. Katie Nolan. Yeah. The Katie Nolan. You have a girlfriend from TV. It's like when you say Katie It's like being friends with Bill Clinton and referring to him as bill This is a real story one time Lewis and I wrote a cartoon about us can write I

Speak and I can write. Yeah speaking i can write yeah it's a picture going like okay uh it was like that book that coco the gorilla wrote i want to write with you and then he grabs the pen like a gorilla with a marker i'm not joking when i say he would shadow box inches from my face while i was typing i'm prepared for a fight when i was typing yeah no fights this is before his fighting day and you're just like trying to write dialogue and there's punches landing this close to your face. But dude, we did. He's prepared for a fight. Always.

We, uh, wrote a cartoon about a family of wrestlers. It was really funny. Yeah. And then we were, we got a meeting with seven bucks, the rocks production company.

Yeah. So we met with a couple of the people from the rocks production company and we were at this meeting at, uh, WME and we're like in this conference room talking. And the guys from Seven Bucks kept calling The Rock DJ for Dwayne Johnson. And I just got to this point in the meeting where I go, well, DJ will love this. And I just felt Lewis looking at me.

And I look over and Lewis goes, DJ. And I was like, yeah, that was too shorthand. I don't think I should have called him that mr rock yeah it was one of the dumbest i felt with someone one of your friends being in the room you're like i don't know why i said that yeah yeah yeah it's funny when the wrestlers or like rappers or whatever make that transition to actor and then they go with their real names yeah like it but you know it's like ice tea just still goes by ice tea right like you don yeah like it but you know it's like ice tea just still goes by ice tea right like you don't look at the credits and it's like lavarian johnson well we know

multiple comics that were in the black scene that had names and then went mainstream and tried to go by their government names yeah like no are you laser tag from from al? Yeah, flip-flop. I don't think so. I'm not calling you Trevarius. I'm calling you wax on, wax off. Aren't you Tsunami? Yeah. I mean, when you came up through...

I should have had a stage name, though. I mean, the whole Giannis Pappas thing. The fact that you didn't have... I should have been J-Pap. J-Pap, come to the stage, J-Pap. Tzatziki. Tzatziki, Tzatziki. Yeah.

You're just a Peterboy. Oh, you never see Peterboy? Peterboy gets ripped. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, that is so fucking funny. How did you not have a black comedy name? Dude, well, the black rumors was funny because they would always be like, give it up for,

you know how they always mess your name up. Give it up for Yan. And that was it. Yeah, that was it. Yeah, they might as well just say, give it up for you know how they always mess your name up give her a free yen and that was it yeah they might as well just say give it up for whitey guy yeah did you ever think about they couldn't do yannis papas i remember one time uh i think it might have been at your wedding uh your dad called you yanni yeah and i was like why didn't you go by that because they yeah he was popular yeah well he well probably because he, you know. First of all, Yanni is just, when you're talking first person in Greek, you drop the S. Always.

Yeah. So if you were speaking to Stavros, you should call him Stavro. That would be. Knock the S. If you want to really make him think that you've been like brushing up on Greek or anything. It's like, if you just call him Stavro. Yeah. Hey, what happened?

You got a Greek side piece or something? Yeah. What's going on? How do you know that are you cheating on katie nolan yeah do you speak do you speak greek no very little very little very little he's fluent yeah let me tell you something about your people yeah when when when someone speaks greek yeah it is it's it more than uh mexicans more than chinese people. The way they light up. Because I lived in Arizona. Oh, yeah. My friend spoke fluent Spanish living in Arizona, and he was a gringo. Just full-on white boy.

But we'd go to Los Betos, and it'd be all these, it's like a burrito place. And it'd be for like drunk burritos late at night. And there'd be all these fraternity guys. Thanks for clarifying. You were talking to me like I was one of your old buddies back in Denver. We were at Los Burritos. I'm like, you know Los Betos? Yeah. Not along Speedway. But we'd go to Los 14. For like drunk burritos and it would be like frat kids is all in Arizona. Shout out

you have a and we would go and it would just be like white kids being like chicken with guacamole. 15. I have two tortellos? I just want what's good. And then my friend Jay would just go up and spit fluent, perfect Spanish and you would see him be like, they would like,

they get happy. They would like start buzzing. Greeks are like that times a hundred. It's huge. When you tell them you don't speak Greek, it's like you told them you had cancer. They're like, what happened? Why you had cancer. I told them. They're like, what happened?

Why? What happened? I told you my Greek story about the couch in Astoria, right? No. I went to, when I first got on Guy Code. Yeah. And later passed the bar and made Guy Court. With the Honorable Don L. Rawlings?

Honorable Don L. Rawlings. Judge Don L. Rawlings. Dude, I don't know I think I've told this story before on what did they used to adjudicate on

dude if you hold on let's just get it I know you're the guest but let's get into guy court let's break down

guy court because that is the corniest I have ever felt ever doing anything so you were like the only guy in there

that was like whenever you'd see a clip of you you could tell you were like reluct only guy in there that was like whenever you'd see a clip of you you could tell you were like reluctantly doing it yeah everybody else was leaning into it like yeah you know i was like he's my guys and then you know he stepped on my sneaker in front of my girl and i was like that's breaking guy code and you were like you were the guy who went like yeah it was a guy code i don't know man i don't know, man. I got a lot of bills. I shared a blunt with a guy after. Yeah, I don't know, man. I don't know if that's gay or not. So I did guy code.

And then my manager called me and he was like, hey, they're doing a thing called guy court where you prosecute or defend guys from breaking guy code and i was like no no and and my manager just real throwaway line he goes you know what we'll ask for like crazy money and then that it's not on you for saying no yeah and i remember exactly where i was i was near time square and he called me and i picked up he goes they said yes you gotta do four episodes and I was like no no no no no I went and got my hair cut but you changed your tune once you found out it was the honorable Donnell Rawlings I love that it was I did like that it was Donnell is the judge yeah but I remember I went and got a haircut and my friend cut my hair too short so I looked like I had like a cop haircut yeah and then they don't give you a tailored suit.

Yeah. So they put me in a boxy suit and I was like, oh, what's the first case? And they're like, a guy thinks it's breaking guy code to listen to R&B in the car with your friend. And I was like, all right, what side am I on? And they're like, you're the prosecution that it should not be allowed. Did at any moment you just want to tell them the truth and go, wait a second, it's just show just for the blacks. At one point during Guy Code season four

while I was filming, I go, is all the advice in here homophobic? Is all the, because all the advice was like, you stretch in front of your friends. You better not stretch. I'm like, you know how many popped hamstrings you're going to have? Because guys were like, this dude in front of your friends? You better not stretch. I'm like, how many popped hamstrings you're going to have?

Because guys are like, this dude's going to try to fuck my butt. Yeah. I don't think he is. But everything I said, I remember one time I was like,

I don't know. Because like, it was all, all the answers were either like, tell your bitch to shut up. Or they're like, man, better not hold your hand

or else that's gay. But guy court, I was like, I don't know, man. I'm on the prosecution side. Who's on the defense? They're like, man, better not hold your hand or else that's gay. But guy court, I was like, I don't know, man. I'm on the prosecution side. Who's on the defense? They're like, little Duvall. Who is the most charismatic person in the world? Yeah. And then the case was.

Also very racist that the white guy was a prosecutor and then the defendant was black. You're like, what are you guys trying to recreate here? Life? With a military haircut. Yeah. A boxy suit. Yeah. And I got to argue that R r b shouldn't be listened to

they set me up i might as well i might as well came in with a fake southern drawl i thought well it's blue birds could be with blue birds or red birds there should not be some cross-pollination dude it was and the audience was all young teenagers and i bombed every fucking episode but got a little bit of money was in astoria and i was like i'll go buy a couch because i we had a me and vecchione had a broken couch the middle part was sunk so we had pillows and i was like i'll go buy a couch i go there was was a Greek furniture store. Greek owner was so nice. Picked out a couch. He writes up the work slip.

And the couch was like $2,100. And he's like, for you, $1,500. Do you have cash? I go, yeah. He goes, $1,500. Starts filling out the work slip. And he goes, last name? I go, Soder.

And he goes, what is that? I go, that's swedish you know greek i went now i went couch is 2200 and he just like in front of me on the work slip that was the most blown away i've ever you got right there an inside look at complete greek culture yeah first of all they like to avoid taxes so that's why we had a financial crisis give me all the benefits I want maternity leave I want health care but everything in cash so I don't got to pay taxes when the Greek financial crisis happened was there was there any part of you that was surprised or were you like no no that's just how it goes yeah and then the scapegoat they're like it's the Germans fault you're like I don't know dude you know we we had we my family

had a property there and they like tried to kidnap one of my relatives they blew up my mom's lawyer's car where yeah on the island of Crete really yeah yeah yeah it's island it's island culture wait hold on yeah everything's in cash you said that like we should all know that they blew up a car they blew up my mom's lawyer's car because they weren't paying the rent in the store like my grandfather passed down a property on the island of crete to my mom and so there was tenants and they weren't paying the property and they just always had an excuse like we were family like we're friends like we're supposed to understand like it's it's slow the tourist season slow it's like yeah but you know

we're renting this it's like you have to pay like you know and they're like no but we're but our family knows your family it's kind of like your mom's lawyer has people start his car all his paralegals he goes go start the car he's got yeah some people have a food taster they had like a engine starter yeah he goes it's good sir he goes all right i can go get a coffee yeah no yeah they like everything they blow it up like a like a mob boss like or did they blow it up like they set it on fire i don't know how much uh firepower they got over in the island to create it could have just been like a lighter They just firecracker. They could have just been a it just could have been like a island Greek underneath with a Bic Yeah, I go to the car. There's black cat. I can't I can't drive the car

Who knows do a strip of black yeah, yeah, that's fucking nuts. So what do you do with those people? I don't it ended up she ended up it was her and my aunt both of your parents were lawyers yeah but so they could they could fuck oh that stuff doesn't work over there yeah yeah it's american lawyer i mean the law doesn't work on the island of crete so even greek law doesn't work it's just all like island justice it's all bartering yeah no you get stoned if like your wife looks another another man. That is so funny. Not really, but a little bit. Kind of. Kind of.

In the villages, it's still, you know. It's in the area. It's in the air and area. So they wouldn't pay. They wouldn't pay. And so she filed, but she was able to get him out. But it's a protracted process. You got to go through all this stuff.

You got to have your car blown up. They tried to kidnap a relative who was testifying. It was a whole thing. My mom was like in a mob. It was like she was dealing with the mafia. How did they try to kidnap the family member? I think they just tried to grab him in front of the court. Just like, get over here.

Yeah, it just looked like a CCTV footage of Hamas taking a 40-year-old Israeli lawyer. I mean, that is so funny. I think they just tried to throw him over the shoulder. Like old school style. Yeah, yeah, just old school kind of. There has to be a moment where you're, as an adult, someone's trying to abduct you, and you think it's a joke at first. That's where I go like, I'd be like, what are you doing? What are you doing? And then you're like,

oh shit, this guy's really grabbing me. 31's Kyle Jensen 05.10 You're like, oh jeez, I am in Brazil. This could be real. 32's Kyle Jensen 05.10 Dude, I won't, I mean. 33's Kyle Jensen 05.10 I won't go there because of that. 34's Kyle Jensen 05.10 Those trips the Cellar Comics used to take? 35's Kyle Jensen 05.10 Yeah. 34's Kyle Jensen 05.10 Where they just go fuck hookers?

35's Kyle Jensen 05.10 Yeah. 34's Kyle Jensen 05.10 How did not one one of them die how is rich voss not dead for being like now i can i want the smaller hooker and then they're just like fuck it i'm gonna kill you well back then they probably tried on maybe one of them and then went through their pockets and all they saw was spot pay yeah podcasts weren't hitting yet they go they yeah they're like you guys need to protest you You guys need to do it. What did they do? They did a strike. They did a strike to get their pay raise from $50 to $75. That was a different time when we used to just beg for $50 and $75. I think there's a lot of young comics that have just watched,

because podcasts have been around now for 15 years, a little over, and they just assume like, well, okay, so you make your livable money off the podcast and then you go do stand-up and it was like no no it used to just be stand-up just stand-up yeah oh god and then and it was only like a handful of guys that could like you know to get to that level there would be like a handful of guys you would hear about guys selling out clubs and you were like whoa i remember me you and nate went and watched bill Burr run his hour for Let It Go. Caroline's. I always say it's the best hour of live stand-up comedy of any season. Oh, it was great.

Remember, you and I both talked about this, but we were like, it felt like 20 minutes. Yeah. And he did 70. Yeah. I asked Ray Gutz. I was like, he did eight shows that weekend. Yeah. And I was like, how much does he make it?

And he told me, and I was like. Yeah. And then now people play MSG like it's oh dude yeah it's like we sell out clubs now and we're like

it's pretty good and we're like yeah no one's doing it that's how it starts 40 comedians doing like arenas when I first started headlining

it would be like my ticket sales would be so bad the club would make me feel better by being like yeah we got an America America's got talent.

Those are always the best. That was a hockey game. You know, some girls have it a birthday somewhere. And you're like, I've makes me feel better. You're at the birthday. You know, one of my favorite ones was was that bananas in Hasbro Heights. Oh, I showed up for the Saturday shows and I go. So your ticket sales were great.

Also, there was a quinceanera that reserved the main room. So I was in the side room of that old holiday inn, which I kept saying on stage is where they kept all the folding chairs. Cause that's what it looked like. It was like a long room. And at one point I was just bombing and you could hear the bass from the quinceanera, like all the dancing. I was like, guys, if I hear one more Pitbull song through the wall and i don't get a laugh i'm gonna hang myself upstairs and people are like oh oh dude it was yeah i had bananas i remember their backdrop was just a cut out banana from like

construction paper and yes and i had bananas around the stage and you're like guys come on yeah and then you get a check with a banana on it oh yeah you and i was happy to do it i was too 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

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32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. at like a soul joel gig yeah we're like this is euro and he's like hello i met janice in finland and then he would just go up and bomb and because he was playing in like connecticut some soul joel room in connecticut at a banquet room yeah people are just all wearing car hearts and construction

boots janice and i have been through some tough shows together but i remember the first time we ever met pete davidson when he was 15 was at that benefit at that bar in staten island yeah it was 100 degrees out and the air conditioning broke yeah and that was at loony bin no that was at uh it was called like hey everybody hitting the road in 2024 a lot of fun shows coming up february 3rd i'm going to be at new york comedy club in stamford connecticut febru 3rd, I'm going to be at New York Comedy Club in Stanford, Connecticut. February 4th, I'm going to be at the Funny Bone in Hartford. Then February 17th, two shows at the Wilbur Theater in Boston.

First show almost sold out, so get tickets before it does. Second show, there's tickets available. DanSoder.com for all those. And then Cleveland, Ohio, coming to Hilarity's one of my favorite clubs I'm going to be there February 22nd through February 24th

so the month of February is all up at DanSoder.com we'll see you in Connecticut in Massachusetts and in Ohio DanSoder.com thanks for listening to the podcast or following me

whatever however you took this thank you and that was at Looney Bin? No, that was at a side. It was called like Screwballs or something. It was a sports bar that had a showroom.

Screwballs. It was a Yankee bar. There was a Yankee game on and everyone was in the bar. Oh. Remember that? Yeah. It was a Staten Island bar. Yeah.

That had a showroom on the side. And we had to finish the show because a Bon Jovi cover band was going on. So there was all these women. So we had to do an earlier show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember, yeah. And Pete was like 15, smoking cigarettes. And I was like, who's this kid?

Yeah, I was like, who's this kid's mom? Yeah. And I was like, chill, y'all. I do remember that. I was trying to be the dad I never had. And meanwhile, you're going like, you know, he's almost out of the house. Yeah, he's 15. His mom was like 30-something. I was trying to be the dad I never had and meanwhile you're going like you know he's almost out of the house his mom was like 30 something I remember two things about that

I remember bombing three things I remember bombing really hard I remember you telling the audience you're like if there was a worst audience draft you would be the first pick first round you guys suck and that was the first time I ever saw an Asian dude with a Staten Island accent. That's always alarming.

Yeah. Because I was at the bar buying beers. I was still drinking. I was at the bar buying beers, and I hit this guy like, yeah, I don't know what the fuck they want. What? Pettit's done. He's fucking cooked.

Why did the Yankees still got him on? And I'm like, who's this Genzo? And I look over, and it was an Asian dude. And I was like, I had to wait for him to talk. Larry Wong. Yeah. Larry Chang. I ain't no one. talk. Larry Wong. Yeah. Larry Chang. Yeah.

I know it's Larry Chang. Yeah. My dad, whatever. He's got the dry cleaning business down in Dungeness. It's like when you go to a McDonald's in like England and you see a black dude and he's got like cuts in his eyebrows and he's like, hey, would you like a Whopper? And you're like, what? What the fuck?

What the hell is that? Yeah. We're used to our American stereotypes. Did you ever go do comedy in greece no i haven't done comedy in greece yeah i have not have you i have not but it's funny like i was i was texting with burr and burr told me about it because he was doing it and he was like he was doing the acropolis oh yes and then he goes you got to do it and i'm like you know it's funny those guys are so high up there like you got to come do this they'll love you i'm like guy i'm

not just gonna jump straight to the acropolis i'm in'll love you i'm like guy i'm not just gonna jump straight to the acropolis i'm in spokane i'm in louisville at the comedy club i'm not going from the fucking the acropolis i need you to post yeah about helium buffalo it's like when a friend of yours goes yeah man having kids isn't bad like a rich friend goes it's not having kids isn't bad you just got to get yourself a night nurse and that's exactly it's fine so it's funny uh katie's brother my katie nolan's's funny uh katie's brother my katie nolan's brother katie nolan's brother my soon-to-be brother-in-law yeah kevin uh they got a night nurse and it was funny watching him talk to his friends we like on chat playing video you

like hear him talk to his friends that don't have night nurses and you're like oh i bet that is wait did you guys get a night nurse no i got a mother-in-law she's a night nurse does she so she just stays with us all the time without the mother in law. I mean, I don't know how people have three kids because you're outnumbered if you have three. 20. I've heard one. Yeah. One is one and then two is a million. Two is like my friend told me that. Yeah, it's true. My best friend, Garipay had a daughter, Claire. She was like three or four and then they got pregnant again. was twins and he tried to stuff him back in dude i've never seen someone's obviously he loves his

daughters yeah but it was the first time i ever saw someone be real about it where they were like like real like fuck yeah we wanted one we got two yeah and they love them but you're like we wanted one and we got two. Yeah. And they love them, but you're like, that's so much. It's like,

a standup comic can understand it because it's like doing standup on the come up. You are in horrible rooms, you're in horrible situations, but you love it so much that you're enjoying yourself. That's a good way. That's actually a good analogy. For fatherhood?

Yeah. It's like so hard and you wouldn't want to do it again, but you love them so much that you kind of just do it. Is there an age you're- And you hope that one day it's not going to be like that. But when you, I mean, you know, it's funny because bring it back to like how our friends

talk to us. Nate does that all the time where he'll be like, oh yeah, man, you just got to do this and then you're- Oh yeah, man, get yourself a tour bus and a private plane. You'll be fine. Do you not have a barber? Yeah. Do you have a barber riding with you? Then you look fresh to death all the time. Yeah, man, you just a tour bus and a private plane. You'll be fine. Do you not have a barber? Yeah. Do you have a barber riding with you?

Then you look fresh to death all the time. Yeah, man, you just got to bring a whole staff. It's crazy because he just did the arena in Erie, and I was like, I would have loved to have done that with you. Yeah. Because, first off, I don't think I can open for Nate. Yeah. I can't go that clean.

I can't go as clean as he needs. Yeah. He's got children at the show sometimes. We watched Katie Nolan. Yeah. And I went to a theater in Newark and watched Nate. And it was gorgeous. It was like this gorgeous 4,000 seat theater. And I found a 12 year old that was just not into Nate.

And I couldn't watch anything else. I just watched this kid keep shifting, being like. And his parents are. I mean, Nate's murdering. Yeah. And this one kid's like you can just tell he's like i want to get on my phone yeah well he's 12 yeah so his parents brought him you know he's like yeah i bet his parents brought him being like this is really good you're gonna love this and he's like oh yeah yeah i want to watch drewski yeah there's no buts when someone recommends nate to their friend or family member they don't go but there's no buts right if someone was going to recommend me they go yeah i think he's funny but he's going to be political yeah he's a little bit of that he

might get a lame curse a lot uh yeah yeah It is funny. You can recommend Nate to anybody. Dude, you could recommend him to like anyone. Like Burr, obviously, is one of the greatest of all time. But he's going to say a few things off color about the ladies. Yeah. White women. Not a fan. J.R.

Grissom is funny. But if you're Chinese and you got small hands, you might want to stay out of the front row. I want to see you and Stavros do a show in Greece. Yeah. But you would, would you know enough Greek? No, I'd have to lean on him. You'd have to lean on him? Yeah, Stavros, so this is the Greek immigrant journey, right?

Yeah. My grandparents had a diner. That's how it starts, right? It all starts with a diner. Yeah. Dude, it's kind of like when my irish families they all have drinking problems yeah yeah and you go like oh it really is true it's actually just like that so like the drinking problem lasts for like a generation or and then it's stopped yeah so the diner starts for like a generation or two and then it turns into like we don't do diners anymore just like the irish like we don't do alcohol anymore that's like go get your shine box so you're like yeah

don't give me an omelet yeah i don't know if you know this we don't do diners but you've been away a long time it's the same thing it's like i don't drink anymore it's the same thing yeah that's so stavros is probably like just one gen i'm two generations removed from the diner he is he's one mom worked yeah yeah yeah i'm two generations i'm i'm diner lawyers and then i pulled it back to comedy yeah yeah he went up i went down so but my so did your parents speak greek in the house yeah they could everyone in my family's fluent even my special needs brother speaks more than i do he why didn't you pick it up because was that like a rebellion thing i think it was a little rebellion thing.

I think they were tired. I think they ignored me. I think... How much... You're the baby. I'm the baby by a lot. By a lot? By a lot.

That's what I was going to ask. Yeah, that's why I'm on stage going, look at me. I'm a baby. More baby love. Notice me. I'm an only child going like, please acknowledge my existence.

Yeah, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know something. Did you know it when you were a kid? Because they always say like that's... I knew a little bit more when I was a kid a little bit more and then there was no interest in just you learning completely yeah you know greek is one of those things where you're going like spanish you're going like ah this is going to be useful and then greek you're going

like it's like it's like uh learning bulgarian yeah you're like what am i gonna go back to move to a very specific town and know it yeah spanish and french kind of useful yeah you're like what am i going to go back to move to a very specific town and know it yeah spanish and french kind of useful yeah you know i disagree about french i took french in high school as the stupidest move i bet you it's good to talk dirty in i don't know it yeah i've learned spanish i worked in enough restaurants i should have learned spanish yeah french you're like bonjour and they're they're like, que? You said it wrong. They go, que? Que? And you're like, I'm sorry. Quoi? Quoi?

And then they go, quoi? Yeah. Quoi? Je suis Dan. Yeah. And they'll do that in this country. Yeah. They'll be here and be like, quoi?

You'd give you a shit for not pronouncing it right. You're like, hey, Frenchie. Dude, the worst was when 08, you and Nate came by and saw me at Dos Caminos. But when the crash happened and our dollar was shit. Well well we didn't feel the crash at that point no that was with the good old days we're like there's a economic recession you're going like cool that brings everyone down our level for real it almost made stuff affordable we're like this is pretty cool yeah if you're poor pray for another crash yeah it's just fine it really does i didn't feel it yeah i was like dude cigarettes got a little bit cheaper yeah but the european the euro and all the money in

europe went way over the dollar so it was just euro trash central on that cafe oh dude and the amount of people i had to deal with i was like you want to hear a funny story this is a true story a comic in norway norway is so expensive yeah so this comic in norway told me that he went to buy a stroller in america because it was cheaper to buy the stroller this is a true story to buy the stroller in america with the plane ticket and then buying a stroller in Norway. So fly here, buy a stroller. Just ship it back. Yeah. Or I don't know.

Maybe you put it on the plane. And then fly it back. And fly it back. It was cheaper than buying a stroller. Dude. And I told him, I was like, you got to make a movie about that. That's hilarious. Yeah.

They were throwing our money at us in 08. Because I remember when the crash happened, I saw all of the Wall Street guys came in and got hammered. Blackout. Yeah. Made so much money that day. Yeah. And then after that, it was just Europeans. Yeah.

It was just Spaniards. Yeah. Italians. That was mostly it. Yeah. And they would not tip. Yeah. They were like our Costa Rica.

We were like their Costa Rica rica they're just like what yeah it's all inclusive it really did feel like it was like thailand for them dude they they treated us like thailand i'm surprised i didn't have to massage a couple italian guys being like i'm gonna hop up on the table why don't you whack me off how many times you get called like big guy or every day yeah every day yeah from the from the american did anyone ever go boy that was that happened a lot after 08 garcon yeah boy yeah they would order they go boy coke light that's the no diet coke yeah coke light and then uh garcon water with bubbles did you ever get one of those or water with gas water with. Water with gas. That's what it is. Water with gas is bubbles.

They shouldn't be able to say that in Germany, though. Like, water with gas. And you're like, no, bubbles for you. It's bubbles. They go, okay, can we have alien water? And they go, no, no, no, no, no. It was interesting because I'd never really waited tables before. I'd always just been a busboy.

And then waiting on Europeans. That's a big jump. I lied never really waited tables before. I'd always just been a busboy. And then waiting on Europeans. That's a big jump. I lied. Yeah. My friends. You had to lie on your resume to become a waiter. Yeah. Yeah.

When I moved here in 07, my friend's brother-in-law was the executive chef. And he's like, I can get you a job. He's like, how long have you been waiting tables? I was like, I haven't waited tables. I was only a busboy. And his face, he was like, it was clear my friend lied to him. And he was like, how long have you been waiting tables? I was like, I haven't waited tables. I was only a busboy. In his face, he was like, it was clear my friend lied to him. And he was like, all right. You have to take a food test.

I had to take tests and I got them all wrong. And then he just sat in a booth with me and went through the answers. It was one of the most pathetic I've ever felt in my life. What's the food test entail? They just got to know. They're like, where do you put the knife? Where do you put the fork? Where do you put the fork?

How do you clear from the left? This was back when Dos Caminos was really trying to be a upscale restaurant. They were like, we're upscale Mexican. And they wanted you to do all the proper things. Because the restaurant had just opened. And when restaurants open, they really try. They're like, we really want you to do this. And I was so stupid.

Watching people's faces be like, that's not how you do it. I didn't know how to open a bottle of wine. And then one time at a pre-shift meeting, they wanted me to do wine service and I just failed in front of. The cork broke in two. Dude, 20 servers.

And you know, they're all actors and dramatic people. So they're like, you suck at this. And you're like, I fucking hate this. I was freaking out, dude. I hated it. I was such a bad waiter. Do you never wait at tables never wait tables not once i was

just thinking when you were talking i was like you know that's probably why i like kind of moseyed along and took my time making it in new york because i think it is an advantage uh in an ironic way to move here and like have to hustle because it motivates you to get out of it i absolutely agree with that a lot of my friends i was like living at home a lot of my friends that live in new york they didn't feel the pull that all of us that moved here did yeah i had i was living at home i had no rent it was like well you and jesse had that rent control we had the rent controlled spot from our friend who grew up there and you guys were making videos you guys were like doing stuff during the day.

And I was so jealous of that. Because you had to work. Yeah. We had to go, like we do cabin. We get blackout at Cabin Bar. And I'd have to be up at 10 a.m. to set up the cafe. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that sucked.

Yeah. Oh, that sucked. But you're right. It was like this thing of, if you move to L.A. or New York, I think if you move there, it's a way different experience. Yeah, because you're just on the hustle from the beginning. Yeah, that's why I went to... And you're so motivated to get out of a restaurant. That's why I left Colorado,

was because I was like, dude, if I go to CSU or CU, I'll just want to hang out. Right. I'll just go back to my mom's house, do my laundry. Yeah. Not really try, you know? Yeah. Arizona, while I necessarily didn't really like

going to school there i liked what it made me do i liked that i like got into radio i got into stand-up because i was like dude this all sucks yeah i gotta find something i like yeah but new yorkers you guys are just living here so you're also living in the place that like everyone comes yeah so it's not just like staying at home it's like it's an extra comfort like you're like this you welcome to my yeah you're everyone's coming here it's not like uh you're living in poughkeepsie it's like uh you you you're people are pumped to be here yeah people are everyone comes here yeah that's the resentment i had with everyone starting to move to denver yeah is they started getting that feeling of like denver and

you're like it's all right it's a cow town and you start like turning against it when you leave yeah you're like fuck you it sucks I mean I love Denver but at the same time it was like I started getting mad at all the transplants that were trying to out Denver me has anyone ever tried to out New York you I think that I think that's a thing I think when people move to a place they want to prove that they want it more than yeah and they want to prove that they're like indigenous I'm a New Yorker so they'm a New Yorker. I would never call myself a New Yorker. I would never call myself a New Yorker. They overdo the accent a few things. Oh, a hot dog.

Yeah, you want to go get a hot dog. A hot dog. Look at the stairs. Yeah, it's over there in the draw. Yeah, that's like, I see people doing that when I go back to Denver and they're like, I moved here in 2008. I live on hiking trails. And you have to understand, if I don't have my trail mix,

if I don't bike to work with my fleece on, it's not a good day. What do I want for Christmas? Patagonia. Patagonia pants. Patagonia pullover. Take me to REI and let me get lost. I'm not scared of bugs. And they do that.

They're like, I'll go back and meet someone that moved there. And they'll be like, you didn't ski growing up? And you're like, no, I didn't care. And they're like, oh. That's like probably someone growing up to you being like, you've never been to Spumoni Garden. You're like a Brooklyn place where you're like, I'm from Brooklyn, motherfucker.

They go, I love Biggie. I'm like, no, I had a pizza place in my neighborhood that I went to all the time. Oh, well, Lucali or fucking DeFara. Try it. Try it, try it, try it. What was the place I just tried saying? Spumoni Gardens?

Spumoni Gardens, yeah. I've always heard that pizza's great. Never been. Yeah, it's great. It's gone downhill. Ooh. It's gone downhill because the owner got killed in his own backyard. Okay.

Yeah. Now, recently, too. No, recently, yeah. Really? Recently, yeah yeah he got murdered in his own backyard holy shit yeah if you're gonna get murdered though here's a funny one the owner of lucali you heard of lucali no it's lucali is like the most famous one now it's like where all the celebrities go it's in it's in carol gardens which is like used to be all italian but now it's like way pricey yeah but he's a brooklyn kid and he opened the spot. It got very famous.

And then one day, this is a true story. Something happened. Supposedly it was an argument over a girl, but who knows what it was. He was being chased down Court Street, which is like major stroller mafia territory. Just white moms with babies. And some guy was just repeatedly stabbing him. He got stabbed like 17 times. So you could just picture these women

just coming out of like coffee shops and just going like yeah you fucking but you guys just fucking espresso he goes yeah you fucking got me again you got me again how do you get here's my like a couple years ago here's my question how do you get stabbed running get stabbed again it just keeps getting you you're like god damn it stop it's like a cartoon yeah stop moving and he's like you got me yeah you got me and he lived the guy lived really yeah he's the owner of luke holly i want to eat pizza from that man's hands yeah i want to go i made that pie yeah you're like paul pierce yeah you got fucking stabbed yeah you got shot a bunch of times you got stabbed like oh he was stabbed

you were stabbed by a outside like a club in Boston and then still played that season still played fine yeah

that's nuts yeah yeah but people trying to out like out Brooklyn you yeah I can imagine that yeah

happening a lot yeah well it's like yeah because they're like self-conscious about the fact that they're like transplants they just take pride

in like I'm in New York I've been here seven years they'll be like yeah let me get a coffee and you're like self-conscious about the fact that they're like transplants. They just take pride in like, I'm in New York. I've been here seven years. They'll be like, yeah, let me get a coffee. And you're like, where are you from? That's not. Yeah. The only thing I will admit that I do that New Yorkers do, and I admit it at the beginning, is I say, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a big one. Yeah, yeah. Because you just pick it up. Because what it is, is it's whenever you play video games, and there's a jump scene, and you can just hit the button, and you're like, I don't care about this. That's what that is in real life where you go like yeah i don't care but it's also

fast it's also yeah it's it's a it's a it's sort of get one full yeah it's a rude request to pick up the piss yeah the yeah yeah yeah is going like yeah yeah let's keep moving yeah yeah yeah yeah and yeah yeah i remember when i was in the country you go and yeah when i would speak to nate sometimes i'd be like just like like squirming in my seat just being like finish it finish the sentence well well yeah he'd be like sitting there slowly getting his mountain dew out yeah yeah remember he used to have all these routines nate so you'd get in his car and he'd like adjust yeah then he'd have his mountain dew and he'd have his gum and he you know he had his ocd stuff and then he would wait and you're sitting there it's cold in

the winter and you're like let's get the engine going heat but he'd have to get his dip you'd have to put it in then he would check his teeth in the mirror and he'd just be talking to you the whole time he's like yeah that crowd sucks yeah and you're like drive drive go move talk do you where's the worst place you've been where your new yorker go go go has made you feel crazy have you been like iowa or has there been a specific place where you've noticed that you're like cagey yeah just i just i was in spokane this weekend and i was i was talking to people at the bar after the show and spokane by the way eastern washington yeah and they hate when you call it spokane by the way eastern washington yeah and they hate when you call it spokane by the way it's yeah spokane i was trying to lightly correct yeah someone well

yeah they corrected me during the show and i said are you french who it's fucking spokane so here's where i get a little perturbed at the people of spokane is that it's gonzaga yeah not gonzaga so if you say gonzaga they go, it's Gonzaga. I might even be fucking that up now. They fuck my brain up. But it's like, dude, you can't have two things.

First of all, Spokane doesn't flow as easy as Spokane. It's also K-A-N-E. Yeah, that's what I said. I said, if you want it to be Spokane, spell it different because it's spelled Spokane.

It's such a New Yorker. Change it for me. This sucks. I look like an asshole. Change it. Change it. Yeah. Spokane change it for me this sucks i look like an asshole change it change it yeah spokane is beautiful it's gorgeous but it is eastern washington in summer yes it's cold it's very cold yeah it's cold it's also a lot of people don't know this because they always think pacific northwest is like i'm crunchy and i have i don't drive a car. Eastern Washington? Eastern Oregon?

Yeah. Real red. Real red. Not surprising, yeah. Eastern Washington? Yeah. Real KKK. Oh, they got the real ones out there, yeah.

The KKK stronghold is, I think, in... Oh, no, it's in Beaverton, Oregon. I always wonder about those places like Idaho. Idaho, I think,'s population is like one million. Yeah. And it's a huge state yeah you could just murder someone in the middle of the state like how would anyone ever it's just all wilderness gone i've been i've been trying to talk about this on stage for a while but i have zero respect for any criminal before the internet that got caught you fucking rube what are you doing that

was back in the day like yeah like there's no national database you'd have to someone would have to see you do the murder in order for you to get caught john dillinger they're like here's the greatest bank robber of all time it's like just put me back there yeah watch me absolutely eclipse his numbers because i just got to put on a wacky nose and you guys just fucking minds are blown yeah yeah you can't do crime anymore no you can't there's there's a camera in here that sprinkler flips his numbers. Because I just got to put on a wacky nose and you guys' fucking minds are blown. Yeah, yeah. You can't do crime anymore. No. You can't.

There's a camera in here. That sprinkler? That's a camera. There's a camera. You can't. We actually have three cameras on us right now. DNA. I mean, you just can't.

You cannot do crimes now. You can't do crimes. But like in the 20s? Yeah. Me and you were alive? Yeah. I wouldn't have been like, that's not going to comedy.

We're going to go to fucking, we're going to go to Missouri and rob banks. Maybe that's what's behind like the rampage killers and school shooters and all that stuff is maybe because they're like so pent up that they can't consistently do crime. Small crimes. That they're just,

I'm going to do one big one and get out of here to get my nut off. Because they want to do it. Yeah, like the kid from Catch Me If You Can. If he couldn't have done that, he just lights up a mall with an AR-15. Yeah, because he's like, he's criminal instincts and he can't. He goes, I'm so smart, but I can't.

Yeah, the scale is really tipped in favor of the law, which is no fun. No. It was always funner to be a robber when you played cops and robbers. Yeah, would you want to be a cop? Yeah, would you want to be a square? Would you want to fucking write a ticket, you pussy? Girls don't think that's hot. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, the ones that do. Yeah. They really like like they like they like to get choked in the bedroom there's always a yin to the yang the badge bunnies yeah dude badge bunny is such a funny term what uh they like cops there's women that are just there's like chuckle fuckers for cops 100 they're called badge honeys yeah like we just called them italian women in new york right yeah yeah i'm a nurse just went out. Conservative Italian women. I'm a nurse. He's a cop.

Benefits are good. I don't know. He spends his day busting up black dudes. I spend the day fixing them up. And then we go home and fuck. And then we go home and bang. That's one of the best lines I've ever heard.

He goes, it's a one-stop shop. When a lot is so good, I was about to keep talking, and then it hits you a little late. You're like, oh, shit, he just said that. Yeah, my husband pulls them over, beats the piss out of them. I sew them back up.

I sew them back up. Prince of repeat. That's what it was. That's what we do. My parents live upstairs. His parents live downstairs. Our grandparents live above them. And then, boom, my parents live upstairs his parents live downstairs our grandparents live above them and then boom

my grandparents live next door you wear a Boston Red Sox hat I'm gonna fucking split your head yeah yeah dude it is I think that's what it

I think you have a good point yeah that was one of the greatest things I've ever heard I don't wanna go too past I don't wanna go too fast past that yeah that was a great line

yeah well I think we I think we hit on something that really just sums up a real fucking working class ethnic new york family right there bang bang boom it's a fucking what is my dad what does my dad do what does my mom do my mom's a nurse my dad's a cop so my dad busts up the blacks and my mom sews them up and then and then i and then i talk like i'm at home to drive a while yeah i drive a while i listen to a couple rap albums and then i you

know i cheer hard for the knicks and not the knicks that my dad listen we don't want him in the neighborhood but we definitely respect this fucking style and the starter jackets i appreciate it dude i love you so much thanks for coming on here and hanging out thanks it's good to be here yannispappas.com yannispappascomedy.com i fucked this up with everybody no come see me in portland come see me in van Come see me in Vancouver Cause it's theaters I need help with the tickets Fuck yeah dude

Yeah Fuck yeah Yeah and listen to The Yannis Pappas Hour The Yannis Pappas Hour I'm gonna come by and do it I need you again Yeah we'll come by

We'll come back out And do it again It's Hanging out with you Is just the most fun So I knew this was gonna be easy It was fun as hell Yeah just sitting around

Thanks for coming to my house When's Katie Nolan come home? Katie Nolan's home I want her autograph You want her autograph? Yeah You're gonna meet the dog And Katie Nolan I can't wait to meet the. It was fun as hell. Yeah, just sitting around. Thanks for coming to my house. When's Katie Nolan come home? Katie Nolan's home. I want her autograph. You want her autograph? Yeah. You're going to meet the dog and Katie Nolan. I can't wait to meet the dog.

It's going to happen. Yeah. You want to take her for a walk to the dog park and get an espresso? I'm, as a New Yorker? Yeah. As a full-fledged New Yorker? I would never say that. This is such a New York building.

I came in here, I was like, Dan is New York now. Yeah, but I'm still Colorado where I go. Well, look at the sweatshirt. Arizona! I touch my fake cowboy hat, I go, and these are all people living in here. Well, golly! I ain't never seen people

stacked on top of each other like this. Damn, it's a three-dog night! I love you guys. Take care.