Soder - Papa was an Identity Thief with Chad Daniels | Soder Podcast | EP 10

Episode Date: January 17, 2024

This episode Dan is joined by comedian Chad Daniels. They talk about JFL and it's impact on their careers. JFL or Just For Laughs is a comedy festival in Canada that was known to make careers back in the day. Chad talks about his days on the road with Mitch Hedberg. Babies & marriage. Worst bombs in comedy. Chad talks about his conman father and how his dad stole his identity. 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 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 Chad https://www.instagram.com/thatchaddaniels/?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

you started on the road you're a road dog for sure was there ever any interest on going to la or new york i had i went to uh what's the thing um just for laughs yeah new faces yeah which by the way i ate shit so hard did you what year did you do it i did it i think 2004 and uh so you were doing it when it was still relevant as far as like a... Yeah. It was a career maker at that point. People don't know. Just for Laughs has this thing called New Faces, which is basically, it's basically like

a debutante. Yeah. You're like brought in, you know, as like, they like they might as well hold your hand and have you twirl. It's like, it's like they're buying horses. He really is. Someone grabs your nuts and then they go breathe out. No, he's good for breathing. And you're like, I do voices and I never had a dad.

And they go, maybe we can do a sitcom. AGT, big time. Send him to AGT. Send him to the pit. If he gets out of the Sarlacc pit, he can live. So you did JFL in, when did you start comedy? In 98, May 4th, 98, stepped on stage at Acme Comedy Company. Did an open mic.

How old are you? Oh boy, that's a good question. I was in 98. I was 24. 24? Yeah. So you don't have any kids yet at this point? That can't be right.

I couldn't have been 24. I'd have been 24. When were you born? I can help you out. Give me the year you were born. I was 23. Let's go old school. What year were you born?

Oldness do the math. Work it back, dude. By the way, that is such a comic thing where you're like, it's just like a person getting older thing. You go, what? How old was I? The older you get, the more you're willing to give like a generic range. Yeah.

But when you're like- From 16 to 34. It's more of a demographic. Yeah. You're going demos. When you're a kid, you're like, I'm seven and three fourths. Yeah. Like, you know? Exactly. And now over 40, you're like, I'm seven and three-fourths. Yeah. Like, you know.

Exactly. And now over 40, you're like, I don't know. Who was president? Clinton the second time? Like, you don't have any way. Yeah. So 23 because no kids when I started. But then six months after I did that, I got asked to go do Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Okay. House MC up there. Okay. House MC up there. Okay. And then my girlfriend at the time called me three weeks in and was like, I'm pregnant. No way. So that's my son. And you're MCing. I'm MCing.

So I told her, I go, I haven't even unpacked the bags yet. So I'll just come back. And she was like, no, no, I don't think I'll need you till the third trimester. And I was like, what's happening? What are we, settlers? Is this a kind of like, that's like prospector law. Hold on. Is this a support system?

Is this someone who believes in me? She goes, when you see a foot, come back. When a foot comes out, I'll let you know. Yeah. So, I mean, when you're that young in comedy, right? You're in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Right. Sun goes down at 2.30 PM.

Shout out the Northern Hemisphere. Yeah. Especially in the winter, really making people bummed out. But you, so you get this call. Are you like, I'm done with comedy or are you like, well, I thought I would be done. Yeah. So you thought that was it. But then she said, stay up there. And then I ended up doing it. And every, everybody, all the headliners that came up like, Hey man, when you're done with this, stay up there. And then I ended up doing it. And everybody, all the headliners that came up, like, hey, man, when you're done with this, come with me out on the road. Yeah. So I got.

That is. So listen to this. I had to audition. Mitch Hedberg was my audition week, which is wild. And this is kind of, for me, I've loved comedy since I was a little boy. Sure. So on the way up there, he stopped at a truck stop and got those blue sunglasses that he kind of became famous for.

Yeah, the blue blockers. And so he ended up, that was the first weekend he wore them. You were there the moment. That's like being around when Elvis put on the jumpsuit. He goes, you guys think this looks a little ridiculous? And they're like, no, that's a cool bedazzled eagle on the back. Wait a second. But we have to cover up the eagle with a cape.

He goes, I love that idea. You really were in the Mitch Hedberg biopic. You're at the moment where he goes, hey, Chad, man, are these cool? And you go like, that's it. That's the look. Actually, I was probably like, yeah. Yes, sir. Do you want to bounce any bits?

Yeah. Can you help me grow my hair out there was this story i saw mitch hedberg uh i love watching old mitch hedberg clips and there was a story that he had about living in la and he had the joke about the neighbor pounding on the wall and then he goes sorry there's no door you're gonna have to go around that joke is about nick de paulo and onberg's set list, that's what the joke was. So it would be like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Ant Farm, Nick DiPaolo.

And he knew to do that joke. So I love shit like that when you find out. Yeah, so I got that one. And then I used to use that. So he wrote a joke about me. And I used to use that as a credit because I didn't have any credit. That's a badass credit.

What joke did he write? It was the, you know what I like? Mashed potatoes. Come on, man. You got to give me time to guess. So we were at this little diner and I go, you know, I'll have this sandwich and fries. And he goes, I'll have this sandwich and mashed potatoes. And I was like, Oh, you know what?

I love mashed potatoes. Can I have some mashed potatoes? And then I just see him grab his notebook. His little notebook. He used to have a bandaid on the cover. And then he just, are you asking him when he's writing that? Are you like, no, what are you doing? And then I just heard it that night and I was like, Oh my God.

He gets off stage. I just want to thank you for writing that. So i was like oh my god that's off stage i just want to thank you yeah i mean so it was insane i mean that is i would you could argue mitch hedberg is if the greatest joke writer of all time yeah he was unbelievable i mean there's like you got dangerfield you got norm you got mitch hedberg but people Hotel, obviously David Tell, of course. But you have people that are able to put a joke in with like five words. I mean, the one, the shortest, best one Hedberg ever did was I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too.

And you're like, oh, that's such a simple, but it's a banger. So you were on North Folk, what is it? Grand Forks, North Dakota. I knew it was all North or a Grand. That first weekend's with Mitch Hedberg. Northfolk, North, uh, Northfolk. What is it? Grand Forks, North Dakota. I knew it was all a North or a Grand. That first weekend's with Mitch Hedberg. First week. And, and he had just, it's his first weekend after coming off of his Just for Laughs, where he got that big $500,000 development deal with Fox.

So that's what I was saying about JFL. You used to go up there and if you did well enough at the debutante ball, if you were a dirty debutante, you got like $500,000. It could change your life instantly. And so you go up there, you start in 98. Yep. You have your son in 99? Yes.

Okay. So you have your son in 99. So he's about what, like four or five years old when you go up to do. Yeah. He's probably, he probably was turning five at the time. Yeah, because it was, it's in July. So he must have just turned. And when you're going up there, has it shifted now to your girlfriend?

You're like, hey, I got a legitimate shot to go make us some money. Well, at that point, wife. Wife. Okay. So you guys are married now. Made an honest woman out of you. Good job. You really are a settler.

Yeah. You're just on the old dusty trail. I need to take your name in front of god or else this boy will be born a bastard and then we need to have another baby to prove it yeah and then i need a girl because we're you at that point you're populating for farmland it's exactly right hockey team i need i need another worker on the land so you're married is your daughter born yet yeah. So you have two kids and you get JFL. That moment, I got JFL and I was single, an alcoholic living in a windowless room. And I felt like, well, here we go. So you have to feel

like that times 10 because it's also still the moment where- But I treated JFL like I was an alcoholic single living in a windowless room yeah you were like i'm just gonna go up there well chris fairbanks i met chris fairbanks maybe three months before that sure so funny and uh we just got so drunk and went to all these but we went to the not the industry parties yeah we went to our driver who was french and he knew to take us to the french parties oh man dude we went, we went in, listen to this shit. We went in through a back door into this like loft area. Yeah.

It's, there's furniture, but it's pushed to the side and you can tell like, this is a really cool, there's, there's beer tubs. I got pickpocketed. So the next day pounding on the hotel room door, it's the concierge from the hotel. And he's like, Mr. Danielsiels would you like to go back to the states or no and i'm like i don't know what's happening right now are you asking me a very complicated question yeah i'm pretty hungover man it's crazy to go to the door and go who is your favorite parent answer this and the other wrong one will die please don't do this to me

i still have rust on my hands from a pull-up contest on scaffolding on the way home. Were you in the Bronx? Yeah, I mean, kind of. Dude, it's great. Also, I always said a really good hangover is like a flashbang went off. Just when you get up, it's like, ooh. And so your door's knocking and they're like, Mr. O'Daniels, do you want to go back to the United States? And you're like, which passport should I grab?

Oh, fuck. Which name of mine do you have i am jason bourne so you get that knock and you're like what the fuck so so i have to take a phone call it's the owner of this loft and he goes i have your license and your wallet if you want to get back to the state you're gonna have to come get it sure so now i'm like fairbanks we started this together we gotta finish this together and so we go up job ain't done brother we go and they give us instructions but different way how to get in we have to walk through a chinese grocery store awesome then go back to where they're cutting meat yeah take a back stairway and now we're in this loft but it's a normal

apartment it's all put back together it was some eyes wide shut shit for also i think the part of that that you feel the most fear is when they're chopping meat because then if an older frenchman gives you a life speech in that moment you're gonna die you're gonna get chopped one of you your fairbanks is gonna die in that moment if he's like you know that the meat leaves the bone when the soul has exited the body and you're like please don't do this to me he's just fucking cleavering something he's like mr daniels you have two small children yes what do you need from me man okay man i got a son tonight you want me to kill him i'll fucking do it i just met him three months ago dude that's always my favorite joke in the gruber where he's always like, do you want me to suck his dick?

I'll suck his dick, man. Don't fucking kill me. So you, have you done your set yet? We had done one of them. The warmup one. No. So we had two, there wasn't a warmup. Okay.

So we, Chris and I were on the same show and then we did one and we had a host who, his name's Sean, Canadian guy. I'm going to tell you something. He ate shit. He was fucking yelling at the crowd. Yeah. He was, I was just, and I was going first. So I'm like, I'm like, dude, what's going on out there? I mean, like really yelling at, there aren't any jokes.

Oh, he's just, just screaming at them. And he's Canadian. He is Canadianadian but i gotta come back to him okay so i go out eat shit pretty hard on the first show yeah and i'm like these jokes i this is like my la set which i hate saying yeah but sometimes you have to put that set together where it's where it's i tell people that all the time if you come to new york or whatever have like a 10 minute set. That's just, just your punchlines, like setups and punchlines.

Make it so quick and good that you're like, you basically want to do like, you know, when you go see a band at a festival, they have festival sets, right? You're like, okay. Like I love Queens of the Stone Age. Whenever I see him at a festival, it's not going to be my favorite set because I know they're going to play. No one knows. Oh, right.

They're playing the hits. They're playing the hits, Little Sister. And then they're going play no one knows oh right they're playing the hits they're playing the hits little sister and then they're gonna toss in one or two for me but you see an actual show you get to see all then it's a lot of so yeah so you're bringing your it's just machine gun yeah and then i get off stage i'm pissed i have two managers that are talking to me because they saw me on do something else and i was um i was like what the what the fuck was that yeah and they go this is industry everybody's writing stuff down that's why they're not laughing yeah of course it's all this bullshit pep talk there's actually a flu going around and people are sick there was a no laugh rule just when you were up i don't know the prime

minister actually came over the radio and said no laughing for five minutes because we lost a troop in Taiwan. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah. And did you know, you've been doing comedy long enough that sometimes a bomb can sneak up on you early and you don't know it's a bomb. It's like in a movie where someone gets shot and they're still talking and they go like, well, we're going to go. Are we going to go out to that diner? And then you're like, oh, and that's when the blood starts going out. It's like the end of True Detective, the second season. Exactly.

Where she's like, you stopped moving way back there, baby. Yeah, you did. That's exactly it. And then, but the longer you go in comedy, the more you can like get hit with a bullet and be like, hold on a goddamn second, pull it out of you and be like. Heating up a doorknob. get hit with a bullet and be like hold on a goddamn second pull it out of you and be like that's like that's like the 15 year mark is this when you're going like it didn't get an organ triage in the field yeah but that one you could be like did you was it one of those ones where you're like i'm bleeding or did you know i'm bombing immediately yeah i i knew well i had a bad attitude because of the sean guy yeah i i knew well i had a bad attitude because

of the sean guy so i walked i walked out with a bad attitude i want to get into sean so bad and i want last name so i said uh and i had seen these french these these montreal these quebecians yeah i had seen them chase a big paper mache head they got out of line when we were walking to the show and they were chasing him down the street and so i just go like halfway through i go well listen just so you guys know i know that the french sense of humor sucks shit the heart it really does it's like what you guys think is this actually makes me feel better dude i have thought that my entire time going to Montreal, Big Jay and I used to make fun of it where you go like,

you walk into like an arena with like 26,000 people and it's a French-speaking Canadian comedian. And he goes like, And it's just like, It's just doubling over. And then you do a joke and they go like, I did not like that joke. And you're like, fuck. What if I did, they're like, this man gets it.

So you say that mid-set. How do they take it? Hated it worse. And then I start piling on. And then at the end, I just go, so where do I stand to get my deal? Is it over here? That's hilarious. Well, because I knew I just eaten shit so hard. So now it's for- then i start piling on yeah and then at the end i just go so where do i stand to get my deal is it over here that's hilarious because i knew i just eaten shit so hard so now it's for when you're being funny sure i hosted just for laughs once a couple years ago and i saw a guy bomb

and do that sincerely where he didn't go that's a bummer like i'm not gonna go stand over here for my deal he went i'll see you at the high up bar neat tequila two limes and we each had our own mic and i didn't realize my mic was high enough and i was walking back on stage you go what the fuck was that like as we're passing each other because it was like dude you did not have the set to be like buy me a drink peace out it was like dude you you so you saying that's hilarious you're being like where do i stand for my deal what's the meanest thing you've said when you're bombing to an audience do you remember it involves death you like wish death on i'm sure yeah have you ever

said anything that was like i think one of the meanest things i've ever said is one time i did a weekend in san antonio at the river center comedy club which is massive and it was right when i started headlining so there's maybe 30 people in a room that sat 400 and i bombed all weekend and finally i did i was like sunday show i was like i'm gonna do new stuff stuff i want to do and if i ate it the hardest on sunday and at one point there was like maybe 15 people in the audience and i went you know what i don't believe your guys's opinion on that joke because you're the kind of people that come in vacation in san antonio and this one guy goes hey and i just remember being like that caught me as a moment

where I went like oh yeah I'm sorry man that was me and that guy's like dude I brought my wife and she didn't know until that moment yeah she went what I thought we were in the French Riviera with that river walk I hope you're enjoying the episode. Which episode is this? God only knows. This is a generic promo. I'm on the road. February 3rd, New York Comedy Club in Stanford. February 4th, The Funny Bone in Hartford. February 17th, I am at The Wilbur in Boston. There are two shows. First show sold out. Second show, tickets are available. DanSoder.com. And then Cleveland, show sold out second show tickets are available dan sutter.com and then cleveland hilarities february 22nd through the 24th all at dancer.com let's get back to that episode what a what a barn burner so back to jfl okay the first set bomb bombed hard bombed hard you do the i'll be

waiting for my deal over here did you talk talk to anybody? Did anybody from the industry? Did anybody on your show do well after you? I think so. Do you remember anybody who was on your show? Yes. Cecily Nobler was on my show. Chris Fairbanks, Isaac Witte. But nobody, I don't think anyone crushed. Like, we didn't leave that show going, someone's getting a deal.

Yeah. Right? Yeah. And then there was a different host for the other group and i think everyone killed that's always how it is that's always how it is i did um live at gotham on comedy central i got that before i got jfl so that was my big like shit i'm gonna be on tv yeah i'm gonna get a manager i might stop being a waiter i was doing deliveries from the mexican restaurant like the day before i taped and i was like

this is over and it was we were the first episode to tape it was on a thursday at 7 p.m in august so the sun was still yeah screeching at 7 p.m yep jim jeffries was hosting they had no time for a warm-up so they just sent jim jeffries out there and jim jeffries admittedly after was like i'm not a host he's like i don't even know what day it was he's and i went first and we all that whole show it didn't go bad but it didn't go good and it was a tv taping and it was like me jason good uh joe mandy there's i think glenn wool there's a couple people on there that were like really funny comics and none of us felt like we did well the second show there was a there's the bar downstairs at gotham so that's where we're hanging out the second show bobby lee was hosting it was like it was like

delia eliza schlesinger it was like all the la people murder of course murdering and i'll never forget jim jeffrey's going every time one of these cunts gets an applause break i'm doing a shot and it was like and you just hear like and he go shot like an old west bar they're just pouring it dude it was wild because we all had that feeling of like can we do it again and then you watch the second group go and you're like fuck you guys are crushing we just need our own bobby lee dude he was bobby lee hosting it was nuts he gets everybody ready to go it was you it was like through the floorboards you could hear it Jesus and then we were all just double elbowed on the bar sitting down there watching the monitor going like fuck it was wild so the second show crushes

and that and that's the night you go to the the French party yeah yeah because we're driving but he goes so our driver goes you guys gonna go to the bar and meet up all the industry and we're like no no one wants to talk to us

yeah can we go you should have seen the show yeah I was like are you going to a party and he goes I can bring you to the street performer party not thinking that's where the pickpockets are

also yeah that's you want to talk about a place shadier than stand-up comedians is street performers. Yeah. But those are legit circus folk. I will tell you this, the guy that I think pickpocketed me and took my money, but also

didn't throw away my wallet, which was really nice. What a very Canadian pickpocket. And then I think he bought me a drink. I think he bought me a beer. Me still. Let me buy you a drink. Yes. He was the guy in the paper hat running around.

I have a long day of being chased by French people. French Canadians love the paper mache hat. I am very tired. What are you drinking? Also, your wallet was hanging out of your pocket. I always wonder with pickpocket. I've never been pickpocketed. Hopefully, it'll never happen.

You didn't feel it at all? I got bumped, but it was a really close quarter area. Got it. And so when I got bumped, and then I saw it was that i got bumped but it was a really close quarter area got it and so when i got bumped and then i saw it was that guy that bumped me and then a little while longer he goes he is buying beer and he goes can i get you one and i was like oh so thinking back so you already oh no no thinking back when did you realize it was gone when i got that phone call in the morning i was fucking hammered that is a real i mean that's a blessing because you like

you don't go through the panic of right if you're blacked out and you realize your wallet's gone the night takes a different turn yeah we weren't blacked out i mean we ran home and every time there was scaffolding did a pull-up it was ridiculous damn you definitely were in your like 20s yeah that's such like i still have strength of a i'm still in my athletic prowess yeah because 40 don't believe me watch this i'll just suck it out oh whatever i don't even have a wallet i'm not even checking if i have a wallet but you get to your 40s and you go like i'm not doing that you're constantly yeah am i oh i'm constantly feeling my lymph nodes at 40.

I'm going... Hey, would you like to go for a walk? Hold on. Let me check for my wallet. Yep. Oh, yep. And my reading glasses. Okay.

Let me find my cheaters. Yeah. You got one here, one here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ridiculous. So, you... So, the next show, different host, same guy? Different host, had a much better set better set well can we talk about sean finally

but i gotta tell you this part fairbanks and the second show and i will never forget this i'm standing next to a guy that wants to manage him and is taller than me okay and so i'm standing right next to him and fairbanks ends the show uh you know, Fairbanks is pretty scatterbrained anyways when he's on stage, really funny, like fleeting. And he's like, well, you ever have a great opportunity, but then you drink way too much with Chad Daniels and forget your closer? Anyways, good night.

He leaves stage, and I can just feel, it's almost like a street lamp in a cartoon he's like why is it why is my left side of my face so hot right yeah this is amazing so i just look up and he just goes gives me one of these i'm like he's an adult yeah so sean i'm at this festival up by toronto and he's there and this is before or after Montreal? This is after Montreal. So you got a bone to pick with this guy. This is maybe, oh man, maybe 12 years after Montreal? I mean, maybe even 15. So this is like 2016.

Yeah, something like that. And so I'm up there. Here's my question to you, and this is just honest. We're just sitting in my giant boy room having a conversation, which you got to open your basketball cards because i do want to see what you got do you harbor resentment 15 years later not even a little bit not not at all but i did have a question so you're not mad at this guy no because i because i then saw his comedy central presents i saw him in a couple movies. And then when they told me he was going

to be there, I was like, oh, sweet. Because his Comedy Central presents is really funny. Okay, great. So he goes on stage and I'm standing in the back and I'm hands on knees laughing. Oh, wow. Yeah. So this guy's had a bad show. Yes. So I ask him afterwards, we're drinking and i go hey man um so funny you know loved you in this loved you in this i have a question i go do you remember dude i love it

because there is there is a little bit of an element of like when you're trying to hook up with a girl and you have to make that turn of like i want to be sexual now yeah and you have to go like that's crazy you went to school for nursing do you want to go hang out like that's what you're doing do you know how to milk a prostate yeah have you ever are you cool with cum on your knees she's like what that's i've never even heard of that so you have to do that like pivot where you go like now the real question I have, 2004. Yeah. And I'm like, you're hosting just for laughs. Which he probably definitely remembers. He hand in, head in hand, just goes down like this and he goes,

oh my God, don't tell me you were on that show. And I go, I followed you dude. Oh. And he goes, oh my God. And he goes, I had just broken up, got broken up with. Yeah. And I was in the darkest place of my life, and it was like touch and go whether or not I wasn't going to step into traffic. And he was just, you know, he goes, I got on that show, thought that would help.

Soon as I got up there, they didn't laugh at my first joke, and I just went into a darkness. And I was like, all right, man. It's like a documentary where they put someone face to face after like all these years and they go like i didn't really realize you were going through something doc gooden and daryl strawberry they go oh man you were really you really needed help too i always think about that where it's like the boom boom mancini documentary about the the guy that he killed son like interviews boom and it's that interview where

they go like i didn't realize it was hard for you too you know like that sean's going like i didn't know i really missed i know i probably did but i now i'm face to face with you and i'm sorry did it feel good it had to feel like no because good but like cathartic i guess i didn't even say this i mean here's the deal my career is you know i'm not on top of the world, but I got to raise my kids where I wanted. I got to do comedy like on my terms. You also have, and that's what we were talking about at the beginning, an insane amount of respect from the world of comedy. There are very famous comedians that don't have a quarter of the respect that you have in the game well i'm talking about like very good comics when they talk about you are like dude chad daniels is the shit so it's like that is you know that's great that you

have that mindset that you're like i got what i wanted you got to do comedy your way you raise your kids where you wanted to how you wanted to yeah and you're not dead of heroin or some shit yeah i mean i don't you know who knows what if i would have had a good so who knows what would have happened but i just all i know is it happened how it happened yeah i've loved my life so it's like tough to yeah yeah you look back and you go like you get you can get mad i think that's what eats some people up in any business is i think you can look back at opportunities that are missed and gone like you can sit in that and be like well this this is what should have been but you're like well it's not what is i mean i do that all

the time i did that forever with my dad because my dad was just completely absentee yeah you and i have similar stories there yeah your pops split how old are you when your dad took off 15 but he stole my identity and ruined my credit and all that shit. So it was like, dad of the year. He didn't just leave. He fucking lay off. What were your parents divorced when he left? Yeah. They had just gotten divorced. So, well, I guess it wasn't even then it was like, he was in and out from 15 to 21. He lived six blocks away and my sister and I didn't see him for like nine months at a time. And he would just be two blocks away.

Yeah, we were very close, yeah. Did he start a new family? No, but he would always around the holidays find a woman to start smooth talking so she could buy our Christmas presents. I'm gonna tell you right now, that woman absolutely would have been my mom because absolutely and I love my mom I think she is great I think she's incredibly intelligent

emotional intelligence yeah you can you can trick her like if you're a guy you can trick Trish and I absolutely would have your dad I and here's the thing I would have been encouraging that she would have what was your dad's name Steve she would have been like this, and here's the thing. I would have been encouraging that. What was your dad's name? Steve. She would have been like, this guy Steve? I'd be like, bring Steve over for Christmas. I would have been like, because I was just at home like, huh? Landon, come on.

We got room. So it was hard for you too. Well, yeah. Yeah. It was also difficult for me because Steve left. And I was calling him Chad the whole time. So how did you find out that he took your ID? I tried to get a car loan and they were like, I don't think so.

You so I owed my mom. It was something insane, like forty thousand dollars in child support. But because he had switched that to my name, it was wild. So you were on the bill for child support can i just say as someone whose dad also didn't pay child support it's very funny it's very funny to put the child support bill in the kid's name do it yeah you go but this is support for me and they go no no you gotta pay that there it is i don't even know how did know. How did the state get tricked into that? I have no idea.

They're like, how's the kid paying for child support? My mom had to write this letter to the power company and to this apartment complex. You were on the hook for all this shit? Oh, yeah. He got bills in my name and never paid them. Oh, my God. Did you ever talk to him about it? No.

Did he die before you could? Yes. Damn it. Cause what a conversation. I know. Do you ever like thinking Steve? Stevie Weeby. What are we doing,

bud? Are you ever like, I do this with my dad. Sometimes we'll all like be on a long drive and be like, what would it have looked like? Cause my dad died we'll all like be on a long drive and be like what would it have looked like because my dad died when i was 14 so i always think about it's probably better that he died then sure because had i had a modicum of success had i had any success he would have been the dad from water boy he would have shown up and been like that's my boy yeah i always knew you was funny and i think i would have gotten very angry and violent and been like oh now you come back right do you

ever do that with your dad of like i would ask him why do that to your kid because he knows what he's doing right of course he like took your name he gave you the name and then he's using it to fucking rack up they're handing my mom my social security card to the hospital he goes i'll take that no no i'll do that i got that one yeah yeah all right he starts memorizing the number oh four seven he also stole he had a classmate that died in a motorcycle accident he called that guy's parents and was like so i work for the state you guys have some uh some compensation coming. And so all I need are some numbers like his social security number. And he stole his identity.

Yeah. I come from pretty good stock. So I love that dude. I always love seeing like how people cheat the system and when it's through death and love. Yeah. Good job, Mr. Daniels. Did you, when you when you um so you're you start finding this out when like when you're like 18 19 yeah when i probably i was probably 20 20 and then you find that out did you already have heat towards your dad for taking off and being like two blocks away not talking i kind of enjoyed it because it's like i was at that you know how when there's a son and a dad it's like you know the prince has to kill the king eventually that kind of become the man of the house yeah yeah and so um i did not become the man of the house like my mom would be like can you help out and

mow the lawn i'll be like what's wrong with a long grass? Yeah. Grass is cool long. And so people like it long. Yeah. We could comb it. And so, uh, so I, I didn't do any of that shit, which I, I do feel bad about that, but I also didn't have somebody else with all these preconceived notions of what manhood is telling me what to do. Sure.

So that was nice. Yeah. Cause it's kind of like, I'll play it by ear. Yeah. I'm going to kind of learn what I did. I just gonna i'm gonna pick and choose yeah i'm gonna go oh this guy does this i like that that's nice yeah and so you were 15 when your dad took off yeah yeah so i think you you're around it when you're younger because i think when you're under 11 yeah 12 years old that's when you look to like your dad to be like and what do i do in this situation i oh you like kind of mimic you know what i mean that's why i i had like mine was like 50 different seasonings i was like

well my stepdad nick did this but then her boyfriend joe did that it's an allspice yeah i'm like learning how to play all i'm mrs dash baby i got a little bit of everything in it but i think that was like my resentment by the age of 15 was already built up because i'm like oh you took off i didn't learn any of that and then you died but you have a thing of like oh you took off i kind of enjoyed it but at a price then you come back a little bit i mean he he had he had me help him steal a car with i i didn't know that though so i i bought finally got a car loan okay after i cleared my name sure got a car something was wrong with the engine so i had to bring it back they gave me a rental car then he called and was like hey you should come get

lunch so i went and got lunch and you're still talking to him yeah yeah after you it was he's very charming i don't let me tell you right now if you have a shitty dad, I bet they're a fun hang. Yeah. There's something about fun hangs that make, that's why I'm not having kids. It's because they make really shitty dads. They make really shitty dads because they can charm their way out of it. Yeah. My dad charmed his way out of every, my dad did nothing and died at 48 in massive debt because he was such a fun hang.

Yeah. And at his funeral, everyone was like, yeah, the guy was a fucking blast. And you're like, well, yeah. My dad was a liquor salesman. Hey, so was mine. Wow. Southern Wine and Spirits. Interesting.

My dad worked as a bartender at a liquor store and worked as a liquor salesman. Oh, that's interesting. At Southern Wine and Spirits. I have his fucking business card. It's one of the only things. I don't have a picture with him, but I have that. I have my dad's business card, but it doesn't have his name on it. It's got your name.

You go, it turns out I actually worked for Southern line and spirits for a little bit. So his eighth DUI. Yeah. You can tell you're from the North. Cause there's like people in the South, they're riding bikes by the third one in the North.

They go like, well, how am I going to get the Z tour out of the fucking field? So he, well, how am I going to get the Z tour out of the fucking field? So he took all of the seats out of his sales van, put chairs in there. And just because he wasn't allowed in a bunch of bars in town because he's been kicked out. He's traveling bar? Traveling bar. That's awesome.

And he gets a DUI. See, here's the thing about everything you've told me about your dad. We could take the sad out and it would make such a fun like Disney movie. He's a crazy dad. He put a restaurant in a van. That's all you have to do is shift it from bar to restaurant. You're like, my dad's zany. And you go, no, no, no.

There's a lot of sadness behind that. There's eight Dewey's. Eight Dewey's is nuts. Just yell a name. I bet he'll turn around yeah watch your wallet because he's gonna go for the numbers not the actual wallet so when he helps you steal this car you go to get lunch with him yeah go get lunch he takes he goes hey I gotta put something in your car takes the keys I've told the story a million times so I'm buzzing through it but um

takes the keys makes a copy that I don't know about, comes back in, and then he calls me a couple weeks later when I get my car back, has me drive him. He goes, I need you to come get me. It's the last thing I'll ask you for a while. I'm like, all right. Yeah, that sentence probably had to be his catchphrase. He goes, all right, it's the last thing I'm going to ask for a while. And you go, you've asked a lot, a lot of the time.

So then I'm driving him back from Fargo to Fergus Falls, where I lived. And I'm going two over the speed limit. He goes, you got to slow down. We can't get pulled over. I'm like, what's going on? Oh, you got a real heist going on, Pop. So then he goes, all right, take this exit, pull in here, pull in here. And then we're back in the car lot where I bought my car.

And he goes, where's that car that you rented? And I go, I don't know. It was a Ford blah, blah, blah. And then he goes, all right, right there. And he took his, I remember he took his driver. There was frost on the windshield. He took his driver's license out and scraped it. And that was one of those things where I was like, all right, I'll keep that. Yeah. Yeah. You go cool. Driver's license. I'm not going to steal cars, but I'm going to keep that one for later that's a pretty cool thanks dad he's dadding in the weirdest times you go huh you see you're watching this son yeah now i'm scraping down don't scrape up that's gonna break it if you scrape up you gotta scrape down go with the grain with the grain it's his shaving that's him teaching you how to shave he's using your license to help steal it yeah if you go up on the frost, you're going to get ingrown frost.

Yeah, so you got to go down. Smoother, cleaner. You go, oh. Yeah, I'm like, oh. So he does... Clearly he never taught me this. Yeah, both of us never learned. I won't take a razor to my face

because daddy never taught me. So now I just buzz it off like a woman um so he does the ice thing and then are you like he hops in the car you know it's your rental car because it was your rental car and he hops in the car and he goes all right follow me out here and i'm like okay he wants me to follow him that's awesome yeah dude yeah i mean clearly dude you're you really are soaking in the dad he loves loves his boy he wants me to follow him so we get two miles out of town I get out of the car he rolls his window and he goes

stay in your car stay in your car I gotta go and I'm like oh I thought I was coming and he goes I just want to make sure there wasn't a cop right behind me and I'm like okay like one of those like see ya one of those moves I am loving.

I never thought about the life of the son of a criminal. Where he just goes, so you're going to call? He goes, yeah. Bye. Thanks for helping me steal a car. You're lookout, dildo. He's like, you're not my kid. You got any cash?

I got a roll. Yeah. Santa will get you back twice as much. So how old were you when he died? Well, we don't know when he died. And we don't know officially if he died. Can I tell you something? Just from the stories I've heard, I don't believe he's dead.

I do. I do. Same reason that you were talking about that. Yeah. Is that he would have asked to borrow money by now. Got it. Yep. He would have seen it. He would have looked at your ticket sales on the road.

He would have gone like, Chad does real well on the road. And if I know, if he's doing a versus deal, he like knows, he knows how to book it. He goes, if he's getting a versus,

this is a good amount of cash. I've never met my new manager. Yeah. And it's my dad. Oh, oh, what a reveal. Mission impossible.

He's like, Chad, one last thing. It's me, me your dad help me steal this other car that's nuts yeah it's pretty crazy so how did you get the word that he was dead my sister so i guess he got in a car accident or something and then this old lady from a church was nursing him back to health and she had called his sister who called my sister i don't talk to really yeah any of his family he's got a cousin that's fucking rad he comes to all the shows and stuff yeah he's great he lives in fargo you want you want that family member yeah you go i'll take you yeah everyone else and i remember him from when i was a little kid because he used to wake us up with a rooster call and I was like, what is going on?

You're a man. You're not a rooster. You're not a fowl. How do you do that? You are a man. Yeah, it was. So, he still comes and hangs out with his wife, comes to shows all the time. Isn't that great?

Yeah. I love when you have... It's very weird. Yeah. When you have a shitty family, but you have a good member. Like I just got back in touch with my cousin lisa and she's great and her kids are great and then we just commiserate on how terrible our family is and you're like oh this feels fun because you don't have you know it is it's like someone else

watched the same show that you did so you don't have to catch anyone up like katie i gotta i gotta catch her up on all the characters yeah i gotta I got to go, you know, season 10. This guy was bad, but now he's good. And then my cousin Lisa, you're like, you know, all the players, you know how it went down and you're learning other stuff. It's like sideshows, like Better Call Saul. You go, no, I didn't know it led to that. That's cool. Well, there was a spinoff.

I have to spoon feed. I mean, I don't have to. I mean, she can handle it. But my girlfriend, Kelsey, it's like, I don't want to give you too much of this at a time because your reaction to the little things we were like i'm so sorry she's so supportive yeah she's like i'm so sorry to hear that it's like well we got to stop there for today yeah so there's too much we can't give you too much or you're gonna get if you're sorry about that you're gonna be weeping in a second i'm gonna give you sadness diabetes and And yeah.

And by the way, I don't know how your mom was, but I will tell you that I think we get a hundred points for both parents. Yeah. And they get spread out. However, they're going to get spread out. And my mom was a 97, man. I would put, that's a great, I love that. I would probably say my mom was at a 96.

I would put her around the same thing. mom was at uh 96 i would put her around the same thing maybe 95 because my dad was there for the first three or four years of my life hardcore and then gone sure so yeah i'd give her an about the same 97 yeah it's and then her her family was great that's where we spent all the holidays and all that stuff my mom's family's lights out i missed absolutely nothing so when people hear these stories they're like jesus, man, how did you survive? It's like, I missed, I didn't miss anything. I've never met anyone like you because we have a very similar thing in the fact that the damage that was done wasn't so close and permanent that it fucked everything up.

Right. But it's something that you can touch down on and go like, that was super fucked up. Yeah. Because my dad was gone. So my mom raised me in the suburbs of Denver. I had a great childhood. Like, you know, I had some tough shit happen,

but like I, my mom's family's great. They're like a huge Irish family. We go see them all the time to all the cousins. We get calls and stuff. So yeah, it's, it's not like I was just in a,

like a single wide trailer and there was no one there yeah my mom was there but you know we had our beef but you grow up and you work that out and then you go like oh fuck there was this moment that katie came with me to go to lake county to lakeport and i always said like it's real shitty you're not gonna like it she thought i was being dramatic and she's from you know she's from near boston so she was like i don't think it's that bad and then she went and she went like oh boy and i go yeah i didn't want to like completely undersell it but she saw it and in that trip there was this moment where i was like oh i'm so glad i have the mom that i have because if i would have had a shitty mom yeah this whole thing

would have gone to hell oh forget it you got it you got to have one yeah and so i but i never thought about that you're right you get a hundred points so when you're doing comedy because the joke the one question i had about your new special is does your son get mad when you do a joke about him no i so with my kids sucking up water in his asshole my kids have i've never done a joke on stage about them without asking their permission. That's awesome. I always wonder about that because all of our friends, you know, you have family, you're going to talk about your family and stand up. I do that with my mom.

Whenever I talk about my mom dating or whatever, there was one time that she kind of gave me the clearance for the rest of my life where she goes, Hey, I put you through it. If you can make it funny, go for it. Yeah. And you're like, thanks lady. Yeah yeah that's what i've done too i've gone mom you had me sister you're part of the reason i'm doing this yeah and then at the time when i was married i'd be like wife you knew what you were getting into sure but the kids did not yeah so yeah the kids were born into it you gotta ask them and you know what's weird is my i've only had one one thing

that i couldn't talk about. And it was my daughter just said, no, thanks. And I'm like, all right, great. And that's awesome. And I'll tell you what, that probably did a lot for her as far as your guys' relationship. Where she was like, thanks for understanding I have a boundary. And I didn't want to do that. I mean, she, the kids have the power in that stuff.

Yeah. I bet there's a lot of comics that don't do that, dude. I bet there's a lot of comics that just talk about their kids and they're like what the fuck dude i didn't i didn't say yes to that and you're like well guess what it's on comedy central so deal with that shit but there was yeah i'm trying to think if there's anything something happened to us during the pandemic that's a bit that i'm putting out on my new youtube special in march but it happened and when it happened i went it's kind of funny and she goes don't don't and then like a month later i was sitting in the living room she comes out she goes i think you need to tell that story oh no so i waited i didn't talk about it but the second she said i could go

i was like sick now i'm gonna work this out into a bit and sometimes you have to you have to write it out and present it yeah just to go like this is this is what i'm going to talk about in this i will leave this part out or whatever so are you happy you never moved to la or new york i am yeah yeah would and and you're i mean you're locked now you don't have to you got out of it i just uh i didn't want to go out there because you know my kids were little sure and i wanted to give them some god can you imagine how weird they would be if you had to move to like silver lake and they're just la kids and they're like dad is it pilot season like how they know my seasonal depression ends around pilot season they're like you don't want that shit

yeah sometimes people ask me like what do you think you missed out on by not moving it's like well how could i possibly answer that question i just know what i would have missed out on by not moving. It's like, well, how could I possibly answer that question? I just know what I would have missed out on if I moved. Does that make sense? The other side of it. And now they're out of the house. Yeah. So now you're just like back to like, now you're like, you're kind of in a sweeter spot. Because now you have your home base where you live.

You like where you live. Yep. And then you can go do shows you want to do. Yeah. And you're not like, because I bet there's got to be a point where people leave la and someone like your kids leave out of the house in la and you're like why are we living in la i'm oh i'm positive yeah like i live we like living in new york because it's just like oh this is the two of us and a dog there's not but like if we had kids i don't know if i want to live here yeah to raise your kids and you're like hey dad i saw a guy's dick on the

d train and you're like and let's sit down and talk about the birds and the bees some men do fentanyl and like to play with their soft penis at rockefeller center you know giving those new york the new york childhood stories where he goes when he's yelling he's not yelling at you he's yelling at his own brain well it's interesting because we have that version of that where I Northern Minnesota, but it's just like, Daddy, how come that? How come there's a wiffle ball bat sticking out of that horse's tummy? Yeah. Well, so some horses like to do fentanyl.

Some horses are nuts and carrots just don't cut it for them. Dude. So when you walked in, I showed i've got nba basketball cards shout out sumner my buddy mark who got me into this so you got a pack of nba hoops cards you start doing this now just giving a pack of basketball cards to people that care if they don't care about sports i'm not wasting this it's from 89 i think all right so this is from 1989 If there's gum, you have to eat it. No gum. Okay. Thank God.

Yeah. We've got Otis Smith from the magic. Fun. We've got Frank Brikowski. Show me. I just got to see this guy. Look at this guy, Frank, wherever you're at for the born in 1959, played at Penn State. This guy has been touched.

I mean, look at that. Look at that hair. If that's your dad, you're like, oh, right. Dad, look at you with that mullet. Am I going to have arms like that? Yeah. 89 All-Star game. John Stockton.

That's big. You're going to want to hold on to that. He doesn't believe in COVID. So probably keep that around in case he dies of it. Dave Hoppin. Dave Hoppin. Dude, the best part of these cards is you don't realize how many crusty white dudes were in the NBA in the 80s.

That just, this guy never gets it. Sorry, Dave. I don't care how good you are at Nebraska. You're not getting a call to the league in 2023. We got a coach, Del Harris. That's huge. Look at Del Harris. This is great.

They had coaches cards. We have NBA, 89 NBA All-Star game. My finger hurts just in case I play poorly. Patrick Ealy. Yeah, dude. I sweat like him in the bedroom. It's just constant dumping of sweat. Moreland Wiley.

That sounds made up. That sounds like a name your dad stole. You know, my dad wanted to name me Elgin after Elgin Baylor. Wait, really? First of all, my dad goes, I think we should get an abortion. Here's the money. And my mom was like, no, thanks, but I will keep this for a car seat. Great. And then he goes, well, if you're not going to kill him, how about Elgin? Let's just get him beat up a lot. What a fucking nerd. Is there any way we

could get him real hurt? My dad suggested the name Buck. So that's, we could have been Elgin and Buck right now. What is with dads that leave like, like they need a reason. Cause they know they're going. Yeah. How come you left? Cause his fucking name's Elgin. What do you think? I'm going to raise a buck? Yeah. Guy's not even. Who do you got? Harold Presley.

Okay. Harold Presley. I want to kind of do a follow-up just to see where all these guys are at. Where you go like, yeah, this is Harold. You just call him. You go, Harold Presley, did you play for the Kings? He goes, back in the 80s. How can I help you

were you a third round pick were you a first round pick out of Villanova he goes most certainly was now who is this well I found your name in a card deck let me ask again do you need to rent a car yeah 89 NBA all-star game we've got an Irvin no magic johnson i mean this is crazy is that how you spell irvin yeah okay yeah e-a-r-v-i-n all right i think he was magic but i think this was still in the point where it was like well that's too black to put on a card so they're like this feels like the white people the white people were like no no no no no we're not gonna do that who is that who does it is it tops no it's hoops nba hoops nba going to do that. Who is that? Is it Tops? No, it's Hoops. NBA Hoops.

NBA Hoops. Dude, you, I'm not going to lie. As far as a package goes, you are fucking lighting it up. Look at how small the Krusty pile is versus the good pile. Mark Eaton. Now, if you don't know Mark Eaton. I'll put that in the good pile. Put that in the, Mark Eaton is an all-star. Ralph Sampson.

Ralph Sampson. I mean, I kind of... Here's the thing. I remember him because... He's a coach, I think. I think he coached. He was a Golden State Warrior. So, I know all the old Warriors.

I remember him playing. Oh, nice. Because this is before I switched to a Nuggets fan in 93. So, I remember Ralph Sampson. Lafayette Lever or Lever? I don't know. Excuse me. Lafayette. Lafayette Lever or Lever? Excuse me. Lafayette. Lafayette.

I didn't watch a lot of Denver Nuggets. Great. I'm holding on to this one. Lafayette Lever. That sounds like we're coming up with all these good fake names. Whoa. Look at this, though. Tyrone Corbin, Timberwolves, expansion draft choice.

Come on. For you? Yeah, I know. Dude, you got to hold on to that one. Hold on to that one. Are you a big Wolves fan? Well, here's another. I've been to two Wolves games in my life.

I went with Kelsey last year because we moved to Minneapolis and we lived very close at the time to the Target Center. Got that. So we walked down there and we went and watched the Golden State Warriors so I could yell at Steph Curry. Missed a ton of threes. I felt really good about it. You did your job.

Yeah, I did. And I bet the Timberwolves felt that. Yeah. And then they won in an overtime rebound dunk putback situation. That's great. At the buzzer. So that was very fun. And then the other one, my dad told us that he

got us bulls. This is when the Timberwolves were playing in the in the Metrodome where the Twins played. Yeah. Because it was stadium. When they left the fan on so Kirby Puckett could hit that home run in the World Series. Yeah, that's right. everyone knows you guys cheated for that night i don't think so we will see you tomorrow night that was awesome though that was fantastic kirby puckett fucking ruled yeah i mean problem off the field but we're just talking about baseball uh so that guy was a

real problem outside of the diamond so he goes uh i won these tickets at work they are courtside and i'm like oh my god i'm i'm at school i'm talking shit got courtside tickets got courtside tickets there's this uh this group of boys that were very nice but wealthy sure and so they were like yeah we're third row where are you and i'm like no big deal courtside so then we're driving down there and uh we get to the game and we walk in and i'm like court courts deal courtside so then we're driving down there and we get to the game and we walk in and I'm like court courts this way court and my dad was like yeah so I had I found out later my mom told me he gave me an excuse but he had lost them gambling and had to buy makeup tickets so there actually were courtside tickets and he lost some gambling and we had to walk dude the the back the wall of the

metrodome yeah was our backrest we were way at the top yeah i've done i've done basketball games like that it was it was brutal i i those are those are brutal because you basically are like i should be watching it this at home and now i'm now i'm in and you also talked a lot of shit i've talked so much shit that i go home and i'm like how am i gonna take a picture of this michael jordan poster where he's dunking to make it look like i was at the game put your head like my sister my sister hey can you get in there a little bit get your hair in there now look now we're gonna act like let's change the lighting a little bit that's nuts michael cage from the now defunct Supersonics. Look at that jerry curl.

Yeah. Oh my God. Just let your soul glow. Did you see when they did the Tiny Desk concert and that guy sang it? Uh-uh. It was great. It was not too long ago. But the guy that sings that song does not look like what you think he would look like.

Hold on. Let me find it. Okay. I'm going to find the soul glow from the Tiny Desk concert. And can we just quickly talk about that this march you you have a special coming out on youtube yeah also on netflix is uh beverly hills cop it looks not bad rebirth it doesn't look bad i just love that surge is in it still yeah he is hold on tiny desk concert get out of here yeah i got uh i should i should i could tell that but now that i see him singing it i can totally get on board with it yeah

now you but when you when you first see that you go like what the fuck you like see that you go like are you fucking kidding me like it blew my mind i was like that's the guy that sings soul glow but yeah he had some soul and your last one was jim another coach get him out of here from the sixers i gotta give this to jay big jay i love this because this guy looks crusty as hell and i'm sure jay knew about him jim lindem yeah i'll see him tonight yeah dude well this is the crusty pile you take the good pile i'm gonna take the good pile and then we're just gonna we're gonna i think we're just gonna keep like amassing the shitty cards and then we'll just give them away to somebody if they want it

if they want it um chad you're one of my favorite comics to watch the new special mixed reviews on youtube right now go give it a watch i guarantee you will not be disappointed he's a phenomenal stand-up comedian you have a you tape two in one weekend i take two in one night yeah in one night and can i just say from the comedy community fuck off because you're making us look bad when does the second one come out i don't know yet netflix bought it they did yeah dude. Because you did the right thing. YouTube to push the numbers to people that don't have it. And then the Netflix one.

That's fucking awesome. Yeah. So hopefully that'll go great. And then I'm shooting again March 2nd. What? Stop. No, no, no. But then I'm taking my kids getting married and I'm taking a break.

Oh, really? Congratulations. Thanks. Are you a father of the bride or father of the groom? Father of the groom. The groom. Yep. Nice, dude. It's in Mexico. So just going Father of the groom. The groom. Yep. Nice.

It's in Mexico. So just going to go down there. I don't have any responsibilities. I think I have to be in a dance contest with the father of the bride. You're going to smoke them. I don't think so. I'm not a good dancer. Well, that's where you and Kelsey got to work on it.

You got to work on it. She's a very good dancer. You have to work on a routine. Yeah. So you can come out and do, and then you just have like in your living room, Kelsey would be going one two with a little crop whip yeah again damn it chasse like those uh just saying commands you don't know right foot up god damn it chad we've been here this feels like montreal just for god is your

name sean are you going through stuff uh i really appreciate you coming by thanks for having me this is awesome it was a very fun hang absolutely hell yeah that's it