The Nateland Podcast - #65 The Early Comedy Years ft. Dustin Chafin & Nic Novicki

Episode Date: September 22, 2021

This episode, Nate is joined by two of his longtime friends and fellow comedians, Nic Novicki and Dustin Chafin. The guys share stories of what it was like getting their start in comedy and doing shows together in New York City.  Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail] Scribd - Scribd.com/nate Right now, Scribd is offering our listeners a FREE 60-day trial.  Go to try dot scribd dot com slash NATE for your free trial.  That’s try dot S-C-R-I-B-D dot com slash NATE to get 60 days of Scribd for free.   Allform - allform.com/nate Allform is offering 20% off all orders for our listeners at ALLFORM.COM/NATE. That’s 20% off all orders at ALLFORM.COM/NATE.   Solo Stove  - solostove.com Go to SOLOSTOVE.COM. And remember, you get $10 off when you use promo code NATE. That’s promo code NATE at SOLOSTOVE.COM for $10 off your order. 

Hello, folks. Welcome to Nateland. All right, everybody. Welcome to the Nateland podcast. to the Nate Land podcast. We're excited to have you guys here. Have a little bit of the first kind of different podcast. So sadly, Brian Bates is not here. He had a kind of family emergency. I'm sure we'll talk about it at some point. So he could not make it. Prayers to Bates and his family and his wife's family and all of them.

So we had in. So you got Aaron. Here I am at the end of the table in Brian's chair. Brian's chair. You ever see a room you've been in a bunch from a different spot? Yeah. It looks like a new room. Yeah.

It feels very different. People move furniture around a lot. Is that why just to shuffle things up yeah we were we laura does not but i grew up and i think that's why i like things changing because my parent we grew up just rearranging every day i mean we'd come home and there'd be the kitchen is now my parents or the dining room is my parents bedroom and now are we're eating in their old bedroom like it'd be that much of switching yeah and i feel like when you just have a small house

you know we grew up in a very small house it's like that was the only way to like be like oh look at it now it's like a new house like a new house right and so we did it they did it a bunch uh so yeah it's it's like that's fun it's fun yeah i like it over here yeah it's nice over there right you realize the vantage point baits gets i know and you're like it's like that's fun. It's fun. Yeah, I like it over here. Yeah, it's nice over there, right? You realize the vantage point Bates gets. I know. He's got a waisted on him, huh? Yeah, yeah. I feel like I'm getting something out of it.

You're getting it. And we have two guests with us. These are very special guests. One you know, Mick. Everybody, Mick's back. Hello. Hello. There you go, folks.

Hello, folks. There you go. There you go go i like to just kind of delay hello yeah hello folks wear the uh sweatshirt with mustaches on it what's the point of that is that something just a little fun you know this so you went into a store and you saw you go y'all got any mustaches on a sweater? And they go, just one. They go, we got four. And you go, all right, I'll do four. Is it just mustaches?

It's just mustaches. I don't hate it. But I kind of like it. But it's kind of. The whole podcast is just Nate staring at the mustaches. Oh, yeah. Well, you've wore it on stage. I mean, this is your nice shirt.

Well, actually, the funny thing is because we were out over the weekend, and the first time we see Nate, I show up, and I'm wearing this in the morning. And he's like, why are you dressed up like you're ready to go to the show? Yeah. I was like, well, I'm not wearing this the rest of the day. I'm wearing it for breakfast. Yes. It was like I dressed up for you.

Yeah. And you're wearing it today for breakfast, and then breakfast wasn't here. Yeah. So our other guest is our great, great friend, Dustin Chafin. We were roommates. Yeah, we were. We've all talked, which today we will talk a lot about, like kind of comedy at the beginning. This is the start.

This is the, all of us was the start we've been uh very close friends for i mean seven sixteen years seventeen years wow uh we all lived together uh and so we were all on the road this weekend together and it was very fun and uh we're talking about all that stuff uh so it's it's fun to have us here yeah it was great yeah and the bus was bigger than our apartment. Yes. We're talking about that apartment. Like it was,

it was something. So first up, we want to talk, read your comments from you guys. Comments are from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple podcast reviews.

And you can also email Nate land at natebargatze.com. First up, Brent Cook. Nothing strikes me funnier than Bates being deep in the Wikipedia weeds. Nate murmuring his disapproval of where things are going, and Aaron doubled over in silent laughter.

Gets me every time. Keep it rolling, folks. That's true. I thought the last podcast was good but we there was parts where it's like all right we're always i'm always reminded of your line date where brian was reading something and he was like you don't find that interesting and date goes i mean it is but people are listening to this so it's just something to keep in mind there well there's a difference of uh you know like you do you gotta remember that you're like people are listening like this is a little more high pressure

of a conversation then yeah uh you know just you know there's conversations like yeah we should be doing this alone i've said that on stage sometimes sometimes you try a joke and it doesn't work and then you're like oh you're like i'm sorry i should have just like this should be something i should tell y'all like privately like it's like a funny enough joke if we were just one on one right but not for a room of people you know uh andrew uh councilman councilman uh i don't know andy Andy. That would just be... I would never want to marry you, Andy. I'd be like, so what is it?

This has to be the only podcast to mention 9-11, Katrina, and the slinket all in one episode. I think that's true. America's three greatest tragedies. Yeah. There's the slinket right there i talked to him this weekend uh uh the the guy that started this slink it uh he had some uh friends that were going to come to the show so it was very funny to get it i was like oh man it all came together yeah i was like we just talked about you

i take it he likes cards he likes cards so that's the card one okay uh that's when we buy my dad my dad would love that one the card one i mean that would be yeah his favorite slink it's the card one. Okay. That's the one we buy my dad. My dad would love that one. The card one. I mean, that would be his favorite. Slanket's the original. Slanket. Who don't understand? Slanket's the original. Before the Snuggie?

Slanket was the one that started it all. Oh, wow. Snuggie came in and was just big money and just said, oh, I like what you did. And you can't copyright it. Didn't you have one at one time? Yeah, yeah. We did a commercial for him. Me and Giannis.

Giannis was friends with him. And so, I mean, this dude invented this, and then Snuggie just, like, what happens is, like, people invent something, and then someone with a lot of money goes, well, I'll just use money to advertise it. So then he just swallows, like, he doesn't buy them out. Yeah. He just goes, copies them, calls it something else,

and then has the money to pay for all the commercials and then so everybody just knows about Snuggie when Slink It was the original Slink It's like a MySpace just it's like MySpace it was first you know more like a Friendster actually it was Friendster way back yeah all right let's go back further Kellogg how about Kellogg the cereal it lost to the other cereal. Do you see that post in cereal? What food made us? Post in cereal? Yes.

Kellogg and post. It's a whole crazy thing. Post cereal. It's like what food made us. It goes on this whole crazy thing. What food made us? I think that's the name of it. I don't know.

It may not. But it's a whole crazy thing. Like Kellogg was first? Kellogg was first. Okay. They were living in, this guy from post was working there as an intern. but it's a whole crazy thing. Like Kellogg was first? Kellogg was first. Yeah. They were living in, this guy from Post was working there as an intern, and they were like, ooh, this crunchy thing,

and he's just an intern working there, steals it, and then creates this Post. This is the 1800s. Oh, really? Yeah. Is this the food that built America? The food that built America. I said the food that made us.

Yeah, that made us. It was one of the titles they tried to go with, and they go, I don't think it makes sense. And the us was spelled U dot S dot. Aaron looks like he could have been in that recreation, though. You have like a 1800s. Well, all I need is

one of those mustaches from your shirt, and then I would be ready for it. I think they come off if you want. I thought you meant he was a guy who looks like he likes cereal. I do love cereal, man. Yeah, but no, no that's right he could be in the 1800s uh thanks man yeah kellogg wow you made that good because you took a turn at the beginning i was like what are we doing we talked about friendster i know i thought you're trying to name another social media platform that's what i thought i was like well it's like kellogg's well you're like yeah the old post platform what What was the word?

Post that threw us. Yeah. And the whole thing, you know, down to the sweater is what I got confused on. Nick can't stop staring at the mustache. Now, I mean, you wear it on stage. I like it. It's because it's an easy thing to pack because when you go, when Nick goes anywhere anywhere he packs this one backpack that's a roller and it's if it's a one-day trip to a four-month trip it's just that backpack and he's i mean he's

this the you're the most compact packer i've ever seen in my life i've never seen you outside of that and there's times you've been you come to to New York back before you moved to LA, you'd be there for, I mean, a few weeks. Oh, yeah. And you would just have that. Yeah. Is it a free for all, putting stuff in the suitcase, or is there a science behind it? You roll stuff up?

How do you do it? You know, luckily, my wife helps. Yeah. So that, but before that, I mean, Nate would see it and look like. It was not rolled up. It was just jammed in. But he always had, like, you know But he always had luggage to the comedy club. Even in the city.

He wasn't traveling anywhere. He would just roll up with luggage. He was here for a few hours. He goes, well, you never know. I was a traveling salesman, basically. Yeah. It was a couch. Selling cereal.

Somebody's couch. Joe Cicero. Favorite episode to date. I couldn't catch my breath because I was laughing so hard when Nate was unable to properly pronounce disabled. Yeah, that's a tough one. I think some people got a little upset that we said that. But we were not making fun of disabled.

Yeah, the point was we had no idea what we were talking about. That's kind of always the point. That's always the point. I mean, I mispronounce disabled. So now is when I can plug my Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge. There we go. Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge. Go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com.

Nate will spell disability wrong. D-I-C-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. Yeah, it's a great thing you do. Everybody makes these videos, and they they make films and they win. These films are unbelievable. Yeah, unbelievable. Honestly, though, there are hundreds of films you can see. Go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com.

Check it out. Great films that include people with disabilities. Yeah, there you go. We upped it up. Brian Lee. I paused the podcast to look up the atlantic article on nate the nicest man in stand-up only to then unpause and hear him immediately start making fun of an old one-eyed softball player great episode guys well that guy's not in stand-up i'm the nicest

to the other stand-ups is what that are only to Only to stand-ups. Only to stand-ups. Softball players I'm brutal against because they would never let me play. I told that where I lost. I got the yips in softball. No. That's where we need Brian. Well, I might have. When you struck out at the Royals game, right? Yeah.

But, I mean, when I played church softball, well, I mean, it's crazy. These guys were like the best softball team ever, and one guy's one eye. Yeah. But they dominated they dominated they would be i think just them four right would play and they would beat they would play teams of nine with just four people and obliterate people yeah one of them was don mattingly it looks like yeah no that's the guy the king right there the old guy is the best softball pitcher of all time he's the pitcher wow yeah yeah and he was so good and the other guys you can see just jack stuff out is it all we think that guy ran covered the one-eyed guy we said covered first and he never saw anybody well you were telling me yesterday you had a no hitter when you were well i didn't know hitter in baseball okay a

little league baseball game balls up there the ball somewhere i got harper's harper's game ball the yellow one in the middle. Very proud of that. Great. I told her, I was like, you got to let me put it up there. And then, yes, when it's softball, I went through a phase playing church softball. I played softball some in Chicago when I first moved there, and then I played in church.

You know, you're playing with grownups, and it's like guys that are like major league players. But I got to yips for a minute where I couldn't throw to first base and I would just sell it over. I'd be on – I'd either play short or second and I'd get a ground ball and then I couldn't keep it – I couldn't hit the guy. And I would just launch it and it would hit, you know, the open. There's no top on the softball field.

It just hits and falls in. I mean, it doesn't get more embarrassing than that. It's like me trying to chip in golf. It just goes every time. Red Goss or Goss. Goss, probably Goss, G-O-S-S. I bet he got it. It's probably Reed, though.

Probably Reed. R-E-I-D. Reed, Reed Gross. oss i bet he got it's probably reed though probably reed reid reed reed gross uh nate's description of avatar is why this podcast is amazing it's like blue man group in space everyone nods along like what he said wasn't absolutely nuts keep up the good work aaron nate and beansprout uh They always call Brian different names. Gotcha. So that's where all it comes from. Yeah. I still stand by that.

It's like Blue Man Group in space. It's not bad. Blue Man Group did pretty well. Yeah, Blue Man Group, very successful. Avatar, very successful. Yeah. Max Sigmund. Simon.

I mean, these names.rian lee was the first one i like just and brent cook sort of brent cook and i was like this is gonna be an easy day and they got got beat up by the next two then brian lee was like all right we're back got my head above water and then now we're still just and i think by the looks of it we ain't getting out of it i'm max simone s-i-g-m-o-n the thought of brian on the phone with al gore and asked him how far he can throw football killed me thanks aaron that was a very funny line yeah yeah i think it was a line that got it didn't get the respect it should have got here but they noticed it oh that's good i feel like i got some respect here uh i gotta laugh from both of y'all surprised uh you're not ready for me to say

a joke yeah so it always catches you off guard yeah brian and i think it's a dead serious comment uh but it's a very funny line to just picture bates on the phone with al i called al gore and just how far can you throw a football? And he's like, it would be a great line. Can you imagine just calling someone and just like right when they go, hello, how far can you throw a football? You think they answer? I think most people would give it.

Most men would give an answer. Yeah. They go, excuse me. How far? You heard me. How far can you throw a football? Probably 40 yards. Yeah.

I would think, I'd hope 40 yards. 20 for me. And then you go, all right, do you want to buy insurance? And then you go, all right, yeah, I'll buy it. What a great. That's how everybody should. You call someone and just go, how far can you throw a football? I used to do cold calls for my job.

I would have liked to have had some kind of. A line like that. Something like that to at least keep me interested. It's a great opening line. How far do you think you throw a football? My name is Aaron. How far can you throw a football? That's it. And just to see if one guy ever goes 65 yards. And you go, Steve Young?

Do you want to buy in? Jay? Jay would just hang up on you. Annie Doggett. Dog, then yeah, Doggett. Annie Deadgummit. That's what Annie's name is. Annie Deadgummit. I'm an avid Errandland listener.

Oh, well, Deadgummit, Annie. I'm an avid Errandland listener oh well dead coming in annie i'm an avid erin land listener who couldn't get behind the whole aughts is actually something people say argument but then i heard it for the first time in class today he's becoming too powerful wow well i like that annie uh disagreed with erin land and then she and now she's surrounded by it yeah yeah how that's crazy let me ask you guys can i float it to y'all? What do you call the decade after the 1990s? After the 90s?

Yeah. 2000s? Y21. Y21. Y2K. I don't even think about it. You don't even think about it? Those years are just gone.

They're just gone. 2000s. I did a lot of drinking. Yeah. 2000s. Yeah, you don't think about it it seems like 90s 80s you never you would say two i would say 2000s 2000s i would know what you meant when you said 2000 you would know what we meant because the world uses that yeah exactly that's

what i'm saying that's what you say when someone says i call it the aughts have you ever heard of the aughts? No. And you have the audacity. The aught-dacity. The aught-dacity. Good work. To go, I needed Aaron's help on this. To think, we say 2000s, you're like, all right, I get it. Yeah, I roundabout know what you're talking about. But the aughts, we're supposed to be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's exactly what it is. But it's being used. about, but the ox was supposed to be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exactly what it is. But it's being used. What if Annie, maybe she, I'd be great if her teacher was an Aaron Land fan too. Could be.

Daniel Fitzsimmons. I know that because of Greg Fitzsimmons. Daniel Fitzsimmons. Dear Nate, Aaron, and Bacteria. Never heard of Bacteria. That's a good one. That's good. That's fun.

I love the show so much. However, as an RN, registered nurse, I was aghast. What? Aghast? Aghast. Aghast. And Nate suggestions that it's okay to just use hand sanitizer instead of washing your hand. at Nate's suggestions that it's okay to just use hand sanitizer instead of washing your hand.

The water, soap, and friction removes bacteria from your hand and is vital in maintaining sanitation. Hand sanitizer simply kills some but not all of the bacteria and without the help of water and friction, leaves your hands covered in someone else's excrement when you leave a public restroom. Wow. Wow. Yeah. This was Nate's solution to save water was to get rid of sinks. Yeah. And just have hand sanitizer. I'll tell you something. We're not going to allow to come on the tour with us on the bus.

Daniel fits in. You're going to be eyeballing us the whole time. I got to walk in and hide my hand sanitizer use. It says 99.9. Yeah, that number's there for a reason. I'm there for that 0.1%. I'll fight that 0.1%. That's how much. Nick, you put cortisone in your mouth this week. So Daniel, what's your comments on if someone uh as an adult thinks cortisone's toothpaste and then squirts it into his mouth and swigs it around did you do that on the bus this was not on the bus no at his parents house so yeah so

we're stayed in mohegan sun i wake up early my parents live in new haven i'm tired i go there i'm like i need to you know rinse my mouth out so i see this tube what looks like toothpaste and i just see the c and i thought it was colgate and so i go like that it is red put it in and it was a red and white label you know so that's how he said his brushes he doesn't have a toothbrush so he basically eats toothpaste and yeah and then he puts it in his mouth. We've already had an incident with this before. So I start to swish like this.

You have water in your mouth? Not yet. So you do it no water or anything? Well, first step is put the toothpaste in. Second step, go under the sink, get a little water. I like that. You go under it. You're in it. You got to swim to the sink. Well, it's i like that you go under like i mean you get you're like you're in it you gotta swim to the sink yeah well it's like you jump in it you just hold your nose

and jump in the sink and then swim over there well usually i can't reach the sink so i gotta it's steps so i'm like i gotta do like a pull-up in and then move i do kind of swim a little bit towards the sink so now i on the way um i turned the tube and realized that it's cortisone in my mouth i just spit it out like immediately and now like ever since then my front teeth have been hurting i don't know if this is like connected yeah still today still today i mean it's been like it's been like five days two Two days of serious pain in my first teeth. They're going to fall out. Not before. Not before.

But just right after the cortisone. Right after the cortisone, I'm like, mind you, I'm feeling like I'm better. I think cortisone is going to make you, if you have pain, no pain except the teeth. Well, yeah, it could be against the teeth. So you saw it was C for Colgate. So you probably got a pretty good look at the other letters on, yeah, it could be against the teeth. So you saw it was C for Colgate. So you probably got a pretty good look at the other letters on there too, right? Well, he saw the C and then the O.

I got it at a weird angle. I got it sideways and I could just see the C. Was it like wrapped up? I did have to unwrap it a little bit. Okay. So they had it wrapped up to the C, maybe a little O. There you go. Well, obviously, you know, obviously a little O. There you go. And he thought, well, obviously,

you know, obviously everybody keeps their toothpaste under the sink. And they don't have it out. Was the, was the toothpaste very obvious when you found it? I mean, it still looked identical. You know, it was also Colgate.

So in fairness. Wow. Yes. In fairness. And then it was on the sink. Well, it was, it was a drawer. So I go. In fairness. And then it was on the sink. Well, it was a drawer. So I go in the drawer. And then they have cortisone.

I'm tired. So you'd like to blame your parents for being, why are y'all keeping those that close together? Yeah. Was it next to the Band-Aids? That's true.

You could have had a word with your mom and dad and said, hey, let me talk to you guys for a second. Why do y'all keep these two things? Knowing that you have me

as a son, why would you ever think that you would be allowed to keep those things too they know you the best yeah and i think i'm the the third best i would i'm gonna go walk to your parents house and go hey guys you know i know nicks lived in la for a while but you we got to clean some stuff up around here all right yeah we got to keep these things farther away. I mean, I was, I was almost so excited that it happened. Just knowing I'd be able to tell you what happened. Well,

that I love that. Uh, it's, uh, yeah, his parents, uh, his parents came to the show.

Uh, and you know, we've met him before, but I haven't seen him in a while. And it was, uh, wonderful. Yeah.

To go. His dad's going to come out on tour with us. Yeah. That's awesome. You know what his job is? Podiatrist. Podiatrist. Podiatrist.

They're old New Haven. Five generations from New Haven, Connecticut. Best pizza in the world. Best pizza in the world. Old money from New Haven. That's why they can forward strips. Y'all went to Yale? Any Yale people in your family?

No. No, but his dad's a big fan, though. His dad's like me with Vanderbilt, except his dad probably could have got into Yale. They're big Notre Dame fans. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right. We've talked about that.

I've got the Cortisone and the Colgate logos pulled up. So you can see here's Cortisone and here's Colgate. Okay. And you can see. It's pretty close. So here's a tube the cortisone and the colgate logos pulled up so you can see here's cortisone and here's colgate okay and you can see it's pretty close so here's a tube of cortisone and i could see how you'd think that was a travel size yeah yeah yeah especially if it's rolled up it was actually the bigger kind though oh okay big tube that looked like it was a legit but you can see yeah yeah they're red something a podiatrist would have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not a crazy leap. Fast itch relief. What does it say?

I mean, I think it's... Just please don't... It's got to be a warning label. I can't believe we would even say this, but don't put it in your mouth. For external use only. Right there in the direction. And you went internal. Yeah, I went. You went in.

You know what? I'm going to lose a couple teeth on this tour. So the tube, when it felt itself being squeezed, it thought, where are we? It's pretty dark in here. I've never, you know, because he's not used to that. Yeah, the tube. Yeah. I'll be honest with you.

The toothpaste probably isn't used to be just jammed in its mouth either. These are two things that see the light of day every day and then they just go in like a spaceship and just being like god it's getting dark back here what's going on you know that's kind of crazy uh before we get to the next one let me read uh just a couple of these ads all right come back to a couple more of those uh here we are jay alberton alberton alberton alberton probably probably oh i think he's canadian jay all britain uh my dad played briefly for the toronto argonauts yeah yeah argonauts. Yeah? Argonauts. I don't even know what Argonauts are. I've heard of it.

I believe they are middle-aged knights. They're farmer astronauts. Farmer astronauts. I hope they're farmer astronauts. What did you say it was? Middle-aged knights. They're octopus. It's an octopus.

But you believe me though you kind of nate's eyes lit up and he was like oh that's awesome i yeah i don't i don't know what it is i believe actually both of them but dustin came up with a great joke i believe you thought you were right too yeah we're all... Mid-aged. You could also mean... What are they, knights in their 40s? Kind of on the back end. You could also mean any adventurer engaged in a quest or a band of heroes, Argonauts.

Argonauts is a good name. Yeah, it's fine. So Jay's dad played briefly for the Toronto Argonauts in the CFL when he was just out of college and was invited to try out for the Baltimore Colts in the mid-50s. But I think the sports accomplishment he was most proud of was getting a foul tip against the King and his court in the mid-60s. Wow.

That's pretty cool. I mean, that's crazy. So is Dad like a legit athlete that played in the CFL and then tried out for the Baltimore Colts. Johnny Nitis? Maybe didn't make it just because they left in the middle of the night. Was that the team that left? Yeah, to Indianapolis.

His dad showed up. He goes, where is everybody? That's his first tryout. He's just out there on the field alone, stretching. He's like, just a little late. Everybody late today? This is a tight run ship. They're on a bus and stuff, just driving away.

But that's crazy. He got a foul tip against the king. I mean, just a foul tip. Yeah, it's probably what caused this guy to have an eye patch. Yeah, that was it. It was a hard foul right at his eye. Yeah, he was not used to seeing that. God,

that's how fast, that's how good of a pitcher that guy was. Wow. They also look like they'd be great to hang out with. Very friendly. I bet they're fun. Yeah, yeah. I don't think they got a lot of sleep. Kind of got a Harlem Globetrotters uniform. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of what they did. That's kind of what they did. That's kind of what they did.

Okay, gotcha. They would come in, and they'd be like, pick your best nine players, and then they would kill them. Oh, wow. Yeah. So it was kind of, yeah. I mean, they did it a little more than Harlem Globetrotters. I think they would let people pick their teams, right?

So they would like, I mean, if this guy's dad played against them, they would be like, so they'd go, all right, so this guy's dad played in the it would be like so this they go all right so this guy's dad played in the cfl and then so obviously you're like yeah we come play softball and he's like yeah dude i'll crush these yeah it's just four dudes how would we not win and then they beat them i mean i would go they should get that going again so was it mostly in the pitching that they would win or how that's probably i mean he was the best pitcher But then you look at the other two big guys. I mean, I think they would – it would just be home run after home run. Yeah, that Gronk-looking guy.

He could hit for sure. And then he's striking everybody out. So they probably have a guy at first, then some guys playing – you got a guy at first base, you got a guy playing kind of little mid-deep, short and third, and then mid maybe right over second base, and then the pitchers are striking everybody out. If you can't hit anybody, I mean, you know, maybe a couple people get a hit.

But we actually probably need to look into that. I hope there's video. I hope there's video. Yeah, I hope there's video too. Michael Spirit Walker Mosley. Spirit Walker. Native maybe? Maybe.

I know him. He's a comedian from Alabama. Oh. Spirit Walker. Native, maybe? Maybe. I know him. He's a comedian from Alabama. Spirit Walker. Native American guy? I've done a couple shows with him, yeah. He goes by Spirit. He is Native American? Spirit Walker, yeah.

Oh, so that's his real... Spirit Walker is what he goes by. Because if you're not, that's just... Well, I mean, it's got to be tough for him as a comedian. For if he goes, I go by Spirit Walker. You're not like... You're probably like, well, yeah, whatever, man. A lot of i go by spirit walker you're not like you're probably like well yeah whatever man a lot of comics go by weird names so you're probably you don't think he's yeah

meanwhile earthquakes are next weekend yeah yeah you're like yeah that's fine so it means i'll have you a feature for earth and you're like i would love it please welcome stage spirit walker and spirit walker brings up earth uh and to close the show out, Ozone. Talent's doing a good spot. Talent. Yeah, there's talent. I mean, that is pretty crazy. That's in Philly where I started, and Mike Beccione is going to be there next weekend.

Yeah. There was a lot of guys. There was a guy that went by Sun572. Sun? Sun572. Yeah, wow. And he had the greatest. It was the greatest

at the end of it no matter what it didn't matter if he killed or bombed he would go Sun 572 and the sun always shines and he would drop the mic

after bombing sometimes if he killed it was a standing up or a bombing open mics and it would be like you know

it would be a guest spot either way kill, bomb he was a great comic. He would do good always. Yeah. But regardless, he would,

Sun 5, 7, 2, and the sun always shines. And the man's come down. Yeah. And the mic. And the mic drops.

Wow. And you got to be like, imagine that, that's a guest spot. Like if people, I mean, I don't know, if people don't know.

So a guest spot is like, so typically like, we were out this weekend. So it was me, Nick and Dustin, right? We are the show. And then say Aaron ends up being in town and he's like, oh, I'm gonna come hang at the show. And we're like, all right, dude, we'll throw you a guest spot. So you let him go up and he does seven, 10 minutes, five minutes, whatever.

And you're just like a buddy that comes in. You're like, yeah, we'll throw you up on the show. That's a guest spot. They're not getting paid. It's, but I mean, you're, all you're doing is guest spots at the beginning. Yeah. But it was very fun.

And so like, so for, but a guy that Sun 572, I have heard, I've heard you or Jay and all them talk about it. For that guy to come and do that as a guest spot, it would be probably looked down on. Cause you're like,

all right, dude, like you're just here. You're not on the show. You're. Yeah. You don't drop the mic when you're doing four minutes yeah you do four minutes drop the mic and now the host that is on the show is gonna go pick the mic up and be like it's broken now you gotta put batteries back in it yeah if you're if you're closing the show that's you don't even do it if you're if you're the headliner yes do whatever you want they're there to see you

they're there to see you yeah but yeah sun 57 see you. Yeah. But yeah, Sun 517, that's great. Sun always shines. And your next comic. And your next comic. Well, it was the greatest. Nick Novicki, everybody. It was the greatest because we did have, this was, you know, it was town. They called it, it was open mic.

And this guy, the legendary Witt, the best. First time I ever did comedy. He would do in between everybody, but he would have to come back on stage and get the mic because we're all doing five minutes. Okay, everybody. Alright, and that's on 572. Everybody pick it up. What if they made you always go after him?

Because it was just like, you know, the mic was easier for you to grab. And then everybody nods. I guess he does that out of he's being nice. So everybody was like fine with it. It's always the dumbest thing too. Cause like when you run a comedy show, the last thing you want to see is somebody breaking the microphone.

Like don't hit your head with it. Don't drop it. Like that's, we all need that device so we can perform. Respect it. A lot of times it's your microphone. Yeah. You know,

it's like the comedian brought the PA system. Yeah. And people with dental. Oh yeah. You go grab a microphone and you just see it's got a big dent in it. You know, that came from the PA system. Yeah. And people with dental. Oh, yeah. I mean, you go grab a microphone, and you just see it's got a big dent in it. You know that came from someone's head. Yeah, somebody like this.

And they're like, where, where, where? You ever walk in a room, and it's like, oh, and the fall again? And you're like, do you see this guy just caved in? And you're like, and the rest of the show, we're all like, he's got a weird shake.

It's like an ice cream cone, like half someone took a big bite out of it, and you're like, all right got a weird shake. It's like an ice cream cone. Like half someone took a big bite out of it. And you're like, someone's closer. Yeah. You're like, I hope it murdered. He's like, it does. All right. I can say nothing that good.

He's like, it's okay. Oh, oh, let me read. We'll go check out Michael Spirit Walker. Mosley is a comedian. You should look up Rosie Black, who was the pitcher for the queen Intercourt softball team. They were also a four-person team that would play against other full teams and beat them.

I've seen them play twice at Altus. Never heard of it. Altus Air Force Base against the top men softball players on the base. It was so hilarious to watch these big, brawny military men who were no slouches in fast-pitch softball players on the base. It was so hilarious to watch these big, brawny military men who were no slouches in fast-pitch softball, and she would just smoke them. I've seen Rosie strike out men while she was wearing a blindfold, and she would even throw a pitch between her legs and strike them out.

Wow. I mean. There's Rosie Black. I wonder if they ever played. The Queen and King Tour. That's huge money. I mean. Yeah. Honestly. That's huge money. I mean, honestly. That's a mist.

I might look into this and get this going again. What if we try to see, we just have them do a tour. They can come on the bus. They just have them tour with us. That's what we go do during the day. They come play your best. What if we could get it going? That'd be amazing.

I feel like they would think Aaron's on the team, just people walking by. He's on the team. Just people walking by. He's on the team. No, Aaron would be the umpire. You actually look like you could be the umpire today. Just all black. Dustin and I wear him basically the same thing. That's what we do. He's got a little bit more...

This feels like NBA. Aaron, they would just be like, so who wears his padding under his shirt? Comes off the bus. Oh, I guess it's a bulletproof vest or something like that. And you go, yeah, yeah, something like that. We can make fun of Aaron because Aaron's lost 100 pounds. I mean, that's the crazy thing.

I know. One Krispy Kreme challenge and then Aaron just. That's all it took. That's all it took. And then he's down. 13, huh? Wow. I mean, 60, 70 pounds or something like that. Yeah. I mean, not to say. It's not like he was ever this. He's down. 13, huh? Wow. I mean, 60, 70 pounds?

Yeah. I mean, not to say, but it's not like he was ever this. He was just a big dude. Yeah. And then, I mean, just, you can watch it all. I haven't seen you in a year. Yeah, I'll say it's been a while, man. When I come back, you lost 100 pounds, you got married,

and now you're in Brian's seat. Yeah. Things are really improving for all of us. We're going to look into it. It's a tie-in to... Sorry. All right. Jason Stobb or Stobb.

Nate, the story of your daughter's softball team named The Nightmares had me laughing. I love the way kids think they are left alone to be creative with things like this. Wait, did I read that right? I love the way kids think they are left alone to be creative with things like this uh wait did i read that right i love the way kids think they are left alone to be creative with things like this it reminded me of last year when the coach of my nine-year-old self my nine-year-old daughter's soccer team gave them the assignment of thinking of a team name when they all returned to practice the next week

to vote on suggested names like pink dragons and pink Panthers. My daughter's suggestion was the only, the one they chose. They were the Washington football. That's so great. I mean the whole season, I couldn't have been more proud. That's amazing.

You love that. I love that. That's such a good name. That's so great. The Washington football team. Oh man. Oh, that's so good. That's such a good name. I do. That's so great. The Washington football team. Oh, man. Oh, that's so good. That's so funny. Such a good name.

I do. It's so wonderful. That's maybe a glorious thing of just seeing children and the pure innocence and what makes children so perfect is just let them choose their names. Yeah, absolutely. And what are they going to do? I mean, the Washington football teams, which, by the way, I love that name.

And that kid's hilarious. Yeah, whoever did that is on point. I mean, they're playing soccer, football team. She knows it's called football. Technically, she's right. Are they in Washington? Who knows? I don't know.

It doesn't matter. I hope they're in Florida. Nothing would make me happier. It's better. They're in Florida, and they're the Washington football team. Who are we playing this weekend? We got the Pink Panthers playing the Washington football team. If you were just gambling on that, you're like,

I got to go with the Washington football team. I got to gamble on that. We got the Frozen Gals. I love it. McKay Potter. McKay Potter. Two last names. McKay Potter. You know? Does it seem like that? Yeah, Adam McKay, Harry Potter. McKay Potter. Two last names. McKay Potter.

You know? Doesn't it seem like that? Yeah, Adam McKay Harry Potter. That's what I thought of. That's what you thought. That's what you thought. So maybe when he was named that, it wasn't that. And then now it's like McKay Potter and everybody goes,

yeah, but what's your last name? Yeah. I mean, what's your first name? He probably has to deal with this every day. Potter's a lot of Harry. If you have Potter in your name, chances are people think you're just a giant Harry Potter fan.

Do they change their name? They change the name because of it. My dad was a huge Harry Potter fan. Last name, which is a little bit harder to do than the first name. Middle name, maybe. You're saying...

You gotta go down, got to fill out documents yeah it's a it's a big deal that's how big of a fan he is and that's what you think every time you see a potter i think a lot of them he changed he changed his last name to potter but kept mckay as his first name yeah yeah he just went he goes he moved it mckay was just sitting there on the bench and then he got brought up he He goes, I'm bringing Potter in. He goes, and then McKay goes, I guess I'm out. He goes, McKay, it's your lucky day. And then Billy's like, so what does that mean for me?

And Billy's throwing out the back. I like it. Changed his last name. He was a big Harry Potter fan. Hi, folks. First time commenter, long time listener. Welcome to the show, McKay potter because we've given you the full service i went to the dentist this morning to get a crown the dentist had one

of those tvs on the ceiling where you can watch netflix i put on greatest average american and the dentist was giggling the whole time pretty uncomfortable to have the dentist laughing while holding a drill in my mouth but i made it out alive and you got a new fan. He said he's going to listen to the podcast. So keep it up. Welcome to the show. That's awesome. That's awesome, man. That is.

I mean, you know, if he's laughing at it, just in there like, eh, he's just like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Oh, sorry, sorry. He gets like four other teeth. Beep, beep, beep, beep. Sorry, sorry. We're going to do five crowns now, McK uh if if it's all right to ask the dentist

that what cortisone does to your mouth i would like yes okay could you rise write us back could you ask your dentist i mean someone's gonna anybody truthfully will let us know and we're we'll let you know in the comments uh what happens if you put cortisone in your mouth we're not gonna look it up we would just like one of the uh one of our folks i mean we got a lot of smart folks we do and so they are definitely going to know we got all the scale we got the smart folks that will know the answer and i think we got some folks that have also done this yeah so we get everybody and so let's get some from experience and then maybe just from uh some doctor's stuff to figure that out uh saturday night you know we're doing the show and after

my parents came yeah so i wanted to you know them to see in their friend inside of the bus yeah and there was you know we i knock on it but ricky kind of went like this and didn't see me and just sees my parents yeah so he like was like i'm not letting these random people yeah yeah and so he opened it up he's like oh man he's like i didn't see you there yeah yeah yeah vivid would have been nice that happens to me all the time. He always knocks on my door and I just look. It's a whole sitcom every time. You're not a big doorbell guy. There's no doorbell on the bus.

Why didn't you use the code to get in? I didn't know the code. You didn't have the code? We all know the code. Yeah. No one told me. Yeah. I think there was a meeting.

I think there was. I'm pretty sure you got a text message or something. Yeah. No one told me. Yeah. I think there was a meeting. I think there was. I'm pretty sure you got a text message or something. Yeah, there was. There was something that's like, hey, here's the code. You get in and off the bus. Yeah, everybody. Yeah. We're all involved.

I knew it. I did it for Ricky. I wanted him to have that experience. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. You gave Ricky the experience. We did. We had a fun, weekend uh this weekend and uh uh we uh so we we had so i mean today was

i saw uh you know i usually work out uh monday wednesday friday we try to if i'm in town and uh trying to turn a new leaf i'm actually in great shape, but I eat still so bad that it just keeps it like... It's just my body's solid. It's just solid. My fat is kind of in a place. It's almost like I organized my fat. That's all I've done. It's because the eating doesn't help, so it's just now.

It's all in the right cabinet. You're like, well, no, that's supposed to be up there. It fits in the cabinet now. Before, it was out. Now, it just fits in the right cabinet you're like well no that's supposed to be up there it fits in the cabinet now before it was out now it just fits in there it's still full it's partially been organized by crispy cream i feel like you know we had crispy cream this weekend uh we got 24 i mean kevin best is the best so funny did i eat some of those sour patch kids last night and uh we were almost out of like they were getting to the bottom they were gone they were gone and so then last night i i like was like i kind of ruined i was like oh i got those upstairs and so i went to go get them and they were full and i kind of was like i didn't really realize what happened but i was like i thought they were gone and i was like

these are back to full and kevin noticed that we were down and sent us a new box. Just from seeing it in the background of the podcast. Just seeing it in the background. Kevin keeps an eye on it. He's a real fan. Kevin also is a Sour Patch fan. I like them. The movies only.

It's the only time I eat them. Yeah, at the movies? Yeah. But why stop there if you enjoy it at the movie? Because I like to have that moment as a special moment. Yeah. Oh, okay. I should do that.

Like Milk Duds. I don't do milk. You're not eating Milk Duds in your car. You know i mean yeah oh that's fair there's certain food in my car on the couch i don't watch the news i don't uh i mean i ate a lot of it it's not my yeah i'm the driving tour i was eating a lot and i got i got cavities when i got back oh yeah wow well we got a dentist for you put some court called mckay potter mckay potter yeah and be like your dentist open does he got any room i can jump in there watch cortisone be great for cavities yeah yeah i mean that'd be amazing if they're like nick i'm not gonna lie

to you cortisone one you should brush your teeth uh i looked at the box i thought it was arm and hammer so i started drinking it. What if we put bleach under the sink next to mouthwash? I mean, if it was in a mouthwash container? Well, obviously, that would trick everybody on Earth. I remember my dad told me in the 50s or whatever, they would put Ajax on their teeth to get them white. Oh, really? They would just rub their teeth with the Ajaxax that's how we got white teeth back in the 50s the fact that they figured that

out yeah some guy yeah and that just word got around i wonder if that say type in ajax ajax to get your teeth white i wonder if that was a common thing or if it's like your dad's neighborhood well it's texas wichita wichita falls texas big ajax teeth whitening program uh no no there's nothing nothing officially written yeah yeah it's just one of those it's like giving like a baby like whiskey i one time used the you know the white magic eraser you know oh yeah it worked pretty good actually you got a little bit of your dad in you yeah like you can't get it you're like i'm not doing ajax but you're like i mean it makes sense why would it not do it if it does it on using white out on here that's so great like you know again though the food that made us you know the food that made us i'm retitling it because that's

yeah yeah yeah coke was started because it was all weird tonics that people were taking to try to, you know, home remedies. Yeah. And then Coke, they put cocaine in it and all kinds of stuff. The upper. But it was just crazy. Yeah, I don't think you know a lot about it. I do. I had it all in the background.

Yeah, you do, yeah. It's the greatest show. I mean the greatest show This is all the same show So it goes through different things Including Hershey actually Yeah Hershey PA we'll be there We added a third show in Hershey PA On that Sunday So if you want to go Hershey PA

Apparently a lot of fans there Pretty awesome Have you been to the Hershey World? No, we won't go. I want to go so bad. Is there a theme park? Yeah, it's a whole thing, man. There's where the factory is, right?

Yeah. It's all there. Oh, so we need to go. You should go for sure. Maybe we'll try to go Sunday because we have two shows Saturday. And then Sunday, I think we have it. Someone talked about golfing, but I think I'm golfing. I'm golfing Saturday morning in D.C.

And then so I don't know if I could golf in Hershey. I'd rather honestly, I mean, I want to go golfing, but I would like to go see that because I've never seen there. So let's try to go Sunday to the Hershey. What is it? Hershey World? Yeah. There's a bunch of different stuff there.

The whole city is like Hershey themed. It it's pretty cool I did a weekend in Harrisburg Pennsylvania at the comedy zone there and it's equidistant to Hershey and Gettysburg yeah and I was like what do I do I want to see Gettysburg but Hershey is your Gettysburg is your silver war you've had a battle with Hershey for hundreds of years. And so you're like, that one is more, it means more to you. You got to go on the road. I remember thinking, I was like, if I don't go to Hershey, it's like those guys died for nothing.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, your body's battled it for, that's your silver war. That's what I meant by it. Hershey world is like, you go, I've lost a lot of stuff on this. You walk by, you see diabetes. Because now you've lost weight, so you go look by diabetes grave,

and you go, I ain't going to see you anymore. That's where the gout's buried and all the things that you conquered. He used to have gout. Oh, wow. Might still have it. Afraid to get checked. Afraid to get checked. He is 1800 have a gal. Oh, wow. Might still have it. Afraid to get checked. Afraid to get checked. He is 1800s.

Gal survivor. Yeah, he fits right in. So how far is Gettysburg? It was like an hour from, or maybe even less than that, from Harrisburg. You got to go see Gettysburg. I'd love to go see Gettysburg. That's true. Would we choose Hershey's over Gettysburg?

I think we might just because we're in the town. We'd probably do both and maybe on the way. I got to golf that morning. We got to get there. We have two shows Saturday. We're coming from D.C. Maybe

we can. This weekend we were in Portland, Maine. Awesome awesome awesome town and uh they uh portland's maine's it's just very very pretty up there beautiful and so we got up there and uh and so we ended up having one day off northampton massachusetts which we apologize northampton uh they canceled that show they canceled it on us uh basically the day before yeah uh is when we kind of found out about it and so we couldn't go they're doing other shows there i don't i don't you know who know the guy said it was because of covid but they were doing other shows in the town

uh so i i don't know i you know i feel bad i don't want to just trash the guy there could be a reason he had to do it uh or he thought he had to do it so we're going back June 5th tickets are on sale now for that show we're going

we're going to we're doing the venue across the street from that place no animosity yeah no yeah it's total

just coincidence just what do you want us to do it's not the biggest town and that's where the other place was. But, you know, that place, I'm sure, is a wonderful place, and it just worked out. It felt bad for everybody. I mean, we were very excited to go to Northampton. I mean, we're out there.

We want to go do a show, and that's why we ended up going to Mohegan Sun. So we will be back there uh june 5th which they have to wait again uh so sorry uh but uh we were there and actually something that was going to come the batesville instagram she uh she was going to come she runs it very funny very funny yeah yeah she's great uh uh and so Batesville they were going to come to that show that gets canceled we then invite so we they were they but she lives in the middle of Connecticut Torrington and Northampton oh and uh so we were like she messaged Nick we I talked to her and then so we're like we'll just come to Connecticut she was like I think lived closer to Connecticut

and we're going to go meet and do some meet and greet. I was going to meet her and stuff like that. Batesville podcast. And a thousand followers. She's doing really good. And very funny. And then so she's going to come to that. Doesn't make that show.

Misunderstanding. Kind of a mess up. Not on our end, but just with the venue. And it was just kind of a thing and uh doesn't make it which is which we as baits told her is just perfectly on brand and even makes it i mean sadly but baits is not even here today it's all it's all just kind of comes together it all kind of works out uh and i mean i because i mean, because she will be at a show. We will meet her.

Right. So I'm not worried about that. It's very funny to be the Batesville one. Batesville podcast doesn't make the show. You get in all kinds of Bates predicaments. You get in Bates predicaments. You have tickets to two shows. And you can't get to either one of them.

She was so excited, too. Yeah, very excited. So, yeah, she was wonderful. She was excited uh so uh yeah she was wonderful very there she was very nice that we messaged with her and so we will we will we will meet Batesville uh next time we come through I look yeah I mean it's just perfect though and she calls me Mick you know yeah she calls you Mick so Nick gets called Mick yeah we had some let's go folks yelled out we talked about that last week though like I I love it i love it every time they yell it out that's i mean it's it's built perfectly and so it's a fun uh it's a fun fun time and that that means great there and jacket aaron then nate's jacket i mean

that's perfect yeah it's really good it's perfect uh so very funny so yeah so we had uh yeah i mean this so this morning was talking about so I was supposed to work out. I didn't tell it, right? So usually I work out 9.45 in the morning, which I'll be honest with you, I usually roll out, I mean, I am waking up and working out within sometimes three minutes of waking up. I don't know if that's good for you. Do you sleep in your workout clothes?

Or you just throw them on? No, no, I just throw them on real fast, and we work out in my driveway. And so I just have to walk out there. But, I mean, I come out, and, I mean, it's like, I just throw them on real fast, and we work out in my driveway. And so I just have to walk out there. But I come out, and it's like, I always wonder, is that bad? To be, I am dead asleep, and then within three minutes, I am sprinting up the cul-de-sac. Yeah, you got to ease into the day a little bit, man. I think the water's probably good.

Yeah, oh, I don't have water yet. I think the water's probably good. Yeah. Oh, I don't have water yet. So I go, I wake up, pee, and then I'm sprinting. Zero to 100, yeah. All within seven minutes. Yeah, that's a lot.

And then lifting weights. I mean, like, yeah. But it's just, I try to wake up at nine. I'm trying to make myself get up at nine. And 9 a.m. is a tough one. I'm trying to make myself, I want to go, I want to be like, 9 a.m is a tough one it's like i'm trying to make myself i want to go i want to be like 9 a.m would be perfect i'm not gonna go to bed at one even two and get seven hours and just set the alarm for nine but it's like i don't fall asleep at two it gets hard especially we've been now and so this morning i set my alarm for uh i was setting it for like 9

27 i think randomly because there was a 927. You know when you look at all your alarm times, it's always kind of weird. I don't want to edit that. Yeah, and you're like, all right, 927 it is. And so I set it for 927, and I don't hear it. Laura comes in at 940. I remember it was like 942. I asked her, I go, what time is it?

She goes, 942. She goes, they're out there working out, and I don't know what I thought. I was like, all right asked her i go what time is it 9 42 she goes they're out there working out and i don't know what i thought i was like all right i go okay and then uh i wake up at 11 20 i mean i slept i went to bed probably fell asleep close to two and uh so what is that nine hours nine and a half hours yeah uh i think i we i was just i think that i needed that more than i needed the workout to work out i wanted to work out i just you know we were i was very tired last night we were all very tired last night i i've been going uh since we started this tour the seventh i've only had one day home since then uh and it's just been you know it's hard to get back to sleep on the road and like the weekend before we had double shows every night.

So, I mean, I wasn't going to bed until 4 every morning. And then, you know, some nights I'd wake up at 11. Sometimes I'd have to get up at like 9 or 10. And so it was, I think my body was like, it's just over. It was like done. Yeah, we were trying to hit the simulator thing. Yeah, I mean, last night we went in and tried to play some golf, and it was like we were all – I mean, you're seeing this futuristic machine,

and you're going – that's like you choosing to go to Hershey over Gettysburg. You go like, I just can't do this. And none of us were like – it's just – We were exhausted. We were exhausted. I was falling asleep. Yeah. So the last night,

after Torrington, we had a little mess up with our flight and so we ended up having to spend the night in Torrington and so we found, we just went to a parking lot

and parked the bus and had the greatest night ever. Yeah. It was, I mean, it was like 65 degrees, 63 degrees, 63 degrees. You wear a hoodie or you can wear

some short sleeves. We went out and played poker. Ricky, wear a bus driver. This is his hat. He was in the Navy. Ricky saw me wear the Air Force hat one time and he goes, I got to give you a Navy hat. I kept asking. I was like, where is it, Ricky? You told me you would get it.

Ricky gave it to me, so here it is uh and so ricky was out with us we got a chase sells our sells the merch 22 years old he's uh we but we think he's like a benjamin button kind of thing and so we think he could be 80 yeah because he knows like too many things yeah like we play poker and we're like you know know how I play poker? I'm 22. I'm learning poker. I've been playing for a month. At 22, I'm like, well, he doesn't know how to play poker and he knows everything about poker. He's actually good at it.

He's the only one that's like, oh, so he knew the blind and all this stuff. He knows where everything goes. Yeah, we're still like, what? Whose turn is it? Travis, my tour manager, which I think I posted. If you want to follow travis on instagram uh i think it's travis on tour 13 or something uh and then he uh yeah you can look up that so he's been posting a lot of stuff kind of behind the scenes there might be a

dash in there too i don't know uh but he's been posting a lot of stuff uh but no that's it travis on tour 13 there you go uh so he's been posting so that was our uh so that's just a poker thing that yeah so that was us in the venue just yeah those three are good and you go look at more if you want to go look at it and so travis on tour uh look at that top part though though, the Instagram. Oh, sorry. Just the very top. We had, that was the, what's it called? The flop or the river? Royal Flush. The river.

No, but that's the river, right? So the river's the thing that's all in the middle. And so if you look at that, it's a queen. Like, can you click it? There you go. Right there's good. Yeah. King, Jack, 10, Ace, Queen was the river.

It had the best hand. That's not a royal fluss that's a that's the next best no that's a royal straight second second second best hand yeah i think royal straight that was on the river never seen that yeah never seen that happen uh travis took a picture of it so like i think the river is the last car it's the flop the turn and then what do you call the thing in the middle then the flop i just call it that's what's on the table that's what's on the table but the first three are the flop and then the turn and then the river okay and so you don't call it that's not the river it's a lake lake of course well it's well yeah it's the five that are on the yeah i get it yeah

i might not even be right but yeah uh but but chase was though he he was like i never really played before and he knew how to do everything where he would like we're kind of like uh should i bet more he's like just betting a little bit and he has like the best hand in the world yeah he'd be baiting you in oh he was yeah he was he was great at it there's also something great about just being in a parking lot because as a kid in texas that's all we did was go to parking lot kroger parking lots yeah just hang out and like i mean we we pulled this felt so natural table travis bought had some poke travis is very he's good at poker too and so he plays uh i always say with travis travis if he ever gets low he just looks at us like an atm and he just goes all right well i'll go get some more money now and then he just gets it and. And then he's like, Travis will be like, you're like,

I think he's going to lose this time. Like we did one night. And we do, it's very fun. We do $20 buy-ins. So when we were in Mohegan Sun, which is an awesome casino, we went down there. I played a little blackjack, got destroyed. And then we just all went up to the room and played poker.

It's very funny to go, to be like, well, how are we going to lose the least amount of money? Go play in the room and play poker. And so we just do $20 buy-ins. So if you lose, so I mean, well, how are we going to lose the least amount of money? Go play in the room and play poker. Yeah. And so we just do $20 buy-ins. So if you lose, so I mean, worst case, you're going to lose $40. But if you win, you're going to win $30, which is a fun number to win. Yeah.

Like having an extra $30 is like, you're like, man. But it is funny, though, that we play poker in Mohegan. We could have just gone to La Quinta Inn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We could have. Like we didn't need to go to this casino.

We were in the casino. It was very fun. We have a bus. That's always the hard part. We had a good bus. Parking. We got to park in the bus. It's up on the bus.

Yeah. Which is what we did in that parking lot. It was fantastic. It makes it so fun. I mean, it was just, yeah. I was like. Music. We had music playing.

I mean, no one was really around. And it was just like this is this is what it's about like you know and so we've been posting stuff yeah so if you want to go follow travis uh is me and travis grew up together uh went to high school together and uh he's now my tour manager and he's been posting a lot of uh behind the scenes kind of stuff uh so travis on tour 13 so you can see stuff that you know I'm not posting that he he does and you see Chase when you go buy merch

Chase is great ask him ask him how old he is he thinks he's I just think he just knows too much man he's like it's

he knows everything he does like a reincarnation thing like it makes you think yeah maybe he was somebody dude before that dude either that or he's really 46

and he's like look guys just go with me on this. Go with me on 23. I mean, look, he looks 22. Yeah. But that's why we think it's the Benjamin Button. So we think he's on the back end, and he's lived a life.

And so he knows everything more than us. Just an old soul. Just an old soul. I mean, the stuff we think he knows is poker and video games. Those are the two things that we were blown away by. Video games, we played NBA 2K, which me and Nick always have a running game. And he's like, yeah, I'll play it. Just beats me immediately, which I lost because of Nick.

Nick got in my way. How did Nick get in your way? Started asking me questions at the very end. I got a five-second. Oh, he got in your way mentally? Mentally. He's good at that. He started just talking to me. I get a five-second penalty because I don't pass

the ball in, and then Chase beats me. I just go up to him and say, what does cortisone do to your mouth? Yeah, he said, it's giving me a big cortisone talk, and I'm like, and I dive into that podcast. So, anyway, we ended up having a wonderful weekend. Northampton will be back. So, uh, uh, so anyway, we, we ended up having a wonderful weekend,

uh, uh, North Hampton. We're back Portland, uh, Torrington, Connecticut, two great shows.

Uh, we met some, uh, wonderful people, Brent, I think Brent Stark, uh, it was his name.

Uh, I believe it was Brent Stark. And then, uh, yeah, it was Brent though. And his son, Austin,

uh, they took me golfing out there. We went with them and it was, uh, I met his family afterwards. And so it was, it was Brent, though, and his son Austin. They took me golfing out there. We went with them, and I met his family afterwards. And so it worked out. I get a lot of messages about golf, and people always ask. Yeah, look, I want to try to – I don't always see them, but if you email, you can email. I mean, you can email the podcast, natelandatneighborgetsyou.com.

If you have a place to go play, sometimes I get to play. Sometimes when we have two shows, it's actually kind of hard for me to play with two shows. I try to play. I can't say we're always going to get back to you, but if it can work out, I mean, I went and played with them by myself. Like, I don't mind playing with, you know, sometimes maybe I'll bring one person with me,

and then you bring two people. It's fun. You get to meet some people. It's fun. You get to meet some people. It's cool. It's a fun, fun time. These dudes were great. They played great. And so it was – I got to – Austin, I showed him how I read greens.

Felt great about that. Probably don't even do it right, but it made sense to him. And he actually just broke – he he's uh oh man how old was he he's in eighth grade i think and uh he broke 90 for the first time uh after he did my re my green putting method and that helped that's that wow it's a good method uh i just say i said close your eyes and hope for the best and hope for the best. And he just drained them from all over. So it was, yeah, super fun. And then you were at, you had a big weekend.

I did the Ryman. I headlined it. The Ryman here in Nashville. Headlined it. Can you believe that, man? That's amazing. Sold out. Sold out.

Sold out quicker than mine. Sold out. He's got three. Well, I only did one. That's the thing. Yeah, he only did one. That's true. But sold out.

Can you believe that? Just from this podcast wow yeah no one knows it from anything else aaron's done the least amount of things that is true but this podcast he sold out the rhyming in a couple minutes yeah well 13 14 minutes but uh wow pretty amazing pretty amazing yeah uh so that was a lot of fun and then you went to i was in saint at the saint louis helium yeah did that last night drove in this morning would you go with their dustin nickerson oh yeah i was there with him uh were you featuring for dustin yeah so he was so man can you imagine that how that's that's that's the highs and lows of comedy comedy he headlines the headlineman and then has to go be the middle act at the St. Louis Helium

Helium so that's just how it goes sometimes work is work work is work it's good it's hard to get to wrap your head

around that 2300 people chanting your name when he walks out at the Ryman Sun 572 Sun 572 Sun always shines

and then he goes to St. Louis Helium with Dustin Nickerson, very funny comedian, who comes out and meets some, and then just has to be the middle act. Yeah. Yeah, man, that's tough. Yeah.

So. Now I'm here. Now he's here. So it's been a wild, wild weekend. Wild up and down weekend. Do you believe all of this? I believe it. Yeah.

That's great. Okay. He opened for Kathleen Madigan at the Riley. Yeah. Yeah. up and down weekend do you believe all of this i believe it yeah that's great okay we've he opened for kathleen madigan at the rhyming yeah yeah okay i was on i was happy for him i i was excited you believe that he sold out the rhyme in 13 minutes yeah but in st louis can only get middle work yeah well you know in fairness st louis is a tough city that would be a tough tough gig i love how quickly nate was on board to lie about that yeah you were like you were ready to go i mean that was everybody everybody at home got to watch that just to be like yeah it's so funny to think i you know i've done some gigs like that where i remember i did a show as a guy i've

actually seen him he uh works for the fbi and uh we got a tour of this by last time i was in dc and uh i did a show at his house uh i was in san jose san jose a weird city that i've been to quite a bit very early on i i don't know i've actually i haven't been back in a while now but very early i went to san jose i was like that was one of the't know i've actually i haven't been back in a while now but very early i went to san jose i was like that was one of the most cities i've been to and uh just opening for people angela johnson a lot and uh she's from there so that's a big reason for it but then i was able to have a corporate gig up there it always just ended up being there so he asked me uh to come in there and uh headline at his house and he had a little microphone little tiny

room you know like 20 people in there it was great uh and then i went from i flew from his house to open for fallon the next night wow so within 24 hours it was just a i was in front of it's it's just so it's like so crazy yeah i was just at a bar show in la and then i was at the tour yeah it's so it's so funny to be like that's what you end up doing is like you're just in this kind of like and all all our great shows yeah you go in you're like all right i'm in front of 20 people and now you're in front of 3 000 and you're like i mean just i was like talking to 20 people that's's show business, though. That's show business. You see me on TV, and then you're like, I'm trying to open in for Sun 572. Well, you were saying that about your first TV credit in New York.

CMT. Over here, CMT Comedy Stage, hosted by Melissa Peterman. A lot of funny, great comics were on it. First TV credit I got, I shot it in Nashville. Everybody on the show thought i worked for cmt that's how much no one knew me and uh i go and do that it was in nashville it's very cool everybody got to go to it my family and all that and then i go back to new york and we've talked about barking on this show so we all barked or you barked early then you uh ran the club uh

and so we were uh i went back to barking after that and i remember just thinking i was at the village land not a boston but as the i think boston might have been already wrapped at this point yeah and then uh the improv i think yeah you were at the improv and then so uh and so i'm having to hand out flyers at the village lantern and i was like i was on tv i I just did TV. And that's how little they thought of CMT. They still made me hand out flyers. They would still use my credit to get everybody in.

This guy was on CMT. And I would tell them that. I was just on CMT. Would you like to come to the show? And then I had to bark them in. They're like, in a music video? No, no, no. Did stand-up comedy on it. A couple

people thought I was famous. The great Vic Henley was on there, right? Vic Henley. One of the best. But the TV show, Crashing, was basically like the lifestyle. It was our life. It was our story. He got to it first. Yeah, it was our life. It was our life, really.

He got to it first. Yeah. He did a great job. He did a great job. Dustin was in it. He put me on it. Yeah, you were in it. Boston Comedy Club. So I've talked about how we started here.

And what's cool is you're getting to see this is it. This is how we started. Dustin, at that point, was running the boston comedy club yeah and so was it was a huge part of my career is because we when i came to new york i started you know in chicago i took the comedy class but then i got like the real comedy class of learning i always say and it's kind of sad because i don't there's there's not much of it anymore, right? Like that kind of mentoring or learning how to do it that way. Yeah, it's changed a little bit. It's changed.

So back then, 2004 is when I moved there. When did you go to New York? Full time in like 2005, but I was going back and forth for a couple years from Philly. Yeah, so you wouldn't. That mentoring and the fact, I always thought it was like, I got very lucky to be able to start. So if you've seen the show HBO Crashing with Pete Holmes, Pete Holmes was also with us all starting.

And it was very, it's like, you know, it's just pretty rare to get that. Like we got like, you know, we had to pass out flyers. So you have to earn it but you feel a lot more ownership in your career now i do now and the fact that you had to kind of go through everything and so you had to be like we're out there you're barking for the show that you're going to be on and you're learning about these comics that you know before you get there i don't really know who bill burr is and everybody's gonna realize someone said in that article they called uh he was calling bill burr and patrice up-and-comers like in the atlantic article they said that but when i started in 04 they were they were

up-and-comers yeah that's what he meant by that like they were they were the up-and-comers they were the ones that were on the you know on the rise been doing comedy 10 years and like kind of starting to get like you. But no one knew them. No, they weren't household names. They weren't selling out. Because we would go, I would see Bill Burr. We all watched Bill Burr and Patrice. I mean, watch Bill Burr at Caroline's.

They have a curtain in the middle. I think I've talked about it. They closed the curtain. Because it could make it be a room for 100 people or it could be a 300 seat room. But they'd have curtain that go down the middle which always is great for comedy clubs absolutely when you have uh when the room is so big and then it's like if people are just sitting there and if you close

that curtain of 40 people feels great yeah and then if they open it and then you're in 40 everybody feels like oh no one's here but you can make a hundred room you know you can make a hundred seat room feel like man it was sold out and you're like now there's 250 seats behind y'all we just didn't show you them uh and so a lot of clubs started doing that but i mean we saw burr i mean i remember going and you could just walk in and there was 40 people there yeah i mean the boston comedy club was like this magical place because it's like i was running the village lantern that was yeah they'd never done stand-up comedy there before they just had one open mic and then i was i started like we were doing seven shows a week village lantern is uh it was what was else there was that a big before it became that it was just a bar it was just a bar they mostly had music upstairs and it was kind of it was close to the

comedy cellar and a lot of the guys would do the Comedy Cellar, and then we'd come there. So this is all, let's just set it where it is. So it's the West Village. Okay, West 3rd Street. West 3rd Street and McDougal. That's Boston. That's Boston. It's where Boston was.

There's a fire department that was right next to it. Yes. Yes. I ran into it a couple times. Yeah, yeah. And so that's where, it's now a wine bar, if anybody ever goes to it. Well, Anderson Cooper bought it for his apartment, and that was a big deal. yeah yeah and so that's where it's now a wine bar if anybody ever goes well um anderson cooper bought it for his apartment yeah and that was that was a big deal like when it was still a

fire station oh yeah they were selling it off and he bought it and it was his apartment i don't know i don't know if he still lives there yeah they had a very like fancy restaurant next to us too yeah that was the curtains had no name had no name no name yeah and like famous people you'd see howard stern go in yeah there he is and Howard Stern go in and be like, there he is. There he is. And they'd go in there and eat. And like, and you couldn't see inside of it. Yeah.

I remember we saw Dennis Miller. Yeah. Which actually told Dennis this story when I was on his podcast. I got his autograph then. Yeah. Yeah. Remember, I told him this story. I said, we saw you come out and we, and I remember we were all like, we need to go make

him try to go up. Yeah. And we all went over there and talked to him. We're like, hey, you want to go on stage? We're right. I mean, it's economy club right here. Do you want to, you can like, we need to go make him try to go up. Yeah. And we all went over there and talked to him like, hey, you want to go on stage? We're right. I mean, it's a comedy club right here. Do you want to? You can just relate, you know.

And that was one of the greatest things I think I like the most. And one thing that I think it's a little lost now, something that you did that I always like is if something like that where Dennis Miller wanted to go up, you were like, you want to go up now? Yeah. You would make it so easy for, which he said no. But I mean, this time he's, I think was. One quick thing.

And I remember he was on the sidewalk and I grabbed his headshot off the wall. I just like was walking with a frame, like on the sidewalk. Signing the glass on top of his picture. Yeah. Not only was he like, I don't want to go on stage. He's like, I don't want to see this guy. Who's this guy in a cowboy hat that's chasing me down with a frame talk to

me every day yeah uh so this is when he had a show on hbo yeah yeah so i mean he's doing that i don't know if he's touring as hard it's still huge he's still huge though but it's you know i get it he's like at a point where he's like i don't really need to go up like i don't really care like he was i mean he was touring but it was like i think that's what it was and we surprised him yeah but that's the thing about boston i mean i saw chevy chase and dave chapelle on the same stage like there was all kinds of stuff but if somebody like that was coming through that's who the audience wanted to see and i think that's what has to be done you see somebody that's you know like a that's on the rise or a star you put them on stage immediately

you don't even think about it yeah They can bump the Barker kid. Yeah, yeah. I'm talking about me. Right in front of my face. He's like, who cares about this dumb Barker kid? You'll get it. Eventually it'll work out. They're a dime a dozen.

I'll find another one. But we did get bumped all the time. As you should. As you should. That's supposed to be. Dude, there's like, so sometimes comics, they get upset about it now. So they get bumped. like oh why am i getting bumped it's like a guy's doing

comedy for five years or four years or three months it doesn't even matter and you're you're like the ego to think you don't get should get bumped is crazy yeah but getting bumped was part of the thing that i i wanted to get bumped it's like dave chappelle yeah i got bumped by dave chappelle how great of a story is that you get to go home and be like are you doing it you're like i mean dave chappelle went up and i didn't get to go up so he was on the stage and i do shows on that stage and you got to watch him and i got to watch him watch how he would do whatever he wanted to do. We watched him in front of seven people. Yeah, it was amazing.

It wouldn't be like that for long because we'd go outside and be like, Dave Chappelle's on stage, and it would fill up. If they believed us. If they believed us, yeah. A lot of times they didn't. I still think about those people. I think about them all the time. I told them Dave Chappelle was there.

You could have been an audience of 20 with Dave Chappelle working out two hours. Two hours. I watched Dave Chappelle once walk out, and he put hoodie, he put a hoodie on and he almost ran into these two people. And just cause he didn't see them. Cause he's, you'd come down these stairs and once you come out and these three were walking, he goes, Oh,

sorry. And they were no problem. And then they, he ran off. And I always think about them. Like they don't know, like they could have been like, that was Dave Chappelle.

Well, we were there with him and the night before he went to Africa, we were right there. We saw all of it happen night before he went to Africa. We were right there. We saw all of it happen. He could tell he was getting freaked out because I remember these two Irish guys, they had these soccer jerseys on and they just took their jerseys off and they wanted to sign them. They were just kind of going off and saying quotes from the Chappelle show.

You could tell he was just getting really nervous around people. It was a zoo. Yeah. It was like the big thing when he left was like, it was like almost like he was too, it got too crazy and famous. And it was almost like a Beatles kind of thing. Absolutely. He was a rap star.

Yeah. People would yell out and they'd say, I'm rich. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just everybody yelling at him. And we had, below it was the Baggedy Inn in Boston, which was this Irish bar we talked about this weekend.

Wild Nights thing. Yeah. Got a little crazy down there. Got a little crazy down there. You would go underneath it. I mean, so it was the... Yeah. So you got to...

Where's that wine thing? It was on West 3rd. Yeah. So you go up to McDougal and make a right. Yeah. Go right. Well, one thing... And then it's like two...

Yep. Keep going. And then it's... Stop right there. It either where was it the wine thing that where it's the amity hall that is that it yeah well the zinc bar is where boston is is where the bag it in boston is now yeah where's the zinc bar that's i think that's still there yeah right here okay yeah so that's it that's it so that's it right there so it's basically on third and thompson right in between thompson yeah and i would and i would bark i'd go bark at third and thompson a lot and i would also just on this intersection right here on that intersection but that that there you're kind of in front of the club so you just kind of

you actually kind of work in the club to that spot yeah and then i would also go down the corner of mcdougall and third street which the seller was right there now that was the biggest yeah corner is you would stand there and you would be like hey we got a great comedy show and then we'd also where else would we go well that's with ben's pizzeria right there yeah the louis the louis intro well for a year i would run the uh the on bleaker uh village lantern and then i'd run over and start the boston so i was running both those clubs at the exact same time yeah it was like crazy i mean just back and forth yeah just running over yeah yeah where would we go bark because you'd have some turf war

on barking sometimes sometimes i mean someone would go in your spot you're like yo man this is where we yeah i got a lot of it in time square it started happening but it did happen too with a village lantern which i think when you were just doing stopped it you were just doing boss yeah yeah there would always be something ridiculous and then it's at the end of the day like really are we gonna fist fight over three people three people from iowa yeah yeah i mean it was it's like come on we're just trying to get real people in the crowd yeah so that's where so like that so that's the the idea of like so i'm you know people have always this is the most explanation i think i've ever given it where we're showing maps and stuff of it so

mcdougall street third street comedy sellers right there come seller is always there village underground is now also part of the comedy sellerar, which was not there when we first started. It was there, but it was a music. Yeah, and no disrespect to the Cellar, but the Boston was kind of, it was, you might see, you know, some very competitive shows there, you know, to the Cellar. It was Patrice and Jim Norton and Chappelle. Yeah, some guys that were not in the Cellar. Yeah, I always say it's kind of like that were not in the cell yeah it was yeah i always say it's kind of like that was more of the cbgvs and you know the cellar was kind of the hard rock you know yeah more polished yeah both two amazing places yeah i mean the cellar is obviously still

there now and the cellar is you know obviously the most famous club in new york but there's there's the fire yeah there's the fire uh yeah that's the restaurant. Yeah, there's the fire. Yeah, that's the restaurant, right? Yeah, the fancy restaurant. The fancy restaurant is where you couldn't, you would just see famous people walking out. But we would see, you know, Kevin Hart was there all the time. Oh, yeah. Chappelle. So that's what I would say.

Like, that's why I wouldn't trade. I mean, I almost feel bad that the new comics don't have what i had because i just don't think they would have got they would have learned i always consider myself a new york comic because i mean that's where i was the most that's where i really learned i was in chicago at the beginning chicago was very important to be in but i was so new in chicago and i took those classes it's like obviously i'm just getting my feet wet and just being like, all right, so what is stand-up? And I'm in Chicago kind of doing that. And then I go to New York, and that's where the learning began.

And without the Boston and being able to do that, the faux bar is it, right? So you'd walk up those steps, and then underneath it, Zink Go Down is where the bag it in is. It was run by, it was an Irish bar. I mean, one of the guys we talked about was in the IRA. I'm a good friend of ours. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, this dude was like the real deal. Gave me a lot of whiskey. I mean, yeah. And just hearing him, like, it was crazy to me. I'm just from Nashville. I'm talking, and then the world just opened up. Because then you're like, I don't even know what the IRA is. Like, I'm just a kid from old Hickory.

And then I go to New York. Not that that IRA even matters. I thought it was the NRA. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not that it even matters, but it was crazy to even be like, at that point you're talking to a guy, and then you figure out what the IRA is, and you're like, you're in it?

You were doing it? Like, it was just, I mean, you couldn't ever imagine these worlds would come together. Oh, yeah. But, you know, talking before about what were the 2000s, this is a time, too, where there was no real cell phone cameras. Yeah. So all this crazy stuff was happening. It wasn't like people were posting a video of Chappelle

before Twitter, before anything, really, MySpace. Well, I remember we were at the boston comedy club and patrice o'neill was in the back and when we used to use this thing called phone books before we you know had google yeah and they would deliver these like big yellow phone books and i remember there was a big stack of them at the boston comedy club and patrice o'neill had grabbed a whole stack of them and kevin hart was on stage and kevin hart's not no he's he's on the rise he's on the rise it's like soul plane when he walks in everybody's like i think i've seen that guy but i don't know yeah kevin hart has no i think soul plane was his big move like it was something

like that like he was on the cusp of like but he was still and i remember patrice o'neill was in the back and he was just throwing phone books he's like stand on this we can't see you and he's like amazing amazing yeah they had yeah so uh the boss so the boston comedy club was uh it was such a big deal for me like i said because it was like handing out those flyers so you're having to earn you know my dad loved that you know my dad he would have magicians because he knew a bunch of magicians in New York. Because my parents were having to – I mean, I worked at FedEx. That was such a crazy time because we'd hang out at Boston until 3 in the morning. And then I would just go home to Brooklyn. We lived in Brooklyn at the time.

I remember that. And I'd go to Brooklyn. I'd go to FedEx and work there at 5 a.m. And so I would go to bed 5 to 10 a.m. Then I'd go to bed at like noon and sleep until we had to be back at 6, 7.m. And so I would go to bed 5 to 10 a.m. Then I'd go to bed at like noon and sleep until we had to be back at six, seven. Yeah. And so and then so that was my a lot of my time at the beginning was just like it's 24 hours of you're doing something. You're you go sleep. And the other route was to go do open mics and do that kind of scene, which I had Sven Wexler, who I

moved there with, like he would do a lot of that kind of stuff, which I hadn't Sven Wexler, who I moved there with, like he would do a lot of that kind of stuff, which it was, there wasn't as many alt rooms. There was a little bit more, but they weren't crazy. It wasn't this, the clubs were the main thing.

You had to get into the clubs now in New York. I mean, there's alt rooms. I mean, people don't even play comedy clubs in Brooklyn. Yeah. I mean, there's wherever you can get up in a million other places back then. It was like,

you need to be passed which i think we talked about past is a good thing you need to be passed accepted by all these clubs if you got passed by them you could call in the bells so they get you calling every week hey i can do um so you call in the bells and you say i can do monday tuesday wednesday i can do after 9 30 not before 9 30 uh and i can do Friday, Saturday, I'm wide open. And so you'd call the bells in for the comic clubs, and they would tell you to call in all over the city. And then they would come back with you, and that's how your week would be built.

And so then you would look at it, and you'd be like, all right, so I got to go here, here, here, all these different comic clubs. But being at the Boston was handing out those flyers and then getting people into these shows and then getting to watch, you know, Judah Friedlander was always there. Judah Friedlander, his credit was he was the hug me guy in the Dave Matthews band.

Which a lot of people might know that. That's huge. But that was his big credit. I mean, a lot of people knew him from that. I mean, that was a huge thing. It was a big video, yeah. Yeah, it was before 30 Rock. So people would want to hug him, they'd want to hug him so every he was the hug me guy in the dave matthews band and everybody would know him from that ben bailey was there before

he did host his cash cab way before way before we saw him get that over gino yeah there's another comedian yeah yeah over cash cap yeah yeah when he got it uh it was such a big deal and we're like golly you're just watching these people do it aziz and sorry i don't know if he came through the boston oh absolutely he did yeah he was more at the lantern but yeah i was at the lantern just a just an open mic and then when i uh i did another one in time square before that i think ha or something yeah yeah i went up there. That was the craziest barking. Yeah. I went up there. I don't know if I barked for you there. I barked for Ha because that went up later.

I think I was already, we were already kind of moved on. I would go with Ha. Sweet Carolines, I think. Sweet Carolines, yeah. It was before Ha, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then they would, I remember barking in Times Square. That was, that's the wildest thing you ever do.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I was, that was the first thing I think I did. And then I came to Boston. Yeah. then pete was like at boston yeah so i was like trying to figure it out and pete's at boston he goes hey come down here and uh he was like it's great down here and then i remember being times square i mean it's just and i just like because you had you had a tennessee accent so i was a southern dude i had a cowboy hat i was like all right he's from texas like this this is gonna work out to take care of yeah exactly there was no choice you're the only guy we're the only southern guy it's like i walk up you're like you can't turn your back on me you have to make sure i'm gonna be okay i know it was

just like this instinct i was like all right yeah he's a terrible barker can't get anybody in i was awful dude i mean no energy on stage it's like it's like black latino night he's up there hey guys hey how y'all doing yeah it was all rough it was rough but he he had no choice i was dropped off his doorstep and he had to take care of him that's what we always think even when i see southern comics now you're like you always got to kind of keep an eye out for them because you're like you're like i gotta make sure they're okay man like that's true it's so funny that that's how it is. Like Texans, I'm like that all the time. Because you know, well, you're coming like you were a guy from Texas that's in New York City.

You know that shock. It's such a big shock. People treat you weird. They treat you weird. And so you're like, I got to make sure this dude, you know, Vic Henley was like that. Vic Henley, you know, bless his soul. But he's from Alabama. He went to auburn and he was

super southern and he was like kind of a older guy you know he was with jeff foxworthy yeah sure and so he was a comic that i remember first time i went to uh comedy the comic strip i bought a ticket to go we just moved to new york and we're just trying to see the shows and vick kenley i remember they called him he was at his his apartment. Someone didn't show up. And Vic Kinley comes on stage and was like, just tell us. He goes, I was in my apartment watching TV. And I get a phone call that's like, yo, whoever doesn't show up, can you come host the show? And he's like, I'm not supposed to be here tonight.

Why am I here? And everybody's laughing at that. And I remember as a comic, that was one of the almost best things I could have ever seen. And it was my first kind of thing. It was the first, I want to say one of the first shows I went to. And just to hear a guy and be like, everybody else just is like,

oh, that's crazy and funny. But as a beginning comic, it was such a big deal to me to go, this is where I have to be. That's crazy. That guy was at home, and now he's on stage in front of everybody at this famous comedy club. I was like, I want to be that. How do I become that?

And it wasn't like, I'm not like, I want to be Madison Square Garden. I just want to be that. How do I get to be at home and get a phone call? And now I get to go do comedy at the comic strip, like one of the most famous comedy clubs in the world. And you're like, God, how do you do that? And so then you're like, well, there's steps to get to that. So obviously, and then we started, then we go down there with you. And then you're at Boston, you're seeing people, there was levels.

So it was us that were Barkers. Who were you saying? It was me, Devanshi Patel, who's writing now in LA. Jamie Kilstein. John F. O'Donnell. Pete Holmes. Allie Breen barked. I think, did she?

Maybe towards the end. A couple of people I don't remember. Yeah, there's a few we don't. A little blur. Yeah, there was, yeah. A little while don't never all yeah that was yeah it was all a little while down there yeah it was our college it was yeah and uh fraternity absolutely we're fraternity like we're there every night we're there from we get there at six in the morning i remember going printing flyers with you there's a little bit of hazing a little bit of hazing yeah

we'd have to go print the flyers oh that was okay cut them yeah we'd have to go print the flyers oh that was a great cut them yeah we'd have to cut them all to hand out kinkos just cut flyers yeah uh you'd have to make your own flyers and we go there and then it's uh we would go there and sit and do it and it was you know and it was yeah it was such a new thing and so i were there and you would like talk to us all and you were like all right we got to let's get people on the show tonight. We would always get to go up last. And so depending on that could be from midnight, maybe even if you're lucky, it was 11. It was a night where not a lot of people were there. Not audience, but like not a lot of comics dropping in. And then so you go up from 11 to, I mean, possibly two in the morning. And the show would run from that.

I loved the show ran like that. And I think places should run it like that. Or, you know, Comedy Cellar doesn't do it. But it was perfect because it was the opposite of what the other. There was no shows. There was during the week. It was show starts at eight. You can show up at any point.

Yeah. And then so all night long, all night long. So it depends on how many people we would have stopped by would depend on how long. And I think you were one of the first comics that treated like the bill burrs and the patrices with the respect that i don't they weren't getting anywhere else because they weren't known but they were starting to be known and then the fact when they would come in you're like yeah yeah we'll get you up in two yeah greg giraldo was greg giraldo which i mean you know it's like you it was they were guys louis ck louis ck was probably oh four or five he's like kind of like you, it was, they were guys, Louis CK. Louis CK was probably, oh, four or five.

He was like kind of like shameless. Yeah, he was riding for Conan and stuff. Yeah, this was like, I think this is a little different. Shameless came out. So like he was, he was kind of a big deal. I mean, he's probably, he's selling out Carolines at this point. Yeah. About to start selling out the guard and all that stuff.

But it was, he was the top, outside of Chappelle. Yeah. He was like the top guy. Because they hit about the top guy because they hit about the same time they hit about the same time and then uh so seeing but i mean you would show that respect to like ben bailey would come and he was a big comic and yeah and uh even though he's not hosting cash cab but you would those guys would get to they could come they knew they could come at 10 yeah and they would get on stage immediately yeah i mean new york's just a different animal i remember one time at gotham comedy club for two years i was the standby comic and i would get 25 and i had to just stay at the show like the the weekend shows everybody was always late and stuff so they had somebody just

on deck at all times so i got 25 it was amazing i got 25 bucks and i would just hang out all friday all saturday and just wait for somebody to be like hey i'm i'm in traffic and be like yes sometimes i'd see him walking down the sidewalk like i don't know where he is i'm like come on give me up give me up but that's part of the craziness too where certain comics you're doing five six spots in a night and things have to work out at that like because you're it's going to take 15 minutes to get from point a to point b in a cab and you're getting up and you have to leave right away to get to the next here's what i can tell you if you're at caroline's if you're uh a comic list in this in new york if you're at caroline's and you got to go

uh to the village cellar whatever and you got spots and you got to go back to Caroline's and then go back to the seller. Take the subway. Absolutely. No cabs. No cabs. Every time I did a cab, I missed the spot every time.

And you got subway was just so much faster. Oh yeah. And you could do it. And, but then sometimes you're like, you know, you're making, I think we've talked about it.

So you'd get $25 a spot during the week, uh, Sunday to Thursday, uh, 75 to host during that week and then uh the weekends you'd get 125 to host a show because the idea was if you're hosting you always got paid more because you couldn't go run around and make money at spots yeah and i also think it's somebody good yeah it's somebody good to be host i mean you go so she's a host dude i mean we watch people headline carolines and there's there's comics that are hosting they're better than the headline oh i mean it's the real deal like maybe people

they're not famous the kinley was always the kinley i mean like they could be like no one knows who this guy is but you're like he's a better comic than the guy you're coming to see the guy you're coming to see is just famous the're coming to see is just famous. Vic Henley goes up, is, I mean, a warrior that's going up every single night. But you would get, so then that 75 for your,

on a weekend spot. Sure. So you'd run around, you know, and you know, I think if you were, you could balance it out. I mean,

you could probably make, if you worked every weekend, that was the grind of New York was just so tough. But if you you once you got past the clubs i mean what do you think two grand fifteen hundred thousand two grand a week like you could probably make uh if you yeah a lot of spots maybe if you're like a todd berry type or something like it really depended though but uh yeah you know but at least you know maybe five spots a night would be huge but maybe on the weekend on. Yeah, you'd want two during the week.

Two, maybe three during the week. Sunday to Thursday was good. Yeah. And then Saturday and Sunday, you needed at least five a night. Yeah, it could be like $75 spots. Yeah. So it's like. So then, yeah.

So you could, yeah. Like, that's how you would really make your money. So you really had to go. During the week, you at least needed to do two. your money because uh so you really had to go during the week you like at least needed to do two and then uh the weekend was like at least you need to go do five yeah uh but most of us would go to connecticut or pennsylvania or you know once you start you get some road stuff but i think there's i think it's the road was before you were like a solid city comic you know yeah yeah i think well you go do these one night yeah we did some crazy ones i mean wild

wild gigs yeah i mean remember we all did a gig together that i got through my brother's friend in connecticut yeah and i was so excited about it and i'm like i'm gonna get all our friends especially dustin yeah it's all up all the time you know and just we're i was so excited that i had this gig and we show up after driving two hours and they they're like, yeah, we canceled it on you guys. And I got to tell everybody because I was going to pay everybody. I'm like, oh, this is exciting. Was that supposed to be in a pizza place? It was like a town square kind of thing?

It was in Connecticut. And the guy was like, I don't even know where it was. But he was kind of like a tough guy. And so we were like, we're not going to really question this. It's just telling us to our faces. No money. We just drove back home. And we just got back in the car and drove another two hours. Yeah, I think we hated you for like three weeks. That was the Nick gig. Yeah. Hilarious. Counting us to our faces. No money. We just drove back home. We just got back in the car

and drove another two hours. Yeah. I think we hated you for like three weeks. That was a Nick gig. Yeah. That was definitely when someone goes,

I got a Nick gig. We're like, I'd really dive into that before you drive all the way out there. I give you about a hundred spots a week, but yeah,

whatever it is. Yeah. Thanks for looking out. So I wanted, I wanted to just say the levels of it. So, all right, Barker was the very bottom level so you're handing out these fires you're getting your your payment is stage time which is i mean it's just a beautiful thing i think there's a level before that um i was a bus boy and oh yeah yeah i did that in new york comedy

club yeah i had to uh bake hamburgers and french fries and they had like real fryers and stuff in there and i would get like 25 cents off the burgers and 10 cents off the fries and then get five minutes on the checks. Oh, wow. Wow. That's how you got paid. And I thought that was amazing

because Pete Correale gave me the job. He was on his way out and he's like, hey, you want this? I was like, yeah, this seems awesome. I was back there cooking. It's the love of the game. That's how much we love it is we don't care. I waited tables. Remember the time I had to wait to wait tables oh did you get so much for me yeah yeah like we uh the servers didn't show up yeah and uh so we gotta do a show and

i'm like well i i mean i just waited tables in chicago and in nashville and so i was like well i know how to wait tables and so i i waited tables and then i went on stage and did my five minutes and then got off and then uh finished i mean i literally was like all right good night thanks everybody good night and i i got off and walked to each table right after i got off it's like a couple more beers and he goes oh you just used the popcorn all right and then i would and i waited tables the rest of the night and it was like i didn't even i offered that up that's awesome like it's funny like now you'd be embarrassed to do it just because you're older, obviously. But like, you think how great, but then you're like, you're like, I mean, I was like, I can

wait tables. And I was like, and he's like, great. You actually get paid. I get paid. Yeah. I should make some money. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is great. When we went to New York comedy club, uh, I would check all the girls out.

Cause I knew how to, well let's yeah i mean i said i got basically you know i would run these comedy clubs because i knew who was funny yeah like i had a good eye for like the guys that were the next whatever you know so but i couldn't manage it well i had math is not my strong suit and so he would kind of be my ghost where i would pretend i like did the math and like nate would be like i ran applebee's or whatever and then yeah that's how and he did the math for me that's how little he had my back yeah is that just a guy that's like i waited tables apple is for a year and you're like i'm this guy's like went to yale for this like he knows what he's doing way better than i knew nothing so you have my back you're like you it was so funny i knew how to pay you have my back. You were like, you put, it was so funny. I knew how to check. And I'd pay you out.

Yeah. I knew how to check. Like, you know, you got to, you get the tips and so they all get paid in cash. So we got to write down

and you, the girls get, or the waiters all get like this money and then you go and we would deposit the money. We deposited, Al Martin, if you're listening to this,

we deposited all the money and then we did it. We were super, So I would split, I would split my pay with you and they give you an extra five minutes on stage. Yeah it was yeah yeah that was my move up you get like 12 minutes and as opposed to five yeah so which was big yeah so he was like i don't i'll do the math yeah yeah like absolutely all these backroom deals and stuff so all the table comedy's all

back yeah back then for sure that's when boston Yeah, I'd like to point out that that's when Boston closed, when Nate started to do the math. When Nate controlled the books. So to finish off Boston, we were at Boston. We're there. We're doing that. I was a barker. And then your big move up.

So yeah, it was work, waiting at tables and stuff like that. It was like the first kind of thing you can do. So I came in as barking. so i was doing the barking and barking you just wanted to get to the point where you got to stand at the door so it was like all right that's the gig if i can get off because we're out there it's 30 degrees 20 degrees and that's who you meet everybody yeah that's when you meet everybody everybody has to walk through the door yeah yeah and so you're like how do I get off this corner? And I just want to get to, you know, like you were never making big. That's why a huge part of my career, something that has helped me very much is I never had

goals that were never unattainable because my goals were always just, I didn't want to be on the corner because I'm staying outside and it's freezing. How do I just get to the door? I just want to be able to stand in the door because you're at least kind of out of the weather. And like you said, everybody has to come through you, and they ask you. Chappelle comes in and goes, how's it going tonight?

It's going great. You get that conversation. You get a response. You're like, I think he kind of knows me. And you're like, all this kind of stuff. And so you loved it. So it was like the matter of just getting to that door. And then think i ran boston a couple times because you if you had a road gig i was in enough at that point that i would then you ran a lot of stuff for me yeah because you would start

yeah you would you were starting to get some road work so you go do the road and so on a weekend or something i would have to do it my biggest fear was like and so i was like so scared what if chappelle and chris rock walk in at the same time? I was like, what do I do? You had this crazy thing that I have to choose, which now you just know you let them choose. Yeah, they had to figure it out. They figure it out.

Yeah. But I'm just, I mean, I've been doing comedy, I mean, this point has to be, when did Boston end? I don't remember. Yeah, was it 05, 04, 05? Probably 03, 04. No, no, yeah, I was there was it 05, 04, 05? Probably 03, 04. No, no, yeah, I was there in 04. 04, 04.

It must have been the end of 04. Yeah, maybe the end of 04. Maybe even a little 05. It says 2005 on their Wikipedia. Yeah. Okay. All right, so it was 2005. Yeah.

I should be on there, am I? Oh, that says us. Are you on there? Okay. Oh, wow. Look at that. Starting point for such comedians as Sarah Silverman, Jim Gaffigan. Yeah.

Schultz didn't start there. Nate Bargatze. Nice. Neil Brennan worked the door there. Yeah. Schultz didn't. He was a Village Lantern guy. Bargatze, I mean.

He was a comedy. Well, cats didn't know you guys. This is what makes me angry. You know? He gets all the credit. Now he's taking it like, I took care of Nate. He's like, no, you didn't know you guys. This is what makes me angry. You know? He gets all the credit. Now he's taking it like, I took care of Nate. He's like, no, you didn't, dude. I took care of Nate.

Cats didn't know me. Barry Cats, you know, he put that whole thing up. I met Barry Cats in, which Barry Cats was great. He was. He let us do whatever we wanted. He let us do whatever we wanted. Yeah. He is. He yelled a lot, but I had to whatever we wanted. He let us do whatever we wanted. Yeah. He is.

He yelled a lot, but I had to deal with it. You had to deal with Barry Katz. Yeah. You were the one that got all of us in. But, I mean, he had a trust in you that he knew you knew what to do. Yeah. Well, technically what happened was I was at the New York Comedy Club with Al for many years, Al Martin. And then some guy was skimming money at the Boston comedy club.

So they needed a new guy. And then Al Martin, he asked Al Martin, you know, who can I bring in whatever? And then I'll pick me. And that's how that worked. Yeah.

Some guy was skimming money. So that's how it got. Yeah. And then, I mean, you, it would be, yeah.

Cause you, I mean, you ran it. Yeah. I ran it. I did. Might as well have owned it. I didn't even,

I don't know if I even at that point even knew there was someone else yeah I never even thought I mean I'm so 2004 well Barry opened it and then I may be 25 years old and like or 26 and I like I have no idea that this even I'm not thinking about an owner of any like I can't even I'm coming out of the subway and just hope I can find where the boston is at like you're you know and then uh yeah that's cool i've never looked at that uh but barry katz is a big manager barry katz i met him at boston uh comedy club barry katz did do uh was always very very nice to me barry katz was someone that you did want you always wanted him to know you yeah that's why it was a big deal that was a big deal because you were like he was like he had dane cook he had all these people and he was a manager and like and so he

was like you just wanted him to he's got a podcast too i think it's a it's a great podcast because it's really good yeah a lot of old new york uh out of boston new york stories about a lot of the guys well he was jay moore he was with forever yeah it was really funny because he would just show up and you know and not let us know and tell us when he was showing up and, he was with forever. Yeah. It was really funny because he would just show up and, you know, and not let us know and tell us when he was showing up because he was in LA

and then he was just kind of sort of kept, you know, the Boston Comedy Club in New York and then he would just show up like on a Monday and it would be like three people like,

dude, just come on a weekend, man. We're crushing it. Like, don't come on a Monday. Sold out shows. Yeah.

Yeah, Mondays are the worst. Yeah, don't come on a Monday. In February, like in New York, like nobody's here. Yeah, Mondays were the worst. Yeah, don't come up in February, like in New York. Like, nobody's here. Yeah, the fact that we're open is unbelievable. We got six people.

Like, come on, that's huge. That's amazing. Yeah, there's a show. We're having a show. We're having a show. It was just so funny. I'd be like. God, six.

I mean, we would do six people, four. Remember, I performed for one guy. One guy. Remember that? What was that guy's name? That was the Village Lantern. No, no, that was a. Was that guy arm wrestled or no?

No, no. The guy that had the really great laugh. Oh, Bob, I think, or something. Yeah. Yeah. He had an amazing laugh. The one guy had a great laugh? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. He always came. He always came. Always there. We never charged him. Yeah. We gave him his own seat. I always said if I had a comedy club in New York, I was going to have a golden seat for

Bob. Yeah. Just have it right. Nobody could sit in it. Yeah, he was awesome. He was a lifesaver. Yeah. And we let him do it every once, and he'd come in by himself.

And, I mean, it would be six of us. He's just a great laugh. It was like someone that just was rooting for all of us. Yeah. He just wanted us to make it. He loved comedy. He loved comedy, and he loved just seeing it, this ground floor of, like, these guys are just chasing their dreams, man.

Yeah. And he, when I did a show for him once, I mean, I remember we were like being like, Bob, I don't know if I want to do that. Like we knew him. So we're like, I'm on stage like, Bob, I don't know if we can do it. He's like, you can do it, man. He goes, it'll be great. And his laugh, he was so good at laughing that you could do it because you could be

like, he would just have this great loud laugh. He laughed at the right parts. He was just a gem of a person. And if we learn anything from Zoom comedy shows, all you need is one laugh. All you need is one laugh. Yeah. Yeah.

You needed him. We needed him. Yeah. He was, I mean, just the best dude. And then, so, yeah, so Barry Katz, yeah, so he ran that i don't know so anyway uh so that was like the idea with boston and then they had so a big thing was two that happened at boston it was where i was there for that uh when ted alexandro and uh russman eve i think started the they got the kind of comics were going on strike yeah more money. Yeah, to get us more money, yeah. And that happened when I was there.

Yeah, I remember. And so they had all the meetings with all the comics, so they would all come to Boston. Yeah, the strike of 2000. Yeah. What was it? I don't know, strike of 2004? It had to be four or five.

It was like a... Something like that. And so they did it. I don't know. Comedy, what's that? something like that and so they did it oh no what's that Comedians Union Comedians Union this is in 2004 December 20

yeah that's kind of what it was so right up in the New York Times about this so the weekday pay at that time, which was about $15 to $25 a set, as well as holiday pay for regulars, would make up $200 for a weekend gig, as opposed to the current rate of $75 to $125. I thought it was less than that.

Well, it was $60 some places. Yeah. And I remember I went to the big meeting, and it was just than that uh well it was 60 some places yeah and like i remember i went to this i went to the big meeting and it was just like everybody was there colin quinn all these comedians and i was kind of cranky about it because i felt like you know some of these guys they weren't even paid guys anyway they were just kind of trying to attach themselves to this thing so they could like get friends of comics and whatever i remember and then i was kind of you know i might have been a little hungover i'm not gonna you know a lot of sugar that night yeah and uh and i think i remember

i walked in and they wanted me to speak and i was like hey i looked at everybody's like i'm sorry your development deals didn't work out yeah like we're just this is not where you're supposed to get paid this is new york you know it's supposed to be the garden not the you know so it was like a whole thing but boston we didn't we didn't have to pay because we didn't get the bar yeah because it was the bag it in yeah they got all the drinks so the whole thing was the comedy clubs that make money off the bar should pay more because they're getting you know yeah you weren't yeah did you pay we didn't have to pay spots anybody or we yeah we paid i paid like 60 you know a spot well not 75 which is everybody else because we didn't get all we got was the cover yeah so you know a lot of times we let people in free yeah just trying to get an audio yeah and then

so yeah we didn't we yeah there's it's not a profit boston was not and there was no comedy hub back then or internet where people were buying tickets and so yeah so they did it was a good they were ted and them they weren't going after boston they were going after the seller they were going after all these places that were making real money and these shows are sold out every night i mean they were like this is crazy we there needed to be a raise and they i remember not going to this meeting uh because i remember just i was i was barking and i thought i remember some other barkers where we are other people like my level i mean i'm doing comedy a year two years and they're like i'm gonna go and i and i wish i would have went just to see it for the history of it yeah but i just remember i was embarrassed to be like i can't go in there like i'm gonna look they're gonna be like who are

you that's also knowing your role though i knew my role this ain't this ain't i wasn't deserved to get i was like i'm not in this argument i don't know i'm lucky i'm getting the goal i'm lucky i'm almost paying to go on like yeah which is at a point that you're like i don't i don't deserve this but i don't think this is always good because i think what happens this is a lot of guys like because i don't know i think that the idea of not paying someone a lot of money in city makes you work harder and like you know aim higher yeah because a lot of guys sometimes like you said they stay in this, they become City Comics forever, and they're amazing towns

that should be kind of bigger names. That leave and leave New York. I don't know. I think it's important to do that. LA is like, you might get 20 bucks if you're lucky. You might get zero. Maybe 20. 20 is amazing. But they've started doing some shows now

where they run in LA where they do these outdoor shows. Supernova is like amazing. But they've started doing some shows now where they run in LA where they do these outdoor shows. Supernova. Sure, sure. You get paid good for that. Out there. Those they pay great. Some of those they pay, like it's where you go,

that's too much. I don't want that. Well, they pay you that. Yeah. Nick and I are getting chicken fingers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's something to be said though about like working your way up and doing

some things for free yes and and learning things at a certain point because you do kind of need to do a certain amount of free work yeah and work your way up because it's like you know when people are like how do you get on tv how do you get an agent how do you get these things you're like well you don't just get right to you know and it's acting is the same thing it's like that's why actors do theater it's why I could do theater. You have to do theater. You have to take certain things where, oh, didn't I just see you on TV? And now you're doing this thing.

And, uh, you know, you're like, there's a certain amount of that. Yeah. And you, you also get stuff from people at your level more, you know, it's like, right. Like we would be late at night when there was four people on a show, we would ride the subway back together at four in the morning. And it's like, that's where you really bond with people. Yeah. And it's like, you have that lifelong friendship and camaraderie, you know, we're looking at Aaron.

We're like, does that happen? Yeah. Playing poker, playing poker in a parking lot. That's how you bond. That's how you bond. Well, that's what this weekend was so special. Cause we were all together and like, we were we all lived together that felt like we were all 20 man that was yeah i mean we just haven't felt that in forever and so it's so nice to be just to

look at all of us and just remember it remember all that we were we were around each other a lot a lot i mean you're around each other every single day because i went with you to new york and then i went with you to improv yeah uh then you live with you to improv. Yeah. And then you lived with me. We lived together. The three of us, the three of us lived together. So, I mean,

if it was, you know, I mean, I would see y'all, even when I got married, I would see y'all probably more than my wife. Like you're just around each other for hours and hours and hours. And yeah,

this, this was a great, the thing with it, I do agree. That's why I don't think we should have went. I agree with all that kind of stuff but i didn't i do understand that they were just trying to move it up a little bit and uh i get that i think they were just because the clubs were starting to make money i think each venue it varies yes each venue it did vary but like you know i get it the economy

seller like some of the bigger clubs they have a restaurant yeah they were selling out and you're like all right dude like if y'all are making a bunch of more money you do need to pay the guys more money because so it was the right for like some of the places and that's why i think they went to the boston because that was the only safe place to talk about it yeah because like the boston was not boston was like yeah we don't have any money like in every club everybody every comic knew what the boston yeah it was very underground it was very it was more of an underground kind of thing it was more where you could pop in and everybody could get extra time. And so this was really kind of going after kind of the other comics.

I mean, Ted, something he told me a long time ago that I think about all the time, where I remember Ted would always tell me, 90% of your work will come from other comedians. Oh, absolutely. And he said that, and that's never been more true ever. I remember hearing that. At first, I was like, how does that even make sense? And then you just look around, and you're like,

well, I'm getting work because of you. We thought we'd get work from you. Then we said about Nick. With Nick, they go about Nick games. We go, 90% will not pan out. So it was the opposite. But it was like that's all. Other comics would fill.

I opened for Greg Giraldo once. That was because I remember Pat Dixon would open for Greg Giraldo, and they needed someone to drive out. I think I did. I didn't just talk about this with. Talk about Pat. You mentioned Pat Dixon. That's great.

He's got a great. Last week. Yeah, I think so so i think i mentioned this this story but like so going out so i got a i got open for greg once and i get to sit in this big theater and watch him and uh he rode in the car with us he said in the back it was just just asking him all these comedy questions it was this magical thing greg drowder was my guy that i got to sit i would get remember the seller i would get paid to just sit there in case he didn't show up because greg obviously had a lot of demons he was fighting and so it'd be it'd come back and forth where sometimes he would be cool

sometimes he's not sometimes he'd kind of be off the rails yeah and he wouldn't show up so i would get to go sit at the cellar and just be like is greg going to show up or not and wow yeah here's the weirdest thing greg was my first sponsor yeah oh really yeah nothing contradicts itself but he was great in a he helped me out yeah and yeah and so he was yeah yeah and he was you know he was he'd call me make sure i was okay and then unfortunately he kind of you know yeah but he got off the path and you went back off with him and then now you're back yeah yeah yeah yeah there's a look and we always talk about a lot a lot of comics as they get older they everybody kind of stops drinking kind of gets off that kind of stuff uh you know i've you know i've talked about it on this podcast which helped a lot of people a lot of people at home do it you're just around alcohol too much it's just it's just your world is too much of this the audience sends you

free drinks yeah you're on stage they want to buy it's a show you're it is too much of this. The audience sends you free drinks. The audience, yeah. You're on stage. It's a show. It's too much. And you realize, like, I'm not going to get anywhere if I keep this up. And you kind of knew that. And at the beginning, you would go back and forth. I mean, when you first moved there, you're having a good time. It's fun.

It's your college years. And you're like, this is amazing. You're with Dave Attell. He has a drink now forever. Yeah. He was hilarious. Because that was the thing, too, is we'd all want to drink with Dave Attell yeah I'm also when he he hasn't drank now forever yeah he was hilarious he would like because that was the thing too is he we'd all want to drink with Dave yeah and a lot of times like you know he would go into a bar he would buy us all shots and then just leave and they would like do the shots and be like we just were here because we want to hang out with

Dave Attell and then like he's just gone he was just like Irish goodbye everything but they would have you know crazy nights with Dave. He hasn't drank in a long time. But I used to do these camp shows in New York for kids. Oh, I did those, yeah. And there was one that was four in the afternoon. This is when I was like 20. And I missed that like four in the afternoon.

It was like that late and crazy of a night. The 4 p.m. is the 4 p.m. They're like, where is he? I woke up and I was like, well, how early y'all doing these things? That 4 p.m. Yeah. I remember doing those camps.

So bad. Stan in New York did a lot of those. Yeah. You go perform for kids. I love those. They were great because you, it was always so great because you're like,

you felt like you worked and you're like, it's, you got money. Yeah. I mean, I'd do some at noon. Yeah.

And you'd be done at one and you're like, I already did a spot. And it was so fun to call you, tell your friends, you're like it's you got money yeah i mean i do some at noon yeah and you'd be done at one and you're like i already did a spot and it was so fun to call you tell your friends you're like what are you doing today like i just woke up you're like i've already did a spot today i have one spot already because you as always you wanted to be like i got how many spots you get last night that was the everything once you start getting into spots you're not at ball like you kind of just go run around doing more shows because that's the kind of leads to is like stat you kind of run the shows and then you kind of end up going like now you're trying to get past all the clubs yeah and uh and so then you're like how many spots you do like i did five like you did like you got a lot in i remember i did a camp show and i was at uh

gotham comedy club and the owner of the comedy club just i had a beer on stage in front of you know because i don't you know i'm not thinking it through yeah the definition of comedians is we don't think it through yeah and he just walked up as i'm on stage telling jokes and just grabs it out of my hand and then just takes it and then just walks off yeah and i'm like okay and then i'm just like hey and just trying to do jokes yeah yeah grab it he just grabs it off his face he didn't even like it didn't disrupt me he was real gentle about it

probably doesn't even talk to you about it like he knows he probably tells the place when he books them hey just a heads up but these the people that go

doing these shows they're not normal people like they don't they don't think about stuff they will do they'll be professional camp shows but stuff's gonna slip in I mean the opposite of that was prom shows prom shows Like they don't think about stuff. They will be professional. Camp shows, man. But stuff's going to slip in.

I mean, the opposite of that was prom shows. Prom shows. Where you'd go, the show would be at 2, 3 in the morning. And you had to wait there all night. You'd have to wait there all night. Because you never knew when they were coming, too. Yeah. So we'd just all be there.

But you wanted prom shows. They paid more. Yeah. It was like that was like the big deal. Because it's like, especially for younger comics. Because they always wanted somebody a little younger. Yeah. So that's the advantage we had over the older guys.

And the older guys, too, were not going to do it. Like, dude, there's a point you got where you were like, I'm not going up at 3 a.m. I was like that older guy that kept doing it because I'm that guy that shows up like, hey, kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it was good money. Yeah. And once you get to do it, you're like, oh, so you start. I mean, during prom season, you're able to go to Caroline's. Like, I mean, you get. 50 bucks usually. Yeah. And once you get to do it, you're like, oh, so you start, I mean, during prom season, you're, you're able to go to Caroline's.

Like, I mean, you get. 50 bucks usually. Yeah. If you were lucky. Yeah. It was a good. That was like a good. Yeah.

I didn't think you, I thought you got a hundred or something. Maybe. Well. I think it was like a hundred. I think it was like something so crazy that you're like, dude, if I do these, that's like an extra hundred a night. Caroline's might've been that. Yeah.

Yeah. But like some of the, you know, danger fields and stuff. Caroline's I think might've even paid more more than it might have been a couple hundred or three really i just remember it was something kind of crazy that you were like you you're like yeah dude i can't believe i'm getting to do this and then the other guys they were starting to do the road stuff where like oh i don't need that and i know it's not fun to be up at 3 a.m yeah i remember vecchione doing one one night and i mean these kids would come in, obviously no alcohol, but they show up. They somehow are fine anyway.

I mean, remember, we did a show, and we're on stage. We just do the show. Mike Vecchione, this girl gets alcohol poison or something. Called the ambulance. Paramedics come put her on a thing, roll her out, and we're just still just kind doing the show he's just on stage yeah there's no like stop i mean you got it like

it's these kids are kind of in a lock-in oh yeah so they can't just be like all right everybody shows over we can't make them leave so they just like we're still up there remember uh maybe we kind of everybody's talking we maybe got a host up there. And then they're just like, excuse me, excuse me. Will this girl out? Like a stretcher. And then he's like,

Mike Vecchione, everybody. And Mike Vecchione comes out and just has to be like, yo, what's up, everybody? The kids are just kind of back in the show. And you're like, yeah, one of your classmates might be dead. But we can't send you home.

The show's got to go on. And yeah, it was such a crazy crazy time i did uh we did prom boats in new york if you did those i never did a boat i knew they would do there's nothing nothing worse than bombing in front of a bunch of kids and you can't leave yeah you're just like stuck and they're everywhere coming at you oh man you ain't funny and like you're just like ah you just want to jump off yeah yeah you just crapped on that boat also like the kids shows were great because they would be like they were excited about it usually prom sometimes they were like they would rather be out kids have attitude yeah apart in there they want to hook up so they're like in there like trying to like hook up and looking

at or like that awkward you know tension between dates yeah and you're up there like let me tell you about my girlfriend and they're like well it was either that or it was junior prom where they're like 15 yeah you know so that's the most awkward group of people you're going to perform in front of those 15 year old boys just they you know yeah they have no idea what to do with this is the stuff that that makes it all great you know you know it's funny i was just reminding me of barry cats if you want to see him if you watch comedian uh that's where i know him from basically which uh sign it's about seinfeld and i think i've talked about it here if you haven't watched it comedian is it's on netflix now it's on netflix now it's uh it's per it's perfect it's one of the best it's um comedian yeah if you it's

what i watched and said i gotta go to new york and move to new york right after i watched i moved to new york a couple months after I saw it. I saw it in a movie theater. Some great scenes. And then that's kind of you can get a feel for what we were kind of going through. Like a little bit. You've seen it through Seinfeld eyes, obviously. But you see Orny Adams, who's very funny.

Yeah, that's actually a different experience, the Orny situation. Because I felt like he kind of got kind of gifted something really cool and then it was like what do you do when you have it do you do you exploit it do you do you crush it do you so that's what's really interesting about it because a lot of us weren't handed that situation and so i think it was like well it was an experiment it was an experiment i think for the documentary uh to see what happens if you give a guy you know well they wanted to show to someone like seinfeld that when they walk in he gets an applause and then they want to show well here's what the other comedians have to go through they don't get the applause they don't get the sure

you know like i mean i think there's one scene where orny goes up after jerry he's like oh yeah of course jerry's here but that's how they get him at first because you see orny get bumped by seinfeld well that's where a bump conversation. That's the bump conversation. Yeah. And Orny, Orny's a great guy. Like, if you watch this thing, I know Orny now. Orny's an amazing comedian. Very, very funny.

Just destroys. And is a great dude, but he's kind of the guy that you see in that kind of thing. He's just kind of that dude. Well, he'll kind of roll his eyes at a famous, like he's not impressed. He just wants to go up. Yes, yes. because i think the thing is he wanted to get a tape or something so he was like ah every club here we go yeah he's trying to get a montreal

comedy festival yeah yeah and now he talks about doing the shows outside yeah it's uh it's my favorite stand-up documentary it's uh it's the i'm mainly because of big seinfeld fan but in that you see barry katz uh talk to orny adams one of my favorite lines very funny orny adams because i you know you've all been dumb and say something like this where you go like talk about steve right he goes yeah what's steven right even doing and barry katz goes he won an oscar like and he goes oh that's cool yeah because what he says is where's steven right now yeah where's steven right and then in the dvd they have a section on it called where's orny now yeah and they got him in a volkswagen doing a road gig it's just really yeah yeah but i get it we've all been very frustrated and you say something

no i love orny he's great i just i just say something very dumb where you're like yeah what's rodney danger you know like at the time rodney danger was alive yeah yeah you're like you know what you say something, yeah, where's Larry the Cable Guy? How good's he doing? You're like, oh, he's a multi-millionaire and he sells out arenas. He's doing pretty good.

You know what it is? It's like sports, you know? You feel like you've got to take down the legends and be as good and whatever. So you get that cockiness where you're like, okay, I got this. Get out of my way. Get out of my way.

And you get put back in your place immediately, always. You ever see you receive that clip is a clip that went viral of msnbc years ago and that the moderator is arguing with the guest and finally the moderator goes uh do you have a degree in economics the guy goes yeah uh highest honors yeah she was like okay all right yeah yeah yeah yeah you always get kind of uh shoved into that spot so yeah comedians on uh netflix uh with seinfeld all seinfeld's going to netflix too by the way yeah uh and uh so uh still haven't met seinfeld that's my one you haven't no yeah i'm trying to do i'm trying to like start to like ask around like i'm trying to be like hey can i open for it like i just want to go with him sure well that's the thing in comedian um you know when he's brought up and those girls kind of heckle him when they're talking about his notes i bring

him up oh really i'm bringing him up in that it's at gotham and that was the weirdest thing because it was one it was also one of those moments where he was the kind of guy i think we talked about with chapelle and stuff like i'd be like, ladies and gentlemen, Jerry Seinfeld, everybody would be like, yeah, okay. You know, like the audience just wouldn't believe you. They'd be like, okay, like it's some joke or something. Then he would come in and everybody would just go bananas. But yeah, I brought him up to that and they, of course, you know.

Was she from another country? She was from Ireland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that. In the documentary, she's kind of heckling because he's looking at notes. She said something like, you don't remember your act? You don't remember your act you don't remember your act yeah it's something like that he goes this is your first show yeah first show

yeah yeah yeah is this your first show and then yeah he's like so I was there for all that oh wow that you bring yeah I was in the room I knew that

I was in the room I saw the whole thing yeah it was great did you see it being filmed was everybody upset at Orny at that time like in an honest like thing

was everybody like man oh yeah yeah Bill Burr was like, what's up with this? Yeah, he was like, what's up with that?

Like a lot of us because we were, you know, but like I said, it was like, you know, they just chose one guy and I think his attitude about it made it interesting.

Was he in, it made it. Because everybody else would just be like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. Where Orny, you needed somebody

to kind of be like, whatever. But he had that. Like it was almost like a reality show. Yeah. You need somebody to be the be like, whatever. But he had that. It was almost like a reality show. You need somebody to be the villain. Absolutely. Or not always say what you want.

He was perfect. He made it perfect. He made it perfect. Without him, it's not as good. You pick any other comic, you would have been like, they would have felt boring. Yeah, we'd just been like, thank you, thank you, thank you. Orny, you had emotions about Orny.

Sure. At times, you could think you don't like him, and then you're like, no, I do like him. And then you go back and forth when you're watching it for the first time. And it's interesting to think. I'd like to see it again. It's been a long time. Oh, yeah.

I need to watch it again, too. I've watched it again not too long ago. But go listen to the commentary, too. It's great. Colin Quinn. Oh, him and Colin Quinn. It's so funny. Talk about Barry and everything. Yeah, it's so funny talk about barry and

everything yeah it's so funny cut his hair cut your hair man they so it's like yeah go watch and then go listen to them talk about oh that's way so it's so funny go watch it first if you haven't seen it and then go back and listen uh but it's with orny uh there i'd imagine like everybody was pretty because at that point you're like everybody's trying to get something and you're like why does this dude get it yeah i've had so much jealousy yeah well you're like why so he gets whatever he wants i guess he gets whatever he's doing spots like that you would get so mad yeah and then you know it's funny to think burr if he was like i could i mean everybody would have been a little bit like why does he get to be the one chosen and you look and like burr is now the biggest comics yeah

working uh but yeah but you don't know that you know you know how this is you have no idea where it's where anything's going you have goals you have ambitions but you don't know you everything is the biggest thing ever so when you don't get something you think well that's the that's the worst thing that's ever going to happen to me and i'm never going to make it and like this is so devastating it's so devastating it's all these things that you're like you don't even remember and then you're like but i would have been upset about that at that point yeah well i was yeah i was just like you know cleaning the club and running shows so it's like it was that kind of energy where it's just like you're just like this guy's not paying enough dues to get this and you know yeah you're like look at all the dues i'm paying yeah you have that yeah and it's like that's yeah it's not about you it's not about you dues to get this. Yeah. You know. Yeah. You're like, look at all the dues I'm paying. Yeah. You have that.

Yeah. And it's like, that's, yeah. It's not about you. It's not about you. Was Orny a guy and he was past all the clubs

at that point? Kinda, yeah. He was kind of up and, you know, up and coming, but he was working the clubs. He was in the system, playing all the clubs.

He was kind of past that point. And he was like, he was a killer. He's the guy that just, he was very animated. He was like, yeah, just like the stool

and everything. But the systems changed too because of social media and other things. Yeah, sure yeah now people could just be famous and you know yeah you don't have to do it yeah uh all right we this was a long one two hours 18 it's pretty good it's like a chapelle set at the boston yeah yeah we come into a lot of time uh yeah it's uh this one was a fun one i mean this was uh you know it was great because we have y'all yeah and just to go back and you know you forget we all remember different things stuff sticks out to us so it's nice to be able to go talk back with us and just be like oh yeah i remember

you remember this and that and remember you know one of the worst bombings I had was at Boston. Oh, yeah. I remember that. I remember I had to go walk around afterwards. And I had a green button-down shirt. And I had it tucked in. And I never wore that shirt again on stage. I thought it was the shirt.

Everybody was murdering. I've gotten rid of a lot of clothes because of that. It's funny how comics are superstitious. I got hats I just threw away. I'm like, I'm wearing that again. That's the reason. It's not our material. No, it has nothing to do with my hacky.

These people, I'm a great comedian. I'm doing comedy for a month. Taking your shirt off. You know how great of a comedian I am? The agents don't get it. It's, look at you, shirt. It's your fault. That's probably what happened to Chrysler.

That's how it started. He just had a set. He's like, I'm not. Oh, Bert, yeah. Yeah, you ain't gonna get to me. He's like, I'll take my shirt off. How about that? Yeah.

I remember that night. I remember his boss. I remember I did it. I think it was so bad that like we had another show that we have to bark for because it was on the weekend. And you let me just, you were like, hey man, go just go walk around. Like it was like one of the, like you knew enough to go like it was my first you know obviously at the beginning you don't do good at the beginning but it doesn't really

matter because you don't know what good feels like yeah at that point i've started to do good yeah and so this is the first time i kind of had well everybody was destroying and you think you're better than everybody well they're doing good i mean i'm gonna murder it's the first time you have that thought you allow yourself to have that thought and then you go up there and it was silent and i mean i was sick to my stomach and i walked out and like had to walk away and walk i remember that night yeah i like had to sit i'm where i think went to some wine bar i don't know what a wine bar is like walk in there and just just sitting alone. You're just thinking about every... You're just like, I don't know what's happening.

I went back and did a show later. You just learn. You had a better set. You had a better set later and then you're like, okay, this is just it. You got to shake it off. Every boxer gets knocked down. Just get back up. Just got to get back up.

Man, it's a gut punch. It's a gut punch. It's tough. It's tough. It's tough. But that's the beauty of it, you know? And it makes you better because you reflect, like, what did I do in that set

that made that happen? Out of all the bombs, that's the only one I really remember. Besides the shirt. What else did I do? Sure, we can use this stuff. I didn't wear it on the second show. Luckily, back then,

I would wear two shirts. That's why. That was why. Two shorts, two shirts. That's why. That was why. Two shorts, two shirts. You always wear it. Cumberland Farms. Yeah, Cumberland Surveyor or something like that. I had some Goodwill shirt.

Yeah, well, that's why I wore two. I was always prepared. It's your bombing shirt. Yeah, it's my bombing shirt. All right, get that one out of the way. Here we go. Boom. All right, everybody.

Thank you so much. This was such a great episode with being able to catch up with you guys. Obviously, also with Brian. Keep Brian. Keep just prayers for him, his family, his wife's family. We don't know everything that's going on, but we're talking about it. Obviously, we'll tell you guys. But think about him. Aaronaron you got also baits is he what's the words baits has been out leanne morgan he's doing a bunch of shows with leanne he's all over so check

both of us out on social media we're out there on the road we love seeing podcast fans come out to see us saw one last night in st louis they came It's great. It's great when they come out. We will be in. We're going to D.C. this weekend. Yeah. So you're just comes out Wednesday. So we're on our. Oh, we're going to Norfolk. Norfolk, Virginia first.

And then D.C. Norfolk is Thursday. I don't know where I'm at. You doing the Lyric in D.C.? No. The Constitutional? The Constitutional? Yeah, D-A-R.

That's pretty cool, yeah. And then, so I'm in, yeah, where am I going? Virginia, D.C., and then Hershey. Yeah, but we're leaving Wednesday. So it's Thursday. Yeah, look at the schedule. I'm very confused. Thursday, Friday,'re leaving Wednesday. So it's Thursday. Yeah, look at the schedule. I'm very confused. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I know. Oh, because two shows are in. Yes. Three shows in Hershey. All right. So I'm right. Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, Virginia.

The Dar Constitution Hall in D.C. Hershey, Pennsylvania. First show is sold out. Second show is close. And then there's a third show that we added on Sunday, on the 26th. So you can go to that.

So those first two shows are about to be, first one's gone, second one's about to be gone. And then that third show, go get tickets for that if you do that. And then I'll be back doing another night in D.C. the next week of the 30th. Oh, you are doing the Lyric in Baltimore.

I am. Two shows there. And then, yeah. So, I mean, go to my website. You'll see all the stuff. We're out. We're running around. Everybody listens to this podcast.

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what joke say my fat is now just that was great oh it fits in the cabinet definitely is that still there yeah or nick will you know i mean yeah i try not to if you come to my hour i think i'm only you can correct me but i think i'm only doing uh three things that i've something some of them are just they're now full jokes and so on the podcast you would have just heard me talk about it i've now made them jokes uh so it's not like i'm not just fleshed out the bit on here you just get the premises but i think it's only three i want to say it's maybe three things maybe four but i think three that i can think of it's pretty good for an hour so i'm not, if you come see the show,

it's all stuff you never heard. But you'll probably be hearing this little fat. But the fat thing is just be a quick little add-on. Because that's a joke that you're like, oh, that could work. Yeah. That could work. So let's see.

So you're going to see it. So if you come this weekend, I'll do it in Norfolk, if I remember. If I don't. But I think I'll do it in Norfolk. So Norfolk show. Let's see. So you're going to see it. So if you come this weekend, I'll do it in Norfolk, if I remember. If I don't. But I think I'll do it in Norfolk. So Norfolk show. Let's see how it goes. We can all see how it, you know, be interesting.

It's like a behind the scenes, like a comedian. Well, behind the scenes. Yeah, it's like, this is like our own comedian. So thank you all that all came out. Again, dustinchafin.com? Yes. Yep. Your website, you've been doing shows.

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