Yannis Pappas Hour - SoderPap with Dan Soder - LongDays with Yannis Pappas - Episode 30
Episode Date: July 25, 2021You might know him from Showtime’s hit Billions. You might know him from his Comedy Central Stand Up Specials. You might know him from The Bonfire on Sirius XM. You might know him from Aurora, Color...ado or Arizona where he was roommates with a drug dealer from Long Island. Soder & Pap are your new favorite buddy cop poddy team and here they regal you with stories from Soder’s past, comedy road stories from the past together and a few funny Nate Bargatze road stories and much much more.  For an additional bonus episode every week and more Yantent, click here and support the show: https://www.patreon.com/yannilongdays  The show goes out every Saturday at 9 PM est. to youtube and podcast audio platforms but while it's being recorded the show goes LIVE on Yannis' Instagram!  Come join in on the LONG DAY & Follow Yannis Pappas  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yannispappas/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/yannispappas Website - https://www.yannispappascomedy.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Down as poppers, yeah
When you all talked up and the day been long
And the news online going on and on
What's right and wrong and there's something up
Now here comes a great kid you know you can trust
From the truth to the news and cameras
To the fake politics and the propaganda
Yeah this kid's screwed in, got a lot to say
Aw shit, it's about to be a long day
It's a long day, it's a long day What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Long Days.
I am Yanni and over here sitting to my left, your right, is Thunder Dan Soar.
It'd be cooler if Dan Marley was here.
Yeah, it'd be great, yeah.
If it was a pan over and it was Dan Marley.
And you put your leg over so I felt like I had to match it.
I was like, you just look like the schmucks sitting there.
We look like a guy and a girl sitting having a date.
Yeah. I sit like a girl.
You're sitting like a guy.
This just gives away that my dick is malleable enough that I can squash it.
You got Play-Doh dick.
You can move it around.
Yeah.
It's a small.
It's small.
This is a dad triangle
yeah that just means you got junk in the trunk i can't smush my boys yeah but i do sometimes oh
yeah when you get there when i'm yeah when i'm feeling like this feels like i'm talking about
the art the craft of comedy yeah well this feels like i'm telling you about my my kid that might
not uh make it into high school without repeating eighth grade. I go, well, his mother's dumb,
so we figured this was going to happen eventually
in grades six through eight.
And there's always a couple of things
you can tell about people sitting like that.
The person who sits like this often will shake their foot.
I feel like they're lying when they shake their foot.
Yeah, my...
And I think, like you said,
if somebody does this...
Pretentious.
Pretentious.
Yeah, that activates the pretentious part of your brain my mom's boyfriend that i hated would sit like this and
he'd flip his foot flop slap it against his foot so to me that's the sign of a real piece of shit
when you said that i could almost hear the flop hitting his foot yeah and what's cool is i knew
my mom and him were starting to break up when she would snap on that i'd be like yes so would
that start to annoy her yeah she'd be like joe could you not yeah and he'd be like what and then i'd be like i'd be sitting there
i'm like we're headed there we're headed there get him out get him lock him up lock him up and
then when he left he did he leave in flip-flops and then those are the last noises you like that
noise just followed you when you hear that noise do you noise, do you have like a Vietnam flashback?
I don't want to watch UConn's women's basketball.
I'm not an R word.
I'm not an R word.
I'm not.
I'm smart.
I might not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
So he gave you a lot of confidence because he used to build you up and call you smart.
He used to call you a genius and things like that.
Yeah, so what would happen is I'd be at dinner, which I still do now. He gave you a lot of confidence because he used to build you up and call you smart. He used to call you a genius and things like that. Yeah.
So what would happen was I'd be at dinner and I would, which I still do now.
Did he have like a stepdad name?
Joe.
Joe.
Yeah.
Joe's a good one.
I mean, I talk about it on stage, but he was my dad's ex-best friend.
And he was like, they'd come in.
Wait a second.
Hold up.
Don't you kid. He's my godfather.
He was your godfather.
He was my godfather. So he was your godfatherfather he was your dad's ex-best friend yeah and and just he slid in there yeah so
they how long after oh like eight years i mean not not listen it's never cool it's never cool
never cool was he just like at first did you first he was over talking with your mom about your dad and then
you know we moved him from connecticut to colorado because for some reason my mom and i were like
sitting around it was the summer of the 96 olympic games and i was like oh you should joe and his
wife were my parents friends obviously my godfather right i was like when's the last time
you talked to joe and lynn and my mom was like oh shit since like 89 and i was like call him up and i did it to myself i was like you should see how
joe's doing so my mom called joe he was divorced my mom was single they were talking and then my
mom we were looking for a roommate so my mom's like how'd you feel about joe but you guys were
looking for a roommate yeah yeah there was like this one time and my mom's you know we were like
we need the help right it'll help out we'll have a roommate i love the fact that you were just like
an eight-year-old kid i was uh i was like 12 brainstorming revenue options streaming revenue
i want to put her on an only fans now you're like wait mom have you thought about this mom i'm gonna
toss this out there what if i get some spider coderco knives? We go door to door. I sell it.
If you get three people,
maybe my mom just pushing magazine subscriptions.
Marie Claire has got a brand new deal for you.
It's 14 issues.
So you ended up,
you were trying to figure out
how to rent one of the rooms out.
I liked Joe.
Yeah.
Because I only knew him as like my dad's friend.
No eight-year-old should have to think this
stuff through again i was 12 you were 12 sorry about that you were an adult i apologize honestly
with eight it would be more acceptable because it's pie-eyed and it's like dad's friend 12 you're
like all right kid what are you doing you put yourself in harb's way yeah i don't know how they
i don't know how they consider uh when they consider adulthood in the midwest but 12 i think
is pretty young. Colorado laws.
100 years ago, I would have had to have had my own farm by then.
Yeah, you probably would have.
Yeah, you would have had to lead a storm on an Indian tribe.
They go, if you can't drive cattle, why are you here?
Damn it, Dan.
So Joe, you meet.
So you hook your mom and Joe up unintentionally.
Completely unintentionally.
Yeah.
And it ends up being the worst.
Did he at least pay a little rent for a little bit in that room? Yeah,. Completely unintentionally. Yeah. And it ends up being the worst. Did he at least pay a little rent
for a little bit in that room?
Yeah, they faked it.
Yeah.
And then there became a time
where it was like a rainstorm
and I went to piss.
And I remember it was like
really storming outside
and the lightning struck
and I saw that his door was open,
like a haunted,
like a scary movie.
And I noticed his door was open
and I was like,
I'll shut Joe's door.
And I like looked in
and he wasn't in his bed and I was like, damn. I immediately knew and I was like, I'll shut Joe's door. And I looked in and he wasn't in his bed.
And I was like, damn.
I immediately knew.
I was like, damn.
Did he play it off for a while?
I gave it a couple days and then finally with my mom, I was like, so Joe's sleeping in your room?
And she was like, oh, we were going to tell you.
And you're like, all right, all right.
And it was just like, you know, he had never had kids.
He didn't know. Did he play it off for a while like he came out of a room naked? He was like, all right, all right. And it was just like, you know, he had never had kids. He didn't know.
And he played over a while like he came out of a room naked.
He was like, oh, sorry.
I was fixing the air conditioner.
It was crazy.
Your mother was trapped under a boulder.
And I had to get her out.
And you're like, okay, cool.
Yeah.
No, no.
Once I knew, I was like, all right.
And then everything was starting.
Again, it was still so stupid.
I didn't put it together that it was going to turn terrible.
Right. But yeah, then it's like you have no control of the situation then all of a sudden my ranking got dropped when he was a roommate we were evil we were even ranking you could go to his room and
be like hey yeah hey joe you're using a little too much hot water buddy i come in with a tool belt
right i mean it fixed that thing that you said downstairs it's like oh it's a little too much hot water, buddy. I come in with a tool belt.
I'm here to fix that thing that you said downstairs.
It's like, oh, it's a little bit of
some of the ceilings falling off.
I'm having super conversations.
I go, yeah, lady owns this building.
These are real bits.
Just busting my ass about my grades.
And then it turned into a... Time for you to go to your room, Dan my grades and then it turned into uh and then it turned into time for
you to go to your room dan yeah then it became then it became them getting hammered and then
at dinner them letting some real loose opinions of me go to your room dad wait a second i'm your
boss and he goes i'm fucking your mom i know well i'm fucking your mom i'm kind of your dad now
and once that happened he just started, my mom hated my dad.
Right.
So once they started dating, it became like a constant roast of my dad that wasn't around.
Oh.
So just all the time, they're like, what a loser.
And I'm sitting there, and I'm like, yeah, he's kind of cool.
I look in the other room, I'm like, he's funny.
Yeah.
So not only did this guy go from a roommate to your kind of stepdad
i mean full-on they didn't get married but straight up acting like a stepdad you had to
think about them in that room talking about your dad oh i just hear it yeah you would hear they do
it in front of you in front of me thank you fuck put a couple pint glasses of screwdrivers back
you start letting it be known what you think of your ex-husband.
Yeah.
Screwdrivers is a real drinker's drink.
It's fucking alcoholic.
Vodka and orange juice.
It's the quick fix.
You're not supposed to have a mass supply of a quick fix.
Right, right, right.
Vodka and orange juice is the least creative drink.
Yes.
Nobody goes to a bar and orders a Screwdriver.
Both my parents.
My mom didn't drink
screwdrivers joe's drink my mom drank a southern comfort southern comfort manhattan on the rocks
that was her drink she made herself a cocktail i learned how to joel just went like i learned how
to joel just dumped vodka and then he went and got the minute man you're like hey that's me in
the morning he's like no it's not and it's tropicana yeah no yeah we'll get some with
some pulp make you a real man we got some powdered tang for you you get some crystal light you pussy but he my dad would drink rum and cokes
which is another super alcoholic drink yeah and mostly rum yeah yeah it was opaque yeah it's um
it's a working class alcoholics drink it It's like, I can get this consistently
with not a lot of money.
Yeah, yeah.
That's, I think, like the high class alcoholics
or the rich alcoholics.
Joe used to drink Barton's vodka.
That's like fucking what nice restaurants
use to detail silverware.
Yeah.
I always, yeah.
I would figure the working class alcoholic,
you're gonna have a lot of vodka in plastic bottles.
Yes, Barton's.
Look up Barton's.
I still know that fucking dumb black and red with the i think it's like an eagle on it
barton's vodka yeah barton's whiskey looks too nice it's what uh there it is yeah that's a lower
income a lower income alcohol you can get a 175 for 22.99 oh she's getting one for 12.99 yeah
that's plastic by the way yeah yeah i'll tell
you right now that fucking bottle dude i didn't know my parent i didn't know my mom and like i
didn't know i was around alcoholics until high school when uh when your dad died that was well
you know yeah your dad died of cirrhosis you kind of get a clue i want to say middle school
in like freshman year we had a recycling bin right out the door of my garage,
which in the suburbs, you come and go through the garage.
I'm aware of that now because I'm a country boy.
You're a country boy.
I'm a country boy.
When you grow up in the suburbs,
you come in through the garage door
and you leave through the garage door.
So our recycling bin was right outside the garage door.
I remember, I think it was my friend Garapay was like,
damn dude, how many 175s you got in the recycling bin?
And I went and looked and I was like, a lot.
It was like three SoCo 175s and like four Bartons.
Right, that was before recycling though.
So you could just throw that in with the regular trash.
That was when recycling started.
So that's when you started seeing the evidence.
So you just walked over like a Chinese woman,
just with a dumbbell full of fucking bottles.
I swear to God, if we lived in New York,
we would have had an infestation of people
digging through our fucking bottles.
It was that much money.
It was like, it was that much plastic bottles.
It was crazy.
There would just be a line of old Chinese people waiting.
It was alarming.
And then Pepsi cans sprinkled for me.
Yeah.
A lot of people are wondering why I'm saying Chinese people.
In New York,
they have cornered that market.
It's unbelievable.
They're incredible at it.
It's unbelievable.
Go to any key food or C market
and just go to where they turn in
for the money.
You'll just see mountains of bags.
They really do it
and sometimes they're very creative
with how they carry it.
Yeah.
I've seen women with like a wood stick with like three or four attached on each side and she'll just be walking with it pushing a cart that's full of bottles that's new york
crossfit yeah enough to feed your family and plastic on your back that's your wand it's your
workout of the day yeah i mean they do it they're asians uh
they gravitate towards that and they gravitate towards casinos they love gambling man they also
though are the greatest if you get an asian dealer they're gonna fuck your shit up now you know a lot
about that because you you got you dealt drugs you did drugs and you got robbed by a drug dealer yeah i didn't there you
played all the parts in that movie i didn't really ever deal drugs i lived with a drug i lived with
a guy that sold weed right it's like weird to call him a drug dealer right you watched the house
i was like the guy on the couch you were playing the video games with the drug dealer in between
i was the lobby right while amir while amir was gonna get you a coffee or drink yeah well he would i
would load the bubbler we'd play like some you know home run derby on playstation 2 yeah and i
was funny yeah so i was like the secretary yeah mr amir is weighing out your quarter pound honey
take a seat is this your first time buying from him? You know, it comes from Victoria, British Columbia.
Yeah, that's all I did.
I love that.
And then occasionally he was such a dick to me.
And we were friends, but he was like a dick.
He was very Long Island.
So he was a dick.
Oh, he's from Long Island?
Yeah.
Fucking Long Island kids.
And he would be like, yo, I'll give you an eighth for like $40.
Like that was the discount he was getting. But he had five pounds of weed in his room right so he would leave and i'd just go
way out an eighth and then sell it to someone at the radio station keep the 50 so i had drinking
money and then i'd take a quarter so you did a little drug dealing yeah sure yeah yeah you helped
him out yeah yeah oh for sure i definitely helped him out because it benefited me.
Right, right, right.
But I never wanted to be like,
dude, when we got robbed,
the guy that he got his weed from
showed up and he,
I don't know if I ever told you this,
he looked like Napoleon Dynamite,
but he carried a Desert Eagle on him.
No.
I was just talking to my friend Mike about this.
Yeah.
When I did a show in Jersey
because my friend Mike,
who knew all these people,
was like, yeah, dude. And this was at university of arizona that was in tucson yeah guy would
always have a fucking desert eagle in his his you know back waist or whatever and he looked like a
dork and then my roommate was like yeah i wouldn't fuck with him he's fucking crazy but when we got
robbed he called him to be like yeah because i think half the weight was on front so he had like what
does that mean like they he fronted him the weed so you pay me after you sell right right right
so half it got you know so amir had to make a tough call right he's like yo we got robbed
right and then the guy's like i'm gonna send someone over so they don't come back
in case they're gonna come back and this fucking giant truck came in our back. We lived off a dirt road off like a mountain and Elm.
If you know Tucson,
we lived off mountain and Elm.
I don't know Tucson.
But someone's going to listen to this
and they're going to be like,
oh fuck.
That dirt road,
you know,
that's where they drove away.
They took my car and they drove away.
And I'm like,
I don't know.
They took the keys from the house.
Oh dude,
I was hog tied in the living room
for 20 minutes.
When a dude hog ties you,
you're very nice about it.
He was nice about it?
No, no, no.
I was nice to him about it.
You offered your hands.
Yeah, if you watch,
if you watch,
I did the story as a bit
on this is not happening.
That's pretty much
the 100% truth.
Right.
Where like the dude
pulled a gun on me
and I was very like, what's up?
What do you need?
What do you, because it's, I'm not going to.
I've had a gun pulled up.
Yeah, you got shot.
You turn into, yeah, not to continue.
Customer service.
Yeah, you are just customer service.
How can I help you?
How can I help you?
What would you like?
Yeah, please, you know.
Oh my God, you have a gun.
I didn't know you were a gun carrying member.
I'm Dan.
I'm going gonna lay down
i'm very docile i'm like a feigning goat yeah you you are aware you were gonna be yelp reviewed but
the whiteness in me came out because i was starting to get annoyed because he kept being like he was
fucking with me like he wasn't cool about it you started to complain about it you're like come on
sir yeah you start breathing enough carpet after a while. And he's like, where's the fuck?
He was like a cholo.
Yeah.
Where's the fucking money, white boy?
Where's the fucking money?
He's like, where's the money, white boy?
And I'm like, I don't know.
And I started getting huffy.
I get huffy.
That's how my mom gets.
Sir, I told you.
But when you're raised.
I don't work here.
Yeah.
When you're raised by a white lady, and only a white lady, you get that.
Right.
You get that like
um i was told that i and so i'm fucking right because your dad's not around to be like
son some people don't have a man to be there to be like shut up you sound like a bitch yeah he's
got a gun he's robbing you and this dude was like a pro he was a pro this wasn't like hey man
fucking get down on the ground the guy was like
what's like that cold you've been around dangerous people yeah they have a very like
i'm not scared of this there's no warmth there's no more yeah very cold you feel alone yes you feel
very alone so immediately i'm like guy you call So yeah, he put me in wrist restraints behind my back
and then duct taped my feet together.
So he didn't get legs to, not a true, from Colorado.
It ain't a true home tag.
Son, let me show you where you're going wrong.
Did you ever go like, hey, I'm not going to cause any problems.
You don't really need to do this.
I can just sit on the couch.
I can just sit.
When I saw how professional he was, I was like, oh, just shut the fuck up let him it's like oh it's like
a wasp you're like just let him go away right like it's like flying around you it's like if i
interfere it's gonna make things 10 times worse right and he busted out a big duffel bag like an
army duffel bag immediately and just cleared my dvds and my playstation 2 games and was like
going around the house he took my bubbler threw it 2 games and was like going around the house. He took my bubbler, threw it in
there. He was like, whatever looked expensive.
Well, jokes on him because those things were only
valuable for a couple more years. Suck
my dick. It's all downloadable now, you
idiot.
The guy was just like,
I don't give a fuck.
I was a
college white boy.
This was easy pickings for him yeah and i was i wasn't gonna
make it hard for him right right all i wanted to do was smoke a cigarette where was the other guy
so when we left which i detail it in the in the story where was mr long island yo so
i build it up in the bit but it's true i went to the bank to do laundry i turned ten dollars into
ten dollars and quarters because i was going to go to our old apartment bank to do laundry. I turned $10 into $10 and quarters
because I was going to go to our old apartment complex
to do laundry.
I just went to Wells Fargo,
and I gave them $10,
and they gave me $10 and quarters.
Oh, not even the machine.
You spoke to a person.
I had to go to get it because it was too much.
It was like $10,
and I had six loads of laundry in my car.
Right.
First of all, I just got to say,
I love this era in life.
It sucked.
This era in life is just like- A phone could have taken care of everything. Yeah, but just got to say, I love this era in life. It sucked. This era in life is just like-
A phone could have taken care of everything.
Yeah, but you're also like, you're in between childhood and adulthood.
You're not thinking about goals or what you're going to do.
You're just living with a drug dealer.
I just started doing standup.
Just started doing comedy.
You were banging some woman.
Five.
Yeah, you were banging that woman who used to put the songs in the car.
Oh, sweet Dawn from. Sweet Dawn from Tucson.
Dawn from Tucson.
And I wasn't banging her.
No.
She was an older lady.
Yeah.
And we would, you know.
There are no young Dawns.
Yeah.
Dawn, you're born at 35.
She, man, she was just a lady that liked rock and roll and would blow me for CDs.
And, whew.
Holy shit, dude. That was wild yeah yeah i i feel like if i would have messed around with her
too much i might have been killed by like a trucker right like i think that's kind of where
it would have happened she would blow you on the side of the road sometimes behind an auto zone yeah
you've come a long way that was trash so uh so i had the quarters and then amir called me and he's like yo come over
here there's like i do this i do this face yeah it's because that's what but that's what amir does
if anyone knows him i'm not gonna give his last name i'm not gonna blow up his shit but like when
he gets nervous he's like yo you mad at me like when he knows he does something wrong his eye
crinks yeah and so my
one of my best friends mark that's always our impression of him was like yo soda yeah you mad
at me i think when someone says are you mad at me they did something wrong because i was watching
this documentary about that guy who's the husband of the real housewives beverly hills oh the guy
that took all the settlement money and that's what he would call his clients he was stealing their money and he called him be like what's wrong are you mad at me
and it's like think about that yeah that's actually a really good point because when people
are like what's up baby yeah are you mad at me he just came back from it's like why are you guilty
of something why would i be mad at you just fucking a stripper yeah like what hey baby are
you mad at me that i'm stealing your life insurance money i'm pretty pissed yeah um
so he called you up but he's like hey come by there's some shady guys outside just drive around
and see if they're like out there that's what i did yeah and i pulled up and it was this tall
white dude with like covered in tattoos and this short cholo and i was like what's up guys and
they're like what's up is tommy green live around here that's what they said that's exactly the name yeah they go tommy green live
around here i go no i know tommy's living around here and they're like all right thanks man and
they walked away i went upstairs i was playing fight night round two on playstation 2 it's like
45 minutes later smoking weed amir's like yo i'm gonna do the deal he's like uh he's gonna meet me outside so yo you want
to walk me outside i was like what do you mean and he's like yo like walk me to the car and he
convinced me amir amir is very smart yeah so he's very good at talking people into shit yeah and i
want to please everybody right right so he's like why don't you put the gun in your waistband and
you can walk me to the car.
And that way, the way he explained it was like,
if they have a knife, you have a gun.
And I was like, yeah, that does add up.
It's smart.
It does make sense.
Sure thing, boss.
I was built to call him boss.
Yeah, boss.
Yeah, you were like, yeah, boss.
Yeah, boss.
Walk me to the car, boss.
Yeah, boss.
And then I die, because I'm a henchman.
I have henchman brain.
Yeah, now if they point their
gun at you yeah boy gee boss we're gonna make a lot of money off this score
so he fucking we step outside and we we lived on the second floor and we had these like metal stairs
and he had a bag with all the weed in it and he was first i was second thank fucking god because
i would have been dead right and he went first and the was second. Thank fucking God. Because I would have been dead. Right. And he went first.
And the white dude came around the corner, gun drawn, and like pushed Amir and grabbed
the bag and took off that.
But I just saw him come around and then followed was that five foot four fucking blood in,
blood out.
Yeah.
Who was just right on me.
Yeah.
He's gone right on me.
And you're like, don't move me.
The second I did that, my shirt went up and he saw the
gun i was like wow we have ourselves it doesn't look like what you think it looks like he was like
he just kept going put your hands down put your hands down and i was like oh okay oh oh
oh god it's just me and then yeah and then you know like if you want to hear like the full
details of the story but it went through and he ended up taking my car keys starting my car and then going downstairs and i
heard how did you down he took it out yeah yeah that's the punch line i don't want to ruin the
punch line but the punch line is he found the change right and he was like i've never seen a
criminal more disappointed he's like he's just wading through quarters because i had cargo shorts on
i'm a white dude in arizona yeah so i had cargo shorts on and he was like oh son of a bitch yeah
he's just fucking pulling through it now you got a real you got a real uh arizona tattoo
which one the the tribal one yeah i had it covered up you did what is it now oh it's a forest let me
see so yeah yeah there you go yeah my dead ants initials so you have you fixed you i fixed it you
went over it yeah my my buddy keith helped me fix it it used to just be a trial it was
it wasn't arizona i got that in aurora aurora shout out colorado i mean but i was it was true
aurora in fact i got it on Iliff and Chambers
at the Aurora tattoo shop.
It's almost like a state ID
from Colorado.
Yeah.
Your cop could be like,
can I see your license
or let me see your tribal tattoo.
And he goes,
oh, you're from Aurora.
Yeah, you're from Aurora, right?
And he goes, oh, cool.
All right.
Yeah, that's how I can
always get back in.
Colorado's getting popular,
but I can always get back in
when I show them the original.
I have the original on my phone.
I'll show you the original.
I got a horrible one, too.
You do?
Yeah, your little bear trap?
I should fix it, right?
Yeah, dude.
What should I turn that into?
I don't know, but it is...
Maybe I'll turn it into a forest.
Dude, I gotta find it.
Yeah, dude, forest is the only...
I like how you described that as a forest.
Whatever, dude.
Yeah, it's just more...
Do you ever see Joe DeRosa
just fix this with black?
Yeah.
He's just like,
yeah, that's the original one, brother.
There you go, brother.
My boy Dan's coming over.
He just comes over.
I see you there in like a.
Yeah.
It's like four.
Yeah.
I picture you just coming over my place like with Kevin Johnson, Phoenix Suns jersey.
Fuck that.
I would have came in a Mutombo.
I would have came in a mountain,
a tumbo Jersey.
And we're like,
what's going on?
My name's Dan.
What's up,
bro.
What's up,
bro.
What's up,
bro.
No,
I'm over.
Yeah.
I mean, I was like,
Aurora is a suburb.
So I grew up in the suburbs,
but there's parts of Aurora that are fucking rough.
But I think it gets a bad rap when you're like,
man,
it's like affordable suburbs.
Yeah. I had a single mom that lived there and i had a great outside of my family shit right it was awesome
right it was all a green belt right ride to the park you know what i mean right i knew people
that were like shady because you come in contact with shady people but where i grew up in my core
group of friends were all great people right i. My family was just fucking me constantly.
Right, right.
With Joe around getting hammered.
How long was Joe around for?
I want to say 12 to 16.
Wow.
The day he moved out, the day those flip-flops clapped down that garage hallway for the last time,
was the day my sister got killed.
Oh.
A little bittersweet of an ending.
Yeah.
Because he was moving.
And I just remember the last time I ever talked to Joe, he was holding a box.
And he was moving out.
And he looked at me and he went, sorry about Michelle.
And I was like, ah, shit.
Thanks, Joe.
I had to say thank you.
Is this your full sister?
Half sister.
Half sister.
My dad's daughter from his first marriage.
Right.
But you guys were close.
Yeah.
She came into my life when I was like eight or nine.
And we got real close.
Yeah.
We got real close.
And she died when I was 16.
Right.
So yeah, it was my mom. My mom was real big on that and we got real close. Yeah. We got real close and she died when I was 16. Right. So yeah,
it was my mom.
My mom was real big on that.
My mom was awesome.
Yeah.
My mom was a great mom
with a couple bad years.
Right.
You know,
like Peyton Manning
had a couple bad seasons.
Right.
So she was kind of like,
I would say she was kind of like,
I'm trying to think of the athlete
who had a couple bad years.
Yeah.
I mean like.
She was like Chauncey Billups.
I mean, just the king of Park Hill, baby.
I mean, that's a pretty perfect analogy.
She's Mr. Big Shot.
Yeah, I mean, you know, because he had like a couple bad years, and then he kind of.
Minnesota.
Blossomed, yeah.
Boston.
Then he became.
And then he goes to Detroit.
And it really turned around.
Comes to the Nuggets.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would say, yeah, my mom's the Chauncey Billups of moms.
She's a great mom with a couple bad years.
Got a couple court cases that we're worried about.
Yeah, yeah.
But beyond that.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, she, but that was like, you know, I've talked to her.
That's what's great about when you grow up.
Man, I've always thanked you for getting me into therapy.
Because you're the person.
I'm back in it.
Yeah.
Yeah, we see the same therapist again.
But you were the guy that got me to go see him.
Yes.
And that's what saved my mom and I's relationship.
Yeah.
Because I was able through him to be like, he's like, no, you hold her accountable yeah you want that you know yeah that's a tough thing
for a person to learn when you're like especially an only child yeah because it's like you don't
have anybody there to be like that's right that's wrong right right right right everything's a guess
right right so you're like is this bad right this? Right. And then throw in alcohol and shit gets fucking crazy.
Right.
No, alcohol does not lead to the best decision usually.
No, and also for a child.
I'd say almost always, no.
Always.
Always.
And when a kid is drinking or when a kid's around drinking, you don't know why the decisions
are being made.
Right.
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You don't know that. I'm fucking hammered. I'm enjoying fuck it, we'll eat dinner at 11 tonight. You don't know that.
I'm fucking hammered.
I'm enjoying this sunset.
Kid can eat fucking late.
That was like my dad.
My dad was just like, eh, fuck it, we'll eat at 11.
My mom was always like, dinner's at 6.
We're going to eat.
But you know, have some cocktails before then.
Might get a little loose-lipped at dinner.
Because even when a woman drinks, she still keeps that womanly the motherly internal instinct her mother
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Yeah, I, here's the thing.
It's like, I think because I wasn't,
I didn't have the encouragement of being like,
you're so great.
You gotta go.
Like my mom always believed in me.
But when I, I knew I had to get out of Colorado because I was like, I just, this is so nice.
I'm so comfortable here.
Colorado's beautiful.
Right.
People are nice.
The weather's great.
Right.
Everything's great.
Can't breathe as well.
You get used to that.
Yeah, you evolve.
Yeah.
When I moved to Arizona,
I didn't like anything about it except the people.
The immigration laws, which you were a fan of.
Loved it.
Loved not acknowledging Martin Luther King Jr. Dude dude that was the craziest why arizona's like yeah we just started doing mlk
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they give it to you for 50 years.
My Arizona's driver's license, when I moved out of here-
They don't check in again.
Expired in 2049.
Wow.
And I had to get a New York license
because when I moved here, they did the voting shit.
But they were like-
I had a bar, Smith's, which was on 8th Avenue
by the Laugh Factory that turned into times square
art center.
I would try to go to their drink and they sometimes wouldn't let me in the
bar.
Cause they're like,
this is a fake idea.
I'm like,
it's an Arizona driver's license.
Yeah.
There's no driver's license.
Hey pal,
there's no driver's license that expires in 2100.
And I'm like,
no,
you don't understand people in Arizona are comfortable with that.
But I moved there and didn't,
I made friends, but i wasn't
like arizona's uh beautiful people go there with money now you were going to the university of
arizona yeah yeah and that's all frats and like uh rich kids yeah it's it's huge it's a massive
school 45 000 undergrads when you go to one of those schools you're just like are you even in
school really yeah you i i took classes i kind of want to take I got in a college radio
And then I started what my big push was I got hired at KFMA which is 92.1 on the college radio
No, I wouldn't bothered them you did
Yeah, I was like can I please have a job because I ran out of money
I worked in Alaska and I made a bunch of money one summer. And I came back and fucking blew through it.
Just blew through it. In the white trash way possible.
I'd go to Costco and just buy booze and frozen sandwiches.
And then just fucking cigarettes.
And I would...
You worked on a...
Yeah, that's when you went...
I worked on the docks.
You went on the docks and you worked on a boot.
No, I wasn't on the boat.
I worked at the cannery.
I was a dock crew member. and what would you guys do there my job was to fill the hopper
with fish and to unload the boats yeah but like the guys i worked with were like real men yeah
so i was like that's what did they call you the kid no i was funny yeah so they liked me yeah
that's when i was like i'm gonna do stand-up right because i was up there
and i was like if i'm making these guys and what made you decide to go to alaska my aunt was living
up my dad's sister was living up there and she had cancer and she was like you should come up here
right what are you gonna do anyways and i was like probably working at applebee's and aurora
and spent all my money on weed so it was like like, it was the best decision. I moved up to Kenai
to live with her
and I worked at a,
you know,
at a cannery up there.
Yeah, yeah.
And it was like,
I met awesome dudes.
Isn't it really funny
that part in life
where you don't have direction yet?
It's a really funny time in life.
Like, I don't know,
I'm gonna work in Appalachia
or I'll go to Alaska.
Yeah.
It really became,
I think,
like a two conversation thing.
It's a really great,
it's a great great it's a
great time though because you explored things and i didn't have anybody i didn't have i was 19 yeah
i had no money and i was like fuck it what's up what's alaska like yeah and then i moved up there
and it was like my aunt karen was so funny yeah so there's even another parallel universe where
you meet a girl in alaska yeah there was this filipino girl that
worked your own boat there was this filipino girl that worked at the cannery that i had a huge crush
on and she liked me but she broke her wrist got hurt and they like when they treat you like
fucking horses out there like if you get hurt they put you down like you can't work a 16 hour shift
yeah yeah and so my lap i had to leave early because i got a consumption
ticket i got a drinking ticket in colorado so i had to like kind of come back early to settle
that before i went back to school what does that mean you got i got caught drinking at a house
party in boulder i went to go visit friends at colorado underage or yeah or this was this was uh
in aurora i got caught i just got caught drinking right and they were like we got to go to court
for that it's a ticket or you got to take a class right and so i had to go back to do that
before i could go back to college right and so i left early so she was gone when i was like leaving
and then she came back when i was gone but there really wasn't facebook or myspace or anything so
it was like we just missed two boats missed each other But like I liked her and she liked me. And there's a chance I was horny.
Right.
So I could, might've had a kid in Alaska.
What happened to her wrists?
Yo man, the backbreaking work they make those processors do.
She was a processor.
I was doc crew.
So it was like the cast system.
Like the fact that I was like, Oh, look at that beautiful processor.
Cause they just chop.
They all do one thing.
They like chop, but they're using a knife
for fucking 16 hours a day.
Right, so that's what it was, yeah.
And so I think she got like something fucked up.
Did she ever give you, you never hooked up with her then?
No, no, no, no.
She didn't give you a handy.
It would have been a strong handy.
She could have tossed me out to sea.
You'd have been like, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
Let me go, let me go, let me go.
No, no, no no i want to keep going
my ass was getting sucked through my p-hole you gotta fucking stop
i don't know what i don't know any tagalog or i tell you to stop
during the summers when it was like 24 hours yeah i was up there may i moved up there like
second week of may and i came back in august that must have been trippy to be up there May. I moved up there like second week of May and I came back in August.
That must have been trippy to be up there
when it was all sun.
You had to put thick blankets on your windows.
Is that how you just fall asleep?
Or you work fucking 14 hours.
Yeah.
And then you fall asleep pretty goddamn easy.
Yeah.
So you were up there just cracking jokes.
I was making them laugh.
We'd get high at lunch
and I would do impressions
that now would get me canceled.
But I was doing like,
making fun of people.
I was doing Alan. What are you going to there's a guy there was a guy i worked with named um
uh aladdin and he had four teeth on his bottom gums those were the only teeth in his head
and he ran ran the processors dude was like a fucking tyrant but everything when i was cut so
they brought us in to like basically audition us
to see if we were good enough to work on the doc crew and we had to pitch halibut yeah there it is
and you're like god i can smell that fuck i can smell that when you're telling me when you were
telling me what you did i could smell it too yeah it's one of those jobs you can smell yeah and um
aladdin would always walk by and just with his four bottom teeth out he it too yeah it's one of those jobs you can smell yeah and um aladdin
would always walk by and just with his four bottom teeth out he'd be like it's not good it's not good
when i'd cut it he'd go it's not good one time i was driving a forklift and i couldn't line it up
and he goes you have girlfriend i don't know why he goes i know you have bad aim and like killing
yeah killing yeah all the processors are laughing and i'm like shut up aladine it was just the best job of being like you ain't shit everyone here works it was the first time i
ever worked a job where someone gave up hours someone would vulture on them every other jobs
right people were looking to get out of shifts right i don't want to work today i'm tired that
was like i'll take your hours right put your hours on my check right those motherfuckers
are there to work right you'll never meet harder workers than the people that work there right they
work the hardest out of anybody i've ever seen in my life right right which coming into comedy
bunch of fucking babies right five shows in a weekend
i always catch myself i gotta do two tonight oh two me, I gotta do two tonight? Oh, two on a Saturday.
I better get a Gatorade.
Meanwhile, these people fucking can't feel their feet
and they're just like, cool,
dump another fucking thousand pounds
of chum salmon into the hopper.
So if you don't have a father figure in your life,
you go to Alaska and become a man.
I didn't have an uncle. I didn't have nobody. So you went to Alaska and become a man i didn't have an uncle i didn't have
nobody so you went to alaska became a man that's where you became a man yeah i learned on the job
yeah you learned a job out there because i am i think i got a lot when you're raised by a single
mom you get a lot of when you're an only child you get a lot of uh bitchy qualities yeah not in
a way of like you just do you see that women deal with problems in different ways right you know that's why i like thank god i'm not a serial killer right right yeah god i don't
fucking well they all serial killers usually live with their moms and there's usually no
well aware dude yeah when you come close to becoming something you go yeah but you didn't
you didn't have that in you i don't i can't i'm too i'm too nice did you write your mom because
it was just you and your mom did you write your mom like dearest what was your mom my mom's
trish there's trish no no i'm up here in alaska yo there was this the fishing is fine there was
this girl i was in love with in aurora that strung me along for like four or five years
i was in love with i was just oh my i'd listen to dave matthews band and be like
and then she was just like just like toying with me yeah and roaming remember roaming minutes on
cell phones yes y'all call her from alaska because i had a cell phone right and my mom still
paid it because i was 19 was she like a well-off girl no okay because maybe like she was from a
worst neighborhood than i was okay i thought this might have been your notebook no you saw that
later when you live in new york yeah yeah yeah oh i remember you know everyone has a notebook yeah
i had a notebook too yeah but um i told you about my mind i tell i kind of talked to you about my
notebook you helped me through it yeah we're standing in the doorway of the stand,
the old stand.
But,
um,
I called her and I'd be like,
by the way,
I didn't know at the time.
She's just hooking up with my friend,
Joey,
but I'm calling her.
There's a lot of Joe's who are getting there.
I don't trust the Joseph.
Yeah.
Joe's are getting their dicks at your business.
The Rosa.
Stay away from my lady.
Um,
but they told you that one
but there was um i remember calling her one they made us do like busy work until the fish season
started and i had to paint all of the dorms where all the processors were living and like
paint the buoys and like we had to paint everything I remember calling her and being like hey
You know we just have like doormat energy. Oh, that's cool. That's cool. Oh, you're gonna work at Bennigan's
There's a guy in your apartment fucking that's cool. Like you gotta you gotta thank you tell joyous
Oh, yeah, it's cool. You know, I don't wanna kick his ass video games
Oh, I didn't know until I got back and they're like, yeah, you know Joey was like hanging out through the whole summer
I'm like fucking sick
So I called her on roaming minutes and i would go to my aunt's house when i would get a day off when i get a day off i would i call my aunt and i'd be like hey if she wasn't working at the
hospital she worked at the hospital and was also sick and getting treated at the hospital so she
i would call her and i'd be like hey come pick me up i got a day and then we go to the liquor store and we go to like the grocery store my aunt could cook so we
would have like steaks and fucking sit around and get fucked up on her deck and it was light the
whole night we'd watch stand-up she was the first person that i was like in my family that i was
like do you think i could do stand-up we were watching daniel tosh on comedy central i was like
do you think i could do stand-up and she was like yeah you could do stand-up like
didn't even blink she's like yeah you're funny enough and i was like that was the first time i
was like whoa shit and then making those guys laugh in alaska i was like maybe i can but yo i
we went to the grocery store and we came home and it was answering machines and my aunt hit play
she's like i've been saving this for you she's like check this voicemail out
voice message and it was like left at tuesday 5 37 p.m it was like was it joe dan you're still
a retard hey what's up tardo hope you don't fall in the water i'm back in your mom she was lonely while you were gone. Oh, now we're doing anal. I wish we were here. I'm doing it on your dad's ashes.
I got a voice message.
The voice message is my mom, and she's like, hi, Karen.
It's Trish.
Can you tell my son that I got his cell phone bill, and it is not big.
It is huge.
And she fucking goes off.
And she's like, tell him if he wants to call people
and it was like it was all her calls to her it was calls to the the you know and calls my mom
but i called my mom from my aunt's house yeah so long distance yeah yeah yeah long distance was
what year was this long distance you could get you could get hammered yeah i think that was still
long distance you can still get such hammer but it's roaming right on a cell phone yeah what was it you have a big nokia
i had a i had the little one like the little one with the green light under it yeah yeah i remember
that one yeah you didn't text wasn't a thing yeah those were like almost too small you hold it here
it wouldn't even be close to you i said i'm sorry i said i'm sorry so I said I'm sorry. So yeah, we, there you, right there.
Yeah, I had that one too.
That was it.
That was exactly it.
Yeah.
That was exactly the cell phone.
God, that phone smelled like fish.
Yo.
Your phone smelled, you just smelled like fish for the whole fucking summer.
Dude, me and my friend.
When you walk through Chinatown in summer, you're just probably like, no big deal.
I'm like, what's up, boys?
What do you guys got in?
A fresh batch?
I, we went to McDonald's, which was like a treat because mcdonald's in alaska
is expensive because they gotta fucking ship it up there so like a fucking big mac meal is like
8.99 and o2 prices wow so we went up there we went to mcdonald's for lunch because we were like
fuck it let's go to mcdonald's and we were this little boy was in line in front of us in front
of his mom and he's like you know little kids they don't know how to talk quietly yeah and he like leans into his mom he's like those men smell bad and
we're like all right kid who's covered it we are our slicks and you're like shut up i actually know
i think we're just in our jeans and our sweatshirts we're like shut up i feel like kids are often the
ones that give away that their parents are racist yeah they'll be like in the super look mommy there's a shut up shut up kids and dogs yeah i don't yell at the tv yeah we're cool i don't have
a problem i'm fine i don't know what it is my dog always i don't know what his energy is like i think
i know why that might be oh maybe you should stop yelling out your political opinions in front of your terrier yeah it was but that
experience man like it just made me realize you're never working harder than someone out there
there's people that are working way harder than you and doing zero complaining right
zero complaining we're in the complaint generation right now. Right. It was good.
Yeah.
But.
Yeah.
Everyone.
Every vacation I've ever heard of my friends.
It was good.
But.
Yeah.
But you know what?
It's.
You can't.
You can't blame them too much because they weren't exposed.
Nobody's exposed to that.
Yeah.
That's what the thing is.
It's like.
Yeah.
The amenities of modernity.
Ding.
Yeah.
Every time I say that we dingink um we just live in that so
nobody's exposed to hard work you can't even if you wanted to get a hard work job i don't know
if you could get one in new york city like a construction job like you that's about it like uh
but most people go down to the fish market go down to the docks and see if they need help on loading
shit yeah but it's few it whereas
it used now it's union and so it's like you can't even get in you can't get in why do you want a
job and that used to be all jobs like your dad worked at a factory you know like my grandparents
the wealth disparity they used to pay a livable wage that's why the middle middle class existed
right you could go work you could go work at a factory and your kid could go to suny binghamton
and you'd be like because it's in, I pay a little bit of money.
They got to work a summer job to cover it.
But they went to SUNY Binghamton and now they're an English teacher at PS161.
And everyone was happy.
But now everyone has this, I think what it is, is everyone feels that they're owed celebrity.
That's how social media is marketed right you're owed fans
right no you're not right i know so many comedians that don't deserve the fans they have right it's
like you're not funny you don't make me laugh right right you can't say that no because if you
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a lot of y'all are wasting money there's like 10 people you should give money to to be funny
yeah that's it yeah well i love chapelle that's the downside to democracy it's like it's the
democratization of it's what it is celebrity So it's like, it's all available.
Patton Oswalt said something like,
in 2000.
It inevitably becomes less efficient.
If there's one thing you can give to dictatorships,
they run a tight ship.
A lot of people die,
but they run a tight ship.
A lot of people die,
but they run a tight ship.
They're like,
here's your comedian,
here's your food.
Yeah.
And there is,
it is awesome to have an option.
And it is awesome to have like, a choice of like, I'm gonna support this guy. And there is a it is awesome to have an option and it is awesome to have like a choice of like
i'm going to support this guy and there is a cool listen it's it's all like we were talking about
before the show it's all balanced like if there's a lot of shit there's also a lot of good yeah it's
it's more like diy you can pick which guy you like and then when they win you feel like you won and
that's fucking really cool because that's how i felt about bill burr yeah we all knew about bill burr 2005 2006 2007 and then he starts getting big in
08 09 and 2010 you're like that's our guy that's our band right me you and nate used to go watch
him right and be like this is the guy and then people other people who don't know comedy go
this is the guy and you're like i know that's our guy right we've been pushing it you know like
we've been not pushing them,
but like we knew about it.
He was our favorite.
Yeah.
He was,
we knew he was.
And that's what's fun with bands.
Yeah.
It's like,
you're like,
oh,
I like this band.
But however,
now you're just seeing like a lot of boy bands,
a lot of bands that are,
that are built with other things besides music.
Right.
It's a look.
It's a fucking,
if I see one more fucking comedy hype video, stop it. Well, it's a look it's a fucking if i see one more fucking comedy hype video stop it well
it's a comedy hype video just a slow pan up at a drake song and someone shuts the door and it's
a line at a fucking funny bone and they're like all i do is win i'm a baller you're silly you
fucking idiots you're silly be silly that's what comedy is it's being silly all i do is
winning get pussy make money and then you on stage being like hey my dog shit in the carpet
fuck all of it i know what you're talking about cool comedy i know what you're talking about
fuck cool comedy and i'm friends with people that do cool comedy and I love them. But fuck it in general. All I do is win.
All I do is win.
A joke always hits.
No.
Nate Bargetzi.
I'm the greatest of all time.
I call this the Nate Bargetzi golden rule of comedy.
For a joke to be funny.
You gotta show yourself.
You cannot win in the joke.
Yeah, that's his.
So how are you making hype videos where all you're doing is winning?
Right, right.
You want to know my,
I sit uncomfortably in a free t-shirt
because my 38-year-old tits.
Uncle Paulie.
Uncle Paulie.
The line starts to the right.
But it's like my body shit
because I was eating peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches for a year.
Yeah.
I'm sweating uncontrollably.
I'm talking about my dad's best friend
who was just boning my mom
making my teenage years rough but it's like i i get frustrated because i want comedy to be that
but not everyone does and i need to shut the fuck up about that right that's where i learned i need
to shut you just got to make you what you want to make exactly because what i make isn't what
someone else is going to make and honestly i'm jealous of those people that can do cool comedy
right i would love to feel cool right i would love to feel right we're all different it's a different yeah i i i
would yeah it's just like i think we're in the era where you have to find the people who are into
what you do by putting it out there exactly for them to find it and also you can learn a lot
because whoever's in a cool comedy is not going to be in to you not to me yeah yeah they're gonna
call they're gonna be like this fucking pussy yeah yeah yeah i am a pussy yeah yeah what's up and then people that are like i
feel like a pussy i can fucking listen to this guy it's almost it's almost as if we are all bands now
yes like because like there's no labels there's no fans there's no late i mean there's no i'm
sorry there's no celebrity that everyone knows about yeah there's everyone has like their market
their niche following people are gonna pop up and come back down and pop back up and by the way i love when i see people that i that i've seen work so hard arrive there tim
dylan andrew schultz mark norman you see people that you're like fuck yes go support those guys
because i've known them i've watched them put in the work yeah they definitely put in the work they
put in the work and you're like you know you got to respect the fact that and then when other people give in you're like fuck yes so there are wins but then
there's losses where you're like this fucking guy yeah this fucking guy well the good thing about
the internet too is like it used to be like only 10 guys had the chance to have a career and
everyone else was just wallowing around and like it's like the good thing about it is you don't
have to if you don't do that type of humor where it's for everybody,
you can have a career.
Yeah.
Like on my last episode, I made a joke about how Bill Cosby,
maybe the women he raped was reparations.
Most of them were, you know, I can't make that joke
and then knock on CBS's door.
Hey, guys.
Can I get a sitcom?
But you know what's crazy? I was saying through a critical race theorist's perspective i wasn't saying it was
it's also funny because it's like joke yeah it's a funny joke yeah where you're like you're joking
you're not saying that yeah in a dissertation you're not writing that out and being like i
actually truly believe that maybe the united states served its reparations through handing
sleepy white women the bill cosby you don't't you don't fucking say that but it's like what where I don't like where I think it's really
but the internet I'm saying is you can say that put it out there and people who like it can find
you that's my problem still is like when the main like when big companies you do a great thing but
they don't do their research Shane Gillis on snl is the best example you on snl
well no that was i was i didn't have a good audition and pete was a better story that's
a different thing shane got the job was it just between you two no it was like me pete andrew
santino uh frank garcia helge there was like a couple people but your talent i wasn't ever
supposed to sketch comedy i wasn't ever supposed to be there right i needed to work out for a reason and whatever but i was never supposed to do it the bonfire yeah fucking
stand-up billions i'm fine yeah i'm fine no gripes yeah shane got hired and they didn't do their
research and then someone was like hey he said one questionable thing how they've done their
research they'd be like well he says some wild shit but he's funny right he's undeniably funny right and then they're like well i gotta all corporations do that yeah they
want the cool thing that all the kids like and then they buy it and they're like well you know
there's another side to it yeah well you know what there's always another side to it now it's
recorded yeah i know i mean you tell me john belushi didn't sit around high on pcp and say
a few questionable things yo i have
the reason he just went there and be like guys we got to really close the wage gap while he was high
on pcp i have i have the you're wearing a bill murray shirt yeah i have the bill murray theory
that one inch off bill murray bill murray's the biggest asshole in the world one inch off how's
that he misses the mark by an inch he's a twat yeah
showing up at people's weddings and bartending right like fuck you old guy that was on snl
he paid a thousand dollars for that bartender he has a 1-800 number where they said he doesn't
call his agent back there's just a lot of agent i don't think yeah but then like he's bill murray
yeah he does it right he just does it right and he's awesome right he's like you'll want to bump into him right but i'm telling you everybody's got their like one inch everybody's good and
everybody's bad right it's just what they choose to go of course unless you're jesus
but which there's only one that's the true purpose of this podcast we want you guys to find
jesus we're gonna do a little cool down here. We want you to read some of our favorite excerpts from the King James Bible.
Start with the letter to Corinthians.
Was there any religion in your life?
My mom was Irish Catholic and was discommunicated.
So why do you have no brothers and sisters?
She was discommunicated from the church.
Oh, that's why, yeah.
When she got married young.
Those Irish pussies, boy, they're like car factories.
That's like a Japanese Lexus. There be i'd be there'd be daniel steve and michael
they're all biblical jonathan good little hunting yeah peter cool another jonathan
little daniel three sisters named megan megan catherine megan megan one two and three amanda
two shawls yeah four like me and my 13 brothers and sisters
um yeah my mom got my mom got married early and then divorced and then discommunicated from the
church because she got divorced oh wow well she got married when she was in college and it didn't
work out she was just honest with herself right right right she's like this ain't gonna work
right god they hope they forgive but unless you get divorced huh oh yeah yeah so she became a free agent which saved you from possible
molestation yeah because my dad was episcopalian so we would go to episcopalian i was confirmed
as episcopalian and this wiener wasn't until i was 17 that would have thrown you off i think
i would you had a lot happening and you, and you still did great.
If I would have sucked a dick or had my dick sucked by an adult,
there would be a needle in my arm, and I'd be under a bridge right now.
100%.
I'm on the line, baby.
That would have pushed it over.
That would have just been the wind gust you didn't need.
That would have been the blow over the wrong line.
The coup d'etat.
Yeah.
If I would have just gotten sucked off by a guy with hairy hands grabbing my thighs.
I'd just be fucking,
I'd be nodding right now.
Dan.
My mom would be sick of me.
My mom would be like,
where's Dan?
I'll come and get him.
Hey mama.
Hey mama.
Now what's it like?
Billions is a big hit dude yeah people love
billions yeah but you know what i love about dan dan is such a real guy with integrity kind of guy
you want to be around it's so funny when people like i've heard people scream out at shows and
you're just like yeah it's a character on a show what's up you get like upset oh did i get mad
i know i'm on that show it's a character yeah what well i think what
it is is you understand this when you spend your whole life trying to get over as a comedian yeah
when something else hits it's also an annoying thing that someone screams out like something
yeah you're like what's up i know you're excited and shit but like also i'm doing comedy can you
at least at the end of the show say i love you on
billions maybe not in the middle of the show when i'm about to do maybe that's not the right fucking
time to scream that out the only time i got a guy kicked out for it was this drunk guy he's kept
yelling the fee my character's name and i was like all right guy whatever you want yeah shut the fuck
and finally i was like shut the fuck up what what do you want me to do you want me to do some
billions here's my acting on billions.
You happy?
And the guy was like, fuck you.
And I was like, oh, fuck you.
And I was like, mad.
And then they kicked him out.
And I was like, god damn it.
And then I was like, I'm never going to let that get to me again.
But I probably will.
I'm a fucking psycho.
Somewhere in the world, there's a dude.
There's a dude you could meet up with and you and him could have like a very serrano de bergiac yeah type of business where of intimidation yeah he's like a big dude
but his voice is like hey how you doing guys and then you're behind the curtain
yeah hey motherfucker yeah and then he just stands there in the shadow. Yeah. And like your combo of your voice and his fucking girth.
You guys could shake down a lot of fucking drug dealers.
I've realized that when I've had.
You can't show up like that with that voice.
No.
And they're going like, he's tall, but he's, I can take him.
They're like, oh my God, that's all soft and chewy in the middle.
I'll walk through him.
Dude, you got a voice on you.
There's been times where i've called a restaurant
right like with a problem i ordered food and there's like a problem i call like hey what's
going on with this like this order's fucking terrible and it didn't come out right you guys
like i'm doing the giants on the phone i get her i worry i already you're gonna bring it to me me. Bring me the sandwich. I want the whole sandwich.
I want my sun chips. I want the
sun chips. I want
them. Bring me
my sun chips.
And then they show up and I'm like,
hey! And they're just like, I've seen
guys be like, this is that fucking
guy. This is him.
Big headed losers.
You waited for a while at that Mexican restaurant.
Yeah.
Dos Caminos on 50th and 3rd.
Yeah.
I used to make a joke.
I had a joke.
Yo, you and Nate coming over and watching me take tables on the cafe is stuck in my brain.
It's stuck in my brain because you and Nate are just sitting outside like this.
He's stuck in my brain.
He's stuck in my brain.
Because you and Nate are just sitting outside like this.
And I'm like, well, the coach you need to bill is banana leaves with pork cooked in pork leaves.
And it comes with a nice side. Well, Nate had it easy.
He was a waiter in Tennessee.
And then he just lived off his wife until he got famous.
But yeah.
Well, Nate did a thing where he was like, I'm going to test the bounds of my relationship.
And he's like, it's happening, baby. But you know what? He's like, I'm going to test the bounds of my relationship. And he's like, it's happening, baby.
But you know what?
He's like, you're going to pay for everything, and I'm going to come home with a drunk midget
at four in the morning.
Cool deal.
But fuck being happy for Nate.
I'm happy for Laura.
Yeah, she's.
When I go to Tennessee, I look to her, and I'm like, you did it.
Yeah, yeah.
You put up with Nate.
And she's the one that seems happy, because Nate's running around going these god damn liberals
he's pulling out machine guns
I'll shoot anybody
that comes on my property
I play golf
so I don't lose my mind
meanwhile
meanwhile Laura's like
uh Siri
can you bring on
relaxing music
when's my nanny
showing up
yeah
dude it's
that's what's awesome
it's like what
it paid off
it paid off
it paid off for her
yeah
if you're gonna stick by him yeah if you're gonna stand by your man you're gonna get up you might get a big house
yes yeah she did it and it paid off but that's like uh when you guys come about to watch me
wait tables was always the funniest because i was like damn you're about to watch me melt down
because i snapped almost every table really yeah you couldn't handle the the jokes about the the
like the the financial
guys they're always the worst which is crazy that i'm on billions yeah because those were the guys
that the guy i'm playing yeah was the guy that i hated the most right it's like what's up man
can i get a patron margarita and you're like yeah yeah where's that patron margarita boss
hey i said no salt meanwhile i'm just fantasizing about fucking
shoving his face in the guacamole dude the worst feeling did you ever get called garçon or something
they ever make jokes or boy snaps boy all the euros yeah because remember market crash in 08
our dollar went to shit right so the spaniards the french the fucking everyone swedes yeah everyone
came over and was staying at the waldorf and then they'd come over to Dos Caminos
because they wanted
the bistec.
Yeah.
A bistec.
Yeah.
We don't have bistec.
We have a steak burrito.
Right.
A bistec.
I became xenophobic
like a motherfucker.
But the saddest I ever was,
it's closed down.
RIP Dos Third, dude.
It's closed down?
It's gone, dude.
What?
They still got Dos Caminos
but they don't have Third App.
That was the cafe, baby. Dos Caminos. That's table 101. That's Soho, right? That's where that old man is sitting. Oh, no. It's closed down? It's gone, dude. What? They still got Dos Caminos, but they don't have Third App.
That was the cafe, baby.
That's table 101.
See where that old man is sitting?
Oh, no, that's yours.
That was ours.
See where that old man,
you guys were standing right outside that gate right there.
Where that old man's sitting
is table 101.
Yeah.
You know, it's on cafe.
Then you got 120, 140.
Then it goes up from there.
I could work a whole shift right now
if you need me to.
So,
that looks pretty full.
It's probably a lunch rush.
I was never there at dinner.
But the only time I ever, oh, god damn, dude, you just gave me PTSD.
Seeing that picture, that's Baja Bar.
Baja Bar, yeah, that's fucking front bar, dude.
So I would work cocktail section.
Go back, not that.
That's not us.
Go back to that other picture.
See down that hallway right there to the right right there that's the cocktail section it's lower cielo and upper cielo where
that staircase is which i don't know why they have a great you're describing it like a theater of war
you're like that's you see that that's hill in north korea right there that's the denang you go
to the shores of that lot of blood so under those stairs our platoon was right to the left right there we were bunkered out i'm in with the 256 we get dropped so i was uh i was upstairs we did like you do uh christmas
parties that's the only time i worked at night yeah so i'd take sets off and i would like to
make like 300 bucks at night and i was working upper cielo was that upstairs area yeah it was
hand-passed desserts no one ate any and i hadn't ate so i hadn't eaten yet so i like went downstairs and
i was under those stairs and i was eating desserts and this lady's like sir where's the bathroom and
i was like you had your apron on i would eat under those stairs when people wouldn't finish
oh my god like a pauper yeah yeah like ol Please, sir. Please. The only time I almost cried waiting tables was,
dude, I knew that guy.
That's crazy.
I knew who drew that chalk drawing.
I knew that bar back.
I think it was actually my man.
Shout out to all the bar backs.
I was auditioning for Montreal.
Yeah.
And it was 2010.
Yeah.
And they called me. I remember that year. That was the year your career really called me I remember that year that was the year
you your career really started like kicked in that was the next Jesse you were there too that was the
next year that was 2011 that's 2011 2010 right I auditioned and I got a callback and I did the
callback show at Broadway Comedy Club and I was like I think I got it right and then they called
me and I was waiting tables there and I couldn't pick pick up. So I went and I did a spot at Stand Up New York.
And my buddy.
God, this is like a movie.
My buddy went.
I didn't get the call or I could just see you running, like, you know, running to the call.
I got it.
Yeah.
But I didn't.
So I called back and I left a message.
I go out drinking that night with my friend Zach.
And we get blackout drunk at Stand Up New York.
A regular Tuesday for you back then.
Easy.
Yeah.
Easy.
It was a Wednesday.
Wednesday.
And we went to the dublin house on 79th got so blackout drunk that we bumped into mark cuban it's a fucking weird night we're outside smoking and i was like you know how you do that thing
when someone looks like somebody yeah i go this mark cuban looking motherfucker and he looked over
and i was like you're mark cuban and he's like i he's like he tried saying he was his older brother and we're
like why are you mark cuban he's like i am mark cuban he left and we're like oh my god so the
next day i was brutally hungover i work a lunch one of the worst hangovers i ever had the only
other terrible hangover i remember is because we were hanging out which one was that it was when
we saw prince going to that jazz club i remember that and we stayed and drank till five in the morning yes and i was sweating whiskey out the next dude we
just saw prince he just walked in front of us on west third yeah got out of a limo he walked in
front and under us yeah i mean he's a tiny kid tiny tiny guy he's an all white yes like an angel
yeah like you would picture you wouldn't picture him in a pair of levi's no yeah he didn't have
some dockers on
He walked in and he was an all-white and he walked into that jazz club on Western McDougal
And we went to the bar because we were leaving and he never played remember
I went outside to smoke cigarette and asked the bouncer. I was like, it's Prince gonna plays like nice
It's here to watch his drummer. He already left. Yeah. Yeah, we went in and me you and Zach were hammered
Yes, and so that was the worst hangover i had ever waiting
tables second was when i went out to stand up new york the next day i'm on a double and i'm like
wait is this a continuation of of the montreal story i'm hungover i work lunch in between lunch
and dinner i'm sleeping in one of the back booths i have my fucking flip phone on my chest and it's like and i i pick it up and it's
jeff singer and robbie prah rest in peace to jeff r.i.p gone but not forgotten the hat's still
around uh and they call me and i'm like dude i was sitting at table 403 and i was like i sat up
and i was like hey guys you know you do like the i'm not sleeping
voice yeah hey guys what's up and they're like hey we just wanted to call you and let you know
you were one of the last two names we crossed off the list to not go to montreal this year and i was
like okay and they're like but we're just really happy with the progress you're making we like
this joke we like this joke and i hang up and i was like i have another year
of waiting tables right right another year guaranteed because you almost went postal
next day no dude when someone asked for guacamole you don't even understand that was right i'm
telling you it was right before a dinner shift this happens so i start the dinner shift and the
first table i get are four finance bros and they're talking and i
walk up to the table and i do the first approach and i'm like hey guys how you guys doing tonight
can i start you off with some guacamole and they don't look at me and i go
can i start you guys off with some guacamole and they're like dude she's such a slut
you fucked her and i'm having this conversation and i'm like and i just felt my
throat close and i go it's cool i'm a human and then one of them goes oh what's up bro four coronas
and then just back to the conversation and i was like i want to kill him and i want to cry and i
just remember walking away being like hey can you take 363 i gotta go smoke a cigarette and
this went outside and i was like, ah!
It fucking sucked.
Yeah.
That was.
You know what they did to me?
I was with you.
You remember that?
So,
same year. Because I remember
your first audition,
Jeff Singer walked up to you
and was like,
where have you been?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You got passed
to the finals first.
First.
But then,
so I auditioned 2010 like you.
I didn't get it.
Okay.
But then, and that was that
year but i got the similar speech i remember that because we were both hyped i'm like what if we go
together but then we went together in 2011 yeah 2011 so when you got real new faces laker and i
got what he called no face yeah but it ended up being yours ended up being the better one because
they created yours because it was unwrapped yes Yes. So it's like nobody came to ours
because we were already wrapped.
Yeah.
The only people that came to yours
were who,
the people who were there
as managers and agents.
Right, yeah.
We were just performing
for our fucking agents and managers.
Ours was like a fucking strip club
filled with sailors.
They're like,
woo!
And you're like.
Ours sucked.
Yeah, it was crazy.
I got very lucky that year.
It was the first year
that they created that unwrapped show,
which was a better show. And that's what New F faces used to be yeah people would come and try to rep
you yeah but since we were all repped they started that thing so but the way they told us told me i
was with jesse in our old office our old studio um i try to buy that sometimes huh and go on us
you remember we shot the maurice video yeah where i was the hipster photographer yeah yeah yeah my
body's as bad now as it was then and i knew i had to pull it together yeah you've had dad bod since you were 26 i've
been bleeding in there i had some i had rough patches i get real father of three four so
you yeah you have yeah you have you don't have dad bod you have dan bod yeah dude i'm dan and
i'm danning out and then i gotta tighten it. It takes me years to tighten it back up too.
So it was funny.
Like I was always like a rebel in comedy.
And like,
so I'd never liked,
I was always like a standoffish with the industry.
You know,
that type of stuff.
Oh my God.
Drunk.
You honest rant.
Yeah.
Fuck them all.
By the way,
that was like my cool comedy rant.
You're like that fucking fuck them all.
So they call me right.
It was Robbie and Jeff.
And I was with jesse we were
sitting at our desks and uh i put them on speaker and they're like hey we just want you to know
um you know you didn't make it you know but we think you're fun and i put them on mute
remember and i was standing just i was like fucked it fuck you i was going fuck you you piece of shit
fuck you you dumb hat and then they go we're just kidding and i go
i was like oh thanks but then when i hung up i was like why the fuck would you do that what
did that mean they did it for like three minutes like that was in 2011. that was 2011. so they did
they did like three minutes thing about how i didn't get it but how they you know if i keep
working at it and stuff like that that's the exact speech i got 2010. yeah i'm just fucking yelling
at them on the phone and then they go we're just kidding we love you you're in and then they were quiet
and i just had to pretend like i thought it was funny
it's like a girl being like don't use economy she's like i have herpes and you're like what
i'm still soft yeah and so then i hung up and i still sounds like fuck those guys yeah
they when they told me i was going to Montreal, they did a similar thing.
And they were like, you didn't get new faces.
And I was like, outside smoking on 3rd Avenue.
I was like, at Dos Caminos.
And I was like, oh, all right, man.
And they go, but we still want you to come to Montreal.
We're doing this brand new thing called Unwrapped.
And I was like, oh, cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want a new face.
Yeah, but you know, it ended up.
And then me, you.
Who was it?
You did that show.
That show ended up being great.
You were the standout on that.
And that was like the beginning.
But I wasn't even the beginning.
I mean, dude, you know who was on that show?
Who's like one of the most famous people out there right now?
Who was on there?
Lil Rel.
Oh, that's right.
That's when I met Lil Rel. That's when we did did on rep together he's he's always made me laugh yeah
he's funny it's been fucking awesome watching him become a legit superstar yeah yeah he is like
yeah yeah yeah unrepped yeah that's right he was i remember we went to breakfast with him
yeah yeah do little real rules yeah mine was stacked too oh my god God. You had Gerard Carmichael. Ali. You. Ali.
Wait.
Johnny Pepperton.
Johnny Pepperton was on it.
Mike Racine.
Ron Funches.
Ron Funches.
Mike Racine.
I think Dan Centermaine.
Oh, no, no, no.
I don't remember.
Oh, our buddy from Minnesota.
Sy Amuse.
I always fuck up his last name.
Sy.
You know Sy.
He was the Viking Brothers.
They were like the hot guys that were long
was he at mine
yeah
yeah
yeah Montreal 2011
yeah
that was unrep
dog
yeah look at that
look up
Jim Tooze
was on our
look up New Faces 2011
I can't remember
yeah look up New Faces
you guys had a fucking class
yeah me and Jesse
went up there
we went up there in 08
with Nate
we were just
wearing ditch hats and nate goes what what do y'all did y'all win the hats festival y'all on the hat
show 2011 there yeah that article click on the comics comic because he gives the full list yeah
dude it's like a little uh there it is, that's the characters.
Siamuse.
Kevin Barnett.
Gerard Carmichael.
Oh, dude.
Remember when we hung out in Rebecca's?
Nick Turner.
Nick Turner.
Streeter Seidel.
Beth Stelling.
That's when I met Beth Stelling.
Dan St. Germain was there.
Oh, Psy.
Psy was on there.
Nick Turner.
Ali Wong.
Ali Wong was on there, yeah.
God damn.
Remember when she used to murder at Bar Four?
Yes, yeah. Yeah, I remember. I called her. I was like, when she used to murder a bar for her yeah I remember
I called her
I was like
she's gonna be a big star
cause she just had
a lot of charisma
from like a small package
yeah but she murdered
she would murder there
remember when Che
murdered in that room
murdered
I went up after
and ate it
you put up Jesse May
I probably did
yeah you did
and she goes
don't you love
when your boyfriend
books the show
and puts you up
after one of the best sets
it's like there you go
yeah dude
I want to give you
a good spot
yeah dude
right after the
right after the guy
does real well
right that way
yeah you used to
murder on that show too
bar four was fun
that was a fun show
you would either
murder or eat shit
yeah it was just
one of those shows
you just wait around
until I finished
to get up
like nobody knew
I remember Mike
was seeing first
time he got up
he was just pissed
and I was like
hey buddy
that's just the way this show works.
If your beer was in your arm like this,
remember that Jesse?
If Giannis was holding his beer
totally free hand,
just had his beer in his arm
in his fucking bird wing,
you were in for a wait.
It was in for a long day.
I would smoke a cigarette
with Dan Goodman outside.
Yeah.
I'd be like,
let's go outside.
Giannis is fucking,
he's not bringing me up for a while.
Dude,
I would go on these long fucking rants.
You would murder.
You would have, your ghost bit started as a rant.
It did, yeah.
Because you were like,
well, who was the lady that would come
and sit for every show?
Gail.
We did a Gail Palooza.
Gail Palooza.
I remember.
I was on it.
Yeah, she picked the comics.
Gail.
You ever talk to her?
No, I haven't seen her in...
Oh, she's okay.
Yeah, we did Gail Palooza.
We did the Laker Awards
Laker Awards was the
greatest night of New York
comedy ever
it was so punk rock
if you got to be a part of it
if you got to watch
Joe List bomb
announcing he had herpes
yeah
that was
that was
watching that
and watching Nate
get dropped
or Nate dropped Joe
I think when they were dancing
yeah yeah
everyone was hammered
at some point
Nate got on someone he got on
someone's shoulder that was joe list joe listen i was outside smoking and i just watched him fall
um chris laker used to drink what were those shots it was uh vodka and orange soda yeah so
we called it a laker at the laker and you guys would hand out they were like a dollar dude i
got like we're gonna do dollar lakers. Joe List and I pre-partied.
Yeah.
We fucking.
That was both of your drinking days.
Yeah.
Full alcoholics.
We fucking pre-gamed at Gilby's in Astoria and then took road sodas.
We had tall boys for the 95 minute ride down to bar four.
And then you had a red carpet and Joe had a mustache.
And we both decided to wear jeans with dress shirts and tuck them in with ties. I got pictures of you guys.
And we got fucking blackout.
Everyone got, I mean, I was so fucking hammered.
It was so funny.
Me and Nate introduced everyone.
And no, me and Nate introduced Laker every time for him to introduce what it was.
And me and Henry Zebrowski won most likely to die. Most likely to die, yeah. That's how bad my drinking was. And me and Henry Zebrowski won Most Likely to Die.
Most Likely to Die, yeah.
That's how bad my drinking was.
And so was Henry's.
Henry, who, by the way,
might be the most successful person we know.
Yes, he's very successful.
I love Last Podcast on the Lock.
They're massive.
They're great, but it's like, man.
Henry Zebrowski's one of the funniest dudes.
Of all time.
Of all time.
But at that time, he was fat.
Murderfist was the most punk ditch films
and murder fist were the two most punk rock things in comedy yeah murder fist was great
i remember one joke like one inside joke i told on a show with murder fist and they were cracking
up i was like yeah you guys i was like you know this business ruins everything i'm like
you guys are gonna be a band till one of the fat guys gets a commercial.
Yeah, you were waiting on Ed or Henry to break.
When you guys get a commercial, it's over.
Dude, yeah.
That was such a fun time.
And I always look back to that and I'm like, man.
The funnest.
The funnest time. When you look to, when you get like, obviously I'm like half joking about cool comedy when I watch it.
But I'm like, to me, that was the best part of comedy.
cool comedy when i watch it but i'm like to me that was the best part of comedy so when i see people come in and just take money from it yeah without living it i know it was like that was the
most fun the most fun i think i'll ever have and this is the come up was the co shows because like
those great ideas come from poverty they come from just a pure place where you're like you guys had a
podcast then imagine how big it would have been oh it would have been huge but i remember when we had the idea it was just the purest it was
that time where you go let's just do it because nobody had anything you know uh nobody you nobody
was ashamed of what they were gonna we could play basketball on wednesday during the day and then
on friday you could be like i don't know what do you want to do you want to yannis is filming a
sketch he needs people and you're like oh i'd love you'd be like felt honored yes you're like
hey yannis wants you to be in your sketch you're like yeah yeah murder fist had me filming a sketch and he eats people. And you're like, oh, you felt honored. Yes. You're like, hey, Yannis wants you to be in your sketch.
You're like, yeah, yeah.
Murder Fist had me in a sketch.
I was like, I would love to.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's awesome being on Billions.
It's fun.
It's cool.
But it's like, man, doing Mauricio shit or filming any of that stuff.
That was fun, dude.
Going to fucking Gowanus.
Even the horrible gigs.
I think back, like traveling for $100.
Dude, I remember making you. The fun we would have i remember i remember making yannis doesn't smoke weed and i smoke a lot of weed and we did a soul joel gig
but i smoked a little bit and you smoked we were listening to backspin and you were with that we
were with that scandinavian comic who was awesome yeah what was his name i don't know yannis was
always friends with your like weird i was like an american boy band like there was nobody here and
then i just went to to Scandinavia and did shows
and like they would all be sold out
because this American guy.
Yeah.
I was the American guy.
Dude,
but then you'd bring them over here
and you'd be like,
they'd bring me up.
This is the best,
one of the best comics in America
and I'd walk up there
and I'd go back to bar four
for four people.
Frankie running it.
How's Frankie doing?
He's good, man.
He still has my old dog,
Gilda. Yeah, he's good. Yeah, once in a while I check him with frankie he's doing good yeah tell him i said hi he's in a
crossfit i mean he's jack now yeah he's jack now yeah frankie fucking ruled yeah frankie was like
like getting nothing made me feel more like a comedian than becoming friends with nate and you
and like getting into that because it felt like we weren't the cool kids. Like dude,
I remember when you had Bar Four
and Hannibal decided
to start his show
and Hannibal's show
was like sold out,
like overflowing
and then Giannis would just go up
with his beer and his thing
and he'd be like,
Ali Wong would be going
to do Hannibal's show.
He'd go,
hey, tell Hannibal
to send the overflow over here.
He'd just be mad
and we'd be drinking
and he'd be like,
hey, tell Hannibal
to send whatever fucking
extra ones he's got
tell him we got
fucking room
I'll tell you what
there should
Frank Gallo
should do a comedy special
for comedians
yes
because
that's the only thing
that I think
could truly make
comedians laugh
yeah
we're so jaded
and like you watch comedy
you can't really enjoy it
because you're always thinking
oh that's a great bit.
Yeah.
But Frank Gallo was so bad at comedy that it was funny.
He would go up with these laminates.
You remember the laminates?
Yes.
And he'd do like the cock burglar,
the cock alarm.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he'd do these things.
I remember I was always watching Frank.
And he did pussy lips when he did the act out.
And he'd fly away with the pussy lips
and you'd see comics in the back of the room.
The whole audience would just be staring
going,
what the fuck is this?
They'd be horrified
and then comics in the back
would just be dying laughing.
I would either have my beer
near the foosball table
or I'd be over at the bar ordering
just watching Frankie like this.
All right.
He had this laminates.
He had these cartoons
that he had laminated
and he'd go through them.
He'd be like, what happened?
If somebody breaks in, your alarm may not work.
But you know what definitely will work?
A cock alarm.
And you're like, what?
And it was just a fucking cock coming out of a clock.
And then you see it going into the burglar's mouth.
Like, oh.
Dude, it was like this font.
Harris Stanton said that to me one time at stand up new york he was like dave chapelle told him years ago he's like if you don't enjoy coming up
you're not going to enjoy when you get there and then you look back and you're like i understand
that completely now because it was like you just watch people try shit those bucket mics at the
village lantern where you're like what is that but then occasionally you would see a fucking nate bargetzi or somebody where you're like holy shit that dude's funny yeah and it's
awesome yeah it's like uh you you're seeing people come up you're experiencing coming up
the the stories are just the funnest the experiences are the funnest i have so many
fucking like me and nate on the road i remember one time we got so drunk we did a show in Vermont or something
it was snowing I mean like Brattleboro I think it might have been Brattleboro it was snowing we
were hanging out with these chicks afterwards and I was so drunk this is one of Nate's favorite
was so drunk the car pulled over to get some food and I was like passed out in the in the back and
then I just woke up and thought I didn't know where we were. I thought we were home. I didn't know where home was. So I just got out of the car
and started walking
into the snow
and he was just dying laughing.
I mean, do we have,
there's so many funny fucking stories.
Yeah, it's crazy now that like,
Nate sells out the wind now.
He's like a big comic, yeah.
But we used to go do like,
dining halls in Connecticut
for like 200 bucks yeah i mean
i remember you driving me back and me drinking vitamin water with rum in it
just being like dirt bags just being like yannis do you guys remember when you drove me back from
montreal and i was so hungover and i remember yannis i swear to god i remember this clear as
day i was i was so hungover i was sleeping in the back
and yannis is looking in the rearview mirror at me hungover i remember and he goes all you gotta
do is quit drinking he goes he goes danny soda only problem all you gotta do is quit drinking
and i remember being in the back like shut the fuck up yannis pull over i want to smoke a cigarette
yeah yeah well that was i'm glad i'm really like happy for you that you quit that.
That would have been a point.
Yeah, but that was.
That would have been an alternate universe where you just like.
I mean, it got real bad.
And like because you, you know, gave me Alan's phone number and I started going to therapy
and realized that I was an alcoholic and that it was a lot of my fault.
Yeah.
You know?
And then you're like, oh shit.
All right.
You get accountability and you start looking at like, you know.
It just doesn't lead anywhere good as you get older. You're no you can't keep going into your 30s 40s the amount i
miss it is so little yeah you know i think i'll hit nine years next march congrats yeah that's a
long time yeah dude yeah it starts like dude like your career and you can oh you can almost see it
you can almost see it like you quit drinking i got good shit when i was drinking i got conan i got a comedy central half hour but then like i took
the alcohol out and first you start doing stand-up yeah without drinking and you're like
raw your nerves are like shit you can hear everything and then you're like oh i sucked
yeah i was but then sometimes you see bits and you're like that's a good bit i've had you go both ways where i'm like dude in between michelle wolf had one of my favorite jokes
in between taping my hbo special at uh the bowery ballroom i didn't like the first show
you know it was like just me michelle and like one other person in the dressing room and i'm like
mad i'm like fuck that first show fucking sucked
It was my fault. I wasn't good. I just need to relax or whatever and wolf is just there on her phone and she goes
I know you start drinking again
And it made me laugh or I was like fuck you cuz I know that's exactly what I was thinking
The drinking is bad, but but a lot of fun stories.
God damn, I had some fun stories.
Dude, I remember another one.
Me and Nate did a college together in Springfield, and we went to the bar, and he put his card
down for us to do a tab, and I was like, I'll pay you back half late or whatever.
And we got so hammered, and all the students were there too, and some guy said something.
This is a funny Nate story. Some guy said something. This is funny.
Nate's story.
Some guy said something.
We were with like one guy who was gay.
Yeah.
And like a lot of these guys at the bar like started making fun of him because he was gay.
And Nate just wanted to fight him.
Yeah.
So Nate, one of the funniest lines is Nate goes, why are you making fun?
I was like, Nate, dude, we're going to get fucked up.
Yeah.
There's more in the house.
Yeah.
But he goes, he goes up to him.
He goes, he goes, because Nate always defends the underdog.
Always.
You know, always.
So he goes over.
He goes, you're making fun of that dude.
Like, and one guy, what's your fucking problem?
And he's trying to start the fight, and the guy goes, he's a, he's a, he called him a
slur, and Nate goes, and the funniest thing that he goes, Nate goes drunk, he goes, he
goes, and you can hear Nate saying, he goes, yeah, that's his deal, but what's your deal
though?
That's his deal. Yeah, whatever, man. That's what he's got going on. Yeah, that's his deal. Why don't you learn a little bit better. But what's your deal, though? That's his deal.
Yeah, whatever, man.
That's what he's got going on.
Yeah, that's his deal.
Why don't you learn a little bit better?
But what's your deal?
Anyway, we argued a little bit.
It didn't end up happening.
This is the best part of the story.
Then he goes to pay his tap.
He goes to pay his tap.
The whole bar had been using his tap.
His tap was $800.
This was back when we were all broke.
And he just pays it, and we laughed,
and it was like there was nothing you could do.
Like those kids had heard at some point
that he put down a tab,
and as college kids, they just fucking kept going,
put it on his tab.
That's brilliant.
I did that in Arizona, but $800 is hilarious.
For a broke Nate to get an $800 tab?
Yeah.
I mean, was he doing a lot of this? It's bananas. Yeah, I think800 is hilarious. For a broke Nate to get an $800 tab? Yeah. I mean.
Was he doing a lot of this?
It's bananas.
Yeah, I think it's bananas.
He's like, that's his deal, but what's your deal?
I mean, I don't even.
I get it.
I get it.
We like, that was like, I gave him half, I think,
and we just chalked up our pay.
We're like, we paid for fucking Springfield University
or whatever to just drink on that.
So fucking funny.
To like almost beat a comedian up,
but instead I got drunk on him.
Yeah.
I mean,
there's so many good stories coming up.
It was a time and it's just,
it's,
you feel nostalgic when you think about it.
Yeah.
But then that's also like,
you also realize kind of how lucky we are now to still be doing it and still
have the opportunity to do it.
And it's like,
you know,
they always threaten canceling,
but canceling isn't really
canceled you're more like you lose the fun shit for a while right you got to go back down go back
it's like you know go back five steps yeah you get sent down you sent down you get sent down
like louie's back yeah yeah yeah even though he'll never be that again right but it's like
he still sells out it's like a knee injury yeah you're like ooh you're MVP yeah
you might have to go back
just to be an all-star
yeah
you become Antonio McDyess
yes
yeah
Derek Rose
yeah
McDyess dude
two knees
yeah
he was on the Nuggets
twice
I love Antonio McDyess
that dude was
fucking
when him and Amari
I don't think I saw
two more
Sean Kemp maybe
Sean Kemp
Amari Stoudemire
Amari Stoudemire
Antonio McDyess more like thunderous
yeah powerful athletic force that just like wow bang like yeah dude mcdice big two forward yeah
and then he loved him on the nuggets blew out those knees and then he just had that like 12
footer and then when he would dunk it would like it would it looked like a steph curry dunk yeah
like when old men get up. You're like, fuck.
So this was fun, Dan.
Dude, I love you.
You know what's crazy is I looked at the time and it shook me.
What time is it?
It's four.
Oh.
Yeah, that's why I was like. You're late.
I'm fine, whatever.
You know.
Yeah.
We had a good time though.
Yeah, dude.
Always fun.
Dan Soder, The Bonfire.
You got to check out with Dan Soder and Jay Oakerson.
Yeah, listen to The Bonfire.
It's a podcast.
Go stream my HBO special.
It's the one that I'm proud of.
So please go watch that.
And I love you, dude.
You literally, man, have been like a guy that I've always,
immediately when I walked in and I see Jesse and you,
it's just a comfort level.
The band is back.
But it's like you've always been good to the,
to the people that deserve you to be good to.
And it always shows,
you know,
like who are your friends with?
It's like people come back to you for a reason.
It's because you're always,
you've always been like a straight shooting.
Awesome guy.
Thank you,
dude.
Yeah.
I love you.
Yeah.
I love you,
buddy.
And it's like,
I'll do this anytime you want.
Thanks,
bro.
Come out here and sweat and fucking. Yeah we are brooklyn it's like we're
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and they're gonna hang up like we gotta get you out of here we gotta get you out of here now
there is a helicopter outside.
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It was worth it.
It was worth the trip out there.
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