Bussin' With The Boys - Best of the Bus: Nate Bargatze On Going From Tire Recycler To Touring With Chris Rock

Episode Date: December 6, 2025

On this episode of Best of the Bus, the boys were joined by Nashville legend and comedian Nate Bargatze — and things get rolling quick. Nate looks back on some of the questionable jobs he had growing up (including one so bad it ended up on Dirty Jobs). From there, the boys dive into his comedy journey — starting in Chicago before making the leap to New York, grinding through the chaos of thousands of comedians trying to find stage time, and figuring out his voice in one of the toughest comedy scenes in the world. Nate shares stories about early run-ins with other comics (including getting roasted by Louis CK after a set), how he bounced back, and the advice he now gives younger comedians coming up behind him. The boys close it out talking about why Nate chose the clean-comedian route, his decision to stop drinking, and — somehow — how good Scientology is at recruiting people. Nate is truly one of the boys and tells some unreal stories you don’t want to miss. Enjoy, fellas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Let's get right to it. What a time that was, 2021, on the bus. in the church. What do you think of this compared to the church? I like this. You know, I used to work this area. I used to do, I was a delivery guy. And we used to deliver appliances and stuff like that. And we, I was over, I would do it over here. And I mowed and I, and I worked for a guy to cut grass once. And his thing was right back over here too. So I used to be over here a lot. Yeah. You got mowing job? You had mowing jobs? I had one. It's, uh, moan's the worst, dude. It's, it's, uh, you know, like I would cut grass going

up like your neighbor's yard or said I had this old lady if she gave me I got five bucks they cut her grass that's brutal and then uh this was 1953 you go that's a whole much salary right there that's all right you're killing it back then I remember I could go there was a candy store this is I mean I'm 44 it's not like I'm 100 but there was a candy store in old hickory and uh you could go five bucks was a lot five bucks was like the 20 I think now like if you give a kid you give a kid five now I feel like they don't even respected, but a 20 is, you know, it's like, five, you're like, ooh. But we, so I mowed grass for a little bit, but I mean, just doing businesses.

And it's just, man, people that mow, you know, like landscape and all that, that is brutal work. It's so hot and you're just out in it all day. I quit after one day of landscaping. Yeah. Yeah, it was brutal. It was like a hot 98 degrees. Like, my mom wanted me to go do this. You know, I was lifeguard the summer before.

the next summer, I got thrust it into a landscaping job and I quit immediately. The first day? Yeah. We went and got lunch and got sandwiches or whatever. I texted my mom. I said, you got to get me out of here. Dude, the first, I've never mowed a lawn in my entire life. Really?

Not one. I grew up in Arizona. Yeah. Only rich people had grass. And so. You got the turf. Yeah, people got turf or people got rocks. Like, that's really what you get to deal with out there. So coming out here or even being up in Michigan, the maintenance is nuts.

Yeah. And I feel like a landscaping deal isn't as bad because they have like the cool mowers that they can kind of move around you're sitting the whole time. Yeah.

They're all, they got the whole garment and everything on. I'm sure as a boy, you were just short sleeves and some shorts. I was never, I wasn't at high up.

So you'd be, you're weed eating, which is, I mean, just no fun. Or you're doing all the weird kind of like where you got to be like,

you got to push it because they can't get a thing on it. Landscaping, was the, if you have no college, if you have no chances of going to college, always starting a landscaping company was talked about pretty heavily.

Dude, I have like four friends that have a landscaping company. They, you just go... In the same town. Yeah, when you're like, I can't, I'm not smart enough to go really, I can't get in college or any of this stuff. And you just have a group of people that would be like, we start a landscaping coming to, dude. But if somebody does in high school,

they're the man for a minute because they can afford all the, when they go... Oh, yeah, they're billionaires, essentially. Yeah, because you're collecting a lot of money being mowing lawns, but then they're doing it still because they're, you know, didn't go to college. Yeah, I have a buddy buying his brother. He actually owns a landscape company now. He was a kid that just started cutting yards.

It was like smart enough to realize like, oh, let me start building this up into a thing. And it is. I mean, they got money. Like, they saved money and like you're like, you know, someone's got like three grand. And you're like, what? Yeah. Yeah. That is unheard of.

Yeah. Unheard of. Someone's 16. Yeah, bro. Sitting on three grand. And then they pull like, you know, a business gig or a corporate gig in their mowing those yards. Like, you're richer than my parents. Yeah, for real.

You get that money. $3,000. Imagine seeing $3,000 in high school. It would have been unimaginable. No, that'd be way too much. Is that the worst job you've ever had, being a landscaper? I also, so the guy I used to deliver with over here, we did another job where we recycled tires. That job was on dirty jobs.

How do you recycle a tire? So you would go and pick up, I don't know if you'd remember, but there's a big Ford, they did where they did a callback or recall on all the tires for Ford one. Chevy would never. And then there's, and so we had to go get all the tires. So you go get all the tires and then you pick them up and you take them to Australia.

I'm in Australia. I'm going to Australia. This week. You take them to Atlanta and then they have a thing and then they cut them up and, you know, whatever they do, recycle. whatever recycling is. I'm pretty sure turf fields have like tire pellets in them.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That's where they don't know what to do with it. So they're just like put it in the field. That was your worst job? Yeah. So why it was so hard?

So you have to go pick up all these tires. Water sits in the bottom of a tire. And that's where mosquitoes lay eggs. And that's where it are. So the whole time, you're just getting lit up by mosquitoes. That's just your day. I was doing this job with 9-11 happened. Oh, shit.

Remember when? I remember when. Yeah. I remember it very well. You heard that Alan Jackson song. You're like, I will forever know where I was. Yeah. And so the mosquitoes are there.

And then we had one time we had to go pick up tires out of a cave. So if someone would pay you to come get the tires and then you would go recycle them and then hopefully make some profit. But one guy would just get the tires and then just go dump them in a cave. and he wasn't getting them recycled. So he's just making straight profit from taking tires. Well, they found out that guy ended up going to jail. But then we had to go get those tires, and they were all in a cave.

So we had to back up trucks just in this cave. And you've got to run them up your chest and, like, bump them. And then they run and then stack them up into the back of a, like a box truck. Is it too where you got to pick up fucking, you see a big tree? You're like, oh, let's go do this job and get a couple tires. And then they're massive tractor tires. Yeah. I don't remember that.

I don't necessarily, ours were all car tires because this was, again, the recall. So it was like, everybody around here had so many tires because all these tires got recalled. So everybody was like, it was a big kind of booming business

at that moment. And this one guy just figured, like, I'll just dump him in a cave. And we had gone, I mean, there was so many tires in this cave, dude. We just drove back up in there. And just, there's the most tires.

And you're like, all right. And you just like, all right. Guys would be good. at it. They would, you would run it up your body and then bounce the tire off your chest. How would you, would it start at the toes? Like you get the toes, give it a little flick. You kind of, yeah, you just kind of run it up and it's all in one motion. And then it's probably a work. Now you probably pay to get a trainer to make you do it. Yeah. But yeah, you just do it and you roll it back. And then you got to stack the tires like kind of crisscross.

Oh, where you found that physique of yours, dude, that muscle memory. You have, you know, you probably, I probably was a pretty strong. Yeah, you're strong. Like you're like, you know, like blue color strong where you're... Yeah, country boys strong. Weird strength. Yeah.

Meteor hands. Throwing the hay bales out there. They just got a grip like a motherfucker. Yeah. That's a tough job. Another job that'd be tough is like, have you ever heard of like college hunks and junks that company? Not always like two men or...

Two guys in a truck. Yeah. It's kind of like that. But like their whole promo of the whole thing is essentially hot college guys come and pick up your trash. Yeah. And we use them.

and they come in and they're like, they're not hot. Like, they're like 35, 40 years old, like bad tans. You hired them? Oh, yeah. I call them up. I want to see what this is all about.

This is your branding? They were not the guys on the flyer when I called them up. You go, y'all are not hot. Yeah, what's the deal with that? I was promised. The funny thing is, they'll just look at all the trash you have and they'll go, 300.

Like, all right. And they just take it and they leave. And that's their job. That's a wild job to have. Yeah. No, I didn't live in, yeah. For your entire one, what'd you get paid? I don't even know if I remember.

I mean, I mean, nothing. Like, you know, enough. I was 20. So it's like enough to give to, like, whatever it was. You know, you're living, I might just have lived at home or you're at an apartment. I mean, back then it was just everything was so, it was, you know, your rent was probably 400 a month or something, 500 a month. Like, you had an apartment. I don't remember being that crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. That would. When you were 20 years old, you were still here. I know you guys talked about in the last podcast, but when did you make the trip to New York? When did you decide that's where I'm going for comedy? So I moved to Chicago first and then, because I had a buddy, we were reading water meters in Mount Julia. And so he wanted to go to Second City in Chicago. It's where a lot of SNL people come out of. Farley came out of. Yeah. And so we went to, so I was like,

oh, I think I want to start comedy. And so we went to Chicago and moved up there. And I did that very briefly. Then I kind of started doing stand-up. And then there's a great documentary with Seinfeld called Comedian.

It's on Netflix. It's when he's, like, he's starting a new hour. And so he's writing it and it shows all this New York. He's going all these New York clubs of doing this stuff.

And so then I saw that. And when I saw that, it was like, I got to go to New York. And then I just went. So I moved to New York in 04. Yeah. Yeah. We just had to Stefano on the podcast, and he was talking about how, like, New York is the spot. There's no other place like that.

You have to, like, literally run through like 5,000 dudes to even make it out of there. Because he was saying he would never move away from New York because it's all. Yeah. You can make it out of New York. He's New York. Yeah. And I grew up there. Yeah.

I can't imagine being a Tennessee boy and then going up to New York. Yeah, it was a lot. like Chrissy's like a lot younger than me but I remember when he got a great dude and then when he came on the scene you do you have to go it's the best the big saying was like go to New York to get good

in L.A. to get famous saying I heard once in that but it always made a ton of sense to me but New York is like it is where you go and you're just grinding it out in these comedy clubs and just we're all doing spots you're all doing shows

for five people. I mean, it's a lot. Like, the beginning is most of your career is in front of five, six people. You'd be happy. Yeah, because you talked about how you'd stand outside and hand out flyers just to get a few people in. Yeah. One of your boys is performing.

You're like, hey, come check it out. Yeah, yeah. And you'd get paid in stage time. So you would just do that. And then at the end of the night, you get it on stage like midnight and do five minutes. And then you go do it and the next day. But it's a world.

I mean, you just fall in love with it. because you're seeing, like, back when I did it, it was like you're seeing Bill Burr. Bill Burr's probably doing comedy 10 years when I was in New York at the beginning. And so, like, but no one knows who he is and Patrice O'Neill and all this. So you're, you're, like, kind of like, I can't believe these dudes exist. I'd imagine in your world, like, it's like you think, like, you know, if you're in high school and you're the top football player in your house,

and then you go, oh, there's other people that are so good. Yeah. And then you, like, and it makes you love it because you go, oh, this. It's a whole other level. Like it's... Let me see if I can make it here. Yeah, let me see if I can make it... Yeah, because you can be whatever in your own little small thing,

but you've got to always change it up so then you can be like, let me see if I can run with these guys. I'm with you. Growing up in Bonnterre, when I went to college, I was like, oh, shit. Yeah. Black guys play football. Yeah. You know?

Let me see if... Start. Yeah. Let me see if I can run with these guys. Yeah. How did it work out for you at first? In college? Yeah.

You know, it's intimidating. Yeah. You know how it is. is, right? Absolutely, yes. Like, it's, it's intimidating, but it's like, once you get that first compliment, dude, hey, this white boy can play. That's all it takes. If you hear you, hey, you're pretty this for a white guy. Yeah. Okay, we've, we're making it out here. That's what, that's what you're I might be one of the best athletes of all time then. Yeah, yeah, there's no question about it. You are, you really think you're him at that point. Yeah. When you're in New York and you're sifting to this,

you're seeing guys like Bill Burr, who wasn't Bill Burr at the time, how do you, when you're trying to find your own voice, not steal from these other guys or not get influenced too much by being around all these other people all the time. Because I'm sure you watch a set and you're like, damn, that's, that is funny. And it's kind of up your alley of humor. Because it's such a subjective, like, career. Like, some guys you just don't think are funny.

Some guys you do. Like, when you see a dude and they do a bit, you're like, man, how do you not steal it? Well, stealing a bit you wouldn't do because it's their cadence is a big thing. Yeah. So you can sound like them. So the way someone tells a joke and makes it

funny is there's something that that's something that can get taken that I would always talk with my buddy Janice about it or he Janus would always bring up like that's worse than stealing a joke because it's like you're stealing the way to tell the joke so it's like the other stuff doesn't really matter it's like you know Brian Regan has a distinct like thing when you know when like you know when to do it David Tell does too yeah and so you'd have to catch yourself sounding like them David Tell is a big one that when I was a lot of people sounded like David Till. I could catch myself

in a little rhythm of David Till. My accent would hide it, so I don't think anybody realized it, but I could feel it. Like, I was like, oh, I'm like watching him too much. And so you gotta, and you don't want to start writing jokes like that,

because then that's when you can see a comic. If they get too far, you're like, oh, you sound like this guy. Like, even though you're doing jokes that are different, but you sound like him. And that's the part that you want to, if you want to be your own voice,

you've got to be super aware of that. If you're sifting through the comment section on one of your posts on Instagram, is that one of the more insulting things to see? Is, oh, you sound like so-and-so? If they do? Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I can distinctly remember. I would have some, like, you know,

people tell you they, or they've heard this joke before. The joke-selling thing, they got all started. I don't, it's not as, I think, as crazy as people think it is. Like, it wasn't, it's just, not, you know, they made it into this big thing. A lot of times when jokes are stolen,

you can really look at the joke and be like, it's not a super original idea. And you're like, I don't know, dude. I mean, like, I could see two people coming up with this thing. And you really look at it like that. I mean, there's comics. There's always so much. We're all doing the exact same thing.

There's always so much that anybody's doing. If you're in a world that, like, you're single and you're going out and you're drinking, well, that's 50 comics that are single going out and drinking. So what are they going to talk about? You're going to all talk about the same kind of things. Right. So that stuff gets thrown in a lot that it's, you know, you're like, I don't know.

I think it happens in movies, though, some like that. Like Star Wars and Harry Potter? Like any, yeah, like writers in a movie. Like I would say, right, TV show, writer, like, you could, there's stuff like that I, I mean, I don't know if I could, you could ever. I don't know if there's an example to say it, but like, that's stuff you get nervous about. I mean, someone writing a movie, like, they could just grab a joke from some comic and just be like, oh, I got you. You're talking, like, if I happen to be some writer and I'm liking your stand-up, a story you tell, it's like, oh, I'm going to put this in that movie. Yeah.

Or it could be influenced by it. It could be, there's a lot of things. And, I mean, that's, and that's masked so much that, I mean, you can't even, how are you going to, you know, be like, that's my joke. And you're like, well, they say it like a. I want to say that. That's been talked about. I feel like I heard that. Really?

I'd be Wallberg's, the Boston bombing, the movie Wallberg about the Boston Bombers. Yeah. I think there's a joke about an iron or something at the beginning of it. And I want to say that joke might be something that's like from a comment.

And now that I'm thinking about it, I want to say it was like Theo talking about. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it was Theo. The show Dave, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but he was digesting it.

I mean, you could tell he was alluding to it. He wasn't, I don't think he was being like, oh, this is fact because ultimately, I guess you, you don't know. He said it in his own COA. Right. Yeah, right. But yeah, that's a good point. You hear something.

Yeah, he says it of, yeah. And you're like, I mean, they're going to, you got to, and I'm not saying all these writers or, writers are not doing, the majority of them were not doing it. But it's like, you, I bit, you know, yeah, it's like, they're going to be influenced by people. You're going to hear a thing. You hear, there's so much content now.

So you're hearing stuff all the time. You might not realize, like, where you would have possibly heard that. Yeah. But the still in the joke thing seems like talking to other comments. Like, I mean, there was one reference, like, I was a big Dane Cook guy growing up. That was like right around my middle school time. And Dan Cook, we all loved them. We all loved them.

And there was a big time where people were like, Dan Cook stole a joke. The same joke as Lewis C.K. told. It's about having a kid. He doesn't have a kid right now. now, but when he has a kid, he's going to name something ridiculous. Like, just one letter, five of them. And allegedly, I haven't really looked too much into it.

So I'm kind of just speaking out of pocket here. But Dane just changed the letter, essentially. And did his, like, his cadence and all that. Because those are totally different comments. Yeah. I think there was another, like, his itchy butthole or something was another joke like that. That was, uh, yeah. I mean, I remember all that stuff going on.

Amy Schumer. I was around Amy a lot and people would blame. But it's like, I just, it's some of it you're, I mean, the Dane and the Louis thing, look, I don't know. I mean, maybe they did. It's, uh, and they maybe subconsciously did it. I don't know if, I just find it hard to believe people are like on purpose doing this stuff. Yeah.

Not saying that's right to subconsciously do it. Like you should somewhat try to check, but it's overall you're like, I don't know, dude. Like, they're not, comics are not just taking each other's, where are you going to go do this, you know? Yeah. Where you're going to get caught. You're going to get, especially now. And then the thing that was frustrating is it makes it, then everybody, like, so if you have a joke similar to someone else, someone's like, do you steal that joke from that person? You're like, no, dude, we're all talking about the same thing.

Like, no one's stealing a joke. They're just, people are talking about stuff. It usually goes to, you got to look at what the joke is to be like, is it that original of an idea. And a lot of times it's not. And then it's like something that's kind of like, and there's jokes out there where you're like, I think I have. I've heard my uncle say that joke. You know, like that person's not stealing that joke. It's like just telling kind of a hacky joke.

J.P., are you catching all that rain in the headphones? Yeah. I keep seeing Garrett look back and forth and stuff like that. You just, you hear the rain get even harder. You're just like, fuck, the one hour we're getting Nate on. Yeah. That thing is going to start handling, shit. Perfect.

As he's telling a story, you just hear it get louder and louder. Yeah. When, uh... I just make sure the turn. tornado doesn't. Yeah, we don't need that. Yeah. We definitely do not need that in our lives.

You catch that? It's absolutely going off. There's like flood warnings and stuff. Is a comedian, do you ever get just tired of being funny? Like when you're doing it, you're like, you know, you kind of fall in love with it in New York and you're grinding through it. And even now, it's just like you've blown up, like, as a comedian, I've always, I don't know why I never ask him, but I'm just thinking, do you guys just ever get tired of just being

like, yeah, everybody, every room I step into, I'm expected to be funny. Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, I mean, you have to be on. That's the part that's hard. But I think y'all would experience that. You know, how many times you've got to feel like you're on? So when you go out to a public event, when you go to something, or like that kind of thing or you meet people and like it's the being on is the thing that gets exhausting.

That's for anybody. I mean, people could feel that if they go to work and they feel like they have to kind of be like, all right, I got to turn it on a little bit. I got to be better, you know. Are we going to die? I'm laughing about this fucking Sunday. that like out of this stuff we're in like a garage

all stuff that I don't think you're supposed to be in inside of a storm is we're in a garage and you're like all right well that's you shouldn't be in there but at least you're not in a bus inside of it you're like oh we're in a bus one of the old buses that look like it's driving around trying to be struck

by lightning yeah we're in danger right now we are in danger hey it's us the Jonas brothers and guess what we have some big news what's the news huge news We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast?

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

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Being on thing, the being on thing's true, because any time you come across like fans and everything else, you want them to be like, you know, you don't want to like let people down or all of a sudden you're like an ass on that. You're like, you know, you're fucking not even. Yeah, because it only takes one bad impression for them to be off you forever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you'll meet somebody. It's either you or not you. So, like, usually when you meet, if someone meets someone famous and they're kind of standoffish, whatever, you're like, yeah, man, that person's probably like that in real life.

Yeah. And otherwise, it's, yeah, it's like the crowd and the audience should not feel my tiredness or my whatever. Like, that's not on them to do any of that stuff. Yeah. So there's, like, little moments like that. But, I mean, I don't think I ever feel with an audience. You feel it with, like, you know, the, you know, the. business side of sometimes just because you're like the audience you're like grateful for because

that's the reason you're here sometimes you're to go do the business side of things and then you're like yeah but business side you can like kind of turn it on and off i i feel like the the being on thing is like when you're just walking somewhere and someone's like hey i like you for this and then you feel like okay i have to make sure this person has a good experience yeah that way they it's like uh the move it forward or what's that movie pay it forward And then just like one person tells two people, it's like, we got to make sure. Yeah, yeah. This person's happy with their experience and move on.

If that happens too many times, that's when it kind of gets a little draining. Be nice. And that's the easiest part about it. It's really a lot easier just to be nice and move on. And it's like, it is funny if you, someone that doesn't want to be like that, you're like, well, you make it much harder by being kind of mean. Yeah. You could just be nice and it would move very quickly.

No doubt. Has there ever been a person that you've like kind of looked up to? And then you meet him and you're like, fuck. Don't meet your heroes type thing. brought up one person that universally seems like people are not a huge fan of that's Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah.

So I've only been I've talked to him once. I'm a giant Seinfeld fan. So I still want to go to it. So I don't have, there was a lot of people that have said that they didn't. He can be kind of standoffish or he can be, and they would be that with comics and stuff like that.

I mean, I don't look in that too much. I mean, I don't look in that too much. Somebody goes, they're these 60-something years old. doing comedy for 40 years or more. So some of that I look at like, yeah, does he want to talk to like, I mean, I'm an open micer to him. Like, you know, he's done comedy so much longer than me.

Like, not that I'm an open mic, but you know what I mean? Like, it's like you're so, if you were having talking to some seventh grader about being a lineman or something, like playing football, you'd be like, I, what are we going to talk about, dude? Like, I can't, you're too new. So sometimes, like, I think of it like that. Like, people were like, oh, he wasn't, like, comics specifically could think, like,

ah, I didn't like the way he left. And you're like, what do you want him to do? Like, just, I don't know. Like, so I've had no, I, Louis C.K. I thought I had a little bit with when I first started. Now it's not. I mean, obviously, he's come back down to reality a little bit. That happens a little bit.

That happens a little bit. Have you heard Pete Davidson's a bit about that? he talks about, I guess Lewis EK was hosting SNL and then Pete Davidson got high and he was walking through to go to the elevators and like Louis CK caught up with him and was like, hey, stop getting high, you're ruining your fucking life

blah blah blah blah. Like kind of dug into him and Pete's so high is like, that didn't happen. There's no way that actually just happened. And the next day, whoever, who's the guy is it Lauren? Lauren, Michael? Yeah, he calls Pete into the office. And essentially he's like people have done

coke here before. Like just, I guess don't let Louis C.K. smoke and then his whole bit is going into. So you'd be so happy when I found out on one great day that he was jerking off in front of ladies and stuff like that. And it's a pretty funny deal. Yeah. It's like he, uh, Louis's been, I have, like now it's not been, but when I was, when I, I remember I opened for him once a long time ago and, uh, he was just kind of like, I don't know, he was just, I mean, like at one point, Louis was on top of the world. Like, So, you know, we're in New York. Like, I mean, he is the biggest comic on the planet.

And, uh, and it would come off. Sometimes you can meet him and he'd be kind of like jerkier, like, you know, just not nice. Just not being nice. And you're like, you know, and you're a young comic and you're just thinking, like, I'm just, I'm not trying to ask. You're trying to get out of his way. You're trying to do all these things. And he would just, you know, I remember he would just say, like, you, I brought him up on stage.

And you'd be like, all right, everybody. you're excited to see your headliner tonight. Please welcome Louis C.K. And then I brought him on stage and he's like, don't introduce him like that. And look, in a weird way, there's a valid point. And to be like, they are there to see him. I don't really need to say anything, but please welcome Louis C.K. But the other side of it, I've been doing comedy six years at this point.

I don't know what to do. I'm nervous. Like, there's part of you're like, why don't you think about the situation that we have? I'm getting, I can't believe I'm here. I can't believe I'm getting to go up in front of you. This is, it's a sold out room. I've never been in front of a sold out room. There's a lot of things playing into it.

So you're like, there was like that kind of stuff with Louis where you would just like say to you, you're like, what do you want me to do, dude? How'd you introduce him? Just where you're like, are you all excited? You know I'm from? You're like giving his credits and all this stuff. And it's just like, you don't have to say all my credits.

You don't need, they know who they're here to see, which is true. And that makes you don't need to say it. But it would just be like, he'd come tell you that, but in like kind of an aggressive way. And you're like, Louie, I don't know what to do, dude. I'm no, I'm so nervous about this whole experience. I just don't want you to be mad. Yeah, yeah.

Like, I, I, and you're mad, clearly. And then now, or I don't, you know, not that he's that mad, but it's just being like, just be regular, man. Just be normal. You don't even say, I don't even know the green room. You don't even look down to me. Like, I'm trying my best, man. I'm just doing whatever I can do. I did a joke, and then he went up and made fun of my joke.

And that made me so mad. I was so mad about this. I was so mad about this for a long time. Because it was just like, it was like, dude, we're nobody's, man. I got paid $75 that night, like, I think, for hosting. So price, 75 bucks. That's it. And I'm fine.

And I would do that gift for free. But you're like, what do you? I'm, again, I'm not, I'm just. So when you got off the stage, came up and made fun of your joke? Yeah. I was pretty upset about that. Do you remember the joke? Yeah, it was a joke I had about, uh, if, uh, if, I don't have a gun in my house. I have like a knife or something in my, next to my bed. So if my, if a, but I, I have my wife sleep next to the door. So if someone broke in, I can shove her at it. And then it was something like that joke. I'm not great at memory. And the other ones like, would I take a bullet for my wife? That was it.

And I was like, and I said yes, because how could I ever take a bullet? That's pretty fast, you know, for a gun to be, you can't, like, hear a gun go off and jump in front of it. It would hit her so quick. So you're like, I just would say, yeah, I will take a bullet. I'll take a bullet for anybody because I'm never going to be able to get in front of that bullet. And that was, like, kind of the joke. And then he was like, well, you're staying in front of it. When the person holds a gun, you then get in front of her.

He, like, just, like, he described it the way, like, my wife would describe it and make it, like, not fun. Like the way you have, like, your parent would just be like, well, I don't know if it's going to work like that. You're like, yeah, it's a joke. We're just trying to have fun. He just knows that the whole crowd's going to laugh because it's loose. Yeah, they laugh at like them making fun of me. And then you're like, and then you're just like sitting there like, you know, I'm 27 years old. Like, why would you, what do I have to do with anything?

Right. Like, please leave me out of this. Yeah. I'm just doing a spot, dude. I'm hosting. Hannibal is supposed to be on that show too, Burris. And he didn't even show up to the first show. And he was hosting.

And then, like, that was mad at that. I'll tell you, I was mad at the whole. Because then... Tough night. You start boiling night. Snowballs. Yeah. I'm like, I'm here.

Yeah. We, Hannibal didn't show up. Like, I did, like, a little more time. Yeah. Because Hannibal didn't show up. And you're still making fun of me. This was Hannibal was, like, starting to... Because I started with Hannibal.

And Hannibal was, like, he started writing for S&L at this point. He was on 30 Rock, I think. Or riding for 30 Rock, man. It was great. And so he was, like, starting to, like, really kind of blow up. And we were, and I was just, you know, still. at the bottom. So I didn't care for the whole thing.

But now it's been fine. I've never told Louis that. But why would I... Hopefully he watches the show. You're like, texted Hannibal. You're like, Texas Hannibal. is going to happen?

Yeah. I didn't say anything to Hannibal. I was late because of 30 rock. I remember. I just remember thinking, why, like, I'm the one here. was on the show. Because Hannibal was, like, again, starting to kind of rise up and do good. So it was like, it was cool to have Hannibal. Who are you thinking in your head at that time I'm never doing this again? No, I mean, you would use that. I mean, honestly, I would use it for, like, I hate this dude and, like, I will make sure he knows me. Right.

Like, honestly, not to act like a bragging or anything. But in your head, at the moment, I would always just flip it to, like, all right, I will be positive. that you know. And he would never, Louis would never remember any of this. As he probably shouldn't, he shouldn't remember it. I was really,

there's no reason he would know me at the time. You know what I mean? Like, I don't expect. But these are moments that I would use. I was so mad about the situation. And then you're like, all right,

all right. Well, then this is where I'm at in comedy. So I need to be, get to a level that, like, I'm not going to get treated like this. And so you just use that drive to like. A chip on your shoulder.

Yeah, yeah. telling yourself whatever you can. Whatever, yeah. Make sure that, hey, people will know someday. Let him laugh now. Yeah, someone other person could probably look at that situation and be like, dude, he said he liked you and made, he was making a funny joke at the beginning about you.

It was all very sweet. In my head, it's like, I mean, it's Armageddon. I'm like, right. But someone else could be like, no, he was being nice. What are you talking about? Like, I could have read the whole situation wrong. Yeah. But I did.

And I read it the way I read it. And then you just like kind of go, all right. more grounded, you know. Man, I wonder what you were feeling during his like whole, what if he did an hour or whatever? Just kind of sitting there and slowly like that seed of anger started. Oh, by the end of that hour, it had to be a full plant. Like, you had to be fucking ready.

Oh, I was like, yeah, I mean, I think I did one more show. We were doing a show for his school, for his daughter's school, like a fundraiser. So, because he was at, we were at Carolines and he wouldn't be, because, I mean, he's at this point. He's doing Mass Square Garden. So he's just doing this for a fundraiser. and so yeah I mean it all built in I mean I sit there and watched him though too like I mean obviously he's he's unreal like so he was like you know you're sitting there watching him and that's you know that's part

of you that would hurt just like because it's like the dude you're like sitting there going like that's the main guy like burr I always had much burr was very nice to me and would say things and like be very so you just would have like little parts of you know where who you got treated by this person And I'm not trying to reflect on what they are now or anything. But it was like these were little things that you'd be like, they really stick with you. Yeah, who somebody now might be Bill Burr, but who is a comic or a couple of comics that have been like the most encouraging that you actually think about back then when you're younger and building these chips on your shoulders. And people who kind of pulled you aside or giving you any kind of advice or something where it's like, man, this really stuck with me. This comic might have no idea of Bill Burr.

this stuck with me throughout my entire career. Yeah, Burr was, Burr was a big one because Burr, I remember Burr, he told me, again, it was at Carolines. And because we'd go watch Burr, like, before he blew up, and it'd be like, you could go sit in the back of the room and watch because it wasn't sold out.

And then I remember the next year, it was like they wouldn't even let us come in the room because it was too sold out. And, like, so, but Burr, like, just when he knew your name, when he, like, he knew he knew you, and it was a really big deal. And then I remember him saying, like, look, it, it takes the route that guys like us go, it takes us a long time, but you gain fans and you gain fans for life.

And I remember, and I always thought about that throughout my whole career, like, how, like, you know, like this buildup, it's a day, I've been in coming 20 years. And it's all just like a slow, like, kind of just always going up, not a bad thing. thing. But it can be frustrating. It doesn't happen as fast as another one someone said was like it's not as fast as you want, but quicker than you think. Like, and so you had these moments that just like it kind of takes a slow kind of thing and you got to just kind of grind it out. And so, yeah, Burr was a big part of that. Had Marin. Marin was very nice to me and Fallen obviously did a lot of stuff for me. And so there's just a world of people that end up, you know,

doing things that are very, they're just nice to you or they see it and they go like, you know, this dude's like the real deal and you're, you know, you just need that little confidence that, you know, just that like a little bit of that you're doing the right thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you want the validation from your peers.

I mean, that's all that really matters is what other comics. Yeah, man. At the beginning that you feel like, what do they think of us? Right. Is that process different though when you, like, you've been doing it for 20 years? You see a guy that's been doing it for maybe five or six

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And, you know, guys are selling out and doing big things. So it's, you want them to be like the exhausting part. You got to create an act. You got to constitute stuff coming up with stuff on the fly. Like you look at like Shane. Like I know you are, you know, with Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis is like, I haven't seen someone like Shane in a long time. And he's unbelievable as a comedian.

And like seeing him, like I know what his next special is going to be. And it's like, it's going to be great. And he. seen it? I mean, I've seen the hour he's run. I didn't see the taping. Yeah, we saw him in Vegas. It was... Dude, I really, I think he's one of the best...

You feel the smiles creeping up on our faces the minute you said Shane. Yeah, yeah. Like, we... I mean, so Shane is... Yeah, like, I mean, I... Shane's... I wasn't really there when Shane was there. I don't... I think I was gone. I've been to comedy forever. Shane's like... Shane's also reminder how old I ain't, like, when you just to realize

like, I mean, he's been a comedy for a little bit now. And he was just, he was like, I remember hearing about him when he first came out. He would go out with Dan Soder a lot, another comic that's an unbelievable comedian. That's, Soder's really hitting the road now.

Soder's a great comedian that if you go watch, like me and Soder are very close friends. And like he's friends with Mike McDaniels, Soter is. And, uh, but Soters, like, was doing the bonfire with Big J. And, uh, then now he's doing comedy.

He's really going to go hit the road, uh, really hard. So Soder, like that's what you got to do. Like you've got to go on the road and you got to just stay in these and build this stuff up. And if you build, these are guys that if you build these acts and they will because they, their acts are going to be, you start producing hours. If you look at Louis or Carlin or Chris Rock or all this kind of stuff, you know, you're building these hours that

you can go specials. Gaffin's just putting out a new special. It's, I think it's coming out this week, maybe. It's his 10th hour. It's, you know how hard it is to write 10 hours of material? It's, basically impossible. There's no one that's really, you know, that can do it. The limited amount that can do it, it's a very small group. And so it's like,

go try to be in that group. Like, that's what I look at, like, Stim, try to be in that group to go produce stuff. That's why I think some people get, it's hard to do, it's tiring.

And so then you can flip into, slide into this other stuff where it's like, whether it be, like, if your whole act becomes, I'm not trying to craft, some people are so great at crowd,

But if your whole act becomes that, then it's like you're not really creating, you know, it's like you're just, I think you get stuck. Right. Versus if you build an act, I think an act can go because people want to go watch a show. I mean, you can't go really in an arena and just be like sitting in the top watching a guy get made fun of, you know, in the front row. That's not going to come across as fun for that person up at the top. So there's always as big as it can get, I think. And so like the ones that are creating the acts. Because you're never actually like working on something.

Yeah. I'm going to your next show thinking like, you're not like, I don't know, I'm assuming like you're just not writing things down or trying to work on bits and be like, I'm going to go take it here. You're just leaning on the fact that you can do crowd work. Yeah, you can go sit and like, yeah. And I mean, that stuff's super fun. I mean, it's like, and guys are really, really great at Big Jay Oaksins.

Big Jay is one of the funniest people I've ever met in my entire life and he's the best. And he does all, like it does it and not. But Big J. can tell stories and he's so great of stories and all this stuff so it's uh i always said to people think i'm trash i trash crowd work more than most people but i'm i just see with younger i just hope that some still like that's why i was so great seeing Shane and like when i saw Shane for the first time i came he came to zanis and i went down and watched him before i really knew him and but i've heard about him we've kind of like said what's up and i watched him and i was like oh man this is crazy

dude. This is like, and it was, and I got very excited because it was like, yeah, yeah, dude. Like, this is, this dude's going to be, you know, obviously he's super funny in this situation, all that, but he has an act, and he goes up with an act and goes out and destroys. I mean, we saw him in Charleston, and it was like, dude, I mean, they stand up and you could just get a stator elevation immediately. Like, you can you tell people are so excited to, see him. And he's so fun and funny and it just feels different. And it's like, it doesn't feel serious. And I think comedy's going that way back, that way, which is a good thing where it's comedy that's like being like, yeah, dude, I'm not, no one's trying to tell you what to do or, you know,

Shane's not telling you how to vote. He's not telling you how to do any of this stuff. It's like just being funny. And like, anybody can watch it. Anybody can like just, you know, it's like, I'm just having fun, man. Not everybody. Not everybody. I had a close. That's the boy, dude. Yeah, he's the boy. But I, We saw his stand-up in Austin shortly after he came on the bus for the first time. We really didn't know about Shane. Like, we knew he got fired from SNL.

We knew he was a comedian on the Up and we're like, hey, we're excited to have him. He crushed it on the podcast. He was so funny. So then we took the time to go watch his YouTube special in Austin. And it is, I'm by myself laughing my ass off. And so I go to Arizona and see this family that I lived with. Yeah.

And the dad is, you know. Fox News Dad. He's a Fox News. News Dad. And his bit about Fox News Dads, I was like, hey, you've got to watch his stand up, and I put it on. And in the first five minutes

is him essentially making a fun of Fox News Dads and, like, the wall and all that. And I'm laughing still. It's like the fourth or fifth time I've watched it. And he doesn't laugh, doesn't make a noise. And he just grabs the controller and goes, let's watch something else. And literally turns it off without taking a vote from anybody else.

I thought, man, you got to open up. You got to open it up a little bit. I told him that a dozen times, like you've got to rewatch it. But then I'll rewatch it and then I'll hear the Trump stuff and I'm like, hey, maybe he shouldn't watch it. Yeah. Maybe he shouldn't dive into that.

New York. Yo, what did he does that stuff? Yeah, you're gay. Bro, the military bit that he does with the Taliban. When people get to see that. You were with him at Zanis a couple weeks ago, right? Yeah, I bet the people at Zanis were so fired up because he had hit us up.

It was after Beer Olympics. Yeah. He's like, hey. Yeah, the day after. We're recovering. And he's like, hey, Nate and I are going to, we're going to go on at Zanis at like 930 or 1030 or something like that. I was like, oh, man, like, I'm out.

Like, you're a pretty big day. Yeah, yeah, like, I was a fucking, I'm hurt, bro. He was bruised up probably prime telling you about. He kept showing us. He kept showing us his body. That's more on him, though. I know, but I saw him because you tackled him or something. In the pool.

The choking photo. Yeah. And like, it's like, y'all just don't, like, realize. Like, because Shane's big, too, but he's not, like, strong like y'all. And so I feel like he gets beat up. It's like a big dog. Like, it's a dog that you're like, that tries, to play with us and then you're like well I don't know

if I'd play with. He goes, don't go full on. He's a heavy set Labrador Retriever. Yeah. I had a show on Instagram man, just being on top of Shane because it started off if him like, you know, he gets there, he seems very unenthusiastic to be there. He's like

yeah, we're going to get buried, whatever. It is what it is. He gets, he does one chug like the first event was a chug. Yeah. And then after that, anytime he lost an event, he'd be behind me and Will just talking shit. Like, you guys are bad hosts. You guys are nasty. quit being nasty. Well, they're all laughing at you.

I'm going to remind you. They're all laughing at you when you chug your beer. So I go in one of my, one of the rooms and he's there talking shit sitting on a chair and he's like, you, dude, you're a pussy, dude. I'll beat your ass right now. So I start wrestling him. And the whole rest of the day, like turned into that. And then he's talking about all the bruises.

It's like, buddy, you got to get out in the sun if you don't want to bruise like that. Like he literally has Michelin Man. Yeah. Type of skin. Is that what you have to do? I mean, I feel like you got to weather it up a little bit, right? Is that what you have to do? I think.

Well, you say older dudes, you see older dudes, you're like, what does their skin look like? Leather? Yeah. Leather's tough. It's durable. It's reliable. It's like the Chevy Silverado. If you don't ever go out in the sun, like one little, hey, how you doing? A little slap on the link. There's going to be a wealth there. Yeah. Luckily, Will, got some nice thighs, and he's got a little sun tan on there. Shane, Shane just welted up easy. I feel like that you told him that. Like that, I've never heard anything like that. It's just, and it's funny. Like, well, you don't want bruises, just get on the sun right there. He's just jumping the sun a little bit.

burnt and then also bruised. He goes, that's all you got to do? Did you just make that up? I did essentially make that out. But it makes sense when you really think about it. Yeah, man, I guess it does. I guess it does. And then he got Chandler on me, dude.

And Michael Chandler, he could stand up on this bus, no problem. I have plenty of room. Little our guy. But he wrestled me in the pool and I almost drowned about six times. And the rest of the day, it was like he was being protected. Yeah, he's a little bit. It was his right hand, man. It was his guard.

Yeah. He's so. strong. Oh, dude. Chandler is just, and the best dude. The nicest guy. You're way too nice to be in the octagon like that. Yeah.

I know. Yeah. He's a wild thought. Lips, yeah. But he, like, enjoys it. We were at his house for Labor Day weekend last year. His pool was like four feet deep. Yeah.

And it's the late night. Everyone's been drinking a little bit. And I see somebody, something, dive into the pool. But their feet don't go in the water. So he essentially dove in the pool and hits his face and comes up and I'm in the middle of a conversation with somebody and I look back and I'm like, hey, Mike, did you just hit your face

on the floor of the pool? And he's like, no, no, he's like laughing. Just having a good time. And then all of a sudden his face just starts bleeding everywhere. And I'm like, you gotta go wipe your face. It's like, don't tell my wife, don't tell my wife. And I was like, she's gonna find, look at you. She's gonna find. You look like you just got done with a fight. Dude had a scab from forehead to chin. Just a matter like, he's just a man. He's just road rash.

And he's like, help me out of the pool. So I literally grab him by his hips, like right like here. And I just remember thinking he's just a fucking dense ball of muscle. That's all this fucking dude is. He's just so goddamn strong. He's so strong. Yeah.

And then he takes my big ass and throws me around the pool like a child. I was humbled. It was a humbling experience for me. That would be, that would be people always wondered, like, a fight would be like you and him. Would your size even anything out? If I had any training, I'm sure there'd be more of an even fight. Yeah.

But no training, right? It's me? Yeah. No, I'm getting bang. Yeah, he's going to absolutely take me. I've wrestled him and we'll. That spinning backfish you got there. You saw that. Yeah.

We were in the octagon one time. I did sneak him with a spinning back fist. Luckily for him, I stopped. Yeah. Because I had the awareness. But that would have probably taken him out. That would have taken amount. But he takes me at the ground.

It's over. And he's going to get to these legs. It's not an issue at all. He's excited about it. No, yeah. He sees these little sticks and he's like, I'm going to take advantage of it. For sure. Yeah, but the whole, whoever was at Zanis,

I mean, that was a surprise, right? Yeah, so we did, we were hanging out because I knew he came down. Because I talked to Shane quite a bit. Like, Shane's going, not that. I just like talking to him because he's, I mean, he's, I think he's very funny. And then, like, he's just where he's at in his career. And it's starting to, like, really, I think after this next show, I mean, Shane's going to really be one of the top touring act.

I mean, he already is a very top touring act. He's going to be one of the top. And so he's a good dude and just, so we were just in town. so we were hanging out just that day. And then I was like, I kind of was, I've been kind of wanting to go up. And then I was like, do you want to go up? And then he was like, yeah.

So we were like, let's just see. And then so we, you know, it was, one that people I don't think expected me and Shane to do something. And then so we just called Zanis and they were like, yeah. And they put it on selling it sold out immediately, which we both, you never get used to that. You're both like in your head like, is this going to sell it? Like, you think like, there's no way you thought that.

I swear. You have a moment. Dude, you just, you know, when you're. put yourself out there a little bit and you're like, what if it doesn't? Imposter syndrome. Yeah, like, yeah. And you think like, you're like, all right, me and Shane, you're going to do a show and then everybody's like, we're good.

I mean, because it was in, like, let me make a call. Like 4.30 and the show's at 9. Or 9.30. How quickly did it sell out? I think in, in like 10 minutes. It was like, oh. If you're going into, yeah. You're in Nashville.

You got to catch that. You're fired the fuck up getting to watch Shane and you. It was, I want to do it again because it's like the people that I, uh, we went there actually we had did some work i needed to i needed to like kind of run my hour and like pull some i needed to figure out some time stuff with my hour and then Shane just went up there and but we went up there together at the end and that's what i think people like the most is just me and him on stage hanging out and talking and so i mean yeah i we talked about we want to do it again like it was because we both really enjoyed it and uh i really like him and uh he's a and he's a great i mean he's a

truly great, great comment. Possibility of you guys torn together? No, I mean, the only thing, I'm clean. So it's like, I couldn't, the audience that comes to see me, even though a lot of people that would see me love Shane, but I wouldn't, I mean, my kids can come to my show. Like, it's all ages. So it's, I wouldn't want to put that much, you know, like someone, if, that's the hard part of being clean. You're kind of on your own and the fact that like, I, there's only so many, I mean, the comics I bring out with me, not that they're all, they're not all clean outside of me, but they have to be clean when they come to do,

my shows. So, outside of that, it's, it's, like, kind of hard to be, like, because it's,

like, my crowds are, I, I just can't, I just really can't do it. But, so it's like, that's why a situation like that,

where we just, like, kind of pop on last minute. Yeah. Is, because, you know, I think it's people

that are comedy fans and. Right. They, they completely understand that this is like an anomaly of Nate and Shane coming up there. Yeah, it's not like,

versus, like, I might have an entire, my real show, like, there's be an entire family come as bring their grandparents to grandchildren. And I'm going to be like, eh, they're ready for Shane? And I think they think we'll find Shane very

funny. But they also might be like, we didn't expect to hear all those words. Dude, we had that situation this past weekend. With what? At Kittlefest and Laser. Yeah. You know who Uncle Laser is? I think I've heard his name.

He's a comedian out of Austin, Texas. Yeah. He's hilarious. And I went and saw him at Zany's a few weeks ago. And it's all, you know, pussy, eating ass. It's dirty as a gift. Single mom jokes, young gun, like. Yeah, exactly.

So, Kittle meets Laser at Beer Olympics and reaches out the Lasers like, hey, I have Kittal Fest coming up. Would you like to come to it and do some stand-up, like 10 minutes? And lasers like, absolutely I'll go. And so once I caught wind of this, I caught wind of it at the party. And I have seen his stand-up. And it's, you know, me and Will are there. A bunch of our friends are there.

but there's also his aunts, his uncles, his grandparents. Like there's an older crowd as well, buttoned up wearing their Sunday best type of stuff at a frat party, essentially. I told him, I was like, brother, have you heard Lasers stand up? He's like, no, you go, all right. Okay.

And he's the first person to go up. And, dude, it was probably the most mixed review thing I've ever watched in my life. Because there's like me and Willer laughing. I'm literally like, probably standing there, like, smiling, doing this. I mean, it's for a crowd that's, you know, rips marbles and wears NASCAR. You know what I mean?

They're not scared of hearing the language, but then some people can be surprised at how dirty something can actually get. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, name? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it.

We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't know. I don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

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Like, do we, what is this? He's got the harmonica playing. They can just get him out of it. You just hit some harmonica. All right. Dog, it was so funny because he didn't hold back. He didn't look at the crowd and go, I should probably tighten a couple things up. He went full bore right into it.

There's no doubt that I fully believe his eyes glazed over and he knew the situation he was in. He's like, I just got to fucking get through this. Just got to own it. Yeah. Just got to run it. Yeah. I'm, you're like, it is what you do.

So it's like, just go do what you do. And then, you know, they either get their laugh or they won't. What was the choice for you to go clean? I just started that way. Like, it was just how, you know, grows up in the South Southern Christian. Like, well, I wasn't allowed to watch anything that stuff like that. And so my... 13th.

Yeah, Friday 13th. So we saw that. We were watching some of your bits before. That shit was hilarious. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I wasn't allowed to watch. And there's so many movies I've missed because I just was never allowed to watch. South Park.

watch them. I never watched Southport. Yeah. And I still, I know, I never watched it. When we weren't allowed to watch Simpsons. That was a big deal when I was young. Simpsons came out. It was like, because Bart was like against authority. Like, it's like a lot of parents didn't like that it was like this kid. That's nuts. Did your dad watch the Simpsons? No. No, no one did. It would be like Sunday night football's over. Simpsons come on.

Yeah. No, it was, yeah, it was just very, I mean, I, I just, when I grew up, it was just a lot. It was just different. The South was pretty strict and, like, what you could do. I mean, you couldn't dance. I went to Donaldson Christian Academy. We didn't have a prom. We had, like, a banquet,

and you couldn't dance because it was like dancing was not. And it wasn't like the parents don't believe dancing. They believe dancing is bad. But it's like you just would have, you know, back then, I mean, an 80-year-old in 1997 that she thinks dancing is bad. So you're kind of like not doing it to be, like kind of you can get a little space leave some room for the lord yeah you just go well we would we could you could go the parents would then rent they would rent out of room and then everybody could

have like a more of a prom dance kind of after you would do a banquet like it's kind of a proper thing for like you know those older people to be like we're not you know and then you go do the dance thing yeah it was you know so it's like i grew up you just grew up and under those like uh standards so it's like i just started i just started clean and then uh I was always clean. And then, you know, once you start, it's like kind of just the only way I go now. Did you've had a glow up about you? I remember seeing you in NASCAR and you had that, your haircuts not that way,

but you were laced up with a skin fade. Yeah. Compared to years past. I mean, your stand-up a couple years ago, the way you were a couple years ago, you've aged very well. Your skin, I've noticed the entire time. It's phenomenal. But you're like, you were like one of the dads where you show up at the barbecue

and you're like, oh, hey, Nate's here. This would be a fun time. Now it's like, you show up at the barbecue. I hate Nate's here. You guys, he's pretty fucking big. I'm going no bread. Yeah, what's the glow up been like for you? I'm not funny.

I brought my own food. Don't work. You know, Nate, you don't talk to them anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's been, I mean, the whole, you know, my whole run, I'm 44. So I quit drinking in 2019. And a big part of that was like I was just getting, I knew I was like starting to go to the theaters and all this stuff. I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted to go, I couldn't drink.

I wasn't able to, when I drank, it's like, it's not like I just drank at home or did all these things. Some people can drink and they, you might think you don't have a problem because you're not like, you go a week without drinking. But it's like, when I started, I didn't know how to stop and like all that stuff. And so I knew when I'd go on the road, it's like I started Thursday night would be a fun night out at a club. But then you drink that night and then you're just hung over the rest of the weekend. So then you're then you're just trying to get through the shows because you don't feel great. And so I was like, if I need, if I want to produce the material, that I want to produce and tour and all that,

I needed to stop that. So that was when the first one happened because I just stopped drinking. So I mean, just literally drinking will just help a lot of things. I still don't eat great. And I'm trying, now that's the second one I'm trying to overcome because it's like being on the road again. It's like hard on your body.

You kind of got to treat it like not an at, like not a full athlete, but as both y'all, like, but it's like half of an act. you have to somewhat be so mentally you can handle all the things that you have to go do. And so you can be in good moods and be fun and not be like just on edge all the time and all this. So I'm trying to work on that as well. But yeah, we had a good time. I mean, the whole beginning of it, yeah, there was a lot of drinking. I mean, me and Hannibal said we, because I don't think he drinks anymore.

I don't know if he does now or not, but he didn't a few years ago. And we were talking about a handball said something that always stuck with me. He was like, you know, he goes, I look at it. He's like, we put up some good numbers. Because we did good. Because a lot of times you get drinking, everybody thinks like, wow, you're not being fun.

You're like, no, I did all, I did what you're doing right now. I already did all this. You just weren't, you were not old enough to be there, but you're like, I already went and did all this. And it was a fun time. And I had a great. And then there's a, then you just hit a point where you get older and you're like, about 40s start going like, all right.

You're like, I mean, just stuff starts hurting. Like you just, you're like, I can't wake up and feel like this every day. Like, this is brutal. Yeah. It's a brutal feeling. That fog is terrible. But it's the most fun. Yeah, during it, for sure.

During it is the most fun. I mean, seeing y'all's beer Olympics like that looked like it's the, it's a wonderful, wonderful time. It was awesome. It was so much fun, man. You ever want to come out of retirement for a day? Yeah. I know.

You're more than welcome. Yeah. There's always moments where you're like, you know, I hung out this weekend that I feel like could get you not to football because I did the American Century Championship. John Elway. I'm meeting John Elway.

Who's back? John Elway is a good time. Oh, yeah. And I was telling Dan Sotter is a giant John Elway fan. He's from Denver. And I was like telling Dan, I was like, John Elway could make you quit drinking,

come out of retirement and drink. Because Dan doesn't drink either. And because he's like just like a good, like you're like, this dude's the most fun. And you don't think, have you met him? I never met John, but I hear a bunch of stories. You don't think he's going to be, he thinks he's going to be, his son is awesome too. His son's a big Shane Gillis fan.

His son's great, big comedy fan. I've very big big fan of you guys. Does Shane know that his son's a big Shane Gillis fan? I think so. I don't know. You know Shane nuts over football players. Yeah, yeah. But he was like someone that you're like, you know, this dude's the bad.

I mean, you just think he's going to be stoic like this. I don't know. it's John Elway. So you just, you just think he's going to be, like, you're going to meet him. I was like,

how are you doing? Business man. And you're like, this guy is a good time, man. Just like, what, a lot of charisma? A lot of charisma,

like laughs a lot. You say anything. He's laughed at it. Fun. Like, you just feel like, you're going to just be with him and he'd be like, you're like, yeah,

he's like, they take the boat out and you're, I didn't go on the boat, but he's like, he's talking about it. He showed you the boat, though. He showed me the boat.

he mentioned a boat I think I could have gone out of this boat but it was just like it was just like a very surprising meeting someone that you're like oh dude you're not what I thought like you realize Peyton Manning going to Denver you're like yeah

dude yeah put anybody in a room with John Denver or John Ellway you're going to be like yeah I'll go dude you're the best that's fucking cool man who else like who else have you met that's been like

oh dude you are fucking because that is the best feeling. Like we talked about the people you meet and you're like, man, don't meet your heroes. But the people you meet and they're either exactly like you thought they would be or even better like you're saying, that's the best feeling in the world. Yeah, a lot of like cable guy is like that, Larry cable guy.

Larry's awesome, bro. Yeah. I know. I would love to join you in that enthusiasm. He's obviously a massive Nebraska fan. So when we had our one of our tailgates last year at Nebraska when he came on the we had the podcast out there at Nebraska and he's just the nicest fucking dude, man. He's

just so funny, just salt of the earth. Exactly like what you kind of see on camera and even better, just like you're hanging out with him. Yeah, that's the part that you want is like when you can see, when you meet someone and they're like super nice and they're just, it seems like

I met Devante Adams this week and he was awesome. He was like kind of a funny dude like and just like kind of quiet and but just my experience with him which is very nice to talk to and like it was just super fun. Vrable was there.

I met Vrable. Vrable's a good time. Yeah. You see why you want to play for, like, you get it. Like, that's what's interesting.

It's like when you, when you go, oh, this is why people like like you and want to play. Like, because you're like, you're, he just feels like he'd be one of,

he'd be you. Like, if you played for him, you'd be like, he's just you. Yeah, there's a totally different dynamic, though,

when you're his player. Okay. Like him now with us is great. Like, on the podcast very recently. He came on yesterday. I know, but I'm trying to play because this comes out August 14th or whatever. Yeah, he came on a long time ago. He was literally on yesterday.

Yeah. And the three of us have a group chat, me, Will and Braves. And it's, our podcast was every bit of that group chat. Like, it can be awkward at times. It's funny at times. He gets serious. Like, you just don't, he, like, Reble's a guy that dictates how the conversation is going to go, especially when you're the player.

Yeah. In the first year, we sit 2018. He's got that alpha energy. And you could just tell, like, the dynamic, even on. him on yesterday, you just, you know, there's still those nerves of like, you know, is he? Yeah, we're grown mad at this, yeah. Will's turning 33 this year, right? Yeah.

Yeah. I literally turned 32 in less than a week. Yeah. And we're, there's literally nerves around being around another man like, hey. Yeah. But he can't hurt us anymore. Yeah. There's nothing he can do.

We started joking about fighting. Then I really thought, is he, does he? He's trying to legit. Like me for a second. Yeah. Yeah. No, but he is like a good time. Brayble has got to be the best time.

Yeah. He's a guy's guy. I understand that dynamic. You know, I, I, But I've always like the New York comedy had a dynamic like that. Like you always like the people that started but that were the bigger comics above you. And not even necessarily like fame wise, but just the, you know, there's guys that started before you. There's always like a respect that you're like, you know, like you just the older guys.

I remember Robert Kelly, Bobby Kelly who does a podcast or does the bonfire now with Big Jay. Bobby's like so funny. and but Bobby's like a guy that like I feel like Bobby told me to go do something I would just have to go do it because he was you know you just looked up to him so much

when you started out open for him a lot and did this stuff so like the I've always liked that like kind of like in stuff I think it's a good thing yeah they're like a like a natural just subtle power dynamic

that happens that you just never really get beyond talks about Keith Robinson like Keith Robinson is in New York comic that was like you know Jay Big Jay and Kevin, and he helped them a lot.

And, you know, Kevin Hart is obviously the most famous person on the planet. And Keith is, most people would not know who Keith is. But I think Kevin's got to feel like a little, you know, it's like there's a little like, Keith could, Keith can say whatever he wants to Kevin. Like the situation of Rabel could sit down and say whatever he wants to you or whatever. Like, you're still going to feel like you got to just take it. And like, no question. And that hurts, like, it hurts to agree with that, but it's totally true.

But then pizza feed. And I was just like, fine. Yeah, he did say that to you. Yeah. That was tough. Yeah. Oh, dude. Who's somebody that you've met that you've been absolutely fired up to fucking meat?

I met Tiger. Tiger Woods? That's a solid one. And that was before or after. After again, very humble, very cool. I'll tell you what. People just need a little. People need a little.

I can tell you, if you think someone's, like, getting a little too high on the horse. Yeah. there could be, I got the, you got the pill to make that all better. But he was, yeah, he was awesome. I mean, yeah, he just felt like I did a corporate gig for the PGA or something. It was him and Rory were there. This was, and I didn't get to meet Rory. I would have liked to meet Rory.

And I just didn't get to meet him, but Rory seemed very nice. And then the Tiger was there and they, I was like, kind of like, it'd be really cool to meet him. And they were the lady who's like, yeah, we're having him. And he kind of came up. and I just got to briefly talk to him. And then we just talked about it. He went on the Tonight Show and talked about Fallon. And it's kind of quick.

We got a, I got a picture like that's not just meeting him. It was just taking picture of kind of the moment. Nice. The best kinds of candy. Yeah. Nice. Yeah,

where you're like just take a bunch of pictures. Like I don't want to ask. He's coming. Make sure you have your camera out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so that was like,

I mean, that was like one that I was like, you know, Jordan would be another one. But Tiger is probably the biggest for me. because Tiger, I watched his whole thing. Like when he turned pro, I mean, he's 48 or 9 or something like that. And I was just the age of like watching that guy's whole existence. So, yeah, Tiger was one that where he was like, you're like, this is crazy, dude. Yeah.

I'd imagine meeting like Tom Cruise would be like that. There's like big ones. Yeah. Yeah. I got Tom Hanks. He's very nice. Yeah? He's his nice.

He's someone that you should meet. Tom Hanks? Yeah. One of the. He's like one, though, that you're like, go you. Like, if you, if you saw him out and someone's like, you know, don't meet your hero, like, you can go meet Tom Hink. That dude's a good dude. Yeah.

He's a, he was a very, very nice. Very nice. I wonder what Tom Cruise is about. I wonder what his deal. I've heard Scientology, right? Yeah. It's like, that's like, he does good movies and then Scientologist. That's the thing.

I'd be scared to meet him because I would probably become a Scientology. Have you been on, you've seen the Scientology building on 8th Avenue? No, I haven't. There's one right on 8th. You go down and every once in a while, there'll be a little thing out there that says, free personality test. And I've been tempted to just pull over.

Yeah, there's a, there's a, I get nervous signs like, they're, they're good, and I think they could, you go in there and you're like, all right,

all right. Makes sense. Yeah, they go, yeah, if you, if you just have any, which I think is how you should live

with any question of anything, just question everything, a little bit. And then you go see, they go into a science, and then Tom Cruise was in there, you're like, that dude's the most charming person.

And the people that have met him, I knew a guy that worked as a director and a writer. And they had him writing on one of the Mission Impossible's a while ago. And they said that they told him when they met him, they go, look, when you meet Tom, they go, just so you know, you're going to think y'all are going to be best friends. Like, that's how charming he is. Is he just, he takes over and you are just like, this dude's the best. I love the way you're saying. And you're like, we're like, we might be hanging out every day of our life.

And that's just what it's going to feel like because that's what he is. It takes that kind of charm to be that. And then they were, he went into a hotel room in the top floor. They rented the whole floor out, you know. I mean, you can't, that guy, like, is a walking Walmart. Like, he's a billion dollars. Like, you just, you have to be like, and I think he tries to, like, get on a motorcycle alone and just drive off. You're like, you're like the most important person alive, dude.

You're all these movies, all this stuff. You can't just run away from us like that. Yeah. You know, like when he gets on a motorcycle, like just all of a sudden, music starts playing, too, like as he drives off. Oh, right. So my buddy said, he was sitting in, uh,

he's sitting in, uh, the hotel. So they tell him that. So Tom Cruise is here, and he's facing the window, and they're sitting on the couch looking at Tom. And they're talking about like, all right, we'll go do this for Mission. Then we're going to do it. And Tom's kind of going to the whole thing.

And then they see Tom start to squint because the sun was sitting. So, the sun's coming in the window. And it's starting to squint. So then he says, Tom just pushes a button on, I don't even know, it might have been like an iPad

or it might have been something. Pushes a button. Two people come in with sunglasses. He's got an option. So they both have a pair and he just looks and then grabs this pair and puts it on, but just keeps talking the whole time.

And then never says, yeah, yeah, those are my sunglasses people or whatever you should say to go like, hey, what was that? like that. I like diversion people. Yeah, it doesn't make sense. Like, you're like, are they just back there?

Does that button just for sunglasses? Yeah. Like, you have people just for sunglasses? Or, like, how would they know? They came out of a room, offered two people. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news.

What's the news, next? Huge news. We created our own podcast called, Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We were the first people to do podcasts.

Pretty, yeah, pretty wide. range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

We were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing,

a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey Jonas. And then I, wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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I mean, she went down in three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay. Listen, Lena Rubakina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually can win on any surface. Because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs Tennis Podcast on the IHeart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform?

We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. He's still talking and just goes and puts it on. They leave. And then he still just keeps going. You know, like if you're in there and you just kind of like look around, nobody says. You got to ask.

I would feel like, hey, who were they? It's probably one of those moments where you look around, you see everybody still dialed in. You're kind of just too scared to say anything. I think he's taken over the situation. He's talking so much. And he's probably, and he's into it. Like, because he's like doing these stunts. Yeah.

He does all that stuff himself. So he's like, you know, and you're just kind of like caught up in it. And you might almost expect it. To be honest, you might sit there and go, yeah, yeah, that's what they should have brought him sunglasses. And that's insane that y'all made him push the button. You should have, you should have just felt it. Somebody just got fired.

Someone should have said, you know what? It's five o'clock. The sun's starting to set. Let's go be around Tom with sunglasses. And then you just get on that side. You could, I remember one time talking about. the super rich dude that said, like, he was trying to buy a house. And he said, you know, because with the master bedroom only had one bathroom,

and he said it like that. And I was like, what? Like, master bedrooms only, like, they have two full bathrooms. And but in the moment when they say it, you're like, yeah, dude, screw that house. Are you out of your mind? Why are you going to, how embarrassing is that that they built a house with just one bathroom? Yeah. In the master bedroom.

The 30,000 square foot house. Yeah. And he's like, they didn't have two bathrooms in the master bedroom. You're like, well, that's, I'm glad you didn't buy it. You know what? They deserve it. Yeah. They literally just say, never sell.

Yeah. And that's a good point. Yeah. You start realizing, like, my stupid house, I got one bathroom in the master bedroom and I look like an idiot. I hope he got it never comes over. I hope, yeah. Yeah.

You can't invite him. Yeah, man, that's crazy. You look at the window. Yeah. I got to change my bathroom. Yeah. I didn't even know that was a possibility to want two bathrooms in a man. Like, that's a dream that you're like,

I didn't even know I could even have that dream. But now I'll think about every day. When I'm doing like two full bathrooms. When I look at two bathtubs, two showers. In the master bedroom. That doesn't make any sense. That's unpractical. And next time you look at your dumb wife,

brush your teeth next to you, you're like, you should be in your own bathroom. And you're just furious. Like you go, what are we doing? All scrammed in here. Pissed off, you got to share a sink. Ma'am. We got a...

I know. I feel like we're running. I know. You want to hit the first one? Yeah, yeah. What is the shittiest moment? of your career? There's been a bunch.

I bombed on a cruise once. And so you're on the boat with these people. I remember I had to do three shows. And so I do the first two shows. One show goes, the point, when you would do them, you'd have to do three shows of half an hour. So you'd have to do a half hour clean, half hour dirty. and then you'd have another show that's like a half hour.

And so this is a show actually that a lot of crowdwork, comics that can do crowdwork are very good at because it's like that's kind of the best thing because you can just go talk to the crowd. Every crowd's different. Every show is different because you're talking to the crowd. But for me, I didn't have like enough. I'm not a crowdwork person.

I don't know how to do it. And then I'm not great at it. And then I only had material. So I go do it and like I just bomb like because they've all heard the jokes because I've only had like basically an hour. So I split them up. up into the two of those 30-minute shows. And then the third show, I was like,

well, maybe those people won't come back. Well, they come back. And they just, and I wrote, I remember after the show, I wrote an elevator with guys, and they were saying, they were like, yeah, there was just two comics. And they go, this one comic was great,

the other guy, they loved him. And on me, they go, that other guy is like, not good. And I mean, my shoulder is touching that man who's saying that. But I have, like, my hat on and not that they even know me. So that was a pretty tight,

like I was in an elevator in the ocean. I think it's a moment that you would think you'd be happy. And instead, I mean, I'm just, and I just got off whatever floor was the next floor I just walked off. God, that would be brutal. He's talking about being on a cruise ship. He did some shows. And he bombed and he's on the elevator.

And the guy, the gentleman next room, there's a, you know, a crowd on the elevator. He's wearing a hat so they can't, they don't recognize who he is. They're talking about how, you know, this one comic, they loved him. And they're like, but that last one, like, he just wasn't very good. and he said he's just standing there shone. He's got to be tough. That's tough. Do you ever get over that? Yeah, you remember. It's always

funny afterwards because you're like you're glad it happens. Like you're glad in the sense that it's a funny story to tell. Like, you know, but yeah, it's pretty tough. I'll tell you, one of the ones that hurt me the most was I auditioned for Last Comic Standing when Geraldo hosted

and Craig Robinson was on it because he had his, he had a movie very, very funny joke that Gerardo said Craig Robinson had the movie a hot tub time machine and so right when you say he goes I got a new movie Hot Tub Time Machine and Gerardo goes oh what's it about this is very funny

because obviously it's about a hot tub time there's no way to describe it but a hot tub time machine so when I auditioned for that I did not get it and I always thought like being clean I was like I'm gonna get like all the you know I'm the only one clean so like I can do this stuff and I didn't get it

And I never got close with last conversation. And that was a one that, that was like a one that was like, it hit me and my, like, it hurt. It really hurt. Because you just think like, all right, I'm going to go on this show. I'm going to do this. You kind of get your career kind of mapped out a little bit. You think all this stuff's going to happen. And then it just doesn't happen.

Another chip for the shoulder. Yeah. It's just another. But, man, when it, you know, when you're in it, you're like, what am I doing, dude? Like, it's so frustrating, you know. Yeah. than our last one. Drunkest you've ever been.

Where the scariest just eat you up and you're like, man, I got to fucking correct. You wake up the next day. You have to dim the lights. Get a quill and some ink out, dude, and write some freehand poetry while the candles are lit. That type of stuff. I mean, some of this I've talked about

in my act. Usually anything that I've already talked about it was, I mean, one was at a, I guess, an Indian casino or Native American casino canceled. Washington football team casino Washington football thing.

Why didn't they keep Washington football? Dude, I know it's the best one. The commander sucks. Such a good. Washington football. I was like, you made you think, well, every team, we should be the Tennessee football team.

Yeah. I was like, these things are all stupid. Makes it easy. Yeah. But so I went to that and I remember it was like a three-hour drive from Phoenix. And so I was out in Arizona.

I drove to this casino to do this whole, one-nighter. I mean, this is, you know, I'm nobody making no money. Hawkingstick Resort. I wish. This was not even that. I think I did some other kind. It was like a, it was something I was making $150. But it was like, you know what, I'll just go drive to the middle of nowhere, Arizona, and then go back to Phoenix and then fly home. So I go out and I was like, oh, it'll be fun. And, you know, I'm thinking like, I'll just go to bed early, get up, have a nice drive back. because I'm like, I'm not going to be hanging out with anybody.

And then so we get doing the show that I'm hanging on the casino, then you just end up meeting like some fun dudes. And next thing you know, it's like, it's five in the morning. And I'm just trying to go to bed. I got to get up at like eight to drive three hours back. So I get up and I'm driving back. And I mean, I'm so, I feel so awful. And when I have this in my joke.

I said, I walked out of the casino and there's like wolf. Like, and this really happened. a wolf, like in my path to go to my car in the parking lot and just sitting there staring at me. And I was like, you know, like, I don't know what this is. Like, it made me really, dude, and I swear it was a wolf. And so I was like, this is insane, you know, because I was like, I don't, you know, what is that? Is it a wolf? Is it the guy I hung out with last night?

I don't know. Right. And so I went. Oh, fucking twilight. Yeah, he turned into a wolf. and now he's like, good day, sir. So I just went back inside, and I remember I just rolled my stuff back in the casino,

and I just stood there. I'm not talking to anybody. And I just kind of stood inside for a second, and then I went back out, and then the wolf was gone. And so then I went to my car, and then I drove back. And then when I was driving back, I mean, middle of nowhere, Arizona, just on a road alone, and a helicopter lands in front of me

and picks up like a life support, some guy on the side of the road and then takes them and flies. And I have to wait for that to happen. And so, and I'm so hungover that I'm like annoyed, I'm like, here we go. Like,

you know, I mean, I've never had to stop for helicopter in my life. I don't expect to ever do it ever again. And I handled that moment hung over just like, and look at this every day, every day. Every day there goes,

every day something. There's something. I'm not, I should have video. of this. I should have picture. I didn't do any of that. I just was like, yeah, we, I was like, can I get around him? Like, it's a, I mean, he's just in the middle of it. There's no buildings. There's just me, this helicopter. There's five of us. And it's the helicopter people, that guy and me. And then finally it took off and I kept driving. And so that was like,

that was a tough one. That was all that happened. I, I think so. I really, yeah, because it was, it was the day after. It feels like so far away now. but yeah that I do believe that all that stuff happened and that was stuff like when I drank like I because I talk about that in my special and like on one of my specials or something but uh it's uh yeah those are moments that you're like such fun moments that you think if when you first start drinking you'll stop drinking you're like well I'm not gonna now be fun anymore you got to let you want the moment to live forever gotta keep it going yeah man dude thanks for coming on I know you have a hard stop at 5 so we'll let

you get out of here thank you for coming on thank this fly for being with us as well that The motherfucker's been around. He's been living his best life. Yeah, but just rips around. I'm just sitting here. You hit that damn light about six times. I thought he's going to electric. Yeah.

But thanks a lot, man. This has been fucking awesome. Absolutely, man. Congrats you guys to you. It keeps blowing up. I love seeing it. Thank you, man. Thank you.

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