Fore Play - Nate Bargatze and The Boys

Episode Date: April 28, 2022

Nate Bargatze (06:22), one of the funniest comedians in the world, joins Frankie, Trent & Riggs for the full show. We’re live from Old Hickory in Nashville and we talk — performing in front of one person, wanting to be better at golf, the pressures of filming a comedy special, minds wandering mid-performance, our dads, and much more.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Foreplay, presented by Barstool Sports. We have a very special show today. One of the funniest people in the world. Great comedian. Nate Braggatze is on the show for, I think the second time, is a huge golfer, played in the Barstville Classic, here in Nashville, and then afterwards sat down with us for about an hour,

and it was incredibly funny and covers a million different topics from golf. off to space to aliens to the background of comedy getting into it and all kinds of good stuff. So we're pretty much just going to roll with Nate on this show. Yeah, it was the first time I had met Nate in person. I know you went to his show in Vegas. Had you met him in person before? First time meeting him. First time meeting him.

You know, we had had him on the podcast before. Like you had said, Riggs, just one of the funniest people on the planet, just so effortlessly funny. It was great to have him on the show, talked about a wide range of topics. And I'm pretty sure we just sat down and started talking. talking. Yeah. We never were like, we're never like, Davey Fargatsy. We just immediately jumped into talking about our dads. The fan of us, which is always bizarre.

I never know how to react when he says that because he's very nice and says it. And I believe him, but it's like, but you're, the thing that he does is one of the hardest things to do in the world, which is stand-up comedy. And he excels at it and does it at such a level that he goes on tour and sells out theaters. And then we're like, we do podcast and it's, it's not the same to me. We just talk. Yeah. Do anything. What we do is pathetic compared to him, but what he doesn't understand is just how big a fans

we are. I know. Because like, Riggs went to a show. He's a huge fan. Trent and I for, I'd say three years have sent back and forth, Nate Bargatsy clips. Before we ever even had the opportunity to even speak to him, where like Tennessee kid was just something that we watched like when we were in the office, we'd come into the office

like the old HQ, like, whenever it came out, for, like, this was like four or five years ago we were talking about that thing, being like, this guy Nate Bargazzi is the funniest guy on the planet. And now we're just like, kind of friends of them. Yeah. I watch a Tennessee kid as many times as you can watch a special,

probably 15, 20 times and I never got to see of it. We listened to it in the car on the way home from like Pinehurst. Yeah. We listened to just Nate Bargazzi for an hour and a half. Yeah, there was a while there during the pandemic when we were going back and forth from Pioneer doing videos, the Kisner video, all sorts of different things. And we didn't want to fly or there wasn't fly, whatever the, case may be, we would just listen to comedy

albums and Nate's was definitely one of them that we'd listen to. And I, he would, he used to go, or he still does, he was on Casey radio a bunch of times. Yeah. And then I think that's sort of where the connection happened and now he's just on the show a couple times and he's just awesome. He's played in the Barsoe Classic today. There's some

comedians that are like bit funny and like stand up funny and then like others that can obviously do that and then be conversationalally funny. Like I mean, even Shane Gillis like before, he's getting better at it because he's on so many podcasts now. he was on Rogan and like he's been killing the game he's one of our favorite people on the planet he um he even like admitted at the first at the beginning he would do like casey radio and be like

dude i'm just not good at like being conversationalally funny like i'm just not good on podcast like i i have my own thing i'm like obviously a comedian but like i can't like be the funny man right like i'm just not that good fucking nate but he's getting better Nate bargatsy can make you laugh about talking about the tree he had us in tears tears five 10 times during that The whole show, you guys are going to hear us giggling like little school children. Like, it's really hard to not laugh around him. It's just everything about him. His mannerisms, his way of speaking, it's perfect.

The way his brain goes to react to a comment or a question that you give him in the direction that he takes it with the cadence. He's just hilarious. So Nate Braggazzi, he's pretty much dominates this entire show as he should. We'd like you to, you know, if you're looking for a little PG tour radio or all kinds of radio options, go dominate Sirius XM. Because Sirius XM, you can listen to the Sirius XM app. At home or anywhere you are, no card required. You can stream it on your phone, online, or at home. I know that because I do it.

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It was like a pretty funny text. And I just never answered that. Oh, double ghosted him? This is something I would do, by the way. Not you. The only reason I didn't, the only reason I double ghosted him is because, number one, pathetic and number two, I didn't have service at the golf course for a long time. Oh.

But then didn't see that text for a long time. I thought like, because an hour had passed and see a text in me, I thought he was okay. He was living in a reality where I now had ghosted him. So I was like, I'm trying to let that go. You know what I mean? Yeah. An hour had already went by since he sent that second text.

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by just visiting seriousxm.com slash for play pod offer here is our friend a great comedian Nate Brigazzi I've been doing the tonight show shit a lot lately the

oh this cross it I think you cross it too much so people start to like I think I think my yard is young I think my thighs are too big you get like it's a it's a solid

it's a solid move I think once you I mean like I'm 43 so once you pass 40 it's like it's expected to you're at the point where you just don't care anything you do uh no with this

no i remember like the idea of it like being like it was you didn't want to sit like that but i mean now it's so stuff starts getting so comfortable that you're like well i'm just going to do this yeah i noticed my dad started to get that way with everything in life lately like he just doesn't really care about like literally anything it's about the comfort

yeah and no decision decisions he doesn't care what you say yeah you know you offered opinion or something he'll be like yeah yeah and then he just completely see that a lot in couches right when you're young I feel like or like I'm dealing with this too like I want like a cool aesthetic looking couch in our new house like I want something that looks good and then like my dad and her dad are always just like no just give me the most comfiest reclining ugly couch you've ever seen your child because I just want to fall asleep there every single night you live with your dad's no okay uh I do so.

You and your girl are like you're like, what about this? And both y'all's dads are like, I don't know. Let's try something different. They're just right on the next room. They're in there. You go, yeah, I guess they have some say. Yeah. They got a lot of polar.

Yeah. Well, these dishes, dad. He goes, oh, let's do paper plates. My dad just ignores us a lot of the time now. You showed me a picture of your dad. Oh, yeah. What my dad does now is when he's eating, he's eating on the couch. He'll wear a bag.

big um um a bib it's the biggest bit oh yeah he puts a bib on oh yeah he loves it he and he's still able to like he can still talk he's still around but he just like if he if something how is he he's he just turned 70 it'll be 71 in june oh yeah but he just if he something falls on his shirt he's just like oh it's right i'm wearing the bib i don't think they notice anyway so it's you know your parents start getting to an age where you can see them they start wandering that you can they're not aware. Like when I go golf of my dad, I have to tell if anybody's with us, I'm like, look, he will hit as if he's playing alone. And it's not even, there's no rudeness. My dad's a very sweet man, but he has no idea where you're at and he will hit to you in front of you,

behind you, just keep an eye out. Yeah. Because he just is playing alone out here. I saw your dad performing a lot. Oh yeah, in Vegas. He was in crump. He's very good. I owe you a huge thank you, by the way. What? Well, that day. Yeah. You know, we, I just hadn't even thought to look. I was in Vegas with some friends and saw that you were playing a little golf and shot you a quick message.

Just saying, hey, how was the track today? I saw you out there. And your first reaction was, I got a show or you coming to the show. I was like, I didn't know you're doing a show. And then you instantly got us six tickets in like 45 minutes. And we were sitting with prime seeds. We saw your dad. We saw you and then hung out with you after.

And we were belly laughing. I told everyone on the show. I mean, my abs hurt for two days straight because we were belly laughing so much. Oh, that's awesome. You just hooked us up. So, I mean, it was a huge move out of you. We owe your big thank you.

Oh, no, absolutely. I didn't, you know, I didn't know what meant that much. I did. Yeah, I would have took it more serious. I got, I got you better seats. You didn't know what kind of seats I was going to get you. You'd been on the stage. I'd have you do some time.

Oh, the guy made it. Just chipped that. Oh, my gosh. Did the mic's pick the best of the music? The mic's picked out of that celebration up. That'd be great. Dude, that's one of the harder shots on the golf course. Yeah.

Over the bunker, no room to the pin. The whole thing slides away. What a shot. Great shot. Imagine that meant something, too, to get into the final. God, you just hear him and goes, that's an eight. Eight seven. That's an eight seven.

It's just the way means nothing. It had to mean a lot. I mean, my dad wears a headlamp around the house now. Oh, really? Wow. the time just to because he has trouble seeing no he just says you need it more than you think wait like uh one of those we wearing a cave yeah it's like a yeah it's like a it's dead serious i mean that's the fact that you need it more than you think is such you're like maybe

you do man i don't they've got stuff figured out like your dad just have so much where you're going i don't you know i got dude he's not wrong dude like have you seen The lights are not good. I guess if you're not going to be in where you're like, I could really use a head. Dude, I guess you can think about it. You never have to turn a light on when you walk into a room. Light switches are out. He just goes,

he just got a light. You just got a lighthouse walking around your house. Just like it's all day long just going everywhere and you're like, dad. He's like, what if he falls asleep with it on? And then you just see it. What do you dream? You think you're dreaming, you're going up and a dab in your way to go. He had no idea.

You got to see a light every night. You're like, oh, man. You need it more than you think. Yeah, you do. That's really good. And yeah, you just can't argue when he says that. That's true. All right.

I like that. I'm a big fan. It's a good move. So how was it out there today? It was good. Y'all do a great job, man. I was excited, you know, I'm a giant fan. Any of you come to shows, I'm a huge fan of what y'all do.

And so, did get to see it was very cool. and get a play in it and y'all do a great job and we had uh we had a lot of fun i don't think we we did all right when you didn't shoot anything crazy me my buddy white white england he played good and uh the guys we played with were great and then so it was i mean it was fun it moved too to be honest yeah i thought i mean you know sometimes these things can be i don't know maybe it took long forever but you had like it didn't seem like it you had like six cheeseburgers with you at the turn i got them for the group okay i'm a team player yeah they didn't you know they we went in there Well, you know, I guess you know, you don't know if it's going to be box lunch or what it's going to be at these.

And then there was Cheeseburg. I was like, you know, I don't know these two dudes. I brought them. I don't even take one ate it. I think the other one. I don't like he ate it. I brought it. And I think he said, he's like, oh, yeah, I mean, maybe.

And I was like, all right. Maybe. Which is great. Maybe. I hope he didn't eat it. Old Hickory Country Club. You have some history at this place. This is a big place.

So I grew up here. This is Old Hickory. I grew up here. I was actually married at this club, so the building behind us was not there. And it was a patio. So we got married on that patio, and then we went to the upstairs, and we had our reception. And, I mean, it's like we would go sledding on that hill over there. I went to that junior high.

I mean, this is, you couldn't be more in the middle of where I grew up. So, yeah, it's great. You learned to golf here? No, we can never We can never afford to be a member There's another course I was called Riverside That was like one that we would

That's public and we would go to But I used to be a member here When we used to live over Right next to year So My whole family's still here I mean my sister is right here And it's crazy

Yeah it's crazy I mean being married we were married there I did I have a joke about it I can't remember everything But we had our DJ Had one leg At her reception my mom got him

and he just played music like he wouldn't play music past 80s like I just don't think he had it like it was like he was the DJ early on and then just you're like well there's like new music and he's like I don't mean dude I got the latest stuff and it's like 80s and you're like all right I guess he does

we had my mom hired which we shouldn't have you can't have you know my mom was in her 50s at that point you think DJs are preferable to a live band their wedding? I had a wedding. Yeah. I could see a live bed and, you know.

I didn't, I mean, we did, yeah, I don't know. It seems the DJ's cheaper. We were at, our wedding did not cost a lot. It wasn't a big. Was that choice left up to you or was that I? I mean, we got, I get married in 2006. I mean, I'm not making, I don't know if I'm making 10 grand a year. Like, you know, I'm doing, my wife's working.

so it's like you just can't afford a South weddings and like when I moved to New York it's like the weddings up there like they're all real the real deal. It's a problem. Yeah it's like it's a big I remember We've heard a lot about it. A friend. Oh you're they're in the middle of the process

He's got one coming up. Oh yeah? Just the expectation of what you have to put on at this point just because of like where we live like just because of like the weddings we've gone to our buddies You just you have to spend a lot of money. It's it's It's the worst cycle. Yeah, it's a worst cycle of all time. Yeah. Everyone keeps tabs of what gift you gave them and then like how much you're, it's a nightmare.

Yeah, like I feel like in this, like when we grew up, it was you gave like the gift was almost you're paying for how much it costs to eat or something. And then I remember a girl when I started comedy that I worked at a restaurant with, but she said she's going to a wedding. He was in New York and she was like, I got to save money like. And I was like, how much money? She's like, I gave her like, 500 bucks. And I was like, what?

It's crazy. I was like, I don't even understand. I was like, I don't know. My parents gave us 500 bucks. I know. I was blown away, but she's like, that's just what it is. You know, it's like, weddings are just crazy. For one day where everyone just gets like drunk and pukes and doesn't even remember what happens.

Just one day. One day. Just one day. You were saying the band that played here at the classic last night. They were amazing. They were amazing. They were the, um, the Mance brothers. Yeah.

And you were saying that because you want a live band at your wedding. And a band like that doesn't really exist on long eye I was just saying like it's amazing how And then we ended up finding out that they're like legit Like they played at Kid Rock's place last night Or something or on Sunday and like close the place out Yeah Like people couldn't even get in

And they're just playing here It's like kind of funny like no one was really paying attention They're just in the corner just belting out Rippins like jams Unbelievable talent And I was just sitting there watching them like in awe Being like the amount of talent down here in Nashville is nuts Like the fact that

And ask them playing your wedding These guys are just so good Hey y'alln't do a wedding out of Long Island And they're like I mean we do other stuff You know we tour and stuff You're like you have thought about a wedding now No it's just amazing the like the talent down here It's just like the fact that we got them for that event

And like they're better than anything I've heard In a long time Yeah The music here is wild And it's everywhere it's in the airport You go to Broadway and it's just That's where everybody plays Music industry is insane to be able to break through.

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So you don't ever, your goals are never so high. Or I never made my goals high enough that I can't reach them. It was all very just like, it was basically that my goals were the next step. And then you just keep going like that. So they don't, you know, so you get too far out. It seems impossible. Yeah. You want to give yourself a chance.

And so I just did that. And then, I mean, I was in New York. I mean, it was crazy. You know, it's like, you know, the whole time I was there, like, I mean, now, my best friends are all comics, we're all from different places. But it was, you know,

you felt out of place, you know, I'm just from here and like, and then you're in New York and you're like, I don't, you know, no one's, I don't understand,

like anything that's going on. People are just so different. How anybody would feel when they move, you know, so, but you just, you realize, like,

even where I'm at now, like, still like the level of like, where like Fallon's at, you're like, it is so, it's so hot. Or like,

the idea of like celebrity or like all this kind of stuff it's just being a household name is like it's not easy to become that right that's a very it's a it's a hard hard thing to do it's amazing to hear the stories of like the actual grind of comedians i was listening to soda on rogan the other day yeah and he tells a story about you guys in erie pennsylvania oh yeah 500 person show right at the right at the beginning yeah of the pittsburgh steelers game oh what was it like to be on the other side of that because he tells the story of him, like, watching you give, like, these all-time jokes. No one's paying attention.

They're watching the game. I thought I murdered. So I found out Soter just started to drink. I mean Soter is different. He goes, that, uh, we go to it. That club, you're supposed to, they wanted you to be clean. Well, I'm clean. So in Soter was like, this is how long ago it was.

I was like, hey, like, no one's there to see. No one knows who we are. And Soter was open with for me. And I was like, you got to be this guy goes on about being clean. And then when we get there, The dudes are you are clean. We're like, we're going to be clean. So the first night on Thursday, the guy has a host.

And the host is, we talked to him. I was like, you've been in comedy a long time? He goes, this is the first time. And he was literally his first time ever on stage was hosting a show where there's people there. And you're like, all right, he goes up and does, I mean, maybe three minutes of just filthy, too, by the way. Because he doesn't know to be, you know, he doesn't know what to do. Just filthy and just bombs so hard. And then he comes and sits in the front row.

And then Dan goes up. And then he starts heckling soda because now he starts drinking. So the guy that's the host is in the front row heckling soda. And then when soda gets done and he sort of looks at him, he's like, hey, you got to come back up here because you've got to bring Nate on. And he's like, oh, yeah. And he gets up and he goes back to him. Now he's drunk.

So he does like 25 minutes of just nothing. He's got confidence. He's my favorite comment I've ever seen. and he didn't know how to bring you up it's like they just say your name neighbor you know next guy's name i mean like you're nobody do you're like yeah yeah like it's his show and he's like this next guy whatever you know keep a guy i don't he doesn't say and then so that guy the next the weekend they were like we get a guy that's an actual comedian and i talked to him and i said how long have you been in comedy and he goes about a year he goes this is my 12th time on stage so

he's like we've been going up for once a month Once a month. So you're like, do you know how to host, dude? And they call his name up. I'm staying in the back of the room and it's packed. It's like a, because, you know, they would do a lot of times like charity stuff, hand out tickets. He's staying in the back of the room.

They can say his name. I'm looking at him. I'm like, dude, they said your name. And he goes, I know. And then he starts walking through the crowd just like waving his arms up. Like, and you're like, the confidence is unreal. And then he goes up. It's like whatever.

Soterre goes up. Then the Steelers at playoff games. like Steelers, Baltimore or something. Playoff game starts. So, Dear My Show, they're just screaming in the bar the whole time. You can't even, no one wants to be in this show. They just want to be watching this game. And so Soderrette goes out to, like, find the guy that runs the place to be like,

you got to calm it down. When he goes out there, it's the guy that runs the place is the one that being that loud. He's the only one that needs to be calmed down. And he's the one you can't. And he's just like, how are you going to cry of him? Just screaming at like everything, dude. And it was, it was the best, though. Erie Pennsylvania, that's where that evil genius.

Oh, yeah. In that document? That's right. I had never really, you know, so we went to the show, which I was unbelievably grateful for as we established earlier, you know, obviously clean comedy. And I had never really noticed. I just hadn't thought about it before. Is that, I mean, is that like a conscious effort or is it more just kind of, is that

something you really have to, like, focus hard on? I mean, I kind of grew up. you know man I grew up that way like I grew up you know Southern Baptist go to church you not the curse like it was you just kind of grow up in that kind of environment and uh so it was it was it was almost like when I started coming I didn't want to like my I couldn't do that in front of my parents I was I would I would feel too and I would feel too weird and embarrassed and so I just and I just always started clean and so you start clean like it was just easier to me right that way it's kind of the only way I think and uh you know and it works out compared

just because there's not a ton of clean guys. But the goal of it was a big part of moving in New York. I wanted people to not know you were clean. Like now people come and some people are there because you're clean. But it's like the idea of it was like it doesn't, it's not about me being clean. So you go. I'm clean. I'm just not cursing.

I'm still talking about stuff. You still can do stuff. Like we just shot Mike Vecione, very funny comedian. And he was a comic in New York. And he's always been like, he's a little dirty, but not. much and uh i told him i was like if we i was like we shot it i was produced and directed special and i was like if you just be clean because if you just don't curse you can say you can really talk about anything it's like tv clean like where it's like yeah you can say stuff it's like

you know sign felt i mean they the contest they do like you just way it's like being like that just being yeah figure out a different way to say it where everybody kind of gets the point and then without going right to saying the word well i mean i watched tennessee kid probably three or four times before I even realized it. So, like, I don't, you are clean, but I don't think of you as, like, a clean comic in that way. It's, it's, well, that's, that's all, that means the world. That's all, that's all you want. And I think a lot of clean comics like that, where you're like, it's not, it's not what it's about, it's just about being funny. And it's like, I just, I do it this way. And then other people do it other ways. Yeah. You know, that's what it is. Interesting. So I always think about,

I was thinking about, like, people who do really scary stuff. I always think about how, how, how it went or what it must have been like the first time they really did like somebody who like if I watch somebody ski jump they fly through this guy I'm like man the first time they did that that must have been crazy or or flying I can take all these lessons been the first time you're like you're driving the plane and the piloting the plane and it's taking off that must be terrifying public speaking is probably the most crippling anxiety across most people that you possibly have do you like do you recall well the first time or first you know real times that you said okay I'm going to take a microphone to stand in front of people and make them laugh yeah yeah uh I

So I moved to Chicago first and I started. I took a comedy class, comedy college. It was a class was called that. But it was, I looked down. So I just like, I have an old, I have a VHS of it, which is crazy. I mean, I started 2003. It sounds like it started in the 40s. But it's black and white.

Yeah, it's black and black and white. Like women weren't allowed. And they. But like I looked down. Like, so you just would never look up. You just look down. the whole time and it always is it takes a long time to get used to it but then you just you just got to keep going i mean you don't want to do it you're i remember like you know i just started

i wish like the place burnt down because then i could say well i tried to like i feel like i could well i'm trying but the buildings keep setting on fire so i can't go like they're just have an excuse because you're just driving there you're just sick to your stomach and you're like oh what am i doing and it's but you love you know you love it I'm obsessed with it that you still just end up going and then eventually you just kind of get through it I mean it's like you know doing this like you got to be able to talk doing these podcasts like so when you first you feel like there's a lot of pressure and then you eventually you just kind of got to get used to do it but it takes a long time that's why when people like they see people and they're like well this guy's really funny

and like sometimes I can play with people like you do a celebrity event or something they just think well you're not that funny out there you're like yeah dude it's like that's not what it is Like, I'm not going to be as funny as your buddy that knows all the, you know, all those sayings and can be quick and funny to you, but that guy can't go on stage. Right. And be funny for that. Like, he thinks he can. And he'll go try and it's going to be.

There's a guy that's going to be bad off, you know, that's open for you. Oh, yeah. That was the same guy. Yeah, that guy thought, like, I mean, he thinks like, I mean, I make my friends laugh. And he goes up and it just crumbles because there's no, you don't have a system in place to be able to get when it goes bad. Like, you got to have, like, when a joke goes bad, it can still. make you nervous still now like if i'm like oh man i got to like it didn't start the way i thought

it was going to start and so you're like i got to get back out of this hole but you got to have just so much material that you can be like let me get it back and then you can get it back to go still to this day there's times you got to be i got to get out of this hole here yeah yeah now i have a hard time with and i've worked on it i can my mind can wander and so i can be up there and i can be saying the jokes and then my mind isn't i'm on another planet and uh and i've really worked at like bringing myself back in the moment and just like I try to catch it so you can kind of be like hey man like you know hey you're on stage it's it's insane but just how much you do comedy you can you do these jokes and you can sometimes be saying oh man I mean it's like I'm thinking about

what I'm wearing or what are we doing later I'm like why did we stay at this hotel like what you know and then I'm like then you're you're like I've been talking for fight it's like when you're drive and you're like am i having been paying attention stop lights and you're like somehow you're not dead and then you're like well i need to focus now because that can't last forever and so that's what that's a big part now i think the long you do comedy is just to try to really be in the moment be present you know every show that you do is those people have seen you for the first time they don't care that you've done 100 shows and they shouldn't care it's like the old you know we didn't like Joe DiMaggio said that or something or Mickey Man, like you play some kids out there that

has never been to a Yankees game. So it's not fair to that kid. And so you kind of, that mindset to be like, you can't just wander off and phone it in, you know. Do you ever, like with new material, do you ever, like, feel the need to research and make sure somebody hasn't done it before? You have a pretty good idea. If a joke feels, comes very easy, then that's the one that you're like, let me really

make sure that no one's done this. like if it's in but if you if your jokes are personal probably no one's done it but if if you get one that's like kind of like you're like anybody could really tell this joke those are the ones that you kind of kind of be like all right let me see if this has been done just like a google search uh you just ask some comics i don't really i don't know if i've ever googled i mean when i was i don't maybe they google search now like the younger comics too like we did it uh but now you i would just call you i guess i don't know a good i don't know good you always usually ask a younger comic that probably knows a lot of people's material because

they watch comedy more than i would now and so you just kind of like hey has anybody done this and it's usually if it's something that feels if it's like super funny and you just came up with it very easy you're just like god that feels like those are the ones you're like someone else could have come up with this let me kind of just do my background check you ever you're please go ahead if you're not finished no but i was like but that stuff idea i don't think that stuff happens as much is it people think it does like this idea of stealing jokes and all this kind of stuff

I mean it happens but it's not at the highest of levels and it can be on the lower level like guys just doing bar shows or you know maybe something like that but I know there's been cases but it's a lot of times people are going to think of the same thing

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I used to, but then I, like, I'm not smart enough to, like, really talk, I, talk myself out. So if someone's like an accountant, you're like, well, I don't even know what that means. So, like, I don't know how to, like, if they're going, where do you work it? And you're like, well, I don't, now I'm out. I only know the word accountant. You can't get one question and you're like, I'm a comedian. Yeah, yeah. Now I just will tell them.

But yeah, I would have it. I mean, you know, I could say I was a mover. You know, it's a move stuff. I'm a mover. And then there's, yeah, you're sitting up in this point. You're like, you forward this flight too? You're like, yeah, I make a lot of money moving people. It's really blown up.

Yeah, they see your name on a sign. You're like, we got a giant company. It's, uh, we're one, one of the best. movers I'm really good in a lot of curves so how is it being up and running post you know I guess COVID's clearly not as what they say I don't know what he said something about the podcast I didn't hear something battling piece of popcorn in my teeth that's why I want to know that popcorn's one of the worst I would say it's been a real you've been a real bit I mean you've been a lot of popcorn today I don't

think so all for the wedding hopefully yeah I'm up there. I'm like, oh, shit. You're just like, still here. Or comes out, like right. You're shaking your head.

You're not even, you're like, I do. You're just say it. You're like, I was never really there. I was this kernel in my tooth for a year and a half.

Mine was just wandering. Mine was wandering. I was wondering. I was telling these guys something that I wander also, but, you know, I like to get deep into like all these things

like space and why we're here. It just kind of messes up my day. Something that came across my desk the other day was that our bones are wet. Yeah. What does it mean when it comes across your day? Like you looked it up.

Somebody tweeted it at him. Someone tweeted out of me. You know? Usually. I don't have a desk. Someone like, yeah, man. We don't have a death. Someone brought a paper.

Yeah. Bones are wet. You're like, well, dude, I'm not going to get out of this. Yes. What kind of assistance? Y'all have you're like, well, I don't know how I'm going to make it. Bones are wet. There you go.

Quick heads up. Bones are wet. Bones are wet. So if you. It's just an unfortunate fact, to be honest. What is it? I don't even know. Just bones.

Our bones are soaking wet. I'm sitting about that. Oh, yeah. Like, we're sitting here. Oh, with the blood and stuff? Just everything, right? Everything inside of it? Yeah, it makes up you.

Just an unsettling feeling. There's a lot of unsettling feelings that almost comfort me. Like, it gets me through the day. Well, like you're a bag almost carrying. We're like a vessel. Yeah, it's kind of crazy that we can walk. I think about that sometimes. You're like, how am I standing up right?

Like, that's not an ultimate. It's a great point. Because I'm not, you're not saying anything to your, you're just doing it. You're just doing it. And then I think, like, why did I just turn left? Who told me to just turn left? Like when you're walking, you just kind of go left. Yeah.

And it gets to a point where it's like your brain's the thing. Yeah. It's a big deal. The brain's a, I'm saying, it's a. But it's almost like the brain is what it is and we're just going with it. Yeah, but your brain's what's figuring it all out. Right. It's crazy like how smart your brain can be.

Like it's like people have just crazy amount and they don't use it. Like it is. And also like, like you activate a part of your brain. brain that we don't to do what you do. I think that's like a proven fact, right? Like when you excel at something, it's like using different parts of your brain. You're looking for life on. I was looking for a lifeline. I was looking for a life line. I was just a head nod. Just a good slogan for the show is. I think that's a proven fact. I think it is too. I liked it. It was positive to me. So I was like, yeah, you're activating a part of your brain. I'd imagine. Yeah, I'm better than a lot of people. And, uh, go on.

You have to keep nailing. I mean, you're nailing it. Making a lot of stacks over there, Frankie. Shit. You get into that kind of stuff. Like, it's, uh, yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. There's stuff up there.

Just, you know, there's junk. They can talk about that. I don't understand how that's just, there's, like, trash up there. Yep. And, uh, you know, there's other planets. It's a lot, dude. It's a lot. It's, it's.

We had a guy on Dr. Um, what, what was, No, no, no, that was a psychologist. Who's, what was it? The astronaut that we had with? Yeah, Lopez. No, that was the astronaut. Who's the guy who built the James Webb Telescope?

The NASA guy. Whatever. We had a NASA doctor on. Can't remember his name. We'll call up with his name. He helped build that James Webb telescope. And he goes, yeah, I accept Dr. Eric Smith. He is basically like a savant in Exoplan.

I'm like, how do you get to that level? I don't even know what an exoplanet is. It's just plants that they think that like life- We had them on and we don't know. That's maybe because you're lying the whole time. Maybe that's how it works. You can't prove any of it. That's what else is.

There's a little slim world of science. You're like, there's a bunch of them out there. And you're like, I mean, I think so. And this is, and I'm an and I do exoplanets. And then you're like, well, I just, you know, I do a podcast. So, all right, man. Thanks for coming on. Yeah.

That was probably a comedian you were talking to. Yeah. Yeah, you could just make up any, like I, uh, I used to have a joke about it. Like, like, because they're, say, like, uh, roaches are like 300 million years old. You're like, I don't, you know, you go tell me that they really figured out or the scientists just, goes, they're old, dude, just put a number. I got to, like, I'm going to get home. Like, they, you know, they got to go home.

They're regular people. And they got to go eat. And he's like, just write 300 million. Like, who even, we can change it at any point. And it's enough that it's sad. There you go. Yeah. They're admitting it's not on the dot to that date.

They're just saying, yeah, we think it's 300. Yeah. Ballpark. Because what are the odds it would be exactly a round number? 300 million years. I mean, at that point, you're opening the door to just, it all could just be made of. Yeah, it gets a, I mean, yeah, they say how to, yeah, it could all be made up. Right.

It's a number that's big enough where you're like, I'm not going to check it out. So, well, that telescope, where they, you know, you see another plane? Is it like a, you see a guy on another plane? There, dude. He's like, Yeah. We're here. There's a guy over there.

It's like, that's the day we're all waiting for and nobody really talks about it. And all the like super sciencey stuff that's like, oh, there's planets over there. There's this and that. But we're all waiting for a guy just. Do you care about that stuff?

Aliens and stuff? Just like, would you like to know if they could find someone out there? Yeah. Yeah. I would love it. I would like to actually meet a person. I'd rather talk to someone that wouldn't care. I'd rather talk to that guy.

He goes, I don't have time for something like that. And then another planet. And he goes, I don't know. My life is slammed right now. Then I got three kids. I don't know. Maybe later I'll do it. But there is partially.

I feel like that's happened a little bit where recently a lot of UFO documents have come out from the Department of Defense. And it felt like it wasn't a big enough deal. People were just kind of like, all right. And then they kept it moving. Like I think we get so much information nowadays that, we have become numb to the stuff that's actually cool. Well, the UFOs, they broke that during COVID and no one cared. Nobody gave a shit.

And it was crazy. And they was like, how do you not? Like, this is more important than COVID. It's more important than anything that's ever happened on the planet. They're here, dude. Like, they're here. And it's like, yeah, dude, they're here. And no one.

People just kept calling. They were like, I don't know, just breeze by. It's a Kardashian video. Right. And you're like, no, dude, it's aliens. And that's kind of like, that kind of changes the game down here. a little bit, you know? Like, we should talk about it, at least.

Changes everything. Changes everything. One of the few things that changes everything. Everything. And they might have even, like, I mean, if you read, I like the idea of all that stuff. Like, I like aliens. I like Bigfoot. I think there could be Bigfoot.

I'm still a believer in Bigfoot. There's a lot of trees. Bigfoot's kind of been shoved. You go, there's parts of land. We've never even been anywhere. You go, like, they just go look at like Alaska and up there. You're like, hey, it's just, it's forever. Yep.

The ocean, who knows what's down there? I mean, it's so deep. Oh, yeah. The ocean is scary. The ocean, to me, there's a debate that has happened online, like what's scary are the depths of the ocean or the, you know, space. I think ocean has a pretty good argument for being scary. Yeah.

Because it's, you get down deep enough and there's no light, but there's things happening. Yeah. Who knows what type of mutant things are now? You ever see that one, that one fish that's got a light bulb like your dad? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I wonder if you took it from that. Pops.

Call me. Uh, maybe. He, he, my dad with the headlight that you brought that up. Yeah. He is right in that you wouldn't believe, like when you drop something behind like or under the couch or something and you're like, I know it's, I can't. You don't have any light. You can't see it.

How many times I pull up my phone with a flashlight too? And just use it for stuff. You get to that point in your life though where you realize like your dad was right. Oh yeah. All the time. Yeah, yeah. About stuff all the time. All the time.

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it is you know I'd be like you speak English that's interesting yeah oh yeah that's a really interesting. What else do you know about us? He probably knows everything. So you just get the car, let me drive with you. I don't know what the first thing I'd show. Ask him to buckle up because the beep is going. Because he got your seatbelt and you're like, hey, he goes, it's just a weird thing now.

But you do weigh something down here. So if you just buckle that seatbelt, that beach drives me. You might not have, I don't know how your ears work, but you're, that is driving me bananas. You're going to kick the alien out of the car. It's like, if you don't buckle up. Dude, if you don't, y'all don't have this, y'all don't have, like, safety there? He's getting an argument with him.

And he leaves. Sir, it's really dangerous. It's on earth, you know? That's who we are. Right. That's a, like, you're thinking, like, take him to a football game. Take him to the ocean or something. Yeah.

And that's, like, give him to buckle his seatbelt. Yeah. And that's probably what it would do. And he'll be just hung up in that for a while. Like, they're real crazy about sea belts there, dude. he goes like unbelievably this dude was just not let up

and I'm an alien sit right next to him he didn't ask any other questions he asked when do you think you're going to put that seatbelt in is what he would ask yeah

exactly that's a good as an answer as you can give to that question don't get much better than that shit dude wow You're still playing as much golf.

When we talked to you last, you were playing a ton of golf. Obviously, it was mid-pandemic, so tour wasn't going on, but are you still trying to get out as much as you can? I try to. I'm not playing a lot, and it's because, like, we're doing a lot of two shows, and it's, I've learned, like, it's another thing you've got to learn sacrifice. Like, you know, and you guys come out here, you're not getting to play. It's your thing.

And so you learn, like, yeah, dude, you got to work. And, like, so, you know, it's a big commitment when you go play. And so, and your mind starts warming. wondering, you get to like 14 and then you're, you know, the shows in two hours or three hours and you're like, I'm not even focused anymore. Like, even though you know your act and you're just like, I just, I feel too stressed. And so the road has become pretty hard to play. I'll try to occasionally, like if something crazy comes up, uh, I got to play The Grove, 23 issues that earlier. And so like, like something nuts comes up, you're like, all right, I'll figure it.

the drones flying around uh they didn't that day i don't i didn't see it but that was that place though it's awesome i mean the whole experience is just wild yeah like it's uh uh i didn't see jordan but saw griffy junior no way what's his swing as butter is i saw him hit out of a fairway bunker and it's just it's left-handed and it's like you could if i didn't know it was him you would be you're like that's kin griffy jriff you yeah the swing is just it's so smooth And it's just everything you want it to be. And it's, and you know it's him. And it's like, just like his base.

Just like a- Wonder if he's like that in just all aspects of life, just smooth. Getting just like a coffee mug and just everything, you know? Never jerks. Never. You know, just always just, you know, credible tempo on everything. Putting his seatbelt on, no matter what he does. Like him and Fred couples are just, it's like watching a ballet.

They go eat at a buffet and you're like, that was beautiful. Yeah. It's amazing. Someone cuts them off on the street. They just like spin off them. Yeah. Nothing happens Nothing's like

They're going to the other lane But come back No one really notices it And you're like That was a pretty dangerous movie They get No problem It's griffy

Because I got it It's griffy I think Fred couples The most desirable Golf action I've seen Yeah Yeah

I look at his swing a lot And you're like I just want that It doesn't look hard And I know it's so hard But it's just smooth And you're like A guy that's just like

Yeah, just like you go play alone. Like a dude, you know. Yeah. He's just like, I'm out of here by myself just hidden around today. It's the U.S. Open. So you played today, like, what's the one thing that was, like, irking you the most about your game that you're frustrated with? My driver's not been great.

And then my chipping is bad. I had some R.A. chips thing. But it's like, I have no confidence in shipping. I don't practice it. And you just, you know, I'm just at a point now. You're like, yeah, you got to practice. If you want to get good, like, you have. to you have to practice.

No one where the ball is going to go and all that kind of stuff. And I think I shot, I probably shot like an 84, I think, which is not great. I should be this, but I'm like kind of stuck there. Like I'll go 80, 84 and I just kind of stay in that world. And, you know, it's putting up, I feel all right with. Chipping is the, it's won't get close. Yeah. Chipping's hard.

Shipping's hard. Shouldn't be. It doesn't seem like it would be. Of all the swings, that's the most difficult one. It's crazy. It's crazy. You hit the ball 180. Well, I'm talking from personal experience.

Much more confident hitting a ball 170 yards onto a green than I can, chipping at 15 feet. Yeah, it's deflating when it doesn't, you know. And you can only, it's only so far you can put with your putter off a grain. You want to talk everybody? You're like, I should probably use putter, right? You're trying to talk everybody into a green with you. I've been testing those.

You're not seeing this, right? Like, I should have a foot. You're like, we're about 40 yards. doubt but yeah i mean if you fill it dude you got just fill it today you know i just you gotta go through rough there's no way to judge the speed at all like you just you got it dude we were in michigan playing the loop uh and i put one from 85 yards yeah he did oh yeah oh yeah we're on the green yeah there's no pictures on the score card don't look at me what i'm doing over here yeah yeah what'd you do with it that got it on like two putt i i mean it was closer than

you would have gotten it with a chip, I think. Way closer. Yeah. It was a right play. So it's like, it's a right play. It was a laughing sock while I was doing it. Yeah. Why would anybody, you know? Golf story is so difficult that like we just like all expectations of how you're supposed to play the game should go out the window. Just get the ball in the hole in the lowest

amount of strokes. You know what I mean? Don't care about what I'm doing until the ball goes in the hall. That's a big part of it is learning how to turn your mind in to be like, just play the game. Like you know how to hit these shots. I always try to think you can, I can make a ball move I can do stuff and you're like well just do that and then but you just if I start thinking swing thoughty or something it's like I mean I look like I don't I've never even like you just asked me to play for the first time and I'm like all right I'll try it like it's bad and you do stuff that's like I was I was talking a ball all the time and I mean it was just the most embarrassing thing I played with two guys I didn't know and I mean I would just top it in a place that I always had like

just out of bounds in front of the tea and I would go in, you know, just in it every time. And it just like, almost like it hits the ground and it goes up. And then I'm like doing pretty good on everything. You know, like you still shoot like an 88 and you're like, you're like, you're like, I don't know, dude. I don't know. My life is just not in a good spot right now. It's the most lonely feeling, I would say, in really anything I've done when you just cannot hit a golf

shop yeah because there's you just have to do it you can't just you can't be like yeah I'm just like knocking a tee off on this whole guys they'd be like why I mean why you're you're pulling your hybrid out or something and you're just doing that you're like yeah I'm shooting my hybrid today even on course even that's but it's like when you can't when you just have to hit like we arrive to a tea and the whole order of operations here says like I need to put this into the ground I have to play from here and get it out there I have I have to do that's where we signed up for but I can't It's a very, like, crippling feeling. Yeah.

And there's nothing else like it. This, so the hole over here, I was talking to Brandon earlier, like we were, so the old Higger Boulevard is, it's right on the road. This, that hole will, I've watched it ruin people. Because I've hit into it and I've hit into it and bounced over into the school. I've seen people bounce it and it's gone almost to the, like, way, like almost to the light. Like, it's, I mean, it'd be a 500-yard drive and it's just bouncing down the middle. the panic of that road

we uh we got to the buddy and he quit he after that he went because we got two holes along the road and he went road road and then he got his car and he's never he hasn't played your sense because it's like you're just that fear of like it's the most it's so busy of a road

you know it's not like yeah there's a couple cars you're like it's the most cars we have in Nashville going down that road and you just see it and you just you know you just like I just you're like just trying to not hear it you don't want to hear just keesh yeah or like honks you know oh yeah just like oh no talk to that guy and they're never like you know obviously why would they but they're not ever like cool

it never works out no it's like oh yeah i get it man you know it's just never coming home from work to get a golf ball through your wind chills just not a good experience don't worry about it man happens everybody what are you doing driving on a golf club you know he just blame them you're only 15 yards off the fairway yeah i don't know whose fault is it you know it's pretty reckless of society to allow golf you think about it when people suck at it a lot of land and we're hitting the ball 150 miles an hour yeah this hard little ball yeah that if it strikes something will inflict significant damage and proams and stuff and you got you we allow these things and celebrity events like how nerve wracking is that with the with the crowd yeah uh there well i didn't

I've, well, I've only done one pro-im where, like, the crowd. But it wasn't super crowd. So I've never played in, like, Pebble Beach or something where it's. I watched a video last night. Some woman hidden, and she had two. I think it's a famous, I guess a lot of people have seen this video. But it seems like it's from the 80s. And she just rips one and there's all these people standing in there.

And she just tops it. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Dude, it's so great. And she just hit, I mean, just, you hear someone go, Oh, no. And then they, and then so she just re-teased. She does it again.

And does it again. And someone goes, have her cut it out. She's just decked that. I mean, they get, and you're someone that's to go, call the paramed. I mean, she really hurts someone. Like, she just. Yes. And she did it twice.

Like she's on the tee box with a turret gun. Oh. Right. And it's one of those swings where you can, you know, when you got, you play with someone, you can see they go back fine. But then they come, like, where it's, so. it's going to get the ball they think they're lined up but then when they swing they actually hit it straight but the straight is just way left and i mean she just did two and her and you can see right when she comes down her body's open and these people are just why would you let her keep hitting

ever cut it out it was so drag yeah the ambulances i mean please just please why would you let her keep going. Like they, the lady was still on the ground. They didn't even have, they were working on her. And she just ropes when I went right to her. It's, it's beautiful, dude. It's beautiful. That's why I like, that's why golf is so great, because you don't, you've seen a ball. I got my buddy, Tim York out there's name. We were playing on the first tea here. And so that's the clubhouse right there. And I've watched him dry. We were playing the green teas. And on his driver, his ball goes completely sideways over that thing. with a driver. I don't even know how

it's possible. I don't think Phil Mickelson could do it. We're facing that way. And it just goes straight sideways and we're like, well, he's going to hit a car that shouldn't be hit. Like, you know, someone's parked a car over there that's like, well, I don't know where a ball would come from.

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missed the ball and it just dribbles off the tea and goes down this hill to the right and just lands in a pond no one that belonged at that club knew there was a pond there years kids goes i've never seen that water in my entire life it's like in between the driving range the first team no one even knew it was there all we here just like a boom and they're like is that a water hazard it was crazy so every time i meet someone from that club we were just down um in new orleans and we met a couple guys and you're like, dude, no one stops talking about it. Yeah. It's essentially my pond now. It's your pawn. It is. They should name it after me. They should. Imagine those fish in there just like they've never knew they're on a golf course. You know, just a ball just comes in.

Like, where the hell are we? One ball there. One ever. Do you have anything you're looking forward to, you know? Any big plans coming up for Napar Gatsy? Our tour, I mean, I'm out on tour right now. And the tour has been great. The shows have been great. You know, I'm gonna take, I'll hopefully tape a special later this year. Nice. And I'll be excited to tape it and then start, you know, you think you gotta start new, which seems impossible. It always feels impossible. You don't think.

Every time you do it, you're like, I don't know how. Like, you just feel like you don't. I'm like, I don't know how to do comedy. Right. I don't know how I've somehow figured this, this hour out. But then another one is, it's probably going to be impossible. How many hours have you already accomplished of, like, comedy that you're really proud of that. you've put out there to the world i've got three hours specials one comedy central two on

netflix half hour on netflix half hour on comedy central so it's like four hours and then uh with those two half hours uh yeah it's a lot but it seems so that's why it's always daunting and you're and you just got to be like i guess i know how to figure it out so i'll figure i guess i'll figure it out but there's no you want like a system and there's no system i think that's like golf is similar like you know like feel or something and you're supposed to feel this and you're like yeah but that feels not always going to be the same feel sometimes it's that and sometimes it's not that and sometimes it's something weird and it's hard for us to or it's hard for me to like go off well no it's to be that and i'm not open to the idea that it could be other things and uh i don't even know how

that really relates to con i like it though yeah sometimes feel sometimes like a shot calls for something different yeah do you have you ever been like a like a last minute has have you ever had like right before you're about to tape a special, like, a last minute change to a joke where you're, like, right before you walk on, you're like, actually. Or maybe, like, off the top of your head, you changed it from what you thought I was going to be? I've had some jokes that I didn't expect to be in a special. Okay. And then they were in it.

I mean, the one I just did, the greatest average American we filmed outside. Yeah. And so it was, I, you're supposed to do an hour and our close, you know, 56, somewhere in the world. And I got off stage that at 43 minutes. and so they were I mean right when I got done because it's like they had mask on I can't hear them like the energy's gone so you're just kind of flying yeah that the plane was fine yeah that helicopter flying and then uh so that one when I got off and I just knew it I could feel I was like is it like 44 or something they're like 43 and so that second show was like this I mean it's the most

important show I've ever done yeah you're like well we need an hour so you've got a somehow figure out, and I did all of it. And I did in 44 minutes. And so you're like, somehow that's got to become 57 minutes. And you're like, all right, well, I just got to slow myself down. And like, you know, and just not. Because a crowd can make your,

your time can be different. It can go from, if you're in front of no crowd, I can say this in 44 minutes. If the crowd's amazing, it can be 70 minutes. And it kind of just depends on like that night, like how long are they laughing? and how, like, you know, stuff like that. So I've had that.

And then my old joke from the Tennessee kid, the Olivia joke that I opened with, that happened about a month before that special. So that was a pretty late one to be, that was kind of a big joke, and I opened with it. And so that one, like, when it happened,

I was like, oh, I think this is it. I think I can open with this. So that one was thrown in pretty late, obviously, a month. Oh. For a special, does it, to sort of formatting and like crescendos and stuff change and that you want to lead with something to

because there's a difference between hooking in an audience that's going to be watching on streaming versus live. Yeah, a big part that like even when you, when I was first worked with Netflix is, it's like you got to get them quick. Like you got to think like people are going to, you know, they can, they count like if people watch something for 10 minutes

that they watch something for 90. And so you got to really kind of come out of the gate and like hitting them because you, you know, most people are not going to know who you are. And so it's, it's, you learn to like that first joke, you like, you got to get to that laugh as quick as you can. And so it's setting it up and how quick can you get to that laugh where it makes sense, where it's like, you know, all that kind of that stuff.

And like I'm switched. I'm messing with my order right now, actually, in my new hour. I just moved a whole thing up. Like, I mean, no one cares. But it's like, it's, but I just tried the different, oh, I'm something that was in the middle. I'm opening with and I moved something else back. and so it's like and I've only done it once

but I love the way it went sometimes you do that too just because you're like I need to mix it up for myself and it helps you like kind of think of stuff differently how often do you work out jokes like at like really small venues is there something you still do?

I did it a lot for this for the new hour I'm doing now because COVID and so there's opposite probably what you're supposed to say like we did only small venues during COVID I guess now but they did Nothing was open, but they'd have some of the comedy clubs,

they were open a little bit quicker. I would do outdoor drive-in shows. So I wasn't on the actual tour. And so I did it there. I do a lot in the theater. So if I tape a special, hopefully in the fall, so like say it's like September or something, and then maybe it comes out in December, January,

something like that. So you almost have like September to then to like kind of try to get at least 45 new minutes you can get away with. and then hopefully an hour. And so you just kind of got to rush. But it's, it's, you write faster on the road when you have more time. It's just a lot.

Like, you just become, as you do comedy, you just, your jokes get longer. You know, you're, you're telling a story that a story that when you first started would have been one minute. Now it's five, six, seven minutes. And so it's just when you can have, you allow yourself that much time. I usually like to open with the new stuff and just kind of get into it because you're excited about it. And like, and so you just kind of get into it.

see if it works and, uh, and then you just slowly build. It was cool. We were like, in New York, we're in the office and we heard that like Dan Soder was going to be at this like little bar and we like showed up. This was a couple months ago. He just had a little pen like paper and just a couple of jokes just looking down the paper putting it down and telling a joke. And it was really cool to see like how you guys like actually work it out.

Like see how that like even if it was 15 or 20 people, how those people react. Oh yeah. I mean that's when you first started in New York. That's all you're in front of you're in front of five people a lot. I did a show in front of one guy once. No way. Come on, dude. He was a great laugher.

And we asked him not to do it. Asked him if we could not do it. And he was like, no, it'll be fine. You go, okay. He decides. I guess we have to do what he says. He was this great dude. Like, he had such a great laugh.

And he would come to the Boston Comedy Club, it was called New York. And he would just laugh so loud at all of us. It was so supportive, like love that like he knew we were all terrible at that point. And so you actually kind of worked because he had a good enough laugh that you could kind of do rhythm off of it. But I mean, constantly, dude, you're in front of two people, four people. I mean, if you had 15, at the beginning it felt like, like I'm going to tape it. Like, this is a big show.

You were just in front of nobody. People don't know why you're there. So you learn how to get people to listen very quickly because you're like, I got to get these people's attention. or they want to go like where you know every time you go up there that they're like I would I would prefer to leave yeah and so you're like I got to get these people quick you got to find that guy and bring them to your new stuff oh I would love to find him hearing that familiar laugh he was that guy we got very lucky that to have a guy like that just was like you know just happy that you were chasing a dream yeah come down there and just sit by himself and laugh and he loved it man

that's great yeah incredible Well, look, we really appreciate it. We appreciate the time as always. Yeah, man. Thanks for letting me come and be a part of it, dude. This was out of a blast. This is a highlight for us, man. Yeah.

Well, I'm a giant fan, as I said y'all before. So I enjoy it. I love getting to know all you guys. And so, yeah, I love it. You're coming in Long Island. I am. I'll be there this week. You'll come to that?

100%. All right. Huntington, is that Long Island? It's right there. It's like 10 minutes from me. Yeah. All right, yeah. Yeah.

Brendan's coming. Dude. So there you go. It's like, when he said that, he mentioned it. When he met this weekend. He mentioned it. I said, no, I said, no way. Yeah.

Yeah. Let me know. I get half off tickets. Just give me cash. Yeah. That's what Riggs did, dude. He's just in Venn mode. I got Riggs.

No big deal, dude. My dad brings pizzas in the back. We'll do like a little barter. I want to do a show of Riggs did. I want to just see one guy with a head lamp. And just know he's out there. It'd be dark in there, too, so he's going to. It'd be nice.

Yeah. No problem. man well thanks you guys absolutely we appreciate it thank you see you guys good look