Soder - 42: Ghosts vs Mice with Lil Sasquacth | Soder Podcast | EP 42

Episode Date: August 28, 2024

Support the sponsors to support the show! our friends at Chubbies are giving our listeners 20% off with the promo code SODER at checkout at chubbiesshorts.com. That’s 20% off your order with the promo code Soder Support our show and tell them we sent you! Embrace the freedom to move, the confidence to shine, and the style to stand out with Chubbies! https://www.chubbiesshorts.com/soder To get this new customer offer and your new 3-month premium wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to MINTMOBILE.com/SODER That’s MINTMOBILE.com/SODER Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at MINTMOBILE.com/SODER Get the shaving products that always deliver. Get Harry’s. Get started with a $13 trial set for just $3 at harrys.com/SODER. That’s harrys.com/SODER for a $3 Trial Set. Follow Lil Sasquacth https://www.instagram.com/lilsasquatch666/?hl=en Dan is on the road all 2024! Get tickets @ https://www.dansoder.com/tour Aug 29-Aug 31 - Charlotte,NC Sep 13 - St.Louis Sep 14 - Atlanta,GA Sep 15 - Vancouver, Canada Oct 10 - 12 - Houston, TX Oct 17- 19 Salt Lake City Nov 8 - NYC Town Hall Nov 9 - Toronto, Canada Nov 14 -16 - Tampa,FL Nov 21 - 23 Homestead,PA Dec 6 - Chicago, IL Dec 7 - Milwaukee, WI DEC 12 - 14 Sacramento,CA PLEASE Drop us a rating on iTunes and subscribe to the show to help us grow. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soder/id1716617572 Connect with me! Twitter: https://Twitter.com/dansoder Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansoder Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dansodercomedy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dansoder Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@dansoder.comedy #dansoder #standup #comedy #entertainment #podcast Produced by    @homelesspimp   https://www.instagram.com/thehomelesspimp/?hl=en

I'm going to go with the Like even the way Pimp just reacted, you're like, ah. How old are you? 32. He's 32. Oh, that's not old. 41, 32, 23. No way. I feel like everyone in comedy is like, there's no one, like Gardini was the closest person to my age that I knew in comedy.

That is weird. You don't feel like you're around a lot of people your age in comedy. No, even like John Kennedy and like Brandon Barrera, like those guys, I don't know if you know them, but they're both like 27. And that feels, in your 20s, in your teens, one year feels like five, in your 20s,

one year feels like three. Like you're still like, now when someone's in my 40s, I feel like we're the same age. Yeah, when you're like in high school, it's like a dude a year above you, you're like, I'll never know what it's like to know that guy. That's why it's crazy when like a senior dates a sophomore. Oh, it's insane. Cause you're like, so you're, you guys can get a house together.

What does he do? Does he have a vacation home? And you're like, I don't know. He's got eighth period off. And you're like, Oh, the time he must have. Dude, look, even looking at like, like when you're younger and like your friends, older brothers, like I still feel like them when they were like 17 or more of a man than I am now. Josh Moore, one of my best friends, older brother, and Josh is one of my best friends. He is four years older than me. Right? Yeah.

He might as well be three decades older than me. Yeah. Because we used to go visit him. He went to CU Boulder. Oh really? And we would go up there. Yeah. And like, we were in high school.

Yeah. And it was like, you know, you're around college kids. So you are around adults. Yeah. But it was like, that energy is still there, but we've been, he's like 45. Yeah. And I'm 41. Like we both had the same problem with our hips, with sleeping, but I'm still

like, damn, what's it like to be a man? I've out loud on stage recently, unintentionally said the sentence when I grow up. Yeah. And I'm like, I think it's I think it's happened. I think we're past that point. I mean, what's weird for me is 23 years old. I feel like that's surprising to me

there aren't people around you your age. Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to think like, everyone that I know that I go up with, like the stand and stuff, I act like they're all my age. They're all 10 years older than me. Well, the first time I met you was at Moon Tower in Austin. Yeah. And I was with Andy Haynes.

Yeah. And we thought you were like late 20s. Yeah. And you were like, I'm 21. And it was like immediately I wanted to help you get across the street. I immediately started being like, this way. Yeah.

Come on. I don't even know if I was 21 then. That's not. Did you always hang out with older kids? No, no, never. All my best friends are my age. So it was once you started working. Yeah, because I moved to New York during COVID.

I'd moved here in 2020. Okay. In August. What's that like moving here when the entire- So depressing. City shut down. Yeah, I didn't have any friends and I just played video games by myself.

That's kind of sick though. Forever. I'm not gonna lie, someone that's real happy college football just came out. I'm kind of like, that sounds like the shit. It sounds nice. Now when you, then it was very depressing moving here during COVID. Yeah. You probably got a hell of a deal on an apartment. I saw what from a place. Okay. So it wasn't great. What made you move here during COVID? I got hired a bar stool. Okay. And they were like,

they offered me a contract and they were like, this, what we're going to pay you to stay in school and work part time. And it was like $20,000 a year or something like, and I was like, I'll just move to New York. Oh, really? Yeah. I was like, I want to be the thing. If you were staying, where were you at school? DePaul in Chicago. Oh, hell yeah. And you didn't finish? No, I dropped out immediately.

How many years away from graduating were you? I was a freshman when I dropped out. You know what? I know this isn't a popular thing to say, and this might catch me. Best time to drop out. Oh, definitely. Freshman.

Don't drop out. I waited tables one time with this guy, who was real proud of the fact that he was four credits away from Graduating and you're like, well, I think you're dumb. Yeah, cuz you did all the yeah it was like I was a I was like a film major with like a with like a I was like that would have changed that would change your like software year with like a focus in screenwriting And then I got the offer from bar school and I was like Well, that's what I want to do Like I was gonna get hired to like write shit, but then I ended up just dropping that completely

Well, you got popular with sketches online on Twitter Yeah on Twitter and that's why you when you start doing stand-up. That's why you had to keep the name little Sasquatch Yeah, but I'm hoping to ditch that very soon. You have to unless you go full black Unless you're unless you go full death cam Like you gotta get rid of that name it's it's not even bad in from the sense of from like Like going up like when I'm like headlining a show and they're like, yes, I don't give a shit It's when it's situations like when I go to a new club somewhere

like I did the store like a month ago and you're, everyone's looking at the lineup and they're like, who the fuck is Lil Sas? And I was like, Oh, it's me. They're expecting a black dude with a Philly beard. It's little Sasquatch, AKA Tyrone Thurman. No, it's Harry. You're like, Hey, how you doing? I've been jokingly to Katie, been calling you little Yeti or not little Yeti, young, tiny's Harry. You're like, hey, how you doing? I've been jokingly to Katie been calling you little Yeti.

Or not little Yeti, young, tiny Yeti. Cause you're like a little Sasquatch. But what made, was little Sasquatch just your Twitter name? It was my gamer tag on PlayStation. Dude, if I went around his monster voice. Yeah. Is that yours? Yeah.

If I was like, hey, what's up man? I'm monster voice. What am I doing? Did you pick that or was that a Bobby Kelly used to call me that on you know what dude yeah and I'm I'm like the reverse of you I was before I had a gamer tag yeah I was podcasting yeah and they're like what's your and I don't want to be like damn Soder am I a gamer tag yeah so I was monster you don't want your real name is your gamer tag no because you say some vile shit that opens you up to a lot of problems I was monster. You don't want your real name is your gamer tag. No, cause you can say some vile shit. That opens you up to a lot of problems.

Don't follow me. I don't want the legalities of having your real name on your gamer tag. It's pretty fucking dangerous. So moving to New York during COVID, there was no one out. What you, do you remember specifically when you moved? Yeah, it was August of 2020. So the thick of it? Yeah, it was August. Oh, shit. Of 2020. So the thick of it. Yeah, it was brutal.

It was I remember I moved here. I went into the barstool office the next day and there was like four people in there. I like sat at my desk and there's no no one at bars. They don't tell you what to do. Yeah, it's all like you just have the you have the platform. Yeah, you got to make the stuff for the platform So I just sat and like tweeted at my I was like it was like instead of being in class and tweeting

I just sat at a desk and tweeted But did you have that moment because I've had this moment when you get a job where there's no one Supervising you yeah, where you go like I could just go smoke weed right now No, I was like I'm gonna get fired for sure. So you were scared. I was, dude, for the first, like I enrolled in a class halfway through my first year at Barstool, because I was like, I'm definitely getting fired. Oh, really?

Yeah, I was like, there's no way. You just felt it coming. Yeah. And then Big Cat pretty much saved my job, because he brought me on the Yak. And then I did that for like two or three years. That's fun as hell, though, having someone bring you on. That was, yeah, I mean, I don't know if he knew

that I was gonna get fired, but if I didn't get that. But you felt it? Oh dude, it was scary. I think I was losing money for the company. Really? Like I didn't generate a single dollar the first year I worked there. And then you're also just like sitting at your desk

tweeting, you're like, why am I here? Dude, there would be like people at the office who would like come up to me and be like, you don't do shit. They would be like- In a fun way or in a way of like- There's like a, there's like a, it's similar to comedy in the sense that like, people who have been doing it for a really long time,

like they shit on the people who, and like, Yeah. Like this was like the people who were there from the beginning where it was like blogging 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They week and be like I worked my ass off in my sin I had to give away ranch And they're like so you can see here in scroll Twitter. That's so fun I would just be like dude, what the fuck am I doing? Yeah, it sucks so much

there is like there needs to be like there needs it's like almost like an Elks club or more like, what are those called? I can't think of the name right now. I've performed at, do shows on them all the time. Why can't I think of it? Veterans of foreign wars. Oh, VFW halls.

Like VFWs where they go up and they're like, I was in a real war. And you go, well, I'm scared right now. Well, I'm not really through mind. Did you with stand up, do you like, um, do you keep like an enemies list for stand up? Like just in general? No, there's a lot of people. And again, when we get the prod, we bought a cattle prod. So in case I talk too much about stand up, yeah, he's apps. Yeah. Yeah. But we found out, dude, I have it in there. Yeah, it's like it's really hogs

Yeah, it's for a little I read online the voltage and they were like do not use on a human It'll give someone a cardiac arrest. Yeah, so Homeless man, I really a process of finding a safe a human safe maybe a shock collar or like something that, you know, it's so funny is the, it goes from taming animals to sexual pleasure. Like that's the drop you have to make. Where you have to go like, this could kill a human and you go, this will give you a real pain boner. But I'm saying just, so I want to talk about jobs. If we're talking about

standup, I just want to talk about jobs. If we're talking about standup, I just want to talk about the generic feeling of a job. But like every time I had a job, Outback Steakhouse, I was 19 years old at the University of Arizona, couldn't get a job, went to Outback. The only thing they'd give me is a busing job. One of the waiters, Rudy, was a fucking dickhead. Been on my enemy list since.

Oh yeah, I've got enemies like that. Yeah. Like I've got enemies from jobs that I had in high school. Like there was a restaurant in Massachusetts called Cravings. It was like a pizza and sub place. Yeah. And like.

Was it spelled with a K or a C? C. Okay. But like dude, from like the moment that I started doing like comedy stuff, I would tell my friends, I'd be like, if I get successful, I'm going to buy that place and just like fill it with sand and just keep it open, pay the rent. Yeah, just like I bought it and the guy you didn't like has to show up

every day or I'm going to fire your ass. Do they set me up and got me fired? Like it was a full on setup. It was a- Get into it. This is the place to get into it. I wanna know the dirty deeds of cravings. So there was a dude there who, they were all like, you know when you work at a restaurant and you're young and everyone there is old

and they're like, who's this new kid? Is he cool? Is he gonna rat on us for smoking weed? 100%. Like shit like that. Yeah. And, uh, they would always like say shit to me implying that I wasn't cool, which I probably wasn't. Were you, I mean, this is kind of on theme. Were how much younger than them? Were you like, were you were probably like 10 years? Some of them were pretty old. Some of them were like in their like forties,

working at a cravings. They're not in good moods. No, they were pissed. They were always pissed. And, uh, pretty much what happened was there was this one dude who like, I would work the pizza shift with and we would like, like there's two people working it. So I would like do the dough and then he would do the toppings and put it in the oven. And, uh, one day he came in like shit faced. Like he was like, I was just slamming four locos. And then like, he was like throwing up in the bathroom. And then somehow I ended up getting in trouble,

like, cause he was throwing up in the bathroom. And then the manager came over and said, I was going too slow. And then he came back from the bathroom and just like sided with the manager. He was like, dude, honestly, like, do you want this job? And I was like, what? And he was like, you work like your parents made,

you get this job. And I was like, he was just barfing for loco and the delivery dude was nodding off on pills in the basement and he was like I'm sending him home he's fucking exhausted and I was like no dude he's on pills right now that's so funny that he's like guy tuckered himself out you think that's just a normal nod? We're not up late watching a movie. It's 2 PM on a Thursday. I've never been sober tired to the point that I'm falling asleep standing up. Never now. Truck drivers aren't.

Yeah. The guy that hit Tracy Morgan in that Walmart truck was the first guy that was nodding out like that. Like you, to get that tired, you have to work a either physically exhausting or an insane amount of hours. But if you're just coming in for a lunch shift, it was cravings. Yeah. Yeah. Like not like falling asleep in the basement, standing up. If you, the thought of who touches our food on deliveries, cause I used to deliver pizzas. And it was same thing. You come in.

I was lucky when I delivered pizzas, it was- You ever grab a bite? Oh my God. Yeah. I would do way worse shit than that. Yeah, yeah. They would like be like, no, that pizza's wrong. And I just eat half of it on the drive back.

And I'd be like, they said it was wrong. And they're like, why is it half gone? And you're like, it's crazy, ain't it? They want half. Yeah. But I like, I was lucky that our friends were all working there. So there was like a group of four of us. Yeah that started there when you're solo

Especially at a restaurant in high school They hate you. Yeah, I've been a bussor at a bunch of restaurants and immediately they come in and they're like, yeah You have to do bad shit in order for them to be like I got you need to give them something That they have on you. Yeah for them to be comfortable with you. Exactly you need to give them something that they have on you for them to be comfortable with you. Exactly. Yeah. I never worked with any of my friends. I was wanted to. I was always my goal and not my goal, but like that was like the best scenario would be like working at a restaurant with my friends. Oh, that's pretty sure outside of my very first job at Emerald Isle. I always, in Emerald Isle I was 14. I was 13, 14.

So it was a bar, it's a bar on Parker Road that's just like for drinking. Like they have a giant patio and it looks out at the reservoir in the mountains. So people just get fucked up on this back patio. So when I got hired when I was 14, I was more like a mascot where they were like, look at the little 14 year old.

And I also smoked cigarettes. Yeah. And it was like a monkey smoking. Oh yeah. They probably fucking love that. Give them another one. And I was like, I loved it. I thought I'd ride my bike there, but I didn't have beef with them because I was

so young. They were like, they thought I was adorable. Yeah. No, that was the I worked. I had 16. This was when I worked at Cravings, I was 17 or 18. So you that was the, I worked, I had 16. This was when I worked at cravings, I was 17 or 18. So you're like on the cusp of being an adult. They hated me. Yeah. You know why? You have your whole life ahead of you. Yeah. I think it was also, I think I'm, uh, I think I have a little bit of like an off-blank to people that have never met

me. I think I'm like a little off-putting, like I'm like quiet. Yeah. That can insecure people the wrong way. Quiet people around as someone that's been insecure his whole life. Quiet people around insecure people are like, you know why? It's like the mortal enemies immediately. Well, this is just my thought. I think you're thinking of all the things I hate about me. Yeah. And you're, and I'm like, stop nailing it. But really you're kind of like, did I leave my X-Box on? You're like thinking about teenage shit. So at Cravings, who, how did you leave?

So, so that happened. The thing with the kid being drunk and the pills, nodding out, go like, yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry boss. I'm just so exhausted. That last route you had me on just took it all out of me. Remember how I had to deliver a sub Then a pizza I mean i'm basically a modern day coal miner So I so I started After that happened, I hate it. I started hating the job because I was like this is fucking ridiculous

You're getting blamed for something. Yeah, i'm like I was the only person working that day that wasn't Totally wasted for loco barfing barfing and then coming out with it still in your mouth and going, this guy doesn't want it. Yeah. Just kidding. This guy works like a trust fund baby. And he just drank a fucking, like, whatever their flavors were, like suicidal line.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I started hating the job. And then my sister was going to college and she went to she went to college in Chicago And I wanted to go with her to like visit and move her in is she a year or two older one year older than me So that's kind of weird like we're talking about the distance in high school Yeah, your sister and her friends in high school probably felt five years older Yeah, absolutely, even though they're only a year older.

Especially when we were younger. When I was like. Freshman, she's a sophomore. Yeah. She knows the lay of the land. Yeah. Did you go to public school or private? Public.

Yeah, that's big. Yeah. Because you basically have a, you have like a point man. Yeah. Where you come, like I would look to friends, siblings. I'd be like, all right, you have an older sister. What does she say?

Yeah, like who do we stay away from? Where do we go? I don't know if I told this story before but when I was really young I was in like probably like fifth grade or something And her friends were in sixth grade and that she had them all over for a sleepover And I was like trying to like hang out with them and I pulled a knife on one of them with them and I pulled a knife on one of them. That's like a girl. Dude, in the age of school shootings, that's not the way to go. Why did you, what made you pocket knife? And I thought it would be cool to like show it to them.

And I went up and I just pulled it out and like flicked it and I got in so much trouble. I need to know context. What was going on? I think I was just so horny. I had to pull out the blade and let them know. You go, sorry, ladies, this was the erection. You're in fifth grade, but did you just walk up to a group of girls sitting around in a circle of, of sleeping bags and go, pretty much. It was pretty much exactly like that. Yeah. Did they shriek? Oh, I think they screamed. Yeah. Just you holding an open mic, holding an open night knife going like,

well that backfired. One of those things that's just instant regret. Like you think it's going to be sick because I thought I was going to pull it out and they were going to be like, holy shit. They go, whoa, blade. Lily. You go, Lily, I didn't know your brother was a biker. You got that. What's your sister's name? Lily. You go, Lily, I didn't know your brother was a biker. Anyone looking to get kissed? So sex is so far beyond here. You're like handed out smooches too. Dude,

I had one of those moments when I was opening for Bobby Kelly at levity live. Yeah. Cause you know, like Bobby and that generation of seller comics, they're all ball busty and everyone's like, ah, yeah, boss ball. Yeah. I just watched, uh, um, Torgasm. Oh my God. They went over it on the bonfire when Bobby took over for me and dude, I had to rewatch it cause they were talking about it. I was like, I forgot all these gems. Dude, I rewatched, I just watched the first episode. That's great. You forget how famous Dane Cook was.

Yeah, yeah, definitely that. But it might've been like, I, I think Bobby's hilarious. It might've been Dane Cook was. Yeah. Yeah, definitely that but it might have been like I I think Bobby's hilarious It might have been the worst piece of television ever created. He was so famous at the time. Yeah That he got that on HBO. That was on HBO HBO was doing the Sopranos Yeah, we always doing like they were fucking killing. Yeah, and then it would just be like I'm saying cook Yeah, what happens with all these college girls want to fuck me. And then Bobby's like, gotta be main dead with his goatee. The arguments that they would get in.

But he's like, Bobby would scream at Jay. By the way, shout out Gary Goldman. Oh yeah. Just staying quiet in the back. Just having brilliant jokes and staying quiet in the back. Do you remember the porn argument? Yeah, the red tape. Yeah.

Of course I remember that. Dude, it was, I was dying laughing. Yeah. He's like, when he's like, Bobby, why do you only want to talk about porn? And Bobby's like, why do I only want, why are you bringing it just to me? We've all been talking about porn. And then it turns into like a saga throughout the episode where like he's pulling him aside and he's like, you, that was disrespect when you targeted me about the porn conversation. I'm going to tell you how guys date, you're disrespectful. So that ball bust the energy I was like when I'd get around Bobby and those guys I felt like the little brother that oh yeah I want to bust balls yeah but an instant regret moment and I've said this before but it happened

there's a comic Kelly Fustuka she used to be on you know what dude yeah and she was emceeing that weekend and we're all busting balls or whatever and Kelly's like busting my balls and dude I'm eating a sandwich or something and there's a tomato on it I go shut up Kelly and I throw the tomato at her and it hits and it falls off in the room goes Dead silent and Bobby goes why the fuck did you do that? Kelly in her Australian accent she goes It's gonna Stein more shit and the show's about, I know it's going to Stein more shit. And the show's about to start and it's the worst energy ever.

Everyone's like, why? Bobby's like, why'd she throw a tomato? That's a fucking nightmare. Cause I thought it was funny. It was the same thing that you thought with your head before you flipped the knife. I was like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to be a seller. Legend. Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah. When so her through the tomato back in a six. That's what I knew he was about his business.

Yeah. It's like Patrice throwing the phone book. Everyone knew, everyone knew Dan was no one. If you fuck with the reality, it was just me going, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I don't know why I did that. I apologize.

Probably 60 times. I remember she brought me up and I was apologizing. Yeah. I was like, I'm really sorry. As they're shaking hands on stage, she's like, Dan, sorry, Dan. And I was like, I'm really sorry. As they're shaking hands on stage, she's like, damn, sorry dad. And I'm like, I'm really, really, really sorry about that. I don't know why I did that.

I thought it was fun. Did your sister, were you like not allowed to talk to her friends after you pulled the knife? Yeah, I think that night specifically, I think I just had to go to my room and like sleep. Did your parents have to talk to you? I don't remember it. I do, all I really remember, I have such a vivid memory.

I remember what the knife looked like. I think my. Was it a Swiss army? No, my uncle gave it to me. It was like a silver knife and it had a, it had a knife and then on the other side, it had like a little poker thing. Okay.

Like a little. Good knife. I don't know what that was for. Sounds like a good knife. But good blade. And all I remember is being in the garage of my old house and pulling it out and getting, and then just instantly getting in trouble. Like within like milliseconds,

like my parents are around, like everyone was furious. Did they take the knife? Oh yeah, for sure. Gone. Yeah. Did you ever see it again? I don't think so. That's good. Your dad, it's just the thought, it's so funny that your parents clean it out going, where did I get this knife? Yeah. Yeah. And it's a, it's a cornerstone memory of you yeah yeah that's so funny yeah that was I might have been honestly younger than fifth grade I'm trying to remember when it might have been like third grade but even that yeah that difference of a year

yeah they might as well be women yeah there might actually it was just like adult women were at your house yeah dude I remember my friend Charlotte North Carolina this Thursday through Saturday, I will be at the Comedy Zone. That's five shows, one Thursday, two Friday, two Saturday. September 13th and 14th, I'm going to be on the road with the Jim Jefferies. It's going to be me, Mark Norman and Jim Jefferies. The 13th we are going to be in St. Louis and then September 14th we're going to be in Atlanta. Go to dansoder.com

for those tickets. Again, that's me, Mark Norman and Jim Jeffries, September 13th and 14th. And then September 15th, the Vancouver Great Outdoors Festival, Great Outdoors Festival, did it last year in Calgary, unbelievable, going back this time Vancouver and this show, what a humdinger. It's me, Mark Norman, Andrew Santino and Ralph Barbosa, three of my funniest friends. It's legit going to be an awesome show. That's for Vancouver, The Great Outdoors Festival, danceholder.com for those tickets. When it comes to true style and comfort, you go to your boy Danny Soats.

Now you know me, I do live my life in leisure. I love shorts. I started wearing shorts a lot more now that show my thighs. I feel so naughty. But if you want comfort in the form of men shorts, you can't do better than chubbies, iconic original stretch shorts. They put chubbies on the map for a reason. They're available in 4 inch, 55", and 7". I do the 7 because I'm a tall drink of water, depending on how much

thigh you want to show too. You can go 4 if you've got some quadzillas. Me? I've got thin legs so I'm hitting them 7 in seam lengths. These shorts are made with the stretchiest fabric and elastic waistband for max flexibility without sacrificing that style or comfort. Come on, this wouldn't be a true podcast ad read if we didn't mention Chubby's Classic Line swim collection with the hyperbole with the absolute top men's swim gear. Listen, I got my pair of Chubby's swim trunks because I was on the road with Bert Kreischer on the fully loaded tour. He hooked us up with Chubby shorts swim

shorts and I'm like dude I don't think I'm gonna wear these I put them on love them they take you from a solid six to a ten at ten available in tons of ultra vibrant colors and patterns built with quick drying four-way stretch fabric elastic waistband and anti cha-chafe mesh liner. Even a zippered back pocket. Yeah, that's right. You can put your stuff in there, zipper it up. Not stuff that gets wet though, of course. Your phone will get destroyed. Pockets on a swimsuit, A++. We truly are living in the future here, folks. And would you look at that? For a limited time, our friends at Chubbies are giving our listeners 20% off with the promo code SOTAR at checkout.

Go to ChubbiesShorts.com and get 20% off your order with the promo code SOTAR. S-O-D-E-R. But you know that, you're listening to the podcast. Support our show and tell them we sent you. Embrace the freedom to move, the confidence to shine, and the style to stand out with Chubbies. Harry's! I know you guys, I know you watch this. You could tell when I shave and when I shave you're like damn

this guy looks good. Look at that smooth ass face. Well you know why? It's because I'm using them. Harry's has Harry's razors delivering right to my feet. Right here. German engineered blades made in their own factory and they stay sharp way longer than most razors. Customizable delivery options. Let's say I'm on the road for a bunch and I'm like, dude, I can't get it, but then I need a scheduled refill.

Boom. And as low as $2. Half of what you pay for other big brands get the five blade razor weight handled foaming Shave gel and travel cover for just three bucks at harry's dot-com slash Soder they got other stuff dude like soft skin softening body washes and scents like redwood wild But you want to smell like just a sexy woodsman, get that dude. Get their soft skin softening body wash.

Also the extra strength, high quality, amazing smelling deodorant for just five bucks. They also got hair and other grooming products that fit your unique look and needs. Highest customer satisfaction in the shaving industry. That's all you need to know. So get the shaving products that always deliver. Go to Harry's. That's H-A-R-R-Y-S dot com. Get started with a $13 trial set for just three bucks at Harry's dot com slash soda. That's Harry's dot com slash soda for a three dial for that's Harry's dot com slash soda for a three dollar

trial set. I had friends with old, one of my best friends, Mike had, his sister was two years older than us. And they would come over and it would be like, I don't want to put on a tuxedo, like going to hang out with them. Cause I'd be like, ladies, how are you? Oh dude, I had the biggest crush on her friend, Jackie.

And we were one time we were just hanging out in the basement. I didn't think I had a shot, but I couldn't shut up cause I was so nervous. And they're like, Soder, do you ever shut up? And I was like, no, what? And then they were like, and her cute friend Jackie was like, we're all going to be quiet for a minute. And we were quiet. And I was like, anyways, and you can't do it because you that age difference is so big

You don't feel that still in comedy now. No, not at all. Yeah, one of my best friends is Derek Drescher. He's 43 yeah, the guy's done time. Yeah, he's been in prison Yeah, he met my dad and it was hilarious. How old your dad my dad's like in his late 50s That's so funny. Yeah when the age is closer. Yeah Well, they were like talking about like the fucking they were talking they both grew up in Long Island. Oh yeah. Derek's the man. Derek's awesome. I love Derek. On the gate was a very fun podcast to do. Yeah they're fun. Him and G. But dude that's like that's what's funny about comedy is you end up like it's the reverse. I'm sure it's actually like that at every job. You just meet someone at the desk next to you and you're like, I never thought I'd be friends

with a 61 year old guy named Walt. Dude, my friend, I became friends with this guy I worked with at Bed Bath and Beyond and he was retired, but he's from the South and all he wanted to talk about was his travel softball team. So I got super into the world of Arizona travel softball teams for the year I worked at Bed Bath & Beyond and he by damn It was a he was from the South. He by it was a good one this week

We had a runner on first and second and I got my box cutter and I'm opening like loofahs Did you ever have you were done a men's league? No, no, no, I played in a restaurant league. Yeah, how was that so fun? Yeah, because this was like 2008 and it was like be our guest was the company that owned Almost every fancy restaurant in New York. They had legitimately They had three dose Caminos. They had a bluefin blue water Atlantic Grill What were some of the other ones? They had like a whole league of baseball.

Like every restaurant had a team. And it was funny shit because it was like, you know, restaurants are mostly actors. So it was like, I was athletic. Like in that league, I was like a guy. Normal leagues, I'm like the silly little silly boy. Yeah, that's Derek Dresher's trying to get me to join a men's league for softball right now.

Take it too seriously. Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna be, he also said it's on Sunday. No, I don't want to. And football, I'm not trying to be rushing home from my men's league softball game to watch football. No, to turn on Red Zone? Yeah.

Yeah, it's so funny, because you really do, the older you get, you go, Sundays I don't do anything. No, I don't do shit on Sundays. Like when someone has a show on Sunday, I'm like, what are you doing? Yeah. I don't want to do that. Yeah. Like 10 PM spots on a Sunday. The best part of the restaurant league was there'd be teams like all these actors, you know, where they'd be in the outfield, like practicing lines.

And then occasionally I think it was Atlantic grill would just bring this Dominican from the kitchen that like a line cook and he'd be like it's no pro law and he's like wearing full fucking baseball pants and we were playing in lambs I think it's called lambs meadow wherever the sheep's meadow where all the baseball diamonds are this motherfucker would hit dingers I'd play field. It would go so far over me that I'm like, it's not even the point. It's probably fucking awesome for that. Dude. He probably looks forward to that every week. Just big fucking cross. I chose to have a full Metz uniform, dude, V-neck t-shirt,

baseball pants with the stirrups. And by the way, just sexually harassing the fuck out of every lady on the team. You go, your picture too beautiful, beautiful. And then you just hear that like pink. Just be like, you just watch it. We'd still win, but it would be like 17 to six. Yeah. All six runs were solo thingers that like fucking Juan hit.

Did it be so funny? You see him show up with the bags that had the bats in it and maybe like picking his bad out areas this guy's arsenal of bad It was like two restaurants that had like legit fucking Dominicanos That was always so funny to me. They're like, puppy, puppy, it's all right. Just get to horse based. Get to horse based. And they're like, pink.

And they're fucking. But that was so fun because we weren't supposed to drink, but we did. Yeah. At the games? Oh, yeah. Why were you not supposed to drink? Because it was supposed to be like a restaurant.

It's for the fun, guys. And then my friend Eli, shout out Eli, who does a lot of our designs. He did the logo for the podcast, but he would bring, he lived in Spanish Harlem and he would get 18 packs of the cutters and bring it down. And we were in the championship game. We were down four to one and we weren't drinking and Eli was like, what are we doing? And we started drinking and we won 22 to four. We got drunk and just started. I just started.

I dropped cigarettes to get fly balls. Yeah. I feel that. That's insane. Here we go. My friend Elvira, cause you had to have two women on. Yeah. And we had Kelly who was our second baseman who was like, I think a legitimate collegiate softball player. So she was like turning two and sharing basements, a hard position to play. She's nasty. Shout out Kelly Frazier. Yeah. Gotta be athletic to play that fucking unbelievable. Yeah. Just zero holes in the infield. We had this, our,

our friend Everett was this giant gay black dude who could just play first base. He was just unbelievable. It was so fun, but then we had our friend Elvira, we had one girl that was useless. Yeah, of course. She's like a, she's kindergarten teacher, sweetheart. She was a bartender, but she would play catcher cause we'd be like, that's the least amount of damage.

And one time I think it was like one of these fucking kitchen guys from Atlanta Grill hits deep and I played it right. And one guy's rounding third to go home. I'm not good at baseball. But I can throw a baseball. Dude, I put this thing on a fucking rope. And it just went straight and Elvira went,

she was at home plate and he's running. And I was like, oh my God. I fucking threw it and everyone's like, yeah. And she goes, no. And it just goes, it just went up the backstop. And I was like, oh yeah. I fucking threw it and everyone's like, yeah. And she goes, no. And it just goes, it just went up the backstop. And I was like, that's the best throw I've ever had in my life. Dude, I've done shit like that before, like bailed.

Oh yeah. I played lacrosse for one year. That's, fuck, let me just say this. Yeah. Lacrosse takes a lot of shit. Yeah. That ball is so terrifying. People like die from getting hit with lacrosse balls.

In the chest. Yeah. There's like, at our like middle school, is so terrifying. People like die from getting hit with lacrosse balls. In the chest? There's like, in my, at our like middle school, there was like a award for like some like nicest person of the year or something like that. And the award was the girl's name who died at our school like 50 years ago, cause she got hit with a lacrosse ball in the chest.

Do you think her parents, of course they miss her. That goes without saying. Yeah. At what point, at what point would someone die? Yeah. Do they get sick of showing up for the benefit? For the award? Yeah. Every year. Year one through five. Yeah. They can't hold it together. No. They miss their little angel. They're crying on stage. Year 20?

Yeah. 25? are you going like? Like, are years getting shorter? I feel like we were just at this two weeks ago. We also, we had, I forgot and I made reservations at Angelo's, you know how hard it is to get reservations. She would have loved Angelo's. Maybe we should go there. And then they go like, unfortunately,

the Murphys could not be here tonight. When you're there at the first benefit where the parents don't show up, you're like, Oh, so you're out. Right. Yeah. This doesn't mean anything. You're one through five. You're like, you have to hug them. I'm sorry. Your daughter, not go over to their house for coffee. Talk about what her favorite TV shows were, even though you don't care.

And then now like you're 20, you're like, yeah. It also started getting to a point where there was like a picture of her in the hallway and kids started being like, you know, that picture's haunted, right? That's odd. Like, yeah, I follow you. Yeah, and then your one friend

that's having a tough time with puberty goes, I would. Yeah. He goes, she comes back, I'd fuck her as a zombie. Yeah, puberty messes up all that kind of stuff. Yeah, absolutely. Because guys just are going, I used to be so scared of ghosts. Yeah. Now I think about how sexy they are.

I think I'm super into ghosts. Dude, I was in Wyoming three weeks ago. Yeah. And we, the end of the trip, we stayed in this hotel called the Occidental, and it's like the oldest hotel in Wyoming or some shit. So there's cowboy ghosts. Yeah, and it's haunted as fuck, supposedly. supposedly, I'm a, do you believe in ghosts? Yeah, a hundred percent.

I'm a huge ghost guy. Are you scared of them or are you intrigued by them? I am depending on like the scenario. Like when we were leaving the hotel, I was like looking around. I was like, where the fuck is this? Did you sleep? I slept fine.

Okay. Cause I was exhausted, but I was whole, I was the only, like I was like looking shit up on my phone about the ghosts and my friends were like, dude, you're fucking retarded. This is insane. What did you find? What happened at the hospital? There was a ghost, Emily was the most common one.

It was like a little girl who died at the hotel. Yeah. And that one was like, apparently you see her all the time. And then there was another one that gets in bed with you. Like to fuck or just to- Just to like lay down. There's like, there was like multiple reports of like couples being asleep in bed. And then if someone got in between them in bed, excuse me, I wonder if that would be me as a ghost. We go, you guys don't mind.

I got to lay down. You guys down with the lifestyle. Sorry. Really takes it out of me. There was a dude, there was like shit all over the hotel though. Like the room that I slept in, there was a sign outside of the door, outside of the room. And it was like, there was dents in the door from the room. And there was like, there was a cowboy who's his favorite girl was in there with another dude. And he couldn't get in and he banged the back of his pistol against the thing and there was dents in the door. That's love. That was pretty sick.

Yeah exactly. God he loved her. I feel like I probably would have just shot through the door. Yeah. If you're that pissed. I probably would have gone, I'm gonna become a successful stand-up comedian and I'm gonna make you regret this. I'm gonna buy this place and fill it with sand. Yeah, dude, that's like, I, Yana's Papa's got married at a, like a super nice estate where you stayed on the estate. And it was me, we were, I was sharing a room with Nate Barghetti. Yeah. And they came in and we're like sharing a room and we're like, ah, there's two beds. This would be or whatever and then at the reception someone's like she needed a ghost yet And I was like eating I was like

What was that what were you saying about the ghosts and they're like, oh this place is lousy with ghosts and I was like And you know, like, well, friends don't let friends overpay for wireless. So say bye-bye to your overpriced wireless plan and switch to Mint Mobile. It's good enough for Deadpool. It's here to rescue you and your squad from previous wireless plans,

starting at just 15 bucks a month. That's the way you wanna go, dude. You wanna go affordable. All plans come with high speed data and unlimited talk and text delivered on the nation's largest 5G network. Use your own phone with any Mint Mobile plan and you can bring your phone number so you don't have to do that annoying text where you're like, hey guys, here's my new number.

Ditch overpriced wireless with Mint Mobile's deal and get 3 months of premium wireless service for $15 a month. To get this new customer offer and your new three months premium wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to mint mobile.com slash Soder that's mint mobile.com slash Soder. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mint mobile.com slash Soder $40, $45 upfront payment required equivalent to $15 a month at mint mobile.com slash soda for $45 upfront payment required equivalent to $15 a month. New customers on a three month plan only speed slower

above 40 gigabytes on unlimited plan. Additional taxes, fees and restrictions apply. See mint mobile.com for details. As an adult, a lot of people are like, I don't believe in ghosts. You look childish if you believe in ghosts. I don't even, even if I didn't believe, I say this to my friends because they're all like when we were there they're like I don't believe in ghosts. I was like even if I didn't believe in ghosts I wouldn't be going around saying I didn't believe in ghosts. Because ghosts are like what's up? Yeah then they got a fucking point to prove. Oh you'll believe in me. Yeah exactly. Well I believe I could tear this bookcase down on you and you'll believe then. But with the way we were like they where they had us was that there was like a

bunch of these rooms and then there was like a step up in a hallway and like this thing. And that's where our room was. So it was like not with the other rooms now. And I there was two beds in one of the beds was a long hallway to the door. And Nate gave me that. I just got there late. And Nate gave me that bed. And I didn't sleep.

Because I would just wake up and see the light of the hallway and just this door. And then people would walk by and they'd be like, is that a ghost? Yeah, that's sad. It just fucked me up. That shit destroys me. Till this day, I'm kind of a pussy with that shit. Like horror movies. I can't sleep. To this day, I'm like a, I'm kind of a pussy with that shit. Like horror movies, like I can't sleep to this day.

I can't sleep with my feet outside of the covers because of the conjuring. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you're like, they're going to get me. There's a scene in the conjuring where the ghost grabs the girl's feet and pulls her in. And to this day, I'm like, yeah, I've never watched it.

Cause that would stop me from having, I don't like opening showers cause of the shining. Oh yeah. I'm afraid there's going to be a dead lady in a bathtub. Dude, to this day, I can't, I like, I'll, I'll, if it's hot as shit, I'll sleep with my full legs outside of the covers and then like my toes will be covered by the comforters.

Can't get me. Toes are under the cover. It's my protective shield. My, my mom used to work at the Stanley Hotel, which is what the Overlook and the Shining is based on. Oh, really? And my mom said shit was haunted. Yeah, I'm sure.

But they work there. Yeah. So they don't like. Yeah. Dude, that all. I'm trying to do a joke about it. It's never worked. But I think it's so funny that someone works at a hotel that's

haunted, and they're just over ghosts. Dude, the ghosts are like, Hey, I'm on a double. Dude, in the, in the article that I read about the Occidental hotel, there was a dude who's like the janitor and he was like, yeah, I just work with my headphones in now because it gets annoying. Yeah.

There was a scary one. When I worked at Dos Caminos, the building got renovated, but the building's still up it's on 50th and third. It was used to be this restaurant called La Magnet. The very one, when I worked at Dos Caminos, the building got renovated, but the building's still up. It's on 50th and 3rd. It was, used to be this restaurant called La Magnette, and it was a mafia ran restaurant, like in the 70s and 80s. Yeah.

Big mafia spot. They had this upper dining room called the Upper Cielo, which now again, they've tore it all down. It's like an empty building. They're like building something new in there. They kept like the shell, but everything on the inside's out. In the restaurant, you used to walk up these stairs to the upper Cielo. But the people that were old school New York

that would come to the restaurant, they're like, oh, that's the Sinatra room. Because Sinatra, it was like a private thing. Sinatra would go up there and have like dinners and stuff. Because it was a mafia joint. Dude, the basement, there was like, upstairs you go downstairs to like the main restaurant where the Baja Room was, then you go down to the basement where the locker rooms were,

where the waiters changed. And waiters who had, I worked lunches, but people that worked dinners, and I worked dinners obviously in the five years I worked there, but they were like, real late at night, you would hear a woman screaming like bloody murder. And it's because I still gotta look this up. I think I looked it up once

and I found an article about it. A woman was murdered at La Magnette. They think down in the basement, like they bring hookers in and shit, and a lady got killed. But dude, the people I would talk to about it were the porters, just these like Guatemalans that were there all night.

And you'd be like, do you hear screaming? They'd be like, see, the woman, she screams for someone, I'm not paying attention. And like they just didn't fucking care, dude. They didn't care. And I would be like, me and like three Broadway actors would be like around me like, they'd be be like around to me, like, they'd be

like, tell us what's the energy. She screamed, she screamed, I'm gonna listen. My business is so funny because that guy, however he got to this country was probably worse than any. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, and then he's like, was probably worse than any ghost. Oh yeah, yeah. You know, and then he's like, mm that ghost.

And then we're like, were you scared? And he's like, no. Dude, my mom grew up in Cape Cod. Yeah. And my grandparents' house, they lived in an old ass house. Sure. And it used to be a, apparently it used to be like half of a hospital.

There you go. Yeah, and that place was like, like my grandma and my mom have like, my mom has stories where she would wake up and there'd be someone standing over her. Yeah. And we would sleep over there all the time in the summers. How old are you when they told you that it was involved with the hospital? Did you, did they let you get to at least like, no, like kindergarten,

probably they were not holding back at all. Horrible mistake. And you do, do we would, I remember it cause my cousins lived in Illinois and they would come down to the Cape Cod and they would stay there for the whole summer so we would go down like every day in the summer and I would sleep over there all the time and I remember there was a hallway that we would just like anytime you walk down the hallway you just sprint as fast as you could because you'd be like there's ghosts here for sure yeah yeah there was, I think it's a smash burger now, but on 42nd and eighth, if you ever walk in by,

want to do a little dance order ghost tour. There is a, they opened a Laugh Factory in Times Square. Really? Yeah, back in the day. Oh, I didn't know that. It was open like when I first moved here. So like 07 and it became, it went from the Laugh Factory to Times Square Art Center to a ha,

ironically, a haunted house, a full-time haunted house. But, and homeless people tell you this, back in like the 80s and early 90s in Manhattan, specifically in Times Square, it was all hookers and show world and like, so the basement of the building, like the ground level of the basement was a peep world. You just go buy porn and jerk off boots.

But then you'd walk up the stairs and it would be the Laugh Factory and all the different rooms. Turns out this place was a strip club in the 70s. A lot of people got murdered there. A lot of people died inside that exact place. So there was the main room which was like this beautiful theater room for the Laugh Factory and then in the back it was the, they always have to

name the rooms for comics, it was the Richard Pryor room. And so you'd walk back to the left hallway and then there was like, it was a small room with like a good stage and there were dressing rooms. There's two dressing rooms. These are clearly where the strippers got dressed. They didn't move. The dressing rooms were dressing rooms. You could tell that they never changed. I had my backpack. I always had a backpack with me, you know, when I'd like coming to the city when I was living in Queens and I had my backpack and I was doing a guest set and they would always talk about Dennis,

the bartender would always be like, this place is fucking crazy haunted. And I was like, yeah, whatever. Because I always don't want to believe. But then, dude, I went to go get my backpack. And I've told this story on the bonfire before. But I went to go get my backpack. And as I was, it was just me. There was no show in the room.

And I was drinking at the bar. And I was like, all right, I'm going to get my bag and get out of here. And I went to get my bag. And as I walked up, the door went whap and just slammed shut. And I was like, oh fuck, oh fuck. And I just opened the door, grabbed my bag and I went, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Fucking grabbed my bag and dipped. And I think that might've been one of the last times I was there. And it was like, there were no open windows. There was nothing that could, that door just went whap. Like I was in the fight with the ghost and I was trying to talk like baby, baby, baby, like that kind of slam, like that kind of slam of a door

where I was like fuck. And yeah, that was like the one time I saw something where I was like shit, this place is haunted. This place is absolutely haunted. Dude, I'm like, every house that I've lived in growing up, because Massachusetts, all the houses are old as shit. Anything from the original 13 colonies? Worry about ghosts.

Dude, I remember one time I was sitting in the kitchen with my mom, and we were just sitting there, nothing open, nothing. And all of a sudden, a wine glass just like, flew up against the wall and just exploded and there was zero explanation for it. The old, I was just working with Maddie Weiner we're in we were just in Indianapolis together. Yeah. She was telling me she started at Goodnights in Raleigh. Oh really? Which is now they have a new location. Yeah.

But that old building was haunted and they would tell you that. One time I went pissed upstairs like in this small room and I could feel it just freaked me out. Yeah. And I ran down. Maddie said that Brandy, one of the old managers, shout out Brandy, if you're watching this, you're one of the best managers that I've ever worked at a comedy club. She ruled. Brandy ruled. Brandy showed Maddie security footage. Just like you want to see some crazy shit. And it was wine glasses going

off the fucking thing. That's crazy. And you're like, how do you not believe in ghosts? How do you not believe in ghosts when that shit happens? That's like paranormal activity shit. But for real, I genuinely with people like that, you can call me stupid, you can call me a pussy, you can call me everything you want. How do you not believe in ghosts when that kind of shit happens? Do you like horror movies? No. And now? They terrify me.

Oh, I'm a big horror movie. You like horror movies? No, I love horror movies. So like Big J loves horror movies. And so does De Rosa. I have some friends that like really, really love them. They'll watch movies where they'll be like, have you watched the Chechnyan movie?

And I'm like, what is that? And they're like, they think it's real. And I'm like, this will fuck me up. Dude, that's the problem with watching, I'm like, I love horror movies. I've always loved horror movies. And the problem with that, the problem is that I also do believe in ghosts.

So it keeps you up. So it's like that shit, dude, uh, the Conjuring 2, there's photos at the end of the movie, like real photos. Yeah, nah, thanks. And there's like, dude, there's one of the girl that like is based on in the movie and she's like, it's in filmed in London and she's like 12 feet above her bed. Nope. Just like levitating in like an old, like grainy film photo. Now, yeah. With that accent. Oh dude it's so scary.

Mommy something's happening to me. She's like darling stay there. Yeah there's too much shit where it's also like um I mean I lived in Colorado so it was always like poltergeist shit. Yeah. Like do we live on an Indian burial ground? Yeah. Like, was this a sacred space and they put our suburbs up there? And they'll just fuck you up there. Yeah, cause they're like, one man took our land.

They got some slave ghosts and Indian ghosts, got some real gripes. Yeah, we're gonna haunt this dude for 600 years. You should look this up. I went on a ghost tour in New Orleans and I'll Google this, but apparently it's like the most haunted house in New Orleans. Yeah, and the late they based

Season of America American Horror Story Do you know which one towards Kathy Bates where she apparently played this lady that owned a house where they would like Experiment on the slaves. Yeah in the attic like cut off their arms and put like metal in it Yeah, and then there was a fire and all the slaves died and the firefighters had to go up there. And they said like, this is in like the 19th, maybe the 19th century. Yeah.

Said they were like throwing up, but then they changed that house to an orphanage. Yeah. And all the kids would be like, why is the man on the stairs covered in blood? And they're like, what's up? Yeah. And there were all these instances of that Nick cage, Nicholas cage on that

house for a little bit. And now I think the funniest shit is now an oil company owns it and they give it to employees is like, great job. Here's a vacation in New Orleans. And you're like, that's a horror movie. Yeah. That's brutal. Where they don't tell you, you. You bring your beautiful new bride.

You're looking up the address online. Why are there 50 articles written about this house? I'll do that. Dude, if I stay in a hotel that's not basic ass, Marriott, Hilton, I always look it up for bed bugs and ghosts. Bed bugs. Because you know, bed bugs, that's worse than ghosts. Have you gotten bed bugs?

No, but I lived with Mike Vecchione, who has permanent PTSD.'t bed bugs. That's worse than ghosts. Have you gotten bed bugs? No, but I lived with Mike Vecchione who has permanent PTSD From bed bugs dude. He got it like four times in the same apartment. That's so fucked. You would for and I Was that from going on the road? Yeah, we got I can't believe we haven't had Vecchione on the podcast We're gonna talk to him specifically about bed. Yeah, dude when I lived with him This is a real thing when he would go on the road, he would put his suitcase in the bathtubs because he was so afraid of, so he would only put it in places where bed bugs couldn't get. Because he was like, I bought him a suitcase one year for Christmas that you plug into the wall and it heats up and it's supposed

to kill all the bed bugs in your suitcase. Like that's how paranoid. That's on that level with mice. With mice. Dude, I have in my apartment right now, there's probably over 50 mice traps, mouse traps. Have you caught them? None. There's none in my apartment actively. They're elusive.

Because the last apartment I lived in, we had mice so bad that like, you know how people will say, they're like, if you see a, you know how people are, people will say, they're like, if you see a mouse during the day, it means you have an infestation because- That's like, if you see a tiny cockroach. Yeah, exactly. You're fucked, big cockroach, you're fine. Exactly.

We would see mice, we would have people over at our apartment and there would be like, like our living room was the size of this room. Sure. And we would have like seven dudes in the room and mice would just come scurrying through your feet. Hey, how you doing? Yeah. Yeah. Like they didn't give a shit about us. I would wake up. There was a sliver of my door, like the, the gap between the bottom of the door and the floor was like this big

and I would wake up, I would open my eyes and there would be a mouse just sitting right next to my bed. Hello. Yeah. Yeah. It was like. Do you freak out about them? Freak out.

You're not like, I have no fear of mice. Because I'm like, I can just stomp the shit out. No, because I got a fear of them being in my bed. Because I know they were in my bed. Oh, yeah. There's no way in hell they were never in my bed. Yeah, they were obviously in my bed. That's like a Mario land for them. This is bed land Yeah, and before because before I lived there I the two apartments I lived in hadn't we had no mice problems

And so I was like reckless like I would just be like eating sandwiches And I'd like finish a sandwich and just like put it on my bed and go to sleep And then that might like that new mice is like that guy in the yellow suit. Yeah. We were the first place I ever lived. I lived on my friend Morgan's couch in Hoboken above the karma cafe and unbelievable food, but they would leave old bags of rice in the hallway. So it was mice central. So many mice didn't give a shit. If you would've told me there was a ghost in that place,

I would have had a much bigger problem. Oh no, I'm as scared as I am of ghosts. If I was staying in that hotel. And you had to choose. I would rather see a ghost than a mouse, easily. Really? Dude, once I see a mouse, I just can't, like I can't function until I know it's gone. We absolutely need the title this episode

Mouse V goes Cuz dude give me a mice give me mice all day. Yeah, dude. The funniest thing is back to those Guatemalan porters We used to have sticky traps. Oh, yeah in the hutches, which are so fucked We used to have sticky traps in the hutches. Which are so fucked. Dude, we'd come in, because I did lunches, so you'd open the cafe and a mouse would get stuck and it'd be like, screaming.

Yeah, like trying to pull it off. And like, you know, theater kids, those are waiters. So you'd have like this actress meal, like, oh no, oh this mouse. And then one of the porters would be like, no. I'm just gonna kill it. And then pick the thing up and throw it in the trash can.

And you're like, man, Americans are pussies. Americans in the theater, in the arts, we're giant pussies. Dude, when I lived in that apartment that we had the infestation, we had the sticky traps. That's the only thing that works, by the way. But by the way, it works in such an inhumane way. It's so inhumane, but dude, nothing else works. Like I've never caught a mouse on a wooden trap on like those, those plastic ones that they're supposed to run into.

I've only ever caught them on sticky traps. Man. If we ever have to deal with aliens and then they see that technology and then I'm like, I haven't eaten a week. That's a steak dinner. And then I go grab it. Then I'm like, ah, dude, I go grab it and I'm like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah 2 a.m. I heard it screaming. I went, I put my foot on it to slide it out from under the radiator, stuck on my foot, mouse screaming on my foot. It's like, help me, I'm here to kill you! And then I drifted off and I just,

we were just throwing out the window. We were on the fifth floor, just huck it into the courtyard. Yeah. Do you still live in the same apartment? No, but like what else was there to do? I'm not gonna squash that thing. Where is this former apartment?

This was Waverly street. Okay. So if you lived on Waverly and at one point you're outside smoking a cigarette, you think screaming mouse, imagine it lands on you and then it's just stuck to you and you're like, what the f and you look and there's a mouse attached to you. Oh, a mouse falling on you? I get your level of ghost fear. If a mouse like, like, you ever been on a subway with a rat on it?

Oh yeah, all the time. Where they're on the train. Yeah, yeah. Like moving train. Yeah, yeah. That shit, you know, growing up here, that like will move everyone. Yeah. It's like, you know, fuck.

And everyone's like gets up and everyone's like, that brings New Yorkers together more than anything. As a rat on a subway car, cause you're like, what the fuck? Yeah. Dude, when we first, the first day that we realized we had mice, it was, well, first of all, we abandoned,

we like abandoned ship. Like we left. Cause I thought it was a rat. Cause I had a, dude, well, first of all, we abandoned, we like abandoned ship. Like we, we left because I thought, I thought it was a rat because I had a, dude, again, like I was so reckless with trash because I didn't, I was like, we're on the fifth floor. There's no way we're ever going to get mice. I had a trash bag in my room that was just filled. I was just Uber Eats saying every meal, just throwing it in there. When they found that, That's El Dorado. Dude, I was, I was laying in bed

and all of a sudden the trash bag just starts moving. No. It just fully starts moving. Good lesson for anyone that moves to New York. Yeah, dude. You see those mounds of trash walking by, stick around, smoke a cigarette, you'll see. Those things move.

Those are so fucked. Have you ever had one, a rat run over your foot while you're walking? Yeah. Dude, it's like the weight of like a fucking bowling ball. Well, you, you like feel it. Yeah. My dog has terrier in her.

Oh yeah. So those are, they love the- They'll kill. She got a squirrel one time and fucking shook it and let it go. And it was like, oh, you got that in you. Yeah. Like you got- That's good.

Yeah. Yeah. But not when you're walking by a mound of trash in the city. Cause she'll be like, oh, something's in there. And you're like, yeah, you got that in you. Yeah. Like you got it. Yeah. Yeah. But not when you're walking by a mound of trash in the city, because she'll be like, oh, something's in there. And you're like, yeah, we're not going in there. And she's like, oh, food and mice? There's a good chance that rat will take you. She's like, no, no, no, no.

Yeah, you're like, dude, it'll come out bigger than Myrtle. Like, what are you, 60 pounds, all fat? Fat old bitch. I could tell you live in the sky. I'm all bones. Yeah, dude, I'm all just fucking trash. Just rats, just mean rats Bones and blood

Well, are you gonna start going by your full name? So Harry so like Harry Settle is my full name. It's a good name Yeah, that's what uh, Paul Veers. He was saying the other night. Yeah, Verzee. Yeah, Harry settles. Yeah settle settle That's a great name. Yeah, dude. It's just it was just like the the idea was never cuz I always knew I wanted to do stand-up for sure Like that was my like I wanted to stand up in high school But I lived in the suburbs and I was like, yeah I'm not gonna be one of those dudes that has my mom drive me to the open Like I know there's all the stories people being like you his mom would wait outside. I was like, yeah I'm almost three other kids. I'm not gonna have a lighting outside of a bar

I'm almost three other kids. I'm not going to have a lighting outside of a bar. My mom's like, I'm two cocktails. My mom's like, I'm already in Dan. I'm not taking any to comedy works downtown Denver. Talk about having bonus. Yeah. So, so I always knew I wanted to do stand-up. So I was like, I'm going to do this Twitter stuff. And then I just never changed the name because it's good that you're doing it.

I mean, you're only 23. So you're changing it right now. Thank God you're not. Well. I refilmed a don't tell oh hell. Yeah. Yeah, so under Harry Settle under my name Yeah, great. So when that comes out, I'll fuck you change it. Well, definitely watch it We'll put we'll edit it. So we'll put the link up on YouTube for it I don't know when that's coming out, but but for now follow them little Sasquatch 666 on Twitter Yeah, yeah, or yeah 6ix on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. Or yeah 6 6 on Twitter Is it okay? Instagram? It's 666 because 6 6 was taken. I got a lot of DMS people being like you piece of shit devil Where am I? Yeah, this 6 6 was just taken and it had nothing to do with yeah

I'm not into the Dark Lord. I wasn't gonna make it like 6 6 1. Yeah Corny number. Oh, you can check me out a dance order for two I didn't want to do for 20 Yeah, dude, little Sasquatch six six on Twitter little six Sasquatch six six six on Instagram