The Commercial Break - TCB Infomercial: Zoltan Kaszas

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

The Commercial Break Podcast | EP#862 Zoltan Comedian Zoltan Kaszas drops by The Commercial Break to talk stand-up, stray cats, and surviving the weird gig economy of comedy. Bryan and Krissy dive into Zoltan’s sharp takes on modern life, growing up broke, and why your dog would never make it on its own. It’s equal parts philosophy, sarcasm, and fur-covered truth—just another day in the madhouse that is The Commercial Break. ⁠Zoltan's New Special is HERE Zoltan Tickets For The New Tour! Watch EP #862 with Zoltan on ⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠! Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thecommercialbreak⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/thecommercialbreak⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tcbpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.tcbpodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ CREDITS: Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Green⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Krissy Hoadley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits | TCB Tunes: Written, Performed and Edited by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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my lines ready before I talk to a stranger. And sometimes I'm not. Like, sometimes there's someone in front of me and I'm still deciding and they get out of line. Now I'm next. I'll just yell out the first thing I see on the menu. That's who I am. London fall. man. That's how I found out London fog's not even coffee, all right? It's tea. Like, if you yell out London fog in a panic, prepare for some dirty hot water, because you just got yourself some gross tea, all right? That's who I am, though. Like, when I'm in line at a Starbucks, I'm in my head the whole time, just like, bacon egg, goo, a sandwich, sweet cream cold brew. Bacon egg goo to sandwich, sweet cream cold brew. Bacon egg, egg, good, a sandwich, sweet cream cold brew. And then I make it to the front, and the barista's like, what will it be? And I'm like, uh, can I do a bacon egg, gooda sandwich, and a sweet cream cold brew?

But then if she's like, we're out of all of that, I'll be like, London fog, dude. I'll make the same mistake again, rather than looking indecisive in public, dude. I'll dance with the devil I know than the one I don't. On this episode of the commercial break. Don't we? We have so many things flying around. Elon's got a bunch of satellites up there. There's a bunch of shit.

Why can't we determine exactly what's going on up there? I don't know. Can we turn on century mode on one of those Teslas he sent into outer space and get a look at this thing? It's, uh, yeah, that's, that's, uh, that's, uh, that's pretty frightening. I also like the idea that this well-respected scientist has a bit of the hysterics. He does. Yeah. Like, that's, can you imagine that from like a well-respected neurosurgeon?

He's like, this guy's going to, this guy's going to work on your brain, but he's a bit, uh, he's a cook, but, uh, we'll see what he can do. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh, yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Greene. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show. Chris and Joy Haudley. Best to you, Brian. And best to you out there in the podcast universe.

Thanks for joining us on a TCB infomercial. Tuesday was Zoltan, the comedian, the very hot on fire. So hot right now. So hot. He's so hot. He's hot to touch. He's hot to look at. Everybody thinks he's hot, including my wife.

Yes. The reason why I'm so familiar with Zoltan's comedy is because Asterd sends me every single one of his reels. Everyone, every single. She's like, look at Zoltan. Look what Zeltan said. So I don't know whether to be jealous or angry or just a happy that he's here. I'm just going to join in.

But usually we do these intros before we talk to the person, but this time is a little bit different and I'll explain why. But I want you to stick with us on this, okay? Because Zoltan is really good. He's really funny. And I'm not going to ask him to repeat this. So we recorded the interview. with Zoltan. And about half a minute into the interview, Blue starts barking. Now, that's nothing new here at the studios. Blue is always barking. But it's usually one or two, three, maybe a bark for a couple minutes and then it's, then she moves on to something else in her little pea brain. But this time was different. Was different. Blue barks the entirety of the interview. But I didn't know. It wasn't it, it wasn't a bark like she was in trouble. It was just her normal obnoxious bark. Just every time.

there was a dead silence, she would bark. Why? Well, it turns out that Blue loves to get up on a bed here in the house, but she doesn't know how to get down. So she decided the best way to alert everybody that she's up in the bed was to bark obnoxiously for almost an hour. Yeah, there's like little bouts of where she would stop. And I was like, okay, there's it.

That's it done. And then, yep, rap, hop, hop. It is, you know, so. Sometimes when Blue barks during the episodes, when I go back and we're editing the show, I don't really hear it. So I'm like, okay, I can work around. I'm hoping this is faint enough that it won't be so omnipresent during the episode, but I've already listened to it back a little bit, and I can already tell you right now, you're going to hear Blue. That's what you're going to do. But Zoltan is hilarious.

And we were lucky to get him in here, and we're happy to have him, and he's going to have a big tour, links in the show notes to his tickets. He's got a brand new special that's on YouTube available right now. All you got to do is go press play, links in the show notes. Zoltan has been doing this for a long time, and he's got a, he's a very unique delivery, a very unique affectation, and he uses it to his distinct advantage. He is really hilarious. There are a lot of comics that come on that I enjoy personally, a lot of the comic, most of the comics that come on, we know in some. some way, shape, or form. We've seen their material. And we like it. But this one kind of rises to the top of the list for me, for Astrid. Astrid's so excited that Zoltan's coming in. And we are to.

We're going to go see his show, too. Yeah, we're going to go see his show. He invites us to the show at the end of the interview, and it was so kind of him to do so. And that puts him automatically in the friend category here at the commercial break. When I don't have to pay, you know, when just saving me just a little bit of money, I don't care if the tickets are in the fucking broom closet. I'm not fussy. I just want to go see Zeltang. Yeah, it'll be a fun night out. And he's playing at Center Stage, which is a great place to see. It is.

It's where I saw my first ever comedy show, Pauly Shore. Right. That's right. Polly Shore. Wasn't there something about a cigarette involved in that story? He bummed a cigarette. Even though he didn't smoke cigarettes, he bummed a cigarette. And we were 14 years old smoking camel wides.

Remember camel wides? Oh, my God, yes. We thought they were toys. You know what I'm saying? That's how young we were. We were just like, these are cool. Camel whides. So here's something funny while we're talking about it, since we already let the cat out of the bag, that we've already recorded this interview. So after we record the interview, a day or two later, Zoltan makes a post about his new special. Yes. And he says, the post is basically a lot, what he'll, you'll hear here on the show, which is they pitched it to the streamers. The streamers said no. We were in disbelief that any of the streamers would say no to Zoltan. but they said no and that happens and whatever hit the next one get them at the next one so he posts that

and i make a comment you know it's a big stream conspiracy rob schneider has a special on netflix think about that fucking rob schneider yeah has a special on netflix the most undesired comic stand-up comic sense uh i don't know carrot top i'm not sure i don't know no knock on keratov No, I know. He gets enough shit. I actually like Caratop, if I'm being honest. He's strangely muscular, though. Yeah.

He's just a strange-looking dude. I don't love his comedy, but I like him as a person. When I see him talking, I get into it. I'm like, okay, all right, Caratop, you're not terrible. He's got great stories, too. He's seen a lot of history of comedy. So I say that on the comments section, and I'm just sharing with you guys. Rob Schneider has a streaming special on Netflix and Zoltan is on YouTube.

All you have to do is press play. It's going to be a great hour of comedy. Do us all a favor. Go watch Zoltan. Let's make Zoltan part of the commercial break family. Let's make sure that he feels the love. I agree. So please go press play.

You can also do that on our podcast. That would help us out a lot. Yes, please press play. Press play on our podcast. Of course, if you're not hearing this, then how would you know to press play? But there you go. All right. Okay. All right. Let's take a break. And when we get back, through the magic of telepodcasting, Zoltan here in studio, blue in a bedroom far away, and me and Chrissy talking, you'll get through it. It's fine. It's not terrible, terrible. It's just you're getting here.

We keep talking like it's not happening. But I'm inside. I'm laughing. Yeah. It's happening. All right. We'll take a break. What do you say? Let's take a break. And when we get back, we'll bring them on. Let's do it. Okay. We'll be back. Hey, it's Rachel, your new voice of God here on TCB. And just like you, I'm wondering just how much longer this podcast can continue. Let's all rejoice that another episode has made it to your ears, and I'll rejoice that my check is in the mail. Speaking of mail, get your free TCB sticker in the mail by going to TCB Podcast.com

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She is a huge fan of your comedy. Well, first of all, which gives me mixed emotions about you. I'll leave it there. First of all, thank you and thank you to your wife. and you have no idea how much I hear that, like when I go do shows. I can tell during the meet and greet whose idea it was to come and who's the big fan and who got dragged and who's being a good sport about coming to the show. So I'm glad to know the dynamic.

Why do you think it is? Your dog also loves. Yeah, my dog is going absolutely bananas right now. I don't know why. She might be stuck in a closet or something. Should I check on her? I don't know. One of the, do you, do you get a lot more of the wife or more the husband?

Man, it's kind of 50-50. But yeah, I guess more wives than husbands. I would, I would, I've seen more guys standing at the meat and green gone as opposed to like wives going. But I'm going to say 60-40 to the wives. That's what I'm going to say. Yeah, you've got something. There's something about, I think it's like your mannerisms, your affectation, something, you're handsome.

You've got this X factor going on. A Geneseequa is what we have in my bio. That is what we're, exactly. That's what we're trying to promote it. If you ever have to go get a regular job, it'll say, jeaneseecois. They put like marketing director or sales professional. Strengths. Geneseecois.

More women like me than men. I love this. I was watching a real, I think it was last night or the night before that you did about UFOs. Yeah. Tell me, do you have like a genuine interest and fascination in this? And are you paying attention to this three-eye comment that's zooming around that's going to cause problems? So I've heard about that comment. And I'm new to like the alien thing, you know?

Like I've always like heard of it. But you know what the problem with aliens? That whole world is. like the messenger is so important. Yeah. And all of the alien messengers of like, the aliens are real. They've all looked like lunatics that live in a van and no one wants to believe them.

Right. And then now like the military is like, yeah, we shot at a UFO and we hit it and it didn't do anything. This might be real. Yeah. Now it's like that much more interesting. And yes, I have heard of the comet that was supposed to be a spacecraft, but now maybe it's not a spacecraft. but it's dangerous nonetheless.

What's the latest with it? Okay, so I'll go down this road with you because actually this episode may not air because of that comet. We'll have to see whether or not things come out. So why not talk about it? Yes, definitely. It's like three-eye. It's an interstellar, what they call interstellar.

So it's coming from inside of our universe. Is that intergalactic? No, I don't. The Beastie boys talk about it? It's the way that it's circling around our solar system is strange and we've only seen three of the scientists have like we like I'm a part of the scientific community right we all are yes since 2020 we all are part of the scientific community my grandfather is a COVID specialist um so it's the way that it's circling around our solar

system makes scientists a little befuddled because they don't understand why it's moving the way it's moving and like a comet usually has a tail that moves away from the sun makes sense it's burning off ice and whatever and this tail apparently is pointing toward the sun indicating that it may have some kind of like thrust and it's slowing down now again zoltan said it correctly you have to look at the messenger of there's like a thousand scientists out there that are like cool comet dude and there's like six scientists out there that are like we're fucked yeah but they're not on the CBS nightly news, do you know? Right. They're like, they're coming to the commercial break. Is that got a place? It's kind of like the toothpaste commercials where they're like

nine out of ten dentists recommend this toothpaste. What's up with that one dentist? And then that one dentist is the scientist that's like, that thing's going to kill us. And so, but that's interesting. I want to listen to that guy. And then I want to maybe visit his house just see what's going on there and see if I believe him. His name is Avi Loeb, so you can go Google him. And he's a well-respected, like, astronomer and whatever the other titles are. He's well-respected, except he's also known to have fits of hysterics, like, you know, about certain things. Psychosis?

Yeah, psychosis. That's how you want your, that's how you want the guys that are. A little dash of psychosis. I just feel like in this day and age, we should know with a degree of certainty, whether or not something is a space. Don't we? We have so many things flying around. Elon's got a bunch of satellites up there. There's a bunch of shit.

Why can't we determine exactly what's going on up there? I don't know. Can we turn on century mode on one of those Teslas he sent into outer space and get a look at this thing? Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty frightening. I also like the idea that this well-respected scientist has a bit of the hysterics. He does. Like, that's, can you imagine that from like a well-respected neurosurgeon?

He's like, this guy's going to, this guy's going to work on your brain, but he's a bit, he's a kook, but we'll see what he can do. He's been known to get the yips during surgery. So, you know, with the putter, like how you got how guy's professional golfers, they call it the yips, or you can't pull the putter back because they're brain. Like, imagine the neurosurgeon. He's a great neurosurgeon. Best in the business, he's prone to the yips. I hope it doesn't happen on you.

If everything goes fine, it's going to go really good for you. Oh, wow. His short game is a disaster, but he can drive it. Boy, he can drive it from the tea. Out of town. Hey, you are, your parents are originally from Hungary. You're originally from Hungary. Is that right?

Yeah, both of us. I was born in Budapest. We moved. I was born in 87. We moved in 91. So I was there for a really short time, just four years. Yeah, that's very interesting. Why did your parents come here? Just a job seeking a better life. My mom married a Hungarian-American, and then we ended up moving. That's how we ended up coming, and we moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Wow. Pittsburgh. That was a reduction. Yeah, that's a lot of Hungarians over there. So it was like a smooth transition, but that marriage didn't last very long. So we were only there for like five years. And then we ended up moving to Sandy. where I still am and it's where I grew up. San Diego is so beautiful. So beautiful. Yeah, I had no clue what we were moving to. I just remember telling my teachers that I was moving and they're like, where? And I said San Diego and they're like, oh, you're going to love.

Like, that was the first time I had ever seen jealousy in adult's eyes is when I told my first grade teacher that I'm moving to San Diego. Like, oh, you're going to have a great time. Yeah. Well, it is the whale's vagina. It is the whale's vagina. That's true. Well, I mean, when you live in Pittsburgh, though, you could say, you know, I'm moving to New Delhi and you're going to love it there.

I hear the panhandling. The weather's way better. The weather's way better over in New Delhi. Yeah, I don't know what part of the whale Pittsburgh is, but not the vagina, I would say. Did you find comedy early? Was this like a way of navigating and negotiating like, uh, uh, your childhood, like, I think a lot of comics... Yeah, new situations and just trying to find friends and you start making a funny

and you realize that gets a reaction, you go, oh, or was this something you found later in life? No, I mean, definitely moving around a lot and changing elementary schools every few year, every couple of years, like, being funny helped making friends. And then in middle school, like, I started to be, like, I started to figure it out. I'm like, oh, comedy's cool. And then I graduated high school I didn't know what to do And then a year after I was out of high school

I was 19 and I decided to go to an open mic And I just I had a horrible set But I like I was intrigued as to why It's like I really went in A lot of people going to open mics with this confidence That they're going to do Like a little bit of fear

Like they're going to do poorly or they could do poorly That was you know when you're young I mean, you just have dumb confidence. That's what I had. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I had. And I'm like, this is going to go great. I have some friends here.

And it did not go great. Like, it was so bad. And with my friends, not knowing when they're like, we didn't know when we were supposed to laugh. So they laughed at like the wrong parts. And I'm like, not then, you know? And it was just, it was a disaster. But I was intrigued as to why it was a disaster. and I think that kept me going back and back and back and you know here we are 20 years later

19 years later however long it's been yeah I think that's that is interesting because I believe that a lot of when we talk we've talked to a lot of comics and the story usually goes the opposite direction which is I showed up at the open mic I killed it and then the next 10 times I got up there I couldn't find a joke to save my life right they got the initial boost of confidence and that strung them along. It gave them enough, I guess, gas in the tank to then get to the next funny. But that's interesting that you flopped. And I would imagine 90% of humans would go, that's it. I'm done. Enough punishment for me, right? But you had some kind of fascination. It was a challenge. It was weird. Yeah. It was like some kind of like kick to my confidence where I'm like,

why did I not do well? I was supposed to do well at this. And then, yeah, the next few times didn't go much better and then I don't know I think it was like a few months in I told a story instead of doing like a joke I thought was clever and that worked that works better than anything else I'd done and I was like oh maybe that's what I'm supposed to do I think I'm supposed to like yeah I think I'm supposed to more talk about my life and stuff that actually happened to me as opposed to, you know, thinking I'm so creative. Set up punchline, set up, punchline, set up, punchline, set up punchline is a very interesting form of comedy. But I think it, I don't know, it's not, it can be funny, right?

I mean, you could be like Mitch. But you have to be, or Seinfeld, but you have to be so, your time, everything. Yeah, it's just a different, it's just, there's some, you know, inside of stand of comedy, there's a bunch of different versions of that. I think you have a very unique voice, right? You have a unique voice, like literally have a unique voice, but then the way that you deliver your comedy is very unique. I would imagine that's part of why all these women find you so sexy and attractive.

It's because of the way that you move across stage, but finding that voice is probably hard to do. Like, you have to go up there and just cut your teeth a million times. How many open mics did you do where you, just didn't feel confident like you were like oh my god i so many i think my second time on stage i didn't know what a panic attack was but i think i had one like i just remember my face went numb and my hands were tingling and i couldn't see i had like peripheral vision but the stage lights were blinding me and i didn't do i just kept talking i didn't like i didn't run off the stage or

anything. I just kept talking and I was like, this is weird? What is this feeling? And then when I was done, I was able to like sit down and then it all eventually came back. But yeah, so many moments. I call them, there's a special type of bomb and I call them dry mouth bombs. I think other comics have talked about it, but your lips start sticking to your teeth. Right. And then you're just, you start getting like saliva in the back that gets thick and you're like, I can't talk. And everything I say is less funny than the thing before. Those kind of panicky in the moment moments, they happen over and over. They might happen to me next week. I'm going to be in New York. I'll be doing some spots

at clubs. I could have another dry mouth bomb waiting for me on Tuesday night. So it keeps things I was going to say, don't put that in your head. Don't put that in your head, dude. You got the yips. There you go. He's got a hips. He left the commercial break and he never did another set. Yeah, that's super interesting. I heard a story once. There's a guy named Eddie Brill who used to, do you know Eddie? Yeah. Okay, guy used to book Letterman, right? He used to be part of the crew that would book the comedians on Letterman for many, many years. And Eddie and I became friends during the pandemic. And he told me a story about another comic who got so afraid, like he would walk up on stage, you would be afraid that he had peed himself, right?

Even though clearly he had not peed himself, he'd have to, like, he'd go to the bathroom right before he got on stage. This was like his biggest fear. And there was such an, at times, an overwhelming sensation that this had happened and no one was telling him. And he was like, it was this crazy kind of, like, self-induced paranoia that I got myself in that he actually stopped doing stand-up for like six years because he was so paranoid that this was happening or had happened was going to happen to him.

and I can understand that because when I get up to speak in front of people sometimes you get that dry mouth bomb and when your lips are sticking to your teeth you know that other people know it right you're like oh great yeah it's noticeable yeah now I look weird I look weird and everything's going down the wrong way oh go ahead I'm sorry no I was going to say when did you first know too that you were a cat person oh well I mean that happened I I think It happens when you first get to just have a cat in the household. You know, I was living with some roommates and a roommate had a cat. And I just got attached to the cat. They ended up, you know, move away, roommates move away. And I was like, I think I need a cat in my life. And so we went to go adopt one, which that's a whole process too.

When I adopted my cat, you know, you check out so many cats. You read their stories. And then this one has gingivitis. Oh, we can work through that. You know, this one may have bitten somebody. We can work through that. But, yeah, I remember the cat we chose, Jessica. I picked her out of the cage and she let me hold her like a baby.

And I was like, I think this is the one. And then, you know, then I was a full-blown cat person. I love it. I love it. I had one that lived to be 22 patches. She was a cat-l-cow. And I still haven't been able to replace her. It's too hard, but I want, I've got, I've almost done so.

And I have gone through the process that you're talking about, especially online, looking at all of the cats, picking them out and figuring out which one would fit in your home. It's, yeah. You know, comprende, bros. I don't understand. You know. Well, I'm also deathly allergic to cats. So for me, it's a death sentence.

We had two cats when I was young. Sammy and Denise and my parents brought them home. Like, we had just moved to Atlanta from. Chicago and I think my parents recognized that maybe we needed some something, some kind of comfort or something to entertain us or kill us or whatever. I don't know. So she got these pair of little kittens and they were running around the house. They weren't particularly social. But then I started like breaking out in hives and having problems. We didn't put two and two together until a couple weeks later. And then one day I came home and the cats were gone. And my mom claimed that

the cats just ran away. She was like, oh, the cats ran away. And we said, well, How did they run, they ran away? How did they run away? They were just gone. So I think my mom was trying to save me. But I always wondered where Sammy and Denise went. They still, to this day, won't tell the farm. Yeah, yeah.

That's actually very sweet of your mom to save you the shame of the household of like, well, you have an allergy and now we can't have these adorable things running around. It's very sweet of her. You know, Zoltan, I never thought about it that way. I've never thought, I've never given my mom an ounce of crap. for that whole cat story and actually you might be right about that she didn't want my other brothers to be pissed off that seems yeah niece were wow yeah yeah as they're putting him in cages sorry your brother's allergic and then they just walk you can't have them because your brother's terrible skin complexion has made this all awful sorry your brother can't breathe anymore

can you comb every tuesday at like 1 p.m just for an hour's old and we could talk through some other life stories absolutely I can feel some trauma. I would love to be an unlicensed therapist. I think that's my backup plan if this all goes to hell is unlicensed therapy. California psychics. California, yes. Oh, yes, for sure.

I don't know why, but people, they call them and they call those psychics, and they call those psychics instead of a therapist. And that makes me a little nervous. If everything else on the TV doesn't make me a little bit nervous, that makes me nervous about the state. the United States. You travel a lot as the as a comic. I know you're on the like the never ending tour as most comics are working comics. I don't think you have a particularly divisive kind of comedy, right? But do you do you get nervous when you go out and stage?

Are there any jokes, punchlines, things that you might say like in 2025 where you go, this could draw a reaction. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I like most people. You know, I watch the news. I'm on my phone. I see what's going on. And it just seems so weird to go on stage and avoid it. Absolutely. Sure.

And so I try to talk about it. And I've always tried to like never be on, at least with my comedy for people not to be able to tell which way I lean or which way I go and just try to make everybody laugh, but still get kind of my point across in my own way. but it's hard it's hard and um yeah i second guess myself a lot and then i try it and i kind of do the jokes like this at the end i'm like is it was that okay is that you're asking for permission yeah you're asking for acceptance of this did you all the time yeah yeah i remember i made fun of uh i did a joke about Elon Musk doing the Hitler salutes oh yeah I think I remember this, yeah. Yeah.

And then I had a lot of, I had a couple messages like, or this one lady left a comment that said, you should stay out of politics. And I just, I was like, if that's political, then we're all screwed. Like, if making fun of that is considered just normal everyday politics, we're, we're in big trouble. And then, uh, apparently that was kind of true. Now we're in trouble. Yeah, it's kind of true.

Now we're kind of, yeah. So it's weird, but it also seems so. hypocritical and ignorant to just go up there and talk about butter the whole time. But I kind of do do that because now I've noticed when I do make a joke about something that's going on in the news, whether it's ice or whether it's this or that, I can just see the look in people's eyes and they look sad. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, are they coming to the show to just forget about all of that for like an

hour and then so so that also crosses my mind of should I even attempt this joke or people just like wanting me to talk about butter and my life and just anything that isn't that so at least for an hour they're like well that was fun at least we didn't have to watch the news so yeah it's it's weird it's weird because I do want to talk about stuff but at the same time I don't want to bum people out it's very interesting and i think we kind of take the same we have the same frame is when we started in 2020 we said okay no politics like give people an hour that they can just like zone out and not have to listen to everything out the incredible amount of craziness swirling around everybody's head and i think we did that pretty well for a while but then there's some stuff that is so

omnipresent that it's like how do you not address it at some point at some time yeah we do we always go to reaction out of somebody and now luckily the you know we also like you we kind of go ah like you know and do you agree right right we go to reaction out of somebody and you know you have to I guess you have to deal with that but it it begs an interesting question in these times I think we we need both people to speak out and speak up and then we also need need time to tune out and time to turn off. We can't be swirling in this 24 hours a dad, a therapist once. Reality TV, that's for me.

That's right. Seeking sister wives is what we need. Seeking sister wives. Have you caught up on seeking sister wives, Zoltan? I know my wife and I were big into 90-day fiancé. Oh, we were for a while too. Very big into that. That was our distraction for many years.

Yeah, and then it really went off the rails. Yeah. We flipped it on the other day, and I'm like, what has happened to these people? I know. I was like, they're still on? And now they're like 10 seasons. Before the 90 days, after the 90 days on the Love Island. Yeah, now let's go back home to the other country.

Co-parenting on the spectrum. And it's like all, it's all, it's everywhere. I don't know what's going on. 90 days again, another 90 days. Trying again. I mean, there are some people who have been on that show for like a decade. I know. I know.

They've turned into bona fide de-list celebrities. That's a job. That's a job to be single and to try to find a love interest that's outside the borders of the United States. I think it's, that's a gig now. I had this belief. I mean, I understand the production of reality TV. But when I got Chrissy into it, I said you got to watch the show 90-day fiancé. It's insane.

All 25,000 episodes in one season. Well, yeah, but you got, you caught up on lay. And I said to her, I said, listen, at some point the production staff just start picking the most insane human beings because that makes the best TV. But at first, there was a little glimmer of authenticity in some of those episodes. But then it just all went off the rail. I think the season that Big Ed came, the guy with no neck. I think the season that Big Ed came and all just went to shit. He was the most entertaining guy.

He was. That's a San Diego guy. We used to, uh, we would, I remember in one of the scenes, this is like middle of the pandemic. You can't do anything. And we were watching one of the episodes. And my wife and I noticed, I'm like, oh, he lives in San Diego. And we would try to figure out where he, like, where he was hanging out, like, which restaurant.

And so we would use background, like context clues. And then we tried to like go find the. place. We'd get coffee and we'd be like, oh, I think that was the, that was the restaurant that Ed Noneck was hanging out. Yeah. That's incredible. Well, he's driving around a pink scooter with a dog on the back of it for a while there. Wasn't he? Probably isn't that hard to find. How do you miss him? How do you miss him? But somehow we just kept missing him. Three foot five man with no neck driving pink scooter with a dog hanging. The dog had a helmet. If I remember, yeah. Oh, you got to keep the dog safe.

that's true do you bring your wife on tour with you uh certain cities like she's coming with me to new york Boston uh she is not coming with me to Omaha and uh Des Moines yeah so so she picks and chooses i think Nashville she's definitely coming to uh so like the real like she's like i want to go there and uh she's been on the road with me so much that we have like kind of our favorite places in certain cities we're like oh we're going to to the city, we want to go to that, let's go back to that coffee shop and stuff like that. Yeah, that's incredible when you have, when you're able, I mean, like, I know that there's a lot of detractions to traveling around like that, right? It's not all shits and giggles. You do it for

the one hour on stage. But if you have a traveling partner, like someone that comes with you and hangs out and you kind of make your own little adventures, then it's, it makes it fun because I'm the type of person. If she's not there with me, I don't really leave them. hotel. Like, I will do my best not to leave the hotel. I'll go work out in the hotel gym. I'll Uber eat some food. Maybe I'll walk to a coffee shop and then I'll just do my shows. And then, but when she comes with me, we go out, we do stuff. And that generates stories. That actually helps generate material as opposed to, oh, I went down to the lobby. I got a coffee. And then I watched it. It's all, it's all, I end up just talking about butter.

did you know the Hampton Inn and Caduca has free weights free weights I didn't think it was a luxury hotel brand but changed my mind after the free weights yeah that's when you is there like a favorite city what I like to ask this of comics your brand of humor or you do you find that there's a reception in one place in the United States that's in the world that's better than others like some comics will say down in the south they seem to pick up on my comedy a little bit more like the vibe is better but do you find that there's a place where people embrace your comic sensibilities better than others uh yeah i have very interesting regions that like me like i was just in tacoma washington where a lot of people showed up and they seemed to really connect like the pacific northwest uh minneapolis is another big Cleveland, anywhere where there's like white people on like depression medication, I seem to,

there seems to be a connect. But it's not, it's weird because that that is a lot of it, but then also Tampa, Florida for some reason. Like Tampa, Florida digs my comedy. They show up in large numbers and those people like Tampa, they're all tanned. Everyone looks like a real estate agent or like a retired pro wrestler or a stripper. And it's just, it's a specific look, but they seem to dig what I do. So, but yeah, mostly the sad whites seem to dig, dig what I do.

Until Tampa, all those other cities that you said, I have had, there's no other comic that's ever said those cities. So I think you have that region covered. Maybe it's just your brand of humor strikes the Pacific Northwest, Cincinnati and Minneapolis. Yeah. Are you excited to travel outside the country again? I'm pumped. That'd be my favorite part.

I would love to go travel around the world. It's like, that's the dream. Like the fact that, so next year I get to do the UK, which I did the Edinburgh Fringe Fest in 2017, which was an awesome experience, which was my only taste of like doing comedy outside of like the United States or Canada. Oh, really? And it was a great experience. I loved it. And then this time I get to do a few cities in the UK. And then we're going to go over to Europe and do, man, I know Budapest is going to be on the list.

So I'm really pumped about that. Homecoming show. Look at that. Yeah. Yeah. So like just getting to go around and travel like a band, I think is so cool. So, yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to drag my mom out to the Europe ones. And we're going to have a good time. Oh, how fun. Yeah. I, have you ever played Budapest since, I mean, ever? No. Really? Yeah, I never have.

I haven't been back to Budapest since I was a kid. Okay. Like kindergarten, first grade, I think was the last time we went back to visit. And I don't know if it's from PTSD or what, but my mom hasn't wanted to go back. Do you still have family there? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They come to, they've come to the U.S.

to visit or yeah not not that much I had a cousin visit me with with her baby uh it was probably 10 years ago but no it's a lot of my family is interesting like I think we all like each other but I don't think any of us like love each other you know what I like do you know this yes yes so like my mom and I yes yes no I get it yeah yes it's a space to see who can leave the party first yeah yes yeah yeah so I I I I even asked, I asked my mom, I was like, hey, if we do that show in Budapest, is like, my uncle going to come? And she's like, I doubt it. I doubt it.

Okay. Well, no expectation. At least she was. Yeah. So, uh, that's kind of my family background. Like, we don't hate each other, but we're also good not seeing each other. Yeah. We don't hate each other, but we're not rushing to love each other either.

Yeah. Yeah. There's no reason to spend a lot of energy paying attention to each other. I do understand this. I do understand this. This is like I'm married to a Venezuelan. And if it wasn't for my, and I've been my best, my other best friend is Venezuelan. So I've known him for almost 30 years.

So if it wasn't for my connection with Venezuelans, I'm not sure I would understand what real family does. Right. Passionate and close and loving. If a Venezuelan comes within 100 miles of my house, they're like staying in the good room. Do you know what I'm going? Yeah. the other cultures are so much more hospitable than ours because my wife my wife is Persian and they're all that's like they have a that's such a tight-knit loving family

they have a family group chat like my my wife is in a family group chat with her parents and her siblings and I got so jealous of that I tried to create one with my mom and my brother and I sent out I created the group chat I sent out the first text nobody responded nothing and I was like I guess we don't get a family group chat

we just we love each other but not like that it's like a weird I don't know how to describe the relationship but I get it yeah it's kind of like cats like a stray cat you feed a stray cat

like it will come by it will hang with you for a bit but it's like yeah I'm not trying to like I'm not trying to like love you I'm just trying to get on with my life. I don't want to be in your world, but if you feed me every once in a while, cool. Like, we'll leave it at that. It's like, I don't know, like, loveless sex with someone that you, someone that you, you know, it's good, but I'm not here.

I don't need you to come home with. You can't leave your underwear in my drawer. That's what I'm saying. No toothbrush. Yeah, no toothbrush. No toothbrush. I get this. I started a family group chat, but now I've, you know, whenever, years ago.

I find that we start different family group chats, depending on who we can say what to. It's like, do you know what I'm saying? Because I have a big, like, Irish Catholic family. It'll be like, well, I don't know if I can include them in this particular conversation. And I don't like this guy. So he's not invited to this party. And so we have thousands of different chats, but they never go anywhere. It's like one or two messages back or yes, no, smiley face emoji.

Meanwhile, I'm in the Venezuelan family group chat. Oh, it's active every day. If I don't check it in an hour, there's 600 notifications. They take videos that are hours long of them just driving somewhere, you know, talking about a radio show they heard. It's unbelievable. You know, I like it because that's my, I feel like that's my connection to something loving and great. Not that my family isn't great. They are, of course they are.

But they're just different. It's just different. Yeah. Europeans are different. Of course, then there's the Spanish and they're a whole different animal altogether because... Well, it's just, I think Europeans, I think you nailed it. We're just not good at creating or joining or having a sense of community. And I think that's why we're more susceptible to cults is because when we try to join a community, it just we end up in a documentary, like going.

didn't know it was a cult. I just didn't know what community was. Yeah. And now I'm in a cult, you know. She said she was from Venezuela. I didn't know. I didn't know. She was so loving. They invited me to family get-togethers. I had strange Venezuelans in my house at all times. I'm going to finish this because, like I said, Venezuelan comes without 100 miles. They're sleeping in my good room. Yeah. We would go back to Chicago where my mother's mother and father, still alive with her six brothers and sisters and we would stay at a hotel less than half a mile from their house. Right. And they had like a five bedroom house that no children lived in. Like no children, no grandchildren, no nothing. And we would stay somewhere else. It was so foreign to me that we like the first time I went to Spain to visit my wife's

other half of her family. It's like, what do you think? You want to stay at the, you know, my aunt's house and stay at your aunt's house. Right. No. You mean like, but it's like offensive if you don't. Oh, it was offensive. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, it was. I had to make an excuse. I said, I'm allergic to cats. There you go. They had a cat. I got out. Yeah. I'll come full circle. Always, always have that in your back pocket. Is there a cat? Is there a cat in the alley? Is there a cat anywhere on the premises? Anywhere near. I can't be anywhere near. Do you what, besides 90-day fiancee, do you get into like, what's your thing on the road? Is it books? Is it shows? Is it movies or is it all the music is it all the above is it the commercial break is it yes it is it is I only

listen to the commercial break on the red uh but that and uh um yeah thank you um yeah I read a little bit uh I like watching old movies that's kind of what I've been into um so I'll get on Amazon Prime which for some reason the one thing they're good at on Amazon Prime is just old movies Irving you up old movies. Yeah. A good selection. Yeah. So last week I think I watched Brewster's Millions.

Wow. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think there's something like calming about just an old movie that's done in 90 minutes, not like these new movies that everything's a director's cut. Everything's the best movie ever made, but you also never want to watch it again.

True story. It's like, I don't know. I think I'm becoming that. that person that just like won't watch anything new anymore. And it's like, nah, just put on something from 1985 and I'll be happy. Yep.

I put Ferris Bueller's Day off. Ah, classic. Up for, up against any newfangled whatever as just a brilliant movie that is a nugget of a movie. It's like an hour and 20 minutes long or something. Like you get the whole story, everything in there. And I could repeat it word for word as a child.

And still to this day, I watch that movie sometimes or Blues Brothers or whatever. It's like, movies, they're, they're so amazing, and you're right about something. Everything is the best movie ever made. The hype machine is on full overdrive and complicit with it is all the critics who can't be against this director or that director. Everything feels so overhyped, but it doesn't really live up to the hype. Do you remember the Irishman, the movie that they sent, you know, $30 billion on and Martin Scorsese? It was a good movie, but I would not watch it

again. You'd have to pay me. Did all the editors get fired, like, in the last? There's no editing. None. It goes on forever. Every scene. Every scene's in there. Like, we were scrolling through HBO last night looking for something to watch,

and the substance was on there with Demi Moore and I forget the other actress's name. And it was like a really, we saw it in, yeah, we saw it in theaters. And it was a great movie with like a great message about how, you know, beauty and women and how it's unfair and all that stuff. But the soundtrack, like the music they used and the visuals were so jarring and screeching, I wouldn't watch that movie ever again. But it was one of the best movies of last year. And yeah, the rewatchability of movies is like completely gone.

I think the last rewatchable movie was maybe The Hangover. I don't know which since then. If there's been one. I think you're on to something here. I've said that I think the originality, it still exists, but the originality in Hollywood is so diminishing. It's diminishing because no one wants to take a chance on anything. They just want to rehash the thing that already was.

Re-make it, rehash it, retell it, redo it, directors cut. And so then we're just left with a bunch of garbage. I mean, I don't know. Superman was a good move. I'll say that. Superman, the new Superman. I thought it was okay. Like, I thought it was, I would watch it again.

You said it was good. What do you read when you're, like, if you're into books, what do you read? What does Zoltan read? So I can read it and become attractive to my wife again. That's funny. That's what my wife says. I was reading last night and she was scrolling on her phone and then she looked over at me and she goes, do you think you're better than me?

Just because you're reading. Yeah. That's so fun. Yeah, recently, this year I've read a couple Hemingway novels, because I never read him before. That's heavy. Love those. Yeah, so I read it, I read The Sun Also Rises was the last one, and I didn't get it. Like, nothing happens.

It's just like five guys trying to hook up with this one girl, and they chase her around Europe, and they all just hang out and drink. It was like, it was almost like, if you read the script to the Kardashians. where they just kind of walk around and do nothing. And I'm like, what is this? What is this? And then I actually, I hung out with my buddy over the weekend who has a master's in creative writing. And he was like, oh, yeah, the main character of that book couldn't hook up with that girl

because he lost his genitals in World War I. And I was like, what page was that on? That was on none of the pages I read. And he was like, ah, it's subtle. But I was like, why do you? you know that? And he's like, I got a master's in creative writing. And I was like, I missed all it. I thought this guy had all the genitals and not hooking up with this lady. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. You know, that is so crazy. Like, what is subtle about losing your genitals

in World War I? Yeah. Yeah. I thought it would be like a big thing. And there was not a, at least a chapter dedicated to it. Something. A sentence. I thought I was so cool because I went over to Spain, I get to Madrid. The first thing I do, I understand that Hemingway has like a thing with Spain, right? He was there. He was in Madrid. He even would lobby the government officials. He would be there near the parliament. He was like, he was a drunk and he would get out there and, you know, talk on behalf of the Spaniards. And a cat lover. And so I was so cool because I, uh, the uncle that I had just met the Spaniard, who lived in Madrid all his life, by the way. He says, where do you want to go? I'll say, you know, let's go. I said, let's go to some bars where Hemingway drank.

I picked some out. I googled them, you know? I'm going to be cool. That's cool. That is cool. So we go. We go to the first bar. Great.

Then we go to the second bar, which is, he liked to drink like port sherry, right? And so there's a bar. It's in an alley in Madrid, near the parliament, but it's kind of a dark alley. It opens at 10.30 p.m. And then it closes whenever it closes. It has electricity, and that's about the only modern convenience. It has no register. It has no, you can't take out your phone.

There's no music. It says on there, no music, no yelling, no fighting, no spitting, no cussing. And basically, you hand them exact cash. It also says no tip, no propina. Wow. No tipping. And so, I'm standing outside of this bar like a couple of other people are waiting. We go in.

It's a lot of intellectual types. You can tell this is the type of place where Hemingwoodie would have hung out and I should not be hanging out. They are better than you. They are better, way better than me. I go up and this, you know, gringo, and I, hey, let me get whatever. The only thing that they serve, which is this, you know, sherry in this big barrel that Hemingway apparently drank out of the same barrel, whatever. So he gives us these glasses. He hands us some fruit and some nuts and some dates or whatever it is.

And then he gives me the amount. And I hand him, like, whatever it is, 20 euros. And I said, you know, keep the change in Spanish. And he takes the, he goes to the register, which is just. just basically a basket full of money and he takes out the money gives it to me and I push it back to him and I said like I give him this one number and he just points to this and then he says in English I will kick you out of here quickly and I was like oh my God so I thought I was cool like Hemingway is at the end of your bar hop we left so quickly after we finish those drinks because then it was everybody was staring at me. He said it in English, but everyone else understood it. And since there's no music, screaming, talking loudly or dancing, everyone heard exactly what was said. He was entertained. Yeah, he saw me coming a mile away. He's like, I'm going to make an example of

this American, so they never come back into my bar. I love it. But you can see why Hemingway would drink there because you just described a character from a novel. Yes. That's who this bartender was. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Well, it still exists to this day. it's still there. I mean, you can Google it. And if you go to Spain, if you go to Madrid, you can go take that same tour, but don't make the same mistake. Stay quiet. Bring exact change. It also, it is absolutely prohibited to take any photographs in there. Like, you cannot take out your phone for any reason. Don't even try. Wow. But I, like, went like, you know, I completely disrespected the place and I went like, like this. And I thought, oh,

this is great. I got a picture of this to keep it. And what I got was the side of the bartender's head sideways with a fuzzy photograph with a couple bottles behind them. So what I really got was a picture of the guy who basically kicked me out of that. The soup Nazi of the wine, yeah. Yeah, the tip Nazi. What is the next, where does the tour take you next? I mean, the, let's see, what's the rest of the year? New York, Boston, Minneapolis.

Omaha, Des Moines, my wife skipping all of those. Nashville, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City is the rest of the year. And then the next year is going to be wild. It's going to be a bunch of Canada dates, a lot of all over the U.S. and the U.K. and the EU. It's going to be crazy. I love this for you. I'm so excited for it. Thank you.

Are you, are there plans in the future to do, I mean, I know you have a special coming out? talk a little bit about the special dropping on YouTube or have dropped on YouTube links in the show notes yeah um uh London fog uh it's uh we shot it in Seattle last April at the Neptune theater it came out really great um I usually I'm not happy with anything I shoot but the people that like the crew that shot this thing and edited it it looks beautiful I didn't mess up any of my words which I'm happy about um and yeah we tried pitching it to the major streamers they uh they politely said no and so we're going to the number one streamer in the world youtube and uh i will i will force my comedy on people but zeltan i don't get this like you're clearly uh very popular and becoming more popular

online thank you yes uh i don't know a couple uh million and a half something collective followers why there are people who have a lot less followers right have major streamers streaming there are people who are a lot less funny who have that's true i'm not going to name i'm not going to name by name but they may or may not have fellow comedy podcasts but but i don't understand why they would turn that down that seems dumb on on their i mean it's that's just the name of the game you just got to you got to keep doing it to you yeah i mean well i'm definitely not going to stop And I'm thankful to live in an era where everyone can still say no, and you can still put your work out to the people, and they can say yes.

So I would rather have it that way than the other way where, like, I don't, like, the people don't like me as much, but maybe someone who's in charge of a Netflix or whatever does like me. So they keep platforming me, but it just doesn't seem to gather. Yeah. Yeah. So I'd rather have the situation. do than the other way. But I mean, it comes down to one person's decision. I mean, if you add up all the streamers, what do we have, like five of them? Yep. And those are the people that make those decisions. Those are five people. I mean, I can go outside right now and find five people that

don't like my comedy. So it just happens to be those five people. I haven't made something that really resonates with them. And that's fair. And I'll just keep putting it on YouTube until I make something that they're like, all right, let's give the guy, let's give him a shot. Yeah. Yeah, you'll get there. You'll get there. I'm not going to quit, so we'll keep chugging. No, you, of course not. You're making a, I would imagine, making a fair living, doing this and that, I guess at the end of the day, that's a blessing in and of itself, right? You get to go up and make people laugh. Every day, I don't have to clock in at a warehouse to unload trucks like I used to is a blessing. And so, things are going well. No complaints.

We're winning. Zoltan's comedy special. There's a link in the show notes. He, of course, is on tour forever and ever, so you can find him at a city near you. He's very funny. He's one of my wife's favorite comics, if not my wife's favorite comic, but I also will share that he, I like you too. Thank you.

Even though you are closer, like my wife likes you more than she likes me, I still like you, nonetheless. But you're one of many men, that that's true. I appreciate that. Tell her I said, thank you. I will. Zoltan, thank you very much. By the way, come back. You're welcome back anytime. When you get done with that tour or when you're getting ready to go on that tour, come back and we'll talk about it. Or if you come to Atlanta. Oh, yeah, if you come to Atlanta. I will be there. I will be there. Oh, man, I forgot the date off the top of my head, but we're doing the center stage theater over there. Oh, you are?

Yeah. That's a great place to see comedy. Yeah, I'm pumped to do it. So I wish I I remember. Yes, I'm going to lie to you and say April, but it might be May. We will come see you, but then if you want to, you can come sit down with us. I would love to. That'd be great. That would be great. Soltan, links in the show notes.

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Annoying enough or not annoying enough? Well, let's focus on Zoltan. Zoltan was really good. He was really funny. He was really great. Yeah, he was all fun. Yeah, he's great. Thank you, Zoltan.

We really appreciate it. Thank you, Zoltan. We're very sorry about the dog barking. He politely never said a word. He politely did not. He must have heard it. He must have gone. I thought at some point he'd go, do you want to go check on that animal?

I think I brought it up at one point. You did at the beginning. Yeah. And you were like, no, she seems okay. Yeah, I was like, no, she'll still stop in a second. And that's what I just kept thinking of myself. She'll stop in a second. Yeah, it's me too.

But then we're like, it was an hour. We're like 20 minutes in, and I don't want to like interrupt the flow. You know what I'm saying? You don't know if you're going to get it back. It's a tough call to make. I made the wrong call. I'm sorry. I love you.

Thank you for sticking with them. This will go down in history as the episode blue most appeared in. She's appeared in. every episode, but this one took up a lot of air time. A lot of airs. A lot of bark time there. Okay. All right. Yeah, we both jumped up afterwards to go check. Immediately. I ran. I was like, okay, what the fuck? And there she is laying on the bed. She's like, what's wrong? The chair that I used to get down is not there. Oh, okay, fuck you. Okay, fuck you. All right. Thanks, Blue. Thanks for ruining it with Zoltan. Now Astrid's never going to get remarried to Zoltan.

All right. All the links in the show notes. He's got shows coming up. He's coming here to Atlanta. If you're in the area, he's going to a lot of places. And then he's going to be over in Europe and in Canada. He's going global. He's going global.

Zoltan worldwide, baby. Worldwide. All right. Links in the show notes. Also, go watch his special. That's the biggest favor I think we can do Zoltan right now besides buying tickets is going and watching the special. It's on YouTube. There is a link.

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I think so. I'll tell you that I love you. Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I will say. We do say, and we must say. Goodbye. You know, I'm going to be able to be it.

Thank you.