The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Love Is Blind Recap With Mina Kimes

Episode Date: March 15, 2024

Dan and the crew discuss the etiquette of saving seats, especially at bars. Then, ***SPOILER ALERT*** Mina Kimes joins the Shipping Container to break down this season of Love is Blind and recap the recent reunion episode. Finally, Craig Robinson of The Office and Hot Tub Time Machine is here to discuss his comedic influences and what he loves most about performing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Can you guys help me with what the rules are on seat saving and especially seat saving at a bar specifically. What are the rules of etiquette on, very often I will have a reservation somewhere at a restaurant and they will not seat me until my entire party is there.

That's annoying when they do that restaurants. I just, it's like, if there's, I get it. If there's one of eight, then don't sit me. But once four people are here, come on, let me at the table. You're getting an extra round of drinks out of us probably while we wait. I think, but the reason is though,

if it's a crowded place, they can't turn over the tables as quickly. And so you're getting an extra round of drinks possibly, but you could have a whole new clientele come in and you could possibly keep the seat for an hour if you're waiting for somebody. If you're waiting for Pablo Torre or someone else who's inconsiderate about time, you could be waiting a while.

About the seats at the, you bring up the seats at the bar though, this is something I run into pretty regularly. Before bowling on Wednesday nights, me, my dad, a couple other members of the team, we meet up at a local establishment to have a brew before beering. A, I just said beer.

A beer before brewing. A beer before bowling. Alrighty. And so, my dad always runs late, so I always run into a situation where it's me and my buddy, and the bar's starting to fill up, and how do we feel about the chair move? That's the move.

Yeah, but then it's like how- What's the chair move? You're just leaning the chair against the bar so to show to everyone, this empty chair's not actually empty. I've never seen that move. What? I've never heard.

What? What are you talking about? I've never been at a bar and seen the chair lift. That's like I'm saving this seat. Now, I get weird with that move because people will come up and be like, can I use this? If you don't do the move,

people are like, is anyone sitting here? When can I say yes? The answer, this is really what I'm asking. When my dad is 10 minutes away, can I lie and just say, yeah, this seat's taken? Or I can. So how long can I hold that seat though? I can't do that for a half hour.

Like a couple minutes, but hey, my dad's parking, sorry. Sometimes I'm so socially awkward, I'll order a beer sometimes and just put it there. Even if it gets warm and it's not my god there for 15 minutes Just cuz I don't want the interaction koi beer a decoy beer. I mean, you know, my dad drinks it Let's not like yeah, yeah, like it gets drank warm and all but I'm just saying I I don't want the awkward of oh, yeah They're uh, they'll be here soon. So no can it can I it's basically the Seinfeld bit where they're saving the seats at the movie theater Yes so no, can I? It's basically the Seinfeld bit where they're saving the seats at the movie theater and people keep coming to try to sit in it

and then they keep turning people away and then eventually they're so awkward. I don't like awkward, yes, I don't like that. I'll buy the beer, put a beer there. That's crazy. That's insane. No, it's not. I don't know what's crazier, this chair thing

that Lucy and I have never heard of, even though I have been to, I have bar bona fides, okay? I go to a lot of bars. I've never seen anyone do this with a chair. I've never seen the chair up on the bar. And I've never bought a decoy beer for anyone. That's also a move, if I'm at a bar and I need to use the restroom,

and it's a crowded bar and I'm worried that my seat might get scooped up, I step up, lean it up, and now you know, this seat is taken. That's the official sign. Like when you're at a bar by yourself, I was at Flanagan's the other day by myself having lunch.

Thanks for the invite It was a quick thing So I had to go to the bathroom But you can't just leave your food and your beer there with you know Contaminants and other people that might want to put a finger in your fries who knows that the weird move I've seen this move someone goes to the bathroom and they take a napkin and like put it over their drink They put like a coaster over their drink cuz they're worried about well But no women women have to be careful

in bars with their drink. If someone's trying to do something to my drink, they'll take the napkin off and put it in while I'm gone. You don't go to a bar by yourself and order a drink and leave it at a bar. My point is, I'll bring my drink to the bathroom. I think it's for the bartender. So the bartender knows not to take it

because sometimes people leave half a beer and then they'll take it. So if you put the coaster or napkin on top, tells the bartender, hey, wait a second, there's somebody sitting here, the food's there, the beer's there, the chair's over. It's almost more for the bartenders than for anybody else. Put it on the poll please, Juju at LeBittard Show. Do you, because you guys seem confused by this.

Lucy seems like she is learning something here about chairs, but put it on the poll. Do you take your drink with you into the bathroom? I've never seen the chair thing or heard of the chair thing. I'm assuming that I probably haven't. I've probably taken somebody's seat is what I'm realizing right now. I just don't get why you wouldn't bring a jacket

and just put a jacket on the chair. Because we live in Florida, they don't bring jackets anywhere, Lucy. This is the whole ridiculous thing. It's like we live in a different America than these people. I read the other day and couldn't believe this, and I don't, the math on this eludes me, but that 5% of Americans, I don't believe it's the globe,

I believe Americans, are now having sex more often in order to stay warm because of rising utility bills. I'm gonna use that one. You're not already? Honey, come here. People in Florida are doing less sex because they don't want to pay for the AC. What's the source of that one? Well you're right Roy that it's hard, it is hard. I'm gonna turn my air way down. It is difficult to quantify how did they find this 5% of people who are copping to, yes, I'm cheap about electricity and also I like to trick my partner into warmth. But it did, I will look up the source for you in a second,

but it was 5% of people are actually doing that to stem rising utility costs. So it's 5% of people having more sex to pay for less heat. That's right. You could just not watch the heat games. I've been doing it for years. people having more sex to pay for less heat. That's right. You could just not watch the heat games. I've been doing it for years. Dan's not wrong.

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Mina, welcome Mina. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor that you guys are rocking with me. Wow. Was that a Clay impression? Rocking with you on a Friday, old school. Mina, we have to talk to you about Love is Blind. I'm ready, born ready.

Wait, let me hit a sounder first. Let me hit a sounder first. Spoiler alert. Sorry. Is it a spoiler if it came out on Wednesday? We're taking that this is well anyways, whatever. Yeah, it's I guess. Yeah, if you're not caught up, if you haven't watched the reunion, you know, first of all, what did you think of the reunion? Because I feel like I was left with more questions than answers. Yeah, first of all, I did a recap show with Dave Dennis Jr. You guys can check out on youtube.com slash at me to times. Please subscribe if you have you're not ready.

We do a lot of fun stuff there. I had mixed feelings about it. I think the production team, Vanessa, Nick, they've clearly grown from the debacle that was the live reunion, not just technologically and they did this was an actually live, but also, you know, they asked a lot of the questions that the internet wanted answered. So I have to give them some credit. It wasn't as bad. However, a lot left on the table.

You guys alluded to it before we started taping. I felt Jimmy and Chelsea was probably one of the most intriguing storylines of the season, and barely any questions, any screen time for two of them. In fact, they focused more on Jimmy and Jess and gave Jess the time to litigate in great and boring detail, an interview Jimmy gave.

I was not interested in this at all. I suspect the show did it because Jess is the biggest internet star to come out of this season, which is why she was given main floor seating despite not being in a couple, which good on you, Jess. So I didn't love that. I also feel like there were things we wanted. I wanted to know more about Brittany and Kenneth and the racial aspect of their breakup relationship.

So they didn't get into that, but they did, I thought, a pretty good job with the Laura Sarah and Jeremy, a triangle of sadness as I call them. And ultimately I think the way they'd handled the Trevor situation with reenacting the text in real time was brilliant. That was awesome. When he just was like, can I just go? Can I just leave?

I respected that so much. I would do that in any conversation I'm uncomfortable. I'm just gonna go. I'm just gonna leave. He froze up. He froze up. I think because the truth is that he wasn't actually in love with the woman who he was texting with and he also came on the show for bad reasons.

So he had no good answer. He came on and he said, you know, I had a whole thing planned. He was gonna say, I don't know what that thing was because there's really no way for him to get out of this. I came on and he said, you know, I had a whole thing planned. He was gonna say, I don't know what that thing was because there's really no way for him to get out of this. I feel also like for those of you who didn't watch this, this guy, Trevor, comes on.

He has a girlfriend before and he says- Spoiler alert, sorry. Okay. Allegedly. He says, well, we saw the text. He said, I love you. I would have refuted the text, by the way. I would have been like, guys, this is not real. Well, he didn't.

And then Nick Lachey sort of goes really hard in on Trevor and Sarah Ann being like, if you didn't come here for love, you are robbing people of an opportunity. And I'm like, dude, you're doing this to be on TV. Like, there is an aspect that, like, this is a show on TV. There is part of it that you're doing to be on TV. It was like very sanctimonious. Way too much time spent defending the integrity

of the show, right? And to your point with Sarah Ann, like they were so upset. She made a video saying it was reality TV. She said, this is a reality television. It is not the grammar, sometimes kills me. But anyways, they were so mad at that. And they were like, how dare you? This was real.

How dare you call this entertainment? And when she said they didn't show any of her relationship with Jeremy, Vanessa was like, that's because he didn't pick you. Okay. So I mean, that was an editing choice. And then to transition from defending the integrity of the show to saying next season on Perfect Match really took me out as the big reveal. So something that we talked about earlier, they didn't really hit on Jimmy and Chelsea at all,

but during the ceremony, I don't know if you noticed this, they were very touchy-feely. He had his arm around her, there were some legs, some leg touch. Do you, we don't know the state of what Jimmy and Chelsea are. What do you think it is? Well, they also have been spotting sightings of them, right? At a wedding, at a restaurant in Florida. And it's funny because the reunion was so conscious of internet rumors and things. And again, like the Sarayan video, Sarayan, they were so mad. Oh, you spoiled it for the audience by appearing in a TikTok. Like that was the transgression that

they were harping on, but more than, I don't know, Trevor's ex accusing him of revenge porn. Like, no, let's get mad at Sarah Ann for spoiling the show. But anyways, they didn't address that at all. And I found that really confusing. I did feel like Chelsea was kind of protected throughout the reunion. Like they didn't go hard on her. The Megan Fox thing, they completely missed a point, which is not that she doesn't look like Megan Fox, except she planted the idea in Jimmy's head. No one addressed that, speaking of ruining the sanctity of the process, right? You could tell also the cast is all, they're all really good friends with her. Like they were all defending her. And that was one

of my takeaways from the reunion. Like I feel like there's a really strong girl group of friends, Jess, A.D., Chelsea, and Laura. And that sort of hovered over, like there was like alliances flying out and they were kind of protecting each other. I feel like we've seen that every season now. It becomes a popularity contest

and the people who do well in the reunion are the group of friends who have managed to stay a group of friends. And then they gang up on the people who have well in the reunion are the group of friends who have managed to stay a group of friends and then they gang up on the people who have not been groups of friends, which always to me is just also lame. I just felt like Nick and Vanessa, there were major, the only things that I really wanted to know is what happened after the weddings?

Did you guys try to date each other again? And are you dating now? And they didn't ask Jimmy or Chelsea or A, D and Clay, either of those questions. So I'm gonna start a petition to get a sideline reporter in there because I need someone who's gonna get real answers. I felt like they wanted to redeem certain people

and at the cost of asking serious questions. Like for example, for Clay to come out and say to AD, she's the love of my life twice. And AD clown nose being like, oh yeah, I'd date him again. Of course. If I'm the host, I'm like, okay, it's been still rocking. It's been a year. Have you guys gone on any dates? Yes.

Has he communicated this to you at all in the year? Or did he wait and see how popular you were on the internet and the reception to the show and decide to spring this on you? Because that is, I think, pretty pertinent. Or for example, look, Jeremy and Sarah suck. I wanna be clear. But when Laura revealed that the incident of the location tracking happened the day,

she's like, and he met my family and we were gonna get married. Oz, you mean when your family told you to stop bullying him? Yeah, they were like, you're really mean to this guy. And she was like, he can take it. I hate Hawaiian shirts though. I've actually, you know, I thought Jeremy looked okay.

Some questionable fashionable decisions so all around. I mean, I did see, I actually did see an Access Hollywood or an E something, gossip magazines, forgive me for not getting this right, where Chelsea was interviewed at the red carpet thing and they said, did you and Jimmy date? And I was like, well, that's the one thing I wanted to know. This was on Chelsea's story.

And she said, we tried after the show wrap for about four days and now we're just on, he's been a great support system for me. We're just really good friends. Folks, I don't buy it. Do you buy that, Mina? That they're not dating or that he's not in support? Well, both.

I think he's a fraud. Oh, go on. He was a fraud. I think he's full of crap. I think he is, to frankly Jeremy's point, very concerned about his image. And I feel like, I don't think they dated. I do think they've probably hooked up.

I mean, all these people, like, well, the show makes it seem like once the, uh, pose, the wedding is over, they can never see each other again. Right. It's like, or even when, when they break up, it's like the hunger games where like their faces get shot into the sky. Like when Ken and Brittany broke up, it's like, well, that they break up, it's like the Hunger Games where like their faces get shot into the sky. Like when Ken and Brittany broke up, it's like, oh, that's it, they're done. They're dead to the show.

I don't think that's true. I think a lot of them kind of stay in touch and probably hook up, but I don't think they're together. I think that they're just teasing it for clout. Fraud. Is Sarah Anne a girls girl? I don't think, no. I don't think any of them are girls girls.

Sorry, just putting that out there. Sarah Anne, in her defense. Nope. I'm out. I said this to David, I was like, the second when, look, I turned, when they were in the pod and she was like, I'm a patriot talking about her politics.

Okay. It was, again, like I, you know, when you have represent, she's half Asian. So I was like, no, not, not, not one of ours, you know? Um, but, uh, in her defense, she treated their relationship. Like a two, meaning Laura and Jeremy's relationship, like a two week relationship. like a two-year, meaning Laura and Jeremy's relationship, like a two-week relationship. She was like, why should I respect your engagement? It's been two weeks. And honestly, some validity to that. Now she stinks. I don't like her, but I'm just saying this comes down to like the whole, like, who respects the sanctity of the show sort of thing. I don't really think

comes down to like the whole like who respects the sanctity of the show sort of thing I don't really think she what she did was so bad yeah me neither I was I mean I don't know I just I can't really take any of it like fully seriously in terms of because you're like this is a show Kenneth and Brittany though I mean they talk questions everyday, they FaceTime. What Tony? On answered questions. A lot of questions are that we didn't have any of the answers to.

They're just best friends. I don't know. FaceTime at work. The question I had was whether or not the breakup was reenacted as has been alleged. I didn't hear that, really? Yeah, there's a, I think Jess said it actually in an interview, this isn't even like a TikTok theory

that part of the reason why Ken looks so detached and unemotional when they broke up is that they made them reenact it for the cameras. I saw a girl post that on TikTok though and Brittany commented and was like, you have no idea what you're talking about. Like that's not true. Well, Brittany might want to be on perfect match three, except she doesn't strike me as the type to go on Perfect Match 3. Are you excited for Perfect Match, Mina? I was so worried when they showed Micah and Izzy

that their reveal was gonna be the same for Dave. Same. It's like when someone has, I don't know, like a stack of pancakes and ketchup and they're holding the ketchup over the pancakes and you're like, oh my God, don't combine those two things. Don't do it, don't do it. Don't do it, don't do it.

And then they reveal that they were both on Perfect Match. I mean, Dave and I both watch Perfect Match. It is truly the dregs of the dregs, but yes, I watch it. I will watch every minute of it. Trevor's gonna be out. They like didn't acknowledge that because he had takes so hard. The whole thing is messy.

Perfect Match is the messiest you can get. I love it unabashedly. Mina, thank you so much for sharing your love is blind wisdom. I can't wait for the next season mostly just to hear what you have to say about it. Oh, I appreciate it. As I said, thank you for having me.

Thank you for rocking with me. I'm not above you, I'm not below you. I'm right here with you. I'm right there with you. Right there with you. Fraud. Don LeBattard. I'm right there with you. I'm right there with you. Ha ha ha. Fraud. Don LeBretard. I mean they used to call me Chris Karaoke.

Stugats. Karaoke. Do do do do do. Do do do do do. That back row is bringing it today. This is the Don LeBretard Show with the Stugats. Kreg, it's nice to see your face. your face makes me happy the last time i saw your face it was playing a piano at the comedy store a uh... a few months ago

to close out what uh... it was a magical night for me because i i know it's such a small world that world of comedians and it was just talent after talent after talent on the stage it was like seven or eight comedians all of them making a good living funny people and then you closed out the show and it wasn't just stand up comedy but you were doing music as well so it's nice to see again we'll talk about your show in a second but uh... i'd i don't know what you get the most joy out of doing professionally but it looked like singing and laughter was at the top of the list when you closed that show out. That would definitely be the most joy that's the the most the funnest thing I do is get up on that stage and get the people you know interacting with me. Is it it why is it more fun than acting why is it more fun than the office the TV show that you have on Peacock killing it

the mass dancer why is it more fun? Instant gratification, because it's something that I wrote and thought, I wonder could this happen and then it happened. So it was something that tingles inside my spine. Who are the comedians you most admire? Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Bill Codby. There's a long list. Steven Wright, I had a Martin Mull in there, Steve Martin, I'm all over the place with it, man.

That's all old? But most would be Richard Pryor, he's at the top. But those are all old school standups, I'm surprised. He's old school though. I know he's old school, but he's working with contemporaries. Look, Craig, you must be fascinated by the business of comedy, right? It's a hard way to make a living.

Pretty much, yeah, yeah. But nowadays you got the Nate Bagazis and the, you know, Steve, I can't think of Steve last name, don't kill me, Steve. But yes, it's a bunch of them out there now that's just leading the charge. And I have Corey Holcomb from Chicago

Godfrey all these guys here that that that I looked up to coming up Those are those are the couple of examples. What is it that you get the most? gratification on from television You mean which show or what do you know just like in terms of creating something? That's not just sit around and wait and cash a check or make money But you're fulfilled by what it is that you're making because it allows yourself to sort of push through some creative limits You know what's interesting about that is like the thing the the the projects that they come across even it's like this Noodles campaign this stuff is like catered and like

you see people are writing to have fun and writing to you know intelligence. So I've been getting fed creatively but killing it has been a big creative force especially working with those guys

Dan and Luke from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. So it's been a lot of like when I'm approaching something, it seems to be very specific to being funny and being something a cut above. You mentioned Cup Noodles and the Paper Cup that you're here promoting. Yes, you're telling me that there's something creative around this that this is not, you believe in this artistically.

This is not about you just running around grabbing money for selling noodles. You believe in what you're making creatively. Did you see the promo I put out? I have not seen it. Okay, yeah. So it's like, you got to check out some of the stuff and yeah, man, it's fun.

It's, yeah, they definitely check out some of the stuff and yeah, man, it's fun. Yeah, they definitely took some time in the writing. It's not killing, it's not a series, but it's gotta get you, and it's gotta get a lot of people right away. But it definitely was having fun, and I got to improvise some stuff too. But what happened to the O in cup-O noodles? There used to be an O with an apostrophe.

Where did it go? Yeah, the O was gone. I got the story, but I'm gonna be honest with you, I forgot, but it was there. It got me through college with that O, and now it's gone. It was, I did definitely ask about it, and I definitely forgot what happened.

All right, so. You asked what happened to the O? He asked, he asked. He did the research. I forgot Steve's last name. I'm concerned. Well, this is a man who's lived life. He's lived big.

There are things that are going to get forgotten or trampled in the past. For sure, for sure. In the past. But when you say it got you through college, tell me the backstory of who you were in college and how much cup-o'-noodles you were eating in college. I had quite a bit of cup-o'-noodles in college. I was a young man in Illinois State

working on his music degree and then trying to play basketball. I tried out for the team, but looking back, I never should have even went to play basketball. I tried out for the team but looking back I never should have even you know went to the gym. Were you the funny man on the team? Were you the guy that the other athletes liked? I didn't make them but I was the funny guy yeah I was all about you know making people laugh on the court. No I'm talking about during tryouts yeah you said you tried you tried out. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no Oh no, no, no, no, no. Tyrus was rough, man. They were not playing. I was just tired. Okay, fair enough.

I was just tired and wondering how am I so bad at basketball? This is not good. And so you decided right then, I need some other career like comedy. I'm this bad at sports. I need to do something else. I was going, I was looking, you know,

I came up in music, so I thought I was gonna be like a R&B singer or something, but then comedy kind of chose me, it took over. So how does this work? Did you have the sultry tone of an R&B singer? Like I heard some of this, you're certainly capable of it. I thank you very much, I appreciate that. Yeah, it's just like I said, comedy just took over. And this the silliness

once I realized that, you know, people could get paid to do comedy, it was kind of a wrap. Well, how did you realize that? Because it's not the easiest way to make a living. I was, I was in college and you know, people would come to me and say, Craig, I was trying to tell them what you were saying the other day, like, essentially, they were trying to repeat my bits, but they weren't bits at the time. I was just being Craig and I could not stop. And my father even was like, hey, you know, people get paid to do this stuff.

But what he didn't realize I was like, what? So he was trying to dissuade me. Next thing you know, I'm looking into it. I bought a book on comedy and I'm just, I remember I drove to see Richard Jennings breast and piece. He was doing a talk at a Chicago comedy club. So I left college. I drove the two hours home to just check that out and drove back. You know so it was the first thing I took serious was comedy and I and you know I haven't looked back and loving it ever since

Were the early days broke? Yes, very very broke What thanks to cup noodles? Yes You couldn't you're not supposed to do that with the old packages, but now you can't and takes two minutes and 15 seconds Wow You could cook it Very quickly look at that sign Billy. What's that sign behind him? We have what I believe to be the nation's foremost authority on the masked singer

The day after the Super Bowl a few years ago on ESPN, Billy came and started the show with a Masked Singer update. Billy, surely you have questions about the room the man's sitting in, no? Well, I assume you have a Masked Singer poster behind you there, Craig. I'm assuming this is because you're somewhere where it's produced or you're maybe part

of the Masked Dancer still or or maybe you wanna sing us a song? Your first answer is correct. I'm over here at Fox Studio, I just did an interview, and they were kind enough to give me a room to do some more interviews, some Zoom interviews in it. But Billy was headed down a path, and I agree. I would love to hear Craig Robinson sing his favorite song.

Well, you performed on the Masked Singer, right? Not as a contestant, but you were like a guest performer. Yeah, but I sang I Will Survive, like one day coming out, yeah, yeah. It was so, it was like a mask, like they had this mask, I was supposed to guess who I am. But yeah, I came out and did, I will survive. I don't believe that the Zoom is gonna pick up

how much range this man's voice has, Stu Gotts, because I don't know whether, I came out and did, I was survived. I don't believe that the Zoom is gonna pick up how much range this man's voice has, Stugatz, because I don't know whether, I mean, you felt like you were gonna be a professional singer, correct, like how did one get dissuaded from that? Well, like I said, I was in college, so I wasn't for sure, but I did, but I was like heading down that path, but again, the comedy swooped in and was like,

this is it, and you can add singing to that if you want. So that's what it was, man. Dan Craig, I did some research. Apparently when it was introduced, it was Cup of Noodles, and then in 1993, they changed the name to Cup Noodles, but in 2021, to celebrate the 50th anniversary, they started making Cup-O Noodles again. Now it's back to Cup Noodles.

Wait a minute, so, okay, you say boom, but that means the Cup-O Noodles was a couple of years ago, but now we're back to Cup Noodles? Anniversary, though. Yeah, anniversary edition, yeah. It's because of the anniversary. But now you can microwave it, Dan, 215. Two minutes, he said 212.

He said 212. He said 212. 215, and yes, it's a paper cup now. You're welcome. OK. Thank you, Craig. Thank you, Craig. We do appreciate it. Why don't you say what's up at the show the other night, man?

Well, because you were busy being very famous, and I don't know what that whole scene is like for you guys when a bunch of famous comedians get together backstage. It seemed like, I mean, it was really, you, I don't know whether or not, because it's such a small world and it's your world, it's weird to you to have Santino playing as the third act among eight comedians, all of whom are professional comedians.

But for, I don't know if it's an honor for you to close that show, but those were very talented people you were playing after Yeah, yeah, we get some shows out here that are straight fire and sounds like you called one of them But there's even some comics you never heard of this out here. That's killing the game man. So, uh, yeah It's always an honor to go To be chosen to go last and then you know, hold my own so to speak Do you have a very passionate

sports opinion of any sort that I can aggregate for content because you are insane with anger that the Bears are thinking of trading Justin Fields? My pickleball team has uh no I don't have anything. You don't have anything you don't care You're I get a little sound bite from you. You are you are about music, comedy, and noodles is what you're about. You've got to believe me. And paper. And paper.

And which paper are you talking about, the one that holds the noodles or the paper you get paid to advertise the noodles? Let's go with both of them. Right now, that paper, baby. It's nice seeing you, Craig. Thank you for being on the show, sir. Thanks for having me. Good to see y'all, buddy. All right. Thank you, Craig.

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