The Nateland Podcast - 181: #181 Sketch Comedy feat. Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

Dusty is still celebrating the new year so this week we're joined by our friend and fellow comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes to talk about sketch comedy. Anjelah shares some crazy stories about becoming a viral video sensation, becoming a cast member on MadTV and getting to attend a birthday party for Michael Jackson.   Hello Fresh - HelloFresh.com/natelandfree Go to HelloFresh.com/natelandfree and use code natelandfree for FREE breakfast for life! One breakfast item per box while subscription is active. That’s free breakfast for life at HelloFresh.com/natelandfree with code natelandfree. America’s #1 Meal Kit Rocket Money - RocketMoney.com/NateStop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/nate. Delete Me - Joindeleteme.com/NateGo to  joindeleteme.com/NATE and use promo code NATE for 20% off. BetterHelp - BetterHelp.com/Nate This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.  Celebrate the progress you’ve already made. Visit BetterHelp.com/NATE today to get 10% off your first month.

hello folks and hey bear welcome to the nateland podcast i'm neighbor getsy uh brian bates and weber and the wonderful the female dusty sley Slay. She believes Angela Johnson doesn't believe in space just as much as Dusty Slay does. And the earth is flat. You got to be the conspiracy person for us.

I can do that. You have Ghost. Yes. Our Ghost conspiracy? Not everybody believes in Ghost, I guess, huh? You know, she was originally scheduled

to come right before Halloween. Yeah. That's what we're going to talk about. Uh-huh. And she's an expert on ghosts. So, Angela Johnson. Hi.

So glad you, thanks for coming. Yeah, thanks for having me. This is fun. I've been wanting to come and hang out with you guys for a minute. We've been wanting you to come.

Me and Angela go, go way, way back. Mm-hmm. She took me on the road. She's the first one that ever took me out anywhere. Really the only one that took me out. My only, I would go out with some other people. I went out with Maren.

Like, Maren probably was a good bit, but you were the longest. Yeah. I went out a long, I really learned a lot with you because we would go to all the clubs. Yeah. And really was just on all year. Went to Guam. Mm-hmm. You know, where it was.

And I can't blank in the other places. It was Guam and. Saipan. Saipan. Where's that? Next to Guam. Kansas. Yeah.

It is right next to Guam. What about Nate made you want to take him out with you on the road? It was mom. In Kansas. It is right next to mom. What about Nate made you want to take him out with you on the road? It was hilarious. And a good hang. That's very important to me. I have to feel comfortable around you. Yeah. And you got to be funny.

I don't do favors on stage. You know what I mean? You got to be funny. Yeah. And then we spend way too much time together to not enjoy each other's company. Right. Right. And it has to be something that you trust.

And I think, um, I loved that you were married and so you wouldn't be like hoeing out on the road. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because it's a different vibe when you're working with somebody who's like hoeing in the streets. Yeah.

Like, Oh, okay. Just show up on time tomorrow yeah yeah it was uh because you were single then too and probably getting hit on a lot i actually did not get hit on a lot it's different for girls like i think it's like intimidating like a guy doesn't look at a girl in a position of power and be like oh let me try a hit on her that's not really a thing.

Interesting. I think if after the show, if I hung out at the bar and mingled, then probably, yeah, but I never did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. When we first met, we both did New Faces. Montreal New Faces, 2008, I believe.

Montreal New Faces, 2008, I believe. And so it was, I've always liked this story because it was like, Anja asked me like, oh, do you want to go on the, do you want to open for that road? And in my head, I'm like, we are both on New Faces, Angela. I was like, why would I go open for someone that's got the same thing I got? And then we went to Houston, I think was the first one, and you sold out eight shows.

And I was like, oh. Okay. This is different. That's why. You know, I still have a set from that weekend that plays on Sirius Radio. No way. Yeah, because they recorded. It was right right when serious was uh i don't know serious 2008 but it was like something there was a reason i wanted to do it and uh so it's still

play there's some old jokes and it's it's it's because they had an audio recording there and you could do it and i got it and i submitted that to serious and it still gets played i wonder if i could ever go back to some of my old tapes that I have and like submit it. Hey, this is vintage. I mean, I don't know that I want to hear any of my super old stuff. Although I'm currently posting like from the vault clips of like, this was my first time on stage and, you know, stuff like that. But if you have old albums, if you have old stuff that you can put out on Sirius, I would do it. Yes, absolutely. Especially when you own that probably too. Yeah. Yeah. It's not through someone else. Right. Yeah. I mean, then you're going to get a hundred

percent of the money for Sirius. So that's what, that's the positive with that one that I have. That is like, I just send it. I'm not, you know, I don't own, I own it with someone else. It's just me. And then we need all the other ones. They're like, you know, it's you, you know i don't own i'll own it with someone else it's just me and then we need all the other ones they're like you know it's you you're splitting it because you don't know it's like half and half right right whatever it is but yeah you should definitely submit that you're clean you play on all the channels that stuff you know those clean channels don't get they don't there's not that much they can put on there i mean there's a lot of stuff on it but your your whole album yeah put on my new special i own that whole thing because i did it myself that's great that's gonna go up there yeah i think next year we're working on it right now oh yeah

yeah that's perfect you get it that's what i own hello world and it was the only one i've ever owned and uh yeah owning it is you know it's just it's kind of crazy because you can do whatever you want with it you know when you do netflix and stuff you're like you don't post so much stuff and blah blah and all this kind of thing and it's wild to be like yeah do whatever like you you see it in the email and you're like wait i have the whole thing yeah because you don't ever feel like you get the whole thing yeah yeah it's always with commie central like full-time magic i don't ever feel like you get the whole thing. Yeah. It's always with Comedy Central, like full-time magic. I don't have it. I can't.

If you were like, can I go watch it? I'd be like, well, I'll go buy it on iTunes. Yeah. But when you're seeing it, it's just in your email, and you're like, that's crazy, dude. You just have the entire special. You can do whatever, cut it up do whatever you want i just had a email earlier they were asking about like uh oh yeah when her exclusive

rights to youtube are done and then we'll put it up on our channel talking about like the next steps after this special and i was like what are my exclusive rights done it's mine i own it it's on my page do i have an ex like you know what i mean then i'm like i don't know how long do i get to decide how long i want it on my channel only because typically there's like a boss that i go like hey how long when's the contract up and i can put it on other places yeah so i'm like oh when is the contract i don't know what do i ask ask yourself yeah and then tell yourself i'm tired of you asking this question yeah When is the contract? I don't know. What do I ask? Ask yourself. Yeah. And then tell yourself, I'm tired of you asking this question.

You go, oh, you again. You know what? Tuesday. Tuesday. That's when I decided. Yeah. I mean, that's the way a lot of entertainment is starting to become is this. Everybody can kind of do their own thing. And,

uh, it's, I mean, it's a good thing. You gotta be care. It's like, I always think you gotta be somewhat careful. You don't want to be like too,

you know, like too, like making people pay for stuff or like trying to, you know, it's like stuff just don't need to be accessible yeah but you it's but yeah you can go i mean you can go make your own tv show if you want to put on youtube you can do whatever you want it's pretty fun uh another thing that i would say about you angela that i've because it's because i learned so much through watching you every like when you would come over everybody knew you uh and hey i got come off

was it full-time full-time magic i got i think with you really no the half hours half hour comedy central presents dave rath called me you were at my house oh wow you're my parents house yes and uh and they called and i found out I got the half hour with you there. And something that always stuck with me that I might have told you before, but I'll say it again. That my dad always said about you is that when you came over to our house and you were the first celebrity. It was crazy that all my aunts came over. We had everybody come because they knew Angela was coming over. My dad said about you, he said, Angela gave everybody her time.

Everybody you went to, you really looked them in the eyes and you gave them the time. I carry with that to me to this day just because seeing you do that. That was always a special thing yeah i stopped doing that yeah yeah that's changed yeah i travel with her now she's like don't talk to me don't look at me brian i'll bring that out of you yeah yeah yeah the thing with me is shut up. It's a lot of you again. That's special. Yeah.

I think her dad says he still, well, before he burned the house down, has her picture on the refrigerator. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I love your dad. I mean, you were, yeah, you were the, you were our first, like, I mean, you know, you were huge. And so you're the first person we ever saw that, like, you know, people were like, she's coming to your house? And you're like, yeah.

The girl from YouTube is coming? Yeah. But it's like the first, you were, I mean, you were the first wave of the YouTube. Yeah. If people don't know, it's the nail. The nail salon. Nail salon girl. I'm sure people know, but if they don't't it's that uh in that sketch like and i mean it was

fun to watch you have to because you would close on it then i mean i was with you long enough to see you try to be like well we gotta you gotta stop doing it right right right like it can't just be you don't feel like you do this forever and it's funny because with that joke, like the nail salon was so everybody wanted it. And especially during those like first four or five years. Yeah. Right. It was still like people were just finding it. And now it's almost like nostalgic.

Yeah. Right. So now when I present it in my show, I present it kind of like a thank you. Yes. Like, hey, thanks for riding with me for so long. Like, I know a lot of you know of me because of this bit. A lot of you heard of me because of this bit. Some of you quote this with your friends from high school and like,

cause I'll have girls come up to me and like a meet and greet or whatever. And they're like, Oh my God, I used to watch you when you were in high school, when I was in high school. And I'm like, wait, we're not the same age. Like what happened? What do you mean? Like I thought you look the same hold on wait a minute and um so now it's kind of like that that piece that i like save for the end like we just experienced a whole hour of like new material nothing you've ever heard before and then you know what thank you so here we go and then as as soon as i even mention it it's like crazy energy one of the biggest pops i've heard at zany's was

when i got to open for angela and you did that and i was like oh man that's amazing yeah to have anything that resonates with people like that it's pretty special yeah well everything that i have gone through uh how all my experiences are through you so it's all the uh you need to start thank you no it means a lot it's it it really does it's all the uh uh headlining the clubs and people are there to see you and i'm not remember at zany's we saw where you know or somewhere else they're like oh you're like hey we need like security or something and they don't no one would really do it and it's like then it becomes a problem you're like yeah she's not she should have someone's got to be out there like they told you and i to do it yeah at zany's and then it's like you just see all this stuff that you almost see him being security for anything it's hilarious

he was he just would stood next to her and everybody's like i don't think it's worth going Him being security for anything is hilarious. He just would stand next to her and everybody's like, I don't think it's worth going over there. I would just repel them by being close to her. Yeah. Well, they did. They're like, could you see guys going? How well do you think that went over with him when they asked to be security?

Well, because we're not doing – we don't work for the club. Right. And you think you might need somebody. That was a while. I think Angela had a lot of people didn't know how big she was. Yeah. And so it was, it's like, oh, you know, Angela Johnson's coming this weekend. They don't think anything. Then they're like, oh, oh, well, it's eight shows.

And then I would see when she would take pictures with women, they're very excited and then they're grabbing her and they're, you do this and do that. Like it's, you know, it's a whole thing. So if there's no somewhat control, she'll be out there for two hours and it's going to be exhausting. But no one is, you can just see when people are like, they've never seen this.

They've never dealt with this. So they don't know with this so they don't know how to they don't know how to do it there would be times after the shows like meet and greet at merch when i used to go out to the merch table and say hi to everybody um whoever i was working with as a road manager at the time we tried to explain like okay we need stanchions to like organize this and like keep people back and they're like we got it we we do this every weekend we got it and we're like okay and then sure enough it's just like madness and they're trying to like problem solve or like this is why we told you and then fix it for the next day but it's like it was a lot of that that we don't like they were like we got this girls because it was like all it was a lot of that, that we don't like, they were like, we got this girls. Cause I was like all girls coming in, me and a female road manager. And they're like, you're cute.

We, we got it. And they're like, okay. Yeah. It's going to be, yeah. It's almost like, I wonder if it was just the fan. It was, you know, I wonder if it was the first kind of, you know, like it's almost the surprise fandom that people don't know what they're getting into because you gotta think before internet and all that stuff most clubs you're like you know whatever big act that you have you know that guy you probably know the crowd that's

exactly coming there's a level of like you know before internet anybody that came through a comedy club that sold tickets was like everybody knew who that person was yeah and then you really got in this phase now where you're like people sell tickets and they don't there's people that are like i've never even heard that person's name and you're like well it's going to be a problem because they're that person's fans and it's almost you were just at the you were just like kind of the the first test yeah yeah you're the test for that kind of just thrown out to the wolves to be like oh it went from zero to like we got to get people trying to get backstage people trying to do you know like a guns and roses concert and then but no one knows how to stop that you know because no one's prepared for yeah yeah no one's prepared for that and and just you know people trying to take advantage at

the same time because i'm so new i'm a girl and you know especially with like at the time it would be like a sellout bonus yeah you know and i had no idea how the business end of things worked and like for those listening like if you sell up to a certain point, then you get a bonus. And then if you sell up to the next, you know, mark, then you get another bonus, right? You have to sell at least like, let's just say 500 tickets and you get your first bonus. Right. I remember being at a comedy club and we were going through the numbers at the end and let's say it was 500 and he was like 489 so close next show 496 ah so close and i'm sitting there with him going like ah so close i almost made it not realizing anything like i'm just like you know following the rules is how it works and then I remember being at New Faces that year and sitting with Fluffy and um just talking to him about like business because again I was just starting to like people were starting to know about me and

like what I was doing on the road and stuff and I was uh telling him that and he goes so why don't you just buy your extra tickets and I'm like what mean? He's like, you're six tickets away from a sellout. Just buy your six tickets. And I go, I could do that. And he's like, yeah. Like I learned so much just from that one conversation with someone who had been doing this for years, but I didn't know any better. And then I'm pissed at this, this manager who's clearly taking advantage of me because if that was somebody like a fluffy coming in they wouldn't have pulled that they would have been like and here's your bonus you know and it was like things like that that i had to learn after being taken advantage of you know time after time being like oh wait and then then we got real straight then we had a clicker i remember lauren would walk

walk around with a clicker and count people and i I would tell her after a while, I'd be like, make sure the manager sees you counting. I want him to know that we're doing this. Like, watch us, watch you. Then we started getting a real like, okay, this is what I got. What did you get? Yeah. And then, yeah. Henry Cho has a story about club managers doing that.

And he and another guy, and they would have the audience count off during the show that's wait how how would they do it i mean i think the guy would just call out the manager i said henry said it wasn't him i forgot who he's with and he would like just start right here one two and everybody would just just so right there you could prove how many people are there i mean to take out mean, to take the wind out of the show. Yeah, seriously. It wouldn't take the wind out of my show. It would take about 15 seconds.

You go, all right, we're going to start one, two, there. What'd you get? Oh, you also had two. Okay. You had two. He goes, I had two and I was giving you a three. Because I was counting you yeah imagine being in that show where you have to shout out like how was the show i don't know but i was 17

yeah yeah that would be brutal yeah yeah and the thing is too is you're probably getting your bonuses you're probably getting them and they're just making up that you're not like they were just yeah i always heard about that stuff too and i heard a thing with you i think that knew that thing with fluffy like where it's they just buy the extra tickets or you buy them out you do it's that kind of business sense of and yeah and at the beginning they can you know i think and hope i think clubs have gotten a lot better with that kind of stuff like they're it's more it's a much better process it was the the early on clubs versus like you know you were just right that late 90s to the 2000s it was just you know again there's no internet there's no one can talk no one can there's no one like being like yo they're

doing this they're doing that now it's i i from what i hope and that the bigger the big main clubs seem like they have got it in a better situation yeah yeah yeah yeah and that's what you want yeah as a comic you want to get first you get just straight up offer to come do the club maybe it's 800 bucks no flight no whatever then you eventually you go to you get bonuses you sell, and then you want to get to a door deal. That's your, if you're listening, that's your door deal. That's where you want to be. That's where you want to be. Yeah.

How quickly did you blow up from when you started to when you did Nail Salon? It was quick, right? The Nail Salon video, I had been doing stand-up comedy for four months when that video came out and that video was recorded in 2006 it came out in january of 2007 i believe and then from january to february there is four million views on that video and this is brand new thing called YouTube. Nobody had ever heard of it. Um, and then it starts going viral. And I remember I was, this is my space days. So my, my space page is blowing up. Um, I had a cousin call me in San Jose and she was like, Hey, there's this video going around at work. And, um, my coworker sent it to me.

And it's you doing the nail salon joke. But they didn't send it to me because like, oh, look, here's your cousin. It was just being passed around. They didn't even know I know you. And that was like the first time that I remember being like, oh, that's weird. That's interesting. And then started getting messages all over MySpace like, hey, when are you coming to perform in Australia? When are you coming to the Philippines? over MySpace like, hey, when are you coming to perform in Australia?

When are you coming to the Philippines? And I'm like, what? I have 12 minutes of material that I wrote in this free joke writing class that I took at a church. You know what I mean? Like, what do you mean when I'm coming to Australia? Like, I don't know. And it just started like skyrocketing. And I remember I was replying to all the messages that I got on MySpace.

And these were like thousands of messages that were coming through. And I didn't know how to be a celebrity. Nobody teaches you like how do you be famous, right? And so I'm replying to every single message. And also this is new. Social media is brand new. We have MySpace. Like that's it.

And so there's no like etiquette or anything. So I'm just like replying to every single person who sent me a message. And then I'm like, oh my God, I can't keep up. Let me copy paste. Like, thank you so much for the support. Copy paste, copy paste. Like I was just saying that to everybody. And then I remember a girl replying and being like, is this a robot?

Cause you already said this to me before. And I'm like, oh my God, sorry. I don't know this to me before. And I'm like, oh, my God, sorry. I don't know how to be famous. Like, I'm just trying to reply to everybody. And, like, it was so overwhelming. And at that time, I didn't have an agent. So, and I was trying to be an actor. I wasn't even trying to be a comedian.

I was trying to be an actress. And I was like, oh, I'll just, you know, do this thing for fun. And I started getting messages from network executive assistants and they would send me a message on my space and be like, Hey, I'm the assistant to so-and-so at CBS, at Fox, at all these networks. Um, they would like to meet with you. They saw your nails on video, like to meet with you. And then I would come into these meetings and they're having me cold read for pilots. And I'm, I'm like not prepared for any of this that's happening. Like I have meetings.

I'm like, I had to buy a calendar. Like I didn't know what was happening and completely overwhelmed. No agent to like organize any of this. I'm just showing up green to sitting in a network executives office and have no idea what I'm doing. And they're like, here's a script.

Why don't you read that? And it's for like a CW pilot. And I'm like, okay, sure. I don't know to say anything like, oh, can I step out for a minute and like run it a couple of times? Like, I just like get this paper in front of the guy who says, yes, you're on a TV show for the rest of your life. And I'm like, Hey, my husband, like, I'm, I don't know what I'm doing, but bombing all of these meetings. I think I would have done that still now. I think I'm glad I learned that now that I could say, Hey, I'm going to step out for a second. Thank you for saying that. I'm still learning from Angela. So it was a whole whirlwind of like, what is happening in my life. And I remember having a conversation with

my sister and keep in mind too, like this is, you know, 2007. I had just, um, come out of this season while I wasn't even out of it when this was happening. This was the beginning of coming out of a season of no jobs, no money. I was on unemployment. My unemployment checks had run out. I had like nothing going for me. No auditions. I had been an extra. I had been a stand in. I got like a couple of commercials, but like that was it. And I was like in this super dry spell and it was kind of like, okay, I think I have to go home because I don't have money to pay my rent. I don't have anything. My sister would send me money to pay my rent. She would send me gift certificates to the grocery store. Like family members would help out, you know, but my sister was really the only one that was like, don't come back. Like stay, do chase your dreams. Like don't just keep trying. And so everything in

my life is like, no, sorry. You tried, give it up. Then this YouTube video pops off. Then this MySpace page started blowing up. Then all of a sudden I'm getting meetings, CBS box. All of a sudden I get a new agent. All of a sudden I get a manager. All of a sudden all this stuff's happening for me. And then that was January. And then by February I got a new agent. And then by like March, April I auditioned for MADtv.

And then by May I booked it. And then I was like, well, I better start writing more jokes because people keep asking me when am i coming to perform there so then i start writing as much material as i possibly can so by the end of the summer i'm now touring as a headliner and now when i started headlining there was like eight comics on the lineup because i didn't have enough time to fill it up so it'd be like eight comics and then it would dwindle down to now it's only six. And now it's only like, hey, there's three. And then then it got to just a host, a feature and me because I had written at least 45 minutes that I could do. And so by the end of the year, my life had completely changed from January 2007, where I had nothing going for me. But all of a sudden, this YouTube video just pops off to the end of the year where I'm on MADtv.

I'm touring as a headliner. Um, and my life had completely changed. Wow. It's a crazy year. Yeah. It's a crazy year. And,

uh, yeah, didn't, and you wouldn't first one out to you would just be the middle act, but you would sell so many tickets. Like, which is, I mean,

you got really stuck in situation. It's a very rare situation where you begin, where you don't have the time yet. But so they'd have to book her as the middle act. And then, I mean, the headliner's got to go follow you as these people are here just to see you. I know. I middled three times. Yeah. My whole career.

Yeah. That was it. And that's probably they weren't going to allow it anymore. Tom Rhodes was the first person I opened for. god bless him he was such a gentleman so help like was not prideful in the least bit i didn't know what i was doing but they sent me to go do radio with him and i didn't know that that's like the headliner does radio not the opener yeah and all i know is like i wake up early they pick me up at the hotel and then he's probably like what's this girl doing with me you know what i mean but here we are both on radio

and they're wanting to talk to me and and i don't realize how insulting it is yeah to a headliner i'm just like i'm doing what i was told to do this my first time opening for anyone like the comedy club manager told me to do this so here i am so that was him first and he was so just lovely and kind and generous and i love him to this day tom roth and then my second time was al magical and that was at the brea improv and um love al and um my last time was steve trevino in houston and that was the last time was Steve Trevino in Houston and that was the last time that I I featured for anybody because I was selling tickets so it was like well let's just give her her own weekend then and that's how that started yeah wow yeah you hate me even more now no I love it yeah no it was great yeah it was was just nothing like this ever happened. No. And so it just, but you always did very good because you always wrote

and you'd have to go up. And that's what I always would say about you is like, you're having to go produce all this stuff and you're having to learn all this at the highest level just as you're going. And it's very, very hard to do that. It's very hard to learn how to, comedy takes a long time to kind of get into a groove and figure it out. And you were just having to like,

just pump it out. And that's, you know? Yeah. I mean, when I first met you, that's when all that stuff was popping off. And I mean,

so many YouTube stars, they just, they hit for a while and then they just can't maintain it. But you've put out so many specials and I still travel with you and you still sell out everywhere. So grateful that people still want to hear from me. Well, you still, because you still put out new material. Yeah. Because you're, to keep it going is, really on paper, your career should not have been what it was. I say that all the time.

Yeah. I'm like, what? Yeah. I don't get it. Yeah. His career on paper is exactly, probably a little. His career is only on paper. Yeah.

but it's for, for a typical blowing up that quick of a thing, right? Really? You shouldn't have, most won't be able to, they can't handle to keep writing, to keep doing that. That stuff's exhausting.

It's hard. You got to stay on the road. That's not easy. And you went through it and you kept doing all that stuff. And that's it's sustained this is the thing that i always talk about here if you have an act you always had an act and so even when people come to see you they're they're actually seeing something and then they come see you next time they'd see something it's not it's not just built on nothing it's there's there's an actual, and that's why you're here where you're at now and not kind of just like, you know, you could be so far removed from comedy

because you could have been like, well, I can't keep up with this. Comedy's hard. It's hard to write an hour. Yeah. You know? Yeah. How many times have you middled? Your hair up like that.

You got your thing too tight on your. What are you talking about? I like it like that. All right. I did that on purpose. Don't worry about it. I know. But when I just turned to look at you and just seeing that hair and going like, how many times have you middled?

You're like. It made it go up more. Yeah. It looks like. Your hair spoke for itself. Yeah. It's been a while. Yeah.

It's like your hair had its hands up going, I'll tell you. Yeah. A lot is the answer. Yeah. I've middle a lot. I'm honored to middle for both of you. Thank you. What about me? Yeah. Same here. I'm honored to middle for both of you. Thank you. What about me?

Yeah, same here. I'm honored to middle for anybody who will have me. These guys, I don't care. I'll do it. Yeah, I will do it. Mill. I don't say that word right. Meal.

Meal. You say mill? I go mill. Am I LL? Mill. Yeah, mill kit. Oh. Yeah.

Mill. Mill. That's how you're supposed to say it? I don't know if I'm saying it right. There you go. Let's start with you guys' comments. Kevin Mitchell. The comments read each week clarify so much about the previous episode

that I have now started listening to the comments first then playing the previous episode. Oh, that's smart. Undoubtedly, one of the gang

has given out wrong information or clarified the story they told. And it helps me keep up with the wild twists and turns of the actual episode.

Some people may think it's spools. Spools. Ooh. Spoils. Would. Some people may think it's spoils. Spoils. Oh. Spoils. Would you say like that? I like spoils.

Spoils. I have a joke about this, Mike. Okay. About saying this. Some people may think it spoils the episode by having some advanced knowledge, but for me, it's like reading a book before going to see the movie. Oh, that's fun.

That's an adventure for Kevin. Yeah. Kevin Mitchell. Is that his name from Home Alone? Yeah. Isn't it? Also a baseball player.

Is Kevin Mitchell Home Alone? Yeah, yeah. Kevin! Kevin. Kevin's definitely his name. That's Macaulay Culkin, isn't it?

It's not Mitchell, is it? Yeah. I'm saying yeah, really excited to be able to know. McAllister. Same thing. Kevin McAllister. Who's Mitchell then? Same thing. Yeah. I'm saying, yeah, really excited. I have no idea. McAllister. Same thing. Kevin McAllister.

Who's Mitchell then? Same thing. Kevin, I think you're thinking of- For the Mets. Yeah, the San Francisco Giants. That's what you were thinking, Angela. I wouldn't know any. You were thinking that.

Come on. How did you know him? Do you remember him? Yeah, he played for the 86 Mets, and that was my team. I don't see it. Just started working at Channel 5. Graduated college four years ago. Four years before.

He was in... He played with Oil Can Boyd. Remember him? I do. He was in left field one time, and somebody hit a ball down the left field line, and he caught it with his bare hand. No way. Oh, that's cool. Wow.

Maybe that's Kevin Mitchell. I bet it's him. I bet it's him. Wow. Maybe that's Kevin Mitchell. I bet it's him. I bet it's him. Yep. Teresa Kelly. My husband and I drove from Vancouver, Canada to Seattle for Nate's show at the Paramount. We had a great time. However, we almost pulled an errand and told the guy next to us, enough.

He got up four times in the show to go get more drinks. In your opinion, what is an acceptable amount of times to make a whole row of people stand up so you can get drinks that's why that's four is a lot now if that guy wrote in i would tell him he's okay but no four is a yeah it's yeah four is if you're dead middle i think so much of this depends on how he, if he's apologetic to the, I'll forgive anybody if they go, sorry, dude, one more time. You know what I mean? Yeah.

It doesn't sound like that guy was this way. Four times? I don't think anybody would get up four times. I think after the third time you go, why don't we all scoot down one and you just chill in the aisle. Yeah. Yeah. Four times.

You got to move a bunch of people. Yeah. Four times. You got to move a bunch of people. The hard thing with stand-up is it's an hour and a half, roughly. Two hours, roughly. And you're just going. It's not like a music, a band. You're like, yeah, get up and go.

But comedy is a little more. But four times. No, I know. No, no. I mean, it's a lot of times. It's too many times. Four is a lot of times it's too many times four is a lot of times have you all ever done shows either of you in other countries where they have an intermission that's the standard in a lot of other countries really seven intermission in the middle of a

stand-up show yeah i wonder if that cracks down on that kind of stuff having somebody get up four times i've thought about it like doing it like you want to add one in yeah just to you know be like after the you know do maybe do it after like after the opener just be like all right five minutes here's you know and give i'm not a long one like you did five minutes to be like y'all can run to the bathroom or like i vaguely remember negotiating uh intermission out of a contract before like it's vaguely remember negotiating intermission out of a contract before like it's vaguely

sounding familiar like what no I'm not doing an intermission like they just warmed up the crowd now I gotta warm them up again no way yeah yeah

that's the thing comedy's not really it's not really like that I've done videos they want it because they want people to go buy more yeah doubles

concession sales yeah that doesn't help my show only show I've ever done I did it did it one time, Kevin Nealon. He had intermission. Really? Mm-hmm. John's tour, there was intermission right before him.

Oh, really? Really? The whole tour? Like 15 minutes, yeah. And does everybody get up and go? Yeah, and then he would open it back up with a video that they hadn't seen. And that would get people back in the room. Yeah.

And then he would come back. Is it a funny video, like they're laughing? Yeah, yeah. People would argue. It's funny, huh? No, People would argue. It's funny or not. No, I'm joking. John's been on. John's on our podcast.

He's been on it. Really? He does an intermission? I don't know if he's still doing it, but for a while there, the churches and the theaters. And yeah, it was like a 15 minute intermission. Interesting. Yeah. You know what I started doing this,

uh, past weekend, uh, we played the George Washington sketch, the SNL sketch, like, you know, and it's a five minute sketch and we play it before we just tried it this

weekend and play it five minutes before we started the show. So it's like, kind of like, it's just, yeah, it's just a nice, like, all right, have this thing on and no gets people to be like, Hey just good idea yeah it's just a nice like all right have this

thing on and no gets people to be like hey i bet the show's about to start let's get it going the process talking about that i told him i was coming here i was talking to him on the phone on the way here and he started talking about that sketch oh yeah so good so good tell your brother hello i know i know all the Johnson's, uh, uh, where was it? Hillary, right?

Hillary Nichols. Yeah. Uh, Hillary Nicholson got a question for Aaron. Hey, I've just discovered the podcast. Somebody stopped me. Oh boy.

I just listened to the episode when you lost your keys at office Depot. Just curious. Have you been back any regrets and not signing up for the rewards program? No, man. I'm sorry. You had to listen to that. That was my podcast before I met you. Wait, that was your own? That's like your ex-girlfriend.

Kind of. Yeah, yeah. Lasted six episodes. That was your podcast? Oh, it was brutal. It's still out there. Yeah. That was when I was in Jacksonville.

I had an awkward interaction with a guy at the counter. And then I went to my car and I'd forgotten my keys oh i had to go back and talk to the guy no it reminded me of i was telling them yesterday i had a bad corporate gig yesterday and i beelined it to my car after the set i didn't want to talk to anybody and then i got in my car and they call me and go you forgot to get a check check. So I go, I'm not going back in there. So you did it for free? I said, well, they're going to mail it to me. Oh, thank God. But I go, I'm not going back in the room after I just, I mean, I sprinted out of there.

I don't want to look at anybody in the eyes. Yeah. Hey, Encore, I'm back. This guy, yeah. One time, Aaron Weber. Somebody stopped me. Somebody did. I got stopped a bunch.

Was that the end of it? You did six episodes and then that was it? Yeah, about six. So was it just this Office Depot story? You just stretched it out for an hour? It was like my act at the time. Yeah. This guy doesn't really venture off until 30 minutes in.

You're still, he's still in Office Depot. I don't get out much. I listened to one episode. That was the one I listened to. Was it really? Aaron has such a great voice. I mean, he kind of sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Yeah.

The illusion of confidence. What was the idea of the name Somebody Stop Me? Because I used to go, ooh, somebody stop me. I used to say that. You idea of the name? Somebody stop me. Cause I used to go, Ooh, somebody stopped me. I used to say that. You came up with that? Yeah.

I'd like a open mics and stuff. I would say that. I would never do that. Like a real show. Yeah. You know, you sold bumper stickers, you know,

an open mic where it's just comics. You're trying to say something fun to get. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's all good.

Yeah. Yeah. I, it's, it's all good Yeah yeah It's It's all the stuff You come up with We're just throwing stuff At the wall man Yeah yeah That's fun

It's a creative world Becky Waller Unlike Dusty who's got Apparently has his own He has 12 of his own podcast Dusty has his own podcast Dusty's got

Dusty's got his whole world. I don't know if we all even know really what it's all about. We certainly don't know everything. I don't want to know. But I do listen to his podcast because some of his best stories that I bring up on here come from that. He's an interesting guy.

Double dipping stories. Becky Waller. I was listening to a comics podcast this week and he said that during a recent show he did 10 to 15 minutes of his act and riffed an hour in 15 minutes he said that he done what he done is called avoiding your act he said when you have a bunch of gigs in a row you can't be doing your act every night are're going to burn it out and you're going to want to kill yourself. Well, that's all a lie.

What? I'm glad there's no name. I don't know who this is. Was that you, Brian? Did you do that? You wrote for an hour and 15? She never said his name. She said it was a very,

I took that part out, a very famous comics podcast. So, I don't know who it was. He did 10 to 15 minutes of his act and then riffed did 10 to 15 minutes of his act and then riffed an hour and 15 minutes. That sounds like a not a good show. I did maybe the opposite.

Yeah. Wait. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I've ever riffed 10 to 15 minutes. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's not avoiding your act. I've never heard that term. Yeah.

When you do like, it's crazy. When you have a bunch of gigs in a row, you can't be doing your act every night. You're going to burn out. That's insane. I have the most gigs in the road in a row. How you make it great is you have those gigs in a row.

When you go work out, that's like the idea of like, if you did a work exercise and yeah, you can't work out your muscles too much because you're wild. Yeah, it's it's. Yeah, this is how you get great. Look, I can tell you when you say the same jokes over and over again, you got to learn how to say that. That's something you're learning. You're always learning something.

You got to learn how to sit there a little bit. Like now I'm trying to learn how to sit on stage and not be, you know, kind of just like, I don't know, just there's like, I'm trying to give myself a little more of a beat than I ever have. And you're, I'm doing that. I'm learning that now. Yeah. That's what, um, speaking of giving yourself a beat, I remember I would always watch Nate and I would be so envious and also nervous because he

would sit in those silent moments and I'm like, I can't breathe for you. And then he just keeps going, didn't even phase in. I'd be like, oh my God, how do you sit in that silence? Yeah, there was a bunch of them, weren't there? Yeah.

You get good at it. This guy had a laugh for half an hour. good at it purposeful beat and i'm like ah i'm nervous i couldn't i couldn't do it naturally i naturally i'm just talking slower i think that's how like being from the south you just maybe everything's a little more of a drag in my head i don't think i'm gonna take this big beat but you know i would think i could talk too quick and that no one's ever said i talked too quick but in my head i could feel like i'm talking too quick uh but it's yeah it's i think the one like natural benefit of just being from the south is just i honestly think it helps your timing because you're just you're you know you're just got more of a storytelling, like just whatever it is. You just naturally do that. But I can tell you, Becky, this person's, that's insane.

Is there a joke in your act right now that you get so excited? Like you can't wait for this bit? Like, okay, this is the one right now. Where? Yeah, because I always have it right now i'm very excited about everything which is good that's the that's the whole goal because i i understand what this person's like saying when you do and you get tired of your act you want to get tired of your act because you want to get into the stuff that you can't wait to say

and so the stuff that you can't wait to say because you know it's going to destroy now i'm excited because i can't wait to entertain these people so i'll be like you're beginning laughs and you're like man i can't wait to get to this part because these people are going to lose it's like making your parents laugh where you're just so happy and excited and you just you're like you know it's making your friend laugh and you're making that's how i feel when i'm on stage just like oh i can't if you're laughing this hard at this one wait till i get they don't even know what i have they don't even i mean that's the funnest thing in the world if a guy riffed an hour and 15 minutes he did an hour and a half i mean it can't be good you can't no one's I'm telling you, I think I know the ones that do it. The only one, Ian Bagg is great at crowd work and great at doing it as a full show. He's very, very, but he's done it for years.

Steve Byrne is, you know, Steve Byrne's really good at it because he mixes in. There's no down with them. It keeps going. going it keeps you know and then steve has got jokes and then so it's you know a lot of new york comics were really good at crowd work joey mccullough who comes out with me like he was like a lot of new york guys are really big jay big jay's one of the best ever they're great at crowd work because they that they've done it for so long but the new you know you're just not riffing an hour and 15 minutes uh it's just it's so much time it's so hard man it's so i mean look if you are you

really this might be then that's maybe the greatest comic that's ever lived if it's working i'm talking about working yeah one thing to go talk for an hour and 15 minutes, but I'm saying it being a good show, there's just no way. There's no way. You're just, you know. All right. Melissa Sedlak. My husband and I got engaged and married in 2004.

When my husband called his dad on his cell phone to share the exciting news, his dad said, that's great. Do me a favor and call back after 9 p.m. For the minute. Yeah, I think that's been a few episodes ago. We're talking about cell phones and how it used to be there were certain times with roaming and all that. Free nights and weekends. Yeah, free nights and weekends. That's right that's right in the commercials i remember that yeah yeah did you ever deal with that not by the time i had my own cell phone no yeah yeah i was i wasn't about that yeah

junior in high school when i first got one and it was free for all. Yeah. By that point. I remember paying for text. Five cents or whatever. And it was like, you just really couldn't. Well, that nail salon video that went viral on YouTube was originally intended to be a comedy clip for Verizon wireless cell phones where you could download comedy for a dollar 99. They were going to charge people a dollar 99 to download that comedy clip onto their flip phone. Oh, wow. Wait, before. That's why you taped that night.

Yes. That's what it was. Because it was like that comedy. It was like whatever that channel was. Yeah. And then then YouTube came out. Yeah. Like, well, we can't charge people now that this thing's doing it for free.

So they just uploaded all those videos to YouTube. Oh wow that's crazy does your daughter have a phone uh just no cell phone i mean she has a phone but it's like the emergency it's wi-fi okay like i mean it's not it's not hooked up to she can't use it but i mean she has a phone she can take pictures and whatever but she's she's got to be on wi-fi to how old are you is she gonna be when you allow her to like actually like have a phone uh i don't know i mean i i'm different than laura you know that's just i you know i would be probably more fine with it now just because it's like you know she's 11 you're like you just whatever reason uh she's probably gonna get a watch uh yeah she won't hear this but i think for

or she would have oh yeah this won't be bad she would have for christmas she would have got a watch that would have been a cellular so it's like there's a way and then she would have a cell phone too that's good but yeah yeah it. Yeah. My nephew has a watch like that and he can call or text people from the watch. Only three numbers. Yes. So it's like his mom is dad and then my mom. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's easy to do that. How old is he now? 10. 10. Yeah. Crazy.

Uh, Drew Bird song. So the only thing, I know. So Birdsong, there's a Carol Birdsong. I know Carol Birdsong. You do? Yeah, because I used to work with her in the media. Oh, you know her for real?

Yeah. She does all the announcements for. She's like famous. Yeah. Yeah. Talking about the communications director at Williamson County Schools? I am. That's who I'm talking about.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. Because everybody in Williamson County who has a kid. That's who I'm talking about. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Because everybody in Williamson County who has a kid in school knows her because they get calls from her, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's been doing it for a long time. And you personally know her?

From my TV news days, yeah. Yeah. Because when, like, if school's out or whatever or anything going on at Williamson County Schools, that's who we'd have to talk to. Oh, yeah. Harper. Yeah, everybody knows. Yeah, that's great. It's a true bird song.

Aaron started comedy at 23. That's considerably soon after dropping 150K on higher education. How long did he consider getting on stage before this? And can we have some context leading up to his first few open mics i did it in college we had a student group at school where we did a few shows for students so by the time i graduated i had done stand-up like five or six times and um i don't know i wasn't thinking too much about it i was just working and just wanted to do it. Was your group called Somebody Stopped Me? Notre Dame Student Stand-Ups.

That's what it was. Pretty good name. The NDSS, yeah. Do you think it's going to work out? We'll see. I'll let you know when I'm finished paying back Notre Dame. Yeah. Yeah.

You're very popular in these comments. This is a unique episode. It's Aaron Heavy. That wasn't me. You knew what you were doing. I didn't know what I was doing. I just said, you laughed at it on your own. I think that's on

me. That ain't think that's on me. That ain't nothing to do with me. I didn't. Casey Nelson. Yep. Pin and pin. It's something I've always pronounced the same until I made a friend that grew up in California. She had to set me straight, and now I try to pronounce the E.

Pin. How do you say it, Angela? Pin. What? the E. Pen. How do you say it, Angela? Pen. What? How do you say that? Pen? Yeah. Say the second one.

Pen. Pen. Eh. Eh. Eh. Eh. Pen. Pen.

Father. Is that how you would go? Father, give me a pen. That's how you would write your letters? You added an H in there. Pen. Pen. That's what I'm picturing you going down to your family.

Pen. Can I get a pen, Father? But you wouldn't call it Penn State University, would you? Penn State. Penn, yeah. Penn. It's the same. Oh, so I'm saying it.

Pen. But how do you, what do you call this? Pen. Yeah. That's what I call it. We say it the saying it. Pin. But how do you, what do you call this? Pin. Yeah. That's what I call it. We say it the same way. Yeah. How do you say P-N-G-U-I-N?

P. Hold on. Yeah, you spelled that really fast. G. P-E-N. Penguin? Yeah. Penguin.

Okay. Okay. How do you say it, Aaron? Penguin. He says penguin. Penguin. Penguin. Oh, P-A-N-G. Penguin. Penguin. Okay. How do you say it, Aaron? Penguin. He says penguin. Penguin. Oh, P-A-N-G? Penguin. Penguin. Did she say it right?

Yeah, I'll give her a pass. Penguin. Okay. It's penguin where Aaron comes from. Because of the pain. Can I have that pain? I'm going to write a letter on this pain. Pain-sel. Pain-sel.

Kevin Robleski. Robleski. Robleski. Robleski. Hey, Bear. I don't know if this has ever been talked about, but when Big Breakfast disagrees with something, he always puts out a, hmm, gets ignored

and the pod moves on. Makes me laugh every time. Thanks for crushing it. Goodbye, folks. Yeah, there it is. That is the little passive aggressive. Sound of defeat

is what it is. Yeah, that's definitely that. Maybe, what sound do you think would have an H in the front of it. What do you think that is? I think he's saying what you just said. Hmm.

Oh, so he just misspelled it. Yeah, that is a weird way to spell that noise for sure. I think I read it. I think I'm following it. You did a great job with it. Because that's how I read it. He spelled it M-M-M-M-M-H. How are you supposed to spell it?

Maybe hmmph. With P-H first.M-M-M-M-H. How are you supposed to spell it? Maybe HMPH. H-M-P-H. Or M-M-M-M-M-H. I think I got it. Well, Kevin, I think you're stupid, so how about that? Now, let's move on. Goodbye, folks. He says he likes it.

Well, I don't like him, so let's move on. How about that? Bye, folks. He says he likes it. Well, I don't like him, so. Let's move on. What about that? Bates Robleski family. Getting like. Oh, boy. High T. Bates over here.

They're about to meet at the fence. You're on my property. I think J's have a joke about the property. Have we talked about property? I just love, like, it's a very Southern thing. To talk about your property? To talk about your property. You better get off my property right now.

Or somebody in Manhattan would never be like, get out of my property. No. No, yeah. No, but it's the best because it's just like, it's my property. I mean, it's, you know, people like their property. Property is a funny word. Mike Valor, Valier, Valier. I told my wife that if she's ever getting fast food and doesn't know what I want to just give me the number one. So far, I haven't been disappointed regardless of where she gets it from.

Do you think you would be satisfied with the number one from any fast food place? Yeah. I think so. Oh, no. I'm very picky. Fast food? Yeah. Yeah.

I have something specific from pretty much every fast food place. What's from McDonald's? Oh, see, there's a thing. I don't really like McDonald's, but chicken nuggets. That's the only thing I eat from McDonald's. Oh, boy. Chicken nuggets. That's it. thing I eat from McDonald's. Oh, boy. Chicken nuggets. That's it.

With hot mustard. You're better than that, Angela. Hot mustard's amazing. People don't know about hot mustard. No, that's good. I like hot mustard. It's ASOL chemically and whatnot. I love it.

Oh, yeah. Hot mustard is... I remember when I found out about hot mustard. When Abigail, my sister used to work at McDonald's, I go, get some hot mustard. Yeah, bring it home. It was a big, big day. I was like, you know, she brought home extra, like a, you know, it's like just try to get some, steal some hot mustard. I mean, is the number one the most popular thing on every menu then?

I don't know if it's the most popular, but I think it's got to be the signature item, right? Like the number one at McDonald's is a Big Mac. I've never thought about this before. Like, the number one at a fast food menu is probably the most popular thing. I don't know if I even use numbers anywhere else. Where does you use numbers? Oh, any fast food place is going to have the meals are going to be numbered. Arby's?

I feel like I go to Arby's. I say I want the beef and cheddar. I say the name of the sandwich. But they are numbered here on the menu. The beef and cheddar would be the number one. Maybe I don't do that. There you go. Maybe I don't do that out of respect for McDonald's. Yeah.

Yeah, I think the number one. Yeah. Yeah, I think you go. Does Tennessee have Jack in the Box? Oh, yeah. We do, yeah. Okay. I don't think I've seen a Jack in the Box

I'll show you one Okay Thank you I'll show you How many do you want to see? I love their tacos Let me know Yeah

You want a dicey one? You want a little nicer one? I don't know if there's Jack in the Box over here There's some where I live Yeah There's some where I live in Hermitage. Old Acre, there's some. Yeah.

What's your favorite fast food? I love Chick-fil-A. I love Jack in the Box. Two tacos. Curly fries. I love In-N-Out. Do you guys? There's no In-N-Out here.

No. Aren't they bringing one? They're bringing them. I remember the governor made an announcement. Five Guys. I love Five Guys. Five Guys is great.

But in fact, there's no drive-thru with Five Guys. That's a problem. Man, I saw a drive-thru at a subway. I saw a subway

with a drive-thru. One of Coach Mazzini's has a drive-thru. That's true. That is true. That seems like a, have you been through it? Yeah.

Oh. I go to that Burger King by Zany's a lot. I sneak over there. Yeah. I get two Whopper Juniors. Burger King smells good. Yeah. Like you can smell the flame broiled-ness.

Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. The fries are good. Emma. I'm an eighth grade fan of the Nate Land podcast. Thank you, Emma. On my first day of school this year, as class was starting, we were all talking very loudly. All of a sudden, my teacher yelled out, hello, folks.

In the middle of all the noise, everyone ignored him, but I yelled back, hey, bear. In the middle of all the noise, everyone ignored him, but I yelled back, Hey, Bear. It was at that moment that he realized that he had the coolest eighth grader in the world in his class, and I realized that I was going to get an A. That's awesome. That's great. This is a very clever comment. I'm almost like, did your mom write this or your dad or something?

Because this is very well written, and it has good timing in it and had a really good ending yeah this is what Emma does this is a Emma brings it right I like Emma

yeah Emma should intern for your podcast Emma's the smartest person we know I mean Emma dumbed this down so Nate could read it

yeah yeah she had it typed down and then she gave it to her dog and he goes alright for Nate and then she gave it to her dog. And he goes, all right, for Nate. And his dog just, she let her dog walk over the things,

and then so I could read it. Because I read that one pretty good. So Emma, I'm probably Emma. Emma knows what's up. All right. J.T. Fulton. About a year ago, I showed my girlfriend's hold on sometimes I get started too quick

that's what it is you gotta head to yourself I just roof I head running down the road back it up slow it down about a year ago Emma come through

Emma Emma could you read this JT Fulton one about a year ago I showed my girlfriend Nate's first special she wasn't a stand-up comedy fan

but knew I am religious about the art form and it's history fast forward to us eloping three weeks ago and yelling hey bear as we signed our marriage

certificate we watched the podcast every Wednesday night together once we get in bed thanks for all the laughs something me and my beautiful wife now share together.

Very nice. Congratulations Haybear to you guys. That's awesome. That's very sweet. These are all some nice... It's a wholesome episode so far, Brian. It's a new year. When's the ball going to drop? I feel it coming at some point.

For your newer fans, can you explain the hay bear thing? No. I wish we could. I don't remember it. You yell hay bear when you go hiking. For grizzly bears.

You go, hay bear, hay bear. That's here. That's a Tennessee thing? No, it's really California. If you go hiking. Oh, that's here. That's like a Tennessee thing? No, no. No, it's really California. If you go with animal. That's if you see a bear? No, if you ever go hiking. Like at Yosemite or any of these things, you say, you could do it in smoke and bounce. There's bears.

When you walk, you just go, hey, bear. Hey, bear. You just say that a bunch. So other people hear it. No, for the bear. Oh. So you don't surprise them. Ah. So he knows there's a human coming. You want to announce your presence to the bear. Oh. So you don't surprise him. Ah, so he knows

there's a human coming. You want to announce your presence to the bear. Announce your presence. Okay, that's, I didn't know if we're like alerting the other hikers being like, there's a bear up ahead. Hey bear. Yeah. I thought it was that. No, I think you would say more like, hey, there's a bear up ahead. Hey bear. Hey bear.

And they go, what? You go, it's behind. It's already behind you. They go, yeah. If you go hiking, you should yell, hey bear. Okay. That's really what people yell. And it just kind of spiraled.

And now here we are. But. I like it. Yeah, it's fun. Jeff matters. Could y'all settle a social etiquette? Is that how you say it? All right.

Situation for me. When getting food at a single line buffets, do you have to wait in line and start at the front? Wait, when getting food at a single line buffet, do you have to wait in line and start at the front or can you jump in at an empty spot, a spot that wouldn't disrupt anyone and grab your items and go?

What's the social protocol for this? And his environment changed like a funeral versus a wedding. I don't know. Well, yeah. I mean, buffets, funerals.

Are you going to, Oh, you've been to a buffet funeral. I think so. Yeah. Right next to it. Right. What do you do?

Like you think the body is at the front or the end of it? Where's the body, Aaron? Where's the body? You think the body is just behind it? Is that an easier way to put it? Well, there is a science to how the food is laid out in the buffet, right? This used to be my job. When I came home from school, I worked at Bluegrass Country club here in hendersonville tennessee yeah

i was the official buffet guy i ran the buffet table yeah and i know the science of people's the science is well you want to put your your cheapest food at the at the beginning and then the proteins and the more expensive food at the end the idea being they fill up more of the plates with the cheap stuff. And they don't got no room. And there's only a little bit of room left for the more expensive things. But you're buying and you're buying according to that. What do you mean? Well, I mean, you already bought that meat and it's cooked for the protein at the end.

Right. But there's going to be less. If the steak was right at the beginning of the buffet. Yeah, everybody's getting a steak. Right. If it's only at the end, you're going to go through less steak than you would. But the steak is the featured player of the buffet. I agree, but if you put that salad first,

everybody's going to feel the need to put a little bit of salad on there. Right, right, right. It has to look good. It takes up a fourth of the plate. So people don't judge them when they walk away. Totally. Totally. And a bit of steak.

And you're saying the steak should be cut in pieces. No. You're not going to have a nine-ounce steak. I mean, if you're grabbing a nine-ounce steak, you're grabbing a nine-ounce steak. Well, in a buffet, a steak is going to probably, more than likely, it's going to be sliced like that. Yeah. Or roast beef or something where you can just grab. Do you go to buffets very often?

Yeah. I feel like you need to. Oh, I love buffets. Have you ever done Adele's Buffet downtown? Oh, I don't know. Their weekend brunch buffet? Oh, it's so good. Yeah, I love a buffet. Adele the singer?

No, no, no. Just Adele's. It's in the Gulch. The restaurant downtown. There's that McDonald's on Broadway if that helps. Oh, this place looks nice. It's so good. It does help me. I know exactly where it's at. The that helps. Oh, this place looks nice. It's so good. It does help me. I know exactly where it's at. The brunch buffet. Bomb. Yeah. I'm a big

buffet fan. I think at a funeral. I don't think the environment changes. I don't think what the event is changes the etiquette at all. But what about jumping in? I think here's my thing. Okay.

You do have a responsibility to move quickly through the buffet. So just everyone be aware of that. You see people and they meander and they lollygag. They need to move through it. Okay. That being said, I think it's rude to hop somebody that you don't know. If you go up with your wife, if you go up with a friend and you're both in line, then you can kind of hop amongst each other.

But I would never hop in front of a stranger on a buffet line. You know what I mean? Here's my only time that you would. Okay. If there's a big enough distance. so if you if you have so far of a head start if that person's at grabbing their silverware and you're more towards the back like three things i think you could jump there because they they would never be in you're never be in the way i know you're already in the line you're already at the food but you know you don't want these next five things so you jump over like i agree

with that yeah but you got to be far enough ahead next five things so you jump over it. I'd agree with that. Yeah, but you've got to be far enough ahead that the person probably won't even notice. At least the halfway point. Right. Yeah. But I'd still think you need to say something to that person that you're cutting. You don't have to say something, but just make a noise or something. You know what I mean? Just go...

Something like that. I don't know. I'd feel weird. Like an unfinished sentence. Because you, yeah. Totally. That's perfect. Yeah. Just gonna, don't mind if I do.

Make a joke about it. Yeah. You know, something. Because you're still going to have to go get your polite and civil wear at the front of the line. Right. You know what's up. Now. Like that.

You know what it is. Now, that's, we're talking about the initial wave of the buffet. That's when there's a huge line snake around. I don't think you cut it in the initial talking about the initial wave of the buffet that's when there's a huge line i don't think you cut it in the initial in the initial now later when people are going back for seconds and thirds or whatever right then it's kind of you want your one item yeah i think you walk right up to what you want then i think you abandon the concept of a line yeah yeah yeah right you're like let me i'm just gonna go a little more mashed potatoes. Just one more scoop. Yeah. You take your same plate?

No, you're not supposed to do that. No, no. Health regulate. They want you to use a separate plate. So you still got to go back, get up front. Yeah. But then you grab it. That's probably true. That's true.

Yeah. So when you do that, yeah, you don't want to be skipping people. That's a good point, Brian. I'm sorry. I do. I bring good points. I assumed it was not going to be a good point and it was. Yeah.

You don't want to skip. I'm just walking you through my thought process just now. I like a buffet, man. We had an expert in this topic. That's great. Yeah. That's why I put it in. It's an Aaron-heavy comment.

Did Jeff know that he was asking the question to an expert? Like, is that something you thought about? Oh, I think so. Yeah, I think Jeff watches the podcast. I changed the word y'all. It was Aaron. Okay. That's pretty good. Yeah. No word y'all. It was Aaron. Okay. That's pretty good.

Yeah. No, you didn't hear what I said. Yeah. You said, yeah, I heard what you said. Should have got more than it. Well, I also had a funny line myself. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Guys, you're both doing great. Yeah. Huh? Hmm. Yeah. The Rob Leskies. What are we talking about? huh hmm there you go mmm yeah the Robleskis what are we talking about well

why don't you tell Angela because I think she'd be excited to hear about Rocket Money oh drop it

cut it off cut it off that's pretty cool but Angela isn't a new movie with Eddie Murphy oh my gosh that's crazy

did you get a hangout with him no oh no no no but you were telling me a story about how when the director Eddie Murphy? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that's crazy. Did you get to hang out with him? No. Oh. No, no, no. But you were telling me a story about how when the directors were like, look, when the scene's over, keep rolling, and we're going to riff.

Listen, not even when the scene's over, just in the midst of it. It was a lot of improvising. And they warned me ahead of time. They're like, okay, here's a script, but just so you know, Eddie's going to improvise. And I'm They're like, OK, here's a script. But just so you know, Eddie's going to improvise. And I'm like, cool, fun. Let's do that. Well, the thing is, with my role, I didn't have very many written lines. If you watch the movie, I'm not in it that much.

Most of the lines that I had aren't in it anymore. So it's like I'm pretty much like a featured extra in the movie. But it's fine. I was there and it was great. And the check cleared. so it's like i'm pretty much like a featured extra in the movie but it's fine i was there and it was great and the check cleared so it's fine um but so when when he would say that we're in a scene where i don't have a line written the guy playing my husband does not have a line written it's really just eddie murphy and tracy ellis ross they have the lines and then like ken marino who's hysterical he had a line but they would mic up all of us and they'd be like, just find a window, just get in there, just say something. Right. I was like, listen, when in this conversation between the legend

himself, Eddie Murphy, and the most hilarious woman ever, Tracee Ellis Ross, them going back and forth. When did you want me to just jump in and cut one of them off? Are you joking me? I was so nervous. I was so like nervous, intimidated, but also like knowing my place. Yeah. So it wasn't really a matter of like, just get in there. Even if I did feel like I was the funniest person ever and i'm so quick-witted i know i'm gonna have a golden nugget every time like it was a little bit of

know your place type of vibe and i'm like i don't even feel right trying to jump in on their written dialogue yeah even if they start improvising i don't know and then the guy who plays my husband If they start improvising, I don't know. And then the guy who plays my husband, bless him. There was one scene where we didn't have a line, but again, they mic us just in case we find a window to say something. And Eddie and Tracy, they're saying their lines. And all of a sudden he yells out something. Okay, this is a scene where they're making the announcement that the grand prize was a hundred thousand dollars in tony's tacos um gift certificates right this is for christmas and eddie says

something like tacos aren't for christmas or something something like that and then the guy my husband yells out tony's italian just out of nowhere. No contacts, no nothing. And all of a sudden, Eddie and Tracy go, huh? And it was so awkward. And I'm like, I'm holding on to him like arm in arm. And like, I'm in the scene. As soon as he yells that out, like all of a sudden, like my neck starts tingling.

I'm like, I can't breathe. And I'm'm like what is happening oh no abort what did what did you just do and then they all cut and it was so awkward and i'm like squeezing him at this point like god you know and and then they all cut and it's like a little bit awkward moment and then he turns around to like eddie and tracy and the people that play their kids and he just goes I was trying to shoot My shot. Yeah, and then they laughed so it was good. Thank God they laughed and they didn't be like this guy messed up Our scene. Yeah, like what the heck? Yeah, like they laughed and they got that he was trying to get in

He's just trying to like get a line in there So he's like I just trying to shoot my shot and everybody laughing like we get it, but oh Jesus don't do that again Yeah And everybody laughed and like, we get it. But, oh, Jesus, don't do that again. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, that idea, that setup is tough because it is like you want to go like, dude, what do you want? A, to do that would be like, we need to hang out. Right. So you would need to be like, we got to go to dinner. If you want to improvise a scene, I would be like, let's all, you know.

With Eddie Murphy. Yeah. I mean, you really, it's all, you know. With Eddie Murphy. Yeah. I mean, you really, it's not going to. Well, here's the thing. Even if it was just, I never went to dinner with, never met him before this moment, but it was at least a written scene where he says something, then I say something, and then we're just going to make up stuff going back and forth. Yeah.

I could do that. I could play with you all day long. I don't care if I met you yesterday. Like that would be fun, but I don't care if I met you yesterday. That would be fun. But I didn't have anything written. It wasn't like they're even looking at me in this scene. They're looking at each other and I'm just supposed to double dutch into their scene. You know what I mean?

That was the hard part because I'm like, I'm not even supposed to be here. You know what I mean? They just put me a mic on just in case. But I feel like it would be different if I had a a line then i can like make up stuff there's gonna be a reason to go to you that's what i'm saying yeah there was no reason to go to me and if you're not gonna go to me i didn't feel comfortable just going to myself right yeah yeah who would yeah it's italian tony's italian oh he went for it. Bold as ever. She's following him to go, he is Italian. You just point to your husband and you go, don't get him started on Italian. That's in the movie.

People are like, what? And then it's just you and this guy. Just out of the blue. Y'all have a big Italian. Who are they? Yeah. Who were the people they didn't like Italian

when you go out of nowhere is it how long does it take to when you went to go film this movie how long does it take to film the movie

this is an awesome cast by the way yeah oh incredible it's an impressive cast I was there for like I think three weeks, maybe.

And then there was bad weather and they had to reschedule. It was one scene. Where was that? In LA. Oh. And it was one scene that I actually had written lines for. And so, of course, I'm already thinking about like, how can I improvise in this scene? Because I know I have lines.

So I'm like, okay, I'm going to play it like this. And I'm already thinking of like ways that I could like I'll try it this way I'll try it that way next take whatever and then it started pouring rain it's outdoor so they had to reschedule and they kept rescheduling rescheduling rescheduling and by the time they rescheduled I was already in New York filming a episode of Amy Schumer's show and beth when they're like okay we need you next tuesday i'm like i'm not there sorry so like my one scene that i was like ready and excited to film yeah i got cut out because yeah i wasn't there so your part is like three what's that what's a whole movie it's like four six weeks something like that oh it depends i honestly i joined in february they

started in january and i think it went into march so it was like a few months yeah and it just came out yep it came out it's on amazon it's a december 1st holiday action comedy heart has all the things you'd want it's a great family movie like for like you and harper i think would enjoy yeah it's fun a lot of action silliness i'm loving that stuff now i'm watching we you know uh this would be right up my alley is because it's stuff that's not uh as we talk about a lot on this not serious not as, not as like heavy, not as, you know, like it doesn't need to be this thing. It needs to just be like,

I really, it's a joy. It was a fun. Yeah. I enjoyed it. It was a fun. We talked about Hallmark movies and it's like Hallmark does very good with that where they're just like very pleasant.

Manny loves Hallmark movies. Oh yeah. He's seen them all. Oh yeah. And they're very fun to watch. Have you ever done one? I think you were in a co-star of a movie that's very similar to Hallmark

I think though. The Resurrection of Gavin Stone. Same premise of a Hallmark movie I would say. Yep. That was a faith-based film. But guy has to go to a small town. Doesn't want to be there. Uh-huh.

Learns that life's not. The Hollywood star guy comes to the small town. I play the preacher's daughter. Yeah. You know. He falls for. That whole thing. You know, that whole thing.

Yeah. Yeah. That's great. And then there's Jesus. Yeah. Well, this week we're talking about sketch comedy. So Aaron and I'll take this. Let's go, Aaron.

You guys can sit back for a while. Aaron and I got it. We will take the wheel. We are talking about sketch comedy. So Angela, you mentioned briefly, but you were also a member on MADtv. Yes. And how'd you get that? Well, this nail salon video blew up my spot and

then next thing you know i got a new manager and an agent and they got me an audition for mad tv and what's their audition process is it like the saturday night live three original characters yeah and three celebrity impressions did you do do, wow. What'd you do? So here's the thing. I had never done sketch comedy before. I didn't go to groundlings. I didn't go to second city or anything. Like I didn't know anything about sketch comedy. I didn't do celebrity impressions.

I still don't do celebrity impressions. Um, I can do accents, but not celebrity impressions. Um, so what I did was I took that joke writing class at the church, the free class. That class really helped you a lot.

This class changed my life. I took some of the jokes that I wrote in that class. Like, oh, I do this joke about my grandpa. I'm going to make it my grandma and I'll act her out and I'll just like give her more mannerisms. And I'm like, this original character is my grandma. And I basically just did my standup joke, but acted it out more. And so I did that with like a few of my jokes. And one of them was Bon Kwee Kwee. And it was, this is my sister. She wants to be a rapper. And then I turned into Bon Kwee Kwee and, um, start beatboxing and like

do the whole thing. And for celebrity impressions, I've never done that before, but I went on YouTube and I was like, okay, who are three Latinas who are famous that I could possibly play on a sketch show? Jennifer Lopez, uh, Rosalind Sanchez. And then at the time, this is when Paula Abdul was the judge on American idol. And she was very popular for seemingly looking intoxicated on the show.

And she had her like drunk that she would do. And, um, so I just went on YouTube and watched videos of them. And so I watched Jennifer Lopez on the red carpet and I saw that she laughed a certain way. It was kind of like through her nose and like in the back of her throat

and it's kind of high pitch and like, like something like that. And she would do that in these interviews. So I was just like looking for like little pieces of them. And then I noticed on her interview, she would wave like this. Like she didn't like wave like this. She closed her hand like this, like this was her wave. And I was like, okay. So, um, I,

I copied one of her interviews and I said, this is Jennifer Lopez on the red carpet. Any question that the producers and casting directors asked me, I answered the same way. I just laughed and waved. And I said, hi, Philly, because the interview that I watched, she was they go, can you look in the camera and say hi to Philly? And she goes, hi, Philly. And then she left. Right. So any question they asked me, I would just say the same thing. I would laugh and I would wave and I'd say, hi, Philly, who are you wearing tonight? Nervous laugh. Hi, Philly, whatever. They thought it was hilarious that i made this this choice to have jennifer lopez answer the same question the same like way like that was a choice it was really just

the only thing that i could do with jennifer lopez and i did the same thing with each other one like i could do her drunk clap and then so i just bs'd it yeah and i booked it yeah and that's how that happened wow wow yeah i mean the the commitment that's the one thing that's hurts comedians is like uh but they when you when i would audition is the commitment to it are you going to like do all that stuff it's like because of a comic too could be it was almost probably good that you were not in it as much because then you actually just were like everything you're like oh well i gotta go you know whatever you're like well i'm not gonna go you know comics can i you can be like i'll do whatever i wanted to go do and you can have like an arrogance that you shouldn't have and then but you were in a situation where you did not have that

and so you took it the seriousness that you're supposed to take it and then it worked out it was that and it was also um i didn't come into that audition needing it needing that job whereas like a lot of the other people that were auditioning you know they've been in groundlings and and there have been year after year going to study sketch comedy yeah and so like this audition is like their life like they've been working up to this point and they need this where for me i was like i'll try so what do i gotta do okay impressions okay let me go steady let me go do that like so i had kind of a an air of like steady let me go do that like so i had kind of a an air of like i don't need this to happen for me i'll try yeah this is so funny because i feel like this is the exact opposite of the point that nate just made yeah but no i did take it seriously but it wasn't my life i didn't need it but i well

approached it with like teach me how how do i do it youtube okay yeah well i think that's what i mean is it's it's uh taking it more serious than maybe i'm saying as a comic i know a comic could go into it and not take it serious right yeah yeah yeah but no i definitely like i approached it with you know seriousness but i didn't have the oh i need this please like i can't mess this up yeah well you didn't even know that you would need it yeah yeah no i was like what three celebrity impressions okay how long were you on there one season pretty much and even in that season it was a writer's strike i know we just came out of a writer's strike and the one that happened before that was in 2007 and that that's when I was on Mad TV.

So after the strike ended, there were budget cuts. And by budget cuts, I mean me. I was cut from the show. And that was it. So I really only did four episodes. And that Bon Quiqui sketch blew up. So the nail salon blew up my spot. And then just as that was like trickling down a little bit,

which didn't really trickle down. Cause it still is crazy, but it started like slowing down. People knew of it already. Then it was like, oh my gosh, what do I do next? And all of a sudden this one quickly sketch. Now that blows up.

And it was like, I couldn't even have planned that. That was just, it did what it did. And so I had one sketch and people would be like, when are you doing another one? Quick, we sketch.

And I'm like, oh, I'm not on the show anymore. Yeah. I don't know. Like nobody expected that Bon Quiqui sketch to blow up like it did. Especially Fox. They wouldn't have let go of me if they knew that that was going to blow up like it did.

And did the show end, like, right after that? There was, I think, a couple more seasons after. It ended in 2009. Yeah, and I was on 2007. Yeah. Yeah ended in 2009. Yeah. And I was on 2007. Yeah. Yeah. I wondered, cause if, yeah, they didn't know it was gonna. Yeah. I was surprised it ran for 14 seasons. I would have never guessed that. That's a long, long time. You would think after it blew up, maybe they would have had it back, had you back just to even come do it. they ever ask you back anything or i came back in their final

season i think it was and or maybe it was a reunion yeah they did a reunion show yeah it was a reunion show yeah and so i came back for that and they gave bone quickly a fan favorite award like a fan favorite character that's awesome which i'm honored but at the same time, I'm like, I disagree. Like I would say like Stuart is like a fan favorite, Miss Swan, because they've been on for years and years and you get to know Stuart in this setting and that setting and you know, those kinds of things. Whereas I think they judged it because this character blew up bigger than anybody's business but also youtube wasn't around when stewart was blowing up so i think stewart

would have popped off but everybody already knew of it so his his sketch is not going to go viral on youtube because we already been watching stewart for years so we already know about stewart yeah but this was a new character a new character, a new funny thing, a new funny, new platform. So it was just like perfect timing for it to blow up. So I was like, I feel like it was really Stewart or Ms.

Swan or one of those would have been a fan favorite, but they named Bonk weekly fan favorite, which again, I'm honored and I'm grateful. But. Well, I mean, it probably was though.

I mean, it's, you know, sometimes it's, uh, that's just stuff that sticks with people. Yeah. It could be, Well, I mean, it probably was though. I mean, it's, you know, sometimes it's, uh, that's the stuff that sticks with people. Yeah. It could be, uh, you know, a lot of times something in some show, especially in a lot of sketch shows, it could be your memory of something is not a big thing.

Also, I have a severe case of imposter syndrome. Yeah. So I've been told that by my team many times before. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's good to have that yeah it's always hard to I don't ever want to be the opposite and like walk into a room and be

like think I'm the biggest thing ever and all of a sudden be like wait who but if you can back it up you know, why not? Yeah.

Breakfast is early. When I walk in and he walks in, they call me breakfast. Okay. Another B B words. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

Not dirty. That sounded like dirty. Come in another B word, but not all B words. I'm sure. Oh, that's fun. Yeah.

There probably some. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you, uh, do you guys grow up with a favorite sketch comedy show uh you know the caribou net show i remember i mean i was watching on i guess tv me too i thought you were gonna make fun of me but i was gonna say that yeah but you probably watched it live i did and i did watch it live.

You watched the Andy Griffith show. So you might have been to a taping of the Andy Griffith show. A taping. A studio audience for Andy Griffith. Carol Burnett show. The Carol Burnett show aired. I saw it in the late 70s. I mean, I was young, but I saw it. 67 to 78. Yeah.s. I mean, I was young, but I saw it. 67 to 78.

Yeah. Wow. So, yeah. I mean, I wasn't. I was born in 79. Maybe I saw it in syndication, but I saw it. You probably saw it in syndication. But I remember, I mean, Mama's Family, I remember seeing that show.

But wherever they would show this stuff on, what were they showing on TV land? But, I mean, that's all those shows I would watch. Dick Van Dyke. I wasn't watching it on TV. I was watching it on CBS. Oh, yeah. Well that's all those shows. I would watch Dick Van Dyke. I wasn't watching it on TV. I was watching it on CBS. Oh yeah. Well, I don't remember where I watched it,

but see a Tim Conway, the one where he does the sketch where he gets the needle. It's still funny. Oh, it's still funny today. Good joke now. Still relevant. There's a,

there's a sketch where he plays a dentist and he puts the, what's it called? The Novocaine. Novocaine. And he keeps accidentally doing it to himself. And it's, I still think it holds up. It's it called the nova king nova king and he keeps accidentally doing it to himself and it's i still think it holds up it's one of the best sketches ever oh yeah well tim conway is one of the funniest people ever like yeah so that that stuff would have been uh when did he yeah 2019 yeah tim conway was unreal yes uh. So that was, yeah, that was very much very early.

That would have been my, yeah, the sketch that I would remember, you know. Would your parents let you watch Saturday Night Live? No. I mean, I think if I was seeing Saturday Night Live, it would have been more like when you're like high school or you're, you know, just you. I don't remember how you saw it, but you would just you would see some stuff. Might have seen it like late, you know, some. I mean, I knew about it, but I don't know.

We were not sitting and watching it. But like Travis, my tour manager, like his family, they were, I mean, obsessed with Saturday Night Live. And so they watched it a ton so a lot of it's to him but then you know adam shannon movies and all that stuff came out everybody knew spade all those you know yeah did you watch all right go ahead mine was uh amanda vines had a show called the amanda show on nickelodeon okay it was a sketch comedy i mean it was so funny as a kid it kid, it was the best. All right, that's good.

And she was hilarious on that show. Yeah. And they were recurring characters. She played a Judge Judy character that was hilarious. What happened to her? She took a turn, I think. Is she still acting? I don't know.

I haven't checked in on her in a while. But she was in some movies that were. Didn't she go? Isn't she? She might. I think she. She got a little crazy. isn't she she might i think she got a little i think she had some trouble well we all have yeah we all go through some stuff but yeah i think she yeah it was like real like there's something crazy now all that was like the snl

for nickelodeon oh yeah for nickelodeon but that's where keenan started, right? Right. Yes. And the Amanda show. And actually, Taron, what's how you say it? Taron Killam? Yeah. You know what's crazy? He was on the Amanda show too. Which not. I think he was on Mad TV too.

Very young. So young. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's, you know. Yeah, I think if you blow up as a kid, it's, we were talking about that on the road. It's tough. think if you blow up as a kid it's we were talking about that on the road it's tough it's just i don't know how many situations it works where it's gonna be a great thing because

they were uh i mean because somebody they're either they have to get out of but they they're just gonna have a weird life it feels like would you allow your daughter to be in the entertainment industry? She's like, I want to be an actress. I mean, I mean, I mean, you know, she wanted to. I mean, you'd have to see. I just would want her to go through all the stuff that it takes. Has she ever brought that up to you? Like wanting to be in this industry? Not doing comedy, but, you know, I think she's very, you know, she makes up.

She'll do a song and a dance and have all these act outs. And, I mean, some of them I'm always like, how are you making this up? And she's making out every move and all this. And she's very creative, very funny, all that stuff. We tell her to do at school, go take, you know, go try to do that stuff. I mean, but it's the commitment. Would she, would they commit to it? You have to be obsessed with this.

If you're not obsessed and you're just kind of like saying like, no, this is what I want to be. And then you're like, well, we, you got to go to, you know, practice today. And you're like, I don't want to go to practice. I can already promise you it's not going to work. So it's, you gotta, you, you gotta have an obsession with it. She's obsessed with horses right now. And she has been for, since she was a baby. So, uh, our look, you know, old enough to know horses.

So Josh Peck. Yeah. Yeah. Josh Peck. He was on the Amanda show? Yeah. Yeah. And Drake Bell, the two guys from Drake and Josh. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, Josh Peck. He was on the Amanda show? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, and Drake Bell, the two guys from Drake and Josh.

Oh, yes. And then they created it. So this show was big. I mean, this was like you'd go to school and everyone would be quoting it. Wow. You know, from the night before. How old are you? I'm 32. Oh, yes.

I'm going to think about it. I just turned 32. That's why. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You pointed this. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

You put this out on a previous episode. You and Dusty born the same week and your children born the same week. Isn't that wild? Yeah. Whoa. That is. Of the same year? Yeah.

Yeah. The same, like the exact same week. That's how I knew that in the moment. It sounded really creepy because I didn't know, but you guys both had 40th birthday parties the same week. And I'm the only person here, probably cool enough to go to both. So probably the only person in Nashville that went,

yeah, it was cool enough to go to both. So anyway, I'm a cool guy, but anyway, that's how I knew. I'm a cool. And then his baby was born like two days after Rose.

I think so. Yeah. Or the next day. I don't remember. Very close. Code Nate. Wow, that's incredible. And then when you're done using that service,

then you can go to Rocket Money and have them go. I mean, yeah. That's a lot of stuff done. Clean up your whole life. Have you ever accidentally posted your personal information? You don't do a lot of personal story. You're on your Instagram stories like, hey, I'm at home with my family. You don't do a lot of that.

No. But I remember once we had a guy text me and Soder. And a guy texted, I think he texted me and Soder together and just said, hey, I'm just letting you know, your phone numbers are very easy to find. And then that was it. And then he goes, but it was actually like a very nice, like it really wasn't, he's like, I'm never texting you again. I'm not trying to.

He's like, and he was just kind of like, just heads up your numbers because your number will be linked to, up your your numbers because your number be linked to that's our stuff for anybody that's older than kind of the new age of social media like we were when you signed up for stuff you just linked i mean you'll be your social security number down on your myspace page like none of it mattered yeah and so you didn't do that's what with youtube videos even sometimes you have old videos up and you're like yeah because no one it didn't matter it. That's what with YouTube videos, even sometimes you have old videos up and you're like, yeah, cause no one, it didn't matter.

No one watched it. And then sometimes people are like, well, these videos are all the same. Like, yeah, cause no one watched any of them. Yeah.

And so now people are watching. So you don't think about it. Yeah. Did you post your stuff? Uh, yes, I have accidentally done that before. Um,

like mail with my address on it. Oh um now i'm very i have to check my husband's page is what it is because he'll just be flippantly out there in front of the house just with the address on the back and i'm just like take it down um but yes somebody did get my phone number one time and i don't respond to people that just leave me like a hi or something like that from a number I don't know. I'm like, what? No spam. Bye. And a lot of times I don't respond to if it's not programmed in my phone because I don't delete anybody's phone number.

So if I don't have you programmed, then I for real don't know you unless you got any numbers. So if you're texting me, then you have to lead with, it's me, I got a new number. Otherwise, you're not going to get a response from me. Anyways, this person messaged me. How you been? I don't respond to that. I don't know you. You're not programmed.

Months later, that same number texts me again. Another similar how you been type of thing. I'm like, I'm not responding to this person. And then like a couple months later, was very specific and was like angela uh i loved your new special when is your next one or something something that sounded familiar like it's probably an old friend yeah and maybe they did tell me they got a new number and i forgot to save it or something. And I'm like, okay, this feels a little more specific. So I reply and I go, I didn't program this number.

Who is this? And then they're like, you don't remember me? We met at such and such party. I don't go to a lot of parties. Okay. I already know you're lying now. Cause I'm like, no, we didn't. I would have never given you my phone number a lot of parties. Okay. I already know you're lying now. Cause I'm like, no,

we didn't. I would have never given you my phone number. First of all. And it was, then it starts turning to like, yeah, mommy, you don't remember.

We met at this party. You gave me your number. My first, I've been married for 12 years. I definitely didn't give you my number at a party. Then they started sending me nasty pictures. And then I'm like, Oh hell no. I for sure don't know this. And then I'm like, Oh hell no.

I for sure don't know this. And then it's like delete block, all the things. But I took the number and my friend had some sort of like software that is very like FBI type software or whatever. And did like a reverse search on that. Well, they started saying their name versus they were Googling their name.

And they were for sure using this fake name. And it was like a porn star or somebody. I'm like, that's not who's really texting me. This person is not somebody who's pretending to be that person. And they reversed the number and it went to some rando dude. And it was like in Ohio or something. And it was just one of those moments of like scary like somebody got a hold of my information and for months has been trying to reach me and text me and like sending me messages and finally was like specific enough to where i was like oh that's somebody i know okay who is this

oh hell it was like violating yeah it's crazy delete crazy. I hate it. Delete me. Delete me. It's for that. I have some random numbers. Sends me pictures of a tiger. I swear. It's just, I don't know whose number it is, but I have 10, 12 tiger pictures. But he likes it. He's like, send more.

Yeah. I don't know whose number. I don't. But it's just a tiger. Do you ever respond? No, I've never responded. And it's just always a picture of a tiger. Do you have a thread of just tigers? I love that.

Yeah, I have a thread of tigers. Is it like this guy is taking pictures of a tiger and sending them to you? Or is he finding pictures from the internet? It's pictures from the internet. But it's just of a tiger. And it's always a tiger. And he just sends sends it and i don't know who it is and i'm the worst because i'm always feel bad if i don't i'm like i'm probably supposed to have this person's number and i you know but you don't know i mean yeah i'll have people send up his text

and they text you but they don't have your they won't say who it is sometimes it could honestly be a famous person and they won't they who it is sometimes it could honestly be a famous person and they won't they say their name in it though and you're like yo dude i don't who i don't know where this is coming from or just an initial yeah uh weird yeah yeah like they're just texting something you're like now i gotta figure out who this person is or yeah whatever it is and yeah yeah people don't just say it's not never bad to go just throw your name back hey this is our end of it say the person's name say your name people just assume they just text what's interesting about that is my name is spelled

so uniquely right so if i ever i'm like i wonder if this is still so-and-so's number and i'm like hey janelle is this still your number i don't want to say it's me angela yeah because of the way my name is spelled because then if it's not their number and then somebody like happens to know who i am and there's not very many people who spell their name A-N-J-E-L-A-H. Yeah. You know what I mean? Then I'm like, okay, I'll just put like Ange or something. Hey, it's me, Ange, A-N-J.

At least that is a little like something. Like there's a little hint of who I am. Is this you? You should put A-N-G and put quotation marks around the G. And then they would get it. They would be like, ah, I know who this is.

You know, it's funny. That's how I spell Angela. The only way I would ever spell is your way. Oh, that's funny. Yeah,

just because I never, I'd only spell it her, Angela's way. You don't know any other Angelas? No, I do. I just, I don't know. He doesn't care. I don't, yeah. You don't know any other Angelas? No, I do. I just, I don't know.

It doesn't care. I don't, yeah. You don't spell their names ever. I don't spell their names. And I guess I've just said you're the Angela I've said the most. Thank you. So I'm a J. Angela guy. Yeah.

Did you have a favorite sketch show growing up? I loved both Saturday Night night live and mad tv because i loved stewart and miss swan those characters that i mentioned um and yeah i loved them both i didn't have like i was never team like rivalry like team saturday night live or like people who are mad tv fans are not saturday night life i was never that what about living color oh i loved in living color oh i definitely loved in living color forgot about that were they like or MadTV fans are not Saturday Night Live. I was never that. What about Living Color? Oh, I loved In Living Color. Oh, I definitely loved In Living Color. Were they like a

different type of person that would watch either show? Yeah. Okay. In what way? I would say... You know, I would be Saturday Night Live. Yeah, I would say Saturday Night Live looked like you and In Living Color looked like me. I mean, as I asked the question i was like oh boy i hope she

likes living color because if not i'm gonna get canceled i mean jim carrey yeah oh yeah he is crazy he's the exception but i'm no younger in living goes probably younger legend like jim carrey jamie foxx like yes younger i mean jennifer lopez started as you know what I mean legend like Jim Carrey Jamie Foxx like yes younger I mean Jennifer Lopez started as you know one of the fly girls in living color was yeah in living color is

crazy incredible one year for Halloween I wanted to be a fly girl for Halloween and I really I was just wearing like spandex with like a glittery headband and like

glitter on and I remember like going trick-or-treating they're like and what are you and I'm like I'm a fly I remember like going trick-or-treating and they're like, and what are you? And I'm like, I'm a fly girl. Yeah. Like, what is that? Yeah.

Yeah. That's crazy. And look, I had all those people. Yeah. I've shared this before, but I think it's worth sharing again because it's very interesting. They changed the NFL,

the Super Bowl halftime show. Super Bowl halftime show used to just be something very generic. One year it was the Disney characters doing a halftime show used to just be something very generic um one year it was the disney characters doing a halftime thing and in living color at halftime there was a separate network of the super bowl they did a live show and people turned away from the super bowl at halftime to watch in living color and it took away viewers to the point where the next year the super bowl book michael jackson is their halftime wow and ever since then it's been a huge deal that's incredible yeah what a great story michael jackson sharing it again he was a big deal he was pretty big i

have heard of him yeah pretty big have you ever seen michael jackson in person i went to his house really yeah did you win this was neverland ranch yes i went to never house. Really? Yeah. Did you really? This was. Neverland Ranch? Yes. I went to Neverland Ranch for his birthday party. What? Listen, this is a wild, wild story. I must start from the beginning.

I had just moved to Hollywood. I was a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders. So I had an in to get in places, right? It was just like my one little card I could flash anyway. So one of my girlfriends was in a music video and the artist that she was in the video for was throwing a concert. And so we went to the concert and we were backstage. We were total groupies. I was full on groupie mode. So we're backstage and, um, there's a guy there. We meet him and he's like, yeah, I'm a producer. And I had remembered a friend told me if you ever meet somebody in Hollywood, they say their producer, it's a big fat lie. Don't even, everybody says their producer

don't even fall for it. So they're like, if they're, they say, give me your information, our producer don't do it. And I'm like, okay, noted. And then, so I meet this guy and he's like, um, you know, are you guys dancers? And we're like, yeah, we're all dancers. Cause I mean, we were, but it was just like, yeah, we're dancers. And he's like, okay, well I'm throwing a birthday party and I need some go-go dancers at this party. Let me get your information. I'm a producer. I'm producing this live event.

Let me get your information. I was like, yeah, sure. So I give him my phone number and we're like, okay, cool. And, um, he calls me like a few days later and he is like, hey, so I need six girls. He didn't say girls. Keep that in mind. He said, I need six dancers. And it's for a birthday party and it's next weekend.

Can you get me six dancers? I was like, yeah, I got you. And he's like, OK, cool. Oh, by the way, it's at Neverland Ranch. It's for Michael Jackson's birthday. Wow. And I was like, shut up. Yeah. OK. like okay cool oh by the way it's at neverland ranch it's for michael jackson's birthday wow and i was like shut up no way yeah okay sure i get six dancers got you i hang with the phone now that i know it's michael jackson's house i did not try to get six dancers i called six of

my friends and i was like do you want to be a go-go dancer so and i didn't even call girls i called my homies i was like i called chuck chuck is a real dancer harry who's a real dancer harry shum who's actually a very famous actor now and like has blown up like crazy but um we we were all dancers who do commercials and like music videos and stuff like that and so i called like i'm like chuck you want to go michael jackson's house harry you want to go michael jackson's house i call my friend dj ngv she's not even professionally dancing she's just like good at dancing i'm like girl you want to go michael jackson's house i just called my friends yeah so a bunch of us got together and we went to the radio station and there was a charter bus at the radio station um i think it was like kiss fm

or something and we load into this charter bus and they drive us out to Neverland Ranch and we get there and they're like, you can't bring in cameras or anything. This is before cell phone cameras, right? So like you can't bring cameras or anything like that. Leave all your stuff in the car. So we, in the bus, so we get out and there's like the arch way, these gates and you go through and the first thing you see is a train stop and you're waiting in the train depot. This is on Neverland Ranch. While you're waiting in this little train depot, they have like ice cream and like goodies. So like you get an ice cream and then you hop on this little train and the train takes you all the way to Neverland Ranch.

Right. So you're just eating your ice cream on a train going to Neverland Ranch. And it's like huge. Yes. It's like a huge property. And so like you see, and then you see Michael Jackson's house is like right there. Like, whoa, that's his house. Yeah.

Like right there. And then right behind it was his kid's playhouse, which is like a house that's like equally as big, but it's just the playhouse. Yeah. And then we go to the ranch. We go see the games. There's like a, just like when you go to an amusement park and they have rides, the Ferris wheel, they had a movie theater, like a full movie theater with concession stand and everything. And I remember going into this movie theater and all the concession was free.

So they gave me like this big bucket for popcorn, but filled it up with like king size candies of everything. You really were like a kid. Yeah. And it's very interesting. Anyway, they had this big, huge tent out there, like an event tent. And you go in, they have a DJ and they had go-go dancers that were dancing on the boxes and stuff. And we walk in and the guy who booked us, he goes, oh, I guess they already booked dancers. Well, just enjoy yourselves. Oh, wow. So we didn't even dance or anything.

We literally were just at Michael Jackson's birthday party. Wow. Just walking around. And I remember at one point there was, there's security guards at like every corner. And there was this like group of people that started congregating around this one area. And so I go up to this security guard and I'm like, what's happening over here? And he goes, just stand by me. And I'm like, what?

He goes, just stand by me. I'm like what he goes just stand by me i'm like okay and i go angie come here and she's like what i'm like just stand by me and he's like what's going on i'm like i don't know but something's about to go down so we're standing by the security guard there's a bunch of people congregating all of a sudden next thing you know the dj announces ladies and gentlemen please welcome the birthday boy himself, Michael Jackson. And he comes walking out of this door and walks right in front of us. And we became like those girls in the documentaries that just start crying when they see Michael Jackson. Like we became them.

He walks past us and we're like, oh, my God. We're like reaching for him. We're shaking. We're crying. We're looking at each other like, why are we crying? I'm like, I don't know. We're shaking. We're crying. We're looking at each other like, why are we crying? It was wild. The most wild experience. I remember like going into his kids like playhouse and just like looking at his kids drawings on there. And I'm like, this feels violating. Like I should not be in this playhouse. And like, it was just the weirdest thing being at Michael Jackson's house. And then after the party's done, we load up onto the bus and we ride back to LA and we're

like, what just happened? Were there other celebrities there? So that's the thing is there weren't that many celebrities. I think earlier in the day, there was like a big event because I remember seeing like in like People Magazine or Us Weekly or one of those like tabloid magazines. They had pictures from Michael Jackson's birthday party and it was like a daytime event yeah at at the thing and there was all kind of celebrities that were there and then for the party there wasn't that many people left like there was a couple people that are like

oh i've seen that guy on tv oh but no it wasn't like leonardo dicaprio was there or something like that um but yeah it was the most wild. I had just moved to Hollywood like maybe six months. I just got there. I was like, this is my life now? It's wild. Did you ever get medium or you never really get close enough? No, that was it.

How many people were there? Like a thousand? No, maybe a couple hundred. Oh, wow. Was the rest of the night just mingling or was it orchestrated? Dancing. It was just dancing, food, music. Did he speak or anything?

I think he did like a thank you. Everybody's saying happy birthday and he did like a thank you guys for coming. Have fun, blah, blah, blah. And that was it. How old was he then? I don't know. I don't remember. It was 2003 though.

Okay. He was probably around 20 years ago. Yeah. Okay. He was probably around 50. 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah, he was born in 58. Look up his birthday party and see if they have images from his birthday party in 2003. He was 45 at the time. 45.

Oh, he's my age. Yeah. Okay. Yes, I don't know. I'll look for some pictures. Nate that thank you yeah so this was michael jackson this is the party since 2003 yeah who knows i mean well he looks good yeah does any of that look familiar angela i I do remember him wearing white. Yeah. There you are. Oh my God, they caught me.

No, I don't think that's it. That looks like a charity event or something. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's a guy that's like probably been thrown for his every birthday. He probably got thrown 12 parties. Right. The town, this town would like to throw you this party.

You know, man man that's crazy never even thought to google images from that day yeah i'm gonna do that when i talked about it i wrote about it in my book oh yeah i tried telling it on stage this story that i just told but i couldn't ever crack it because there's so many details. I can give you the abridged version. There's so many details to this story that make you go like, no way. Like, and then this led to this and no way. And then this, oh my gosh. And on stage, it just, it took too long.

You got to cut the fat. Yeah. And I couldn't do it. And I was like, but if I cut the fat, you don't really get like how big this moment was and everything. And so it didn't work. And I was like, I'm going to save this for a book one day. And so I when I wrote my book, I added it in there. Yeah. Yeah.

That's such a. Yeah. I mean, to see that big of a star. I mean, it's like one of those friends people ever. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. And be it. And Neverland Ranch. Twenty seven hundred. Mm-hmm. And never laying ranch.

It's 2,700 acres. God. So big. Where was that? Santa Barbara. Oh. I think Santa Barbara. I think so.

So you just drive up there? Mm-hmm. Chartered a bus. That's the guy from the radio. That might be, looks like a radio station party. Yeah. I don't know. All right.

I'm going to share some stuff about the Saturday Night Live that I thought was very interesting that I never learned. So the reason Saturday Night Live even started is because NBC affiliates at 1130 Eastern on Saturday nights were running Johnny Carson reruns. It was one of the episodes that had aired earlier in the week, but Johnny wanted to stop, start, stop working so much. He wanted to take a night off during the week and rerun that episode there. So he was like,

you got to find something else for Saturday night, 1130. So the NBC president went to Lorne Michaels, who I think maybe was 29 years old, something like that at the time, super, super young, and said, can you come up with a show? There was already a show called Saturday Night Live that had just started on ABC. No way. Hosted by Howard Cosell. Wow. Do you know who Howard Cosell is? He's this old sports announcer that did Monday Night Football,

the last person you would think that would be hosting a show called Saturday Night Live. And it was one of the worst shows in television history. Yeah. That guy right there. Yeah. He did like the Muhammad Ali fight, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Like he would do those big, you know, he was just the biggest name ever. Was that you just saying that? It was one of the worst shows of all time? It was my same birthday. That's what I read. I didn't see it myself, but it got canceled. He was born March 25th.

How about that? Same birthday. 1918. So that means NOAA was 118 years old. Yep. Yep.

So they couldn't call Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live because there was already a Saturday Night Live. So when it first started, it was called call Saturday Night Live Saturday Night Live Because there was already A Saturday Night Live So when it first started It was called NBC Saturday Night

Which I never knew But then they would say Live from New York It's Saturday Night Instead of saying It's Saturday Night Live Which I never even Thought about

And the Howard Cosell show Because it It aired during primetime They were called The Primetime Players So On SNL They were called The prime time players so on snl they were called the not ready for prime time players oh yeah so i don't know i thought that was interesting that's cool it was good and they still have all that stuff too yeah yeah i mean

that's still all that now the howard cosale serenade live version did not last very long but he has a sketch show yeah yeah but it was apparently terrible it had bill murray um ryan dole murray who i didn't i had no idea that was his bill murray's brother but he's been in a ton of stuff christopher guest so they had some big people wow but it just didn't last very long nate how did it feel saying the slogan like saturday night live yeah yeah the uh the live i didn't say it you didn't you know no i didn't realize it either till that thing but it's always a cast member oh okay because i i never realized that because i thought oh maybe like you know because their first sketches because i said

i don't want to be do anything politics so the first sketch usually is topical or politics so then i was like oh i don't even now get a chance to say it's like, but I didn't realize it was, it's always a cast member. Oh, it's never a guest. Uh, it's been a guest a few times,

but it's, if it's a guest, it's, you know, it was like Alec Baldwin playing Trump. Like someone that's been on the show a million times. Even his episode, uh,

Christopher Walken was the one that said it. Yes. Oh, he did. Yeah. Okay. That's cool though but yeah i would have been so nervous i'm like oh my god this is the one part i cannot mess up well yeah i mean yeah it was almost once you realize it's like not you're never no one's

saying it you're like it's kind of relief like you're like okay well then i you know because otherwise you're just you know you're like well did I do something? Why are they not letting me say it? Like, you know, it could be a million things, but then you're like, no, no, no. And I think I like it that they, it's for, it's reserved for the cast. I like that too. You know, it really makes it. Special. Yeah.

About the cast. Yeah. You know, James Austin Johnson, our friend who's from here, he was playing Biden and Trump in his very first episode ever as a cast member. He was in the very first scene, the cold open. He came out as Biden and got to say live from New York in his very first episode, very first scene. That's got to be crazy. I know. And then maybe your episode was the first one where they switched it to Mikey Day playing Biden.

It was. And the reason I read, which makes sense, it's going to be Trump and Biden again. Yeah, they're gearing up for it. They can't play both. That makes sense. And he's a great Biden, but James is a really great Trump. Yeah. So that's why they switched it.

Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. That's interesting. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they officially said that. So that's why they switched it. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. That's interesting. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they officially said that, but that's what I read. And that does seem to make sense. Yeah. So.

That does make sense. Yeah. Lorne Michaels is one of the most impressive people I've ever met. I mean, really crazy. Did you get to have a conversation with him? No, yeah. Like a real conversation? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, that's great. And I mean, he makes you feel like a star like he makes you feel like you know uh just i mean man that guy's done everything you do a dinner you do i mean it's just he's such a brilliant dude he's there he's around he's you know you see the the the cast will go up and talk to him at the after party. And, you know, I don't think no one feels it's the it's the perfect amount of respect and like accessibility where I think no one. I mean, I'm sure people do take advantage of his time, but it feels like the people that would be close to the show. It's it's like, well, if I need to go say something, I think I can feel like I can go talk to him,

but you're not going to just go for no reason talk to him. And that's why you see all the old cast members, them being around him, they really gravitate towards him. And he's just like a father almost to so many people. Yeah. A lot of people's careers. Wow. This guy was the guy that you would go to and ask for a lot of stuff.

That's very cool. His advice and all that. Yeah. It's only been delayed maybe three times ever. One of them was the game six of the 1986 World Series. That's the famous Bill Buckner game. It went to extra innings, and it was delayed a couple hours starting. Jennifer Lopez hosted once, and there was an XFL game going on.

XFL had just started. The game went long, and they didn't tell her that this isn't going out live. They went ahead and did it starting at 1130, but it was actually 45 minutes late. But Lorne Michaels was so mad about it that he went to NBC. The XFL changed their rules just to accommodate him as far as the length of the game. And they agreed if the game's never over, they're just switching to Saturday Night Live no matter what.

And then the third time was just three years ago when Dave Chappelle hosted the first episode after the 2020 election in the Clemson-Notre Dame football game went to double overtime. It started a little late.

So. What time is it? Oh. We can wrap it up. We can wrap it up. 6.45. I gotta go feed my daughter. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. I was like, wait a minute. Hold on. My boobs are telling me I need to feed an infant. Hold on.

What time is it? We've all been there. You go, Angela, you don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, we're good. That's a legit,

that's a real reason. It's the only reason we've ever had. Yeah. Someone to leave. Really? Yeah, most times people just leave. Most times Nate just asked me to leave and we know it's time to wrap it up.

You can just tell by time, like you just, your body just like, you can just guess what time it is it up. You can just tell by time, like you just, your body just like, you can just guess what time it is. Yeah. That's why I was like, hold on. Time check, please. Yeah.

All right. Well, we really enjoyed obviously. Yeah. People have been asking forever for you to be on. So we're so thrilled you finally could do it. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Yeah.

It's the first episode of the new year. First episode of the happy new year, everybody. Happy new year. for having me. It's the first episode of the new year. First episode of the happy new year, everybody. Happy new year. Happy new year. How's your year going? How's your year? How's your year going?

Do you have, what do you have? You have your movie Candy Lane's out. Yeah, Candy Lane. And you'll be on tour. My hour special on YouTube is called Say I Won't.

Check that out. Share with all your friends. And your tour. You're on the road. I'm on the road. So come see me. Go to my website, Angela.com and Check that out. Share with all your friends. And your tour. You're on the road. I'm on the road. So come see me. Go to my website, Angela.com, and come see me. Yeah.

This weekend, I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Looney Bin, January 4th through 6th. I just opened for Angela in Tulsa at Hard Rock Casino, and she introduces me from the side of the stage. She said, what do you want me to say? And I said, tell them I'm at the Looney bin January four through six. And she said, they ain't gonna remember that. I'm just going to say good friend of mine, Brian. Go see his website. So now I'm letting y'all know I'm at Looney bin January four through six.

She said, they ain't gonna remember all that. Just going out there. I'm in Columbus, Ohio at the funny bone this weekend, then St. Paul, Minnesota next weekend, and then Dayton, Ohio the next weekend. That's my January. Alright, well I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas and

Happy New Year in 2024. Here we are. Alright, we love you. See you next week. Bye. nateland is produced by nateland productions and by me nate bargetzi and my wife laura on the audio boom platform recording and editing for the show is done by genovations media thanks for tuning in be sure to catch us next week on the nateland podcast