The Nateland Podcast - 242: #242 A Special Night (and A Little Friendship) with Nic Novicki

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

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Hello folks and hey bear. Welcome to the Nate Land podcast. I'm Nate Barghetti, Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, filling in fory, who couldn't make it today. Nick Novicki. Nick Novicki. Let me tell you, we saw the sunrise at Liza's. Manelli? No.

We have, we brought Nick in. We had a fun, we're going to get to it, tell some funny stories this weekend. Me and Nick, we're in California and we went to the Vanny Fair party, another party. Came straight here. Yeah, yeah, came straight here. We really have both slept about an hour and a half. So we're, I feel like people with this, you know, I

know it feels like we're doing a lot of celebrity talk recently and they make me feel bad like, you know, but I flew back here to do this. If I didn't, you know, it's like how about you give me some credit for... Slumming it with the regular folks back at the punk. Well, but I mean, I'm not slumming it, but it's like, I'm not just blowing off. Of course. You know, coming back cause we're just trying to be fun. He was flown back here by Tom Cruise in a fighter jet.

Yeah. In a fighter got by real quick. We went right over, we went around Nick's Southwest flight. So, uh, a couple of things, Dusty, uh, taped a special this week. Uh, and, uh, it went great. You spoke to him. Yeah, dude, he was pumped with it. It thinks it's going to come out great.

It wants to thank everybody who came out. The shows were awesome. Excited to see that dude. Awesome. Uh, also we have a, our announcement, Nick Thune. Nick Thune has a brand new half hour special from Nate land called born young. It will premiere on Nate land this Friday, March 7th. This Friday, March 7th, we got the poster up right there.

It's a super fun one. So it's great. I've been around Nick forever and he killed it. And it's just, Nick's, you know, Nick's, he's very, he's different, which is a, but in the best way. Yeah. Totally. It's its own thing. And you can tell even from the trailer, which is great, which is the best way. Yeah. Totally. It's its own thing. And you can tell even from the trailer, which is great,

which is up now, if you want to get a feel for it, it's just, it's going to be a different vibe from some of the Nate Land stuff that you've seen so far. Oh, I love it. All right. So before we get into, you know, our whole shebang, I feel like, I do feel, I think I heard something that it was like people,

cause it sounds like we're named, this might be an episode of name dropping too. We're just saying that these people here, but I don't know, I don't worship people. Like it just, I think it's fun for us. We are not in that world. It would be more arrogant not to mention it. To me, you're sharing it like a guy

Can you believe this? I got old hickory is hanging out with these people. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy If it gets normal, that's when you've got a problem. Yeah, that's what I think. I'll let you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, let me know. I was at dinner with Obama's But I think you guys were somewhere that, you know, was probably, I could imagine not being a name drop. Yeah. Saturday I did a show in Orlando, Florida for an organization called New Canaan Society. And it was great.

Our buddy, Greg Warren was also in Orlando and he picked me up at the airport. Oh, how about that? We went to lunch. Oh, that's fun. I bet he didn't know what he was getting himself in for. He did not. He did not.

I mean, his hotel was right by the airport. Mine was on the other side of Disney World. Of course. It took an hour to get me there. And I said, I'll buy your lunch. And he's like, yeah, you will. And then, uh, you got to bring me to Tampa. Yeah, basically, basically. And then we get there and our server's kind of slow and he gets up mid conversation. I'm physically just service. Okay. And I'm in mid-Centus telling a story I thought was interesting. And Greg just gets up from the table and goes and finds our server and comes back and I'm

like, all right, I'll pay. And he's like, I got it, man. I'm good. Pay for my mail as well. Wow. And I was like, I'll get the toll on the way back. But my wallet was in the bag. He got the toll.

So yeah, he got the full base experience. Greg's the best though. He's so fun. And then flew home Sunday morning. Yesterday I did a- Cause you had time to waste at the restaurant cause you were next to your hotel. Yeah. And he's like, he's got an hour drive back to get ready and then go back to the club.

He may not made his show. Yeah. He might not have got to go shower. He just had to get straight to the club. What time was this? Like three, four? Uh, no, it was earlier than that, but the truth is he has a good college buddy that lives in Orlando. He was going to go see, uh, and you kind of ruined that. I definitely cut it short. That's for sure. Yeah. That's for sure. Because I'm going to drive by and say, what's up to you?

Did you reach out to him? Yeah. I mean, he just, you called, he's just there. No, you didn't ask him for a ride. No. I know, but you said, let's meet up. I just said, let's get together. I know, but he, you were there for 24 hours.

You could just come in. Greg Warren's in Orlando just once a weekend with his buddy from college. Bates helicopters in and then calls him and goes, Hey, you want to run all my errands for me? Yeah. He wind and dine you. Yeah, exactly. That is a funny, when you go, when you're like, you know, you're not, you're not mad. You're like happy to go BNC and some have been just kind of unravels, unravels.

And then you're just like, dude, I, I didn't even really wanted to do anything, you know? And not that you didn't, but then almost everybody probably feels that way. You're, you know, he drops you off one second to your hotel and then just sits in Disney traffic. It's such a cool thing though. When you're in a city, you look at the other clubs, the other venues, you see who else is here and then you're like, awesome buddy, I know. Yeah. Like it is a cool thing.

I think we had a good time. No. Yeah. I think what, what day was it? Saturday? Saturday. Big show night. It's not, you know, it's not Thursday.

It's not where it's one show. It's not, you know, it's not Thursday. It's not where it's one show. It's not a Sunday where you're basically like bored. I mean, it's a, you know, it's the thick of it. Yeah, just one show too. Yeah. Yeah. I had to do 30 minutes. Yeah, so much time.

In my hotel, basically. Just walked down, did it, and went back up. Called Greg Warren, why don't you come get me? Yeah, I told him that. I told him, I said, pick me up in the morning, take me to the airport. He's like, I am not. But that was great. And then I flew home for the first time ever on Spirit Airlines.

Okay. You guys ever done Spirit? I have done it before. I think you're going backwards, my friend. I think you're correct. I got upgraded the last time, like to Vegas. I was in like a first class. They have like... Of Spirit?

Yeah. Just, and I had a ticket. What did they, did they let you sit inside the plane? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was the cheapest ticket. So if you, you know, pay for the cheapest version, you don't get your seat assignment until the very end. Well, the first class was open.

So I ended up in the best seat. Oh, wow. Is it a real first class? Or is it? It was not, I mean, I got like- It's like a big comfy seat. But they were bringing me things and it was- And in the back of the plane was just cages and roosters and chickens all jammed up in

there and just fights, just, I I mean full on street fights going down and then Nick's like I'll take a Can I get a Diet Coke No ice The flight itself was fine. But when we got back to Nashville, I feel like the airport didn't treat us as well Like didn't give us good service because we're spirit We had a set on the tarmac forever before we could get a gate. And I'm looking out the window like, I know we were here before that Delta flight. I think they purposely just like, Spirit, sorry. Then once we get off the plane, you have to get on a shuttle bus. It drives you across the tarmac to another.

I've never done that. Oh yeah, that once. It happens to LAX too. Spirit is like, every airline is like, hey, we're above. I feel like Spirit doesn't call ahead and let them know we're coming. So they land and then they go, all right, we'll try to find a spot to park real quick. I would bet the pilots of Spirit don't know where they're going until they back out. Yeah. And then they go, oh, all right. Where are we going?

Yeah. And they land. You see their phone on the dash? And then they got to look at it. They could make Spirit, they go, look, you can park, going? Yeah. And they land. You see their phone on the dash. And then they got to look. They could make spirit. They go, look, you can park, but you got to look for it. They go, what gate are we going to land at? You go, come on, pal. We don't know the gate we're going to be at.

We're going to find it. But we're squeezing there. I think this guy's leaving. Squeezing. That David Spade joke. I thought of when I was on the plane. This Spade joke's so great. The guy's, he goes, we drove around looking for parking.

The pilot. You followed, like followed a guy to a spot. He goes, we saw a guy and he was walking to his plane. We were like, all right, he's probably leaving. We followed him there, but he just forgot his keys. So then we had a circle back around. Yeah. That's, you know, Spirit was no plane crashes. They, they post that like, because

after, you know, just the horrible plane stuff, Spirit's like, I mean, like whatever, you know, it's like, actually met someone too, whose brother was a pilot at Spirit. And it seems like a place that they were like, look, they love working. He loves working there. He loves the people he works with. I know it's looked at as this other airline, but it's kind of almost probably what Southwest kind of was.

Southwest used to be the cheap bargain airport, and they're a little bit more now. I just booked a Spirit flight from Detroit to Nashville, and it was listed at $44. And then once you go on. Yeah, you gotta get. Carry on fee. Carry on, you can't, yeah, carry on fee and assigned seat.

So after I chose those, it was $88. Still cheap. Oh, that's insane. So after I chose those, it was $88. Still cheap. That's insane. I know. Yeah. I know. But yeah, you're going to check a bag too. I'm not checking a bag.

But I mean, the total was $88. Do you want a water? That'll be another 20. Yeah. But I don't, I mean, that's crazy though. 88 bucks. Just bring your own water. I mean, well, I'd have to buy it at the airport, but yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you, that counts as your carry-on though. No, you could bring a it at the airport, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you, that counts as your carry on though. No, you could bring a, a metal one and fill up. Yeah, that's true. That's true. So you could do $88 is crazy. Even if it was $130. That's crazy to go to Detroit. Yeah. So you, so you break even for your gig. And you break even for your gig. You're right.

Nothing about that. Um, and then, so that was yesterday. And then I did a, uh, lunch and a birthday party for a 90 year old lady. Hmm. Oh, all right. That was a lot of fun. Yeah. Uh, yeah, it was great. It was at the Loveless Cafe.

And it's, we got a great table here of covering all types of show business. We sure did. We really do. It's like, I mean, that alone should be just worth it for this podcast to go, we show you everything. Yeah. What kind of, if you're a young comic, what gig do you want to hear about? Because we're going to tell you about everyone. We'll cover it all.

All of them. I have done every kind of show business gig. I have too. That's why I love talking about comedy. Cause I, uh, I've done, I've done parties, I've done birthday parties. I've done, I've done everything. I've been dressed as Elvis. I've been the devil.

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I had. Saw a picture of him surfing. Yeah. In Spokane. I was in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma comedy club, and then Spokane comedy club, two great clubs, two really, really good clubs. Uh, almost all the shows were sold out. It was like just a hot weekend. One of those, one of those weekends we talked about, we were like, everything

just kind of going great. Yeah. Um, the drive from Tacoma to Spokane is one of those weekends we talked about, we were like, everything's just kind of going great. Yeah. Um, the drive from Tacoma to Spokane is one of the most beautiful drives I've ever made in my life through Washington. It was like unbelievable. Um, so great weekend. And then Sunday night I do the show. I go back to my hotel room.

I go to bed two hours later. I wake up top two or three sick as I've ever been in my life. Came out of nowhere. I'm on the floor of the bathroom. Called 911 on myself. Wow. Called 911 on myself. Yeah.

Help. And I just said, just come get me. I don't know what else to tell you. I'm on the bathroom floor, come get me. So they came and got me. Ambulance ride. Yeah, rode an ambulance. Oh my gosh.

I mean, it was that. TMZ has a video. Yeah. It was. What did you, did you stay on the floor till they came in there? By the time they got there, I was sitting on the bed. But I was on the floor for a long time.

He drove the ambulance, actually. A long time. At least I'll get another guy. Were you dressed? Yeah. Yeah, I had, I had sweats on a t-shirt. And they had to bring a gurney all the way. Oh yeah. They came up and got me. I rode down on a stretcher and down the elevator. Could you get on the stretcher? Or did they have to help you

on? I could crawl on. I was, when I called, what I was worried about was I felt like I was about to pass out Yeah, and I was worried I was gonna pass out and then keep throwing up because the throw up I mean the vomit was insane Yeah, and it kept coming and I'm lightheaded and I was delirious enough I was like did I get poisoned like this is out of nowhere So like I don't know but I don't want to pass out and die on the bathroom floor in Spokane.

So you figure I'll do it in the bed? So I figure I'll do it at a hospital. Yeah. Like a gentleman. Like a gentleman. Yeah. So it brought me to the ER. I spent six or seven hours just in the hallway.

There wasn't a room for me just on a hospital bed. They got me IVs and nauseam ends. I had my phone. The texts to my wife were hilarious. Like looking back. Cause I did not have the wherewithal to like even have a conversation with anybody. So I texted my wife at like 2 AM, Hey, I had a 5 AM flight. So at like 2 AM I go, Hey, I think I'm gonna have to push the flight back a little bit.

Just a heads up. Hadn't been home for four or five days. Babies at home. Uh, and then my next text is, uh, at like 7 AM I just texted, I'm fine. And Lucy's like, well, the ER just called. I don't think you're fine. Yeah. I like, couldn't even.

So, and then I'm sitting there thinking, I'm like, well, my rental car is now late. I don't have a hotel room the next night. I miss my flight. Everything's just piling up. It's just a nightmare. Maybe just have to live there. And then here's the craziest part was, you know, they take it to the ER and the ambulance.

Great. And then when you're discharged, they're just like, good luck. So it's like 6.37 in the morning. Monday morning. Monday morning. Monday morning. I'm in Spokane. It's cold. I have t-shirt sweatshirt on and they're like, good luck.

So I'm like so out of it. I like Google. I'm about two miles from the hotel. So I'm like, I guess I'll just walk back to the hotel. So I pull up Uber, Spokane on a Monday morning. There's nothing. There's no cars. So I start walking and then I go, let me just send a call out on Uber.

I call it dude. Within like three seconds, car just pulls up, picks me up. I think it was an angel. I really don't. I mean, the guy came out of nowhere, gave me a ride back. Um, I want to thank that guy. What do you mean send a call out? Like I just go request an Uber, even though there's none.

It says none in the air, but I just requested it. Oh, you can do that. And the guy, the guy came out of nowhere and got me. It was got a $2 Uber ride for him. There's no point of him doing that. Yeah. Uh, but he picked me up and brought me back. And then I had to stay in Spokane an extra day. It was just such a great weekend. He's got a $2 Uber ride for him. There's no point of him doing that. Yeah. Uh, but he picked me up and brought me back.

And then I had to stay in Spokane an extra day. It was just such a great weekend. And then it was just such a tough, tough weekend. It was late in the hotel bed, uh, throwing up. And anyway, I'm good now. It took me a long time to get back. Even when I, by the time I got home, I told Lucy, I just got to lay in bed for a day. I can't, I can't do anything. Couldn't answer emails. I missed all kinds of

stuff. Yeah. Meetings. I just didn't show up for, I was supposed to be on today in Nashville. Just didn't go. Cause I just wasn't even thinking about it. So I'm all good now, but it was, it was wild. That's the most sick I've been on the road for sure. Yeah. Where you're like, dude, I'm on the other side of the country right now. Yeah. Do you have a direct flight home? No, not from Spokane. I had to go southwest to Dender.

And then, so I flew out the next morning, still feeling like crap. Did you throw up on the plane? Not on the plane. I was done throwing up by then. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got it all out, dude. Yeah. I got everything out.

But then they're around that planes now. Yeah. Pretty big trouble. Super spreader. No, I masked up on the plane. Oh really? Yeah, they told me to. They were like, if you-

The hospital? They go, yeah, they're like, you can fly home tomorrow. I would just wear a mask just for like, it's like just a nice thing to do. I'll be honest, I wish you had a mask on right now being next to you. I'm so fine now. I'm not, he even told me, they like, you're not, you're not contagious right

now, but just like, if you don't want to be feeling like you're breathing on people, whatever, I'm good now though. But yeah, man, thank you to everybody who came to the shows. It was just such a whiplash from the shows were great to like three hours later, I'm on the floor of the bathroom, feel like I'm going to die. You know? Well, that's what, you know, it's welcome to the road, baby. It's so funny, like comedy. Have you ever been in an ambulance before? No.

And I, no, I don't, I've definitely never, no. Yeah. I was thinking maybe I rode with somebody, but I've never been in an ambulance. You broke your back, right? Yeah, but I just got, I think my dad drove me to, but, uh, call 911 on yourself is kind of funny. Yeah.

Just like you come get me. Well, the good thing, this is a comic you gotta think you're going to get some pretty good stuff. I've been thinking about it. Yeah. That's the best part. When you're like, all right, it might be a fun little story. You look back on it.

Uh, yeah, I was trying to think. I've been, I've been sick and it's, uh, I want my voice was gone real bad once in Louisville or either. Yeah. It was like insane. Uh, sounded like this. Yeah. Sounded like this, uh, worse than this, but it was, yeah, I'm trying to think of any,

like, uh, I've gotten sick on the road. I'm trying to, I'm blanking on. I'm trying to think of any, like, I've gotten sick on the road. I'm trying to, I'm blanking on. I got sick once with you in Salt Lake City. Oh yeah. Yeah. I got, I got real sick in Colorado. I ate like some kind of fish. I was out. Oh yeah. Food poisoning? Yeah.

Oh man. With me. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't eat it? It was just, just me? No, it was just me. My stomach can handle it. It was trout and everybody was calling me big trout.

Come on, big trout's coming in. I would never eat it again. Trout again? No, I'm never gonna. You think so? I would never eat it. Last night, the thing you get on the thing was trout. All right. Well, uh, all right.

A little lighter news. You had a different weekend? Sorry. You jumped in with it. You should have told us like, I got a story about me dying. Given your own section. Yeah. A memorial section. Memorial section. uh, given your own section, a memoriam section, but you deliver it.

So they're like, well, he's alive. I know, but he felt like he died. So we were in, uh, I was at the Irvine improv this weekend. Great. Amazing club, great crowd. Uh, Very cool. So we were at Irvine Improv this weekend and I was already going over Irvine Improv and then I got invited to the Vanity Fair Oscars party. You know, it's their big, big event. And since I was

in Irvine, I was like, all right, I was like, what would you get on the show and drive straight there and go? Uh, the, the whole weekend, we had a fun weekend with, we went to, uh, we went to Knott's Berry Farms. You know who the mascot is in Knott's Berry Farms? I don't know what Knott's Berry Farms is. Is it like Pepperidge Farms? No, it's like a theme. Food. Yeah, that's the goldfish.

Yeah. What is Knott's Berry Farms? Uh, it's a theme park. Yeah. Yeah, that's the goldfish. What is Knott's Berry Forest? I don't know either. It's a theme park. Oh, I never heard of it. Yeah, that's fun. It's where Steve Martin started. Yeah, Steve Martin did magic at a theme park.

When he was like 14, he started in that park. Their mascot is Snoopy and all the Charlie Brown people. Woodstock. Yeah. Peanuts the Charlie Brown people. Okay. Yeah. Woodstock and peanuts. Peanuts. Yeah. Which is kind of, isn't that kind of a lower energy cartoon?

Kind of. Yeah. It's a little more your, your speed. Is that what you're getting at? I mean that, but it's like a little more sadder. It's like, it's kind of, it's not always. Yeah. It's not Wee the Pooh, but it's not, yeah. Yeah. It's like a little more sadder. It's like, it's kind of, it's not always... Yeah, it's not Wee the Pooh, but it's not... Yeah.

Yeah, it's not like... It's not a happy. That Linus music's pretty upbeat. Oh yeah. Yeah, but Charlie Brown is like a tragic character. Can you do the rest of it, Nick? I don't think you can. That was all I... I didn't think I was going to get called out. Yeah. You don't get called out. Yeah. You don't even know it. Yeah. What was that? You kind of, everyone felt it.

You don't even know it at all. Everybody felt it. So they got a little thing. It's this cool theme park. It's right next to Disneyland, which is brutal. It's been around forever. but I mean, it's next door to Disneyland. So, but you know, there's a lot of people in there. So we go in there, just go walk around, check it out. Trynna think of any, we rode some rides. Nick, so Nick.

I saw one of you on the ride. Yeah. Here it is right here. We had a good time. We got on the roller coaster. Yeah, so this ride, fun little roller coaster. So what Nick does is you can get, you know, Nick's always working. He's always working, but he can get a pass where he can skip the lines. Yeah.

But then that line for the guest pass was pretty long. Yeah. And I still said, well, go, I go, that's the ultimate. If you can get in front of... And does he get to bring y'all with him too? Yeah. But if he gets the guest pass, if he could get that guest pass in front of the guest service line, so everybody there needs

that pass, I was like, that's the ultimate if you get in front of them. And he went over there and he came back and he goes, a little too many canes. And he felt bad about that. So he doesn't do it. And then we go, we're just kind of walk around, just kind of wasting the day, not going nuts at this park.

So we go through and Nick goes to ride one ride with Travis and his son. And so they go do this ride. And so Nick goes up and he's just like, look, I think I can get us in. This is what he does. So we go into the one entrance and I go in and I'm trying to talk to the guy.

I'm like, look, we didn't get it. He's like, you have to have this passed. I was like, ah. And I think if you just keep asking different questions, you know, you're going to get them eventually. So I'm like, where do you get that again? Please don't. I know.

That's my car. I go, where is that line again? How long do you, what time of day are you supposed to get it? Just a series of questions. And eventually the guy was like, okay, you can go, but you got to go in the exit. Yeah. And I go, thank you so much. What was your name? And he goes, the exit. Yeah. And I go, thank you so much. What was your name?

And he goes, Alejandro. I go, Alejandro, thank you so much. So then I go, we go to the other side and now I'm using his name. I'm throwing that Alejandro for the rest of the day. I'm like, Alejandro gave me the permission. Yeah. We get free food. If you see Nick out and he goes, what's your name?

Do not give him your name. Your name is going to be how he ends up in the vault of whatever place you're at. He's like Gary Veeders' dad. Alejandro, we want to thank you. We had a great time. Thank you, Alejandro. He, yeah, he goes, you told me you go, I mean, it's all, you have it all mapped out. You go, I just play dumb. and then he sits there and then I so we go ride this ride we Go up the wrong way, and I was I'm watching it firsthand, and he just stands there, and he goes yeah, he goes Can we go? In this way and the guys like oh you get there's a it's called a board pass

He's like you have a boarding pass he's next like I don't you know he goes no I don't have it and and two is like when he's doing this this, it's not him, he's like, I also have 50 people with me. So he's like, oh, he goes, where is, oh, okay, where is that? And he's like, oh, it's over at the guest service. Oh, he goes, yeah, I just came up all the way to these stairs. He's like, well, that's what about whatever. And he did. He just kind of wears them out with questions. Wears them out with's like, he's like, well, that's what about whatever. And he, he did, he just kind of wears them out with questions. He wears them out with going like, I don't know, where is it? I got a, okay. And then eventually they're just like, all right, dude, just.

Yeah. Just get away from it. Just get away from it. Yeah. And Nick goes, and he's like, he's like thumbs up, like we got it. So then we had to go walk around and, uh, I got a video of us in this line, just the back half of this video. I mean, I'm, I'm losing my mind.

So we, he drives a little scooter up the exit ramp and it's a long ramp and it's tiny. Like there's no, there shouldn't, there shouldn't have been, uh... There shouldn't have been you're gonna go up this ramp on a scooter. I mean I'm barreling around corners like you can't see anything. Yeah, I mean he was flying and that's where everybody exits. There's no way to turn around. There's no way to turn around. So if you show the video here, just pause it at the top and I'll show you the picture. So all right, so Nick is, so that's how tight the area is. It's a very small area.

And I'm driving a Buick of a scooter. It is the size of a minivan. If you're listening, it's a very narrow hallway. Yeah. I think I said, I go, it's a small area. No, you said, if you look. No, I said, but if you look, it's a very tiny area. I think, so I didn't address, if you're listening, I should address them as their own people.

I think you should. Talking about something you're looking at. Yeah. It's a very narrow area. So I'm, so Nick's, Nick's cart was facing the opposite way. So he's got to do like kind of an Austin Powers, you know, kind of thing. So hold on, go back, go back to the beginning. I mean, I am, so you've, there's already been a whole thing. Dustin, with Dustin Shaffer was with us. He started filming this. It's already been a problem. He's

got to let them, the roller coaster is trying to go, but he's got to drive on the platform. Okay. And so he gets her to hold that gate open and just immediately drive straight into that blue gate. Just, I mean, just drills it back. Backing up. You hear the beeping? Yeah. This is not him driving in, but this is him. Then he just comes.

I mean, I'm losing it, dude. Oh, that was you standing there. Yeah. Oh, I mean, I'm crying. So that was facing the other way. Look, that fills up that hole. Oh, it's what's facing that way. So he had to go in, go there.

Then you hear the beeping. So now he's got to back up past the gate and then he's going to drive through it. And I mean, it was- What do you have in your basket? I ended up being, first of all, oh, that's a whole other- That's a good story. That's a whole other good story. But I also was just carrying everything. Once I got the scooter, they were like, let's

just throw everything in. Once we get- Oh, yeah. We almost as well. He doesn't need the scooter, but we make him- I've become the purse. ... take the scooter because we're like, we don't want to carry anything. So where you Oh, this is the guy.

So where you got those stuffies... Or stuffies... Where you got the stuffed animals was... We go... There's a... They have a game in there where you can guess your age, weight, or month you were born, right? And so this girl was there, so we told Nick, we're like, go do your weight.

She's not going to be able to guess your weight. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, I was like, you're going to get like a stuffed animal or whatever. I was like, go do your weight. She's not going to be able to guess your weight. And I was like, you're going to get it like a stuffed animal or whatever. I was like, go do that. So Nick goes over there and he's like, I want you to do my weight. And this girl just starts. She asks a bunch of questions.

How close do they have to get? Your weight was? It had to be within three years. Three years or 20 pounds. 20 pounds. Two years. Three, yeah, two years. Age was two years, weight was 20 pounds, I guess. So she, it felt like this girl was like, well, I'm not doing the weight thing. And she's like, I'm just going to guess your age.

Well, no one said about age. We go over and said weight. I go, yeah, we're going to do weight. She's asking me a series of questions. Uh, okay. You know, asking me what I eat, what, what I eat for breakfast, you know, things like that. And then she's not factoring any of this. She's not factoring anything.

Then she's like, well, what was your favorite, uh, action figure as a kid? And I'm like, what does this have to do with my weight? You know, but I'm like GI Joe, you know? And then boom, she's like, you're 46. I was like, whoa! 46. So if you're, if you're listening or watching, Nick is 42 years old. So the funniest part is she's got to get it within two years. So that means what I believe is she wanted to say 48, but then she goes,

I better be polite and back it up a little bit. And she goes 46. Nick, there's no, no one thinks you're 46. But it was such a funny idea that you're like, now he just leaves that game sad. You know, like if they did, if you walk around or if you did one of those guess the weight thing and then they were like, uh, 280 and you're like 210. I mean, now you, you got a big stuffed animal, but you're just, you walk around sad the rest of the day, just like, I don't know anymore.

She was kind of crazy too. After she's guessing a woman's weight, she was like way over. She was like, man, what are you about 210? It's like, the lady was like, she's about to cry. He's like, man, what a deuce and a quarter. She was off. So it's very, uh, we had, we had a lot of fun with that. Let me ask you an important question, Brian. Are you ready to optimize your nutrition this year? Uh, yes. Factor has chef-made gourmet meals that make eating well easy. They are dietitian approved, ready to heat and eat in two minutes so you can fuel right and feel great no matter what life throws at you. You've

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So then we go, we do the show Sunday night. We drive straight to the hotel to change into the tuxedos we have on right now. Looking good. Go to the Vanny Fair party. We walk in. Nick, surprisingly, knows everybody. Right when we walk in, I mean, Nick's, everybody walk in. Nick was surprised he knows everybody. Right when we walk in, I mean, Nick's, everybody's coming up to him and he's hugging people and, oh, did you have the bae?

Like they know they're your best friends with everybody in there. You could have got in there without me. No. Yes. You knew everybody. I know Alejandro, but yeah. You look like, like your date is not only a dude, but a little person.

You look like the most progressive celebrity out there. Yeah. This guy gets it. Yeah. He was my date. Nick took me on a date to a Boardwalk Empire premiere about 15 years ago. So this is my, I'm repaying them.

So we go in, we do, you know, we're doing, we like, you do one by yourself, then you do one together. And we're going through Halle Berry is right next to Nick. So I told him, there's, you know, if you scroll all the way over, you'll see on this one, you'll see there's a picture of there's so that's Halle Berry kind of in the background in the silver dress area that's Nick walking off after his pictures. You don't look happy there. Yeah I got caught

mid yeah well I was trying to get a picture because they were both standing there taking pictures so I was trying to get a picture of Nick and Halle Berry and then we walk in and then Halle Berry walks by and Nick's like, hey, how you doing? And like, she goes, oh good. Yeah. And like, have fun. All right. Y'all have fun. Keep walking. That's it. Nothing. We don't think that I'd never talk about this thing until later. And then I'm, we're in the, when we leave and I'll cut, we're leaving with Travis. I go, we met Halle Berry. He's like, when? I go, Nick, you talk to Halle Berry.

He can't see. Like they were, it was us, it was me, him and Halle Berry walking alone. And I even, I mean, so he brought it up. So he goes, we go through, we go in the party, like it's, we're getting to talk to everybody. Ray Romano's there and got to talk to Bill and Crystal and talked to Conan about hosting. I thought Conan did a great job hosting. He was great. It was great. Yeah.

It was like super fun. And it's. So you got to see some of the awards. No, no, no, no. No, I just went to the Vanity Fair party. We watched the opening monologue. We watched it on TV. How did you know?

Yeah, okay. We watched it on TV. It was... I thought he did great. I thought it was like, you know, it is a brutal job. I get the idea of wanting to host a awards show though, because he's part of you wants to, you know, because just the challenge of it. But it is a it's a completely thankless job. And so but he but he did great. He crushed. So yeah, we're in there trying

to think what was the Well, that it was just nuts talking to him because he literally just got off. Yeah. And so we're, you know, this is a random guy who had an Oscar and he wins, well, not random, he's an Academy Award winner. Yeah. Like sound. Some schmuck off the street.

Yeah. But it was a guy that we just started talking to. Yeah. And then he like almost had the Oscar in his back pocket and he was like, I happen to also have an Oscar. Well, everybody Oscar. So we ended up holding it. Yeah everybody's walking around Oscars. We have a picture of us not holding it but he did let us hold it. Yeah. And so there was, it was, yeah, Oscar's very heavy. Yeah. They gave it, yeah, because he gave one to Nick. I immediately put my hands underneath it.

Nick just took it. He just goes, oh, hold it. I was like, I go, he's going to... It was too heavy. Yeah, I was like, this is about to fall to the ground. And I mean, these people are... I mean, dude, it's crazy just to be at a party, and you're just seeing people walking around all the Oscars. Yeah.

Everybody that won. So we're walking around where, you know, you're going to say hi to people and all this. We go up, they the Queen Latifah. And I was like, Nick walks up to her and he goes, hey, what's up? And she goes, hey, what's up? Right. And then he walks back, of course, Nick can't.

He's got the eyesight of a bat. And so he doesn't know. I know he doesn't know. His eyesight plays into a lot that's happening. And so he doesn't know and I go, dude, that was Queen Latifah. And he goes, what? And then he goes, so now he wants to go back and talk to her again. Because now he knows who she is.

And so he's waiting to talk to her like, you know, like you're at a wedding, waiting to, you know, give the bride an envelope. And so he just stands there and then does the exact same, just goes, hey, she goes, hey, how are you? That was it. That was the best part. Literally, I got done exactly what I wanted to wait in line to do again. And I'm just there kind of like, I'm waiting to have my opportunity of the exact same thing.

You can't go further. It's not possible. It's just like six people around her. Yeah. You can't have a longer conversation that said no. You just wanted to say hi knowing it was her though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know, but it's just like, yeah, I mean, I've already talked to you.

It's not like it was 20 minutes ago. It was... It was a minute. It was on, he's on the left of her and goes hi and she goes hi and then by the time he gets the rider Right over he's in line. He's waiting in line and he's like and then it's like alright And she's been by the way in conversation the whole time. Yeah, it's not like she's alone She's talking to someone so now Nick's just standing there waiting behind her So then we go walk by then you see Adrian Brody. This is the best.

So, Adrian Brody won Oscar for the Brutus. So when I did my, I know my crews that I get made fun of for doing the big Paul Allen crews that had all the celebrities on it. Adrian Brody was there. So I was like, I go, you want to go meet Adrian Brody? You are so excited. He was so excited on it. Uh, Adrian Brody was there. So I was like, I go, you want to go meet Adrian Brody? He was so excited about it. He goes, all right, man, let's go. My boy, Adrian Brody, my boy, we had a good time together. We go back. We go way back.

He's going to be really excited. Probably 10 years ago. Probably 10 years ago. Did y'all hang out on that cruise or you just around each other? We did. Apparently not as much as I thought we did, but we definitely did. So I was like, let's go meet him. I was like, you know, this is a guy, it's his night, you know? And so he's sitting over there and they're sitting, he's sitting on the couch. Again, he's the same thing like Queen, like no one wants you to come up to him. Yeah.

And then me and Nick are just walking up to people like, you know, like their rides. And so I go down there and I was like, Hey man, I was like, Nate, uh, and there's no context to anything that I'm saying to you. And so he goes, Oh, hey, he doesn't know me and he has no context. And I was like, ah, we went on that boat. Remember that boat? We went on that trip and he goes, ah, yeah. I go, we're in the South China sea.

And he goes, okay. And then this buddy next to him did know me. It was like, I'm a big fan. And I was like, ah, I appreciate it. I go South China sea. Is that not narrowed down at all? He goes South China sea. And all of a sudden he goes, oh yeah, that was crazy. Yeah.

But like he- He still doesn't remember. He wasn't even looking at me when he said that's crazy. He was looking, he goes, yeah, that was a wild trip. And then I was like, he doesn't remember any of this. Wow. It was just so great. I think he almost said it a third time, South China Sea on the way out.

I mean, imagine just someone, you just won an Oscar. You cried, you gave a speech and within an hour you got a guy just going South China Sea, hey dog, what's up, Adrian. He might've recognized me more than you. Yeah, why? Because I did the tonight show with him. Oh yeah. Like three weeks ago, dressing room right next to him.

Did you talk to him? No. You could have got him in. Yeah. But I'm saying I feel like I have as much of an in. Yeah. You do. Yeah, you do have as much of an in.

I should have, if I knew you did that, I would have brought that up. South China Sea, Aaron Weber. Aaron Weber. Ambulance. So then we go- Aaron Webber. Aaron Webber. Ambulance. So then we go. The guy set the record for longest Oscar acceptance speech. Five and a half minutes. Last night?

Yeah. Set the record. That's so then. Five and a half minutes. That's crazy. Also another fun story from last night. Sean Baker. Who also broke a record. He broke a record last night, Sean Baker. Who also broke a record last night. He broke a record last night.

I think he's got. Won four Oscars. I think five Oscars. I thought it was five. It was, it was. It's more than Walt Disney is what someone said. We had heard that. I read that.

Anorah, right? In the movie Anorah. So he used to do standup comedy. I was on a show with him. You know, I've met him a couple of times. But again, coming off the excitement of that, met him a couple of times. Years ago.

Years ago. Years ago. But like, you know, and you know, we just had so much excitement with Adrian Brody being so excited to, you know, Nick's been loving it. He's been making fun of me. I have been making fun of him. I just keep walking around going, South China Sea. I've been making fun of him. I've been making fun of him. I just keep walking around going, South China Sea. South China Sea. So then I'm like, you know, we're talking to these women

and from the Washington Post and somebody else that's just there. Yeah, which we got mentioned in the Washington Post. Yeah, we got fired for what's about to happen. So I tell him, you know, I've done comedy with Sean Baker. I'm so proud of him. I mean, he's done movies from an iPhone. His first movie did everything together. I'm just so proud.

I can't wait to see him and congratulate him and say hi. And she goes, he's right over there. I go, all right, well, let's go, Nate. Let's go over. I'm going to, you know, we're going to see my boy Sean. We're back in the pit with Adrian Brody. What we didn't pick on, we just shouldn't have been in that pit. Yeah.

There was like a kind of two step down pit area and that seemed where the Oscar people were and it was like, I don't know, maybe leave them alone. So I go up to him and I'm like, Hey, what's up? And he's so nice. He goes, Hey, how are you? I'm Sean. I'm like, ah, I'm like crushed for a second. I'm like, I'm thinking this is like my cousin, you know, he's gonna be like,

give me a kiss on my cheek or something like so excited. And I go, Oh, you know, we did comedy together. He goes, Oh, yeah. And I probably should just left it at that. But now I'm just keep going. I'm like, you know, Ian Edwards, a comedian that we both know, he goes, Oh, yeah, man'm like, you know, Ian Edwards, a comedian that we both know, he goes, Oh, yeah, man. God, you know, I know it's just crazy. I'm just going further. I'm like the Easter Seals disability film challenge. We were talking about that. He goes, Yes, that's right, man. It just keeps going. He's like, man, I'm so sorry. He's like, I feel like everything's just been so

nuts. I feel like, you know, I've been having like a vasectomy today. I'm like, oh, okay. I'm just like the South China Sea. He's just, and someone's with him going, he's got to go. And I mean, he's got five Oscars in his name. He was the big star of the night. Yeah. He's got all this stuff. And he was so nice though.

He couldn't have been cooler. You know, he was very, very just like, Hey, yeah. He's got all this stuff and... He was so nice though. He couldn't have been cooler, you know, throughout the whole time. He was very, very nice. He was just like, hey... Yeah, that's why he jibbed, what it was. They're all very nice to be polite to amuse us. When they don't want to go to... So then we go to this other after party. And so then this after party that like everybody's supposedly going to. And so we get there and we walk in and you're like, all right, this will be the one that's supposedly like this is where like kind of everybody hangs out late and stuff. And we walk in, guy, we're sitting there, guy walks up to Nick and like bends down and goes like, Hey man, what's up?

And Nick's like, Hey man, great. Because you're doing good. He goes, Yeah, doing good, man. He goes, all right, I'll see you, man. And then he walks off and then Nick just walks over to me. He's not talking. And he's not like addressing what happened. I know who the guy was.

So I could see the guy and I was like, he doesn't even, he doesn't know who this, who that was. It was Leonardo DiCaprio. Dude, Leonardo DiCaprio got an inch from his face. He bent down, gave me a little, little, little hug and a dab. And was like, how's it going, man? He's like, yeah, it's good, man. You go do whatever.

And then. You keep it on, keep it on, brother. Nick should even been within 12 blocks of this party. And he's got the main guy coming up saying hello. And he's like, all right, brother, I'll see you. Do you know him? No, no, I just was, it was like the, I'm standing in the middle and I'm just kind of, I'll be friendly to anybody, make eye contact.

I'm just like, hey, what's up? You know, like that kind of- He made guy made eye contact you I watched the whole thing Yeah, he came he saw you and he bent down and he said what's I mean it was like it was your like moment I mean, I think if you'd been like where y'all going can I come hang he would have been like yes Yeah, he was like he was being super cool with that. You know the little inner reaction But then the the you blew him off and he just, he did it, he did it as if it was just like someone after a show going great show. And he's like, yeah, appreciate it.

Thanks for coming out, man. Thanks for coming out, man. Like, uh, and he, and he got, and then he's just not talking. And I was like, I debated in the moment. I was like, should I wait and tell you like today? But then I was like, uh, I kind of went, yeah. Then I was like, I'll just tell you. And but then I was like I kind of like yeah then I was like I'll just tell you now I go do you know who that was he's like no I you couldn't see their face at all he was in your face y'all would have kissed almost yeah and then Leonardo

Caprio but this party was like super fun I don't know if it there's just like you know everybody was just kind of at this party. Do we have any funny like... Just was, you know, there was a guy randomly who you're not supposed to take photos at this. If you're not supposed to take photos, somebody's going to want to take the camera out and involve me in it. In a place. Yeah. So he singles me out and is trying to take videos with me and photos.

And he's like, I'm going to introduce you to Megan, the stallia, but he's now like the stallion stallion. Yeah. I didn't say what it was. I just said it really kind of, I just had a mega stallion. Yeah. Megan, like a transformer. Yeah.

Megan, nostalgia, nostalgic. I think he said must style. Yeah. Yeah. He said Megan nostalgia. Nostalgic. I think he said must-al-ia. Yeah. Megan must-al-ia. Megan must-al-ia. Megan must-al-ia. So he's like, yeah, she's my friend. She's like, you know, he's got now a phone out,

and he's just filming me. And literally, on the way in, you know, they're making you, like, everywhere everywhere no phones No anything he's doing and now it's just a little person and this guy who's you know had a couple of cocktails Who's just filming and he's like I'm gonna introduce you to my friend and they come up immediately But Nick goes with it cuz then I'm so then I walk like I walk over there and I'm like dude This guy is like, you know, he's he's been drinking. Yeah, he's not a fish. I was kind of like, let's kind of get moving. And then Nick's like, we're going to go with him.

We're going to meet Mega Mastalia. And then I'm like, all right. So then I'm just, then we start walking over there and then he's trying to do more pictures. And then someone comes up and says, you cannot use your pictures. Then, you know, then they look at us and we're like, we're not, we didn't want to be a part of this, this guy's just being kind of a nightmare. Uh, and then, so then everybody's dancing and stuff and then me and Nick are standing on the side and then he comes over and starts dancing just in front of us for a second.

The guy with the camera. Yeah. Like he just starts like, you know, and then we're just looking at him. He's like, he just turns around and walks away. Very weird. Yeah. But it was crazy. McCallkins were there.

McCauley McCallkin. And, and... What's his brother's name? Rory. Rory McCallkin. There is a Rory McCallkin. Yeah, but that's not the one. No.

Yeah. It's about McCauley McCulkin. There is a Rory McCulkin. Yeah, but that's not the one. No. Yeah. It's about McCauley Culkin? Yeah. But what's his brother name that won all the Oscar last night? What? Well, yeah. Karen.

Karen, the one that we had a conversation with and he's awesome. He won. He brings up Rory McCulkin, which I guess there's another brother. That's like being like, oh, I met Cooper Manning. Yeah. He was awesome. He was like, again, they probably think y'all are the most progressive couple. So everybody's like these guys.

Yeah. Oh, we fit in. Yeah. Yeah. We're doing good. He was super cool and yeah, yeah, very like, he was, him and his wife were very down. He's going to say that he's going to have four kids with his wife afterwards. And, you know, it was very funny.

His wife's like, well, I didn't think he was going to win. And so it was... His speech was funny. Yeah, yeah. His speech was funny. He was like very like, you know, just a nor like very normal kind of person. He was a fan of Nate. I would not have thought that. You, yeah.

Yeah. Well, he was a fan. A child star. I know. And his, all his characters seem just so crazy. Neurotic. Neurotic. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. He's a good actor. Yeah. He is a very good actor. Yeah. Uh, yeah. It was super, super fun. We saw, you know, uh, yeah. So, I mean, I don't know. That, he is a very good actor. Yeah, it was super fun.

We saw, you know, yeah, so I mean, I don't know, that was kind of it. It was a fun night, though. It was a really special night. Thank you. Yeah. And also thank you. Shout out, you know, Amber. We got them all fitted up in tux.

Yeah, we got a fancy tuxedo. Got a great tuxedo for them. So, really crazy. Special night. Special night. Special night. Anyway, so Aaron, just get back to your hospital. Yeah. How was it in the ambulance?

Aaron got a nice recognition though for his special. Yes. Last week we talked about Dusty being one of the top 25 Netflix specials, which there's only 26. So Nate was the only one that didn't make it. But Aaron's what, top five? Or five specials, which there's only 26. So Nate was the only one that didn't make it. But Aaron's what, top five or five specials to watch? Five specials to watch. Vulture did a nice write up about it. So it's a quarter of a million views now. It's getting

up there. It's going to keep growing. You said you were better observing than Nate, which... They did. They did in the article. They said not as silly as Nate, but a slightly sharper observer. Yeah. Wow. I like being silly. That was nice to hear. You don't care about sharp observations.

You don't notice things, but you're pretty silly. I don't notice them, but yeah, I am fun and silly. So, all right. Since we wore tuxes, this is a whole shin dig. All right, Aaron, it's March. Spring's around the corner. Absolutely. And it's the perfect time to refresh your routine. Maybe you're thinking about shaking off the winter blues,

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Let's start with you guys' comments. Let's start. Christina Marshall, that was a crazy fun episode for me. Two of my absolute favorite things coming together. Huge Teethers fan. I cried when I watched Ben play his last game and I am also a huge NateLand fan. This was a nerd cluster of an episode.

We had Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger in your seat last week. That's pretty crazy. Big Ben. And we got Big Nick. Big Nick. Yeah. Terry Hagan is a hot dog. If a hot dog is a sandwich, then you have to make a similar claim that a corn dog is a sandwich. Okay. A ravioli or tacos.

One could even go so far as to claim that deep-fried chicken with a heavy breading on the outside is a sandwich. No, a hot dog cannot be a sandwich. I don't really get the argument. Saying like if you're counting everything with bread around it, if you got meat inside of bread, then a ravioli would be considered a sandwich because it's meat wrapped around bread. Somebody would consider a hot dog a sandwich? I don't know.

That was the debate. Yeah. That's like the internet debate that people ask. But it's at least a bun. Because whatever definition you have for a sandwich, a little offended I wasn't on the sandwiches episode. A lot of people said that. I felt like next time maybe you'll do a Notre Dame episode next time I'm gone. I know. Yeah. Any definition you have for

a sandwich could also apply to a hot dog when you think about it. Yeah. So that's the argument. I feel like the bread of a hot dog is really just to hold the hot dog. Yeah. Well, you eat it too. What is the bread of sandwich for? That you eat. The argument was. How do you eat hot dogs? I mean, I try to just hold the bread and eat around it. Eat some of it. If it's two pieces of bread, does that make it a sandwich? The bun is two pieces of bread.

But it's connected. So then that's the differentiator? It's just that the two pieces of bread are connected loosely. Well, I'm just saying what the argument is. I know. I'm not attacking you. I didn't know you were going to the hospital last week when I chose sandwiches. Yeah, that's true. Mike Nelson, what makes something a burger versus a sandwich?

I'd say it's either on a bun or it's bread. But I seem to only ever hear Americans call it a chicken sandwich For example McChicken in Australia would be a chicken burger over here and a flail fish would be a fish burger Hope we clear this up. There we go. I mean, I think what makes a burger a burger is if it's a burger Yeah Yeah, I agree with you Yeah, yeah. I agree with you. Yeah. I mean, I don't know.

I don't know about that. I think if it's ground chicken formed into a patty, like a McChicken is, then that's, that's that you can think of that more like a burger, but a fillet, like a chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A or Popeyes, where it's just a cut of chicken. That's a chicken sandwich and it's not a burger. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. They can't be a burger unless it's beef.

Matthew Perkins. Having someone on who is a good laugher really helps. Craig Warren is the best. Close second. Brian Bates. Nick Novicki. You're in there. Look at that.

You have a great laugh. I ended up in the comments. You made it in the comments. Thank you. Doug Morris. TV Above the Mantles, the life hack to be able to watch the game and allow your kids to be in the room while watching sports. Aaron, being the good dad that he is, will soon be advocating TV above the mantles for anyone with children. I just don't know.

I just don't know if I will. You don't like a TV above the mantle. I think the TV should be low. I think it should be eye level with you on the couch. Yeah we talked about it. You don't like ours. It's up but then you pull it. You you pull it down and it's way better. Way better. Um, but it's still not as low as I would like. Ideally we're all, you know, we have to work with the room that we're in. You have to make adjustments, but in an ideal world, you want it to be eye level with you on the couch.

I am a big fan of you showing. He shows where the TVs should go all the time. Hotels and Airbnbs. The setups people have are absurd, dude. Yeah. Where you want to go like, talk me through how you think somebody is going to use this. Yeah. You want me to stand straight up and watch TV all day? Yeah.

Come on, dude. Yeah. Let's lower the TVs out here. Do it on your treadmill. Marcus Sherman. During one of Nate's earlier diets, he had challenged the guys to a weight loss competition. I remember Brian and Nate landing specifically on racing to 165. In August of 23, spurred by a famer Union gone wrong. I'd like to know about that. Yeah, me too. I started my weight loss journey. It's a three-legged race. Yeah. Not fun. They did a guess your weight at your family reunion.

He was 5'10", about 330. As of today, he weighed in at 165. Wow. That's crazy. 50% loss. I got there first. Wow. He did.

That's crazy. 50% loss. Congrats, Marcus Sherman. Wow. I mean, That's great. 50% loss. Congrats, Marcus Sherman. Yeah. Wow. I mean, you're half, think about that. There'd be two of you is what you were. Yeah. That's so crazy. That's unbelievable. Oh yeah. Right back in about this family reunion going wrong, I'm picturing like a, you know, like a sack race that just got out of hand because he was so big. Yeah, maybe. I just thought that maybe he made fun of him. Maybe he ate too much.

Ate too much. Maybe he ate too much potato salad. He was like, there you go. There's not enough buns for the hot dog. They go, Marcus, they go, I don't even have to tell you, but Marcus got into those buns. And then it didn't, it didn't map out. We were already one short to begin with. And then now the Marcus showed up and now we're in big trouble.

Uh, but congratulations, bud. Uh, Pratik Thaplilaow. Pratik Thaplilaow. That's very good. It's always the second one. I beat the pill out of you. Thaplilaow. Thaplilaow. It's Thaplilaow. I the pill out of you. Definitely y'all. Definitely y'all. I bet it's... Uh, the pill will lay a bill.

I know Nate doesn't say bad words on screen. What are, what about a role though? If offered a part in a movie or a TV show where the character says, and does that kind of stuff, will he do it? How big will the director of the director or the movie need to be for Nate to accept this situation? That's a good question. Good question.

Adrian Brody. If Adrian Brody asked me to do it. It is like Scorsese. South China Sea. Scorsese calls you and he goes, I want you to be the lead in the next movie, but you're like a mobster, a tough guy. You have to just beat people up. You're screaming obscenities.

I mean, all his movies, he says the F word 500 times, but you have to be that guy. But this is like, but it's a, but it's an undeniably great movie. I wouldn't, if I couldn't, if I couldn't figure it out not to do it. Yeah. I have not got plenty of stuff because of that exact thing. plenty of stuff because of that exact thing. Not that I'm great or deserving of this stuff, but when I go in, I mean, I did one with the Coen Brothers. I auditioned for a thing with the Coen Brothers, they asked me not too long ago. It was a movie that does have all that kind of stuff in it. You know, they're obviously, that's about as big as it can get. I would love to do a Coen Brothers movie. And when I read the part, I just said, I'm not going to curse in this part.

And then I did it and they went through it with me and I think they liked me a lot. And the casting director, they were like wonderful, but I just said, I'm not going to curse and I did parts and, you know, I'm not in the movie. Like, I don't know if that's, I'm not saying that's why, probably because I stink, but it's, it's, I've had, yeah, I mean, I think that hurt me with a lot. It didn't hurt me, but it was like, I just couldn't ever really go do anything, even when I was younger. Like younger, I guess maybe I could have been, I could have said something out of pure,

if like Martin Scorsese or the Corwin Brothers came to me and I'm 30. And then you're like, I think I have to do this. You know, it's like, I could see in a situation like that, but even back then I was not, I wouldn't go do stuff because there's lots of lot of comedies that would be very dirty and they'd want me to go read for them and I just wouldn't do it. So I don't, I mean, no, I don't think I would do it. So if I can figure it out, I'm not saying I

wouldn't be in a movie where it's maybe not stuff like that's happening. But my character, you know, I mean, as of now, and I've said no to stuff, so I wouldn't. But we're, you know, but yeah, I don't know, not perfect. That's just where I've kind of stuck. You just take the role and then just start changing it on the scene. Yeah, well when I read the audition, I didn't do it with them. I just was like, I'm not gonna curse. I've done it. Even in the scene. Yeah. Well, when I read the audition, I didn't do it with them.

I just was like, I'm not going to curse. I was supposed to be naked in two different movies that I had created. I go, hey, how about we change some of this up a little bit? I accept it and change it when I get there. I go, hey, I got a little idea of a change here. He does what he does for those rides. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They get there.

And I mean, one, he like yeah, yeah. They get there. I mean, one, he like flew to Europe, right? He goes to Europe. They flew to Europe. The whole point of this was they've all agreed that this is what happened. The day it's supposed to happen, he goes, eh, what if we didn't do that part? And then they're like, yeah, I guess we can't now. Yeah.

It's better than if you were doing it the other way around. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, Nick, it's a lifetime movie that we're doing. It's a Christmas film. Julie Anne, Julie Anne, does Nick Novicki still live in Los Angeles? If he does, did he start those fires? Yes.

Yes and yes. I live in Culver City. Just moved. So it's- You were not affected by the fires, but your old house and where Dustin Chaffin lives were, I mean- Yeah. It was-

Next safe vote. I was in Vegas with you you about to go on stage. The city of Los Angeles thought I still lived where I lived. I got an evacuation order. My wife is eight and a half months pregnant and we have a three year old. And I'm like, what? You know, so luckily it didn't affect where we are. Luckily, luckily I left her with very little resources while I was having an unbelievable time, eating

steak dinner, having a great time with my friends, working. Kind of like you, with Hurricane Sandy. I owe Till his wife a lot. I mean, we put him in so many situations, like, what if you come do this? And he's like, hey. And then he's like, what have you come to this? And he's like, Hey, and then he won't. And then he's like, I just did all of this. And then he's like, let me go see him.

And then he's got to walk in like a husband that just goes, uh, I was thinking like, what, you got to ask, you know, you got to know when to ask. Oh yeah. You go sometimes where it's like, your buddy could be like, hey, do you want to come do this? And then he's like, just go ask your wife. You go, give me a couple of days. Yeah. Yeah. Let me. Look, I think I can do it. Give me a couple of days. Let me lay some groundwork. Yeah. Yeah. Clean the house a little bit. I'll do something. I got to, yeah, I got to, this isn't a, if I go in there right now, we're getting an immediate note.

See, the problem is there's always groundwork while I'm asking for one thing and then another thing. Let me tell you about next week in Texas. Also, when you have time, I want to talk about something with Nate. That is the hard thing too of like last night. I mean, it was a really special night. It's hard to not say it was. You know, my wife's, you know, we have a three week old baby, so she's got like vomit on her and the other baby.

She's like, how was your night? I'm like in a tuxedo. I'm like South China Sea. Yeah. Yeah. He was, yeah. She's very supportive. Just like people declutter their homes in March,

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People always ask they want to know how we met each other, which I think we've kind of talked about on here. There's no great stories, but people would like to know. So it's kind of great you're here because you and Native know each other the longest. Yeah. Yeah. How did you guys first meet? Boston Comedy Club. Boston Comedy Club. In New York City. It's called Boston. Yeah, there was a club that we would do. With Dustin J. Finn. All the time. Dustin J. Finn ran it.

Who was in Irvine all weekend. And I actually started living with him. Just graduated college, started living with him. I was living in a living room in Queens. And it was like really cheap, a great setup and I had this giant living room all to myself that was a sheet that was like half the living room and it was like a big studio almost. So then Nate moves in and so now we have to cut the sheet in half and Nate is on the one side and I'm like what is

this? You know he's moving in but then it ended up being great. So y'all live being separated by a shower curtain, a shower and we just became like so tight, just playing video games. And just like, it was great. It was the most fun. Crazy. Cause I did not get any space. Nick's, Nick's room was, it was a very big living room.

I mean, I had a, I had a dresser. I had all kinds of stuff in there. And then, so I had a sliver, a full bed couldn't fit in my curtain. So I had to sleep on one of those like a recliner that folds out to a bed. You know, it's like, and so that's what I slept on. I had the air conditioner, it was right above my head. That's pretty sweet. It was good.

So it would always get hot, but I would, you know, my room, I mean, but you know, it's like, it's like one of those, like, it's a blessing and a curse where you're like, you glad it's there. You'd rather there than not be there, but man, it's on top of you. You know, and this ain't, there ain't no duvets back then. You don't have like all the, you know, you got like 40 thin blankets on you. I think they had big blankets back then.

Well, I know, but no dude was buying it. 25 years ago. You could have bought a heavy blanket. I didn't even, that was when you're young, like you're not even. You're sleeping with a towel. Yeah. You're just, it's, you wouldn't even, yeah, you don't even think, there's no like, oh, I should probably decorate this.

Yeah. It's four dudes in a one bedroom apartment. So we weren't decorating. No, it was, it was, it was a, not a great, you know, obviously a vet, like a real bad. Yeah. So no one, there was nothing that was, you know, no one was buying any house stuff.

You're like, I just needed a place to go at night. Yeah, nobody had silverware, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. No, no silverware. No. Yeah. I mean, no one was doing, you know, you're just, we're all just minding our own business, like doing comedy. And so you just like, you go out all day and night and then you- And then one of the roommates too, Rich Aronovich, had this crazy catalog of old VHS, you know, tapes of comics and stuff. So it was neat. It was a fun time. Yeah. I don't know if we told the story about Nick made Rich audition for a sketch.

Was it a sketch? It was like a short film. Short film that Nick was doing. So they're roommates. That Rich is allowing Nick to stay there. Nick's not supposed to be staying there. He's allowing Nick to stay there. Nick's not supposed to be staying there. He's allowing Nick to stay there.

And he goes, and Rich is like, just, and Rich is like very funny and like, he does a, I don't know if you've seen, but like a bunch of the dancing videos and, where, you know, it's like he dances crazy, like on the cruise ship and all this. And he would think it's been big on TikTok and stuff like that.

Wonderful person. And so Rich was very, very talented. He always reminded me of Howie Mandel. Like he just was like that kind of guy. Very, very funny, like just physical. Physical. Yeah. And so he, he wants the part where like, just give him the part.

Like, I mean, Nick is talking like he's, you know, Adrian Brody. He goes, ah, he goes, in fairness, though, I told him, look, it was supposed to be an old guy that was an agent. He's in his twenties, you know? And so I'm like, the part is you're supposed to be this old, you know, guy. And so it, this is like a, you know, a camp of actor, comic camp. So he comes back out and he goes in a, in a tuxedo, a slick back hair. And he goes, I'm ready for it. I want to audition. Like I'll show you.

So now we're like, we're doing like a, an audition and Dustin and Nate walk in. It looks like we're in like a casting session in our living room. And we walk into here and Nick go, uh, I don't think it's going to work. And then he shut his curtain and went to bed. Yeah, we, but so yeah, me and Nick, we're with Dustin, we're just all in New York hanging out. Nick moved, you went to LA pretty quick, quicker than I sometimes even think about. But you were coming back to New York so much. Yeah. Like, you were in, I mean, I felt like you were there once a month and you just stayed

with us. I stayed with you and Laura, like, you know, an insane amount. Yeah, yeah. So, for the Boardwalk Empire, for all these things. Yeah. Almost didn't get the Sopranos, the first role I ever got in Sopranos, because I was playing Madden with Nate until four in the morning. Until the, yeah, the audition. The day of the audition. Wow.. Dustin comes in, he's like, you should be, you know,

working on your thing. Well, I think Laura read lines with you. That was for a different... Oh, that was a different day, yeah. That was for a movie that I was casting with Kate Hudson. Yeah. And I got it. Very emotional, very exciting thing. I tell my parents, I got it. Oh my God. You know, this is, they end up giving my part away. Peter Dinklage decides

to do it. So even though I'm hired after five auditions, they just go, they, I was filming in Borwalk Empire. So they knew dates of when my episodes were. So they were like, you know, it's gotta be, he's gotta be in New Orleans on this day for rehearsal. And I go, I could be there any other day. I could be, I'm telling my agent, and eventually they were like, yeah, they wanted Peter Jenkins the whole time,

and they're using you as like bait. So they paid me, you know, and basically I, I messed him up. So I cost him a lot of money on that deal. Cause they're like, we got a guy already hired. That's great. I had to retell that whole emotional look. My mom, she's like, I'm so proud of you. I had to call her up and be like, Hey, Everything you've worked for, everything you've done. I always believed in you. So anyways, a couple things, I'm coming home next week.

That part didn't work out. There's another little guy more famous than I know. I love you, I'll see you soon. Yeah. I think the lesson is to, when you get something, just assume you don't get it. Yeah. A toy ears. I don't say anything anymore. Yeah, you, honestly, you don't get it. Yeah. A toy.

I don't say anything anymore. Yeah, you honestly, you could probably film it. Everything. I have a couple of things coming out. I'm not telling anybody until I see it. Yeah. It's like the airplane seat. Wait till that plane's moving before you do the victory lap.

Yeah. Because you could not know you were cut from the movie till you watch it, right? Oh, a lot of people. Oh, yeah. That's. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy. I think they can be look up as there been like famous cuts in the movie. Is there a way to...

I just saw a clip of the guy. Who's the guy from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? Charlie. Nah, not the other. Danny DeVito? No, Rob. Yeah. I just saw a video of him telling a story about his first big break,

invites his whole family, all his friends to the movie theater to watch it. And he was completely cut and they never told him. So they're all there to watch him and he had lines with, and they just cut around him. It's pretty crazy. Yeah. It's a pretty ruthless kind of thing, but it's one of those that you're like, that's what, if anybody gets into that acting, you're like, you got to, that's what you're signing up for. And you just get cut, you either, probably gonna get told no, most of, you're probably never gonna get told no, actually.

They're actually never gonna say the word no to you. They'll just stop talking to you. They will stop talking to you. And you got to just accept that and go, alright, fine, whatever, move forward. And then you're going to probably get cut. I don't think I've ever been anything. I haven't been anything, so. It's so brutal.

I did one episode of a TV show and I'm playing like a guy who's like an elf in it, in like a mall. But I had a really funny, all improv the director was like oh my god everything you did was so funny you added all this new layers to it I mean we really we weren't even thinking about all this it's so great everything so I had my lines and then I improv all these things I mean they were I was getting hugged by producers and the director on the way out. You saved it. I'm so happy. I'm so excited to do a big post about it. Every single line is cut. So now I'm just an elf standing there in the corner of this mall.

And I do this little post about how, you know, when you're, you know, seeing me tonight, it was one experience to be able to get to, you know, do improv and work with everybody and put yourself out there there and it's all gone. And now I'm just there kind of like, hey. Still, it was a fun time. Yeah. I tagged everybody in the cast.

I was like, you know. It's just to be part of a professional thing like that. And then someone just saw that poster, like, I don't know what he's talking about. That was like, yeah, like if you look at the post last night from Nick, that you gave that post basically for that movie. Like a post like that. Instagram post. I did.

The photos of us from the night. Incredible experience, artistically fulfilling. Yeah. You're just an extra status. Yeah. I mean, hey, you know. Yeah, that's so funny. Get that pension credit.

That's so funny. But it's all about, it's fun, the experience. You have to be willing to be like, hey, this is what it is. And honestly, a lot of times, it has nothing to do with what you're doing as an actor. It's just the timing, you know, it just doesn't fit for the storyline. Unless you're the star, you're there to service it. So it's like,

it doesn't matter how great it is. It just, they're not going to tailor everything around Taylor if you're not the, you know, yeah. I get asked like when movies, uh, people like, cause we were like, have, you know, we're still trying to figure out our movies and and they'll be like, I think we're doing a movie, and they'll go, are you in it? I get asked that every time. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, okay. Have you ever been in anything? I wasn't sure if it was going to be good or not.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're always like, yeah, are you going to be in it? Like, yeah, yeah, that's what we're trying to do, man. It's kind of been the goal. I've been in, I was in Marc Maron's TV show. Just played myself. Maron. Maron. So that was the only thing that did, it was just me and him doing a podcast. So I was like, but that's the only thing I really shot. And then, I mean, SNL and the DoorDash commercial. Like, so I've seen, I've been around, we shot a pilot. I've been, I mean, I've done stuff. You've been on sets, you've been around. I've been on sets and I've done it, but it's, yeah, I don't,

it's the hard, the thing with movies that I think will be interesting is, is how long you gotta wait for it to come out and see it. Because we're so used to instant, you know, how long you gotta wait for it to come out and see it. Because we're so used to instant, you know, kind of gratification, or maybe not gratification, either way, but your instant response. So everything we do, if we think of a joke right now, we can go figure, I can go see if it works in 20 minutes.

Yeah, and you'll know immediately. And you, I mean, honestly, you could even figure it out at the moment. You could call a couple people and just say it. Talk through it. Talk through it and just get a vibe to be like, all right, all right, I think that is a good idea. So you can feel that stuff. And then when you do this.

Yeah, let me ask you, Nick, do you ever show up for something, an acting job, and you realize right away this is gonna be garbage? Or is there some stuff you're like, this could go either, this could be great, I have no idea. See, I'm a terrible judge, because I like everything, so I'm like, oh, it's great. Yeah, he's not gonna be.

I like every movie, I'm like the worst judge, and then people are like, oh my God, what were you thinking? I'm like, I thought it was good, I don't know. You get swept up in the... Don't you run a film competition? I do like, I thought it was good. I don't know. You get swept up in the- Don't you run a film competition? I do, but I'm not a judge. I am the founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Times. I don't judge them because I like everything.

Yeah. Yeah. And that's good. But I mean, you need, you want you around because of that. Uh, but it's, yeah, I could see it's, you know, it's hard to tell, man. I mean, I can go, if you honestly, I would say if you watched movies and let, made someone watch them alone, that would be interesting. Watch alone and say, was it good or bad? Read no reviews, blind, just watch it.

And you're not around another person. You're not around anybody else. I bet most things people would think are good. But aren't a lot of movies meant to be watched communally in a theater? Yeah, like comedies and stuff. Yes, the big ones. But I'm talking about in general,

what he's talking about, you could even, it's like Hallmark movies, right? So people could be like, those are terrible or something. But then you go watch one alone and you're like, yeah, I don't know, man, I watched the whole thing. Like, and I watched another one because it rolled right into it. It's like, and they're great and they're nice and they're,

you know, so it's, I think if you break people off, you would, people would like more stuff. It's a big mob mentality to go against, you know, all these kind of movies or whatever. But I think you have to go into it like being like, this is great. Because it's pretty easy to have like, you know, to be swayed where you're like, oh, this is going to be... If one person says it's bad and then you're like, you know... You got to think it's going to be made to be great. So you got to go and if you were in it,

you're like, I don't think I like this script. Like, I don't think it seems good and I'm confused. That's the hard part with me is I can't tell, just because I'm not doing one. Like, all right, if I don't like something, how much can I change something? Or how much can I, in the moment, be like, oh, we gotta figure it out.

Like, this is not working, you know. The story is the main, that's why the jokes don't out. This is not working. The story is the main. That's why the jokes don't matter if you're out of script. It's the story. Comics go to jokes. They want jokes. And you can write. Honestly, if you want to write a comedy,

I think you could write a sad movie and then just be like, now make it funny. Yeah, that's punch it up. It needs to have a story because otherwise it's, the jokes are easy. I mean, it's to be, it needs to have a story because otherwise it's, the jokes are easy. You can, you know, I mean it's a comic especially, but even as, even if you are a comic, it's like just go give it to a bunch of comics

and be like I need to make it this kind of comedy or whatever. But yeah, I don't know. That's the part that's, yeah, seems, it's gonna be hard to figure out. You know, did we talk about they have script doctors? Did we ever say that? They have, like that's a, there's part that seems, it's going to be hard to figure out. You know, did we talk about they have script doctors? Did we ever say that? They have, like, that's a, there's guys that are, they're full time, their job

is they will get a movie, and they've done it, I think, with Marvel movies and with a bunch of movies where a movie will be bad, and then they pay this guy, and like, you know, these high-end riders yeah and they and that's a lot of their work is they get just some crazy amount of money and then they come in and just do triage on it oh yeah and just fix the whole and have to fix the whole thing wow yeah and that happens almost every movie I think I believe it just ends up, you kind of get it, you need other eyes on it, because the person that is writing it

has been doing it forever. And then so, especially those, I think some of the big ones, you know. But yeah, it's pretty interesting. Yeah, all right, all right. Let's go to the short one. Yeah, yeah. That's okay, it's just fun though.

Yeah. But just real quick, as far as me and you, I remember first time I met you. I started comedy in 2007, January 2007. I think at the end of that year, you came home for Thanksgiving and Christmas like you do. A lot of people thought we met here in Nashville. We didn't. I mean, you were in New York, but you would come home a lot. And I'd heard of you because, you know, Nashville standup.com had listed

all the comics and I was like, Bargatzee, I wonder if he's related to Ron Bargatzee. Yeah. Who's the, yeah. I grew up listening to on the radio. My cousin was the color commentator for Vanderbilt basketball for years. Yeah. Yeah. He always has all these hidden ticket links to Vanderbilt

sports that we find out about. Yeah. Why don't you tell yours to Queen Latifah? This is what he was going to tell her. While I'm waiting in line. Can you tell her? Oh man. This is, so, uh.

This is what he wanted to tell her. It's the party's loud. Yeah. No one can really hear. So this is what he wanted to tell her. It's the party's loud. No one can really hear. It's not a like get into a big conversation kind of thing. A guy goes up to her. She has no idea who he is. He's already been up to her.

Yeah. We're going to talk. She's she initiated. She said hello to me to start. And then I wanted to go back. So my uncle just died. My uncle is from Senegal. This is brutal already. My uncle's from Senegal who my aunt married and my uncle died and,

you know, years ago he was in a music video of hers. And as a kid, that was really crazy to be like, he was in this Queen Latifah music video and I remember seeing it. So mind you, I just had everything we should have had in a conversation. I'm standing next to her on this amazing Vanity Fair party and she's in a gown and I'm about to tell her that, you know, my uncle just died. Yeah, she sang a song. She sang a song on the Oscars and things. Yeah, she did. Yeah, yeah. She did a big song, a big thing, a whole, yeah. And I, you know, I just, first of all, it was, I wasn't allowed to get back in. They were like, you've already talked. But in my head, I was like, let's not bring this up.

Let's not go, yeah. I mean, that was 30 years ago, maybe? Yeah. You got to bring up... 35, I would say. Yeah. He did bring up... To Conan, he was in something a long time ago, but Conan did remember. This is a great... So, with Conan... Conan was in a White Stripes music video, and this is a very popular song. It was a huge music video, and I

play a couple different, you know, characters in the music video, including a smaller version of Conan O'Brien. And I actually announce the white stripes in the music video. I say, the white stripes! And you could hear my voice. I have a Conan face on, but it's Michelle Gondry who did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind directed it. Yeah. And it's a big music video. And there's one moment where we go from Conan is on one side of the screen to he'll walk away and, and the other side is me. And I'm, watch, there's a little door here and now it's me and I'll say the white stripes and the, in the doorway. So the way this is all, the whole music video is one continuous shot Except when it goes from me and him so me and Conan are stuck in that little doorway

For about six hours in in this in a side like this so For that one shot we just saw one shot we just saw and I keep repeating him doing him and at the end of it You'll see me I play like a crazy fan and you there's another shot of me like, you know I'm like running in and a car is like I'm chasing a car Is Conan actually there? Conan's there the whole time. That's Conan. That is Conan. Oh, he doesn't have like And then that's me so that's me and I say white stripes. And you can hear me in this music video. That was the number one music video for like 10 years.

It still plays on MTV. So I want to hear you say it. Yeah. Hang on a sec. Right here. That's me saying the White Stripes. But in the moment, he knows I'm a comedian, the White Stripes know I'm a comedian, they're supposed to come out to see us.

We're doing a show that night and I'm telling them to Broadway Comedy Club, we're upstairs. But Conan knows I'm a comedian, he's the nicest guy, the greatest guy in the world. And so we're stuck together for six hours, he knows I'm a comedian. And I'm like, you know, trying to now after a while, just be funny when I'm like, what a fun time in here, huh? And he goes, you know, now he's, he doesn't get that I'm trying to be funny. Like, oh, this is crazy that we're in here for six hours like this. And he's like, yeah, this is a fun time. You know, it says it like that. Like,

he's trying, but like in a delayed thing, like he's trying to kind of be like, I don't want you to, you know, like just feeling that this is exciting for me. Cause it was exciting too. He just gets everything, but he didn't get that I was like, you know, in on the joke that like, yeah, we are sweat, like he's literally sweating on me. It's like a hundred degrees inside that little closet that we're in. But it was such a, I mean, you talk about an exciting day. I'm 23 years old and I'm in a closet with Conan O'Brien for six hours. Which you go from this to that Kate Hudson, to Boardwalk. I mean, you're like, I'm on a rocket ship.

And then it all falls down the hill. Then Peter Dinklage comes in and smashes it all. I still get residual checks for that movie. That was not it. That's great. That's nice. All right. Yeah, this is a quick one.

Well, we'll continue the subject. Yeah, we'll do the friendship one. Another episode. When Dusty's here. Yeah, when Dusty's here and you're here and we're all here. Yeah. Oh, God. Real quick, picture shows?

Yeah. Yeah. I got Vegas in a couple weeks. Yeah. At the win. And this Friday, I'm in Bozeman, Montana at Last Best Comedy Club. Two shows.

March 12th, next Wednesday, I'm here, the lab is A&E's for Brian Bates and Friends, Nate's doing it, Aaron's doing it, everybody come out to me. When? Next Wednesday. I like to tell people you're coming, then once it sells out, then I say, sorry, you couldn't make it. Yeah.

By then I've already got the tickets. Yeah. Nate bailed on us. Yeah. Yeah. I make you the bad guy. Throw him under the bus. Cha-ching. on us. Yeah, yeah, make you the bad guy. And then March 14th, 15th, I'm in Beverly, Massachusetts at Off Cabot Comedy Club. Nice. So the last Sunday of every month, I have a show at Flappers

Comedy Club. So come on out. And I am very excited. The 12th annual Easter sales disability film challenge registration is open. It's happening April 1st to April 6th. Make a film, have somebody with a disability in front of or behind the camera. The films don't have to be about disability. This year the genre is thriller and suspense. Our award ceremony is going to be May 8th at Sony Pictures. Nate presented last year. Yeah.

So, yeah. Then you got some good people lined up this year. We do. So, yeah. Adrian Brody. Thrillers. Yeah. That's who we, we actually should get Sean Baker, Adrian Brody,

Leonardo DiCaprio. He was trying to approach me to be on. Yeah. It would have been the time to hit him up. Yeah. I think you had left me and you would have hung out with Liam. It was that much of a greeting that you could have been like, all right, dude, I'll just meet you later on.

Yeah. Go to disabilityfilmchallenge.com to learn about it. Yeah. Aaron Weber here this weekend, Kansas City, Missouri at the Kansas City Funnybone. I've never done my own show in Kansas City before, so I'm excited. That's Friday, Saturday, and then later this month, Hartford, Connecticut, Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois. Come on out and watch the special. 250,000 views right now. It's getting a lot of press. Check it out. I was on Access Hollywood the other night. Mario Lopez threw to it. now. It's getting a lot of press. It was on access Hollywood the other night.

Mario Lopez threw to it. Yeah. Uh, it's been very cool. So, uh, thank you guys. Nick Thune special this Friday. That's right. All right. We love you.

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