The Nateland Podcast - #35 Washington feat. Adam Ray

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

On this week's podcast, we continue our look at all 50 states by exploring the great state of Washington. Actor and comedian Adam Ray joins us as our special guest to discuss what it was like growing up in the Evergreen State.    Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail] magicspoon.com/NATE  vuori.com/nate

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We're True Crime Obsessed Podcast. Search for us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. All right. Welcome. So we've had a little bit behind because, as you know, I think a lot of places got snow. Yeah. We did. We got a ton.

Most snow I've seen in Nashville, I think, that I ever remember. For a while, for sure. It was like, I mean, a guy skied. There's a hill by us, and a guy had his skis out. It was like Colorado. It was like snow like that. There's a dude snowboarding in my neighborhood yeah on the back of a truck yeah pulled around yeah so we got the ice first round

and then we got snow on top of it yeah it was like perfect we went sledding i got uh i posted a video about me sledding and everybody got mad at me with uh because i had my hands down but i would like everybody to know that hill was nuts i i want to go see what it was actually now the snow's gone because i think it's something we shouldn't have been on and you just don't know you know like it was i mean it was so fast and i remember going down it and uh i had my feet at first and i was like well that's that's not going to stop and so then i just had my hands you're kind of steering you know but it's i mean it was straight down super bumpy yeah it was you know and then it goes back up a hill and i was like i don't want to shoot off clark griswold yeah just be gone i mean there was one part of it i went down and i went

back up to the top and it was like it was a lot you would see some rocks sticking up and you're like just don't go telling the kids just don't go over by those rocks you're like i just don't know if there's a giant rock that we're like i'm very curious to go see because it could be a big problem yeah uh also since uh uh we did this uh my special was announced march 18th uh the greatest average american which you guys knew first here uh march 18th netflix greatest average american uh i'm excited about it you know we'll see what happens we're uh about to do just a ton of stuff for it gets so hectic you just want like just to, just to be like, it's out.

Yeah. The amount of, like, interviews you got to go do. I mean, it's fun. I mean, you have to do them. But it's a lot. So this is all I have to do here, March 18th. Right. Netflix.

It's exciting, man. Thanks. Congrats. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be fun. Starting to figure out some new stuff. I got some club dates, too. So I'm going to Phoenix, Stand Up Live, March 4 to 7,

and then a bunch of other stuff. I'm going to post something about that, and I'll just let you all know. But we're doing some club dates to kind of get back in the – it's all half capacity, whatever the rules are. But to get back in the groove of it before I start back on the theater tour, which I've got to think of a name for that. So we'll see what happens, whatever that's going to be.

There's a lot going on. Yeah, we had a couple people ask, we got tickets for Nate in the fall. Should we wait watching the Netflix special? I hope not. I mean uh that's why i'm going out now so i'll go out you know uh march 4 to 7 is the beginning of the clubs and i got a bunch of clubs i've been doing we've been doing zanies i think i have about 20 minutes new uh you know i think it's okay it's fine uh still figuring some of it out so i would hope you i

think you could watch it i i think look when that is always something people ask and a lot of people do wait i mean if you were close enough i mean if you wanted a way you could like i would have people if it comes out that weekend you know but, yeah, I mean, usually what you try to do is I would do at the beginning all the new stuff. So I'm hoping by the time the fall comes around, I'm hoping then I can have – I'll be 50 minutes at least. Yeah. And then maybe I close with some old jokes. But overall, should be new.

So I think watch it. Put the pressure on me. Watch it. Watch it. And then I just watch you, put the pressure on me, watch it, watch it. And then I just watch you leave during the show and you go, uh, he's at it, you know?

Uh, all right. So, uh, this week we are, uh, we're, we're going to,

uh, play the episode. It's a prerecorded episode that we did with Adam Ray, uh, about, uh, Washington state. But Adam also tells a bunch of fun stories.

He was, uh, a universal studio and work there. And it's, uh, it washington state but adam also tells a bunch of fun stories he was a universal studio and worked there and it's uh it was very funny just him he was wolverine and just super funny he's also on the new show uh the young rock the young rock on nbc plays vince mcmahon and uh so uh but we these comments we're going the comments are new so you're gonna see our outfits will change but we wanted to get some new comments because we want to at least be able to talk to y'all because i feel like we've done a lot of we've had a pre-record a few of them and so we want to be able to you know talk in a regular time and we said we've missed some of these comments. So first up, Christopher Mallow. Oh, Malloy.

Christopher Malloy. Malloy. M-A-L-L-O-Y. We're back. We're back, baby. Malloy. I don't know why I thought Mall. I think I thought it was heading the Mall direction,

and then it took a turn. Best episode yet. This is the New York turn. Best episode yet. This is the New York episode. Best episode yet. Nate has so much history in comedy with some of the best comedians of our era. I like the rapport with Aaron and Beagle, and they should be a majority of the episodes, but please have more New York comics on.

It's a nice treat. Thank you. I agree that you guys should be majority. I would love for you not being that they should be you guys should be majority i would love for you not being everyone but you know some of the comments were there just like man it's good to see date finally talking to some comedians yeah yeah it's real comics yes real comics how do you think i feel you know i mean it was nice uh yeah we will have new york comics as they come into zany's and stuff like that a lot of guys that I started with

did you have a different speed when you were in New York yeah yeah so fast but then you kind of adapted to it do you feel like oh yeah

when you go back to New York that was the biggest thing so when you're doing shows in New York it's very fast because you're in front of an audience people don't

like you go in front of an audience that always send them to go on these shows that they don't expect it to be a comedy show or they don't know what they expect they don't know you are you know it's not it's just different you don't so you got to like just crush them and everybody's killing

everyone the show is got tv credits these are all heads basically a show full of headliners and so you got to kind of bring it and you can always feel it when you would leave and then when you go back to new york so once i moved and then would go back and you're like oh i got i mean i would bomb the first you know not bomb but like it would be not great because you got to like kind of get back into that new york rhythm of like i got to hit them yeah pretty quick and you you get everything kind of tight new york's really good about teaching how to get stuff tight like really making a like a tonight show set like a quick set it makes it be super tight and uh that's why i think new york comics are the best uh is because they they know how to do that so yeah you do and yeah yeah be honest he's also from new york so he's right he's just super you know they

talk a lot uh Kayla McNair. Giannis describing his grandfather paying off the mafia to keep things nice in the neighborhood. Sounds a lot like my HOA fees. It's the new HOA fees. Yeah, we have our HOA fees. Everybody pays HOA. I think you pay HOA. I guess if you're in a neighborhood. Yeah. And you will oneA. I think you pay HOA. I guess if you're in a neighborhood. Yeah.

And you will one day when you grow up and get adult. But you will. Well, you don't live in a neighborhood. You're in a neighborhood, but it's not like you don't enter a thing. It's like, welcome to this neighborhood. No, anybody can enter my neighborhood. It's on a main road. It's on the highway.

You see those houses? They It's on the highway. You live here, see those houses? They're always on the highway. Like, just, I'm driving 80. My kid's playing in the front yard. You're like, I don't know. Sorry. Our roads were super snowy. And so they didn't get, like, someone to clear them at all and uh my neighbor

ordered pizza and the pizza guy went to the door and said these are the worst roads i've seen and it was you know in bjorn you pay these hoa fees and you do you're like where are they going what do we pay it's like well they they cut the grass in front of the entrance. And you're like, I mean, there's a lot of houses in this neighborhood. I mean, there's not a little reserve that you go, well, this is for, we pay the snow plow. Salt the roads or something. Salt the roads, something. Yeah. They did nothing.

We just, it's going to melt. They handled it as if, how you would handle it in the wild. If you just live and you just go, well, the sun will get it eventually. Summer's coming. That'll solve it. Cameron Mork. That's fine.

Mork. I was going to be very upset if old long days didn't make the editors work at least a little. Getting guests that aren't clean and trying to be clean is a funny concept and you should run with it uh well that would be all the new york guys so don't worry about that there'll be plenty more of that where if they can do it i think every one of them that will come in will have trouble uh i think adam did good uh he's an la guy though they're And there's, I don't know.

But, yeah, we'll have some more New York guys come in. Steve Byrne lives here. We just saw him today, actually. And he's a New York guy. And so he'll be, I mean, he can't keep it clean in front of his kids. So we'll see what happens here. All right, these are the Wall Street comments. All right. Three T's Wall Street comments. All right.

Three T's, three L's, and three D's. And then three, then three number threes. Tittle to three through three. He probably just made this two comment.

This was a podcast review was a podcast review, Apple podcast review. Okay. This is in the yikes. That wall street episode was like stretching Kramer and Jerry's clueless conversation about write-offs into two whole hours. Well, who's writing them off.

You should have let financial advisors bid to sponsor that episode with an ad at the end, asking listeners that they had heard enough to now appreciate the services of a knowledgeable adult. That's pretty bad. It's not good. Yeah. He gave us five stars. Oh, five stars?

That's nice. My future father-in-law heard the episode and sent me a book. Yeah? Yeah. He texted me. He was like, just listen. Why don't you give this a read? It's just about money.

Yeah. I haven't read it yet, but I will. Well, I mean, he's putting his daughter's life in your hands. There's a lot of people who are like, you guys were out of your league on this one. Yeah. Well, I think a lot of people are out of the league, though. Yeah. We're normal people that don't know it.

Yeah. As everybody that doesn't know it. So that's why, yeah, that's a tough one. You should, if these people are so smart, they should listen to go, here's the regular people, you know? Yeah. So this is what, because guess what? We won.

Regular people won that, right? Or not anymore. I didn't. You didn't. We bought too late. You never lose. You don't lose until you sell. Yeah.

That's my philosophy. Miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Yeah, that's right. Michael Scott, Wayne Gretzky. You haven't sold yet? Diamond Hands? No, so I haven't lost. You haven't lost?

Haven't lost any money. What's it down? I couldn't put something down a lot. Game stops at like 45 right now. I bought it at 320. Yeah. Just waiting for it to go back up. Your father-in-law sent you a book, huh?

And so you're just holding on to it. Just hold on for dear life, dude. Diamond Hands. What does it happen? Does it eventually just go away? I mean, it will get down to zero. Whatever it gets down to, it'll get down to zero unless the company. What if the company goes, will you hold?

That does happen sometimes. And then you're just, so you paid $325 just to stick it to the man. Good job, Aaron. Which I'm fine with. I think it's fine. You know, the main dude who just testified in front of Congress, he doubled down. He bought a ton more.

Oh, really? He's still in it, man. Yeah. If he's staying in, I stay in. Yeah, I like it. $325. I mean, it's $325. It's gone.

Yeah. You know? Now it's $50. Now it's $50. Yeah. And how many did you buy? It's more than $325. No, I bought not a50. Yeah. And how many did you buy? It's more than $325. No, I bought not a lot.

Okay. Okay. You bought it at $325. Right. It was $325. Each share. Yeah. Each share.

Every share. So you bought one share? I bought one share of that. I bought a lot of AMC stock, which is down a bunch, too. Yeah. They're all down. They're all, yeah. Well, you had a good run. I you really i didn't huh i did well you stuck it to them uh but they're you're sitting here

happy having fun that's right that's a good way to look at it yeah thanks and they were And they lost money. Right. Udaya Tinnity. Udaya. I've worked on Wall Street since 2014, and Nate's asking all the same questions I've been asking. I mean, see? There you go. People just don't want to ask these questions.

Everybody's so smart, but no one wants to just be like, why does it exist? I don't know. Now I'm probably lost on them. They be like, why does it exist? I don't know. Now I'm probably lost. I'm going to be like, why didn't I ask that? Connor Anthony. A company only receives money from the initial sale of the stock. To put it in context of comedy, if you sell 1,000 tickets at $100 a piece, you earn $100,000. That is the equivalent of your IPO.

If those, I'm already lost. All right. If those ticket holders then go selling your tickets on secondary markets like Craigslist or eBay and the ticket price continues to rise, you will not see any of that money because it is just private people trading amongst themselves. So the short answer is no. When people are buying and selling a company's stock in the market the company does not get any part of the money because they already got paid their lump sum from their initial uh issuance of the stock is that it is that a word issuance yeah issuance uh so you just asked originally like yeah do they keep getting money from yeah and basically no they get it the first time when they sell them yeah it's a game outside of it yeah yeah there's

just like yeah scalpers gamestop got none of that money that yeah yeah gamestop is along for the ride uh issuance what does that mean their initial issuance nice way of saying issuing oh yeah when they issued oh it's a prettier version. Did y'all use that a lot in your family? Issuance? Yeah. Thanksgiving? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thanksgiving? Yeah. You were very quick with the issuance of this dinner. Oh, yeah. Something like that. That's nice. Thank you, Aaron. And then your buddy that's like, can you pass me the peas?

You do that and also say penguin. What are the odds of that? Guy that says penguin and knows what issuance means. I'm one of a kind, dude. You still feel like that's the right way to say it though, right? Because I feel like we're hearing two different things. I actually feel now more than ever, I feel for sure that's what it's supposed to be. Yeah, reaffirmed.

Penguin. Reaffirmed. Now, I don't have to put so much oomph in the first syllable of it. Yeah. But it is penguin. Well, it depends on how big the crowd is. What? You have to put, you know, if you've got a large crowd,

you're about to do a penguin show, you've got to be like, welcome to the penguin show. You're going to add a little more to it. I think that's the only reason you're. That's true. I think if you were just at the zoo and you be like, welcome to the penguin shop. You're going to add a little more to it. I think that's the only reason you're. That's true. I think if you were just at the zoo and you're like, oh, let's go check out the penguins. I would be like, oh, God.

I was like, how about we not? I don't even know. I would go to it being like, I think we're looking at penguins. But I don't know. That's how I would enter. I would follow them going, where are you guys going? I think maybe he said Penguins I don't know

I kind of know where we're going Whitney Burdett Burdett another missed opportunity to mention Ryan Hamilton's bid on canceling

a gym membership but truly love the podcast my favorite episodes all have the sweet spot combo where Nate goes on an unprovoked straight rant Aaron starts laughing

so hard he can't breathe and boat ramp has some hilarious one linliners that get ignored. So more of that, please. Great job. I like Boat Ramp. Boat Ramp's great. Boat Ramp's a good one.

Yeah, Ryan Hamilton has a very funny joke about canceling his gym membership. I'm sending him a letter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he does. Ryan Hamilton's very funny. He's got a Netflix special. Anyway, James Hodgins. Aaron, please do not cancel your gym membership.

I will pay for it if you start using it. Also, have you seen a doctor yet for your gout? I only listen to the podcast because I'm concerned about your health. Aaron. So this is James Hod hodges this is this is one of my college roommates oh oh really he's new york city he's from new york and yeah he's from new york what's he doing now wall street yeah he works at uh yeah uh maybe not wall street he works at e and y i think ernst and young oh maybe i shouldn't say that yeah i don't

even know what that meant uh accounting firm i think it firm? I think it's one of the big four. Oh, wow. Incent Yearn. Is that it? What is it called? Incent? Incent Yearn? Ernst & Young.

Ernst & Young. E-N-Y. E-N-Y. I think he still works there. I don't know. He's a groomsman at my wedding. Oh, wow. Maybe you should find out what he does.

Is he going to have to put your arm on his shoulder as you try to walk down the aisle with your gout? You think with your gout, when we all go in to the wedding, you'll already be up there? I'll just say. Like you're going to have to. When did Aaron get up there like you're there you're gonna have to there when did aaron get up there he's been he's been here for a while because they can't you don't want everybody to know that you're weak because of your gout so you will just get there super early

yeah yeah and i'll be like fdr you know nobody would let he wouldn't let people take pictures of him in the wheelchair that'll be all the wedding pictures will just be me yeah no waste up yeah waste up you never know yeah yeah you show up and i'm already standing you're already up there with uh well he's ready to go bubble wrap around one foot and you go wow he's excited about this. You have to sit down. Yeah, I don't know. I don't have anything else. But yeah, look, he's going to pay for it. He's doing good, dude. He's Ernst & Young.

Yeah, let him do it. Let him pay for it, dude. He's like, it doesn't even matter. I haven't canceled it yet, so maybe. Yeah, we had someone write the letter. Somebody wrote a beautifully written letter for me. Just send that letter. Yeah, I forgot about it until now.

I'll print it out and send it. Yeah, you should just send that letter that someone else wrote and see what happens. I'll do that. Yeah. Did we read that? We'll read the letter. Once you send it, we won't read it till you send it. You got to send it.

Okay. All right, so the alien comments. Misguided son. That's the guy's name. Misguided son. It's a family name. The bit about having an alien child in space was probably the hardest I've laughed in more than five years. Blowfish somehow seemed to keep it together, but I'm glad Aaron was there to wheeze through it with me.

Thank you all for being such a bright light in these dark times. Blowfish, for a minute, I kind of forgot. And I was like, what does that mean? Like, there was a second of just in my head going, Blowfish, they kept it together. Justin Flory. together uh justin flory nate went on there and for gasping at one of the biggest technical logical advancements of the 2000s but but got blown away by an umbrella that solves a minor inconvenience that's true i'm just all i i i was blown away by it i didn't gasp alone when I saw it. When I watched the program, I didn't. I wasn't.

What's a gasp? Yeah, I didn't do that. So I'm still blown away by it. What was it? The umbrella that opens out. It's a great idea. I remember it. It's amazing. amazing i remember it that's what i was maybe that explains why where we're at is where we're at you were watching the iphone thing and

i watched the guy that did the umbrella we were watching two different things they're going on at the same time yeah they were the same thing you went to one channel. I went to the other. Mine was on Fox. I think it was on Fox. Yeah. The gasp is the only thing. I'm not saying you're not excited about the iPhone. I think it's exciting. I get it.

Gasping alone. I was watching with my sister. Okay. Doesn't make it better. Richard Gatling. Gatling. Richard Gatling. Richard Gatling. The only person qualified to interview aliens

is an adjunct professor. My brother-in-law, by the way, who was an adjunct professor, I found that out. Never really asked him about it, but I will ask him now what his thoughts are. Yeah, they would, you know, but they couldn't do it for long right because then

they would move on who do it for an adjunct professor oh interview the aliens yeah would we get a lot of stuff done or would we be like i gotta go teach social studies well what did your brother-in-law teach he's a band director now but he taught whatever he taught before that music stuff probably uh-huh i don't know in a small college yeah i don't i you know i don't know these classes i don't i don't remember any you know i didn't go yeah i took math i've said it speech that's what i took i don't mean your classes but I thought maybe you knew the class ETAW. I don't then know. If once I realize I'm not getting into it, then my thought, then my brain is done with it.

Okay. I don't remember a lot of stuff. My mom's even texted me and said, how do you not know this? She's now to the point where she thinks she's wasted my high school education. She went that far to go i don't know if we should have even done that like i should just been kept in the fence in the backyard you had classic pe games though uh we had a ap wellness yeah we called it yeah i told that on this right yeah ap wellness uh so yeah because i was it was a real deal yeah i don't i've been

thinking about that why i don't remember stuff i don't i just it uh i forget i watch these movies over and over again i just forget stuff and uh laura always says like she think it's like things we have to have so much in our we're thinking about so much as a comedian you have so much like of your act. I mean, I've done, this is, I mean, like four hours, five hours of material. And you just have so much that it's like new stuff doesn't come in and stay. Unless it's like I'm going to use it for my job, it doesn't stay with me. And so I don't, you know. I think even if you don't remember it, that doesn't mean it doesn't benefit you or change you in some way. Maybe.

You know, I don't know. I don't think it does. If you don't remember it, then it's like, you know. You're telling me like the first five years of your life weren't important and fundamental, but you don't remember anything from when you were zero to five. That's a good point, Aaron. Wow.

Got you there, dude. Notre Dame. I didn't go to college, so. is that what they teach there stuff like that not really man you're talking about matt i took a class called friendship in college oh he paid a bunch of money for that what did they teach in friendship it was called friendship from aristotle to facebook And it was just about. Should have been Aristotle to Ted Lasso. Yeah.

Ted Lasso wouldn't go to that. Which, by the way, we have. I don't have my phone. Do you have your phone? Did I show you the. Yeah. So I texted Jason. I know Jason Sudeikis.

I know everybody doesn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I know these people and but Jason Jason is he's so great he really is if you watch Ted Lasso he is that guy he's that he's just a wonderful person very positive very positive a super I mean just a wonderful person so we posted the Ted Lasso clip about you did aristotle and then i and i came back with ted lasso and uh i sent him that clip and uh and i i said i said i started a podcast and just wanted to share with uh you how impactful ted lasso has been ted is my aristotle and then he he laughed

he laughed and said you're right Your co-hosts are wrong. History will make them look like fools. You're a prophet. That's not an easy path. That's straight up from Ted Lasso. Wow. Text Aristotle. See what he says.

What's he going to do? What's he going to say? What's your friendship class about? It's about how we understand what it means to be a friend. In college, man? Yeah. They taught that in college? Where do you get the nerve?

Aristotle had some interesting things to say about friendship. Oh, my God. Did they not? Because they thought, what is it, a class of a bunch of losers? They didn't have friends. Oh, my God. Did they not? Because they thought, what is it, a class of a bunch of losers that didn't have friends? God. I mean, that's unreal.

It was a philosophy seminar class. There's zero. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. You can't get a degree in it. You know, you can't get a major in friendship,

but it was just a little seminar class. Well, you should go get coffee and have this conversation. You shouldn't be, your parents should get their money back. Yeah. major in friendship but it was just a little seminar class well you should go get coffee and have this conversation you shouldn't be your parents should get their money back you should honestly be like we're gonna send you a check for like 500 bucks because that friendship stuff was like i don't know what we were thinking that's what notre dame should do but as you go i don't know what we were thinking back then dude like we just got into this friendship thing and so we that doesn't make sense if you did you tell your family that you took a friendship class?

I don't think they know, no. Did you choose this class or was it required? It was – you have to pick a seminar, and I just chose – it would fill the philosophy requirement too. And how long was it? A semester. I don't know. You know, I just don't –

But Aaron does have a lot of friends. Have you learned something from it? No. That Aristotle quote? But that's my fault. I just didn't learn anything. You didn't apply it? I actually did.

I remember. Aristotle said, he said, he said, men can't be friends until you've eaten salt together that's what he said in other words you have to go through some sort of you can pick your nose and you can pick your friends like they write that on the board when you walk in that's what's all right you sit down you're like this will be a good one today yeah where is this gonna go go? That's unreal, dude. I don't, you know, I didn't get into college. And this is what they're teaching?

This isn't like the main class that you take, you know? What are they learning there? It was, we read through different philosophers and authors and what they thought about what it means to be a friend. Call it something else. What do you call it? Philosophy, like just something else. And this to be a friend call it something else what do you call it philosophy like just something else and this should be a subject you shouldn't go i've got to go to my friendship class i wouldn't be friends with you if if you go i gotta go to my friendship class

i'd be like what i would be like so us being friends is fake, dude. It looks like you're going to study so we can hang out later, so we can just sit and talk. A treatment. That's unreal. That's unbelievable. I would love to see something else. It wasn't like lessons on how to make friends, dude. It was just real.

It broke it down? Well, what is friendship? What does friendship mean? Well, that's the question, dude. That's what we're exploring. What does it mean? It means to be friends with, dude. That's what we're exploring. What does it mean? It means to be friends with someone. Yeah, but what does that mean, dude?

Well, then that never stops because we can always keep going, well, what does that mean? What does that mean? See? Dude, I would love. It's a year of philosophy major. That's what it's all about. And then do you ever, so there's no answer.

So at the end of it, you just go. Everybody has their. So what'd you learn? You go, I don't know if I learned anything. I learned that a lot of people think different things. Oh, man. This is one of the top universities in the country, in the world. We should go through some.

I mean, I took math. And I get made fun of. That's actually, people are using it. We should go do, we should look at some of these classes. I took a lot of classes like that. Thomas Aquinas on angels. I took that. What is that?

It's a class about what Thomas Aquinas thought about angels. Just him. Just him. He wrote a lot about it. Thomas who? Aquinas. You've. Just him. Just him. He wrote a lot about it. Thomas who? Aquinas. You've never heard of him? No.

It was Aquinas College here in Nashville. Yeah. Is that after him too? Oh. They probably didn't teach that there, you know? He's at his own college. Y'all just took a class. I mean, that seems...

I took a class about what John Deere thought about tractors. It's called John Deere. We learned all about John Deere thought about tractors It's called John Deere We learned all about John Deere And just what his world was about Which would be a better class The classes you're naming A John Deere class You should learn about tractors

That's how we got this table here I think John Deere brought it It's actually a guy. John Deere brought it. It's actually a guy named John Deere. Kelly Jones. I'm not someone who typically believes in things like this, but I've seen the men in black.

They walked up my neighbor's long driveway past their house and walked into the dense woods behind their house. Two men in black suits, sunglasses, black suitcases. I watched it from my kitchen window about 100 feet away. My parents lived in a round-shaped house, so we think it may attract these things. She wouldn't lie about that. She may not know what an encyclopedia salesman is. I don't get how.

Why are they walking in the woods? I don't get how it follows from the fact that their house is round. What does that have to do with anything? Because it's a weird shaped house. So the aliens think they're welcomed. I think that's very logical. I'm sure you didn't learn it in your college, but that would be,

yeah, that makes the most sense to me, to be honest. I didn't believe her until she said that. And then once I read that, I go, well, I mean, obviously she's telling the truth. She's got a round-shaped house. She's got a round-shaped house. Clearly what happened, yeah.

They fly over and they look for, they go, oh, there's us. Oh, crop circles are the same principle? No, I don't know. I mean, people make those, I think. Yeah, maybe they do make them in the land there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't really know about crop circles. To communicate with them, yeah. Yeah, maybe they do make them in the land there. Yeah. I don't really know about cross-stitching.

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how are you what's your name okay nice to meet, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Tristan, you just don't care. I think I got it when I came in, didn't I? I think he mumbled it. It sounded like it was, or he was like giving me his credits or something. I don't know. He's like, you might see me on this. He's like, what's up, man? Yeah, he's like, what's up?

All right, everybody. We got, today, we've been doing states. Yeah. And so we've been talking about different states and it's kind of turned into this thing that actually I've had some comics come in and when they come in town and you're like, oh great, we're just talking about their state with them. We have Adam Ray

who is from Washington. Washington. I added in some crowd noise, I'm guessing. People are excited. If I'm not mistaken, Chaz Washington? Is that where you're from? That's a you know chad well your acting has gotten better during the pandemic i was like it's pretty good right yeah i wear so much seattle i know chas but that's the is that still a thing uh is that a place no that's the thing where they took over the middle yeah chad wasn't it chad i think they changed it it was chop at one point and then chad and then

chad people were like that way you can get a salad yeah we'll edit that out but i think uh it was chad and then it went to chad or was it chad to chad i think it was chad and chop gotcha i don't think either way there was a lot of chad started it really bummed that they called him chad yeah yeah guys finally i started a movement i can't get any crown part of the town uh yeah that was a big deal yeah i do remember when uh i saw it and i was like typical you know that part of seattle yeah very you know hippie dippy ish but also down for the cause looking to make a change yeah and then um and then i started hearing rumblings that it was getting kind of violent but then i'd see images but then like dave matthews would go

on instagram and be like guys i'm down here to tell you that it's just all jamba juice and high fives yeah nothing nothing too crazy is really happening so i believe dave matthews over the news yeah he's you know that's where i get my news from totally yeah uh is he from there too he lives there he's his wife went to university of washington um and uh i think he's from virginia originally yeah but uh but they live there and and uh and rep it pretty hard yeah but uh so he went down there to kind of give the full scoop um virginia makes sense for him now that i think about it i think he was born in south africa yeah which is why he's got all the uh crazy guitar rhythms and whatnot but uh and then he brought it to virginia totally yeah and they were like you can go ahead and take that over to chaz washington

and it really took off from there he's like only if i can give people the actual story yeah yeah i don't want to just go and absolutely uh he uh ds was... I remember his Hug Me song where he had Judah Friedlander. Oh, every day. With Judah, yeah. That was a big deal. Judah was... That was a big deal. Talk about credits.

That was a thing for a while where I think it was on his poster because that video was so big. It was when I first moved to New York and started comedy and Judah would come in. Yeah, we get it, dude. You work. It was... Yeah. And so, like 2004 or 5, and that's how you'd bring judah up on stage with the hug me

guy from dave matthews wow that was his credit and everybody knew and so judah judah's been recognized which he's got a very unique look he does but judah is uh yeah i'll never that was his first that was the credit and everybody knew what it was and every that video was so big uh enormously popular do you remember your first credit i just had a conversation uh about this with a buddy about the thing that i would go on stage to uh when i first you know i think prior it was the first real credit prior to that i think it was like you know there was an adam ray who did a sketch on like jimmy kimmel but it was spelled like R-E-Y. But I was like, you can just say it to me. So I'd go up to that. And then I was a guest star on Jim Belushi's According to Jim in 2007.

Yeah. And I was so jacked to tell people. I think it was improv. According to Jim. And then I found out it was going to be the season premiere. So I remember slipping that in too. I was like, oh, wait a minute. You can say it's the season premiere.

That guy being like, wait, what? Can I do what Tristan did to me? We're starting to, yeah. Yeah. I was like, what are you doing, man? I was like, I don't know. I just got here. I'm just hanging at the doorway if you don't mind.

We're starting. You're starting the season of, you're like, yeah, it's a new season. You got just a little one spot on, according to Jim. You're like, yeah, this season's going to, we're going through a lot of ups and downs. You're like, oh, yeah. Did they tell you the whole season arc? Nah, but you could just feel it from the side. You know what's going to happen through a lot of ups and downs. You're like, oh, yeah. Did they tell you the whole season arc? No, but you could just feel it from the set. You know what's going to happen.

They're going to stay together, you know, Jim and Courtney Thorne-Smith. Does she go by her character name? No, she goes by Courtney. But you would know you weren't there. Yeah. She did. My first credit, well, New York would always be no one cared what your credits were no one had credits

so they would make credits being they would be they would sound insane so when you because people still wanted to go up to something right

but they want to go up to something and the host just wouldn't matter and so the host would then bring up they'd bring it

and they'd be like this guy's been on VH1 this is when VH1 Best Week Ever was every comic was on loved it yeah and so they would

just everybody would be brought up to that this guy's been on VH1 BET This is when VH1 Best Week Ever was every comic was on. Everybody would be brought up to that. This guy's been on VH1, BET, Comedy Central, just naming HBO, naming all this stuff. You're in New York, and so it's supposed to be everybody's supposed to be famous that's going on these stages. Obviously, no one is.

They would just do a bunch of credits. Did I tell the Mike Vecchione story? I don't know. Vecchione. You know Vecchione, right? Oh, yeah. This comic club called Comics. Did I tell the Mike Vecchione story? I don't know. So Vecchione, you know Vecchione, right? Oh, yeah. Right. So we're at this comedy club called Comics. And Mike Vecchione's supposed to go up.

And the host forgets Mike's name. And so he keeps going. And he's like, all right, we've got this next comic coming up. And he's been on Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime. He's just trying to remember his name. And he keeps rattling off credits. And so, I mean, it sounds like he's like Apollo. All he's just trying to remember his name and he keeps rattling off credits and so i mean it sounds like he's like apollo all he's doing is all these vh1s and you're like i mean this is going to be one of the most famous people ever eddie murphy yeah you're like who is

this going to be he's done everything and he keeps just naming stuff so it's giving like specific facts his favorite colors like magenta he's been to the david busters uh and queens you know yeah he founded this club and then he can't remember his name so he goes everybody make some noise for him and he just called him him yeah and then him here he is yeah him and he's like all right which is great because i would love to know what was the alt you know what was also locked and loaded yeah that he was gonna maybe say but then he's like just say him like did he have a version of the name did he in his head you know sometimes you you're like i think it's yeah you know like i you know thankfully remember tristan because

you said it right after again but maybe you know if i walked out i would be like i'll see it like like i knew it was a t but i was like trammy tram you know so maybe like mike he had a version of that tea bone well that's always the tea stir the tea stir you just remind me of another uh hymn type moment was the irvine improv and mark saratel and i were uh on this comedy jew show and mark had this friend named brett palicano who was like his eighth time doing stand-up but he was a real sweet guy like just so much energy and passion out of the gate for life and stand-up uh was he good no and uh but he was a sweet kid and from there so he was like i can bring like 80 people yeah and you know it's comedy juice tuesday night 10 p.m show yeah mark's like i'm gonna give him a spot because he's gonna bring a lot of people and he's so likable he's like and he'll host he's like and he's actually not terrible with like crowd interactions enough to be

a host even if he's bringing 80 people totally even if he's not doing jokes in his crowd work he's just got that fun like yeah where you guys from oh i've been there like yeah was that a joke or was he just confirming that he's also seen that spot but he definitely leaned in and had the timing of that being a punchline. What are those chicken fingers? Mmm, delicious. Again, was that a joke? So he gets to bring in a comic up and this is unreal.

And we find out later that he was pretty under the influence but was hiding it well. And he's giving a long intro and he just goes, this next guy gives a whole long thing. And you can see him start to rattle and spiral out of control. We're like,

Oh, he doesn't know who's next. And then he just confidently commits to it and just goes, so keep it going. Make some noise for my man. But set it to where you're like, I think that's the guy's name. Or I think that's his like alter ego.

Yeah. That this comic gets under those like, thanks. And hoping that people would be like, my man my man you know have to my man t-shirts you know uh so that's my man it would be a comic that would be selling out that you wouldn't know who he is yeah like you'd be like who is it you're like it's my man he sells out i mean my man yeah yeah he's doing 40 shows at zany's and you're like those 80 people came here for brett but they love my man yeah it's a my man crowd it's tough when you when you're hosting is it's an art it's yeah and it's an acquired skill set like i don't know

how much you did of it getting going like i feel like i did it i did do it uh i was usually terrible at it yeah and i would do a lot of like at Caroline's I would host. Because Caroline's would just have, a lot of times you'd have just a host and then the headliner. And then sometimes someone would bring a feature. But the way Caroline's ran on Broadway is when they did weekend shows, it was a regular, like New York is usually showcase shows. So it's like six comics on a show. But Caroline's was almost like a, with a Zanies oranies or you know sides but just regular host feature headliner and so the host would always be a local new york comic that's actually pretty good and like every because it's all these

new york guys that you'd get paid the most to host so you'd want to go work a weekend right and so so many times people bring in a feature that would be not good because they're just bringing their buddy from the road whatever and then you have someone hosting that's been on five lettermans and all this kind of stuff and it's really good uh so you would host in those kind of situations but i would never do a lot of crowd work i always just kind of did my act and you know i tried sometimes yeah but it's uh crowd work wasn't really a um by the way should i be hugging the mic more or is this distance no this is good okay i feel like you would have

done some aggressive like yeah you know you don't seem above doing big gestures to get what you need yeah he's not we just let it i are starting our own podcast yeah well look at that yeah you know what it is go ahead and plug your dates man what are you doing well you know when it airs during this podcast uh but is doing crowd work in new york isn't a well there's the guys are so good at it yeah and they do it so well and it's it's the best crowd work that because you're every night is where are you from and someone's from somewhere just gonna say la new york i think cities where you're getting a lot of uh you can ask people people from all over yeah right cities where there is a lot of uh coming and going yeah from all places and they crumble on the road because they go where are you from they're like

houston yeah you're in omaha man i haven't left since i was a kid what about you in the back and they're like omaha i gave you like so everybody's from omaha you're like yeah dude like that's yeah no one else and that's where they have trouble where yeah you know they get then they i mean the good ones figured out but uh it's it's definitely an art to it i mean you got to know how to do it do you think it's come in and out of fashion has it always been a popular thing i feel like i see a lot more of it now that i did even a few years ago yeah it's just become kind of a trendy thing to do yeah i, I think it's hard to write an act. That's my theory with it.

It's very hard to come up with jokes. And so it's a lazier way to be like, you can still be very funny and still put on a great show, and people enjoy it, but you're not having to write an act. Totally. And come up with stuff. And it's very, very hard to come up with jokes. I think if you're doing, a thousand percent which is why uh you're so brilliant exactly yeah this is what i've been saying the whole time you are man um even when i was just trying to think the last time i saw you i was gonna say was opening for

chris rock in seattle yeah um but then it was at the store actually and uh and you had just so much new stuff and it was like, you know, you're, you're so good. And, and one of my faves to watch. So it's like, there's no, no real, uh, opportunity for like jealousy. Cause I'm just like, that's, I, I'm never going to think like that and the stuff. But then you did a couple of things where I was like, how come my brain isn't better? You know? Uh, you always, everybody feels that that i feel that like now coming up with new because i'm trying to write a new hour now and coming up with that is like you just feel you're like dude i am awful i got nothing i'm all yeah i mean i there's i'll go to zany's and we're just

work on this new stuff and i mean i just you get done you're like dude i mean i might be one of the worst comedians yeah in america uh you just you just feel that way it just doesn't it's hard it's hard to you know come up with a new act this way now use i do it so much on stage now the stage is gone you're it's it's it's it's a new way that i got to figure out how to do it yeah uh it's interesting i mean it's a whole you know but i mean you're like that you come we did a show together where uh where did we get uh phoenix arizona i think it was Mesa. Mesa, yeah. Yeah. That was fun. That was a fun time.

Went to Hooters. We did. We went to Hooters. Is it good? Some people are probably thinking right now, pre-show? No, post-show. For sure. Yeah.

We didn't get our pre-show dinner, but there was truly nothing in the area. And that sounds like an excuse to be like, be like oh you just really you probably took the gig because the hooters was there yeah uh that's why it was the hooters tour actually yeah not a bad idea there was a golf tour that was a hooters tour when they did that they this was when hooters was in their heyday hooters is it's it's not what it was it's not it's um and uh we had a good time there because again it was like the show was so fun and and this is what's the best uh about being with uh hanging with comics you haven't kicked with on the road for the first time if you're hopefully both willing to just make the best of what's

around you and uh and it was like all right what's nearby that has tvs for sports uh and good enough food and um and you know clean bathrooms yeah you know yeah remember that remember the bathrooms being cleaner than normal cleaner than other hooters i was like this must be the where it started you know i bring everybody down to my reality when they when we hang out on the road like they go they're usually going to go to some like better healthier kind of decision and then i i and i think that i get it thrown on me a lot because i think like if you want to eat healthy and you're with me you're like well nate you can know that you're gonna once you get with me yeah he's gonna want to go to some chain thing and so

you kind of save up you save up until you get to me and then you're like perfect try to eat well until you hang with nate and then you can yeah do you remember that there was a bodybuilding competition right next door to us? Oh, yeah. Because it was you and I and I want to say Brooks Whelan or Thomas Dale. Yeah. And those are two completely different comics, but I feel like it was one of the energies are also different. I think it was Brooks. I think it was Brooks too.

Because I feel like there was definitely like a melancholy, stoned feeling in the green room before we got there. Yeah, they were getting spray, they were spray tanning. Yeah. Right. In the hallways.'s i mean it smelled like you would think it smelled like a bodybuilding competition which i know you're like well what does that smell like well think of a lot of tanning oil yeah and no carbs around and uh just i mean just jacked women men they were just all down that's what threw me for a loop because i've seen the the men but i don't think i've gone out of my way to really get to know the female bodybuilding competition.

Because it scares me? Yeah, a little bit. And also it's like seeing it live. It's just like anything. It's like when I first went to a hockey game live, I was like, oh, it's way better live. Not the case for bodybuilding. You're seeing it up close.

You're like, I'd rather just see this from afar. Seeing it backstage is definitely different. Totally. They're just walking by you. What are you guys here for? Obviously not what you're like i'd rather just see this from afar seeing it in backstage is definitely different totally because that's a whole by you yeah what are you guys here for yeah obviously not what you're doing yeah but yeah i mean just the opposite just walking our outfits yeah just a mess like just going in uh but just so jacked and uh i always wondered there was a girl from high school uh um jennifer stewart was her name probably changed now because she uh got married but she was a the first girl that i remember having a crush on that i went out of my way to get like a gift for right and i'm a real real big kid um you know love to double fist pop tarts dip them in cool whip

still do um but uh you were a big kid yeah growing up yeah because now you're i mean now you're good okay dude well that just lets me know that i will definitely be going to the gym when i get back to the hotel yeah i mean it's like you're a big guy i think you're uh yeah fluctuate you know yeah probably be down another 10 right now but um yeah we'll see i do agree with that the show that i'm on i'm on the young rock uh the rock going on in DC. And I'm playing a guy that's, I can't really say yet, but he's like, he's, look, he's a very prominent guy in the wrestling world and in Dwayne's career. But in future seasons, if we get more, I'm going to have to check. Take your shirt off. Oh, shirt off, but also probably like, whether it's creatine or straight up roids, I'm going all in.

Well, so the ro roy thing is a lot of a lot of people do it people do it more than you think oh yeah and you like you know now when you see like well how's that guy so big you forget that yeah someone because uh the the guy we we work out with is a strong man and he's a big dude and he's like we like push his cars and yeah they do all that kind of yeah like throwing just odd shaped things over tall things. Matt McQuiston, you can follow him on Instagram. That's awesome. But he shows all his videos.

And I mean, he looks like Thor, a redheaded Thor. And he is a big dude, but he talks about like getting that extra jacked because they have to take something. Your body can only do so much. Yeah. And then you gotta you gotta add a little extra to it people forget like you look at frank thomas and you're like you know and for the listeners who don't follow baseball they're like the eugenics guy yeah no

he was a he was a superstar in the 90s uh i had a shoe the big hurt and uh was just a beast but yeah like he didn't just do a couple extra push-ups to become the biggest guy in baseball. And then you forget, when they all got busted, it's not like that was the end of it. They just were like, oh, we'll find a different one. They find a better way to do it where you can't. When your 24-hour fitness closes, you go to a Bally's or a Curse.

You just adjust. I don't know if you guys get sponsored by them. Yeah, Bally's or Curse. I don't know, yours is in sponsored by them uh valleys are years in there just doing a real heavy weight i was at a 24-hour fitness in la the one on sunset once and they closed at 11 on fridays and saturdays yeah uh i don't know why and uh i remember 11 p.m 11 p.m yeah it's 24-hour fitness yeah and i to this point i had always walked in if i was working on a night like that you know's about 10.30 or whatever I'm walking out because I just know the rules.

And I see a guy walking in. And the gal, before I'm leaving, she goes, so just a quick reminder, you've got about 15 minutes for your workout. And he just goes, I'm sorry, what? And she goes, 15 minutes. He goes, what are you talking about? She's like, we closed at 11. He goes, and he just looks up at the sign and goes, and she's like, I know it's just,

and he goes, what are you doing? And just made such a hassle. So I was like right at the door. So then I just kind of took my phone out and lingered and was like, oh, I got a couple of emails. I should check real quick just to listen to him berate this sweet gal. And he flipped like full on like,

if you're going to put it on the website, change the name of your gym to Fridays and Saturdays at 11 and sometimes 24 hours. And to her credit, she was like, yeah, well, that's obviously too many letters for the marquee. She didn't say that, but she was thinking it.

I could see it in her eyes. He would agree with that. And there you go. Well, don't you think it would be a better name? He's probably, yeah. Just Sometimes Fitness. It's false advertising. Sometimes Fitness.

Sometimes Fitness. Yeah. Planet Fitness is kind of my favorite because they went for it. They're just like, look, we're not going to tell you how long we're open. We're just going to tell you that this is the place that's, you know, I guess. We got a guy right here that's kind of locked in with them. Are you really? Yeah. He's got a sponsored deal with planet fitness i joined planet

fitness after ralphie may died i haven't been once yeah i'm gonna take that you know they called it uh yeah they called their ralphie may package you just i mean true ralphie may form did ralphie ever hit a gym? Probably. I mean, maybe. No, I don't know. I mean, he just got – I mean, he did the surgery, I know. Right. But then that's the thing. A lot of them do – a lot of guys have to do that surgery where there's something, but they just – it goes back. Yeah, because you can't just – it's not like a – it takes away your hunger, too.

It's true. It's hard to – when you've got to eat healthy, and I have trouble with it now. I mean, I have a, I was making my food last week. That's already gone, where I was trying to like cook for the week and then kind of package stuff. Oh, wow, you're meal prepping. Meal prepping. And it's just such a big thing. It's such a nightmare to do. And then, so it's hard not to be, you get hungry and you're like, I'm just going to eat. And whatever your brain can come up with. This is a great transition to the rest of my story with Jennifer Stewart. So it was the first school I had a crush on. And I told my mom, I want to give her something for Valentine's day.

And she's in a different classroom. So I get flowers, chocolates, and a stuffed animal. I'm going for it. The triple threat of, do you also feel the same way about me? Didn't have any note or card, but I was like, I feel like three gifts the message is clear the message you know and so i go to the and it's before school a i'm bringing i'm biked bike to school with all of it so that was already a mess and look did i eat a couple of the chocolate chocolates when i got to school i don't remember maybe for sure i did and so i'm giving her a half complete box of chocolates but i'm like maybe we can go to the store and buy the rest together as our first date you know and uh and so i walk into her classroom people are putting all their bags and coats away it's so funny how vividly i remember this and i walk in and i'm just like

and i didn't have a speech prepared i'm sure i did in my head of like you know these last few months have been just crazy and i know you don't think much of me now but someday i'm gonna guest on according to jim you know and you're gonna think differently right the tables will turn you know and uh you want to hang out with blush and all of an end you know and so i give her all the gifts and i'm just like happy valentine's day like like i hope hope it's a great day and she just looks at me and i think got a little thrown off by the uh the people that kind of looked and saw that it turned into a little bit of a presentation so she was like i don't want that and i and i just quickly you know you know just kind of went into myself and was like cool i wanted this stuffed animal which was like not nobody everyone knew that i didn't so it was

even sadder it was like uh no you just no you didn't you didn't want it you don't want that stuff bare with definitely one of those chocolates yeah so cut to the point of that story she uh years later became a bodybuilder and uh maybe you steered in that direction possibly uh but i remember uh commenting on her page in classic comic form i was like there's got to be a fun way for me to give a throwback to that story and what she's doing now and uh and i wrote a little like remember when i gave you this like congrats like it's looking great well that i go remember when i gave you all that stuff and and uh and you said no and she's like yeah i still feel bad about that and then i made one more joke like yeah well you know it's still still still got the chocolates

you know and then just no response lesson learned like non-comics sometimes just don't really have that was like too much stuff you probably gave her too much then and then you commented too much oh i'm constantly just the give and take ratio the second comment the first comment was the bear boy this guy just doesn't know what was this the chocolate music here we go again we go again yeah this guy just doesn't know any stuff. And the second comment was this, the chocolate. And he's like, here we go again. Here we go again. Yeah. This guy's just constantly. Yeah, just constantly coming at me.

Yeah. But now, just, you know, you're going to be on The Rock. I mean, now, you know. All the movies you've been in? A couple. You're so sweet. I remember when we first kicked it in Montreal. I think I'd only done, like, you know, two movies.

And you were just like, everywhere we'd go, you're like, you know, this guy's in movies? You know, you're the movie star right now. But you're in movies, and it's not, like, everywhere we go, you're like, you know, this guy's in movies. You know, you're the movie star. You're at the, but you're in movies and it's not like just done enough little dumb. It's your couple of cool ones. And Sandra Bullock, your friend, Sandra Bullock was texting with her the other day. I mean, huh? How fun is that? That is wild. Very cool.

What was that about? What we were texting about? Yeah. I gave her some chocolates. He keeps trying it. Finish the box yet. He keeps trying it. Same move. It's going to work on chocolates. Yeah. He keeps trying it again. Finish the box yet. He keeps trying it. Same move.

It's going to work on somebody. Yeah. I was like, I know Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Yeah. No, it was, what were we texting about? What was the movie? The Heat. I watched The Heat.

Yeah, yeah. Classic, yeah. A good just put on the background, like enough jokes per, those are the types of comedies I like to because it's, you know, the story's good enough. The plot's not too crazy for you to follow. It's a fun movie. Yeah. And I would think. Got Rappaport in it.

Bill Burr's in it. At a movie, when you film a movie, it's, I mean, you're there for, how long were you there for The Heat? Like just a couple of months. Oh man, maybe two months. It was, which was awesome. Where was it at? They put us up in Boston.

Yeah. And it stayed at like the Fairmont in the wharf, or in the, Little Italy was right around the corner. Yeah, yeah. It was the first day I shot. I only shot one thing. It took like a half hour. And so Michael Rappaport and I, I'd never met him.

So he was just like, you want to go get some food? And I was like, I would love to. And then, you know, a bunch of cursing and then uh and then and we walked down a little italy got some food chummed it up guys need like minimal info to really get to know each other i feel like yeah sports comedy you know uh especially with comedy we've seen nickelback live and then it was just like immediate we're big fans of nickelback on this podcast. Are you really? Yeah, I am. I think they get a bad rap. Their sound is... I don't know how you are with tunes,

but if the sound is good, like OMC, How Bizarre, still one of my favorite songs. Because it's just like a fun, upbeat... Do I know any of the words? Nate doesn't listen to lyrics. Me neither. And I'm so bad.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Crossroads. Another one of my favorite songs. See? That's most white. Neither. Yeah. And I'm so bad. Uh, bone thugs and harmony crossroads. None of my favorite songs. See, that's most white dudes when they try to sing. Did you know, uh, what is the Reaper song? Uh,

don't fear the Reaper. Don't fear the Reaper. Did you know that? My bone thugs? Yeah. No. Who sings that blue oyster cold? You know,

sing it for me. The cowbell, right? The cowbell. Oh yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Great song. Bone thugs should cover it. Yeah, they should. It fits with cowbell, right? The cowbell. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. Great song. Bone Thugs should cover it. Yeah, they should. It fits with what they do. That's what they should do. But that song's about suicide or something.

Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind. Semi-Charmed Life is another one. Another great song that I remember. That was my first concert, too, in Seattle with Semi-Charmed Life at Memorial Stadium. You played Bumbershoot, right? Yeah. Great festival. Back in the day when I went, like any festival,

I think it hadn't truly gotten commercialized yet. They had great talent, but it was, I mean, saw Sugar Ray at a smaller stage right when Fly popped. Wow, yeah. And it was packed because Fly was getting a lot of momentum. But I remember they were playing like other songs that weren't Fly. And everyone is not about that. They're like, we came for what

we came for and it's not what you're doing yeah so figure it out mark mcgrath and uh and so everyone starts booing like through the third or fourth song and i joined in because i i was just like hey i'm a man of the people yeah and uh peer pressure and so uh and so he stops mid-song and just goes all right all right all right i know you guys just want to hear one song we have other songs we're trying to play we just got a few more and then and then the booze just overwhelmed them so then he just goes eff it he goes hit it and it goes boom and everyone goes nuts yeah they played it and then walked off stage that's pretty good they got they got to leave early totally yeah and then he got on the bus went right to extra yeah and um uh it was bumper shoot uh great festival yeah what was the one at george washington that's uh it was the sasquatch festival sasquatch also cool did you do that one i did that one that venue is

unbelievable i mean bumper shoot had more space so they could get more stuff from there yeah and that's why when i saw third eye blind at this uh um soccer stadium yeah first concert packed made my way all the way to the front of my buddy there was mosh pits and all that it got real hot couldn't like breathe almost because it was so many people compact and uh got knocked to the ground uh from mosh pits and whatever which i just i guess i just assumed maybe mosh pits weren't happening during like, you know, I wish you could step back from. I think we can all just stand. Yeah.

Enjoy it. They rock out, man. Yeah, they do. Don't trash Third Eye Blind, dude. No, I'm just saying the crowd. Oh, right, right, right. It seemed like the mosh pit was not lining up for those songs. Yeah, yeah, sure.

Yeah, that doesn't sound like it. Oh, it's one of my favorite bands. Yeah. Okay. You're coming in real hot about Third Eye Blind. We're cool. We came in real, I mean, that was aggressive. one of my favorite bands yeah okay i mean that was hey dude my favorite bands yeah yeah okay awesome i take my shirt off i wish i had a third eye blind tattoo just to kind of sorry sorry calm down aaron i'll sit out for a few minutes yeah he's what'd you say hey what was uh he won't he'll he's gonna vote not to air this episode. That's what...

You want to talk about it on your other podcast? Yeah, dude. You guys want to go? Hey, man, what's up with Adam? Adam Ray. The title is just Adam Ray sucks. You could have come up with a more clever title. Yeah.

No, the music is so great, as well. So the mosh pitting didn't seem... You would agree with mosh pitting is weird. I agree it's weird to do it to Jumper. That's what I'm saying. Absolutely, yeah. But they do it on the same page. It took me a second to catch up. I mean, for sure. I'm all good now. I weird. I agree it's weird to do it to Jumper. That's what I'm saying. Absolutely, yeah. But they do have the same pay. It took me a second to catch up.

I'm all good now. I apologize. Yeah, it's all good. We just start fighting right now. The music, they do have some tunes that are conducive to bumping bodies and taking people down. And one of those, I think, was Graduate. There's other tunes that are aggressive. You don't have to make up. i feel like i just gotta include them

what are you doing i mean there's other songs i'm mosh pits a lot of their songs actually you're overwhelmed that's me man just a nice guy you know but um uh so so i'm of a mosh pit but i fall down and then people fall on top of me and i'm screaming. Yeah. And, uh, and then I just hear faintly, there's a guy at the bottom of the pile. I hear this whole conversation through the chaos. Cause they're kind of just like close enough to where the music's above the ground. So I can just hear voices and somebody's like,

what? He goes, there's a guy under the people. And he goes, yeah, clearly didn't hear what the guy said. And, uh,

and he's like, there's a guy under the people he goes under he goes under that guy is another guy and i'm literally under there's like two or three people on top of me and i'm at the bottom and more people were just falling so i'm like oh i'm gonna die yeah listening to third eye blind yeah um and uh and then thankfully they uh they picked me up and i lived yeah okay uh Hopefully they pick me up. And I lived, yeah. Okay. Mosh pits are usually pretty nice. They are.

In that idea that they will help you up. Let's talk to our mosh pit expert. What is the nicest mosh pit you feel like you've seen? I've never been involved in a mosh pit at all. Oh, wow. Maybe you should have backed off on the mosh pit. But I've seen Third Eye Blind live, but I saw them way past their prime, and there was not a mosh pit energy in the crowd right yeah are you old enough to remember when the grunge movement

took off in seattle totally so i'm 38 i think i was about actually maybe 11 and 12 when it really got so unless pearl jam was covering like hakuna matata i was like all right like what do you guys do yeah uh but i was around enough but i didn't have any older siblings that were i think i needed maybe to like bring it into my world. Yeah. But I did have buddies with siblings that did that, that got us into, yeah, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and Oasis and Nirvana. Was Nirvana huge?

Like it just got in Seattle? Like that stuff was just- Enormous. And it was also just like the fact that it, you know, originated there and kind of started this movement. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was, it was really.

Like set the tone for the whole city. Totally. Like just kids that were listening to it were just. Yeah. And it was, and Seattle just has a, and Chaz, Washington too, has this, you know, that's why sports, I think thrive, comedy and tunes because it's an indoor, a lot of indoor activities do well because of the weather obviously which isn't as bad as people say all uh yeah i always say that when

someone asks that i always say from wherever i talk to i've been there i've been there a few times it's been the prettiest in the country like it's the best and then i've did days that it does rain and that's what they say you just get used to it it's always kind of just like rainy it's like and it's how you adjust it's why there is uh especially in the arts and the sports world when people find ways to use the time to get good at stuff like that like um and uh i mean i was making so many a couple buddies and i from high school we just started doing the the sketches and home movie thing like in seventh grade when it was like on weekends when it was pouring rain and you uh that's all you want yeah it was just like finding ways it was you know

what how long can you play game when you're going up there you don't ever remember you never remember thinking uh man it rains a lot when you grow up in it i don't think you know any different as soon as i got to la i was like you can wear shorts every day well la is a whole nother yeah it's another planet i mean like that's's – it's perfect every day. That's what – L.A. doesn't realize – I mean, people get tired of that where it's just they want some kind of change. You hear a lot of people go, I miss the seasons. Yeah. I miss the seasons.

And I do. I mean, you get them here, right? We get them here. I think we have a good balance of where we're mainly during winter. You're around 50 degrees roughly roughly 40 to 50 in the winter yesterday was super warm here but then today's it will get a little bit colder so we have a good balance where you will have your days of snow and a little bit it's not too much it's not new york new york was when it would snow it was i mean it was a nightmare it was just a the city it just was

a pain to walk around yeah it's so cold you don't feel like you ever get a break from it and it was just a the city it just was a pain to walk around yeah it's so cold you don't feel like you ever get a break from it and it was just it was a lot yeah you know and so here nashville's got a good good balance we get a lot of rain though do um is the same so just a a piggyback on seattle in the 90s like i just interviewed sean kemp at his cannabis store in seattle unbelievable not only just to talk to a childhood hero, but also we went deep into like, what was it like to be so glorified and a part of the best time in Seattle, arguably. Was him and Ken Griffey Jr. the same time?

Yes. So he was like, I would go to M's game sometimes till like the fourth inning. Because you want to think too, you're like, are all the greats in my city like buddies? You know, like, is Derek Henry and OJj mayo and darius rucker are they all just playing uno at a cheesecake factory somewhere yeah possibly oj mayo was a that was a wild name i know i was the first one i could that's a pretty good name i mean at least i knew somebody right

now that is something that's a great name to throw out i guess i could have said marcus all my colleagues got yeah i like oj mayo like mj mayo is a that's a yeah if you're playing the oj mayo drinking game at home yeah just someone's like oh yeah um but so he was like we'd go to m's games and then griffey would come to the sonics games and watch the fourth quarter he's like we would go to pearl jam he's like they were all do whatever they want just homies together which is great um but uh i was like was it that cool to be a part of as it felt and in hindsight you see footage of just that era and he's like oh it was the best man he's like the city was alive and and basketball ruled for seattle and i think that's

why there's such a big void like obviously soccer's gotten to be cool and the mariners did their thing for a minute and and you know football is uh taking over strong yeah strong as you know as it can be before you just blow it but i've been to one crack and i'm fired up for that yeah again hockey never had it so it's uh and why i love hockey even more so wait there you have a nhl team we're just going oh really i think it's this fall yeah i didn't hear they just started yeah season tickets sold in like 20 minutes and they're called the kraken yeah i kind of like that yeah one of the cooler logos. Yeah.

So maybe it'll be the crack house, fans of crack heads. Who knows? Yeah, when the Titans got – I mean, when Nashville got the Predators, that was like us. We didn't – no one knew anything about hockey here. And it's now become – Did you guys jump on it? Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it took – they stuck here for – they were here 20-something years. And for it, I feel like – I mean, everybody was going, and it was like – but now it's one of – I've been to some playoff games of the Predators. Oh, cool. And one where they lost the Stanley Cup. I went to the Stanley Cup finals. Wow.

And it's – I mean, it's maybe the best live sporting event I've ever been to is a Predators game. Just everything that goes on, how loud it is. They got lights. They got all this stuff. It's very, you know, the crowd's like chanting. I mean, it's definitely awesome. I kind of like that it's cold too.

Yeah. Maybe that's just the Northwest. It feels good. You wear a jacket. It's fun to wear a jacket. It's fun to wear a jacket. Yeah. That's the name of my next special.

Yeah. Fun to wear a jacket. Yeah. What's he talking about? A lot of jackets. Surprisingly. They don't think it's anything jacket stuff. You go, nah, it's it's a ton

of jacket stuff he's got one 17 minute mosh pit third eye blind story that is not worth sticking around for i wouldn't stay in it's actually just an excerpt from a podcast you just hear some of the crowd go all right dude don't trash third eye blind and then the guy comes back and goes no okay i agree with what you're saying like yeah because you killed the momentum of the show. That's what it is. Is there in-game entertainment in the, is it Thunderbirds? Who's your? Predators.

Predators. Yeah. There's like a house band up there. There's a house band. That's cool. I mean, they have two intermissions, so that was hard to get. As a football fan, they have almost like two halftimes. Yeah, that's weird. I do like the house band.

get as a football fan they have almost like two half times yeah that's weird unless you i do like the house band the mariners at safeco field about i'd say 10 years ago uh had the baja men uh for a for a game which was a bold move hey man an inning is fine yeah but they were like hey you guys can be here from the second to the eighth and i'm sure even they were like i mean they did a lot you let the dogs out like every inning oh it was another Sugar Ray type thing where they tried to play I think they have one other hit that was in an animated film

and you gonna look it up oh yeah hell yeah it'd be great if you had the page already pulled up and you're like

I'm actually a big Baja another band you can't mosh pit it do you know the Baja men were formed in 1977 they've been around that long I don't believe that at all yeah

for real yeah and are they considered like it's not i mean is it a yeah but he but he mean right what does it say 1977 bahamas yeah like what that's move like this that's what it was remember yeah but who let the dogs out they've definitely played it more than once yeah and nobody had a problem with it and it was in the outfield in the beer garden so i had a couple buddies that were out there that they were like you gotta come to the garden man everyone's going crazy i'm like i can see it from here you know i can still hear the band but but it was great it was and it was a cool addition because i'm always uh you know fascinated by the um you know stadiums arenas whatever trying to come up with ever i mean it's a show for

baseball too like what what are you getting 100 home games maybe like you can't just have multiple bat nights and jersey nights and bobblehead giveaways and fireworks spectaculars you're like yeah maybe like somebody in the manners organization was like i could probably get the baja man for like six grand they could play the second through the eighth and they're like yeah it's uh they you've thrown out the first pitch right yeah it's a great one of the coolest things ever yeah and i wore a uh dave kneehouse jersey at a mariners game yeah oh that's awesome yeah yeah no just outside nate's house 2006 yeah i'm sorry i think we got off to a rocky start you didn't deserve that uh yeah i don't think

y'all ever hang out again outside of this that's what i'm betting on i think all those vibrates in my pocket were him adding me on Facebook or just like a pre-apology text before I got here. Hey, man, I'm in a mood. I'm going to come at you pretty hard, all right? You got a sweet laugh and an infectious disposition. Another great album title. It's a big word.

We don't use big words here. My bad, dude. You're a likable guy. Yeah. Why would you just say that? Actually, he's the one guy who would like those words yeah oh yeah now i don't like people though like those words for me are fine enough but i don't like when people do like use words that you're like come on like yeah one and 50 million people say that word on kindred spirits man i like that yeah Kindred spirits is a cool phrase.

Yeah, that's fine. We've had a dumb him now. If people say obsequious, I kick them out of my house. The words he's using are not one in 50 million. Oh, really? Do you have a favorite word? Do you have a go-to word?

I think everyone's got a word that they probably say too much once you learn it. I remember once I learned the word bewildered. Yeah. Oh, probably. I just was going out of my way to be confused just to be like, I'm bewildered today.

Why are you using that? I say like a lot. That's my word. Me too. I can't stop it. I went to a big egregious phase. Cool. That's a good word.

That's a good word. I don't use it very often anymore. Egregious? I know what that means but for the fans yeah just throw it out bad oh yeah okay specifically so bad that you need to be cast out of whatever you're in right yeah there's a little more to it so this is bad like it means bad okay so this is a potentially egregious performance on the podcast so far. Me today. You should be cast out.

Right. Yeah. Most of the words he says, they're pretty common, actually. Last week he used fulcrum, and I didn't know that one. Yikes. Yeah. Now, I just, this just might be my stupid. He has a calendar, though, that tells him to use a word every day.

See, I hear fulcrum, and I think of Falkor from Never Ending Story or Velcro, the shoe. Yeah. It's not far off. Go ahead. Yeah, that's what fulcrum means. Fulcrum means... What does fulcrum mean? It's a seesaw.

Oh, yeah. It's a seesaw? It's part of a simple machine, like the middle of a seesaw. Yeah, why did you say it? The definition's more boring than the word. We were talking about early inventions, like a caveman.

Oh, cool, okay. And that's what he would say as a kid. He goes, hey, you want to go do the fulcrum? And guess who rode that fulcrum alone a lot? The guy that called it fulcrum. Big solo fulcrum rider. And then everybody, they go, I don't know what that is. Oh, man.

So you grew up, where'd you grow up? In Seattle? So Shoreline, Lake Forest Park is what I say. I've stayed at a hotel in Seattle. What's the one the Beatles stayed at at uh lakinta lakinta inn yeah fifth avenue it was early early day people don't know lakinta inn same year as the bahamas yeah uh there's a hotel there where it's on the water oh i mean there's the risk next to the pike place market no it's not that it's uh i thought the beatles stay there i want to say there's wood a lot of wood lynnwood lynnwood area could be uh

yeah i'm going off nothing i thought the beatles thing would be enough if that's not enough then i think i'm out but that's the one of the moments i was with graham k comedian and i remember graham we were talking because we're looking over the water yeah and as a parent you always have a fear of like your kid falling in water and you have to go find them dude i fear that for my nieces yeah and even my kids like they're even like taking a bath i'm like somebody do you have your mom walk like yeah yeah you're terrified of it and uh i was like in heart and harper wasn't with me but as like just as a parent like something that's you know all those bad things sometimes pop in your head and i tell graham that and then he goes oh man it's just nice you have something in your life that you love that much and i was

like yikes you should maybe jump in this water i was like what are you loser like why do you like how sad is like uh a single person's like when you just name something and they're like i wish i had something like that you're like i was like graham what are you doing dude like uh yeah i'll never forget that's what i remember do you think it's something about the because there is the whole there's a word for it too where you get affected by the weather i had a girlfriend that we were doing long distance she was still in seattle i was in la and you know a myriad of reasons got in the way as far as distance not being around all the time. But also the weather was really, I'd be in sunny LA moving and shaking.

And she's on a day where she loved to be doing that inside pouring down rain. And it was like, it was affecting her on that level. Seasonal depression. Yeah, for sure. And so I'm wondering if maybe he got a little dose of that and was on that bridge looking at the water being like, yeah, maybe I was born to be a fish. We were there for 24 hours. I don't know if that.

Yeah. Okay. There's enough goodness around you. He just walks around with that energy. So, uh, he, he's not the guy that chatter can't even cheer him up.

Yeah. You're like, come on, man, let's get some job. Yeah. You go down to the Pikes, uh,

was it Pikes place market? Pikes place market. Would you ever go there as growing up oh yeah still would go and anytime friends would come up there's a handful of touristy places i think like anywhere you even the space needle is dope like to go up there it's like such an amazing view even on a cloudy day and uh and there's like a restaurant at one level that rotates that um i remember i went to a kid's bar mitzvah there, which sounded cool on paper, but we didn't stop moving. So I was like, hey, man, everyone's throwing up.

A Chuck E. Cheese would have sufficed perfectly. It feels like it moves a little quicker. Yeah, it was like speeding up a Gravitron that they have at county fairs. You're like, okay, who's that same kid running this motion here? Would y'all go there? That would be like your field trips? Field trips, we would go to the aquarium, which is where i met my first celebrity at the seattle aquarium local celebrity uh because remember when you would see people on the news yeah oh yeah and i think every

worked in news for a long time did you really do like an anchor or sports or no just producer producer this is the first time he's ever been on camera uh really can't tell yeah this is our mistake yeah they go they fired him because they he wanted to be on camera. Really? You can't tell? Yeah. I'm joking. This is our mistake. They fired him because he wanted to be on camera, and we go, we'll take you on camera. We'll plop you right down and throw one right on your face. You do it the way that you've segued into a couple of the questions was very like, you're on top of the interview.

You're very professional. He does all the research, and so he knows a lot about your state. Awesome. I always think that's got to be some channel. That's got to be news journalists. Does the name Steve Poole ring a bell? No. So Steve Poole was our weatherman.

Yeah. Yeah. Get a great picture of Stevie up. This will help to sell the story. And again, it's like, didn't LA have like Fritz Coleman, right? Was like the weather guy. I'm sure you- Yeah.

Back then, you're, I mean, I think they're still kind of known, but like he would say, you would go out with, because he'd go out with all the people that were the local, like who'd you go out with? Like Chris Clark. Yep.

And so they were, all these people at the news, I mean, they would be- Million dollar smile. They're celebrities, dude. Like they're gigantic celebrities. You see them every day. Yeah.

And I, you know, I don't think people, when they saw him, would be like, what's it going to be tomorrow? But it was more just like seeing them on TV a day. Yeah. And I, you know, I don't think people when they saw him would be like, what's it going to be tomorrow? But it was more just like seeing them on TV a lot. Yeah. And then seeing them out and about.

And I saw him at the aquarium and I fanned out at, what, 10? And was just like, Steve Poole. And he just kind of like slow motion turn like, hey, kid. You know, and, you know, just lights around him. And then he had a headshot on him and signed it for me. Oh, wow. And I didn't ask for that. Yeah.

I was just like, are you here to see the fish? And he was like, what's your name, kid? And I was like, all right, he's just on autopilot. But took it and was awesome and was real sweet. And it carried around the rest of the day? Oh, yeah. But it was awesome. It was a cool.

Apparently, he was carrying it around. Yeah. He finally got rid of it. Yeah. Thank God. But people were, I remember other kids being like, no way you met Steve Poole. Like it was a big deal. Yeah, man.

I mean, I. Field trips. I just miss field trips in general. Yeah, I miss. I love the idea. Yeah, our daughter. I mean, our daughter goes on. She was starting to go on field trips.

And I think it's kind of gone down. But where like the parents would go. I haven't gone to one. But my wife went. Where, you know, you get like a couple adults go and you yeah it's the best we would go to like cider farms or the zoo was a big thing um parks uh you know what i got to see later in uh in as i got older when i started working at universal studios right yeah the tour guide there for a little bit and was doing wolverine and then i was doing the if you've ever been in universal studios which ross shot my special at yes uh but it i was

so deep down when i saw that man you probably yeah right where you were moments away where you could have seen me getting into a fight with the guy who was playing shrek is where you filmed your next special you you did it at the highest level not like you know there's always like hollywood would you go see the hollywood boulevard where spider-man's got like you know asics on and peanut butter dripping from his pants yeah it's not it's not pretty uh but you were you worked at universal and you did you were wolverine so you would come out someone have to walk out with you right uh there would be a uh you know chaperone security for all the characters but we would initially pull out all together was uh captain america spider-man storm and green goblin and myself.

And, um, which is just already a weird sentence. If I had any sort of, you know, a post-work chat with like a, I live with the guys that were a chef and one worked at AT&T and we'd be going around and be like,

so what, how was work today? Oh man, this person came in just so furious about the new phone and like, couldn't get it to work. And it was just such a pain in the ass. And like, I'm probably going to quit. Like I'm just over this type of customer service. Other kid, you know, the chef, he get it to work and it was just such a pain in the ass and like i'm probably gonna quit like i'm just over this type of customer service

other kid you know chef he's like yeah it's just you know we had we're just busy more busy than normal i thought it's gonna be the slow season but uh so i'm i'm happy to be home man i was cooking up a storm you know but i love what i do so what about you adam well you know five old curious george and spongebob uh they were on a trolley uh with a song blasting and i got accosted by my boss because i was a new york cop and i was squirting a squirt gun spongebob uh they were on a trolley uh with a song blasting ooh-ee-ooh-ah-ah ching-chang-walla-walla bing-bang and i got accosted by my boss because i was a new york cop and i was squirting a squirt gun that wasn't from this that that time period apparently and uh but you know so just a regular tuesday and uh so you would do more than wolverine you would do it so i was the last time i did was

the new york cop yeah which was like not from anything you're just a uh just a beat cop and they had a chunk of the next to the bou Bush Brothers stage that was like 1940s New York. So they had a couple of people up in the window that would scream down and be like, hey, welcome to New York street. And everyone's like, I feel like we're in Brooklyn. And then they had like a cab there and then like a pizzeria. And, but, but yeah, that whole, the, we'd come out together on these ATVs. Yeah. And then we would, and by the way, there was not people waiting for us.

So we'd come out and people were just kind of like. And then they had us come out together. It's not a good show. We all zoom out together and then pose. Yeah. So we'd come out and then stand up on your thing and go. Yeah. And by the way, there's people just like on their maps like. Are we supposed to watch this?

And then we would parade around a little area and then stop at one section of the park and take pictures for a while. Yeah. So first day working on the ATV, had to even take a little ATV practice thing. I'm out there in the full suit, just bare minimum facts. You know, I used to joke about this in my act. Kids would be like, you know, what's your favorite food? And I was like, potato salad.

Who cares? You know, I'm not the real guy. And why do I got to know this? You know, isn't the sideburns and the fake abs enough for your imagination? And so I would parade along and I was at the very end and a kid runs up to me for an autograph

and a picture. And I was like, yeah, hurry up, hurry hurry up gotta catch up with the gang you know and uh and so he's standing real close to me and took the picture and then thought he ran away he kind of lingered as you do with a celeb yeah and um because we're just the way they look at you was crazy oh yeah i mean kids crying being like you're my favorite thing in the whole world yeah and so i you know put it into full throttle and take off and feel the wheel just go up and over something and i was like oh boy and then and then i turn back and i hear so then i'm like all right now i'm just quickly going through my head what's what's the move yeah you know and so i went through three options like what

would wolverine what would what would he do and uh so i was like all right do i look at him and go hey hang in there bub you know or uh or hey you know stuff happens get better soon i want to see you better soon i want to see you back here for the same spot same picture five years from now uh or uh or do i like put it in reverse yeah go back over the other foot just for good measure no so i couldn't i couldn't think what to do. I literally just was like frozen. So I did nothing. Yeah. But I thought everything while I'm staring at him.

So let's recap. Run over his foot, turn back, stare him down, and drive away. To which that gets back, obviously, because whoever the chaperone was was also an adult tattletale and was like, you know, Adam, get a kid's foot. And so I'll go into my boss's office. So it's your first day. And this is, everyone's, first of all, getting a lot of compliments.

Like just the voice, your mannerisms. It's just Captain America said you're, you know, so far just his favorite Wolverine to work with. And I'm like, oh, Scott said that? You know that's just a guy, right? All right, just making sure. He drives an Escalade when he leaves work with a bumper sticker that says, nobody's ugly after 2 a.m. I'm pretty sure that's not his catchphrase.

So then she gave me, you know, read me the riot act as far as like just being more aware. In general, running over kids. How no one's – Is that wrong? Yeah. Yeah, I should have probably, you know, assumed don't run over a kid's foot but just be cautious because they're they're gonna run up to you and just be you know as close as they can to you because you're wolverine that's a big deal that's a and i'm like yeah i mean it's you know it's pretty i guess i just didn't i didn't see the foot and

also it's my first time on these things and you got a lot of power and just you know they even she uh uh gave me a hard time at one point for getting a little, which I thought I was like probably in the best shape I've been in, in a minute. You would have to be in. Well, they give you the fake abs and like the fake chops and. So you're wearing something. I'm wearing something, but still you can't be a complete. Yeah.

Cause I've seen the Orlando Wolverine once when I went down there for a friend's like bachelor party thing. And we went there and, and the Wolverine was like Hollywood Boulevard adjacent. Like he was like Crenshaw Wolverine. And just very, like, you know, he looked like he was 280. And you're like, you gotta be in somewhat, for the suit to fit.

Yeah, it's a tight suit. So she told me to lose weight. She was like, we're gonna have you take five weeks off so you can hit the gym and go to 24-Hour Fitness.'s like we're close do they get do you get paid good doing that um yeah so it was doing the tour guide was eight bucks an hour and then you had to work a handful of hours to get a pay bump uh but it was just season that's where you're on the the trolley telling them jaw yeah and that was awesome because that was like an hour-long show where i'm like running bits,

you know, like that I'm doing the open mics that night. Yeah. And it would have, you know, and would do just stupid stunts and things with the video and, and would really freak out for the jaws part. Like to where,

like I made a couple of kids cry because I'm fresh out of acting school at SC and I'm like, this is an acting exercise to see if a kid will believe if that's a real shark. but it was, it was fun. I mean, look,

I do love that. Think of all the stuff that all the acting that you have gotten where I'm a, but you have, yeah, that stuff is like, I, people, uh,

I'm a big, like, I love the idea of that, that you, you do recognize that you're like, yeah, man, like I got to feel stupid.

Now you feel stupid doing this, but this is something that will help me it won't they weren't wasted reps for sure i feel like they every day even as wolverine because i would get uh uh you know harassed too for my boss about like being too funny because and that's why the cop thing was the best because it was truly not from anything and uh so i could just do and say whatever and i would be riffing up a storm and go back to dave matthews he came through the park with his family and i would always break character to talk to everybody greg maddox had a 10-minute conversation with just about baseball and he was and and dave matthews and his family i'd always go up and do bits and then make them laugh and max was just slowly eating a cone just judging me before i even broke

character he was just like and you know just watch, you know, try to make his kids laugh. And then I just pulled him aside. I was like, hey, dude, you're just one of the best. And he was like, oh. And he goes, can you just do a different voice like that? And it's all right? I was like, yeah, man, this job doesn't mean anything. You're Greg Maddox.

That's such a, yeah, dude, I'll quit right now. You're Greg Maddox, dude. Such a weird guy to quit. Like, it's a picture from the 90s it's like he's like i'm not even doing anything anymore you're like dude you want me to quit dude i'll quit you're like you just give me the word dude yeah you see no one's coming up to me right here you know how many feet i've almost ran over today yeah yeah just to get over here but it was like the wolverine was like 23 an hour yeah um but yeah it was just flexing that i guess performing muscle but also it's probably why i uh enjoyed doing like crowd work in in my shows uh and just also it helped with i don't know even podcasting on a certain level just to

to get in that um you know get those reps in of just, I guess, improvising and just, and getting comfortable with talking with anybody. But there, there were these groups when we were talking about field trips, they'd get these older kids, probably like high school, right? I don't know if you've heard of these, these shows at the improv,

they'd be called prom show teen tours. We would do prom show. Okay. Is that like in that teen tour was a thing where they'd get like 40 kids from a certain city i think upstate new york was a lot of them that i would see and they do this whole thing was i think like 50 grand yeah it's jewish kids isn't it totally yeah yeah wait is this yeah all right take it easy but you mosh pit with them huh no mosh pits at the bar mitzvahs i went to should have been uh but uh but they they pay a lot of

money at noon was this like during the day some no they were still nighttime shows but they do vegas san diego sam fran in la and they'd on a big bus they'd stay at all these dope hotels and then they'd be like lego land disneyland uh the improv universal and really just vegas for you know i don't know, the Hooters and, you know. Yeah. And so they would come to Universal and just always try to, and that was like the most fun because these kids were like, they were just spunky little, you know, D-bags and trying

to like mess with me. Like some of the young kids, like trying to like size me up and like impress like their young girlfriends by like poking fun of me yeah buying them chocolates and Ted buying them $40 Mr. Pibbs

at Universal so I would like that was fun because then I would just like go toe to toe and just roast them in front of these girls and just you know

yeah and it was awesome because they were just like I'd be like oh yeah you know let me know when you get that mustache in

and hair on your back or whatever just you know well they don't know that a professional comedian is the for sure Greg Maddux is like Let me know when you get that mustache in and hair on your back. Well, they don't know that a professional comedian is the first to buy it. For sure. Greg Maddox is like, this guy sucks. Let's make fun of that guy's back hair. I like that you took it, taking it seriously. That's when you go to Disney, which is the same idea with the universe with these characters.

Disney, they take it so serious that it makes it great. And you're going there as an adult. You're going there. So my daughter believes that these are all real princesses. Yes. And so you want that experience. And when you go meet Cinderella and Elsa and all these people, it's like they're so good. Yeah.

Some of those princesses, they had Princess Fiona at Universal. Yeah. I mean, there's different variations of commitment level, but like that, that was the cool thing was being every day, people coming in and being like, you're like, you're like,

wow, you're a part of this person's vague. That's why I would like to actually chat people up and get to know them a little bit. Yeah. And cause I was always curious of like, man, you're getting people from all walks of life.

Some people that were like, you know, I get a guy pull me aside being like, yeah, I emptied my bank account for this vacay and so i'm just i'm like oh pressure all right now i gotta so then i go out of my way to maybe go get some front of the line passes for him or something like that or yeah or uh or you know pictures with all the avenger i'd rally everybody you know just things you know and then some people were uh you know just had their season

passes and we're coming through and and some people would divulge, like, info to me. This one guy was, like, giving me a whole run down after his family sent him off to Waterworld. And he's like, I'm going to stay here. And there's the one bar in the park he went to. And he gave me this whole thing. He's like, yeah. He's like, I just – he's my new wife. Like, my ex-wife.

He's like, I'm not technically divorced yet. But, like, I'm on this vacay. And I'm just like, hey, man. The bathroom's over there. Have you been on the Shrek ride yet? Yeah, yeah. Change the subject? You just got your Wolverine claws scratching your head.

You're like, all right, man, I got to get out of here. Water World is where we filmed the specials, right? By the way. That middle circle. Yeah, dude. Or we walked by Water World. I'm so. You know Universal like the back of your hand if you go

a thousand percent that's why when he says like you're do you get do you still know people there oh yeah there's some life so you're you're you're nieces and you have nieces and nephews uh one nephew's one of you and so like oh wow so when you take them it's like they haven't been yet so i'm just we were oh you're gonna oh april we were gonna do a disneyland and then i was trying to uh find a way to uh get them to stay maybe a couple other days and crash with us to go to Universal. Because it's still very kid friendly. I mean, talk about the uncle of the year. Oh, yeah.

When they do, when you do get to take them to Universal, because you're going to just know the fact that you will know everything. Yeah, that'll be cool. And then you're going to know. Yeah, I feel like you're going to. You're going to know some of the characters to give some preferential treatment. Yeah. Was it cool to do it there? Like, I don't know how much connection you have other than being a cool man.

You know, I do have a connection with it. A, I have a joke about claustrophobia and it happened on The Simpsons ride when all that kind of kicked off. Oh, that's a real thing on that ride. Yeah. And so I was I was able to kind of say that. And we were right next to The Simpsons ride. So I kind of like when sometimes you have a story. I like the idea of doing this thing in my act where it's like this big thing that I talk about in my act that's this joke and be like, I have this joke because of there, right next to where I'm standing. That's so great.

And then I remember going to Universal when I would go to LA. The first time I went out there I'd always stay with friends but the first time I did Conan out there and we, you would stay I stayed at the Sheridan that was right there or something and so I always walked around the boardwalk or city walk

and I would always walk around the city walk and I would do it, I didn't really know anybody in LA I was coming from New York and you don't it's when you go to LA thinking you hear everybody goes to LA and has all these meetings and then you go there and you don't. And so then you're there in a hotel and you are there for three days longer than you should be. And it,

and you, and sometimes it could get depressing cause you're like, you know, some people are doing meetings, you have nothing going on. And so I see, I'd always walk around city walk. I always,

a lot of times would stay at that Sheridan or the Hilton. And I would just, so I could, I could go walk up there. I could go eat. It was easy to walk around CityWalk. I always, a lot of times, would stay at that Sheraton or the Hilton. And I would just, so I could go walk up there. I could go eat. It was easy to walk up there and eat. I kind of liked that I was in this little area. There's a lot of people around. Yeah. And I enjoyed it.

It's a nice little bubble. So that was a big deal to me for shooting that special there. Cool. Because that's where I would go and be, I would be at that hotel and be miserable. And then, not miserable, but I enjoyed. Yes. I really, it meant a lot to me to remember those feelings of of i wish i had something it was better and just going every

night just walking there alone wow would you write on the did you have like would you go to like the subway and like uh yeah i would i mean i never i've never been a writer like that so but i would i would just go walk around i'd go eat there i'd go just i mean i would go into the stores i mean i could walk around for hours on city walk and just it's not even i went to universal i just would go walk on city walk that's so and so it was like i have a i do have an attachment to that place that's extra special yeah it was extra special when does it come out by the way i'm sure you've touched uh i you know what i don't know yet when do we think though it may be out by the time this no it won't be because i think i know the date i think march we don't know for sure but i think march this will come out if people are hearing this

we recorded early i think it's coming out february 17th this is yeah great and then uh march is when the special will come out great yeah i'm so pumped so yeah yeah i'm excited i'm excited is uh is there something about this is your what fifth six i mean overall special yeah uh this is your what? Fifth? Sixth? I mean, overall special? Yeah. This is my, for hours, this is my third hour. Cool. And then I've done a half hour and then I've done two half hours. So it'll be four hours total of standup and an album. Is it even fair to ask where it ranks or how it compares? Or is it almost like when people go, Mike or LeBron, and you're like, different eras,

different time, different material, but like, just hearing your sentiments and the attachment to it, I feel like it's gotta be, carry a little more weight. And it's up there, it's gonna be one

that's remembered more because it was shot during this pandemic, and it was, so I was very happy to, wait, the what? Huh?

COVID. Yeah. I, look, I'm here, saying, yeah, I don't know. What's that's that yeah it's uh it's like a cold scene okay yeah that's a great it is very funny just always act like you don't know

like if someone you you do that in the uber i do yeah dude i used to do that all the time yeah like i mean yeah there was one kid i think it started when my folks split when i was nine and a kid told me who knew my folks that they got back together yeah i was at recess and i believed it and so i went home being like mom awesome and i was like you and dad figured it out yeah no oh and then go back to school and and uh and and i think i started messing with people after that yeah because i was like oh that felt awful yeah but i was like oh i'm very gullible i wonder if people are but i wouldn't do that's that was pretty you know that was a deep i love that that kid would hear it before her own son would and i believe that it's like where you got a good source of this he's's like, pretty decent source.

Yeah. Your dad's back in the picture. So what about Washington? Yeah. Let's get some facts about Washington. I got a lot of questions for you. Oh, please. Yeah, we got a lot of Washington questions. I love that you've left Steve Pull up, by the way.

That's very- Well, he's retired. I'm on board with him. 40 years, man. Isn't that crazy? 40 years of just Doppler radars and photosynthesis. You get a good weatherman, it's hard to let them go. And people like to see their weatherman.

Like you feel more confident going, I trust, let's leave him alone. And then he'll let us know. The weather though, for most times in Seattle was like, you know, you're like, all right. And weather in general, I feel like when they're showing 30 percent chance to rain every day yeah and if there's when they put up like a picture of a sun wearing sunglasses like if you can't see that and like decipher for yourself what type of wardrobe to put on yeah you really need a guy to like spell it out for you after that but i think it's you're right it's the personal touch right it's the yeah you know it's comforting and he's got a cool weather name i feel like it's, you're right, it's the personal touch, right? It's the, yeah, you know it's comforting. And he's got a cool weather name.

I feel like it's almost like with athletes. Steve Poole. Steve Poole. Come on. Or maybe he made his name cool. I don't know. He's trying to be in the pool business. Let's talk about it more.

Do you ever have tornadoes? West of the Rockies? No. Do you have earthquakes? You feel a lot of earthquakes? Earthquakes. I had a couple in high school that were crazy. One, I remember

watching a Sonic game when I was downstairs. The Rain Man had a crazy bone. Downstairs, wow. You got it for money. You had it upstairs and downstairs. When my folks were together, yeah.

Your dad moved upstairs and your mom stayed downstairs. My friend at school told me that. I didn't know that. I thought he was out of the house. What I hear is your dad's going to live upstairs and your mom will be downstairs. You're like, wow, dude.

All right. That's a compromise. That's good. So I basically got two playrooms? Yeah. No, there's earthquakes. Decent. I'd say there was probably three that I remember living through. Tornadoes, no. When I would go visit my grandparents in Oklahoma... I mean, that's earthquakes, decent. I'd say there was probably three that I remember living through.

Yeah. Tornadoes, no. When I would go visit my grandparents in Oklahoma. I mean, that's the- Tornado warnings every other 10 minutes. Yes. I feel like. It's a lot.

Every 10 minutes, there was the beep, and then under the ticker of, like, get to a shed or a bunker ASAP, or a Hardee's. Go to a Hardee's drive-thru and you're like, is this an advertiser? They try to advertise during a tornado? Yeah. Swing through, run to any Hardee's bathroom. Hardee's bathroom. But before that bathroom, get the new steak and shake, you know?

Yeah. Get the new double-decker cheeseburger. Yeah. So, and the quakes were always like, there was one that was like a five something or a 6.5 that was like a pretty good uh rimshaker yeah like you you felt it and then one at school when i remember getting under the tables and i remember again like you just follow blindly those types of rules i remember we all went out to a field after there was a bomb scare the same day as an earthquake where you're just like i felt like your buddy

on the edge being like let me just jump into the ocean yeah and uh because this is this day was not meant for any of us and uh the bomb scare wasn't as crazy because we were all out on the field and everyone's just like business as usual like waiting for the school to blow up but if someone's joking being like hey i hope yeah yeah let me get the summer off was a good goal we're talking about being gold but if a teacher they made up the bomb scare and then the field and then someone just runs out of the school and they go, turns out the bomb's in the field. Everybody back in the school. And then you're like,

no. And then everybody has to leave the field. Whoa. And you're like, I didn't know. He didn't think about that. Yeah. What if the bomb,

yeah. Cause they just hear bomb and they go, everybody get out. It's like, maybe we should locate where it is. Yeah. They don't touch.

Go to the field. That's actually right where it is. I don't know if I ever had a bomb scare. We did. Really? Yep. When we go out and the kids say the same thing. Was it dynamite? I hope it's real. I hope it know if I ever had a bomb skier. We did. Really? Yep. When we go out and the kids say the same thing. Was it dynamite? I hope it's real. Was it a dynamite skier? He's older, so they used dynamite more back then.

I love that. They're building the railroads. They're building the railroads. Guys, there's a TNT box over here. And you're like, is there? When Sputnik went up, y'all were doing... Are you taking away my mic? Oh'm sorry i was trying to turn my mic away from us what else you got so natural disasters erin's best day you know uh no this is all from wikipedia so you can tell me

approximately 60 of washington's residents live in the seattle metro area which consists of seattle tacoma and bellevue sure yeah bellevue's like the nicer part of town. Lake Forest Park, where I grew up, is like a decent, quiet suburb. Bellevue was very... They had a comedy club there. They did. Parlor. That's where...

The parlor, did it close? Both of them. The downtown and the Bellevue. Yeah. So the Bellevue one, last time I was there, Tacoma, Tacoma's a great comedy club. Great. And that's where my dead horse story came from was Tacoma. I was supposed to do that in a couple weeks,

but they're not at the proper phase yet to get something on, which stinks. I love Tacoma Comedy Club. I had great jokes where there's streets. It goes up a hill. Like every street is just a hill. And so every block, you have to walk straight up a hill. A lot of Seattle's very hilly. Yeah. And so, I mean, to walk straight up a hill. A lot of Seattle is very hilly.

Yeah. And so, I mean, you're walking there and I think I had a joke about, there's a lot of homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk and it's like, but it's just people that are so tired that they get up one block and they go, I'm going to sleep here. Then I'll, I'll try to get up eventually to my house. That horse story crushed. I remember when you were at the Paramount with, with rock, you did it.

Yeah. I want to say that was like pretty fresh too it was very fresh then because i remember uh you know complimenting it and and you being like yeah it's still working it out or whatever i was like oh cool that must be that was my uh with paul allen was at that show that's when i went to way yeah so i knew paul allen and uh yeah and then i did a show for him uh at a this big private cruise uh it was in the whole insane i've talked about on this podcast before but a crazy corporate gig i did and then we met him and he was the nicest man ever of course uh and so i told him i told him like we were in town and i was like we're with chris rock and then so he came it was funny as i remember after the

show we get done we all walk upstairs and then so he came. It was funny. I remember after the show, we get done. We all walk upstairs. And then he just comes in the elevator with Chris. Because it's like, I mean, dude, he's a billionaire. So it's like he just goes. I mean, when he- Oh, he ran Seattle. He ran, yeah. And when someone got that much money, dude, like they have more money than these cities, these countries.

With the crews that went on, we'd go to countries. He would have more money than that country. So he has to have secret side, secret service type security. But at me and, but we went to the Seahawks game with him. That Sunday?

Yeah, Kristen go, but we went and we sat in his box with him and they honored him for 20 years of owning the team. That was that? That was that day.

I was in the box with, so they gave him the award on the field and then he came up and said and we all just sit there and watch the game with him and i talked to him for a little bit that's amazing he was like you would talk to him he's the guy that you would talk to and he you you'd feel like you're like all right i need to probably walk away yeah wrap it up he would keep talking to you and you're like oh you want me to stay don't want to overstay you're welcome yeah you got these chocolates if you want his family is uh wonderful and like his

sister and they're on the team now yeah yeah. Yeah, they're all very nice. So I'd always talk to them more than him. But he was a super, super fun guy. You could really have a lot of fun with him. Would he comment on any jokes or ask comedy questions? Yeah, he would. I mean, on that cruise, he would bring up something. I forget what he did.

We went to something. He's like, I know this isn't a Walmart, but I hope it's good enough for you. Funny, funny. He'd make a funny joke about that the attempt yeah i love yeah yeah because you're like you got so much money he's probably got riders for him for that cruise yeah yeah maybe somebody did give him that he almost so on this cruise there's only 200 people on it but he had his big yacht uh you know that his gigantic yacht there's like a famous yacht that he had wow and he had it behind he almost brought it to travel behind the cruise ship because he can get kind of he's like an introvert right he doesn't yeah want he it can become a everything become a lot he wouldn't

escape room yeah and so uh he almost was like well i might need i might want off this cruise ship by the way it's only it had it was 1500 people could be on this ship and there was only 200. And so it's like, it's not, there's a lot of room. So he had a helicopter too, by the way, the octopus,

is that what it was? Yes. The ultimate Irish goodbye, getting on a helicopter and just bouncing from your own party. Yeah. Thank you. Did I ever tell the story with this, with,

uh, Derek trucks. So I met Derek trucks, uh, uh, uh, uh, Tedeschi trucks band, uh, hisrick trucks uh uh tedeschi trucks band uh his wife suze tedeschi

and uh then derrick trucks derrick trucks was is a child prodigy with guitar he was in all my brothers at 13 and his uncle was in all my brothers and he so he's i mean he's a phenom and we just could do this out of the gate and he's one of the he's i think he's already he's about our age i'm 41 so you're 38 probably in the middle of us yeah and he's uh he's already ranked top 10 greatest guitarist of all time uh he's that good and so him and paul and they they all became really they he was doing these kind of stuff with paul for a long time so they'd go to every super bowl with paul and uh he goes down one time when they're in miami or somewhere when the super bowl is and so paul for a long time so they'd go to every super bowl with paul and uh he goes down one time when they're in miami or somewhere when the super bowl is and so paul's like come down and this is when

paul was going through his first like chemo and cancer so it was like really tough and uh so they come down and hang out and he brings his son it was just him and his son could come and they go and then paul's like there's another guy coming with his with his kid kid. And y'all can just hang out a lot. Because Paul was kind of hanging out, but he was going through cancer. Right. So he'd have to back away. And so he goes, all right, that's cool, man. And so the other guy that comes is Brad Pitt.

So it's Brad Pitt and his kid. So Derek had no idea. So Derek's just now hanging out with Brad Pitt and his son. And they're just all on this big yacht, octopus yacht. And so they're doing a shuttle launch too during that weekend. So Paul goes, hey, do you want to go see the shuttle launch? And they're like, yeah, man, that'd be cool.

So they get on the helicopter on the boat. They fly to a plane and then just fly in the air to watch the shuttle launch from the air wow so it wasn't like oh we're gonna go over to where it's at no no we're gonna watch as it goes by us yeah and it was just like such a crazy like all right such a wild trip but he was like that kind of guy that liked the cruise was he wanted all these people that are it was high-tech people that would invent all these you know some guys are other billionaires on the the guy i remember that your phone zooms in and out with your fingers that guy was there that guy was there after a show i do the show and then uh the i do a show and uh uh we get done and the guy's talking to me he's like you

know typical after a show like great show and you're like i appreciate it man but you know and then one of the girls that works for paul was like hey just so you know she's like that that's the reason your phone zooms in and out is that guy that guy made that and you're like oh that's cool you know that's the that's the this guy do you feel pressure to like then go back and be like dude thank you like you know what i'm saying like To really... Oh, to really... Well, he would have more than me.

I'm using it right now, man. Yeah, you're zooming in now. I mean, they had... Stevie Wonder was also one of the performers on this. Oh, wow. I mean, it was a ton of really famous people. But it was cool to be on it because what he did is he wanted to give these people a normal experience.

You want to go see a cruise ship? I'll give you – and we did a – Harry Shearer was on it. We hung out with him. Awesome. And then so we would go – you would go just do a typical – like it was a cruise ship vacation, but with these gigantic famous people. So you were performing on this? I performed on it, and then it went good. So they asked us to stay.

Meanwhile, I had to stay the rest like for nine more days was it were you nervous for that an eclectic group of people were you like dude oh yeah i might take this away from my phone if i bomb or like yeah well so i didn't really meet everybody before we kind of saw them here and there better that way yeah and then uh i mean we're but we're definitely seeing these handy snacks guys here well me and derek trucks kind of hit it off and off with his wife and Laura, my wife. And so it was funny because me and Derek Trucks are in the South China Sea on a yacht with all these people talking about the Jaguars and Titans. Awesome. Which no one, because he's a big Jags fan.

You're like, dude, there's no one in Nashville talking about this matchup. Like, nobody cares about it. But it was, the experience was unreal and then after i did the show it's like then everybody's like oh i know what you that you know where they're like oh i get it you're very funny so then you're just hanging out with everybody and uh quentin tarantino was there oh very funny so i had to do another show again which i might have explained all this before i can remember but i did another show again and uh quinn tarantino came out and uh right when i got off stage he came out of the bathroom and he's like how'd it go and that was his joke because he watched the show but it's very funny to be like oh how'd it go man i missed

it you're like oh well it went pretty good he's like i'm just kidding i was out there it's great you know very wow yeah that is uh man that's why this uh so one time me and Captain America and, no, I'm joking. But that, the inventions of the things you don't think about. Yeah. There's a kid in my fraternity at USC that had a house party at his house. And we're driving up through the neighborhood. And it's like, he's like, yeah, Shackler's over there. Denzel's over there.

And this is like, I haven't been around any. I met, kind of met, accostedackler's over there. Denzel's over there. And this is like, I haven't been around any. I met, kind of met, accosted Larry King at the movie theater like a month prior. Yeah. Where he was with his nephew. They were at the snack machine. And I was a little stony baloney. And I was like, hey, Larry, big fan.

And he was like, oh, thanks. And I was like, you getting some snacks? Just lingering. Shouldn't have said anything. But in my head, I was like, I gotta say something. No, you don't. Yeah. And so he was like, I'm with my nephew. Do't yeah and so he was like i'm with my nephew do you mind and i was like i just got interviewed by larry king not at all and my buddy pulled me away but so that was my

only encounter up until that point that's such a i'm with my nephew do you mind you're like and you're just going to you didn't know when to pull out of the story or the moment and so uh so we're driving up this hill and and you're it's been very becoming very apparent that money is uh not an issue for people to live in this area so his house is bonkers and uh i mean a couple screening rooms uh closets with multiple guitars like probably 30 uh in each closet and a big guest house just bowls of cigarettes at every station and uh and finally i'm like yo miles what does your dad do he's like oh you know that um thing for the batteries you do that to test if the battery like has any juice left i go yeah he's like that yeah what he's like no not that do you know the game of cricket? I was like, no, I'm joking. It was the battery thing.

The battery thing. And that, but I'd never think about that guy. Yeah. And that guy is crushing it. Yeah. But like, you know,

I wish my brain worked in that way where I saw those small. Yeah. You always think it's just a company that probably, it just kind of slowly evolved, but it sounds like it was just one dude that just kind of invented it. One dude. Yeah. He probably had a team,

but yeah, but maybe not. I'm sure he did it when he came up with the idea. I want to come up with a snack that just changes the game, but I don't know what that is. I feel like every year there's a – It doesn't even need to be healthy, just something that's so – I mean, you're dipping Pop-Tarts in Cool Whip.

You said that's pretty innovative. Or Cool Whip-flavored Pop-Tarts? Yeah. Okay, based on Nate saying, yeah, nervously three times, that's not really going to push me through to the prototype stage of the business. Look, I think the audience would love you to hear more spitballing. I got to read the room better. Yeah.

Like Larry, I feel like Larry King over here. Hey, do you mind? I'm with my nephew. Let's get some more Washington facts. I do love his response. Do you mind? I'm i got an interview about there it's a very funny area he chuckled when i said that too yeah i'll never forget that because that was like he's like that's got to be good he gets it he's like he's got a great sense of humor yeah you know and uh and and i didn't feel as because i remember you know obviously i still felt very embarrassed and and uh you know um that i was giving him a hard time or whatever but seeing him chuckle i was like okay cool that

wasn't a complete bomb of a moment yeah yeah what's some more washington facts uh mount renears the third tallest mountain yeah i believe it i believe it uh let's keep going one day what is the joke yeah it doesn't have the energy of a one or two. Yeah. Mount St. Helens. When it erupted, it was the largest landslide in recorded history. Yeah. How did you feel about that when that happened? I can't stop thinking about it. Yeah?

It was a big day? It was a big day. What day was it? It was the same day as the bomb day? It was 1980. So that's it. Before you were born. Two years before.

Yeah. Was your mom, does she always bring it up always brings it up she's like you know Mount St. Helen yeah actually you're lucky to be alive now

because we had Mount St. Helen yeah I do remember hearing about it in maybe it was just a day of school it was like

Seattle history and seeing footage of it pretty crazy definitely made me never want to go I mean 57 people were killed yeah I mean it's such a thing this it's it happens in the middle of nowhere you

don't think it's having one of our major cities is well it wasn't in seattle but okay i don't know i'll be honest i don't know it's pretty deep i forgot we're doing all washington there i remember is this near the beatles hotel the base is where the hotel uh yeah i mean it definitely made the beatles hotel this mountain right at the base is where the hotel uh yeah i mean it definitely made me go oh i never want to i don't know climb a mountain 47 people died i mean how people die on a normal uh volcano 47 to me is enough like even when um you know people 57 yeah still uh a significant number like when people got I think there was like three people that that got E. coli from

was it Jack in the Box back in the day that was enough for me to be like cool I guess I'm a Wendy's guy now yeah but it was like

oh it's just just get the fries yeah what yeah and then you know Phil and you know added some jokes

and improv stuff what's the next quote we got Washington do mound St. Helena again the state is we got? Washington. Do Mount St. Helen again. The state is typically divided politically by the Cascade Mountains. Western Washington is liberal. Eastern Washington is conservative.

But since Seattle is in Western Washington, the state always votes liberal. Y'all should meet at the top of the Cascade Mountains and hash it out. What about up there is where all the libertarians are? They're like, we don't think anybody should be involved in anything and it's just that just one ridge yeah it's pretty uh eastern washington yeah i mean i don't know i feel like it uh you feel that way yeah i don't i guess i don't you ever met a conservative oh yeah oh yeah um oh so there is conservatives that yeah i think so yeah i think you think of seattle like super yeah yeah it is and yeah for sure i think so i think you think of seattle like super yeah it is and yeah for sure i mean there's i mean it took over part of the town so that totally it's a

good a lot of people letting you merge on the freeway that's always a good sign yeah yeah um no state has gone longer without a republican governor in washington wow yeah i mean look you know we were the first to legalize about that we uh um i yeah you guys are you're you're ahead of the game yeah one of the euthanasia one of the first yeah i usually heard suicide is the next step as you start seeing commercials going hey can you not get to this maybe then maybe call it a day don't fear the reaper don't feel the reaper that's playing underneath it i usually find find out about or learn of how conservative someone is is if they try to pitch me a joke after a show, despite where it is.

Yeah, yeah. I think I was in Ohio, and this guy was like, he's like, I liked all that Jew stuff. I mean, it was literally one bit, but it was significant enough for you to remember it as that. Like his Jewish commentary. Yes, yeah. That's what the track on the album's called, Jew Stuff. Yeah, yeah. It's easy. yeah significant enough yeah for you to remember like his Jewish commentary yes yeah

that's what the track on the album's called Jew Stuff yeah yeah it's easy just spell it out for him so he goes he talks a lot about jackets

like it's still it doesn't even make sense Jewish jackets yeah so he goes what's a Jewish dilemma and I was like first thing he asked

he's like I got a joke for you if you want to use it I was like I'm good man he goes what's a Jewish dilemma so I was like i don't know yeah and and i go uh what he goes a free ham sandwich and so i gave him like uh oh yeah yeah i can see

you know no laughter and he was like right no no i didn't laugh you know yeah and then he was like you can have that and uh yeah and so he, what's a Jewish dilemma, you should have said this. Where were you, Nate? I know. I just pop over at a corner and you're like, hey, how long you been here? They're not coming here every week because that guy asks everybody. The largest building in the world by volume is in Everett, Washington, the Boeing factory. Yeah.

Wow. It's crazy. 98.7 acres. Huge. Yeah. It's a building? What's in it? Oh, Boeing. Yeah, the. That's crazy. 98.7 acres. Huge. God. It's a building? What's in it? Oh, Boeing.

Yeah, they're airplanes. I guess you do need a business. Make it pretty big. Ever Washington, home to the first nightclub I went to. I don't think it's there anymore. Also home to my brother-in-law, Tim, rapper name Derte. Look him up. Yeah. That's your brother-in-law?

Yep. Is the rapper? Yes. Oh, wow. And he lives in Irving and i love how you said the rapper like you've already heard of him yeah yeah i've never even heard of boeing so it's yeah um yeah everett's a uh it's on the up and up yeah i don't think most people would guess it's the largest building that's a big building building, man. That's big. I'd say, I'd guess it was up there.

Yeah, but I mean, you think about tallest, but nope, that's the largest. Here's Everett. In the world? Yeah. Wow. Here's Everett. You were like, oh, the Beatles stayed at the first hotel in downtown Seattle. Everett's got a hotel where you're like, oh, I think the Barenaked Ladies stay there.

It's like that type of- Yeah. Which, no knock on the Barenaked Ladies. There's probably a better- Aaron, do you want to defend Barenaked Ladies? Defend what? Are you upset about it? Yeah.

I like the Barenaked Ladies. All right, dude. We have the same taste in music, dude. We do. Yeah. Well, you're really trying to come around now after that, too. By the way. You're going to start liking it.

You're like, that hat's awesome, man. I'd love to buy a hat. You should just dress like Adam the next year. I mean, yeah. I don't know about that. Yeah, you're doing fine. Yeah. I'm dressed like a kid who was of the year. You're doing fine. I'm dressed like a kid who was guest starring on Boy Meets World,

but then halfway through, they rewrote the scene. They go, we're actually not going to shoot your part today. I was like, oh, cool. But there's a Nickelodeon game show you can be a contestant on. I think you're just like you walked in a restaurant and they said you got to wear a collar. And you go, well, do you have a shirt? They go, yeah. And then they give you that wait wait these are the equivalent of emergency clothes

did you ever have that at elementary school where you would fall in the mud yeah or poo yourself yeah and uh or both and say it was mud and uh and then they go well here's or if you forgot your lunch they would give you emergency lunch which is half drink milk and like a grilled cheese that was a week old yeah and uh and it wasn't cheese they were like it was just melted chocolate but it's bright now and so uh and so the clothes were always like i had to do it twice and it was a purple tank top no purple uh turtleneck and black sweatpants i would never wear that yeah uh and so not only do i have to come back from recess and lunch in that i gotta wear it the rest of the day and wear it home yeah and i remember i mean you might as well just go well let's just announce it on the loudspeaker

it's the same thing and and everyone knows it's emergency clothes you hope or everyone's just like oh i guess he just wasn't feeling what he came to school with anyone that makes it up maybe he's trying to get jennifer to take that bear in the locker room in third grade you go to take that bear? In the locker room in third grade. Yeah, why are you dressed like a concert pianist? We can edit that out. Go ahead. What's the next one? One too many. That's all right.

Of the four major North American sports, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, the Mariners have the longest playoff drought. Yeah. 2001. Yeah. Last time they went to the playoffs. Yeah. And the only team now, I think, in baseball or professional sports, to not make it to – well, the only baseball team to not make went to the playoffs yeah and the only team now i think in baseball or

professional sports to not make it to well the only baseball team to not make it to the world series after the nationals yeah is ken griffey so he's the most loved oh yeah each row though he's gonna be a very beloved yeah each i mean edgar martinez and you're just got randy johnson randy johnson i love even though randy johnson uh screamed at myself and a bunch of other kids when we ran at his Bronco at spring training in 1995. Oh, you ran into it. Ran up to his. He pulled out. All the players post-practice would pull up.

And it was kind of a no thing. Yeah, you run up. But kids, there was about probably 50 of us deep just charged. And he goes, Bronco, Bronco, Bronco! I'll never forget it. That's not an impression or an over-exaggeration of a 6'10 beast screaming at children to back away from his vehicle. Literally, the window was down. We came running. Back away from my car.

Didn't even know fully what he said because his diction was bad. But it was the equivalent of a fastball verbally and everyone backed away yeah a lot of kids need an emergency close and uh and i just stuck my ball in his face so i was the first one to get an autograph and i still have it because everyone literally backed away to where i was like you like and he was like one at a time what's your name i was like oh you at a time. What's your name? I was like, oh,

you just put your name. I saw autographs. I put Steve Poole. All right. Anybody want this ball? You got the Steve Poole baseball signed by Randy Johnson. Oh man,

I wish. That would be amazing. That was the case. That's, there's gotta be a lot of celebrities that tell stories and it's all, it's you. Like you have, like Larry King's got his story. Like of celebrities that tell stories, and it's you.

Like Larry King's got his story. How's your fan interaction? Larry King, Steve Poole, Randy Johnson. Greg Maddox. I mean, they all have some crazy. I met this one guy once. Dude, that's. What if it comes.

How do I get a special built around those guys' tellings? If you could find if we could somehow find out if they remember any of those stories and get soundbites even if they don't it even if they don't but it's like the idea that if all of them had one and they all remembered it and you're i mean and it's not the way it went or do you want it to line no no i want it to line up but i'm saying like it's just funny to be i mean it kind of shows like you're at where you're at where you're like you were memorable like you know you have a you have a funny story with all these greg maddox like yeah this guy wouldn't leave my kids alone greg maddox

i would almost think remembers that randy johnson could have probably yelled he yelled that before i was not the first kid that month he yelled at no he yelled him all larry which sadly we would never know but larry king larry king, I bet would remember, could remember that. That was because it was such a funny, unique kind of thing. Totally. At the movies with his nephews. You're going to, I mean, he- Got to laugh.

Yeah. And Greg Maddox, I think would- Wow. Steve Poole, I mean, I think he's like, ah, dude, I hand it out. I mean- You think you're special? You think you were the first fat Jewish kid I gave a headshot to? Yeah.

Yeah. You think you were the first fat Jewish kid I gave a headshot to? Yeah. Seahawks fans set a sports record for loudest crowd noise during a Monday Night Football game. Yeah. 137.6 decibels. On the Beastquake, right? On Marshawn Lynch's epic run. No, this was a Monday Night Football game.

September 2013. Well, thanks for having me on, guys. Hey, are you really from there? That's what does it for you. Yeah, that place gets loud. I remember Bill Burr gave me a hard time once about he's like, you guys built the stadium

to have it be louder. You're pumping crowd noise in there. I mean, it's just loud. People get fired up about the team. The seats are built to absorb noise. Well, that's what everybody lot of people get fired up about the team. Ah, the seats are built to absorb noise. Yeah. Well, that's what everybody thinks. Yeah.

It might have been. Paul Allen might. It's designed. I think it does like- It's designed to- Acoustically to trap all the sound. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In a music city, we're all about the- 12th man acoustics.

The 12th man. It's really- Yeah, it's not about the sound going up and out. It is to make it be louder. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Gonzaga University is based in Spokane.

Totally. Number one team in college basketball. Yeah. It's crazy. I was there for... You went to... Oh, you were... Well, so my buddy's brother is Mike Nielsen,

and he was on the team in 95 that went to the, I think, grade eight or the sweet 16. Yeah. But the farthest Gonzaga... That was the biggest. It put Gonzaga on the map. It was Matt Santangelo, Richie Fromm, Casey Calvary. Was that before Adam Morrison?

Yes. Okay. It's what paved the way for Adam Morrison and Dan Dickow and just all those greats. And so I went to senior night at Gonzaga. It was crazy because it was their last game. It was before that run, which put them on the map. It was a big deal in Washington State. All over, really.

Changed everything. I mean, Gonzaga was... I've never heard of gonzaga no one's ever heard of gonzaga now gonzaga is a top school in the country they win i don't want it not yet no they've just had player on player that's uh changed uh went to the finals when you're yeah adam orson's year right yeah i thought they won a couple years ago against north carolina boy that what a what a look at this guy man i mean how do you be this is why sports uh there is just no guarantee in any of these businesses because what a college career yeah and couldn't even there's guys you could probably think of that go oh man they had a they made a splash for a couple seasons and either injuries got in the way

or off-court troubles i don't think he ever ever... He also got drafted by a team. He had a big payday. Did he really? Yeah, because he was drafted I think early. But by the Lakers? I thought he went to Charlotte and then he got... I don't remember. Jordan picked him?

Yeah, maybe. I want to say and then he went from there. Boy, Randy... I mean, I love that you have those pictures back to back. I feel like...

They're big into mustache guys. See, Adam Morrison is what should have happened to me after I got screamed at outside the van. His long hair, mustache, don't care. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I'm actually surprised I turned out, you know, halfway decent after getting just scolded.

I mean, yeah. I think you're very positive. Yeah. And so, like, that's- So I probably looked at everybody and be like, that's having a bad day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Y'all might have mobbed and flipped this truck. I mean, I think that's what he thought was going to happen. The strength of 50 kids is a lot. You know? It really is. Don't doubt 50 kids together anywhere. With their mind together. They got one goal, one guy yelled at them.

So their main goal is to end that guy's driving. I just had this flash of you as a motivational speaker, but you only speak to groups of 50 kids. So you're like, I'll tell you the power of 50. I'm starting movements. Power of 50. I'm starting movements with kids. The power of 50.

But most of the kids are like, look, Nate, you're great at speaking. We get the message, but at any given point, there's not going to be 50 of us together. Yeah. And they go, then this was a waste of my time. And I'm only going to talk to kids that are yeah and they go then then you were this was a waste of my time and i'm only going to talk to kids that are willing to travel in packs of 50 yeah yeah willing to they'll never be stopped yeah uh eastern washington plays on a red field and the only red field that feels like when we could have skipped out but what's the next one

yeah i mean like we always have a few yeah you know that vaccines cure people? We've said that before. And we asked if animals have ever invented something. Well, that I would love a follow-up to. You don't think that's interesting? They play on a red field? Yeah, I do think it is. Did you know the field's named after a guy you know? Who?

Michael Roos. Oh, really? Oh, really? Michael Roos donated $500,000. It is because he played there. Michael Roos? Yeah, so there you go. Pullman, this is Washington State.

Oh, Eastern Washington. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they've got a- It still feels like something you should have told me after the show. I would have been like, oh, that's cool, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like one of those throwaway facts.

All right. That is a cool field. Boise is blue and they're red. Yeah. All right. We've talked about it too much. I'm trying to now stretch it out. It's cool.

It's one of those things that doesn't- Wow, man. Yeah. You know, they have a track around it. I've never seen that except every field ever. Now, what would be your follow-up? If you were in a, let's say you're at a barbecue and somebody brought that up, right? The way that we just were on the receiving end of, and you felt the inadequacy of like,

oh boy, what a weird fact, but I don't want to make this guy feel bad. Let me piggyback on it. Yeah. Get like, act super interested. What would you ask? Like, oh, I wonder if weird fact, but I don't want to make this guy feel bad. Let me piggyback on it. Act super interested. What would you ask? Like, oh, I wonder if it's tough for them to see. What would you? I would be like, I think the burgers are done.

I would just get us into, I'd get into a different pack. Yeah, focus on the food, yeah. All right, let's get into something that'll be interesting. Washington has more Bigfoot sightings than any state in the country. Okay. By far. There it is is there's the

map yeah i mean 676 no one's even close i mean california second come on it's much bigger and this is where i just go all right like let's tone down some of the progressiveness and the weed smoking like this is the other side of the cascade mountains i mean this yeah these are this is there's a lot of bigfoot fans here are you really yeah you say you're going there i think there's a lot of guys you don't believe in big there's a lot of guys out there looking for bigfoot being like yeah you ever hey what's a jewish dilemma i think there's a lot of that going on up there yeah look here's here's what i'll say about bigfoot if you're jewish and looking for bigfoot, that's a pretty big dilemma. You got yourself in a situation.

I think, honestly, I like the idea of believing in it, for sure. Yeah. Do I think Harry and the Hendersons was based on a true story? Yeah. No. Do I want to? Yeah. Do I want to think that somewhere John Lithgow met the real guy that was like, I had to tell him to go home.

And he's like, it's crazy. You sound like me. But there's a difference between believing Bigfoot and thinking Harry and Henderson is a documentary. Have you ever met anyone who said they spotted Bigfoot? No, but I've seen Finding Bigfoot, in which they don't. You know who does, which we will do another episode. They're always like, hey, there's a footprint.

We're going to do another Bigfoot episode. I'd love to be there for it. Well, you're not now with that attitude. But another fellow Washington, Jeff Dye. Oh, I know. He knows everything about them. He goes to the Bigfoot, all the conventions. But is Jeff going to be our barometer for?

He's opened enough to. Dude dude he's going to these conventions like i know you know he's into it jeff is a great dude great comic and a smooth talker good looking dude um yeah i don't know if all the if everything's clicking up there oh i totally agree yeah but that's why i love jeff but that's why i love him and But that's why I love him. And he's more street smart than book smart, but he even announces that, which is why I love him. That being said, I think I need to be, like that's why being here for that next podcast you guys do

and getting some more firsthand accounts, meeting somebody, if I could see it in their eyes and not have to, you know. Also, these aren't the guys I'm accustomed to that say that Bigfoot is out there. You know, again, the guys on the show usually look like they themselves, you know. They saw themselves in a mirror. Yeah. And they're like, there it is.

Yeah. Or they, I don't know. I guess I just. For the record, one of us is more of a enthusiast than the other, other two. For sure. I'm way on board. What would you do if you saw him? You ever think about that?

Uh, yeah, I don't know. I mean, you would just be in disbelief. Yeah. Cause then you want to go back. That's the thing that's hard is those look, look at these 676 sightings and that's just there. That's the most 445 is in California. But I mean, you add that that's

thousands of people saying they saw bigfoot and so why don't we hear about this more how come there isn't like i feel like that's a very because the government doesn't want us to know no it's uh it's because you if you think it's crazy it's you know it's like i don't know it's there's no real proof besides these sightings there's nothing concrete that you can go it's 100 this you're always anytime you see a picture it's like i don't know but all these people see this stuff i mean dude there's uh i mean we aliens we all kind of believe in aliens now right a thousand percent why can there be bigfoot i mean aliens opens the door to everything yes and so you're like maybe there is and they're what the idea of it is like the more logical thinking i

think is that it's uh you know it's kind of like an ape. It's like something that can stay well hidden. There's animals that we don't know. We never see. Jaguars. Totally. Jaguars or black panthers, you don't see them in the wild. They're very good.

And there's not that many pictures of them because they just don't get seen. I know. I think because we have so much access and there's so many nature or discovery channel dogs no one really no one really goes and that's what i'm saying i think we're cast we cast the wrong guys to try to find them yeah and about the show finding me but i think those guys are are more of like when they were making the show like these are the guys that would be fun to that you would think would go but it's like i don't think they're literally i saw one episode i think it was like season finale yeah the end of the series uh or season and spoiler alert they didn't find it and he the guy went to the edge of the cliff and just went like oh yeah which was

like the bigfoot call and then he was like which i was like what were you somebody told him as a joke like here's how you find them yeah you just do like a like a bird like like a bird choking on some mac and cheese yeah and he does that and i was like what was he hoping that bigfoot would just be like hello yeah from down below so that he does that oh and then steps back and then just looks at his buddies and goes he ain't here and i was like that's the attempt yeah it's finding bigfoot yeah let's take a a stab and bird call into a crevice. So that just kind of took me out of it as far as like, you guys don't even want this. You don't even want to find it. Yeah.

But also I think, to your point, and again, I don't not, I believe in the, I want to believe it. So I, again, because I think there is something to be said to piggyback on what you said about that. Just because I think he doesn't want to be, or she, doesn't want to be found. Right? And just because we haven't seen footage, maybe there are creatures that are better at eluding the public. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

I mean, when's the last time you saw Ving Rhames? Yeah. You know? The Bigfoot expert. Kind of stays out of the public eye the guy we had on the podcast said he doesn't want to see him yeah just out of respect for him he goes i want to well that's lazy yeah that's okay who said that am i remembering that wrong he said you're right he said i don't want to see i don't want to he wants to go and be around him he wants to hear him

but he so that's like i don't want to meet my hero type thing yeah i think so which that kid said the same thing after meeting you as Wolverine. Yeah. Before you ran over him. Before you ran over him, yeah. By the way, I just remember this thing too about one night I was doing an open mic at the comedy store after a shift as Wolverine, and there was a family there just at the potluck show who came early and was staying for the regular show after and recognized me. And the guy came up to me and was like, hey, you were in our family photo today and showed me i was like dude you gotta let me have this please i'm at the movies

with my nephew you just use the same you should start using those lines that all the stuff you've been told i know get away from the car back away triggering man yeah uh but randy johnson knows what bigfoot is oh yeah dude when you're that big, you've got access. He talked to me about him, unlike you. Randy Johnson ain't going to cut me off. That's why we're having Randy Johnson on the next one. If you can find him. That's it.

We've got to renew it. Yeah, we're aware of Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon. That's it. Those are all your sponsors? Yeah. Yeah, we get paid $ thousand million dollars a day oh wow look at me are my parents back together just so gullible oh those were things up seattle related those are things we are i literally was like yeah our sponsors are amazon microsoft and starbucks

hey everybody go to starbucks today i mean what that was our ad read. We would be crushing it, dude. You still are. Yeah. This is a, I've watched a lot of these, and I was very pumped to be here. No joke. No, we're happy. It's great. You guys have a great crew. I'm a big fan of the crew like this. It's a good size. You guys are all like, the flow's good.

This area is incredible. Yeah, it's a fun. You got a big backyard, which just seems like a lot of fun. The cul-de-sac's cool. You get to stay in a cul-de-sac. You got an extra room I think I can stay in. You can stay in here. We have a Helix mattress you can sleep on.

You can stay if you ever come here and you need to crash. I'm about to get a Helix mattress for the About Last Night podcast. Yeah, yeah. Is it great? It's great. They're going to send... By the way, what a... Un is it great it's great they're gonna send yeah by the way what uh i'm unwrapping me asking you your sponsor is it is it good though this has been great we're gonna now cut most of it out now yeah no helix is uh all it no truly is awesome all the comics stay on and they're gonna send uh one uh they said which i'm unwrapping it we've talked is is awesome. All the comics stay on it. And they're going to send one, they said, which I'm very excited about.

Unwrapping it, we've talked, is awesome. Be sure you record it, film it. Yeah. Just like the way people unwrap their creams and their- Yeah, well, it's vacuum sealed, so it's just- Compressed in. I mean, it's crazy to see the box that it's in and then becomes a mattress. It's pretty crazy.

Wait, so it's like it all scrunched together and then just- It's vacuum sealed. It's like opening a life raft. Vacuum just... You know how they put the thing in the plastic bag, use the vacuum, sucks the air out,

and it comes out? Oh, okay, gotcha. Like a life raft, like you said. Yeah. Oh, wow. I basically just... I just explained vacuum sealed like longer.

You're like, I don't know what that is. They go, all right, well, you know it's a vacuum, and then you seal it. And you're like... And you know seal the singer, right? Yeah.

So they have nothing to do with each other, but... He invented it. Huh? Hey, we're here to say your parents are Singer, right? Yeah. So they have nothing to do with each other. He invented it. Huh? Hey, we're here to say your parents are back to you. I'm that gullible, dude. Awesome. Well, you're, yeah.

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