wellRED podcast - #113 -Hangin with Chad Daniels!

Episode Date: April 17, 2019

This week we were BEYOND pumped to be able to sit down with one of the best comedians working today, and a personal favorite of all of ours CHAD DANIELS!With over 700 million streams, Chad is one of the most listened to comics you’ve never heard of (yet) – his highly-anticipated special, “Dad Chaniels” is available on Amazon. ( CLICK HERE! )In his sixth stand up release, Chad delivers a brand-new hour of comedy of his unapologetic take on parenting teenagers, how America’s gone soft as a nation, his plans for growing old, and… cakeIn this episode we discuss parenthood in the world of stand up comedy, choosing not to live in LA or New York, and how comedy has changed over the years.  for more on Chad go to ChadDaniels.com Our debut album wellRED: Live From Lexington is available for pre-sale NOW at our website wellREDcomedy.comDownload, Subscribe, Leave a review, tell your friends, buy our album, all that good stuff... we love y'all like chicken! 

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They're the. Before we get into this week's well read podcast with Chad Daniels, a special message from our own Drew Morgan. Skew. Hey everybody. It's Drew. I'm sitting around the couch with Andy who's looking at me like, What the fuck are you doing?

What I'm doing is letting you know real quick that a good buddy, friend of the podcast, Jeff Barbara, you're out there in Blunt County, good old Marrival, Tennessee, where me and Andy went to college, where she first fell in love with me, with my wit, with my charm. I'm making her blush right now. Not really. She's rolling her eyes at me. He is running, one of the people who run the Blunt County Mills on Wheels program. He's a board member there, and he needs volunteers.

If you're in that area or you're in the Knoxville area, which I think we have quite a few listeners in that area. Go ahead and give him a shout, man. Volunteer. Feel good about yourself. You don't have to do it to be a good person. Do it to be a selfish person. You know how good you feel when you volunteer? You're like so smug about it. You're like walking around, looking at your family members, like, what did you do today? I volunteered. Okay? It's a Tennessee volunteer. If you're a VALS fan, you have to do it. So give Jeff Barbara a call at 9-83-8-4-1. His extension is number 26. You see how fancy we're getting in fucking Blunt County, Andy? They've got extensions now.

It's crazy. Yeah, we appreciate Jeff. We appreciate all they do at Mills on Wheels, and we appreciate you for volunteering. And I appreciate Jeff giving me that sweet Sammy Kirshaw T-shirt. Last time I saw him. I'm probably going to bring that out this weekend in Portland, Andy. That's right.

All those Portland ladies will get to see me in my Sammy Kirschild T-shirt, and you won't. Just kidding. She's coming. Bye, guys. All right, what's going on, everybody? It is your boy the show. Wellredcomedy.

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We got T-shirts. We got hats. We got tank tops. We have our book, The Liberal Redneck Manifesto, Dragon Dixie, Out of the dark and just now super excited about this new addition to our merch store, our album well-read live from Lexington. Boys, how pumped are you? Man, I'm super pumped, but I just got a little sad that we don't sell belts. You're going through all of our merch.

We are sell belts, but they just say, well, you know like that prison belt I got? Yeah, yeah. Or at least belt buckles, that would hit. Belt buckles would hit, but I think it'd be more expensive, you know what I mean? Oh, definitely. I'll just get my brother and his friends to make us well-read prison belts and we'll sell them. If we had actual prison belts for sale, that would hit real hard. Well, he made me one and all the family, and I really like it.

I just realized, instead of pimping our album, I just immediately was like, prison labor, let's exploit it. Yeah. I'm pumped about the album, too. Of course I am. It was so fun. It was such a great weekend, night, whatever, in Lexington that we had. Who could remember something like that? Certainly not us.

Yeah, guys, get the album. You're going to love it. It's like being in a live show. Yeah. Corey? Say something. And just like being at a live show, Corey abandons us.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sitting here Googling how expensive prison belts would be if we were to know it. I mean, you know, we'll upmark them. Don't worry about that. Oh, yeah. Album hits. It does hit.

Yeah. Album does hit. Well, there's a lot of people who hit us up all the time. When are you coming to, you know, Canada or whatever and we're like in two years it's hard to get everywhere guys by the album

and you'll be satiated for a time for a time for the nonce you know how amazing it is that three self-described rednecks can all actually get into Canada

because like it's pretty like there's not one of us that doesn't have something pending that that's why we just haven't been hell that might be the problem I think it's because we're white they're like we got it

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OnTor Records.com, it's there too Yeah Three albums, in one What are you waiting on? Three for one If you're listening right now, you're either liberal Or Redneck That means you like three for one deals

All right, rednecks like deals Liberals want shit for free Fucking get the album It's three for one I'm just getting mad actually we're just we're just we're just we're just we're just we're just Chad Daniels fan we're just waiting on his portion yeah we're here speaking of which Chad Daniels coming right up for you guys Chad is a stand-up comedian he's very much well I mean like I was gonna say he's a

comics comic and he is in that he's a lot of comics favorite comic like comics love the guy but he I wouldn't say that he fits like the mold of a comics comic in that like Chad's just fucking funny. Like a lot of time when people say comics, comic, there's the implication. We all thought this guy would be the next most famous person and he's not, and that's going to happen to Chad. It's already starting to.

Well, I also, I think there's an implication of like, crowds don't like him. But comics, comics love the guy, right? Crowds not so much, but, man, I'm saying Chad is not that. Crowds love him too because he's fucking undeniably hilarious. Well, I think there's that when you hear it, but when I hear it, I immediately

think of the first dude i think of is david tail and i i don't think that's you know how it is with him he like you said chad murders the crowd murders the comics when i hear comics comic i think of dudes like that who yeah they're they're crushing with the crowds but they're the they're the ones that make comics the most jealous right you know what i'm saying norm is definitely a certain joke a huge one for sure yeah for sure but anyway chad's amazing uh yeah we just compared him to norm mcdonner or davidell get the fucking i mean he's or special chad's chad's fucking great. Like, I can't even oversaw.

I mean, he's genuinely one of my favorite comedians. He's fucking hilarious. He loves prison belt. Thrilled to have him on. Big prison belt fan. And so, yeah, enjoy this conversation with the one and only Chad Daniels. Well, well. Mr. Chad Daniels.

Hey. Thanks for joining us, man. Thanks for having me in. So, yeah, I know we're all three big fans. I already told you my deal. Well, that's nice. Got introduced you a few years ago by a fellow comedian and was immediately super into it. But for me, one of the biggest things was you're a dad.

In fact, your news special is called Chad Daniels. Dad Chaniels. Right, yep. Joke a lot about your children. I'm a comedian who has children. We're in like the minority, generally speaking. Mine are, I've got two little boys, six and seven. But I just always appreciate any time I see another comic who has kids and is, you know,

doing all right with it and not just like, blaming them for fucking their lives up or whatever like that type of thing. You know what I mean? No, I mean, it's for me, it's like, my favorite thing to joke about is how incompetent I am as a parent. Right. It's just like, I'm just trying to figure it out as I go. Here's how I messed up. And it's really fun when you see people in the crowd, like couples, a wife will grab a husband's wrist.

And you just know, like, oh, that guy did the same thing. Yeah. So that's like, that's fun for me to watch from stage. In one of your earlier albums, I really liked it when you had a bit about how easy it is, really. You were like, because mine were very like toddlers at the time, and I heard all the time about, I can't even imagine. Like, I can't, you know, other comics tell me, like, I can't even keep plants alive. And you had to be, it was like, they're just little people just, what are you eating for lunch? Give them a little bit of that.

Yeah. It's like, give them that little bit of water. Like, just, they're not, like, yeah, I don't know what plants eat either. I'm not a fucking plant. I'd always amazes me when somebody says, well, I can't keep such and such alive, but why would you know how to do that? You're not part of that. You're not a plant. Right. I love that joke. I always wondered what your wife thought about it. She, I mean, she was really on board with everything, you know, with all the jokes until, so we ended up getting a divorce. Right. Oh, I didn't know that. I'm so stupid. No, you're not stupid at all. It's, it was really fun because during the divorce process, she was like, so were all those things? you meant all those things? I'm like, oh, man, I hope you don't think that, because I didn't. It all was just like goofing around.

But when, you know, then when we got divorced, she thought maybe I was being serious about all of it, which I was not. And now I don't talk about her at all because that's, you know. It seems like it's like off limits now because it's not the same. When we were married, it was, it was fun. It was goofing around. But now that we're not married, she can be out of the act. Yeah. You know, it doesn't have to fear being in the act.

Because I've seen some guys go on stage after a divorce, but this fucking bitch. Right. it's just like, hey, she's not even here to defend herself. Right. So it's hard to, even if it's funny, it was hard for me to laugh at that stuff because it's like, you're talking about someone who's not here to defend themselves. Well, also, I think that when you're married, you're entitled to talk about your life, and your life is your spouse's life.

Sure, yeah. It's, it's co-story. Right. Right. And then now that you're separated, it's like you're still entitled to talk about your life, but she's entitled not to be talked about it because y'all's lives aren't together. Now, don't think for a second that I haven't written some sweet-ass bits about it. I just refute because there have been times where I was like, I really wish I could say this on stage.

Like, I will tell you she has a boyfriend and he's really cool dude. Everybody gets along. It's really nice. And apparently, my daughter thinks he makes the greatest bacon in the whole wide world. So I made bacon and she was like, it's okay, dad. This bacon's okay. And I'm like, she still likes his bacon better. So then I brought her to a farm where they had just had piglets.

And I was like, why don't you fall in love with this animal? and never fucking eat it. No, I can't, I'm not gonna tell, yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna tell that story on stage because that's not fair, that's bringing up her boyfriend, that's bringing stuff like that. But it is like a funny thing that happened in my life. And again, it's basically me talking about me being an idiot father. Yeah.

Where it's like, who goes to those extremes to get somebody to not like bacon? Yeah. You're kind of an outlier in a few ways in the comedy world, because not only the, you know, the family. family man aspect of it, but you, if I'm not mistaken, you're still in Minnesota. I do. Yeah, you live in, it's the town you grew up in? Like, your hometown. Yeah. So it's like three hours northwest of Minneapolis. Yeah. It's called Fergus Falls. So like, uh, how many people did you graduate at high school with? Maybe 150. Okay. All right. We're all, the three of us are all from the rural south. And like,

so my hometown in Tennessee, I graduated with like 67 people or something like that, which was a big class. So we're all from like tiny ass little town. So we're, can relate. So Minneapolis is the closest city to Fergus Falls. Yeah, I mean, Fargo, if you want to count Fargo, but, you know, that is an airport if I need to get out of there. But yeah, normally I go to Minneapolis. So tell us about that experience, uh, being a comedian in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Like, the whole time, right, when you started, when you first started doing open mics, you were living there. Well, I was living in Minneapolis. Oh, okay. And so then, then, uh, I'd moved away for about 10 years, moved back when my kids got a little older because my ex-wife and I grew up

the same town. So we thought we'd get the kids back closer to family, all that stuff. And it is interesting because, you know, there are some guys that, you know how that you meet men that have to put you down just a little bit so they can feel better about themselves, you know? And so I get like, hey, there's the funny man. Like, I'll get that kind of stuff from some guys. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, that doesn't bother me. And then my kids, I try to keep my professional and personal stuff pretty separate. And my kids would always say, think like, oh man, everybody knows you here. You must be famous.

And I'm just like, I just know all these people from high school. I mean, that's true. Right. So a lot of people stuck around and, you know, ended up inheriting their family business or, you know, taking that over, stuff like that. A lot of people stayed to teach. So there are a lot of people that I grew up with that are still in that town. And that's why they know me.

Right. So it's, it's, my kids think it's something completely different, but it's. But as far as doing comedy and, like, Like from there, how do you, like, have you, have you ever wrestled with, you know, moving out here to New York or whatever? Or have you, that you've always been said on, you know, doing it your way. I've always been said on staying there just for kid reasons. Right. You know, and it's great because I can say no to things because my mortgage is $9.

Right. I mean, I live in the middle of nowhere, so that helps. Well, Corey on the phone here, he's in Chickamauga, Georgia. sure, which is the town he grew up in. Yeah, who doesn't know Chickamauga. Yeah, man. You'd be surprised, actually, because of how many people were killed by slave owners there. Yeah, and the civil war, it was a big Civil War battle to play there.

I thought you were going to tell me the Duke boys drove through there one time, getting out of some trouble. They probably did. Yeah. But, yeah, Corey is in a similar situation as of right now. Corey, is your mortgage $9? No, it's not $9, but it's funny. Chad said that because, so, Chad, I think that you brought that up in that documentary you did with Pete Lee and Tom Segura, I need you to kill. Probably. Which I watched and loved, and I heard you say that, and that was a time when I was, I think I just got married when I was watching that.

And I heard you talking about like, yeah, I mean, there's benefits to living out there here or there. But like, you know, I can afford to not take some gigs because my mortgage is $9. And when you said that, I was like, God damn, that really is so true. And that's such a thing in my favor right now that I constantly think about. I'm like, look, if I need to be in L.A. for a month, and sometimes that is the case, I just go out there in Airbnb and I can afford to do that because I have a pretty decent mortgage here in North Georgia. Yeah, it's nice. I just can't believe you watch that documentary on your wedding day.

It's amazing. While you were getting married, that's incredible. Yeah, yeah. On my phone. But what about the, because, you know, the conventional wisdom in the comedy world is that to have any kind of career that you have to make that move. And like, even though that's not what happened for me, like I had videos go, but I was still living in Knoxville when I was able to go full time in comedy. But I still came out here to L.A.

Because it still just seemed like I should be. Well, for me, it was, it was having the kids. And what Corey just said, if I got to go out there for a month or two, well, I didn't want to do that. sure while they were still back in tennessee i'd rather have bring them here uh to avoid having to do that but like how did it work what you know work for you was it just like just grinding away over the years and just being great because you are great well that's nice uh i think it just came down to you know how people make they have a decision to make and then they'll make the decision but in the back of their head they're always questioning their decision i just had to not do that i just thought

I'm staying here and I'm going to do the road until I'm good at stand up. And then that was it. I never had the, oh, but what if you moved to L.A.? Because I get that all the time. I get people asking me, what do you think you missed by not moving to L.A.? And it's like, I don't care. I just know I know what I would have missed by not being with my kids at home. Right, right.

It's a tough one. How do you not question that decision? Like you said, on behalf of most Americans right now, listen to what you just said. You go, yeah, I just can't do that. like like so just tomorrow i'm just going to wake up and be like drew never question every decision you ever make like you always do did you just is it willpower like what was that well anytime it would creep in i just go nope nope you made the decision you know so and also i never wanted to like i'm not i didn't want to move out here to be on tv or do any of that stuff i just really really have always

been a fan of stand-up and just wanted to do stand-up and so when i was going around i was having fun it ended up working uh my wife at the time she she had a job she was teaching she was teaching you she had a job she was teaching. So everybody, the family was happy. And so I think that had a lot to do with it too. You know, but coming out here, I will tell you, there are advantages to coming out here. I mean, I was hanging out at the, I was out here for a week, hanging out at the improv. It ended up, I wasn't on the show, but a lot of comedians canceled because the whole crowd was going to be like this traveling European teenage school that was going all around the U.S. and they had rented out the improv and the comedians didn't want to do it.

Jesus. Because everybody was like, oh, you need to be clean. You need to do this. So when they started bailing, a woman came up to me. Her name's Aaron, and she goes, hey, can I put you on the show? And I was like, sure. I go, but, you know, I can say what I want, right? And she goes, yeah, just, you know, try to be clean if something comes up, no big deal.

Well, through that show, can I say whatever I want on here? Do you guys have, like, cursing stuff? Oh, no, go, no, go forward. Okay, so these two girls would not shut the fuck up. Right. Two teenage girls. And so I go, hey, how old are you guys? And they go, we're 17.

and I go, that's got to be so fun for you. Your pussy's probably still get wet just from kissing. And so, because I was so sick of, I was so sick of how they were treating all the comedians. They weren't paying attention. They were being jerks, so I thought I'd come over the top. Just something outrageous, right? Well, Aaron love that shit, right?

Because the chaperones were like, we're the chaperones back here. And I go, maybe you should be chaperoning up here. I mean, they're ruining everything. So Aaron liked it. She ended up getting me on live at Gotham on Comedy Central and through live at Gotham, the next year they gave me a half hour. So it was like so nuts that just sitting at the improv,

not even being on the show, kind of snowballed into that stuff. So I understand why people come out here, but it just wouldn't have worked with my life at the time. When you're out on the road at clubs and there's like a local MC or some younger comics, like just getting started, I'm sure they ask you about it. What advice do you give when you get that question from a young comic? Well, it depends what the question is. If they say how do you have a family and make it work, I mean, you have to have an outrageously forgiving, strong, confident woman in your corner.

Tell me about it. So you can't do it without that. That's true. If you have somebody that's questioning your every move, questioning your motive, wondering what you're doing on the road, upset about them having the kids at home when you're gone, I mean, that's tough. I'm always impressed with Katie, who I just ran into, by the way, on the walk over here. because my wife's an actor and we don't have kids. So it's like, she's like, yeah, let's move. Yeah, get out of here.

Yeah, go make me some money, you know. Whereas you leave Katie home with the kids on weekends, and I'm always impressed by that. No, I, so I've had a lot of conversations with other comics of like my own generation and stuff that's either about, like before the videos went viral and all that, other comics would say to me and they were trying, being in their minds like nice and complimentary, they would say things like, man, I swear, like, if you didn't have a wife and kids, like, you'd be out there crushing it right now, you know, or whatever, that type of thing.

Sure. And in my mind, I was always, I'd always tell them, like, I mean, you know, I still intend to, but we'll see. Or like, now when they're like, I can't believe you've, it's wild to me that you've done this with a family or whatever. And my knee-jerk reaction is always, well, yeah, I mean, you know, it's not the death nail that everybody acts like it is. Right. But then I think, like, but if it wasn't for Katie, it probably would be. Like if I didn't, if my wife wasn't as fully on board as she has been the whole time, then yeah, I couldn't have done it.

If I wanted to move out here, but my baby's mama was in Tennessee and she just wasn't having that, then, I mean, I'd still be in Tennessee. I don't know how else I would have went about, you know what I mean? So, like, yeah, it very much depends, and you're right. You have to have a partnership going to make that. But when you moved out here, you had already, it seemed viable. Like, as a person in a family, you could. say to your wife and it be honest

hey I got some heat I got representation I got a real shot right now I think what a lot of comics hear and see like I lived in New York for five years and something that I saw a lot was people get pregnant there and try to balance it for about a year

when they weren't getting hardly any work on the road they were still in that phase year five six they were funny they were getting good at comedy but they hadn't popped yet and they hadn't you know, they hadn't met Aaron like you had, you know, or they hadn't had the viral video. And there, I think what people see, and it's judgmental, but it's true.

Like, you see someone come out to an open mic or the late night's set, you know, at New York Comedy Club, where you can get up at midnight. And, like, I'm hearing them tell these jokes. And it's like, this is funny, but you need to go the fuck home, man. Like, I feel guilty for being here, and I don't have any responsibilities right now. I just have to kind of get up early. Right. Like, you're saying that these like shitty shows where and there's eight people in the crowd and it's one in the morning.

Yes. And you got a guy up there talking about his kids or whatever. It mostly comes across is like, what the fuck are you doing, dog? And I think what you're running into is comics who experienced that as they came up in New York or L.A. or wherever. And they hear you talk about it and they go, God damn, somebody made it through that. And the truth is no. You had a very different scenario. And it sounds like you did too.

Yeah. I mean, you, you, I think your partner has to have confidence in you and have to have faith that, that if they give you that space, you'll do something with it. You're not going to be out on the road fucking around and getting wasted till, you know, 10 in the morning. That's another thing. You guys are more driven than comics without kids. That's a fact. Appearance are, absolutely. Well, yeah, yeah, you kind of have to be.

Right. You can't, you know, when you're working two shows on a Saturday in Michigan, Father's Day is the next day and your kids are in Minnesota. you don't go out and get wasted. You hop in the car after the late show and drive through Chicago at night to avoid traffic. Right. We're in Portland this weekend and I'm flying out at 6 a.m. Sunday morning because it's Easter Sunday. And we're not religious, but, you know, they like to hunt eggs and shit. So I'm getting up at the ass crack of dawn to fly back to do the Easter thing.

You were talking about sometimes people get confused at your shows because of what comes out of your mouth with your accent. And I don't know I've ever heard, well, we're not religious ever said in that accent. I know. That's a prime example. Just absolutely tweaked my neck, double-taking at you. So now you know what I'm saying. Yeah, right, exactly. I've heard it before followed up with, because we're faithful. Religious people are going to hell, but people with faith now.

Another thing I'll say, Minneapolis is a great comedy city, though, right? It seems like it now. It was very supportive when I started, certainly. I mean, there were guys, so people going out on the road, when you, would go to an open mic and they saw that maybe you had a premise that they had heard on the road. They weren't shitty about it. They just come up and be like, hey man, just to put it on your radar,

I heard that premise. So everybody was helping everybody because we wanted Minneapolis to be this great scene. And it was, because I remember, I made a call to a comedy club once and I said, hey, can I send you a tape? Can I, you know, would you watch it? And they go, where are you from? And I said, Minneapolis

and they go, oh, you don't need to send anything. We trust you that you're funny. We'll just book you. Just on that? Just on being on Minneapolis. So a lot of the guys that were a couple years before me really, really set the pace on the road for us younger guys. I know they exist, but like right now in the last three years, I've met eight, nine comics from Denver and they're all killers. Like it's just as an example of a city right now where like I would probably call somebody. Like if someone's like I'm from Denver, I might text Sam talent or who, you know, do you know this person?

But like there's just sometimes a scene just, you know, they go through phases. Sometimes there's a scene where they're just strong. Right. And I wasn't laughing at you. I was laughing because when you said, I know they're out there, but I haven't seen. And I thought you were going to say a comedian that ever had to send a tape to get work. I'm fucking, I'm getting old. It's funny because I thought he was going to say a club owner who would just roll with that.

Oh, sure. That's what I thought he was about. But there are scenes that have built a reputation where, you know, if you're from there and you call, you know, three people you know from the scene and they all give the green light. I mean, you shouldn't have to see the person. Well, boys, let's talk about Hello Fresh for a minute. If y'all are listening and you don't know, Hello Fresh is a meal kit delivery service at shops, plans, and delivers step-by-step recipes and pre-measured ingredients

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It's insane. Yeah, so do it, do it, tit. Eight meals for free, or as Corey calls it, a pretty good weekend. Yeah. Ew, hello, Fred. That's true. I am fat. And also, so there's three or four, like, pretty quality clubs there, right?

Comedy clubs in Minneapolis? Yeah, so there's a club at the main club, in my opinion, is Acme Comedy Company. That's where I started. That's like the big one. And then there's Rick Bronson's House of Comedy at the Mall of America. We've done that one a couple times. Yeah, and then there's a lot of rooms, but there's like Comedy Corner. There's, I'm forgetting a bunch, I'm sure, but keep in mind I don't live there, everybody.

Right. So there are a lot of good clubs where we can get up and get stage time. And again, it kind of came full circle. Everybody's supportive again because there was a time where everybody, remember the little wave where not even comedians were getting into comedy. It was just like social justice warriors where they're like, we're going to make sure you don't say this on a stage. And there were safe space rooms and go fuck yourself. I mean, what a nightmare of a time in comedy. Like, hey, remember comedy where you could say whatever you wanted and the court jester was the only one that could make fun of the king and say what he wanted?

Well, now we're switching that because we're just the worst. So I went through that when I was in New York So I just thought that's what Brooklyn was And I still think it is And Brooklyn's one of those scenes quote unquote Where the people who are the best It's magic You're like, I don't know

This is weird and it's funny And then where the mediocre is actually Intolerable Yep Yep, I've seen that I saw and where I'm at We had the two rooms We got you know the comedy catch

And we got JJ's Bohemian JJ's Bohemia, I guess, would be described as the more alternative room. And I remember when they first got going, everybody at the comedy catch was like, oh, yeah, that's the, that's the place, that's the safe place for all the comics to go and hug each other and talk about their feelings and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But meanwhile, at the comedy catch, there was just a way bigger list of things you can't talk about. Absolutely. You know, they're also serving food and it's a business.

I always felt like it was going back on both sides. Like, both people thought that the other place. was a safe place for, you know, somebody else. It's just always been weird to me. You got to keep in mind that we're all, we're like, we started in the South and at like some certain clubs in the South and the comedy catch is one of them. What Corey means is, whereas like the rooms you're talking about is safe space, so you can't, you know, talk about anything that's offensive, like in the social justice warrior perspective.

He means like you can't talk about Jesus. I can scream fuck Jesus. I can scream fuck Jesus as loud as I want. In a room like that and it'd be fine. but like the comedy catch you can't joke about the bible and you can't joke about like you know the confederate flag or statues or whatever that type of shit you could do like that now but jews jews are on the table literally and so it just it just depends but yeah no that the you know i kind of want to just go there to watch a show now well it's not always like we

were baby kine we were hosting back then so there's like there was that thing you know once you like They would never say that to you if you came there to do the weekend. It was like, oh, if you're the host, no religion, you can say damn or shit, only one or the other, only one. You know what I mean? And like, I do kind of get it. If you got a young comic who goes up there, fuck Jesus, everyone's a cunt, suck my dick, good night. And then like, the other two have to do the show, you know, and you're not. I usually stretch that out for 15 minutes, though.

That's how you get Star Search. Yeah. That's exactly how you get it. Um, but when you, when you were first starting, so like, did you have the, how long have you been doing comedy? 21 years from my first open mic, May 4th. It'll be 21 years. And your oldest kid is your son, right? Who's like, he's 19.

Right. Okay. Yeah. So you've been doing it for like two years when he came along. Well, actually, so I did it six months. Um, let me see if I got, yep. So I did it for six months at Acme. And then I got asked to go up to Grand Forks, North Dakota, to house.

MC. And that was in November. And then my girlfriend at the time turned wife turned ex-wife, a lot of titles, she called me and said three weeks in, she goes, hey, I'm pregnant. And I thought, all right, well, I'll just wrap it up then. And she goes, no, that's, you need to do this to meet people and work on your act. So I don't really need you till the third trimester anyways, and you'll be done by Ben. So why don't you just come home when you can? And that's what I mean about being supportive and stuff like that. So you're like abortion laws. You're not necessary until the third I didn't believe in that joke. I didn't believe in that joke. Because as I was telling it, I was like, well, no, it wasn't the political fear. It was, I don't know how it works, actually. Is that how the rules work? I know it has to do with trimesters. That's when you can't do it. Okay. That's what I thought.

Technically, you can do it whenever. Yeah. That's true. I mean, I've told myself, I've threatened late-term abortion on my 19-year-old son before. It's not murder. It's late-term abortion. I'm your father. So, no, it's not that I was afraid of the joke. As I was doing it, I was like, you don't know how that works, Drew. You have no idea how pregnancy or abortion works. Just stop right now. Oh, man, if that stopped me from doing a joke, I wouldn't have nine minutes of material total. Heard that. Just out of the blue.

Heard that. I don't know shit. I don't know shit, and I talk about everything. It's true. I'm so unqualified to talk about anything I've ever said. everything. So how far is Fargo from Fergus Falls? You mentioned our-one hour.

One hour? Yep. You spend much time in Fargo? I don't really, uh-uh. I mean, we just, listen, you guys, big, uh, big thing, big news happening in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. We just lost our Target store. Oh, lost a Target?

Yeah, which is pretty impressive. Yeah. Did you gain a Walmart? Uh, we had a Walmart. You lost it already, too? Nope. We still have the Walmart, but you have to drive past Target to get to Walmart. So it's like, it was a tough, it was a tough loss for us.

So sometimes I will go to Fargo with my daughter and we'll go, there's a bigger mall there. We go shopping and I'll stop in Target, stuff like that. The reason I ask is because we've done one tour stop so far in Fargo. And the show was actually cool. And the bar is, it was great. Yeah, it was all great. Where did you guys play? It's like a theater downtown, right?

Downtown-ish. It's like near that strip. It's a room. Smallish theater. Is it, was it an old church called the Sanctuary? No. No. Was it just called

the Fargo Theater? Maybe. That's what I always go with. Very possibly. It was a theater in Fargo. It's that of the Capitol, right? Is there a city that doesn't have a Capitol theater in America?

So anyway, we were playing the Capitol Fargo Theater, right? Sure. It was the Fargo Theater. Yeah. So that checks out. We had a good show. We went to have pizza afterwards. Some of our fans there.

We got hammered drunk. They got Blackjack tables in the bars there. I was loving that shit. You play the pig wheel? No, what's the pig wheel? So a pig wheel is on a wall and it's like a roulette wheel. Except instead of the green zeros

on the roulette wheel, you have five pigs. It's like Bob, Johnny, Roxy. I can't remember the rest of them. I can't believe we didn't play this. Corey would have hit that pig every time. But then you can bet on all the... So a dealer spins it, spins the wheel, and you bet on what number you think is going to come up

and it's absolutely fantastic. What happens if you get to pigs? Well, you have to bet on it. the pigs. Oh, okay. So you, just like in Roulette, how you have to bet on the zeros. You have to bet. So basically, you're betting numbers just like Rueh. But it's, but it's a, it's on the wall and there's pigs. I don't know how we missed that. No, I found a blackjack table and played that for a little while. So we got pretty hammered all this. We finally go back to our hotel at the end of the night, like 1 a.m. We get off the elevator and immediately start like hacking and

coughing really bad. It's like, what the fuck is going? This isn't normal. And then so we like, run into our room instead of like leaving we go deeper into this and it gets worse we get in the room it won't stop and uh that dude ran by us then a guy runs by holding like a towel to his face with like blood coming out either side of it and his eyes are all fucked up just somebody had uh maced someone right outside the elevators in the hallway at the hotel there oh wow yeah over they thought the the dude was like trying to rob them in the hotel room or something like that it was in a hotel room it wasn't by the elevators. That was what was so crazy about it.

It was the fact that it happened down the hallway and was still so strong. Oh, my gosh. So, yeah, we got Mace and Fargo, basically, indirectly. Maybe you didn't see it because we were separate on the way in. I didn't see shit. A shirtless person ran through the lobby at the way in. I saw that guy. Just like, what the fuck was it?

Well, that happens without Mason. Right. That was kind of a deal with it. That was the, they were fleeing the scene or whatever. So we're hacking and we're coughing. up we're supposed to record a podcast. You ever seen, what's the M-Night Shyamala movie where the kid has asthma so the poison

don't get to him? Six cents? Is that six cents? I thought it was, but no, it's not. It's the one with the aliens at the end. Signs. Signs. I don't remember. The whole premise of that. Swing away. Yeah. So that is,

at the end of that movie, that's like the big thing. The kid has asthma so they can't poison them. My theory is that's why it didn't bother me because I have asthma. They're like about to vomit. Corey did throw up. I'm laughing at them. I threw up a bunch. Got the podcast equipment out.

I thought, like, are they a little worse off than me, but this ain't that bad. Until me and Corey almost got into a literal fist fight. Yeah, I turn around. I'm hacking, coughing. I can't see anything. I turn around, and they're, like, starting to fist fight each other in the middle of this shit. It was tough. And then the fucking, the hotel, the thing, what, the hotel, they never did acknowledge that it even had happened.

Like, they came up there a little bit later and, like, told us they were about to kick us out because of them, fighting and shit and us, be like, what the fuck? And, like, scrape. They come up there. It's like, hey, you got to tighten this shit up, you know, you need to quieten down. And we're like, we got fucking maced a minute ago. And they're like, well, I don't know about all that. I'm not here for the mace. Yeah, right. And then... That's what the cops are handling right now.

In the next morning... I'd like it to go on record that I've physically pushed that security guard out of our door, slammed the door in his face and told him to go fuck himself. That is true. After the dude had done all that. And the next morning, we tried to figure out... Well, yeah, I had to hear him out. I'm a liberal.

They literally wouldn't acknowledge that it even had happened, even though the cops came and everything else. The whole thing was just super fucking weird. You guys got to learn how to talk to security guards. Yeah, I know. Corey not putting his best foot forward there. So we went to look it up. I'm trying to be my best foot up his goddamn ass.

So we went to look it up trying to figure out exactly what had happened, right? Like, Corey's like, let me search on the internet to see if there's some police blotter or whatever about this. event. There wasn't, but a week before that, and this was like a Marriott. It's not the nicest hotel. A Radisson. It was a Radisson. Sure. But it was a fine hotel. And like a week earlier, there had just been a drug raid on three floors of that downtown Radisson and Fargo. Wow. So I'm sure this is just, you know, just the fact that we had that one experience. But to me, Fargo is like the Wild West. You go there, you go in the fucking bar, you get hammered, And then people mace and fight and kill each other in your, like, mid-level hotel.

Yeah. Same Radisson. Same Radisson a year before that, there was another article that said, hostage situation taken care of at Radisson and Fargo, which is completely different than the drug raid. This is three separate things. Well, a hostage situation in Fargo could just be a late checkout. You just, you want so desperately to get the fuck out of that town.

Is it Wild Westy there? That's not. When you go in to North Dakota, it is, because now we're talking about oil fields. Right. I mean, they had these, they called them man camps where it was just every single park, every single open space in the area of like, my not North Dakota, where oil hit big. People were hitchhiking from all over the place, and these guys were just coming out, and they're living in tents and stuff like that and working, and they're making six figures.

A lot of them making six figures doing the oil work, but they have nowhere to live. I mean, people were paying Taco John's employees. It's like a Taco Bell kind of Taco John's employees, they were paying them like $30 an hour. Yeah. Because they couldn't find anyone to work. I had a buddy from my redneck hometown that I went to high school with went up to North Dakota to work that shit. But he came back after like two weeks. I don't know if it was too cold or what, but he didn't pay out, but he tried it.

Probably had a bunch of knives to his throat. I mean, it was all violent. He seemed genuinely kind of traumatized by the experience. But I mean, North Deadwood. That's what it was. Well, my mom's a retired teacher and she got some letter like coming here and teach for six figures or whatever I'm gonna go do this for a couple years my dad was like

we're not no you don't understand it's lawlessness up there it absolutely is there's like a guy with a bad I mean it was like it really was the Wild West that's fucking nuts man what why aren't they doing a show about that instead of you know fucking I'm about to shit on somebody's show never mind they should make a show about that

they should you're right you're right Jerry they should make a show about that tell us about the new special it's out So a new special recorded in Denver, great comedy scene. We've talked about that. It was recorded at the Comedy Works South venue, and it was just a blast. And my kids came out, and it was really fun because the next day after we recorded was Father's Day. So I got to wake up, you know, in a room with my kids, go out, get some food on Father's Day, stuff like that. So that was a blast.

That's awesome. Dad channels and how do people find it and all that? So if you want to listen to, I mean, you can stream it on anywhere. that you listen to music right pandora spotify apple music uh amazon blah blah blah and then you can also um you can see it on amazon prime it's free right it's all over it's worldwide 200 countries so yeah uh i watched it on amazon prime uh and yes i recommend it very highly but yeah whether audio or video either way it's gonna make you laugh but definitely check it out um so corey mentioned that documentary earlier yeah i watched that too because he told me about it she was pretty wild so

You went with a few other comedians at the behest of the owner of the club you started at, right? That's correct. Okay. The owner of Acme, Comedy Club in Minneapolis. He grew up in Hong Kong. Okay, he grew up in Hong Kong. So he wanted to bring us over there. He wanted kind of a double, what am I trying to say?

A double what? Something. Ontra? Whammy? Who knows? He wanted us. He wanted us there for two reasons. How about that shit?

Added dildo. That's funny. So he wanted to show. show us his hometown, but he also... He's a dad. That made me feel real good. He also wanted to bring us over there and to show all the club owners that you can avoid the 90s bust. There was the 80s boom in America with comedy. There was also a 90s bus. So he wanted to show them how to avoid the 90s bus. And we went over there and we had a blast, man. I'd never met Seguro before. We met on the airplane going over there. I was great friends with the other guy,

Pete Lee, but he brought his soon-to-be ex-wife. They're not married anymore. And so it was just a really interesting dynamic and there was one point where we're sorry soon to be now or soon to be then soon to be then okay yep so there's one point where it starts raining we're in this neighborhood called soho and the hill is so steep to get down to the next block that there's an escalator because people can't climb up it's like really like a sheer kind of deal so every it starts raining everybody is trying is waiting in line for the escalator i go i'm not going to wait in line for that so we go down and we start slipping because there's so much smog and stuff that when the rain brings it down, it's slimy. And I thought, I'm from Minnesota.

I've sled down the hill before when it snowed. So let's see what we can do. So I grab the lid off of a trash can, a plastic lid. I put it down and I jumped on it. And I took off like Christmas vacation. I mean like, Chrisco. I was screaming down this hill. Sugura's already down there. I finally get to the end, go through a puddle, so I'm drenched. But I skip out into the road. And I kind of have to do the backwards worm where my legs came up first and then I push myself backwards. As soon as I did, a cab went by, felt my hair move. I'm laying in the puddle. Look up at Seguerra, probably with these little puppy dog eyes. He sticks his head, he pulls his head out of the cab because he's trying to negotiate getting us home. And he just

looks at me and he goes, what the fuck? And then head right back into the cab. And I'm just laying in a puddle. It happens so quickly. I still have the boots. I have a lot of things in my office. Like one time, I thought it'd be fun to throw a chair out of a hotel window like a rock star. So I still have the broken pieces of that. And then I have my boots that have holes in the toes because I had to use them for breaks. So I didn't get smoked by that cab. So, all right. So I was going to ask, did you, was that a, yeah, you know, I'm from Minnesota.

It's just in my blood to go quickly downhill. Or are you that kind of guy, generally speaking, with other shit? Like, you just throw it out there. Just go for it. I just try to see what's going to get my blood pumping. Now, I will tell you, I was really tired because I had. jet lag and I couldn't fall asleep. Yeah, we've all been there and can't sleep.

Fucking sled down the hill in the middle of traffic. Just to feel simple. I had some yager bombs just to try to fire up. Just fired up a little bit. So I'm out there like, what am I going to do, man? Just too drunk to be in public, but, you know, too hyper to be in your bed. I was in the yager bombs for about eight months in my life, and that is fucking wild. Our bodies are not meant to process all that upper and downer at the same time.

No, there's such an inner fight going on in your body. Right. That's why I had to outlaw that four loco shit, or at least the real version of it. Because it was killing people or whatever. Yeah. They were fucking sledding in the traffic. Even Florida was like, not this. Florida was like, three loco maybe. Yeah, we do three loco. We're a three loco state. I actually, if the teenagers are dead, they can't take our pills. After I sled down the hill, I actually got a letter from Florida's Governor Bush. Just saying, just saying you're welcome anytime.

Just the key to the state Yeah, Florida. It's just a big dick. Oh, man. It's a dick-shaped key. It's a lock-picking kit. I used to be a public defender in Florida. We had this one client all the time.

He was charged with breaking into 37 houses, but he told me he'd only done about 20 of them, but he let him put the rest on him because he wanted to come up. Some trumped up bullshit. Well, no, he said he let the cops. He told the cops you could put the rest of them on me because I don't give a fuck and you guys look like you're having a bad day and they bought him McDonald's.

He was a little person. His name was umpah, as in umpulumpa, as in he tattooed that on his arm right here. A little person cat burglar, a kitten burglar? He got in the gang in his trailer park, and the reason they wanted him was because he was tough, he wasn't afraid to fight even though he was little, and they could just like throw him up on balconies.

Yeah, yeah. He could fit through smaller windows and stuff. They had a circus fucking gang. Yeah. That's absolutely incredible. Unpa was one of my favorite clients of all time, because I had this friend who couldn't pass the bar because he'd been arrested too many times

he passed the bar but they wouldn't give him his license yet so he acted as my like assistant even though he was smarter than me and went to NYU's name is this a fucking John Grisham novel? Yeah man, my la Lange's. What the hell is going on? Well, he couldn't pass it because this is like Danny DeVito can play two characters

in your story. Yeah, man. That's incredible. So I tell him this guy's going to come visit you, Opa. His name is Jimmy and I described him. I said, Jimmy's like a bulldog. I'll put him on this case. When Jimmy got out of their, Oompah's first words, hey, man, I heard they called you Bulldog.

They called me Oonpa. What's up, Blood? And, like, they were just best friends after that. Holy shit. I've always thought that if you were driving an Uber and you had a friend that was a little person, the greatest thing would be to keep them in the trunk. And then when people are going to the airport,

they'll put their bags in there. And then while they're driving, that dude can go through the bags and take all the valuables, and then you don't check your bag when you get to the airport. You don't know it's gone until your home. You don't know how it could possibly

have gone missing in the Uber, and all the sudden. I like how this is a real felony at the end. I thought this was just a gag from a comic, but no, you have a real crime. No, I guess what I'm saying is, I'm looking for a little. For an Opa.

I was about saying you need to hook Oonpa up with Chad. He streets ahead of his old guy members. Oh, God. I would Trojan horse the shit out of Ompa. Yeah. Every single chance I got. You could really put Oonpa to some real productive work, I think.

I think thought about oompa in a while. He's probably not doing well, guys. Oh, you think so? No, but he's excelling. I have a question that I want to ask. The guy who, you know, didn't move to L.A. or New York, and you have the special and it's great, and you're going to get more. What do you want, then? Like, a lot of people, they move out here, and they're like, well, I'd like to get into acting.

I want to be a director. People move to New York, and they say, I want to be the greatest comic alive. I mean, is that what you want? Like, what's... This is, I feel... My goals are not as great as every... everyone else's. That's fair.

I just want... You did stay in Minnesota. Yeah, Fergus Falls, Minnesota. It's on the sign when you drive in, actually. Welcome to Fergus Falls. Our goals aren't the greatest. And then just dot, dot, dot, we stay. But the pie's pretty good.

You know, I really just want new eyes to see the special, get some new fans, have them go back and listen at the beginning. Because I think it is interesting. If you listen at the beginning of the albums, You can listen all the way through and hear two human beings get raised to almost adulthood. Yeah. So, but I would just like, I guess I just want more people to come to live shows because the more people that have seen my stand up and enjoy it that come to the shows, that means

there aren't going to be seats for people that are just going to try comedy on a Friday and fuck everything up by staring at you. Right. Yeah. So that's what I would like. I would just like more people that are into it to show up. That's a plus side to being divisive that people don't talk about that we experience. It's like people aren't going to pay $30 to hear someone they know they hate.

You know what I mean? Exactly. Right. Yeah, we'll get asked about like doing shows in the South and they ask about like the what you think of when you think of the South, like those people showing up. But they just don't come to our show because they either don't know anything about us at all or if they do, they know that we're, they're not fans. So they just sit their ass at home, you know, so we don't have to worry about that.

Yeah, that's great. Your line was always like was it's free to call me queer on that. internet. Yeah. Well, it's, oh yeah. Yeah. It's a, I'm very much at a, like, internet basement level of hatred for, yeah. Hated enough to be called a queer in YouTube comments, but not enough for them to pay $25 to call me a queer in person. No one's making a sign. Yeah, right, no, because they can't pay it at all. It is interesting. When they stopped bullying, Twitter really blew up with guys just sitting at home talking shit, isn't it? Right. Yeah. Shut it down in the real world. I just had to figure something out. Oh, wait, let me ask.

though. So is your theory that bullies would have prevented those people from being that way or they're the bullies and this is where they're... I just think when you take away all, like, normal interaction between humans, then no one knows how to deal with it when it happens for the first. I mean, people getting bullied for the first time in their 30s blows my fucking mind.

Right. Yeah, we're about to get to that. I was cool. I was cool in school and still got fucking bullied from time to time. Yeah, you had to. You had to get knocked down. Well, I mean, at least you don't get bullied anymore, Cho. And by the way, everybody in studio just shook their head at me when you said you were cool in school. I fucking was. I fucking was.

Those are fucking sacks of shit. See how you know. I'm not anymore. I know that. He just totally never doubted it for a second when you said that. He just rolled. He's like, I guarantee they did. I knew they would.

Have you ever met Corey? Without meeting you, he knew who you were, Corey and how to get to you. No one shook their fucking heads, Corey. You did. There's no way you did. There's no fucking. way that you didn't. Nobody shook their head. I am just a master button pusher. That man's head, Bob's back and forth naturally in a state of derision no matter what. Don't you, don't you start

bringing up heads, Corey. His head is perfectly round. It's huge. It's crazy looking. Also, yeah, he would, no, he was cool. He was cool. He wore two polos at the same time. He had pukeshell necklaces. That was for a fucking senior, that was for a senior picture. Everybody was doing it. Two collars. Everybody was doing it. Yeah. Ever since he can't?

Everybody was doing it. This is fantastic. That's the definition of cool. Is everybody popping two collars? Yeah. Were you sitting on the hood of those? I rocked. Oh man, you burned him and burned yourself.

You dated yourself a little there, Chad. I know. I don't even know. No. It would be a Honda Civic with a spoiler. Yeah, I was probably a tailgate. This was supposed to be a discussion about bullying. I like where it's gone.

Yep. Yeah, I did that. So, uh, so what do you got going on? Like, are you, you're, I'm assuming you're touring in, uh, support of the new special and all that, right? Are you out on the road right now? Yeah. Yeah.

So, uh, have a tour going on right now. It goes for the whole 2019. It's called new hip tour. And you would think that it, because I have new hip material, but it's because I got a brand new hip on the right side. That is true. Wait, word? Yeah.

Fucking throwing yourself down too many hills. Probably. No, what? happened. Sitting in cars. Yeah, I was sitting on all the IROC Zs. I mean, I was being sincere, like driving around the country. Oh, I thought no, I think it was,

we had nine foot hoops, basketball hoops outside on a tennis court when I was growing up, and we were down there probably four hours a day, just dunking for four hours a day. There's no black people here. We don't have to make it 10 feet. Like, we can, they can all be nine.

It's fine. This is Fergus Falls. We don't have real goals. there it is Bringing it back Anyway Yeah so I did that a lot Ran in my 20s And then I think genetics also

So I got to Had to replace it Was that mad I didn't say lofty goals How long How long have you had this new hip But a year Well let's see

January was a year So year in three Four months What was the Go ahead What was the like rehab like For that And everything

Like did that like Take you out of commission For a little while Or was it No I was on stage In two and a half weeks Actually in Fargo because I knew that I wouldn't I couldn't get on a plane yet so I knew if I just drove for an hour I'd be

able to do a show so I tried that all right well was it one of those I mean was it like life changing were you in like a lot of pain oh I was in a ton of pain so when they took it out right they cut the femoral head off of your leg and then they show it to you and normally if you go if you go on my instance so can you opt out of that part no you have to do that part that's the main part but if you go on my Instagram and search back to January 2017 you can see my femoral head The first picture is ephemeral head of when it's supposed to be removed And it's basically red

Right? Because the blood flow and everything And then there's a little piece of white And that's supposed to be removed then Mine was all white And then all the way down to the bone It looked like somebody took a gobb stopper And just licked one spot For three straight weeks

Hold on. Corey Mute yourself buddy Will you mute yourself? Yes We can hear everything you're doing Sorry buddy I know when I was going to cut out He went to get a candy bar

Stairs to go down But now I'll have to cut out all this So thanks it's fine Were you Gonna say something besides Chastising Corey or I mean I'm sorry No no you were going to ask him a question

About the hippo Oh well no you were talking about it Just being so I was going to say Usually when someone young Has a big thing like that It's because they're in excruciating pain That's true And you need to know that I almost just

Grabbed your hand across the table And held it and looked into your eyes because you called me young. That was the nicest. I'll tell you what. Young for hip replacement, though. Right, I know. So that's, it's fantastic.

If you ever feel old, get your hip replaced, you know, if you're like in your 40s. Because I, when I, every time I'd go in there, all the nurses were like, you're way too young for this. And I was like, come on. It's all right. But yeah, I enjoyed. But anyways, I got the new hip and I can do things that, you know,

I couldn't do in high school because my hip has been bad since then. so no shit i just had a sinus surgery not quite two weeks ago which i think is also typically an older not like not as old as hip replacement but like i think was too young to be having that shit would you get like your adenoids out or something no no like they had to go in there and basically just scrape out all my sinuses uh because i had essentially i had a sinus infection that was never going to go away do you think it was from the mace in fargo no is this a loss of hell let me turn to the lawyer is this a lawsuit no we need to get boldly dog and ump on this shit no he has

duane eyes that's another disease he has so like if we took that they'd be like this redneck definitely just has fucked up nose problems I have an eye disorder where I see dub my have to wear corrective lenses or I see double all the time because of my optic nerves and the name of the fucking disease is duane syndrome

that's pretty great because you know like Tommy John surgery is because Tommy John had to have it and there's just some fucking dude some drunk he's like always say Always seeing double. Yeah.

I love it. Yeah. Yeah, my fucking trailer park ass when that ophthalmologist was like, oh, it's Duane syndrome. I was like, of course it is. I should have known I had Duane syndrome. You can just hear it echoing in the trailer park. How many fingers I got, Duane. So outside of that Asian tour you were talking about earlier, have you done other international stuff?

I've gone Canada and just North America so Canada and Mexico I've done but Where in Mexico? It's a place called Akumal. It's like an hour south of Cancun right before you get to all the like big ruins. What was that like? It was fantastic. I mean, it was a lot of expats. And we were staying kind of in a resort.

But it was great to just go down there and hang out. This town is actually, oh man, Jerry Garcia. What's a jam band? Grateful Dead. Grateful Dead, right? Yeah. Yeah, so they had a Grateful Dead stage because those guys used to go down there and just hang out. And one of the houses where they would put the comedians was the guitarist of the Grateful Dead, the lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead.

And he, it was so crazy, like the construction of it. There was a little pond. There was a little stream that you could snorkel in. It was really, really fun. And so there was no ceiling. So I'm assuming those guys just did acid and laid in the living room and stared up at the stars. And that's why it was built that way. But it was a really fun comedy festival that used to go on there.

So I've been there and then a bunch of places in Canada, but otherwise just that Asia trip, yeah. Did you go see the ruins? Yeah, I have been to the ruins. Was it wild? I want to do that. Yeah, it was. So one of the guys, Gus, RIP, he was a comedian, very, very funny, really good dude, started. He was a co-creator of the comedy festival because his parents had a place down there.

He actually fell off of one of the ruins, the pyramids, and died. because he broke his, he broke his pelvis, and then they couldn't get him to the hospital in time. And so kind of a cool story. Somebody from Chicago. Super cool. Well, no, no, hold on. This one, this part.

I'm enjoying it. Some of the people that were on the tour, one guy from Chicago got a hold of his family and was like, just so you know, he lost his footing, and there were kids in front of him. And it looked like he purposely just went off the edge instead of taking the kids out with him. Okay. So I thought that was a pretty cool part of the story. But we did tease him a lot.

We were like, who the fuck falls off a pyramid? Yeah. You just slide down it. Yeah, everybody knows that. He found the one spot to fall off. But yeah, good dude. And I didn't mean to bring it down because I did, I do think it's a funny story. And everybody has a good sense of humor about it.

All right. Do they not have trash can lids at the top of pyramids? That's what he should have done. You're exactly right. You could have, if only you'd have been there, you could have shown him out of properly. I think so, too. I think that's a great story. No, but seriously, though.

How do you fall off of a pyramid? Well, because since their ruins, since their ruins, one of them is like one of them has fallen off into the whatever. Yeah. They should rope that side off. All right. Well, so this has been fantastic, man. Thanks for coming by and everything. Do you have anything else you want to want everybody to know?

I tell people, I know you already talked about the album and how you can watch that, but how people can find you, ticket information, all that stuff. You can go, so my website's, Chaddaniels.com. If you want to find me on Instagram, it's that Chad Daniels. You can look at that hip. Also, if you don't know this about me, I like to go on podcasts. Have a great time and then end with a story about someone dying. And what else could we do?

Oh, my podcast, Lizzie, just start. People have been asking me to do a podcast for a long time. I finally caved. And my podcast just, first episode was out on Tax Day, April 15th. So those episodes are available. You can find those wherever you listen to podcasts. Do you interview the mayor of Fergus Falls? I don't.

I just talk about my friends that have died. I talk with another comedian from Minnesota. His name's Cy Amundsen, and he is fantastic. And we just basically... I know, sir? We met him in Minnesota. Okay. Yeah, we text back and forth all the time about our weeks,

because we always make each other laugh, and we're like, why don't we just go in and chit-chat about it on Mike? Right on. Hell yeah. He's the one on Snapchat, ESPN, right? Exactly. Yep, that's him. Okay, everybody check that out. And if you see that if Chad's coming nearby to you at all,

you should absolutely go and check it out and keep those people that are just checking comedy in general out for the first time. You can almost hear the conversation where they're like, honey, what do you want to do tonight? And he's like, I think we should just try comedy. Should we check the website? No, let's just go in and see if we like it. It's fucking obnoxious. And if we don't halfway through, let's let everyone know we don't like it in the middle of it. Like you would do at a movie or other live event, you fucking insane person.

Yeah, we know that guy. Yeah, that's why I've always said that Thursday and Sunday shows were my favorite because those people weren't normally there on Thursday and Sunday. Yeah, that's true. They'd only try it on the weekend. And I will tell you that what you just said is something that someone who was cool in high school would say. Thank you. All right.

Chad Daniels, everybody. Thank you, Chad. Appreciate it. Thanks. All right. Thank you. for listening to The Wett

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