Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Dave Attell

Episode Date: March 29, 2024

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Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse gingers are beautiful you owe me five dollars for the whiskey and 75 dollars for the horse gingers are hell no this whiskey is excellent ginger i like gingers okay how are you buddy grab that mic and pull it towards your beautiful face okay good ladies and gentlemen welcome back to whiskey junior my guest today is one of my I'm going to grab that mic and pull it towards your beautiful face. I don't want to get it. Okay. Good? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on Earth.

I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again today. It's Dave Vettel. Thanks for having me, everyone. It's great to be on the... What would be the name here that you guys go by? Whiskey Ginger. Whiskey Ginger. Yeah.

How does it feel? I was just on Sierra Bravo Tango. And, okay. You know, first of all, the one thing we can agree on, the weather has changed. And I'm talking not just physically, but emotionally. Yeah. And you seemed like early when I was pulling up, you were a little nervous. Now I see a smile on your face.

Yeah. What changed, buddy? Honestly, it was, I wanted to, once I sit down with somebody, I feel much more comfortable than when we're standing up. Because I'm 6'1", and you are... In the fives. Yeah. Yeah.

So I like to be, you know, same height makes me feel a little bit better. When we're seated, it makes me feel a little bit more equal, even though I'm not your equal. But in this world, it feels better. Well, I don't know if that was a compliment or just demeaning. It was both. Anyway, I'm glad a tall man can sit down with a short man in these times. Well, especially what's going on right now. I mean, you know, people are letting their kids choose their height these days.

Are they? Yeah, that's the big thing. I didn't get that letter. You mean you could be taller if you want to? Yeah, I mean, you know, these hardcore libs are out there, and they're letting their kids choose, you know, how tall they want to be. And, you know, they let them pick their eye color in this day and age. I mean, it's gotten way, way out of control. Well, you know what? And they want to take our thumbs away. I don't know if you know that.

One at a time. Easy, buddy. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Wow. First of all all the tall thing you know as a short man we always wish we were taller but then i'm thinking would i be the same man probably not no i wouldn't probably have to have done uh all my um you know short man stuff you know now you did a whole special of short man stuff what was it called you're old no i never did a special of short man stuff that was uh squat because i'm also squat i'm also um we used to call it big shoulder but it's really just fat

we'll be right back so whiskey ginger yes and is that a given name or is it just a nickname it was my mother's maiden name yeah ginger was my mother's maiden i love it and uh in shite town correct chicago illinois yeah do you miss it honestly i do i miss i don't miss the murders but i do miss the food you know usually the towns with the best crime have the best food by far it's uh i don't know if detroit holds that i mean that pizza the pizza's good but is it i feel like i've also been. The pizza's good, but is it? I feel like I've also been convinced that it's good. I've convinced myself that it's good. I like it.

And I'm from New York. We're a pizza town. How do you feel about Connecticut pizza people saying that that's better than New York? You know what? I don't know who makes it up there. I guess someone's butler. I mean, it's Connecticut. I'm sure it's fine.

Let's face it. It's hard to mess up pizza. I was just in San Diego. And let sure it's fine. You know, let's face it. It's hard to mess up pizza. I was just in San Diego and let me tell you something, a border town, you know, is the way to go as well. You know, the fusion food. Are you into fusion? No. You know what I like? The thing I love the most about Southern California, I like Mexican, Mexican food. Yes. I like real made by Mexicans, not really for us. Yes. But they'll put up with you. I really like that.

That's also how I like my cars. You know, that's great, dude, because you go down there and it's a fun town. You guys were playing, right? You were on tour? Yeah, me and Bob did. We played San Diego. We played San Diego State. Is that where we played?

Really? At college? We played like the amphitheater outside. Oh. Which I don't know why we said yes to that, but we thought it was cool. And Bobby's from San Diego, so. I didn't know that. It was like a homecoming.

Known the guy for years, didn't know that. Well, originally his family's from Korea and they escaped. Wow. Yeah, they escaped. Sounds like a movie of the week to me. It is. And check out this clip from that movie of the week, From Korea to San Diego. Bong Sung Twayaton, Tedo. Wow.

Nice throw. Yeah. So let me ask you a question. Wow. Nice throw. Yeah. So let me ask you a question. Yeah. Okay. Here we are, just three guys in a room. And would you say the goal of this podcast is to one day have a bathroom in your actual location? If we work hard enough, I feel like we could get to that point.

That's a good goal. That's a good, like, you know, when you hit that, you know, like, the sky's the limit. But I'll tell you why we like the bathroom outside of this location. Go. Because people sometimes don't want to be heard or seen going in and out, and I don't really judge their time. But maybe that's one of your pranks. Oh, that's our bit that we're doing. I bet it is.

Wait, wait, look under your seat. Wait till you see what's underneath there. I'm afraid to. Dave, before... Now, let me ask you, would you guys consider yourself practical jokers? More Where like it actually is helpful Yeah I mean we're

Like all the bits that we're doing We're trying to really get people To the next stage of their life We do this big prank on the show We'll go to a We'll go to a drive-thru Yeah And we'll buy everyone's food

Until we run out of money I love that Just to fuck with them That's a great thing We need more of that in this country And these idiots They drive away confused And it's You should do that at a hospital You just pick up with them. That's a great thing. We need more of that in this country. These idiots, they drive away confused. You should do that at a hospital.

You just pick up people's bills. That would be great. No, I don't want to. I actually just got a hospital bill today for $1,700, and it said insurance paid $165. Isn't that amazing? It was very nice of them to pick up $165. Yeah, that's like basically the the gauze, you know?

Yeah, a wrap. Well, I hope you're feeling okay. You look good. Do I? You look better than I do. Last night I saw you on stage and you had your sling backpack on. Yes. And I thought, is he going to take it off?

No. And I knew the answer was no. But I wanted you to throw me for a loop, take it off and put it back on during the set. I take it off and immediately I open it, and bang, it's juggling. That's a juggler bag, people. The traveling juggler, no one really knows the lifestyle. Yeah. Well, they're hard to pin down.

Let's talk some road stuff. I just was at the comedy store, and I just found out they have a laundry there. And here I am doing laundromats every time I'm in town. I would love to do that. You go do a set. You do your laundry. You come back out. You put it in the dryer.

You do a roast battle. You come back out. You fold. You're done. How great is that? We did a couple of venues of theater shows. And they have laundries. But the wildest shit was they charge.

Yeah. Oh, in the theater? Oh, now we're talking. I don't know how you guys put up with it. First of all, they lop off 30%. Right. Right at the top. Forget about that money.

And then every little thing, right? The green room, there's stuff in there you didn't even want. Nope. But you're going to pay for it. Yep. Yeah. Do you need like 18 different types of tea? Well, that's what they got in there.

Flowers. Who wanted that? I didn't put that on my rider. And then there's somebody in there you got to tip them out, and do you know i don't even know who they are somebody's friend they're just in there and then merch you guys do merch right we do yeah we get killed and then the venue wants a piece of that yeah wow what a clip joint once we sell it when we sell a shirt in a theater i think we walk away we did the math with 18 of the. 18%, that's what we make. So when we sell shirts, it's basically just for the fans to have something for fun.

Yeah, you're being a good guy. It's like, hey, here's something for fun. We've lost money on it. I totally know what you're talking about. It sucks. But they always get the person to sell the merch at the theater. You know, they're like some just like weird character. You know, like a lot of things have to go wrong in your life

to sell merch for someone you don't know at a theater, you know? Well, we had, what did we have? We had a dude on the soundboard. What city were we? Pittsburgh or something like that. We had a guy that was Jones that was nodding off. He was on the soundboard. Yeah. And he was nodding off. I mean, and I mean, nodding off, not taking a nap. He was, he was on the horse. Wow. Yeah. You could smell it. Oh, you could feel it. And when he he woke up and i we'd say our our tour manager was like our production coordinator was like hey hey dude you're missing all the cues and he kept going okay okay okay okay okay okay and then seconds later would be nodding off again that's right because you guys have like you need you need stuff to pump in right yeah like when you did when you

did when you and um did Bumping Mics, did you guys have like more show to it or was it just you do a set, he does a set, and then you come out together? Is that it? That's originally kind of how it started, just in clubs.

But eventually we just went on together and then we did three episodes for Netflix and that was a lot of fun. It was also a lot of work and you know i think that the beauty of that was not just not just the uh the anything could happen this to it but it was also like you know me and jeff together like once we get in the rhythm it's so much fun but it's also everything goes and like when we do gigs you know we used to go on do theaters as well and like you know we go right into the crowd you know we talk to people in and do theaters as well and like you know we go right into the crowd

you know we talk to people in the crowd we do all that kind of stuff because there's no one better at that than jeff i mean he's the rosemaster it could be you no no i think jeff is really kind of the uh you know the gold standard of that kind of stuff and it's his thing and we uh you know we go and like throw our bits out there and like you know band back bicker back and forth and all that kind of stuff and the fans really seem to like that yeah and that's the thing i think that you you do when you're on tour as well as like you know every show is different even though it's kind of the same true yeah exactly yeah we follow we're following some of the same beats but the beauty is sometimes you hit home runs like sometimes there's stuff that you just cannot

when we pull from the crowd and and there's always at least one or two people who are, it's like a gift from the comedy gods. You're like, who arranged this? I know exactly what you're talking about. And you know, it's fucking wild when people say- Culturally, the pointing, please. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. It's okay, as long as there's-

Well, it wasn't high up. 50 bottles of booze in the room. Yeah. Okay. We always get someone that goes, this is a plant. That guy was a plant, right? We get asked that all the time. Yeah, right? No, we didn't fucking pay someone to come to Tul, this is a plant. That guy was a plant, right? We get asked that all the time. Yeah, right.

No, we didn't fucking pay someone to come to Tulsa to do a bit. It's whatever comes in, you know? And I think that's what also for me keeps me thinking. You know, like when I'm with Jeff, you know, I got to, you know, like be listening and thinking. And that's the thing that people don't realize. It's like a lot of listening when you've got another person on stage, you know? Like when you and Bobby are up there, you got to like listen and make sure, you know, you're waiting. It's almost like waiting for your wave. Like, okay, okay, now, you know?

He doesn't do that, but yes, I will. But you, I know. You're right. The fans want to know this question more than anything. And how many fans are we talking about? 36. Wow. Yeah, each one of the chambers from Wu-Tang. We did it. Turn on the other camera.

No, no, we can't. We can't afford it. Okay, go ahead. Once we get the bathroom inside, we'll have Wu-Tang. We did it. Turn on the other camera. No, no, we can't. We can't afford it. Okay, go ahead. Once we get the bathroom inside, we'll have all three working. Let's hear it. The fans. They want to know, because this is, you know, I shot a movie in Australia. Jeff was in it.

Hold on a second. Really? I've been waiting for something exciting to take this off. Sorry about that, yeah. What was it called? Ricky Stanecki. It'll come out in a month. Ricky Stanecki.

Oh, it'll be out by the time this is out. I know it by the other name, Not On My Back So I'm not done Go ahead That's great, congratulations Thank you, but Jeff was in the movie with us But he made us all, and this is something I want to know about your tour with him

He would make us bathe him before show We had to bathe him before the show. Did you have to do that? No, but Jeff is a lot of work. He really does, like, you know, from the sound check to whatever. Then with me and him, it's really, you know, like, we're old men, so it's like trying to find a place to eat. So that's really our big excitement of the night.

But no bathing. And I would say the one thing that's cool about Jeff is that, you know, he knows how he wants it. See, for me, I'm always like, I don't care. But he knows exactly how he wants it. So tell me, this is your movie, right? No, it's not my movie. It's John Cena and Zac Efron's movie, and me and Jeff are just in it.

So how was it being in Australia? For how long were you down there? I was down there for two and a half months or something like that. Wow, that is a lot of time. Yeah, but have you ever toured down there? Never. Why? The flight is too long.

Yeah, but you can stop. Yeah. Oh, is that what you did? No, but a lot of time yeah but it was have you ever toured down there never why the flight is too long plus yeah but you can stop yeah oh did you is that what you did no but you a lot of people did you can stop in hawaii or you can stop in the the you can stop in the french polynesia you can stop that's what i wanted to take a vacation you know because i used to do a lot of uso is like stop along the way go to korea yeah work my way down through like you know vietnam philippines the philippines you know hit all the hit all the, hit all the hotspots and then go to Australia. But now my mom has dementia.

I can't leave the country. She won't know. I know she won't, but I will. Yeah. And it's just tough getting back in the country sometimes, you know? I mean, I have that problem. Not, I don't know about you guys. What did you have charges?

No, nothing like that. It's just like, if I had to get home really quickly, it would be having to go through cut. I mean, you know, you know what I'm talking about. I got you. But congratulations on the movie. Thank you. Well, I hope people liked it.

It's out right now. Two and a half months. Yeah. Wow. It was a long time. Did you do stand-up while you were down there? I did. I did a couple of shows we shot in Melbourne, which I highly recommend.

When you do go down there, because you will. I've heard only good things. It's the fucking best. The food, the culture. Melbourne feels like if you took a little piece of every asian country and threw it in this weird beautiful kind of uh uh weirdly laid out city along the river and it was every kind of food you've ever thought of and then also uh rad shit going on a lot of good bands go down there there. I think it's got a vibrancy to it

that no offense to Sydney. I like Sydney. Sydney feels like Toronto. You've seen it before. Which is the city when they do the New Year's? Which one has all the fireworks? Is that Sydney? Sydney, yeah.

Over the bridge and all that stuff. So Melbourne is the way to go. Melbourne to me is like the little sweet nook. Do they put you up in an apartment? Or how did they do that? Well, the famous guys got houses. I lived in a hotel. I just lived in a regular little tiny hotel.

For like two and a half months? Yeah. There we go back to this laundry thing. It's really difficult to do laundry in another country. I can only imagine. Do they even call it laundry there? No, they don't. They call it wash. Yeah, so you're like, I can only imagine. Well, the- Do they even call it laundry there? No, they don't. They call it wash.

Yeah, so you're like, I got to do me wash. I got to wash me. I got to wash me. And they don't know if you're talking about yourself or your clothes. This is the second time you brought up this bathing thing. Now, let me ask you something. I'm a shower man. Does that mean I should leave?

Because you seem like a bathtub guy. I don't want you to leave because we've got some time left on the show, but I am a tub man. You're a tub man. How about yourself? He's a tub boy. When on the show, but I am a tub man. You're a tub man. How about yourself? He's a tub boy. When he grows up, he will be a tub man. I see him as a barrel of rainwater. Yes.

Finally, I got you laughing. No, no. There you go. There's nothing better after a long drive than getting to Hostel. Can I suck your dick real quick? Can I talk? No. Go ahead, buddy.

I've been such a fucking fan of yours for so long from afar. You don't really know me. But now you're from a close. Well, not really. And we're both colleagues. I mean, we're all in the same game. No, no. Go ahead.

And I'm going to do it. I know it makes you uncomfortable. I don't have a movie in Australia. Here I am waiting for a call back in New Zealand. You're the greatest living comedian alive right now. I don't think that at all. I say that. No, it's my opinion.

I'm a club comic. That's what I do. And I know a lot of great comics. And to be a part of it is all I ask. And I do it for the fans. It's also great to meet the new comics. The young bloods. And like you guys, I kind of feel for you in a way because it's such a different game.

It's such a harder game. There's more stakes to it now. And as we all know, we live in a very judgmental culture. So the whole idea of just doing a, I don't even know if we're allowed to curse on your You can say whatever you want. Do a what the heck joke, you know, just something you felt from the heart. And then it comes back, you know, it comes back on you. You know, I feel for you guys.

But I think culturally people are, I think people don't give a shit anymore. I really don't. people are I think people don't give a shit anymore I really don't I think it's starting to come to a place where there is a lot of

scrutiny over comedy and what you say and then now people are realizing that there's way worse shit going on in the world it's not that big of a deal I concur

but what about when you were in Australia did you notice are they those crowds were amazing are they sensitive or are they we don't care

they were so fucking fun oh that's great they were so fun that so good to see i mean the first half of the show that i was doing down there because i had i had not had time to work out so i maybe had 30 minutes to give them 25 minutes like truly not one of these you know when you're like i have 40 and i was 25 and the rest of the time i told them i was just doing stuff about my experience there and i was shitting on them like i mean and they were so gleeful about it yeah they loved they loved how like free and fun and there wasn't a moment of uh i didn't get any of that stuff i heard that they were very sports oriented is that true well they're very like like aussie rules football they're very into

that have you ever seen this this thing it's like uh yes it's massive it's like rugby meets football meets soccer meets i didn't know that i thought it was just gangbang and then this other thing there's a gangbang at the end there is yeah that's who wins and what um you know not no offense but like two and a half months down there you know you're giving up stage time in the stage you're giving up gigs and stuff like that so i hope they compensate you for that kind of not really if i'm being honest that's the worst no one knows that about the movie yeah it's not there's not a lot of money there's not much money in it you gotta get to the level of like uh you know uh john cena who was in it with me yeah like that guy i'm sure he was making some money he gets all the money and then i got you know but it but i think they they still do that and this is

interesting i do want to know about this the comedy career that you've had is like nowadays they tease you with the future, right? Netflix goes, if you do this, you might get, yeah, I don't fall for any of that,

but yes, I understand. But what I'm saying is your generation, the bait and switch, you guys, you guys were the ones to kind of crack the code on bait and switch and figure out what was bullshit and not, we didn't have as many other options.

There was no YouTube or anything like that. I mean, it was basically comedy central or, you know, I really don't even know there was an alternative to, like, platform television, you know, like that kind of thing. But I would say that with YouTube and all these other ways of just, like, I guess even TikTok and stuff like that, you can get the jokes out there. And the smart ones, the crafty ones, have learned have learned already how to like game it and turn it into ticket sales and that's really what it's about right you know so the next time you go to australia which is good because you'll be able to like set up a tour you already have a fan base established so that was not that was a smart move that you did i was trying and then i try to feel

it on then me and bobby and i are going to go do a tour in australia and do eight cities or i don't even know what it is but we're going to be bouncing around. So I'm excited to really like try it that way versus me working and then going and working and going. And yeah, they rob you. They do. They do. They do rob you when you're young, but it's the hope of maybe, maybe you get something more out of it. I don't know. It's exhausting. The travel is exhausting. And you know, the worst part that could happen would be you go down there for that movie.

Right. And then they go, you know what? I'm sorry. It's not working out. Then you have to fly all the way home. That would suck. No one got kicked off of the film that was foreign that was an American. But I do know there was a few people that I don't think worked out that were locals. Oh, really?

Well, locals, it's a little bit easier for them to be like, I think we're not going to have it. Aren't they really good actors? Most of their people are here. I guess the best ones are here. Some of them are, but the trouble is, hiding the accent is tough for some of them. Really? When they do an American accent, because they all had to do an American accent, they think that we always say dude. They're always like, oh, alright, dude.

I was like, I don't, we don't, I think they think we always, it's like we don't, our emulation of them would be like, G'day, mate. It's like if we said that every six words. Yeah. It was like, let's go down there and hang out. G'day, mate. And they'd throw it in unnecessarily all the time. Wow.

Dude, dude, dude, hey, dude. Why did they pick there to shoot? It was just like money-wise? Of course, yeah. Okay, because they had nothing to do with like they're all in Australia. No, saving the money that they didn't pay us. That was. Oh, maybe it was also because of the,

what was going on here with strikes and stuff. No, this, I mean, this happened January. I think it was just, I just think they saved a lot of fucking money. Well, now you're in the union. Yeah. So there you go. In the union.

And I think, you know, that's a great start. Right? If you wanted to do, you want to do acting, right? I've done a little bit of it, but this is kind of the biggest thing I've done yet, for sure. Yeah, I'm not much of an actor. I mean, I don't like learning lines. I'm not good at learning the lines.

Most of the stuff I've done have been for people who know me, like Amy Schumer. She's so cool to me. Louie. Louie and what's his name? There's a couple people that I've worked with. I was in Pete's show, Michael Che's show. I was like, I've done like, you know, but they're mostly comics, so they kind of know what I do. And they just go like, this is what you got to say.

Now you say it the way you want to say it. And I think that's the best way to work with comics. But I know there's some comics that are really good actors where they can like do all the emoting and the emotion and all that kind of stuff. A few of us. But I'm not into that. Yeah, no, no. It's not for everybody. I want to ask

uh um how long have you been sober was that how long have you been sober decades now and um do you keep tabs or no was that do you keep tabs on how long no but i make sure every podcast i do there's at least 25 bottles of whiskey here well we brought that i mean are you guys bros is that what we're doing here is this kind of a man show life raft? Is that what's happening here? We bring this in to intimidate you. Are we going to punch each other's arms? What are we going to do here?

We might tug on each other's dicks a little bit. Whoa, look at this guy. That's what real bros do, Dave. Nice. No, I like whiskey. I enjoy it. You do? I used to drink whiskey myself.

But you had to stop? Yeah, I had to stop. I was shitting blood. The color of your hair. There you go. This was your shit. Yeah. We'll be right back again.

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Well, he won't come back. Well, that's the name of our book. You cannot. So you drink whiskey. How about weed? That's a big thing out here.

You got that weed. I don't really smoke. Wow. Did you ever smoke weed? It was never, it was always like, no. No. It wasn't my thing.

I like cigarettes and I like coffee. And both of those are bad for you too. But the whiskey, I like Jameson whiskey. That was your favorite. I loved it. Yeah. And I would drink it with, you know, beers. I can't tell you politically which beer it was, but I drank with beer.

Sounds like Peroni to me. And then like I tried to class it up with vodka sodas because those are supposedly good for you but that really is a you know a little too classy for me and who always has enough lime for that you know I'm saying there's not enough limes in the world so what's your other drink like what's your fun like whiskey is you're looking out a window alone what happened typing yeah I'm always your other what's your other drink nothing I'm not a big beer guy. I won't really. I don't know.

Whiskey's kind of my thing, but I've put away most other party, fun, go out. I like to have a glass once in a while with a friend. That's not bad. I don't really drink as much anymore. No. And how about like a cigar? I like a cigar. Bobby Kelly was out here. Is he a cigar man now?

He's a big cigar guy. I didn't know that. Yeah. Has he been on the cover of Cigar Magazine? Cigar Girl. He's on Cigar Girl this next that. Yeah. Has he been on the cover of Cigar Magazine? Cigar Girl. He's on Cigar Girl this next month. I thought that show was canceled. You should see where he hides the cigars.

That's the whole joke. Where does he? You'll figure it out right on this episode of Cigar Girl. Check this clip out. Nice save. He's a big cigar guy. He is. I smoked for a little while and then quit and then i sneak him sometimes but

cigars make me want a cigarette so i i try to get away from it well i think that's great that you're able to like do your do have a have a pop and then say hey that's enough that's the way to do it and also the cigars you know my dad used to smoke the cigar so that's why i went to cigarettes to spite him ah so there you go and who's winning now yeah exactly i don't know no we're not really i don't i wouldn't say it's a bro show i do like a little bit of whiskey but i do think so what's all the booze here then well this is from this is from sponsors and friends and how great is that yeah people just send it now usually most of my friends now are sober in comedy but if i have guests that aren't sober i send them home with a gift and they

can take something that's nice but yeah i guess you were born too late because back in the day yeah it was like more of a party i think i think the pot thing is still happening hardcore a lot of people are doing edibles now yeah i missed all that yeah what do you think of that i'd have no interest in getting that high where um you it's the overthinking high you know where you get to the place where you're questioning everything in your entire life. I don't need to have a philosophical nightmare while I'm trying to just enjoy a shitty TV show. Correct.

What's your guilty pleasure TV show, Dave? What's embarrassing? I have a few of them that I really enjoy. I'm probably not the only one out there, but My 600-lb Life. I know this is considered, I guess you could say, ham now. But I really do enjoy an episode of that or two. Sometimes I have a marathon.

And, you know, all I'm going to say is, you know, these people are heroes. We just have to, you know, get them down to, you know, a weight where they can fly. So that's really what it is. Have you seen Thousand Pound Sisters? No, I didn't see that. You've got to elevate your game of fat people TV. I like that, and then let's see what other guilty pleasure shows I have.

I watched Naked and Afraid still, even though that is now considered old. I know that they have added just the... As you can tell, I dress for prepping. So I'm always into that kind of stuff. Yeah, you feel like you might be dropped in the woods at any moment.

Anything can happen. Have you been kidnapped before? Kidnapped? No. I kind of look like I'm on the other team. But I assume a young guy like yourself, especially in Australia, were you worried? Did they give you some kind of like, if things go bad this is what you should do um i was unfortunately placed into a human trafficking circle for a while is that true i was used this is true about a week and a

half yeah i was used this is true yes or no no no okay so why would you joke about that i mean i mean i gotta say one thing that going out of the country, like I've been in a country in so long, but the countries I went to were like, you know, the Middle East and things like that, you know, for the USO. So like you would just basically, you know, do what they told you, go where you go, you're supposed to. But like the whole idea of like wandering around Afghanistan, you know, that was. Well, we're going to go to Abu Dhabi. And that's a great that's a great place. You've done it. Yeah. We're going to Abu Dhabi. that's a great that's a great place you've done it yeah we're going to Abu Dhabi sex in the city didn't do it justice yeah they didn't what was she thinking I don't know I mean they only showed the one side of it not the gritty but

that'll be great and I'm sure they're gonna love him over there yeah we're gonna have fun although they did give us a preface that uh Bobby's not allowed to show any any um skin any skin he can't show his wiener or his butthole, which are two of his favorite things. Oh, wow, that's true. He takes his stuff off. Still doing that, huh? Well, and he puts his wiener in his butthole now. That's kind of the new thing.

Good for Bobby. He's got a new five on it. I know he was working on that back in the day. I love Bobby. Well, I was going to say it when we were all together, but every time I meet Bobby, he's always like we were talking about. He's a great headliner, whether he thinks so or not.

He is great. And just watching him on stage, the crowd comes alive. Not everybody can do that. So, Bobby, believe in yourself. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, this is not going to help him anyway. And you also do, like, together. It's not easy.

Like, when super fans come to see you, you want to work on material. It's tough, right? It to work on material it's tough right it's so hard it's tough and i i know that myself that like when people come down for one thing and you want to go hey you know tonight i'm working on this thing and you look at their faces like where's the uh you know joke i want to hear so you're like i'll get to it just let me try to get through this fucking thing too but fight the good fight keep doing it we're gonna you've got uh i want to tell the fans before we go any further. We're getting married, you and I. Yeah, yes.

And everyone's invited. Dave's putting out a special on Netflix, and it's called? Hot Cross Buns. Hot Cross Buns. Yeah, and it's 37 minutes long. I wanted to go for short, Santino. Why is that? I feel like people don't have the attention span. I agree. And I love, like, you know, I watched a bunch. Netflix had a couple that were, like, 30 minutes, you know, in that range.

And I was like, this is my scene. I want to do that. I want to do it short. Just get to it. Get to the jokes. Do my thing. And I also have trouble watching specials. And I'm a comic. So when I look at them, you know, I look at all the production and all that kind of stuff, too.

But, like, the whole idea of, like, sitting for a whole hour you pause you go make a sandwich you do all these different things so it takes you like two days to watch a special you know yeah netflix came out with a thing um that they send you i i i did a special on netflix last year and they send you this like uh breakdown of who started it who stopped it who went back to it that's great yeah but it's it's interesting to watch. It goes along with what you're saying. So many people get around to finishing it, but not one sitting is so tough.

Yeah, people just don't have that attention span. And that's so cool, man. I'm sorry I haven't seen the special, but were you happy with it? No, but I mean, that's... That means you're a really good comic. Yeah, I couldn't stand it. I hated it.

I don't know anybody who goes like, yeah, I nailed it. It's usually like, oh, I nailed it. You know, it's like, usually like, oh, I know myself. I'm like second guessing every joke. And I'm like, I wish I could redo that joke now. So well, no, it's anyway. Yeah. I mean, you're a significantly better comic, but I just, I just, like half of it is, is what I love. And half of it, I just was like, man, I don't know if I should have, I don't know. It's just pieces of it. I was annoyed that I didn't do the way I wanted it to do it and, or prep it out the way I should have prepped it out. So I don't know if I should have. I don't know. It's just pieces of it I was annoyed that I didn't do the way I wanted it to do it or prep it out the way I should have prepped it out. So I don't know.

The next time I go at it. I have the same thought of like, you know, there was a lot of bits that I thought were finished that I realize now weren't. And I wish I had that premise back that I could add more to it. You want to be able to edit it so bad and go back in time. Well, the guy I did it with who's done a bunch of stuff with me, Scott Gallagher, is great. And he really put up with a lot of my indecision. And, you know, we had some little technical problems, stuff like that.

But, you know, I also was spoiled because I remember doing other ones where I had four shows to choose from. This time I only had two. And, like, when there's little problems on one, then you really only have, like, one and a half. But, you know, that's cool. So now do you feel like how close are you to the next one? Do you feel that pressure? Yeah, I mean, not really. Good.

Because it feels like they kind of are waiting on you to tell them that you'd like to do something else. I don't have like a gun to my head over like, you should do it again. It's like, I don't think anybody gives a fuck about timeline anymore. Your last special was how many years ago? I think it was before you were born. Yeah.

A road work. 80, 1979? No, 2014. 2014. What a year it was. Yeah. What was going on in 2014? Well, I was heading to a lab in Wuhan.

What was there? No, I was, whatchamacallit, I just wanted to do one, but I wanted to do it where I bounced around to a bunch of places. And part of that was because I was like, no one's done this. And I wanted to give cameras to the audience, kind of like, I think Radiohead did that or something. But I wanted to give the audience perspective of the show. But I wanted to bounce around from different places, which was cool because in a way it was great to have that many choices, but it was bad in terms of having enough material for each one

and then going to the next one because it was on Comedy Central, so you had commercials. So if it was different where there was no commercials, then it would've been easier to just go to the next one. Also, I think a lot of us overthink the special because we're like, this is it, it's a lot of us overthink the special. Oh, yeah. Because we're like, you know, this is it. You know, it's got to get it right. And the jokes, you know.

But at the end of the day, what you're really doing is like, you know, I'll put it nicely. Think of the jokes as like a beloved dog, okay? It's time to put your best friend to sleep.

So you're going to pet him. You're going to lavish him with treats. And then you put him down. So that's how I feel about these You're going to lavish them with treats and then you put them down. So that's how I feel about these jokes. Like, man, I love these jokes. Now I can barely stand them, you know, like I'm done with them. And now you got to put them down and I will end up doing them again down the road, like, you know, here and there, but never like in groups and like bunches like I did on the special. So this is a very stupid question, but is there one joke that

still to this day from your past that you love that you never really got tired of that you're like, it just... I have a couple go-tos that are from the beginning, but in my experience, I have fans that are way old and they know all my stuff, so they'll bring up jokes to me

that I don't even remember that I did and they're all inappropriate and I'm like what who said this really oh that was me oh that's off my album i don't remember that dude listen that was a day so you're immediately apologizing they're like no that joke helped us get through a really tough time and you know i was you know like uh you know my my mother was sick and we used to listen to your album. I'm like, really? So evidently we are doing some good in the world. You know, we're not, you know, like, let's face it. I mean, people out there get no attention and doing amazing things.

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with those people and also that you're available and you guys have to be I guess to some degree yeah with your audience so not everybody does that you know a lot of people like they get it they do the show they jump on a jet they're out of there you know so you know we're not doing that yeah well that's the thing that's not us i mean i don't know how he's gonna do that flight but like you guys got long flights i hope that's private you know uh we don't we definitely

don't we don't do that no no we can't can't afford private nor can i yeah no well um i've had guys a lot of like conversations with guys in your generation of comics and a lot of them say uh they have like an ultimate plan to like do one more or two more and then they're done of specials yeah is that like you or you're like i'll do it till i don't feel like it oh no i'm not that way at all i feel like I got maybe one more in me, but let's see how this one turns out. I'm hoping that people get the jokes and don't hate the jokes and that kind of thing. But I never really felt the pressure to do this special because I was constantly touring. Right. But I know you have to do them.

But the young guys like Sam Morrell and Mark Norman, these guys are able to turn an hour. Really, it's impressive the way they do it. They are, yeah. And you guys, I feel like the ability to turn an hour now is also part of the game. I don't know. If I was a storyteller, maybe it would be easier to do it,

where it's a long-form thing. But what I tried in this special is I took, you know, I wanted to do like, I've never been a story guy. So I took like stories and I put a lot of jokes in them to see how that'll look. So, you know, I was just trying to make it more like, you know, like easier for people to digest, you know, but at the end of the day, it's just a bunch of jokes. So, you know I guess if you had more, you know, I don't know. What um you know i don't know what do you think

like makes a good special i don't particularly like you know i like jokes right off the top i don't like to build you know like i don't like any of that kind of thing where like you know they got a lot to say and then there's a couple of jokes i'm not into that i'm like go go go go well that's me yeah but i would say that like i got like at least two jokes a minute in this one and that's me, yeah, but I would say that, like, I got, like, at least two jokes a minute in this one, and that's kind of, like, my rhythm, you know, but there's definitely, you know, I cut some jokes out and had to, but what do you think? Like, do you feel like a good special is really more, like, about content, or is it about, like, you know, like, the production and all that kind of stuff?

I think it's content-based, but what's a bummer now is I think there's so much shit and noise out there. I think once you find your audience if you're lucky enough to find one fucking god bless and godspeed because i think it's tough yeah no i agree fucking noise i mean it's like a million people are putting out clips and specials and crowd work and it's almost so inundated now that as a fan i remember me being young as a fan in high school of of stand-up there was like six people putting out right it was really rare i mean well there's so much comedy to watch that's that would be the like if i if i was jealous of anything it would be as a young comic like there wasn't really that much to watch you had to buy the albums you know like the eddie

murphys and then there would be specials like on pay-per-view and stuff like that. So that was really your comedy experience. And like I had all the George Carlin stuff and I had all the, you know, the Lenny Bruce thing and you know, all the you know, just great comics. Like I had their albums and I would listen to them. But I didn't want to be a comic. I was just a fan.

But now as a fan of comedy, you're like, whoa, look at all this stuff. And then there's like all this talk by the people that you like on these podcasts, you know, like you get to kind of know more about them. So like, it's kind of like, it's like paradise for fans of comedy, you know, like super fans, like this is the time, you know? Do you ever, this is another dumb question. No, none of them are dumb.

Do you ever take a vacation? No, that's a good question. I don't do it. I have a lot of bills. Plus, I really don't know what to do with myself that's why when you said I was in Australia

for two and a half months it's like okay I get it the first week or two there's some stuff to do you know hit all the museums all that kind of stuff you know

then after that you're kind of like basically like you don't live there but you're not a tourist and you're just a guy there so then it's like how do you spend your day

like you know whatever you gotta go to the dentist what do you do you know like that kind there. So then it's like, how do you spend your day? Like, you know, whatever. You got to go to the dentist. What do you do? You know, like that kind of thing. Yeah. Well, it's hard to when you're working in another city to even, you know, kind of get any sort of rhythm

because you're so not used to it. By the end of it, you get a little bit acquainted with the way things work. But I rented a car. I asked production if I could have a car. And I was like, I'll pay for it. Do they drive on the other side? Yeah, they do. What are you going to do? No, no. I asked production if I could have a car. And I was like, I'll pay for it. Do they drive on the other side? Yeah, they do.

What are you going to do? No, no. I'm just saying that, like, I would be afraid to drive in another country. You knock it out so fast, man. It's such an easy. Once you try it once, you right away are like, okay, I get it. I get it. I mean, unless you have crazy anxiety.

But you grew up in New York, and you probably don't drive much. I have a car, and I do drive. You do? And it sucks there. And it really does, like, you know, like, like every day, like it's another nightmare. So is it a lot of traffic there in Melbourne? It's a super heavy, busy metro area and it's designed very poorly. So everything is, it's bumper to bumper all the time.

Wow. But it's lovely, but it's just busy as fuck. Is it ugly? I thought it was a beautiful town. Beautiful. Yeah, it's beautiful. And it's just as, I mean, the roadways are designed in a way where I don't think they, the infrastructure was wrong.

They didn't know how many fucking people were going to live there. Wow. As soon as you leave the city, it would take me as long as L.A. traffic is, where you're like, I'm going three miles, or five kilometers. But I couldn't get there in an efficient amount of time. It was just hard. A lot of one-ways, all that shit. Did you mix with the local comics? I tried to meet a few of them. I knew one of them from before from meeting him here in the States.

But it's tough because their clubs aren't like our clubs. I went to a couple of the clubs there. And you think, you know, it's a Tuesday. I could walk to the club. But they only had, like, certain nights of the week would have shows. Oh, that sucks. Some nights were dark. Yeah, it was weird. I bet you Jeff didn't like that either. No. I could walk to the club, but they only had like certain nights of the week would have shows some that's dark Yeah, it was weird. I bet you Jeff didn't like that either. No Jeff. Well, Jeff was also doing shows with Dave So oh, that's cool. Yeah, a little bit down there for a long time too, right?

Yeah, he was doing the arenas and then toured around and that must have been awesome Have you you played arenas before I've only done like like like I did the Madison Square Garden I was part of the 9-11 tribute luckily they won me on that because I've never like I always had like

these like I'm not one of these guys where like you know my goal is to be like Madison Square but it was like interesting to finally

get up there and like kind of see what it is because like I've been to Madison Square Garden as a kid you know

but to be on the stage and just like the acoustics were amazing and I thought like the one thing that you sacrifice in that kind of just like the acoustics were amazing and i thought like the one thing that you sacrifice in that kind of situation is the acoustics but no in that room that's great but now like even those rooms are too small for today's headliners like it's funny nate could sell that out like 100 times you know i mean it's great there's guys out there with like

who are really like it no one ever thought it was going to be like this i mean honestly i'm surprised every day the amazing amount of fans and like how these guys really are like saving. I think they really saved a lot of these venues, you know, they were going to go under, I mean, there's a lot of, you know, like whenever you see a legends tour, you know, it's like this guy and this guy, they're back together. That's like, neither one of them could sell enough tickets. So they're together. And like the venues are probably like, okay, we'll give you another shot that's it then after this it's a festival you're not gonna you know so i was like pretty impressed yeah no how about you you did you do the amphitheaters i've only done i've done an arena with bert bert is great bert shows and i did the arenas i i did a couple years

with rogan a while ago i can imagine that. That must've been awesome too. It was crazy. But some of those arenas are so, so big. I don't even know if they can hear you. I'm like, you're so far away. It messes with all the, your timing. Yeah.

That's the hardest part. The timing. And I would say one thing, Bert is great in a big, in a big space. He really is good. He's untouchably good. He really is like,

he, he, he, he built, he like brings it close somehow, you know? And, um. People say you're going to start taking your shirt off on stage. I would never do that.

I would take my shoes off though. Right. That's good. You know, for culture, like a cultural thing. But socks, leave them on or take them off? It really depends what time of the week it is. Wednesday is usually. Oh, it's Wednesday.

Wednesday is sock day. Thursday, not so much. Right. I ring them out. But yeah, no, dude, that's great that you got that experience in those things. It was great. I mean, like, think about it. Like, you know, when it's your time to, like, do that thing, you'll be like, all right,

I've kind of already done it, you know? A little bit. I mean, I don't know. I don't care to get any. I like to do clubs and small theaters, and I'll do this till I'm dead if I'm lucky enough to do it. Oh, don't, you know, like, the one thing that you got to do now, I think, is keep your eyes open. So right now, like, you know,

clubs and theaters and, like, you know, I think that every year there's, like, another way to do comedy, another way to, like, bring it out there. So, but the live entertainment, you know, there's nothing that beats that. And I thought during the, when everything was closed,

that the Zoom shows would, like, somehow get people used to, like, hey, I don't have to go to a club. I can sit in my own house, that beats that. And I thought during the, when everything was closed that the Zoom shows would like somehow get people used to like, hey, I don't have to go to a club. I can sit in my own house, drink my own booze and hate it here. You know,

I don't have to go down there and like just sit there like I'm bored, you know? And it turns out that like people miss the actual event of it. They miss the,

you know, the, yeah, thank God is right. Dave, what's your coffee order? My coffee order. Every time I see you.

I thought you were going to ask me if I'll do cruise ships. Will you? Because I was like, you know what, I think I'm almost at that age now. What's Dave's coffee order? But I'm more of a garbage scow kind of man. No one's ever played a scow. A scow? My coffee order, I drink probably about 10 cups

of coffee a day. Jesus. And I like iced coffee the most. So I like iced coffee with a little milk and like some sweetener in it, but I'm trying to get off that sweetener. And it's just so tough. Why? Is it bad for you? That's what I hear.

But they say this, but what is it coming from? I've never heard it. Milk also. You're not supposed to be drinking milk. Yeah, but you never heard somebody go, yeah, he died from sweetener. I don't know. I got to just say one thing. I don't know if it's the coffee itself or just that comforting feeling of a plastic straw in my mouth. I don't know. I gotta just say one thing. I don't know if it's the coffee itself or just that

comforting feeling of a plastic straw in my mouth. I mean, honestly. Knowing that everything's right in the world. That's right. It's the balance. Are you a coffee man? You don't look like a coffee guy. You seem like a Red Bull kind of guy. No, I have a cup of coffee right here. I brought coffee in because I lost

my little to-go cup that I love, my little Yeti thing. Yes. No, but I make coffee in because I lost my little to-go cup that I love, my little Yeti thing. Yes. No, but I make coffee at home because... Is there a coffee place around here? There's a really good one. Something with a good name like Justice or something like that? No, there's one called Priscilla's, and it's phenomenal. Is it?

It's a mom-and-pop shop. It's old school. They still grind beans there for you. Sounds like a long turnaround between cups of coffee. No, it's really... They're really good. They're actually, kind of the whole area has a lot of like mommy, poppy stuff that are from the old school days. Yes, that's right.

So a lot of the corporate stuff is kind of starting to make its way. Yeah. But it's hard pressed because the neighborhood kind of likes the way it is. Well, this used to be like a neighborhood of day drunks too. Like they all like worked in the business. Yeah. They were like always like, you know, I built sets for blah, blah. They're still here.

Four o'clock, they're already loaded. You know, they were hanging out at some bar or something like that. You can go to a bar. There's a bar, like, a mile or two away from here called the St. It's an Irish pub. And that is a dark, sad, beautiful Union Man's bar. Okay. That's where you go to disappear.

Yeah. You go play darts and quietly fade away into the bar. That yeah you know see that's your vacation no i don't know i mean i'm saying for those kind of you know like i love those experiences just to get off the street but out here it's always about like you know like how can i get more sun or like i gotta be outside it's a lot of pressure i'm not allowed to be in the sun much so i don't yeah i figured that would be hard on vacation much did you factor that into when you moved here like you know the sun it might kill me no i thought i should have gone to i should have i was either going to go to new york or los angeles just to start stand up and when i was young i i i never california was

like this fantasy dream yeah it was just a fantasy place it was like that's i mean i i think the reason i chose this over going east or staying on in chicago or new york yeah um is because i knew people that could help me afford it and i was scared to move to new york and yeah no it is pretty pricey it's tough on that it was just scary when i was young i had no money and what like how old were you when you started i was about 22 that's a guy was 20 22 23 yeah so yeah tough. But did you live at home when you started? No. I was a grown man. I was doing jobs and working, living in Brooklyn and doing it.

And I would say one thing that it is really expensive to live in any of these big comedy towns now, even Austin and Nashville. These are not cheap towns either. So it's tough when you tell people on the road, they're like, what do you think I should do? And I'm like, well, you should go to New York. They've got a lot more stage time. And they're like, I don't think I can afford the three grand a month. And I'm totally, here you are living in some other town like Tulsa.

We can get a house for that. What's your most underrated comedy town? Underrated? Yeah. Oh, that's a good question. Because the big ones are still the big question because you know the the big ones are still the big ones but um um and what are the big ones i'm trying to think of like where i've had continuously good shows and not just one great show but um you know i don't know that's a really

good question it seems like all the ones that were underrated are now rated you know like like for a while there and you know natural wasn't always so hot as as it is now. But, you know, there's a lot of towns, especially in the south where I like to play a lot, you know, that, you know, my crowd really comes hard. Have you done Huntsville, Alabama? Yes, I have done it. And I liked it. That's a fun. I liked it a lot. And it's also, you know, it's a drive, but you can stop at the Buc-ee's.

That's right. Get some jerky. That's right. And then you can get over to Huntsville. And I like it and the only problem is that there's no flight out of there so you gotta drive all the way back to nashville and that's really what it is for me i mean i'm sure you're starting to feel it too like how long you've been on the road i've been touring for about 10 plus years yeah so now you you get it

now how like it's really the travel that really is the job of it it hurts and like you know these like connection towns like it's hard to do them you know because it's like i travel that really is the job of it. It hurts. And like, you know, these like connection towns, like it's hard to do them, you know, cause it's like, I gotta get back, you know, I got like,

you know, I gotta take care of people, you know? So I would say that those are the towns where like, I used to play a lot. I'm not playing them as much, but, um,

cause you got to get home. Yeah. I got to get home. I got, you know, my mother and all that kind of stuff. You are a sweet, caring man.

I'm sure. I'm assuming people know that just by feeling your presence, but you bring candy to the girls at the comedy store every time you go. Well, I bring it to the staff. It's not like the girls. You know what I mean. I meant the servers are mostly. Yeah, no, I'm trying to give them a, you know,

I used to work in a club, so I know how monotonous and hard it is. So it's just like a little thing, but I don't, you know, broadcast that. I just did. I apologize. That's quite all right. Now, I don't know what I would do in Australia. I guess I would bring them some maybe Apolloni or what is it again? What's their money down there again? Kangaroo bucks. Kangaroo bucks. Yeah. They call it Roo bucks. Yeah. Really? Roo bucks. No, you know, the queen is still on their money as well. Thank God. Yeah. Well, I said it should be on ours. Where were you when she died, the queen?

Oh, I have a joke about that. Oh, you do? I really do. That's right. That's right. I really do. The queen, God save the queen. That, of course, is going to be another one of those, like, the joke came out too late. Yeah, too late.

By the time the special air was like, who? Queen who? That's another thing is like people you know like you're like okay this joke like you know it's really helped me out and now like you put it up there and then you look at the special and you're like that like is a blip that wasn't as big as i thought it was good i thought that was gonna be but since you get that info from netflix right did they tell you like you can like go back and go like 10 minutes okay they can tell you when they checked out that's the joke right here that like that's kind of cool to have that info it's

creepy to know exactly when people pick back up to it was also strange they said that there was people that would start it um and then like a month later finish it which i think is fucking the amount of time that they would wait to go back and pick it back up i mean i guess people's busy lives but i do understand you doing a 37 minutes or whatever yeah to me i've said that for a long time bobby and i were talking about him doing a special and i said you don't have to do an hour you can do whatever the fuck you want right there's no like rule to that thing anymore anyway but the hour is really kind of the the um what we the benchmark we all have been like trying to shoot for i mean like you know all the great hour comedies like we all want to do but i just don't

think the attention span there and i also think you know i could have fluffed it out with like kind of like some bad material but this is like the the good stuff so i figured you know just give them that you know give them just you know steak and none of the uh other stuff but you know for you guys i think that like you know when you do an hour and now that you know, like, when people check in and check out, it's like, you know, that gives you, like, an edge on, like, material. Like, it really can help you go, like, oh, I need more jokes like that. Right. Or, like, you know, that's the kind of stuff that, like, not really. So put it a different way.

And, like, Netflix also, they're're like, put the hot stuff up front, because that'll bring people in, you know? Yeah, you got to do it. Well, all your stuff is, all the stuff is the hot stuff with your shit. That's being too kind, but thanks, man. There's definitely stinkers in the crowd. You know, there's some stinkers in the crowd of those jokes.

Well, people can watch Hot Cross Buns right now on Netflix. It's out right now. Please watch it. I appreciate you coming on the show. I'm going for longest title of a comedy special. Hot Cross Buns right now on Netflix. It's out right now. Please watch it. I appreciate you coming on the show. I'm going for longest title of a comedy special. Hot Cross Buns? Yes. What's a memorable title from someone you know that was the

worst title you've heard for a comedy special? Well, I always thought Red Fox's Wash Your Ass. I thought that really... I think that says it all. And I was always like, man, I wish I thought that one up. That one is great wash your ass it's great

I mean it's also like one of those where like it's like a teachable moment you should wash your ass yeah you really should yeah and for years

so many of us didn't well I've heard so many good things and it's fine it's finally cool to actually sit down with you and next time I do a show

you should definitely come on I would love to and bring Bobby because it's always great to see him it's hard to wrangle him but I will try my best but I want to come back on the podcast with you guys

you gotta come on with us because I would love to mix it up with Bobby yes we'll get you on the bad friends again go watch Hotspot Sponsor on Netflix right now Dave

it's a pleasure you're the best thank you again for having me will you look in that camera right there we end the episode the same way with one word or one phrase whenever you're ready one word or one phrase one word way, with one word or one phrase whenever you're ready.

One word or one phrase. One word or one phrase. One word or one phrase to end it. Okay, here's something no one's ever done. In here, we pour whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. You're that creature in the ginger beard. Sturdy and ginger.

Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Gingers are beautiful. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Gingers are hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers.