Latest / Bussin' With The Boys / Best of the Bus: Tom Segura Talks His Friendship With Bert Kreischer & His Start In Comedy

Transcript

Best of the Bus: Tom Segura Talks His Friendship With Bert Kreischer & His Start In Comedy · Bussin' With The Boys

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Finally track down the tom Sir girl, we talked to
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: you on FaceTime while you were shooting Two Bears, One
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Cave one Day back in March.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: I believe we did. I think we've been on text threads.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: I saw you at the Machine premiere. It's been a
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: whole thing, and I thought I was gonna do press
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: run leading up to the fourth and I was like,
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: I think could probably do like a stop in Nashville,
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: and then they moved it this week and I was like,
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: and then you guys said you're gonna be here.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: I was like, fuck, yeah, well yeah, we had we
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: had to pivot because we're fans.
• 0:27
  Speaker 4: We are massive fans.
• 0:28
  Speaker 5: Oh thank you and uh.
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: When Taylor and I was going back and forth, I
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: was like, it doesn't sound I was like, I was
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: texting with your guy or you. We were in that
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: group channel, like it sounds like he might be coming
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: through Nashville still, but the people in the bar solos,
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: I was like, I think he's just doing New York.
• 0:41
  Speaker 4: Then we found out you're doing New York. It's like, hey,
• 0:43
  Speaker 4: we gotta oh, we got to get out.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: To New York too. We usually come out here a
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: lot anyway, So nice. Is an easy little deal.
• 0:47
  Speaker 5: It's a fun it's a fun stop, right it is.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Usually when we come here, it's like we take the
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: same flight we do this morning. We you know, five
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: am cruise, get here at nine and then we spend
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: all day here and they take the earliest flight out
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: the next day. Kind yeah, it's always you didn't get off.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: Do you do like a little like, you know, enjoy
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: New York, like go to an awesome place for dinner
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: that kind of thing?
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Or no, not really, usually like rip around the corner,
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: like what was that place we went to the other day.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: It's like right over here by the hotel.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: Oh hate butchering it because it's all a little like
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: hole in the wall. Sometimes Yeah, yeah, it's awesome. Do
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: you remember what it's called JP It's like pig something.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: She kind of gives me anxiety though, New York it's
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: fucking stressful. Man. Where'd you grow up a group in Arizona? Okay? People?
• 1:31
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, this is a big departure.
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get off you just like I'm on the
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: highway and we're in our uber and we're driving by.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: He's actually watching her special on the way here, and
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just looking out at these apartments with the windows
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: that are so tiny, and I'm like, people just living there.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: People live in the size of what we're in right now.
• 1:47
  Speaker 5: It's chaos. It's living in chaos.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: And then we hit the bagel shop. Russ and Daughters.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a bagel shop, and I'm thinking to myself, dude,
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: this is it literally was like the scene of a
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: gangster movie where two guys are like talking about people
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: are still taking tickets.
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, We're sitting in there nervous. Yeah, like do we
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: just wait?
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: I have the thing though, where I like, I don't know, man,
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: I I don't have to live in a city like this,
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: but I have to be able to go to it
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: like fairly regularly to kind of feel alive in a way.
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: I need cities.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: We were having that conversation on the flight, like growing
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: up in small towns, like you always think when you leave,
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: like he went to Nebraska with to Michigan, You're like,
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: some day I'm gonna be back in that small town.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: Some day I'm gonna be back. And there I went
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: back recently, and I remember sitting there going, brother, if
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: I came back here and just lived here, I don't
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: think I think. I'm like I've seen too much now,
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: I've gone outside too much where it's like I just
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: can't go back to living that small town life. It's
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: nothing against the people that live.
• 2:41
  Speaker 5: In Could you live in ann Arbor?
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: No? No, no, But it's more of like a it's
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: a cool city. It's a cool city. However, like I
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: remember playing and then seeing dudes come be like, yeah
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: I played here back in the eighties and stuff like that.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think to myself, man, like go do something. Sure,
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: don't let that be the identity, but you but it's that.
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: That's that person, and and like they're them choosing to
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: be like that's who I like, hoping that that gets
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: them stuff. But you'd be going there if you wanted
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: to to live life, is what I'm saying, you know
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: what I mean, Like you wouldn't be like, hey remember me.
• 3:15
  Speaker 4: You know, I'd be in Lincoln and we're in my
• 3:17
  Speaker 4: Jersey still.
• 3:21
  Speaker 5: You guys, remember I got the best tour of the
• 3:25
  Speaker 5: facilities there.
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: Oh really, dude, that fires me up. Don't they roll
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: out the red carpet there?
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: It was awesome.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I saw Bert there last week.
• 3:31
  Speaker 4: I was like, hey, they take a carry and they're like, oh, bro,
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: they are the best.
• 3:34
  Speaker 5: It's one of my funt because I'm I love college football.
• 3:37
  Speaker 5: Like I love college football.
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's all based on like kind of like
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: your household growing up, you know what I mean, Like
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: kids who guys who are like I love baseball, It's like, yeah,
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: your dad loved baseball, right, Like that's kind of like.
• 3:48
  Speaker 5: What they were exposed to. So my dad loved college football.
• 3:52
  Speaker 5: So we were college football.
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: There's a team and that this this ambulance or this
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: fire truck in New York.
• 4:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, someone just got shot in the head.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: Right now, there's a strike going on, protests, March happening.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: What was your what was your squad growing up?
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: Or so it there's a little bit of like move
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: I moved a lot as a kid, but I basically
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: became super hardcore FSU fan. But I'm like, think about it,
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: like I'm I'm born in seventy nine, so like in
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: the eighties is when I'm watching the game and like
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: kind of understanding what I'm watching.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: And then we moved to Florida.
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: So if you moved to Florida at the height of
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: in the nineties, you're gonna pick one of the Big
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: three at the time, and so I was just like
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: big FSU fan. It's funny because I was thinking about this,
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: how when you hang out with like we talked to
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: like pro players, sometimes they talk to you like you
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: could have to Like A J Hawk was at my
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: house and we were talking about he knows I'm a
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: big fan, and I was I love like hearing like
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: recruiting story, like.
• 4:58
  Speaker 5: How'd you pick?
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: You know? What was it?
• 4:59
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 4:59
  Speaker 5: What was the tr transition? Like he's like, why didn't you?
• 5:02
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 5:02
  Speaker 5: Why didn't you play at FSU? And I was like
• 5:04
  Speaker 5: what he's like a football I was like what.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: He goes, why didn't you play there?
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: And I go in the late nineteen nineties and he's like, yeah,
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: you could have played there.
• 5:13
  Speaker 5: I was like, what are you talking about?
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: Who would I have fucking backed up Corey Simon Like
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: what are you talking about?
• 5:18
  Speaker 6: Man?
• 5:18
  Speaker 5: He's like he's like, you could have played there.
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: I was like, I couldn't have fucking watched their jerseys
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: they would have Like He's like, I go, you, I
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: think you're thinking could you have played there?
• 5:27
  Speaker 5: You could have played there. I couldn't have fucking it
• 5:29
  Speaker 5: wouldn't have let me try out for the team there.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Did you play ball growing up?
• 5:33
  Speaker 5: I played at high school.
• 5:33
  Speaker 4: He's like, you played?
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: I mean I was. I was decent. I was, you know,
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: I was started. I played both ways, but I wasn't like.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: I got recruited by D two schools and a couple
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: of D threes. I was gonna play and I One
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: of the coaches called me the week before camp in August,
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: this is what would have been my freshman year, and
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: he was we're excited to see you. This is like
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: a small school in Virginia. And I was like what.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: He's like, you're you all ready for tomorrow. I was like,
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not coming to school there. He was like what.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh yeah. You guys called in like
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: June and said that I had to take a math
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: class to go to school there.
• 6:10
  Speaker 5: So I didn't take that class.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: What was gonna happen?
• 6:13
  Speaker 5: He was like, you're not coming tomorrow? Like he's like,
• 6:15
  Speaker 5: camp starts tomorrow. I was like, no, I'm going to
• 6:17
  Speaker 5: a different school. He was like what the fuck?
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: Man? I was like, nobody told you. He was like no,
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: So he hung up with the phone. He's like whatever. Yeah.
• 6:23
  Speaker 5: He was like I guess we don't have a center.
• 6:25
  Speaker 5: So you played college ball.
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: No, he almost played college and you said you went
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: to another school.
• 6:31
  Speaker 5: I didn't.
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, not not, but not for playing that.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: That is a d two story though, because like I
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: don't know how it was for you, well when you did.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: I got there like June, my freshman year before, like
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: going to my freshman right, Like, you get there a
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: couple of months before, and then you take a shit.
• 6:42
  Speaker 4: Out senior class or not senior summer class.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you take summer classes like your first couple of
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: credits and dip the toe in before you really hit
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: the full schedule in the fall.
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: Because it's like the football players and the Asians all
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: take a summer class.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. There's dude, college football is.
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: I love that atmosphere, Dude. I just watched a video
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: night they had.
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: It was one of those college like I follow like
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: a couple of accounts, and they were recapping the ten
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: loudest moments of last season. It was just like random
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: games and watching the slides of the ten loudest moments,
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: I got goosebumps, Like I was like, oh, like games,
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: I don't even give a fuck about just yeah hearing,
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: because the pandemonium at those games is so different like NFL's.
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: You know, it is the top two, you're the best players,
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: obviously the best game, but the college atmosphere is so
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: fucking bombed you can't.
• 7:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the college like you get the fans.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: They like to have chance and they do stuff in
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and then it's it is a totally
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: different scene.
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: I'll go to all of them too, like people like, yeah,
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: I grew up a fic. But like every time we're
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: on tour, if we're in a college town, I always
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: like tell my tour manager call that fucking school, see
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: if we can do a tour. I love the tour.
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: I don't give a fuck if it's sec big ten big.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: I just love being around and like I just like
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: coaches and like, you know, even like the equipment guys.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: They are always like so fired up about they're the
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: best dude, and they fucking they're like all right, you know,
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: they give you the tour. They're like these are the jerseys,
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: and like give me that ship, take all the gloves.
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: We take it all.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah we oh fuck yeah, we do.
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: Like the recruiting photos and shit too, like you should.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Oh dude.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: Yeahs the craziest thing because I was in Buffalo and
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: I got like a tour of the Bills place and
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: they have like they did a new they're going to
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: do a new stadium, but they have a newer facility
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: so for like you know, it's an NFL's like facility.
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: It's nice, right, it's like pretty modern. They're showing us
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: all those ship and they're going like that was pretty impressive.
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: We go to Baton Rouge and we're like, what is happening?
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was like Jeff Bezos's like version, He's like,
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: is this what a college thing's like?
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: We were like, I mean, we walked down this hallway
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: that's dark, and I'm like, what's going on? And it's
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: like lit but dark, And then when you turn, you
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: just turn and these glass doors automatically open, and then
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: it's it's like heaven. It's like like super bright. And
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: you see a silhouette of a LSU player and you're
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: like what the fuck? And you walk down the hall
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: and then there's like these statues with different LSU get
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: and they're like, yeah, this is the this is where
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: we take recruits. I'm like, yeah, they all sign right,
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: and they're like yeah. Usually when they get to hear
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: they're like, I want to come. And then you turn
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: into the locker room and it looks like Emirates first class.
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: Fucking it looks like a first class so I guess
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: we modeled after first class international chairs, Like yeah, and
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: they go. We monitored that our players are not getting
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: enough sleep, so we encourage them to sleep here. And
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: then they had an air vent like in where they
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: put their shit so that it never smells in the
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: locker like all this shit. I was like, what the fuck, man,
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: It's like a one hundred million dollar locker room. And
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: I was like, all right, this is like.
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: That's one of the best facilities I think we've ever seen.
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: We were out there in the spring doing our spring
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: tour and we got the you painting that picture, like
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: especially when you get through the sliding doors and are unreal.
• 10:04
  Speaker 5: Right and you imagine like you're eighteen and you're like.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Uh, imagine go into Oregon like we were nine graduating
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: and that was when like Oregon was at at the
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: top of their game. New uniforms every single week, new
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: uniform styles. Nike They're putting everything in there, and you
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: see the facilities. College facilities are so much different than NFL.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: Don't I Mean I kind of go like for especially
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: for the guys that are like literally going from one
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: to the next party.
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: You've got to be like, the fuck is this?
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: Oh dude?
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the money goes into the players in the NFL.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, college all right?
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: The funny thing about Baton Rouge and I love Louisiana,
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: but if you go on campus at LSU, You're like,
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: this is maybe the nicest place I've ever been in
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: my life. Like, the campus is beautiful, all the buildings
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: are the same color, the all the plants are perfectly organized.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: You step one foot off that campus and you're like,
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: where the fuck did I know?
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is a truly drawn well.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: We went through the country.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: My little sister went to Ole Miss And when you're
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: in Oxford, it feels like a like a movie set
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: of a college town. Like when you're in and around campus,
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: you're like, this feels like make believe. Like you feel
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: like they're gonna like, all right, cut and they're gonna
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: move the fucking wall or something. But then you like
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: drive out of Oxford and you're like, all right, we
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: should fucking lock the doors.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: This is kind of weird, crazy man.
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: What are some of the some of the best spots
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: you've seen since you like to go on tour wherever
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: you go?
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, like the the l s U thing
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: was mine bending, you know, I got I got the
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: Nebraska tour and saw where uh and Domican's check went.
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: That was nice to have to build the uh.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: The House of Spears, like that weight room, Yeah, the
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: weight rooms. When did you go.
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: Two years two years ago?
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, we're there. At that time, I heard
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: some cool stories about him, about us.
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: Fuck yeah, they were like, no, he's fucking crazier than
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: you think.
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: Let's hear a couple.
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: I don't even know if I should tell these stories.
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: I could, I could possibly confirm or deny that.
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: It's like a real psychopath playing like you're like, this
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: guy's crazy, Like no, this guy is crazy.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not like definitely in between the white lines,
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: but not not off the field.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: But what was that story you told about getting up
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: ride to the airport or something and you thought he
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: was gonna beat the ship out of you.
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he said like I'll pull the car over and
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: fucking stomp on you because but you're in a car. Yeah,
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: we were having a lunch somewhere, and then when we
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: were driving him to the airport, I built up that
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: I mustered up the courage to bring up him stomping
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: on Aaron Rodgers. I was like, you're gonna so you
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: were gonna say that the man upstairs is what happened,
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: but you clearly stomped on twelve.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: And He's like, we can pull the car over now and.
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: I'll stop.
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: I'll stomp your hass out. But you know, that's just
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: fun play.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: He's not a psychopath at all.
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: No, not at all.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: That's just fun.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: That's just us being us being dudes.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: It was all all the stories I heard were like
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: atra because obviously, like everybody's more aware of the NFL
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: stuff on tape. Yeah, hey, let's let's watch a compilation
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: of Sue trying to kill people.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: You're like, this is fucking nuts, crazy.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: And like for a guy that big, that strong, and
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: that upset bro.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: And he never got tired in any of the workouts,
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: it was truly unfucking real. And even when they say
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: like at Tampa because Sue went to Tampa to Miami. No, no,
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: he also he also played Yeah, he played at Miami too, but.
• 13:40
  Speaker 8: When he played for Tampa, multiple stops a great Miami
• 13:44
  Speaker 8: Tampa right right, But when he was at Tampa and
• 13:47
  Speaker 8: I was talking to Levante David, who is an unreal linebacker,
• 13:51
  Speaker 8: but I was like, Yo, what's that.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: What's Sue like in the locker rooms now? Because we're
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: all kind of like around the same kind of generation.
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: And he's like, like, Sue's one of the savviest businessmen,
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: like in the NFL, like in between meetings, right after practice,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: in between all this stuff. He's like on conference calls,
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: like handling meetings like Warren Buffett is like in his council.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: It's insane. Like the dude is super impressive.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: He had an engineering degree at Nebraska, but an absolute,
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: to your point, an absolute psychle path on the field,
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Like we were at Baylor and he got a he
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: got a penalty for tackling the quarterback too hard. This
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: was before all the protecting the quarterback stuff count because
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: he essentially like choke slam the Baylor quarterback.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: It was insane.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: The ocoy said he was puking up blood after the
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: big twelve championship because.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: He there's a couple of stories that I honestly would
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: tell you. I'll tell you off. I really don't feel
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: like I should tell you. There's the one that I
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: think it's fun to tell that I heard when I
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: was there. It was like, how you know they do
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: this thing? It's so fucking weird that when there's bowl games,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: they're like, why don't you guys like have dinner together
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: the night before, like right like you're having like you're
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: playing Texas in a bowl game.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: They're like, how about both teams have dinner? Put you
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: in a banquet hall, the banquet petition what? Yeah, Even
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: when you're watching it from you're like, why are they
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: having dinner?
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: And then like they're everybody's like a table away. So
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: I guess when for the bowl game that year it
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: was Nebraska. I forget who maybe Kansas is Kansas State
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: We played when SUSI Clemson and Arizona.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: May So there's some bowl guy. Let's just say it's Arizona.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: So then they go all right, and he's having his
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: monster year right like like he's having a unstoppable He's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: getting every award.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: So they're at the like the.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: ESPN people come to like dinner and they're like, how's
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: the chicken, and they're asking everybody stupid shit. And then
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: they ask the the center for like let's say Arizona, like, oh,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: you have to face in DOMINICANSU tomorrow and he's he's
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: won every award for defensive Player of the year. How
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: do you feel about that? And he goes, I'm not
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: that worried about it, and he said they when I
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: heard the story, they said that all the Nebraska guys,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: they were right because they were all sitting together. They
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: just went like like they just leaned forward and they're like,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: oh shit, and they saw Sue just like okay, like
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: and they're they're like, we already knew, like right then
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: that it was gonna be a problem. And he goes
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: in the game. In the game, Sue picked him up
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: like like basically over his head and threw him headfirst
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: down onto his head onto the center and like he
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: had a neck injury and left the game.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was like, God, so like it was
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: all By the time I got in the league, Sue
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: was out of Detroit and he was in Miami or whatever.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: We played Miami, like two or three years in Miami
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and they're like, uh, there's all be always like older,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: savvy off. It's a lineman there, and they'd be like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: whatever you do, do not talk to Sue. Don't talk
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: And I was, yeah, like my rookie year and stuff
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: like that was really mouthfee and I would I would
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: talk to you know, try to talk shit to everybody. Yeah,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: And then I tried to talk ship to Sue and
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: he kind of looked at me in the center in
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the huddle, grabbed me by the collar and told me
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to shut the fuck up because I don't have to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: deal with him. He's like, shut the fuck up. You
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: do not do not talk to him anymore. And I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: was like, okay, wow enough he was like a three
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: year I think with Brian Schwenky, I was like it
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: was like there are those guys in the league that
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: when they get a little older, they become a little
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: bit more mellow. And I think Sue he signed a
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: massive deal, one hundred million dollars deal at that point.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Then it was like, just don't do it provoking, don't
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: provoke them, don't poke the bear. If you poke the bear,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Bear's gonna eat you. Be like Cocaine Bear wanted to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: be done. Yeah, you'll be fucking done.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: What was your ship talking? Like, like where you just like.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: My my shit talking baried in a lot of different ways.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I'd hit I hit up with the classic like you
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: know you're a pushy that type of stuff. But then
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: there'd be times like the NFL is a super like
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: it can be homophobic a lot of guys. We don't
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: play that ship in the locker room, so some dude
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: be mouthing off to me. We were playing the Jags
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: one time. It was squere switching quarters, so like we're
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: like walking in the middle of the field because we're
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: like on the thirty yard line swift with the opposite
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: thirty yards. Yeah, and one defensive lineman the three technique.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: He's walking behind me like I'm here all day, blah blah,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you can't block me. And I turned around. I'm like, bro,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: you listen if that, if you don't stop talking, I'm
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: gonna suck your dick and our center comes out of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: nowhere unprovoked. He goes and we swallow here too, and
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the rest of the game. He was like, what the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: fuck you just yeah, if you just say super gay things.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: The NFL players, Like I've had other players like go
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: from like the Raiders to the Titans be like, Hey,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: what's up with seventy seven? Is he actually gay? Like
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: what's what's the deal? Like that's it's a mind game. Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: When I was at the Raiders, was like, hey, so
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: what's up with your Uh, what's up with your boys?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just that's my guy. This is my guys.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I'm more of like I champion everybody. I tell everybody
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: it was a solid route. That was good, that was
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: good because I want you.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: That's I need as much as I can to, Like,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: I got.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: A sneaky I've told the story before. I played in
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: high school against Heath Evans. He was a fullback for
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: like ten seasons in the NFL. He went to a
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: really we played at small schools in Florida, and uh,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I mean it was he was obviously different than like
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the average person you played against. It in high school,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: You're like, what in the fuck. It's like hitting a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: bank door, you know, like like every time you're like, god, damn.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I mean he was just like he was built different.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: He was clearly gonna move on. And but so he
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: played at a school that like they were terrible. He
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: was the star player at a terrible school. Like that
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: we would beat them, but he would still he would play.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: He played with like running back and linebackers, so he
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: was still have like eighteen tackles in two hundred and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: thirty yards, right, but they would lose. But every single
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: time you if you tackled them, I mean it would
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: it would it take the whole team. He'd be like
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: that was a great tackle. And you'd be like what
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: and like we were so not you know, like like
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: who does this sounds? And he would like he would
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: pat us on the back. He's like, great effort. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: was like, shut the fuck up, man. He would do it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It wasn't even for like a series, it was the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: entire game.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Great effort, great block, you did a good job.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Every time you're like what do you do? And then
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: and he's actually he was religious.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: So he would say like God, like God bless and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: like do prayer stuff, And I was like is this,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Like are you fucking with me?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: The funniest thing we talk about, like religion and football,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: which is so many religious guys, so many religious guys,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: But in the locker room after warm ups, they'll be
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: rap music going on about eating, pushing, getting money and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: doing drugs, and then then it'll cut and it'll be
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: like all right, prayer in the shower and everyone be
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: like walking the shower and hold hands. Then as soon
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: as they walk back out, press play back the fucking
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: bitches getting money and all that stuff, and you're like, hey,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: does no one see this?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And the NFL would never allow, like never allow their
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: ship talking to air, Yeah, because they'll release, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the miked up stuff but it's all edited and cut. Yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that would be such a fucking dream. I always said
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I would pay it like a thousand dollars like season pass.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: But oh, we can hear the guys on that be like, hey,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I'm gays, come suck the stick and yellow.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, all the best money, the best bet
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: money you've ever had.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: And there's some great talkers out there, I mean DJ Sweringer.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: We talk about him from Swag game Cocks, Like, what.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: What was it?
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Was it you telling the story about him during the
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Outback Bowl. Yeah, the Outback Bowl pre game and all that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Returners are catching footballs and he pushed one of the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: returners out of the way, caught one of our footballs
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and kicked it into the stands. This is that Tampa
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Bay Stadium for a bowl game. And he goes, this
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: is my fucking house, Get the fuck out of here.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And I'm in the locker room just warming up in
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: this little white returner Drew Diilio. Shout out, Drewdilio. He
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: comes in hot mad and sure enough it was Swago.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That dude was spoons swag. He is different now, he
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: was a different cat. Whoa. Dudes are just like that,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: though some guys it varies. Man, Some dudes don't do
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: not say a word. Some guys are super positive, some
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: guys are super negative. It's like you never know who
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get. Yeah, just never know. And it's how
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I think it is how the the stress of competition
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and what you're about to do affects everyone differently. So
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: for some people to perform in in that environment, it's hey,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: shut down, don't say a word. For some it's like this,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: The the stress of it makes them chirp a lot.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Some of them like I'm gonna stay like it's that's
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: why you just don't know what you're gonna get. But
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: it's like it's like the stress of the.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Unknown, like the unknown of battle, right, Like yeah, like
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: you don't know what's gonna happen, and that it manifests
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: itself differently through everybody. Like I mean, I seen guys
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: who were like incredible athletes, incredible athletes shut down quite
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: like right, not talk. They're like, my game does all
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: my talk, you know what I mean.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like a Rex burkhead. Like when Rex was
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: at Nebraska.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: He was just a baller, but the dude was like,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you know, just head down, yeah, hand the ball, the ref.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Do his thing, and then when that guy does say something,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: it's so powerful.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a get Oh. We had a kid
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: in high.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: School on our high school team who won the one
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: hundred and two hundred meter track state championship. This kid
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: is legit fast as fuck. I mean, he's the one
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: hundred meter champion in Florida and he's our punt returner
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: and corner.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: He's five to seven.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: He ended up playing it Citadel a corner at Citadel,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: But like he's five seven, one hundred and sixty pounds
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and looks like a fucking like a bodybuilder.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Like a Tyreek Hill type.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, like and you're I mean, and you're in
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: high school and you're like, this guy is fucking this
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: is insane, like his how talented he is, and he
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: was super religious, and they would he was a workhorse,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: like he won games, you know what I mean, Like
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: there's games we definitely would have lost that like he
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: took a punt back kick off just and people, you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: when we played teams.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: With like those badass dudes would talk match.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: It and he would always always just hand the ball
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of the ref, never say anything. And then one time
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: we played these punk mother like these guys that were
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: such fucking dirty shit bags, and when they tried to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: hurt him, and he popped up when he was you
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: could suck on my left nut to this kid, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: we were all like, oh shit, like.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Like Jay says that shit, like we just could. We
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: couldn't believe it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: But like everybody for like a week, we're just like
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: going to practice, We're like.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Suck on my left nut. He's like, ah, I was
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: just you know, y in.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: The moment apologize for the game. Yeah, I spoke out
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: during that drive.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I think it's insane how dudes can talk shit and
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: play at a high level because I'm thinking, like my
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: conditioning can't take all that. Like I'm just trying to
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: get back to the huddle, relay the play. I'm thinking,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: how these dudes just run.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I have so much responsibility as a lineback with the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: green dot.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like and I you know, you just like subtle
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: jokes out there. It's like, you know, I can't remember,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: but the first time we played, I know, like we
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: tapped helmets. But if I'm like tapping a white guy
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: out there on the ass, and hey, I can't believe
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: we're out here?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Am I right? Yeah? We get back. I remember Greg Olsen.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I've told the story before, but Greg Olsen, I finally
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: had my opportunity to start. It was like my second
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: or third game starting, I believe. And I remember breaking
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: up a pass over the middle. He just you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: buttoned up over the middle, and I broke it up
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: and did the little you know, I did the little
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: incomplete thing, and then I webbed him like Spider Man.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: He goes, who the fuck are you? What are you
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: like third string? And I was like, hey, I worked
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: for this spot, man, I work for this spot. And
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: then like during the time out, he comes over, he
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: like task me on the helmet and he's like, hey man,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I'm really sorry for saying that.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Like I know you work hard, I know this and that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: No shit, it's all good.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Bro, that's so good.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is like, like, fuck, that's actually impressive to like,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: hey man, I respect you, you know what I mean.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Absolutely if I hurt you in an emotional way, Adam.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the weirdest thing is playing against people that you've
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: been you grew up watching. Yeah, Like we played The
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Raiders my second or third year and Charles Woodson was there,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: and I remember we're like on a timeout. I'm like, hey, dude,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: like you're fucking awesome, and it was so weird just
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to say and he's like thanks, young blood, preciate that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, I'm like, I get the fuck out
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: of here. Back to that. Yeah, you're like, hell, he's like,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I'm forty two. You're like you're forty two years old.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's crazy.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And like I don't know if that's like because
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: you hear stories, but like there were the stories about
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Woodson that people said they're like, yeah, he just like
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: is that like he's not killing himself in the weight
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: room or like he's just that's good than everybody.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I already was like an absolute you know, study.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: He was all about it, like the film room and
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: everything else.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: That's the thing that impresses me the most when I
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: watch like these pieces on players, because you just as
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: a as a spectator, you just go like, oh, this
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: is like a super gifted athlete we've seen, like you
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: see athletes and you're like, wow, this guy's so just
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: blessed right with his like physical abilities. Is that when
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: you hear how committed some people are to studying shit,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, that that's why they're great, Like they
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: are gifted, right, But the dedication is other level.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: That's what keeps people in the league for a while too,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: is just the ability to play from the neck up
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: and everything else, because your body ends up breaking down,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Like yeah, you got to stay on top of your
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: body and everything else. Oh, you gotta stay on top
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: of your body and everything else. But that is like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: that's short of the majority of the league. The guys
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: that like stick around for a long time. You have to, like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I love this shit. You have to be if you're
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: not a starter, if you're not out there on the field,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: you have to be like just a dependable backup and
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: somebody like in my position and then like play special teams. Yeah,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: but yeah, you always hear the stories about like some
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: of the greats that people come from, players that come
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: from other teams, and they're coming on your team and
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: they're telling you about these guys that you look up
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: to on other teams, and they're like, man, so and
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: so is in the you know, in the building doesn't
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: leave till like seven or eight at night and everything,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: and you're just kind of like fascinated by it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Tony Gonzalez told me this thing that I thought was
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: such a cool, like little insight. So he played like
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: what seventeen seasons a tight end.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: It's fucking insane.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: And he's like, you know, I'm asking him like that
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: because he's like fine, Like he just walks around. You're
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: like you're okay, and he's like, well, he goes. You know,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I figured out that like if I caught a ball
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and I see the guy coming right here and I'm
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: on the sideline, and I just like, you know, cover
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: up if he's coming this way, I'll just start to
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: fall the way you know with the hit.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he goes, so a lot of times you would.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Hear like ooh, like because it would look like I
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: got blown up. He's like, I was already going in
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: that direction, so that so that the hit wouldn't have
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the same level of impact, right, Because if I lean,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna fucking lean into him, it's gonna be up.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: We're gonna hit and I'm gonna feel it more. But
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: if I know I'm about to get hit this way
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: and I lean that way, He's like, it's less impact.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, that's fucking fat because like
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: most people, or a lot of people I guess, would go, no, no,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna like, I'm gonna put my shoulder into this shit.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: And he was like no no. I was like, I'm
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: trying to minimize the damage. He's like, I'm doing that
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: for like twelve of the seasons I play.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Did the ability to displace ego that's a big displacement
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, if you're a lot of guys are like,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to show how hard I can run this,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and then as you get older, you learn like, hey,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: this isn't forever. How can I make this as long
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: as possible? Sounds like fucking did.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: It yeah, dude, I saw Stefan Diggs shoulder pads and
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: they look like paper plates, and I was like, how
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the fuck?
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: And the guy's like five seven.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Or something and they're just like yeah, but like when
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: he sees the guy, he just like scoots down.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, remember, uh, what's his day? Is Michael Bennett
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the d tackle for the Seahawks or the d ND.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Remember he basically the wore like nothing. Yeah, he would
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: come out there.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: There's like a one big shoulder pad and then a
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: shoulder pad of one here he cut those off and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: tuck his jersey in. Yeah, where the baggiest jersey and shit.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is something I completely don't understand, is like
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: how you got Like when you start watching and you know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: like you play in high school and you're all paded up,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: and then you see college and then you see NFL
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: guys and you're like, are there no leg pads? Like
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't everyone aren't everyone's legs fucking hurting? Like just just
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: like just the pants on. You're like, there's no thigh
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: pads anymore.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: It's like it's kind of pads hipads kind of go
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: away in college.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, college you have like the girdles or whatever.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you kind of just go to a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: girdle or something that can with like the most small
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: pad just to see like you're just making sure you
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: don't get in trouble, like you're wearing the right appropriate attire,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and then eventually to stop like really wearing anything.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: That's really crazy though.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy because you're you're you're shedding things as
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: competition gets higher and as everyone is bigger, faster and strong,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: you're like, I just fucking.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Let it go.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: But also more you know, I know a lot of people,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: it's like you want to where you want to be
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: like as light as possible because the game gets faster
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: at every level and everything else. So you're trying to
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: feel as free as possible while also like trying.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: To be a little bit protected. And I think it
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: plays into looking better too. Pads.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: It's like it's not all about looking, it's not.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: All about you know what I mean, you want to
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I mean you see the guys, we all got the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: socks low high. Yeah, little things on there, like they're
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: like there are dudes in there hours before the game
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: getting their little ship right, the little black stuff. Yeah,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: oh yeah they do a whole bunch.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Anytime you get a comment like, hey, com come on, man,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: you gotta do a little bit better than that, you're
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: just thinking.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Probably the worst trip he gets all day. Like you're
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: just like, man, they're kind of killing like you kind
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of want to look good. You want to look like
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you do something. Yeah, like a dark visor. I wore
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a yes, the best looking, the best looking piece of
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: attire in the end. Those are tight.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: And they used to have like in the nineties they
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: had like the orange, like the reflective goals.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You see a linebacker over the middle just like this,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: and he looks like a he looks like a terminator
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: or something. Right, Like you just see gold reflective sheen.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: You don't see eyes. You're like, ooh, this is a
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: badass look like that shit was.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Just picturing like a ray Lewis from my hand. Yes, dude,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: with the orange and then you see the little the
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: little ring go down with that linebacker face mask in
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: the middle.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: That really is swaggy like that. Those teams were, like
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I remember when I was when we were in high school.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I went to the get taped up and I asked
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: the there was a lady that taped us. I was like,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: will you give me the Bruce Smith tape? You remember
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: his tape? It would come over the hand like it
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: was like a boxer's tape. So his hand was taped
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: in addition to the wrist. It was like wrist and
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: then here and she was like no.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I was like. I was like, she's like for what
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I was like, from a fucking hand?
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I was like, I was like, Bruce Smith. She's like,
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: you ain't Bruce Smith.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I was like high school. High school trainers are hilarious. Yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: they're just like catching hours. Yeah. Yeah. They want to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: tape the minimal amount of people they possibly can, of course,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: but that tape goes away too. In the NFL tape
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: does people some people as you get older. As I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: got older, at least, I stopped taping my ankles. Stop taping,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: did you really? Yeah?
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: I always felt so much more like, yeah, learn.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: About the body though you you would mobilize the ankle,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: then it puts more pressure on the knee, which puts
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: more pressure on the hip, and then it's the back
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: of the really and what about up here? Though?
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Nothing either I would wear.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I went from tape and I started wearing wrist guards,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: so you just kind of strap them mon real fast.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: And then I broke this thumb so I had to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: put like a little brace on there, and then I
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: tape like these two fingers.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: You remember everybody having tons of shit on. And then
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Reggie White just was like just put the jersey on,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: like just nothing, no gloves and then just take people
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: and go.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I always think it's badass when you see the dude
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: just have their like like fingers taped.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the fingers a little bit.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I feel like I got half our guys with their
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: hand in the dirt. I think that ship is lame.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking of like DB's.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, DB's got that looks hard, but like I do
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: with this hand in the ground and he's got his
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: knuckles in my bro, you ain't come on like if
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you don't wear gloves, you're a psychopath. To me, I
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: thought of hitting somebody without gloves on.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, kids, I couldn't out here.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine him, like he would just show up
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: completely nothing and then take a like a three hundred
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: and thirty pound guy with one with that hump move
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: and go like this, and you see the guy like
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: just go falling, live flying down like he'd launch a
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: guy like ten yards.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: There is nothing more embarrassing than getting put on the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: ground like that. It has to be right unless you
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: just catch one in the throat. You get put on
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: your ass and then they make the sack and you're
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: just like, dude, I am nothing. What feels What feels worse.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Getting like having somebody stronger than you toss you, or
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: somebody so fast that they just are past you and
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you're like fuck that, like they're they're back here, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: you're like, what's just happened?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Whiffing on somebody is tough, But I feel like for me,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I could always like in my mind back, can you
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: get change these couple of things. There's no worse feeling
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: than having another man's hands on you and not have
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: you can't do anything about it. You can't do it,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and you're just like, I guess we're just gonna go
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: where you want to go today. Wow. Yeah, that's a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: tough feeling. That's like the worst feeling actually ever.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: So it has to be too for like an old lineman,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: like I just feel guys in the trenches because I
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: know for me, it's like you get out run or
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: you get beat on your feet.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking, God damn it, they were all right, right,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Over the fucking ring cover.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: One with Compton in the game.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: But like if I get if I get bodied or something,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: you're kind of just like fuck on the way down.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, like Marshall Lenz, we always get got.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Everyone gets got.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: But I feel like as an old lineman, it's got
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: to be the like a demoralizing thing, like you just
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: get manhandled in the trenches and you're like, you're a
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: guy in the trenches.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: That has to feel. Yeah, when you stop playing football,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: when did you start comedy? When was that?
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: When did you do that was the path? Great transition?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: That's good. We've just been fucking talking. We've lowered all
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, so I get to college, I realize, like,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not. It is weird because it becomes
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: like you have a more of it, Like you know,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: it's like your identity. You're like, oh, typically, like what
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: do you like? I play football in high school? You like,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I'm a football player. That's what you think you are.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And then you get to have college and you're like,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm definitely like there's players going to team meetings.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm ready to go. I'm like, oh, I
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: don't play football, and then you're just like, uh, I
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: don't know. I mean I loved doing comedy, so I'm
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: making like comedy videos, you know, but like it's not
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: even for there's not it's not the Internet.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: It's not like like I want to share this video.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: It's like they're they're like, make a video for communications class.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: That's boring, Like do a do a video about like.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: How how uh how the security works in the building,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: like you know, do like shows that you can do
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: like a transition shot, and then I would make mine
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: like a comedic version of it, you know, and then
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: they were.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Like the teacher like the fuck is this right?
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Like because I was trying to make it funny, right,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: And then I the more you do that, the more
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: you like.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: I like this.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: I like this right, So you're I keep making like
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: comedy esque sketches, but like for assignments. And then when
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I finally get out of college, I get out in
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: two thousand and one, I graduate and then yeah, in
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: June of two thousand and one, and then I moved
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: to La January two thousand and two, Like I actually
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: I remember that I arrive in La January two thousand
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: and two on the day that it's a bowl game.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: It's Ohio State Miami is playing in that like a
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: big time bowl game. And then I start doing I
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: start going to improv classes at the Groundlings, which is
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: like this renowned place where a lot of SNL people
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: have come from. I start doing that in like April
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: of two thousand and two, and I have guys that
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: are in the class that are like, you should try
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: stand up. Like they're just telling me, like, you should
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: try stand up. You would like stand up. I was
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: like all right, because they did stand up, And then
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: a couple of them were like because I was like,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: what do you do? Like, I mean, I've seen stand up,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: but like how do you start? So I kind of
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: tail them. They're like, just watch me, I'm gonna do
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: spots tonight. So they go and do like a spot here,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: a spot there. I just follow them around and then
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: one of them walks me into a place and like
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: when they when the lady is like, oh, what's up
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: to this guy? Nick, He's like, this is Tom He's
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: a comic. And I'm like what's up? And she was like, oh,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: do you want to do like I have like an
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: opening next Saturday. Do you want to do that spot?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: And I was like.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh shit, and then she's like all right, You're booked.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: And then it's just kind of and then I was like,
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: I'm doing a spot next Saturday, like I've never written
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: material or and so then it was just it was
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: just on from like once I did it, it is
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: that like addictive.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Are you either going to be like I'm not doing
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: that again or like I got to do that again?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: And it was just like that. So that was two
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: thousand and two, and then it was just a slow
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: you know. I used to do like one spot like
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: every two months, and I'd be like, yeah, I've been
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: doing like doing some stand up, thinking that that's a lot.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, I used didn't know, like you have no
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: kind of frame of reference for it, and the big
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: clubs seem like so intimidating, so I would just do
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: like smaller shows, you know, like someone would be like
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: come to this bar and do a show, and I
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: was I was kind of like scared to go into
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: the clubs. And then it just kind of just you know,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: slow progression like grew from there.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when did it, like your first big break come
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: with like breaking into the scene.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I I mean one of my friends was actually
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: working for Jay Moore and Jay and he recommended me
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: to be an opener and Jay let me do some opening.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: So that was definitely a break because the improvs like
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: that own so many clubs they before Jay. I was like,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: can I, you know, work here, and they gave me
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: a showcase. I always tease the guy now when I
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: whenever I see him. His name is Matt Coman. I go,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: I got upstated I had a good set, like you
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: know when you have like there's no like you can
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: be delusional. But I'm like, I know when I don't
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: do well, and I did well, and I was like,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: what's up? He goes, you definitely have something, like just
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: keep at it. I was like, and that was it,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Like he wouldn't get I was like, I have something, yeah,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: and he was like, yeah, just keep at it, and
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I'm like okay, and he didn't book me. But then
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: when Jay requested me to open, then they were like,
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: now you can do spots, you know what I mean,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Like he gave the green light and then they were like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: now you can do spots. So that was a that
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: was a big deal because then I could work more regularly,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: get on stage more.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: So that was one.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I did a couple of things on Comedy Central when
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: people actually watched Comedy Central and like there was a stand.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Upon there.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Or whatever.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was I thought that was actually for some
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: people that changed their careers. It was called Comedy Central Presents, yeah,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: and that was that was actually the goal, right, Like
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the goal was to get because everybody who you fucking
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: admired had done Comedy Central Presents, so like I just
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: kept I mean, that's all I wanted to do.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: So I did.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I did one of their shows. It was called Live
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: at Gotham. That was used to be called Premium Blend,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: and then they made a new version called Live at Gotham.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: It was here at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: I did that show that was supposed to be like
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: the precursor to like getting it present. So then you
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: would submit what you do is you send in fucking
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: tape or DVD shit, yeah, and you'd be like, here's
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: my thirty minute set, and then the lady was like,
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: you know, you're gonna get one, but not this year,
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: and you're like all right, so you'd work a whole
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: other year, send in another set and she's like this
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: is really good, not this year, like fuck. And then
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: the third year I got it, and then I remember
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: I had I had a good Presents because some people
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: like it's one of those things where like it's like
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: having like a bad combine outing, you know, like you
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: go fuck, like I don't know, I.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Just didn't run well, I didn't. I didn't I threw
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: up two twenty five eight times, like this sucks. That
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: happens to people, yeah, and they're still good. And so
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: that happens on these tapings where you're like I hope
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: this go and it went well, and I remember the
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: lady that was producing it goes, this is gonna change
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: your road life like touring.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I was like, fuck it. I didn't.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to like show too much motion. I
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: was like fuck yuess. And then they open the new season.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: It's still popular at the time. This is end of
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: twenty going into twenty eleven. I'm like the featured like
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: highlight new season of Comedy of Presents, and then it
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: aired and you know, you see tweets and ship and
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: you're like, fuck it are things like about to change?
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: Man, shit didn't change at all, Like nothing changed.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I mean got your hopes up a little bit. I
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: mean you gotta think you probably thinking this woman knows everything.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And she produced all the carl In specials,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: so she's like she's like, I mean the real deal,
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: you know. And she was like, you know, she's like
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: trying to like produce other things with me, and she's like,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: this is gonna You're gonna see like your life change.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: I was like, you're trying to just like not get
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: too excited. It'd be like someone being like you're going
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: to get a phone call tomorrow from the Chiefs, like
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I know you're enjoying college right now, but things are
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: about to change, and you're like okay, you're just kind
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: of like all right cool, and then chiefs are like.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Who know, Like you're just like what the fuck? So
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: they you know, you just keep going.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I remember like the big bump was that I think
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: club A club was paying me fifteen hundred a week
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: to do six shows and they went to eighteen fifty
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: and they're like see like yeah, you're like, oh Gray,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: so you just keep doing that and then I did.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: In twenty thirteen, I shot my first Netflix special, but
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I wasn't for Netflix. It was shot on spec, which
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: means you pay to somebody pay for the production and
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: then you have it and then they shop it. So
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: they sent it to like Comedy Central. That's where that's
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: where you wanted to be. People don't remember that's where
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: you want it to be. And Comedy Central passed. They're
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: like no, and then they send it to Showtime and
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: they're like no. And HBO was like are you fucking
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: out of your mind? And then then Netflix took it
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: and it was like a consolation prize.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: It was like, well, the USFL is back, yeah, yeah,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: which is wild to think about now, yeah, because like
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: that's where everybody wants to be now, is Netflix? Right?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Because it's just like it's the eyeballs. I mean, this
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: thing is always changing. We don't know what's going to
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: happen in next year five. I mean, I'm sure the
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: landscape will change, but for the last decade, it is Netflix.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Yah.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Netflix is where you want to be. And so when
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: it when they told me we're going.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: There, I was like, I was like, you mean the
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: place you send DVDs to, Like, yeah, that's what it was.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: And it was a slow is the thing was like
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: it came out and then they were I was like,
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: oh shit, it was slow.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Like it was like.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I was do a club and they were like, you
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: sold like some you sold some tickets this week. I
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: was like, oh really, I wasn't even thinking about the
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: special because it was like five months later. And then
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, they're like, have you sold out
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: the club? And I was like, for real that. We
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: weren't like it's the special. We were like how did
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: that happen? And then it started to go like, oh,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: this special has gotten traction. I was like, no way,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: but it was very slow. And by the end of
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: the year they were like, you're selling out every show
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: at the club.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: How fired up?
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: It was getting that kind of feedback like man, it's
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: really starting to get around.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: It is fucking it's amazing.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: It is amazing, and you you know, it's like you
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: don't want to boast, you don't want to go like
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: fuck yeah, you're just kind of like is this for real?
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Like you can't believe it's real.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: You can't believe it's real because like it's so hard,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: you know, to grind, like you're just like working at it,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: and at the time, I mean, whatever, that's ten, iems
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: thirty four thirty, like you've been doing it for twelve years,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: and you're like, I don't know if it's ever gonna
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: change much from this. And then to find like to
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: sell out the clubs and you're like you just can't
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: believe that people are out there and like full and
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: they're just they want They're like they're like I saw
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: your shit. It's fucking they love it. You can't believe it.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: And out to mention that you get like real checks, You're.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Like, this is a real this is crazy, real money.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: It's crazy. Yeah, every level of it is crazy.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: But at first it seems like like monopoly money. You're like,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: this is what I used to make in a year,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: you know, like that like for real, like a year.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: What a feeling? Yeah, what a fucking feeling that is.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: It's crazy. It is a crazy feeling.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: It's gotta be.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: And just hearing the you know, obviously you like love
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: ball and everything else, and then talk about high school
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: and then like damn, you wanted to play in college
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: and everything else.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: So obviously that competitive nature that fires.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so when you are starting to sell out and
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: start to like get over the hump and everything else,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: like you can imagine the energy head when he's realizing, like,
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: you know, it's starting to fucking happen.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: It was.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: It's like it's beyond and I kind of, you know,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I know it because I've experienced it now. So when
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I see it happening for other comics, like I'm very
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: excited for them, Like, I know what's happening to you
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: right now?
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: You know? Is it is that a split world the
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: comic world? Is there guys that are like, for the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: most part, are comics excited for other comics or are
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: there other like is it kind of fifty to fifty
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: like hey, we don't want to help or we do
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: want help, because that's kind of how the NFL is, Like, Yeah,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: you guys come in. Some guys are like, hey, come on,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: let's show you how it goes. Or other guys are like,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: fuck off, you're not taking my job. Yeah, it's it's
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit of that. I mean, that's that.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: The guys that are whatever, like stand up, whatever, they're
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: just insecure because like they don't realize that there's enough
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: There is enough room, Like, well, you guys, there's a
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: real there is roster spots. Yeah, right, With what we do,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: there's no such thing as like if he's funny, you're done.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you know, it's you're no longer funny.
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: It's not like that.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: But I think some people don't realize that that, like
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: we can all work and do shows and sell tickets
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: like it's not it's not really a threat to you.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: And I actually feel like.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Great stand Like when I watch a stand up and
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: they're like, legit really good, I don't go fuck. I'm
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: like this is I get excited by it. Like I
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: find it kind of inspiring, you know. I'm like, oh,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: this is all like really good stand up is exciting,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: and it makes me want to do stand up. It
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: makes me want to go get back on stage. I'm
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: like that was so fucking good that I want to
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: do more stand up.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Shitty stand up makes me like want to go home,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: you know, go take a nap. Yeah, I'm like this sucks.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: I get anxiety. I want to leave the room. Like
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: when I'm watching it, I'm like, oh fuck, And I
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: just like I walk out of the room, but when
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: they're good, I want to sit there and watch it
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: like anybody else.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, when you're when you're coming up and
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: you've already found your voice, you found your kidence, you
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: found your timing. How do you go and watch other
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: comics that are making it and doing well, that have
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: similar humor to you and not take their shit because
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: it seems like a very difficult job to not, you know,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: snipe someone's joke and change it up a little bit.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, like you're something you're like that was solid,
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: I feel like and the thing that comes to myself
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: was in there, like growing up, like when I was,
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: you know, getting like turning, like twelve thirteen, like Dane
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Cook was big and I love Dang Cook.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I thought it was awesome. But then as get older,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: more media, more podcasts come out, people are kind of
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: hating on Dank Cook. I'm not asking you to do that,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: but people are saying Dane Cook stole from Lewis c
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: K with the rolling of the rs and all this
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: different stuff, like how do you not take that stuff?
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Was that ever a struggle for you?
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: No?
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: I mean I think that there's just such a an
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: established thing where it's usually when you see somebody who's
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: like you hear a great joke, you just go fuck that, like,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: god damn, I wish I would have thought of that, right,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: But it's like he did it. Like when you see it,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: you're just like that's done now, you know. Uh yeah,
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: So it never occurs to you to go, like, how
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: can I make that mine? You kind of just go
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: like I need to fucking write more. I need to
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: come up with some shit. But yeah, no, the and
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: which like, look, the real thing is that That's why
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I think so many of us, myself included, lean so
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: hard into talking about our lives because there's no like
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: you can't. It's exactly if I talk to you about
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: like my wife, my kids, my dad, my travels, like
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: you know, my experiences, there is no chance that I'm
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: talking about what you're talking about, like it's so uniquely mine.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: So that's I think that's something that has really evolved
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: in stand up is like people have really a lot
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: not everybody, but a lot of people just really lean
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: into talking about their personal experiences because there's no you're
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: not going to cross contaminate anything. But I fucking I mean, yeah,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: I watched jokes where I'm like, that was so fucking good,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: and my thought really is like I wish I would
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: have thought of that, fuck you piece of shit.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it would almost suck. Like I feel like
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: if that it almost suck. Like you're doing your own thing.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: You don't really watch a whole lot, and then one
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: of your jokes is similar to somebody else. Now I
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: have people are like, oh, you kind of and then
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: you're just thinking I would assume that you're just thinking like, fuck,
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: I didn't, I didn't know.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I have said a few times.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I've seen somebody do a bit that's something similar to
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: what I'm doing, and I'm in the room and I
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: always tell them in that moment like, hey, just so
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: you know, I have a bit very similar to what
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: you're saying right now, because it's something that's not out,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Like if it's out, then I'm just I'll be like, oh,
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: they're they're doing something similar to something I have out,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: so they're gonna look like they're doing my bit. Yeah,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: like the people oh yeah, yeah, and people will. I mean,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I've I've had people tell me they're like, you're that
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: bit is similar to so and so, and I'll be
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: I'll look and either they're not similar, and you're like,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: that's not even remotely close. There's just like we both
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: have a bit about hats and you're like you stole
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: his bit, and like, what are you talking about?
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: Like we're both allowed to talk about hats, right, you know.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: But I've also told people like I've seen something similar,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: and then I go, I look at when they came out,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: and if my shit came out first, I'm not even
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: accusing the other person that taking it. I'm just like, hey,
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: just you know, mine came out a year before, and
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: then that person like shuts down.
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: But I've told people because you want to tell. You
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: want to tell somebody.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: So that they don't think, like if somebody is up
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: there and they do their fucking hat bit and you're like,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I'm doing a bit right now. You want to tell
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: them if they see you, because you want them to go, hey,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: I didn't come up with that after I saw you
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: that day at the club. I'm doing it right, So
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: I tell them in the moment, right, that happened. But
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: that happens. That's a normal thing to happen. Where you go,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: we're both talking about fucking.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Ice or whatever. You know.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: So yeah, just just let you know that I am
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: also exploring what it is to have sub freezing water
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: in my class.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: So when you have a like a platform is big
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: as you do like you and bird with two Bears,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: two Bears, one Cave and just all the you kind
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: of have like a network and as big as your
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: brand is, what is the benefit? And if it's as
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: simple as finances, then I guess that's what the answer
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: would be. But what is the benefit of being on
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: like a Netflix or a streaming platform versus you just
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: doing your own thing because you have such a big
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: audience yourself. No, it's a it's actually a good question.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: I mean everything has changed. I Mean one of the
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: things that is like obvious is that you can have
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: great success with posting a special on YouTube like YouTube.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: People were like seeing as like for a minute, like, oh,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: things didn't work out for you, right, you had to
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: put it on YouTube? And then you see what's happened
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: with specials on YouTube that when they hit they fucking explode.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I mean Shane's Shane Dude. That stand up in Austin
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: has got to be one of my top five it's
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: one of my thought five. It is so fucking funny.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: When I I I just told I saw him yesterday,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: and I was, I mean, I've told him this before
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: that when I first was you know, i'd heard about
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: him and I saw a clip and I was like,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: it's funny. And then his special came out. It first
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: came out, I was sent the you know whatever, the link.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: I click on it, and I realized that like fifteen
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: to twenty minutes have gone by, and I'm like and
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: the reason that like I'm like surprised is like normally,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: like I tap out fast, like I'll watch Stand Up
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: for like three minutes and like turn it off, you know,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: a special, and then I'm like checking again. I'm like,
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: I'm about to finish this thing. It's like a whatever
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: fifty minutes or something. I turn it off and I
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: was like, that is the most engaged and hardest I've
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: laughed at a special.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: In a long, like in a while. And it was
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: a YouTube special that like he was, it's so good.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Like it's also like it is my wheelhouse of what
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: I find funny, Like he like it, you know what
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, Like there's genres of things that people like.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: It, no question. It really hit me in my in my.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Spot where I was like, this is so fucking funny
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: and yeah, I mean I I love that special. I
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: think it's one of the best specials of the last
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: five years.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Fotball, the Fox News was just all of it.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: The dad Ship is probably what made me laugh the hardest,
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Like when he's when he talks about like when he's
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: like he's so drunk and he wakes up to like
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: what's going on in Israel, like the Bomby Like that
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: shit made me laugh.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, whoa, that made me laugh. It's the thing that
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: is so funny to me about Shane is what's so
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: funny to me about you and your stand up is
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: like Shane can say so little and have such a
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: presence and just a little movement and the timing Like
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: when I watch Sledgehammer, you're literally having conversation with your
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: kid or with your dad and you like are just
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: doing eight words and the span of thirty seconds, but
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: the way you put the words and where you put them,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: it's fucking hilarious.
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks man, Thanks.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's the type of thing yeah, that like,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, little things the nuance of things is what
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: makes me laugh the hardest, more so than like the
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: the the you know, the big punchline is always something
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: you want, but like it's the little stuff that makes.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Me remember and love stuff.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like the little facial expressions, the pause
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: being in the right play Like that's what you work
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: on too.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: You know, callbacks that have callbacks all that's.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Are always a fun little treat.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like that's a lot of your fans
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: like watching it too.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: You just see the uh, the reaction by a lot
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: of your fans, like when you do hit the callbacks.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Throughout the entirety of the special one, everyone's just clapping
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: because it's funny. But it's also like man like well done,
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: Like that would have to feel that would have to
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: feel so sick.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to like you don't want them to
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: be too like, you know, for lack of a better
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: like to eat. You want to weave them in a
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: clever way because then they're kind of like, ah, like
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: there it is as opposed to just like dropping it whenever.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: So like like making a callback feel organic, so it's
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: like it's in a bit ten minutes later, but it is,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: you know, it's a callback to something, but it's it.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: It feels natural in the newer bit or in the
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: later bit. That's like a fun thing. I think too.
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: It's like an appreciation clop that's happened.
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, it's fun.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: By the way, I have to mention because because I
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: did see Shane yesterday that he was like, we if
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: you can watch that. It came out today. I was like,
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: how was u? How was the Beer Olympics? He goes,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: you dodged a bullet?
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: He goes it sucked.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: And I was like, shut up. And then what we
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: got into was, first of all, yes he did show
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: me Bruce. He's like, this is a week old bruise
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: is still yellow. And I was like, here's what it is.
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: You hang out with these guys and you're like just
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: just good guys, like the regular guys. I go, but
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: when you take these fucking assholes, these are these pro athletes,
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: and you just go we're competing. I go, this switch
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: happens that you you forget that they're mont sirts, like
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: they're actual literal monsters. He's like, dude, I had a
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: guy grabbed me by my neck and hold me out.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: He goes, I thought we were playing. I thought we
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: were like fucking around and then keep talking.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I'll show it to you.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: He goes, I got beat the fuck up and I
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: was drunk, so I didn't know what was happening to
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: me until the next day.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: And he was like, it hurts so bad. This is
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: why Shane's such a bit. Okay, tell me, tell me
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: because that whole wrestling that's me and Shane.
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: That's the fucking Yeah.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: He looks like he's suffering right there.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: Taylor has him like that, like in the pony's dragging.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: He's tapping like three or four times, and Day was
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: just dragging him throughout the pool.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: You can just tell shoving, he goes, Yeah, he goes,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Taylor is a professional shover.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: He's shoving me. He So here's how it started. We
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: were in my man cave and we're kind of fucking
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: around because I do. I think Shane's hilarious and I
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: love being around him, especially when he's got a couple
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: of drinks in him. And she kind of comes out
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: of a shell a little bit and he starts, you
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: know what, we're you gonna do, pussy, what are you
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: gonna do? And he starts fucking aking it on. So
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: we end up on the couch. There's a photo of
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: us on the couch and I'm like full mounted on
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: him and I'm like holding him and he's like she's choking,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Like you're a bit like still egging it on.
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Shirt like Will gets in a fight with this guy
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: with the lead singer Middland those him in the pool,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: starts wrestling him, and then JP's like, hey, gets Shane
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: in the pool, So I like, you know, Shane, he
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to take that shirt off for nobody. We
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: gotta get him in this fucking pool. So I body
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: tossed him in there, and you can see in this
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: videos like you don't want this, and he kind of
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: takes your shirt off. We start going, but he instigated
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: ninety percent of that shit. Him and Burt would lose
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: in a competition, and then Shane would find me and
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Will and come up behind us and be like, you're
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: being nasty. You'd being a bad host, man, You're such
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: a bad host. But I'm like trying to shoot a
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: beer bunk bottle. I'm like, dude, I'm gonna fucking end this,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: he said. He said an NHL player joh James.
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: He goes, he goes this dude, legit hurt me and
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: then came back. He was like, my bad on that.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, those hockey players they look like stick. They are
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: strong and sturdy individuals. They're playing like that's after all
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: the competition is over.
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: It's like and they fucking fight like they fight.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: Yoh yeah, and they can booze too, they can put
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: it down and they getting start playing pool basketball. And
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: I looked over for a minute. I could have sworn
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: three people were drowning at one point. It was just
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: it's elbows are being thrown. Dudes are getting thrown everywhere.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: It was as freddy and as energetic as it possible
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: we can get.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you got you gotta watch Shane talk about it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's out today two bears.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: No, No, it's it's his. I came out because I
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: did it. Oh you went out to uh oh dude,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: I went to Queens. How wild is his spot?
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: That's fine?
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I was out there, what was that a month ago?
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: He's like, hey, you want to come do the pod?
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: I was like, hell yeah, dude, And then I call
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: him when I get there, I'm like, hey, am I
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: in the.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: Right spot and then we come in. I'm like, yeah,
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: why are you living like this? Man?
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: He's like, is how you make comedy? Yeah?
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: And then I go he lives like a like a hoarder, right, yeah,
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: like he he lives like he's like a college student.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: Then you go upstairs and all the boys are just
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: sitting there playing UFC like video games.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: It's such a departure from my life. I live like a.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Fucking baller, Like what the fuck? Yeah, but it's a yeah,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: it's a choice. Yeah, it is a choice. He does
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of sketch comedy. Why didn't you Was there
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: ever a point when you were talking about doing communications
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: and making videos and like doing all that? Did you
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: ever want to do like mad Teas? Definitely? Definitely.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: I mean I literally thought that when I was at
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: that Groundling the Groundlings if you if you look it up,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: it's like it's the West Coast improv school that so
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: many people you know would go to.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: It's like Second City r Yeah exactly, Okay, it's.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: The la version of that, and it's I mean Will
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Ferrell came from there, foul and all, like all the
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: endless people. So when I found that out, I was like, oh,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: that's where I'll go and then I'll do SNL like
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: I literally thought.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: That was the way to do it.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: And then they have tiers like they have.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: It's a school, so like there's entry level one, level
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: two like like that.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Then there's this thing called Writer's Lab. Then there's Sunday Company,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: and then there's the ground links, right, so it's a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: whole thing. When you get to writing lab, if they
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: call you, it means that you've, like you at least
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: have some chops if you suck there and they don't
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: call you for that when they go, well, they call you,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: and it's to like, you know, start working on the
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: writing aspect of it. If you can pass on it,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: you can go like, I can't do it right now,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: and they'll call you a second time. But if you
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: pass a second time, they'd never call you again. That's
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: the policy. And so the first time they called me,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I had a legit I can't do it right now.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: I don't remember what it was. But the second time
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: they called me it was I realized I started doing
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: stand up and I remember I, I mean, you know,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: I got fifty bucks to do it here, hundred dollars
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: to do it there, and I was like, I think
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: this is the path I need. Like I felt like
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: if I go do that, it's gonna be a distraction
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: from stand up, Like it's it's I'm spread out in
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: a way that I I can't register. So I said no,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: But I still liked doing sketched up, like I you know,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: I've filmed sketches over the years and posted them, and
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: I've acted in a few things. I have like a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: couple of things that are like legit. I have a
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: thing with Bert that we're gonna do. I have another
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: movie in development at a at a at a place,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: and then I I filmed like my own version of
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: like I filmed the pilot last year that I paid
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: for really yeah yeah, and I sold it, so like
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: we're gonna go make the series.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's and that's like I wrote it, I'm
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: in it. I produced it, spent fucking so much money
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: to make it.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: Look I just didn't want it to look like like
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: a sketch show because of them look so low production.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: So we don't like we actually call them shorts, like
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: you know, like it's like if you ever watch Black Mirror,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: like though an episode of that will have, like you know,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: it's like a short film, and that's how we tried
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: to make this series like short films.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Any idea when that's gonna come out?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: Well, it'd be cool if the strike was resolved so
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: that you probably.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Get I mean I want it.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: I want them to get what they need obviously and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: what they want. But my guess would be that it
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: would be late next year when we would be able
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: to put that out.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah you uh, I know when we had burnt on
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: and we're kind of like asking about your guys, dynamic
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: and everything else. And he alludes to you being like
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: the brains behind the operation like over the years obviously
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: you know humble Cat, But how do you learn to
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: how have you learned how to build all these things
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: out over time? Like do you have a like a
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: knack or an interest like when you're building out like
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: you have a media network, you have all these things
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: going on, like balancing all that and learning about all that,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: because it does seem like you are a very savvy
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: behind the microphone, but or you know, behind the camera
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: and everything else.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Now I think it's like, you know, I'm an I'm
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: an observer and I I try to like learn from
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: what other people are doing too, So I do a
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: lot of that, Like I do a lot of like
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: seeing what works for other people and then following instincts
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: and like you know, not being not being resistant to
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: like the new whatever's something that something is like coming about,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: like you know, hey, whatever it could be like TikTok
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: is where everyone's going, and not being like I'm not
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: going to do that. You know, that's not for like
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: just being open to the fact that that you can't
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: you can't.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: Just go I do it this way.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: This is what we do, like being open to those
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: ideas and trying things like i'm I'm I think if
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: if you're a comic, you're natural entrepreneur, like you man it.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: You own your business, and that means that you're not
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: totally risk averse, like you're going to take risks, and
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: so like we take risks in things like when we
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: do these uh we do these live streaming shows, like
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: to produce them, you have to spend money. You have
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: to like go ahead and put together a different type
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: of show. Like it's like it's like almost like a
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: variety show and we're gonna have music, We're gonna have this.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: It's a risk, and then you go, I'm gonna I'm
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: gonna do ten dollars, like it was a big thing.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: Was like people were like trying to like really have
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: us agents, so like you should charge more, you know.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: I was like, now, let's just try to do volume.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Like, let's just try to do volume and see if
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: we can do a lot of tickets but make it affordable.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Ten bucks is like pretty affordable ticket, and so I'm
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: open to like try things, and I go, if this doesn't,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: like when I shot the pilot, I spent over a
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: million dollars to shoot it, So you go, like and
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: then people like, what if you lose money?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, then it didn't.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Work out, But like the upside is maybe it's exactly
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: what I wanted to make. And even if I don't
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: make money on it, I have this thing I wanted
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: to make, and so I can't you don't make I
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: don't make just decisions based on is this going to
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: be financially beneficial? Obviously you want to make money, but
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: like you have to do things that are like fulfilling creatively.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: And to me, there's like something about in this era
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: that we're in right now, the I like the adventure
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: of trying something and seeing how it like how where
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: it ends up, even if that's like trying it, Like
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: we develop new podcasts and I'm like, you know, now
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: these are going to like podcasts, you know what I mean,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: you guys do it. It's like you go, well, let's
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: get together do this pot do fucking five hundred people
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: might listen to it, and it's considered a bomb and
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: there is no such thing as like if you do
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: put the Like there's been celebrities that have gotten together
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: to do podcasts that fail, like legit huge names. So
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: I get excited about trying new things. It's just like
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: when you get on stage, you try things. That's what
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: feels good to like try a joke and have the
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: potential for it to bomb. Like if there's no potential
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: for it to bomb, it's not as as rewarding internally
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: as you know what I mean, Like a safe joke
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: right like where you're like, let's get a last Yeah,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: those are like it feels good to get to laugh,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: but part of you goes like if you would have
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: tried something else that was like riskier, that feels more fun.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: And I think that applies to like all the stuff
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: you're saying like all those things is like you want
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: to take a risk, you want it to be a
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: calculated risk, but there's no there's no thrill in just
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: like playing everything safe, you know what I mean?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, was there ever a fear when you're when you
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: had kids about taking more risk?
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: There was a fear in not working enough, so.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Which is a different thing than most people say. Right, Yeah,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are like I I gotta.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: When she was pregnant and I was like, we're having
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: a baby. I I definitely hit a switch where I
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: just went like into I need to work a lot,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: and I went I went.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Hard, and it was the idea of like providing.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I was like, I mean, up until that point,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: it was the two of us. Like you realize that,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: like if it's just the two of you, you can
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: fucking get by. We'll go to Trader Joe's and get
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: some frozen fucking burritos and like you know what I mean.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, you have dinner. Dinner really doesn't matter.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: It's like if I if you if you don't, if
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: you're not making a lot, you're like, well, you know,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: hopefully I'll get another gig next week.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: And I'll have enough for rent like like that. Yeah,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 5: you're like, I mean I always wanted to work, but
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: like when when a kid comes, Yeah, I was like
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 5: it wasn't even I didn't have to like externally say it.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: It was like it was so internal of like it's
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: like you it's like the modern version of like hunter
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: gatherer mode where you just like I have to provide
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 5: so that I mean I went into like six gear
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 5: with like working.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it seems like you have an incredible work
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: ethic When you look at you and Bert, Yeah, who
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: would you say has the better work ethic?
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Well, Bert be like, I mean I'm doing a lot
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: more actually right now.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: The festival is.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: No. I think we both you know, I think we
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 5: both have dad or I had a dad who like
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: we were like very traditional work you know, get up
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: at five point thirty whenever, go to work. Like they're
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: just like.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Old school Americana dads like yeah, of course you work, right,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: So then like yeah, when opportunities come, like they have
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: arrived for us now we're like we have opportunities, Like,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, neither one of us is like eah whatever, yeah,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: you know, like we're like, oh yeah, you go to work.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we both work a lot.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: I mean I've like I did a tour that I
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: think was insane when I look back on like it
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: was it was too much meaning and not like I
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: couldn't handle it. It's just like for like from having
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: a family. It's just like it's not conducive to do
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: that many shows and tour that much. So I'm more
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: conscious of it and like I'm literally gonna see my
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: agent here to plan out the next like you we
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: have to have more weeks off, you know. But it's
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: not because like I don't want to work. It's like
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: I have to be able to be home, like I
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: have little kids.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: Man. Yeah, So I mean Bert is going in my.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: Opinion, too hard, Like he goes and I'm like it's insane.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's almost like avoiding life, like you
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like I'm like, what are you doing?
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: And then he cause like Bert does this thing where
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: he knows them. When I say this, he'll be like, yeah,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: just I don't know.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 5: I just I don't know.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: I just took it and took on too much. I'm like, yeah,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: but you're in control, like you can say it, and
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: he's like I don't know, like I don't know. Definitely, yeah, definitely.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: He does give himself to a lot of different to
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: as much as he can. I mean, even coming to the.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: Beer Olympics when I was a great day, was like,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: hey man, you know, I know.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: You get pulling a lot out different ankles and you're
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: just blowing up.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: He has been for a while now, and it's like, oh,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you just like taking the time.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: And because you can even see it at the Beer Olympics.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but you pulled a little
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: bit of a You could just see like he was
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: worn down a little bit. And then he expressed that
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: when he sent the message back, he's like, hey, you know,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: I was run a little low, but very appreciative, you know,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: bird like he's the best.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: Now he's the best.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: It does seem like he just goes fuck.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: I want him an hour to I mean, if he's
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: if he's trying to look, if he wants to hear this, Okay,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: you're working harder.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: He did ask me to ask that question.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: No, I mean yeah, but I you know, we did
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: a zoom call or this thing the other day and
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: we get on He's like, I'm like, are you all right?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 5: He's like I'm dying.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I don't want that to be real,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: Like could you chill the fuck out for a second.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: But yeah, he goes, you know, he'll do this. I
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: think he's gonna take some a little.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: Bit of time.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: Then he's got his fully loaded cruise. Then he goes
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: back on tour, then into another production. Yeah, it's like,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I get it because you go,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: these are these are a credible opportunity. You work your
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: whole career for these opportunities and then you get them.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: But you still have to like I'm look, I'm saying
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: it like I'm telling him, I'm telling myself too.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: You still have to like figure out how to manage
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: it because you you don't.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I guess you don't want to be like no, thanks
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: right to the thing that you're like you always wanted
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: to do. But you can't say yes to all of it.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: That's the that's the part. You have to figure you
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: can't say yes to all of it.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 7: Fuck them, give us, give us three pet peeves of
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 7: Bert Kreischer, three of his pet peeves, three pet beeves.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: You have with him, Oh that I have with him.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: No, like that you see of him?
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Three pet peeves you have for Bert? Like what bugs
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: you about Burt?
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: He thinks pretty easy.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: Number one would be as busy as he is, just
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: not responding to Like I'm like, hey man, we're good friends,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: we're literal business partners. And I've called you and texted
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 5: you for four days.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, no, yeah, Like I've been around you
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: when other people and I see how you I'm like,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: don't fucking answer me.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 5: So that would that fucking irritates the ship out of me.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, whatever, dude, I know what, I know
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: how you do this, like pick up the fucking phone.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: Text me back that you can't talk.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Simple enough?
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: So that makes me crazy? What else makes me crazy
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: about him?
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: He?
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: He will, Oh yeah, he just won't like consider anybody
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: else's emotions in the room. So like he'll come in
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: and I'll be like and he's like yelling at you know,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: somebody on the staff, and I'm like buddy, buddy, and he's.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: Like what, I go, yeah, but he feels this way.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: But I'll give I'll give him credit.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: When you point that stuff out to him, he'll be like,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: you're right, you're right, you're right the dove.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I didn't think about how you might have
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: felt in this.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: It's literally like you're raising kids, yeah you know what
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, like your dad, and you're just like yeah,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: but your brother feels this way.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then he's like, okay, good point.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: Point.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I get a little ahead. Yeah, I do give
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 5: him credit.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: He gets very he gets like, he gets so fucking
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: like fired up in the moments of like fun, because
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: he his whole thing is like how can I make
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: something more? Like he wants every moment to be like
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: if he came in here, he's like, let's make this
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: the best podcast in the history of podcast.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 5: Like yeah, right, like he must have. He wants to
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: manufacture fun, even if it's like you know, like it can't.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 5: He doesn't want to have like an okay day. Every
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 5: time you go like, how was last night? Saying it
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 5: was the best night in my life? And I go,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 5: I know it wasn't, and he's like what, I go.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: Well, if it was the best night, like you've said,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: it's been the best night you're life five hundred times,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: so which one is it? Like most people have an
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: epic experience. You I go, you had dinner. You told
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: me it's best dinner you've ever had in your life.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: You had the best coffee ever in your life. This morning,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: the show was the best night. He goes, Okay, sometimes
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: I embellished, and I'm like, yeah, quite a bit. So
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: your bird voice is so funny. It's like he but
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like he really and I
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: actually a lot of that is tied to the to
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: like booze, Like he's know, he's the party guy, because
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: like the party guy wants the party to go on, right.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: Like one time we hung out.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: I mean I'm not a big drinker, and we had
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: a couple drinks and I was like, and it was
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: it was like midnight. We were at this hotel. I
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: was like, all right, like I'm gonna go to bed.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: He goes, what I go? I want to go to bed?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: He goes, Why I go? Cause it's fucking midnight and
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: I've had a few drinks and I'm tired. He's like,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: don't you want this feeling to keep going?
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 5: What feeling? He's like, just like the buzz, like don't
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: you want to just not stop?
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: And I was like no, I want to put my
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: head on a fucking pillow and sleep, like are you crazy.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: And he's like, I just want to to never end.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 5: I was like, that's not a healthy thought.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: Fucking this shit will never end.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: But then he actually he's not lying about that, Like
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: that is you know what I mean? Like yeah, and so,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: like it has two sides, because the upside is that
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: he makes most things more fun. He just comes in
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: and you're like, oh shit, like a party just came
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: into the room. Like he's a literal party now. By
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: the way, he's in the last year since he's like
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: really like I don't know, exploded in popularity or whatever.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: Every time I see him, there's like eight people with him.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like, who the fuck are all these people. He's
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: an entourage now, Like he's like, this.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: Is my camera guy, this is my sound guy.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: I'm like, what he never just rolls in solo anymore.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: It's a party. It's a party where he goes yeah
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 5: and then they keep the party going.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Seems exhausting, but also be on the receiving end of it.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Every time Bert walks into a room, you're like, fuck, yeah, dude, yeah, yeah,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy he's here because he's such a good
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: time and the thing about Bert is when you see
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: him and you talk to him a minute, two minutes,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: you literally walk away going I feel like we're best friends.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: Like man, I'm like, I think we passed tom as Ye, no,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: he does.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 5: He's very here's the thing. He's very sincere. He's very sincere.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 5: And he doesn't do like he doesn't do like uh yeah,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: like I good to see you. Like he's he's not
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 5: like that. He's a he's like a look into your
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 5: eyes and like this means so much to me. He
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 5: likes community, you know, he's he is a frat guy.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 5: Frat guy has like a negative connotation. The positive of
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 5: it is like if you wanted to find the positive
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 5: in that is somebody who like wants like a friendship
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 5: fraternity to exist. So like he goes, let's all, why
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: don't we all just be friends and like hang out,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 5: like let's make this fun. And I'm just like what,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 5: I want to go be alone?
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: Like he's like, no, come on, Like he's always like
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: come join us, and like, you know, like that's.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: As an observers, you guys have a very interesting dynamic.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: You guys are both hilarious individuals in your own way,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: but it's interesting to see how. I mean, I'm assuming
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: you guys are best friends. Would you call me your
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: best friend?
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're Yes, we're best friends. And he's like, you know,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: it is a it is a balance.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 6: Like.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: Part of the reason I think that it works for
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: us is that I thoroughly enjoy him, Like, like a
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: lot of people are like, how do you put up
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: with this fucking lunatic? And I'm like, yeah, but I
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: enjoy Like he entertains the shit out of me. I
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: find him. One of the first times we ever took
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: a road trip together is like years ago, and we
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: drove up to Sacramento and we're driving back down from
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: LA I mean it's like hours drive. I forget how
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: many hours it is. And then on the way back
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: from Sacramento, he goes, you know, you don't say much.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: And I was like, you haven't shut the fuck up.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: You haven't stopped talking, and he goes, yeah, that checks out.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: That checks out.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: But the thing is I was like, yeah, but I'm
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: I go I just literally I would ask him a question.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: He would talk for thirty minutes straight, and then I
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: ask him one more question. An hour has gone by
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: with him just I mean, he's just talked talked about.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: But I enjoy him, like I enjoy his company.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 5: And then he thinks that I'm fucking weird, and I'm like,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 5: I don't think I'm weird.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: I think I'm pretty much like the voice of reason,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: and you're fucking crazy, but I enjoy your craziness.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: I know we got to let you go because people
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: are he's getting text, people are open the door, right,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: But sledgehammer, sledgehammer, of all the specials you've done, what
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: makes you so proud of the special?
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I don't know if this is something
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: that will always happen, like for me, it's like so
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: clearly for me, the like what I'm most proud of
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: I toured for usually I was on a two year turnaround, right,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: and I felt I was felt fine about that, like
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: meaning like I would shoot a special, start working on
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: something new. Two years would go by and I'd shoot
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: another one and put it out. And pandemic contributed to this,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: but it was three years and I just felt like
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: it got It's so much better, it's so much tighter.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: I became a better.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: Performer, Like I just I like the special so much more.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: And you know, I just felt like it's a more
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: like you always want to get better instant, you know,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: so you just like it feels like like whatever you
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: know evolved, like I've evolved as a person as a comic.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: It's like it's more personal to me because like my
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: dad died during it and we were very close, and
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: I talk about it, even though I make jokes about
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: it obviously, but so like it's stuff that is like,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: you know, it's more emotional for me, as much as
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: it's not like an emotional thing to watch. It's like
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: all that to me was like and it's a huge tour,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: like the culmination of a of a twenty one month
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: tour is this special. So to me it's like, as
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: you know, it was the most fun I've ever had
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: shooting a special, like by far. And I don't know, man,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: I'm just like it's been out for a couple of days.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: It's number one on Netflix. It's the number one.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 5: That's pretty cool.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: So we see your Instagram.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: No, no, but I mean like there's like an article
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: today about like how it dethroned, uh, that Henry Cavill
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: show The Witch or whatever.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: I did see that, you know, when I saw that
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: on my Instagram Instagram.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well said and I mean I was like, I
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: was like, yeah, dude, They're like, do you want to
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: post this?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, of course, throw that up there
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: multiple times.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 5: And the guy was so da the guy was so sassy.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 5: Who wrote it?
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he was like, apparently this guy has five specials. Apparently,
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 6: like it's not like you can't find it, Like I
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 6: don't even know how to verify this, but apparently this
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 6: guy has five specials on Netflix and apparently people are
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 6: watching it. And I'm like, all right, man, that ship
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 6: to me is fun, but it's honestly, it's not even
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 6: about it's not about that.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 5: It's about that.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: Like I feel like when you do a special, it's
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: like when you're you're you've been in a kitchen, you
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like you've been making something and
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: you go.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you are you are excited.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: I don't believe anybody that isn't excited for people to
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: like try it right, and yes, some people go this
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: tastes like ship, but a lot of people enjoy it
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: and then you go, well that feels good.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah man, thank you, this is an honor.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Bro.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: No, I'm super I'm sorry, I couldn't make it to
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: what would have been a horrific experience at the.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: You're coming, You're coming in here. You don't be a ref.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: You can be a ref next year.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: You don't know.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 5: Actually I might be fucking jack Fuck you guys up.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: Dude, we didn't get to talk about it, but you've
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: looked really good. You've lost a lot of way.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: He's got the what's it called the shor head.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: He's got a short head bicep. Short heads. Short heads
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: play if we played them. You need the short heads.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: Long heads take longer to develop. That'll look as good.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: That's the talk. You got goode got good physic.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: You come on.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: You fueled up nicely since your basketball incident.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 5: Thanks brother, Thanks, I'll see you in the pool next year.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: No question you will be more injured. Hey, have a
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: great day. Big hugs, tiny kits,