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#183 - Dan "The Hitman" Rathmann - Comedian · The Chris and Mike Show

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You know, just imagine that 13 little midgets like running
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around some check the album, you know, whatever you call.
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It and they hear. Well, 13 naked midgets man
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twitchers we let the music play a little bit, just a.
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Little guys, but I hope you don't mind.
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I'm having a little bit of a green.
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No, you're good, dude. You're good.
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Man, it's 5:00 somewhere. It's 6.
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So we're, we're, we're back due. OK, we lost Dan.
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Uh oh. Dan disappeared.
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I was counting on Dan. What was the comedian that wore
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a mask? Remember that comedian that wore
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a mask the whole time? Who was that?
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I don't know. There he is.
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Oh, that's weird. There's four of you.
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Something, something's wrong, Dan.
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It'll go away. And there.
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That happens to you sometimes too when you come.
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Oh, does it? OK.
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Hey, welcome to the Chris and Mike show.
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He's Mike. I'm Chris.
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and over there. There he is.
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Is Dan Rathman the funny man? He's going to join us for an
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hour and we're going to have all kinds of things to talk about
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shenanigan wise, and he's going to make us laugh and cry until
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our jaw is hurt and then we're going to have to go away.
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But we're going to leave you on a happy note because that's what
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we like to do, bring positivity and kindness to the world.
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So without further ado, Dan Rathman, who are you?
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Coming on today. Well it's, it's simple man.
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I I started this journey about 3 years ago coming up in May.
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It started from sadness and I turned it into a positive.
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All right, I'll. Figure that that's awesome so
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here we are I almost three years later May is going to be my
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three-year mark in comedy. I started from nothing.
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I started shows and and open mics in my area that weren't
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going on. So I'm just kind of like being
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that trailblazer, so. You were just, you were just
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there by yourself for an open mic.
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Yeah, I just, you know, doing my own thing.
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Cool loneliness. That's awesome.
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Hey, dude, that's a that's a lot of lot of lot of bands start
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with open mic nights, man, where you go and, and you're playing
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for the the for the crew of the bar, you know, and, and your
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friends and nobody else. And the one drunk guy that is
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passed out in the corner. Right.
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And then he wakes up and he swears to God you're the best
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thing that's ever graced his presence in his entire life
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because he just had a moment when you were on stage, man, I
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just felt it. I was there like, dude, you were
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drunk and passed out in the corner, but OK, you want a
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T-shirt? You got to wait out there.
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But no, no, actually it's kind of weird.
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My start was not the same as everybody else's.
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Like I literally the first time I got on stage, I was like 45
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minutes of time of me riffing and and just kind of life story
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stuff. Wow.
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And we have like over 50 people show up because I might, I'll,
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I'll give you the back story. Honestly, it's got, like I said,
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the sadness art part. My high school theater teacher
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had passed away and unexpectedly, I didn't know she
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was even sick or anything like that.
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But the weird thing was, is that I had ran into her like a few
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years back and I was running, I was doing like security or
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something someplace. And the last thing she had said
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to me is I thought you would be in Hollywood by now.
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So that kind of resonated with me.
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And I was like, man, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be
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doing, you know, So I kicked it in here.
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I created this whole thing, this philosophy called effort meets
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fate. It's on my wristbands and stuff
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like that, which I'll show you guys later on as we go.
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But just kind of I put out a, a feeler saying, hey, I want to do
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comedy on Facebook. I said I wanted to do a, you
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know, a comedy night or open mic or something.
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Local bar owner here in town, A buddy of mine, he's he no longer
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has the bar. The bar is closed and he's moved
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on to a different location. He said, hey, let's do it here.
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And the bar was called Rendezvous here in St.
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Joseph, MO. But my buddy Keith Dudley, he
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was the one that owned it and he gave us a kick start there.
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I started making Flyers, which was kind of funny because I'd
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never made a flyer or anything like that.
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So I was just flying by the seat of my pants.
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It looked like we're. Super familiar with that.
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We did that in the band man all the time.
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Find the 10 hottest chicks and say hey, bring your friends.
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Yeah, I, I just started Facebook marketing, you know, like
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pushing it, pushing it. You know, I got a couple other
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guys that wanted to do some comedy and stuff that were
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aspiring comedians. Most of them are not doing any
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comedy now. They've kind of just kind of
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fell off or whatever for whatever reason.
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But I just kick started it, man. We, we filled up the room very
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first time. I, I headlined the show, I
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hosted the show and just been flying by the seat of my pants,
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you know, the whole time. I've kind of honed my crap now.
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I've done a lot more writing and stuff, but I'm I'm more known
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for the off the cuff and crowd work stuff and which some.
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Kind of not not to not right, but not to compare your kind of
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like the Matt Rife thing where you start just just engaging
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with the the. What the fuck?
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I do a little bit, I do a little bit, but I it's not I, I, I do
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have my material. It just seems like every time
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I'm on a stage, it seems like people just want to talk to me
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for some reason. I don't know if I got a face for
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that or but they just want to talk to me.
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So I use it to my advantage. Other comics, they hate it.
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They hate the interruptions and all that stuff.
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But me, it's like I tell them if I'm on a show with people that
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don't like it, hey, don't, don't interrupt these guys, but I'm
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fine. Heckle me, whatever, I'll work
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with you. We'll make it fun for everybody.
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So. I think it's AI think it's a
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sign of intelligence, man, that you could just you could write.
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OK, well, you can just you can just riff off somebody's saying
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something to you like without. Pissing them off or losing the
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rest of the audience right? That's the trick is not a great
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person get hostile and then not losing the rest of your audience
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in the same breath, right? Oh.
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I've had, I've had people walk, I've had people walk on me.
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I think everybody. Does well yeah, but it's still I
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just think it's it's a lot it's yeah.
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I just think it's a level of, like I said, of intelligence
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where you, I do too, for sure fly from the seat of your pants
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and. All my favorite comedians have
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that ability and you hear him talk about it, you know, you
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have to have that ability. You can call it thick skin.
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I agree with Chris. It's more intelligence because
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you have to survive that, right? That's what people don't
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understand. Just like he was up there as the
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front man if the band fell apart, there he is standing
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there. What do I do?
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Right? I got to make sure that we don't
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lose these people and there's not a riot.
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You got to make sure that that person either gets dealt with
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and doesn't ruin your show or make you lose your focus for the
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rest of the show, right? Yeah, Oh yeah, yeah.
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One of my first ever sold out shows I did, I actually had to
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scrap like 90% of my set and just go out and crowd work
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because we had another another person that was on the set that
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just didn't take well to his comedy.
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And he's a good comedian too. And that's what's crazy.
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But you know, not every crowd is going to love you.
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But whenever that happened, he was in between me and the the
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opener and I just actually went out in the crowd, like literally
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went out in the crowd and started just riffing off the
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tables and just changed up the game and made everybody come
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back to it. There was like 180 a 183 people
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in that crowd. So wow, nice, but.
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But I mean, it's just, that's my style though.
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I mean, I don't have, I don't. The thing is about me is I'm
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predictably unpredictable. You know?
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Like the one thing you predict about me is that I'm going to be
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unpredictable. Once I got the mic, you never
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know what I'm going to say. I'm going to bring up my normal
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material. But half the time there's some
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stuff that I just make up per audience.
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So it changes every show I'm on so.
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If you had a style to compare it to Dan, who would you compare
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yourself to? Like honestly, it's kind of
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hard. I have my own cadence on stage.
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Like it? It's like no.
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I'm not, I'm not saying like, you know, are you closer to like
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a Joey Diaz? Are you closer to like?
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Sam Kinison. No, like a clean comic, you
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know? No, I I grew up on old school.
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I grew up on old school like Richard Pryor and those guys.
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OK, Yeah. So that's what I I'm a.
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Big red box fan. I love red box.
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I still watch. I've been binge watching Sanford
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and Son by the way. It's it's crazy.
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That's funny. He looked like that would never
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make today, right. Do what?
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Well, Mike, that would never make it today.
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Oh yeah, no, I'm trying to bring it back.
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No, he would never. I'd love it.
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Do never make it. So, but it's good stuff.
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I, I, I would say that my inspirations were like Redd
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Foxx, Richard Pryor, Daniel Tosh was a big inspiration to me too.
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I, I loved watching him, you know, when I was younger.
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But Dave Chappelle, obviously that's a lot of people's big,
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big one too. I grew up, I graduated high
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school in 2005. S Dave Chappelle back in those
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days were like really big, you know what I mean?
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So. He'll always be, yeah, he can
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just do it no matter where he's at, right?
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He's just a comic all the time. Don't know Eddie Murphy in that
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list? No, I love Eddie Murphy too.
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I like Eddie Murphy's old stuff. You know, when he went into like
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Daddy daycare and all that stuff, it was a little bit
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different for me. For me, clean comedy, I respect.
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I respect the hell out of clean comedy.
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I don't know what we can say word wise on here, but I respect
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the hell out of clean. Comedy.
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Whatever you. Want.
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Yeah, but. But it's one of those.
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Things I. Didn't know if you had any other
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type of ratings that you had to be like, hey, don't say that on
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here. I'm not.
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I don't like to cuss a whole lot whenever I'm on stage.
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Like I try to use. No, you're good.
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I like trying to you can say whatever you want for.
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Emphasis like to enhance a a sentence like one of.
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My jokes explicit tag all the time.
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Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Go ahead. Give us your.
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Joke. One of my things is I talk about
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being married to a whore, you know what I mean?
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So like, you know, and I talk and at the end of it I say, you
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know, it's like, don't ever do that, you know, because you can
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waste 10 years of your life and not even get a shrimp vote.
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And the crowd usually loves that because everybody knows it's the
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old Forrest Gump. So, OK, that type of stuff is
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what I do. And then I talk about how I'm
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constantly, you know, I'm constantly like, in like a high
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state of mind, even though I don't really do drugs or
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anything, even though I've ate edibles before.
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Anybody. You guys do edibles?
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I have many. Many he's like I've had.
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Gummies, yeah. Yeah, there we go.
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Well, a buddy of mine, he, he gave me an edible and stuff like
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that and that stuff messed me up.
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But I have like I, I call it like ADHD, but it's like sleep
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apnea. But it's where I wake up with
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the ADHD instead. And I'll think of stuff about
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like midgets, you know what I mean?
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So. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, like I'm thinking these things like saying like if a
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Midget orders a drink at a bar, isn't everything top shelf?
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You know, things like that popped in my head all the time.
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I don't know it it. I'll be out.
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That's awesome. It just happens.
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I don't and I don't even do that like on a on a daily.
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I'll do an edible once in a great while.
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But I used to be a cop, obviously, if you guys.
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Research. Not obviously.
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Well, no, we didn't research it because we keep everything real
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and raw when we we have people come on that way.
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We're not. We don't have any preconceptions
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or who our guests are, right, because then the reactions are
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genuine then, right. We have, we do a little bit of
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research with somebody who's an author, you know, you know, has
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has kind of a cool gig. Like we had a guy on that was
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talking about Cava, so we researched him a little bit just
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to understand what Cava was. But.
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I watched a few of Dan's clips just because I found out he was
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friends with Matt, so I've seen right?
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Well, yeah, maybe a handful of your reels here in the last
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couple weeks. You know, once I found out you 2
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are friends, I'm like, yeah, if Matt likes Dan, I'm probably
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going to like Dan too because I like Matt's comedy, right?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, we, we work well together.
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I, I love Matt's comedy. Matt's probably, I'd say one of
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my top best friends in the comedy scene.
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So he's, he's a good dude. I I have nothing.
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But an easy guy to talk to. Oh yeah, he is.
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He he's great. He's down to earth, man.
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He doesn't. He doesn't really hate on
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anybody. I'm I'm the same way.
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I don't like to hate on people. I get hated on, like I said,
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because my style is a little bit different, but it's like and
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just keep on trucking. You know he's moving forward and
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don't worry about it. Yeah, so here's the thing.
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So how long were you a cop? Hold on a second.
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He's like, I'm currently still with the CIA.
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I can't really discuss. That that's classified.
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Hey, give me a second guys. Yeah, you're good.
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Little kids, my son's yelling at me.
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It's all good. Bring him on.
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Bring your son. On I'm on.
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Bring him on, Dan. And a grandparent.
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Yeah, wait, my, I live, my grandson, my grandsons live next
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door. Dude, they pop on, he's got a.
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Speech away. Randomly.
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He's got a speech away, but it's it's funny because he just like
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he's very creative. Yeah, his teacher that was
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telling me I went to a parent teacher conference the other day
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and he's he shut up just now. I don't know what that'll
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happen. Maybe if they'll, well, that's.
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Because you want him to come on TV, basically come on TV, son.
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I called him out. You know what?
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I. Mean talk to the strange one.
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About I called his blood, but his teacher the other day was
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like we go to the conferences and you know him and his mom and
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I we we have like a bad history here and there.
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We get along somewhat, but the teacher was telling us about.
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They asked him to give the letter I or whatever because he
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can't say it out loud. So he has to show you.
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And he basically he does this, he goes like that and then does
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this. And he's, I'm like, what the.
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And the teacher's like. I know where he gets his
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personality from. And I was like, yeah.
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That's hilarious. That's awesome.
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The Chris and Mike show. Yeah, There you go.
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Uh oh. You're all good, man.
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We're good. You all right?
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So you want to talk about countries, Mike, How many
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countries you're at now? 34, 34 countries?
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I think we're going to pick up some.
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Do I have a Well, no, I guess the United States.
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That's how many you're treatment.
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Why is part of that right? You're streaming in that many
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countries. 34, yeah, We're in 34 countries now.
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We're 34 countries now. Yeah, yeah.
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It's all, it's all because of Matt.
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It's all because of Matt Farrell.
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When he came on the show, we absolutely exploded.
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Oh yeah. We give all the credit to Matt
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you have. A Fight Club up there?
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What's going on, man? Even Mama Casey, that was one of
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the funniest podcasts we had. Give me one second, give me one
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second. I'm gonna step.
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Away and clean them up real quick, right?
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You're good, you're fine dude. Don't worry about.
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You're talking about, that's why you're talking about countries,
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man. That's how we feel the so, so
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Dan, the hitman Rathman is, is is tending to his son with a
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bloody nose. We're not sure what happened
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because it was off scene. OK.
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We know Dan was not involved because he was almost not.
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Involved. Dan was not involved.
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So but he's, he's clear and we will be witnesses.
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To that right, he is clear. We will.
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We will stand up in court and say, hey, Dan, the hitman
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Rathman was not. Forgive the name, Your Honor.
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Yeah, right. How am I supposed to believe
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that? Well, we were both there.
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It was streaming live. I know it's going to sound
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crazy, but we were there. Live on the YouTube.
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You know, actually we're in more than 34 countries because that's
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only tracked by Spotify and the RSS feed, the website, if I
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added those, it's probably 40. OK, cool. 40 countries, that's
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good. So in the time that Dan's, so in
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the time that Dan's been gone, we went from 34 to 40 countries.
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So can you live? In the website.
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Data because we should probably get another 5 if you're off
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screen. Because they're wondering what
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the fuck is this green thing to the left of Chris?
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It's OK, joke, I'll be out in a minute.
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I'm with you. That was I'm not a comedian,
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obviously. That was a failed joke.
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How do you make me laugh? My sorry, it's a hard crowd.
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My son had a bloody nose. Right.
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We talked about that. Yeah, we talked about that while
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you were off screen. We had my microphone, so you
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guys probably heard me talking during the whole time.
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We heard it all. We heard it all.
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We, we've had that happen where, where the show's over and then
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the the guests forget to sign out and we will not.
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They're talking, they sit there talking for like 15 minutes.
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And the really cool thing is they're just showering Mike and
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I with accolades. Yeah.
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Like, they were just blown away how great this was.
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And we're just sitting there like.
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Dude, how much fun they? Can hear them, right?
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It's cool. So we like to eavesdrop on
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people. Yeah, we like to eavesdrop on
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people when they're, whether they're talking good or bad,
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because you learn from both. So let's get into a little bit
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of your funniness, man, because you know you're here to be funny
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and we want people to come find you being funny and live in a
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person. So do you have a website?
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Yes, I do. It's actually just Dan Rathman.
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Comedy.com. OK, OK.
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That was to my kid, you know I. Wasn't sure why you're silencing
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me. It wasn't sure why you're
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silencing me. I knew where he was going with
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that. Oh man, he's trying to get
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peanut butter or something now. I don't know what he's.
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I'm not even a parent now. I was right there with you, Dan.
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Don't worry about. It it's crazy stuff, man.
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I well. He's trying to pull up your
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website so I'll forget. Yeah, you could do that.
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Yeah, get us. Done.
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Funny, too. He knows that.
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So it's fine. It's in the other drawer.
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Stop. Drawer are you are you a single?
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Are you a single dad, Dan? I am not a single well I mean
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I've been with the same girl for about 6 years and that's not the
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not that's not the word talking about either.
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I figure I'm not married so. OK, well then you're a single
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dad, man. Yeah.
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On that shit. So you've been on the boat,
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you've been on Carnival. So Carnival is that, is that the
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Greyhound Bus of the Sea? Is that the is that that one?
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Or is the one below it? Oh, no, no, no, no.
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I carnival's. I mean, it's kind of highly
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ranked. I don't know.
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Somebody, somebody said the other day that it was kind of
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ghetto and I was like, I don't. Know it is ghetto it is it's the
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it's the party it's the party boat it's the IT was fun like.
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We've only got like my last night I was on there.
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So OK, OK, yeah, we've, we've only ever gone under.
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We've only ever gone under region.
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So I can't speak for anything else.
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Why can't I? Why can't I click on the
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pictures? Man?
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You're not making this website user friendly, Dan.
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I. Like I like to scroll pictures
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while you talk. Yeah.
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Because then because then I have, I'm just, we're, we're
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showcasing you on behind the scenes and you're not allowing
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me to do that, Dan. Oh my bad.
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You know you're supposed to be funny, man.
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Hey, dude, what's up, little dude?
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Brother, I'm just, I'm just giving a tander Say hi, dad.
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Hi, Ander. What's up, man?
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He's got to. He's got to school peanut butter
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now. Yeah, go to school and tell your
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friends you're on TV with dad and they'll be like, what?
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I was like, you're OK with your dad.
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That's awesome. Yeah, you're fine, buddy.
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That's OK. Cool.
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All right. I'll see you in a little bit
19:11
all. Right, so here's so here's Dan.
19:14
See, this is what I like to do. Dan, there we go.
19:16
I got to pull out your photos while we're talking, see?
19:18
Because then it promotes you why we're having a conversation.
19:21
It's like. That for you.
19:24
So that's Dan. So I so back to my other
19:26
question. How long were you a cop?
19:29
Well, I was the cop for off and on for about two to five years.
19:34
It was, I was in for a little bit and then I got out.
19:37
I was the first, the sheriff's deputy, kind of like my home
19:39
area for a Sheriff's Department over in Kansas across the bridge
19:44
from like where I live now. But it was crazy, man.
19:48
I actually, I talked about it on stage how I my first ever bus
19:52
was a naked lady in a cornfield. So you.
19:55
Know nothing wrong with that. Gave me PTSD.
19:58
Which was was she? Was she cute?
20:00
No, I the the way I described it is, you know, you ever seen
20:04
those roaches drinking coffee on men in black?
20:07
Yes, that's how she looked. Yeah.
20:10
Oh, that's hard to that's hard to Unsee.
20:12
That's how you get. No, you've never.
20:15
OK. So yeah, so there's a legendary
20:18
Matt Farrell with with Dan the hitman Rathman.
20:20
So who? Who's Chrissy?
20:21
Is she? Is she funny?
20:23
Yeah, Chrissy Isles, she's funny.
20:24
She's she's pretty good. I don't know how long she's been
20:27
doing it, but she's been doing it for quite a while.
20:29
But this is, that was my second show, I believe, with her.
20:32
We did a show last year, Matt and I did the first time Matt
20:35
came with me to Maryville, MO Which one of those Flyers you
20:38
just showed was up there. And some of these have been
20:42
passed, obviously. That was my article up there in
20:47
Pennsylvania when I went out there.
20:49
Yeah. So he just interviewed.
20:51
Me again the other day. Yeah, that's that's the cool
20:54
thing about it. I don't.
20:55
Yeah, exactly. That's the cool thing about it.
20:57
It's not it doesn't have to be, you know, like relevant right
21:01
now. These are just this is you, man.
21:03
This is what people want to see. They want to see us sharing,
21:06
talking to people and, you know, you know, all that kind of jazz.
21:08
So this is upcoming performances, right?
21:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of those in the past I
21:14
haven't blocked out yet. Some of them are coming up.
21:17
I just actually got added to. I just got added to about a
21:20
month or two ago. I got added to a thing called
21:22
Skate Casey Spring Fest KC. That's going to be at like
21:26
America Casino in Kansas City. Right on.
21:29
I'm doing that. And then I'm doing Kansas City.
21:34
Oh yeah? Who's that?
21:36
Don Warnock. He's.
21:39
Been on the show a couple of times.
21:40
But I'll poke at him and be like, hey dude, go check out Dan
21:43
the Hitman Wrath, man. He's going to be in your neck of
21:44
the woods next month. Back, yeah.
21:46
That Flyers actually shouldn't be coming up on here if you got
21:48
everything else pulled up, OK. Yep, I'm just gradually pulling
21:51
stuff up. Yep, fuck your friend.
21:54
I'm also like the shirt. Hey Xander, don't be doing that
22:02
kids, man. He's 7 going on like.
22:04
Hey, I got AI, got AI, got a six.
22:08
I got a six year old grandson and a three-year old grandson.
22:11
So I get it man. That's going to be a fun show
22:14
right there, that retro con. I'm doing that.
22:16
But they're going to have the cast of like the original Ninja
22:19
Turtles movie, so they're going to all be there.
22:21
So I get to work with those guys.
22:23
They're going to have like Ernie Reyes and a couple other people
22:25
that are going to be there. Sweet.
22:27
So was the original cast of Teenage Mutant to children?
22:29
Were they all comedians? I don't know if they were.
22:33
I think one of them was I, I know one of the voices was, I
22:37
think I was like Corey Feldman or something like that.
22:40
Yeah, yeah, I remember that OK. And Ernie Gray has played
22:43
Donatello I believe in either the 1st or the second one or
22:46
maybe both because he was like a martial artist and stuff too,
22:49
because I've, I've got a background of like some hand to
22:52
hand combat stuff too myself, but well.
22:53
Of course you do. Of course you do.
22:55
Because you were a cop. You got to be able to chase
22:56
naked women down in cornfields. Yeah, because that's where I
22:59
needed it. You know, there it is.
23:02
That's the Spring Fest Kansas City, right?
23:04
Yep, yeah, I just posted that last night or something like
23:07
that because they updated a flyer or whatever.
23:11
You can see my name probably dead in the middle there, which
23:13
I go by the the hitman thing is something that one of my
23:17
buddies, he's in the Comedy Cartel, which is a a group that
23:20
I'm part of, right. Which is, which is a great
23:25
transition from from being a cop and being a hit man.
23:28
You know, I'm sure that worked really well.
23:30
Yeah. Sorry, that is pretty awesome.
23:33
He got that. Hey, stop.
23:35
Don't be getting him barking. We got this Chihuahua man.
23:37
Anybody You guys got dogs? Oh, I have AI have a lab.
23:41
Well, he's supposed to be lab. But he's not.
23:42
But I've had plenty. Yeah, our dog bark.
23:47
Yeah, our dog will not bark unless unless he's told to bark.
23:51
This one sounds like he's on something I don't know.
23:54
Ankle biters. So I hate that man.
23:56
He's a Chihuahua and she she had the dog before I got with her
24:00
and I gave him, I gave him like I always call him stuff like the
24:03
other day I called him a Dick and then my son called him a
24:05
Dick. But but it's not an accident.
24:11
You know, just out of out of that then or don't get him
24:14
going. All right, I'm talking about it.
24:17
He looks like Dobby off of like the Harry Potter series dog does
24:21
in the face. OK.
24:22
Big eyes, weird looking face. Yeah.
24:24
Yeah. Yeah, he has no math here.
24:27
So and he's a Chihuahua. Yeah, he's a Chihuahua.
24:30
He's he's he's really good. He he thinks he's a pit bull.
24:33
Give me one second. Well, I'm not going to beat A.
24:36
Kid small dogs. Yeah, I know.
24:38
It's all good. All smog dogs think they're big
24:41
dogs, and they're the ones that constantly yap and bark.
24:44
I've only got a few. Little dogs in my life that
24:47
actually I liked. Most of them have all been big
24:50
dogs. Right, exactly.
24:52
Little dogs are they're, I call them ankle biters, man, because.
24:55
They're scared of my son. My son gets them going, man.
24:58
So my son just like likes to getting riled up.
25:00
Now he's like in this little igloo Hut thing, but not my son
25:04
the dog. I figure because you've already
25:11
been off screen with a bloody nose and we we, we made sure
25:14
that we attested the fact that you were on screen when the
25:16
blood came out of the nose, so you had nothing to do with it.
25:19
Make sure that I got an alibi, you know?
25:22
What I mean, we got your back, man.
25:24
We got your back. I don't need social services
25:26
here again, you know what I mean?
25:33
No, they're they're. On your, on your.
25:37
Oh, there it is, maybe. Why?
25:38
Why? Just because I want to, I want
25:39
to, I want to, I want to pimp out your shows, obviously.
25:42
Because again, we do this, we do this number one, we do this
25:45
number one, to meet cool people. So yeah.
25:48
And then we do it #2 because. And you're definitely getting
25:50
around, dude. Yeah, it was funny too, because
25:55
when I first started this and I started getting like booked like
25:58
all over the country and stuff. Yeah, somebody asked one of the
26:01
other guys and he's a good buddy of mine and he he made a joke
26:04
about it and he called me a stage slut.
26:06
And I was like, well, that's kind of the point, you know what
26:08
I mean? Like I'm just out here spreading
26:09
it for everybody, but but I'm giving it up.
26:13
I'm not giving it up for free though, that's the thing.
26:16
No, you can't give it up for free.
26:18
Yeah, everybody needs to get paid.
26:20
Host says reconnecting. I don't know if I'm reconnecting
26:22
or somebody else says. Who knows?
26:25
But OK, so I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to give you,
26:27
I'm going to give you something to do, man.
26:29
I'm going to give you, I'm going to challenge you, Dan.
26:31
OK, you need to have on your website, you need to have your
26:37
calendar of events because I don't, I don't see that.
26:41
I just see you in pictures. There's no, there's no, there's
26:44
no links to click on. Do you have a little thing at
26:48
the very bottom contact? Yeah, I mean, there's links for
26:50
Facebook and Instagram and and YouTube, but I'm but I'm looking
26:53
for your schedule, man. I want to pimp you out.
26:55
I want to promote you and I'm not finding any any schedule.
26:59
We lost Dan. Oh no, it has.
27:02
I'm not finding anything that has your your like upcoming
27:05
shows on your Facebook. It has events and I'm not I'm
27:07
not slamming you, dude. I'm just.
27:09
No, no, no. You're good.
27:10
So on, on the events, all I have is past events on Facebook.
27:13
I don't see where you're going. I don't see what you got coming
27:16
up. It should.
27:18
Be all my it should be all my Flyers every day showing like
27:21
what I'm what I got going you you mean I need it on my my Dan
27:24
Rathman comedy. Well, yeah, you're on the yeah,
27:27
you're on the website, dude. So we can, we can.
27:29
So people like me can go to your website and say, oh, I want to
27:32
get tickets to Dan. It should have my show.
27:34
I thought I had that uploaded. No, it doesn't.
27:37
That's a glitch in the matrix. Yeah, unless there's a glitch in
27:40
the matrix. Yeah, there may be a glitch in
27:42
the. I'm just letting you know.
27:43
Yeah. Yeah, I'm just letting you know
27:45
because it won't take you a. 2nd to.
27:46
There, Yeah, yeah, I'm just, I'm not trying to be a Dick or
27:49
anything. I just let you know because I'm
27:50
trying to promote you and I'm like, where's the list of shows,
27:52
man? There's no list of shows.
27:54
No, you're good, man. I I appreciate it.
27:55
I take, I take all criticism or anything like that, Like I
27:58
don't, I'm not one of those guys that like, I can't take
28:00
criticism. Like I know there's people out
28:02
there that like they get all butt hurt about everything.
28:04
I'm I'm not like the least offended guy ever.
28:07
I'm also one of the guys at a comedy show.
28:09
I'm like, listen, if you came here to get offended, you
28:10
probably didn't research me. You know what I mean?
28:13
If I'm going to say some stuff so.
28:16
Yeah, but you got to go by. Walking into a comedy club.
28:19
Yeah, comedians got to have a huge.
28:21
You got to have huge shoulders, man.
28:23
You just can't. Well, in the audience has they
28:27
have some skin in the game, too. You have to know that you're
28:30
going to hear stuff that people don't say on a daily basis
28:33
unless you're talking to me and my friends.
28:35
Yeah, and that's the thing too. I like that gallows humor, you
28:40
know? I'm dark humor all the time.
28:43
So I've been dark humor since I was a kid.
28:45
I I used to think it was because of the background, like the law
28:47
enforcement and stuff, but I was like, man, I made Adele
28:49
Earnhardt Junior like right after it happened.
28:51
You know what I mean? That that Dale Earnhardt joke.
28:54
I was like, man, I felt bad about it whenever I was like 13,
28:57
you know, but. Then when he died, when he hit,
29:01
when he hit. Yeah, I was.
29:03
I was playing a video game and I said a joke about it and I'm
29:05
like, damn, that was rough. I shouldn't have done that, but
29:09
you know, I haven't. I've had a dark humor all my
29:11
life. I don't know what it is.
29:12
But and then, you know, when I got into, I did corrections and
29:15
law enforcement and stuff like that over the years.
29:17
I just, it just kind of just, you know, started stacking up.
29:21
Yeah. So I mean, I, I read the room
29:23
though, you know, I read the room a little bit.
29:25
So I try to, I try to make sure that I'm not going over the
29:28
sensitive. Like I know that one day I was,
29:32
well, actually I told you when I had somebody walk, I had had six
29:34
people walk and it was because of one lady.
29:36
One lady got mad all because all because I said something about I
29:40
was talking about being a police officer and I said not all
29:42
police officers are good. And that's the part that made
29:45
her mad. I hadn't even got the joke out
29:46
yet. I ain't even got talking about
29:48
how, you know, I threats a naked lady in Cornfield and all that
29:51
stuff. I just said that not all police
29:53
officers are good and this lady. An accurate statement.
29:56
Right, totally accurate statement.
29:59
Not all of anybody or anything. Yeah, you can go to a factory
30:02
and find a piece of shit, you know what I mean?
30:04
That's like saying all women are bitches or all men are Dicks,
30:08
right? That's just.
30:10
I'm not classifying everybody in the same, in the same level.
30:12
I just, I know that I work with crappy cops, you know what I
30:15
mean? So I was like, I know, I know
30:16
some that I wouldn't, I wouldn't show up to a scene with because
30:19
they were that crappy or that shitty, I guess.
30:22
But I'd rather go to a domestic alone, you know?
30:26
Were they the were they the ones that were the bullies, his kids
30:28
and had to prove something when they grew up so they got a badge
30:30
and a gun? I feel like it, you know what I
30:33
mean? Like, you know, like I wouldn't
30:36
have been kid growing up. So I know people tried to bully
30:38
me and I didn't really. I mean, I stood up for myself,
30:40
so I never really had to worry about that.
30:41
But those guys, I don't know, I guess they just get that
30:45
authority and they just think it's like, Oh, well, I'm above
30:48
the wall, you know? And I was a guy.
30:49
I wouldn't. If I'm out here speeding around
30:52
doing 510 over, I'm not pulling you over for that, You know?
30:54
I mean, I didn't want to be hypocritical.
30:56
So right, thank you. I dressed me nuts when cops go
30:59
flying by me 80 miles an hour in the freeway and I'm going 74.
31:01
Like what? So you better not pull me over,
31:04
motherfucker. That's what I said.
31:05
You know, it's like I said, what am I going to pull them over
31:08
for? And that was the thing too.
31:10
Like there was guys out there that they would do that stuff.
31:12
They would be flying around, no lights on, no sirens on and
31:15
stuff. And then they'd call people over
31:17
for you. Only 5 over and I'm like, what
31:19
is your problem? I said you'd look like an ass,
31:21
like a complete ass. I was like, that's why people
31:24
don't like you. So, well, and it's kind of
31:26
understood you can go up to 9 miles an hour over the speed
31:29
limit and you're not breaking the law, you know, and I mean,
31:32
that's been in place since I got my license when I was 16, like,
31:36
you know, I mean, and. That is what we were always
31:38
told. I agree with.
31:39
You right, it's it's nine over the speed limit and you're good.
31:42
But you go now when you cut in front of a cop on a freeway.
31:47
I. I did that.
31:48
I didn't realize it though. I just it was one of those
31:50
unmarked ones. And then when I when I hit, when
31:52
I I signaled and got in front of him, even though it's going to
31:55
84 and he was probably going 80. I realized in the in the in the
32:00
head the oh, fuck the front of the thing.
32:03
What do you call it? Not the tail lights, the grill.
32:07
In the grill you can see the lights.
32:08
Oh yeah, the lights. Yeah, the grill.
32:09
He wouldn't, he didn't turn. He didn't turn them on.
32:11
He just ended up passing me and seeing later.
32:13
Bye. But I didn't realize until I did
32:15
it like, oh shit, that's a cop, you know?
32:18
And then I was too slow for him. So there away he went.
32:24
So what can people expect when they come to see your show, man?
32:26
How long they last? You know, you if you're a
32:28
headliner when you go on all that kind of jazz.
32:30
Give us some more insight to the Dan Dan Rathman comedy.
32:33
Well, like I said, I have my off the couch stuff, but you know,
32:36
my, my, my set, I have my material.
32:38
Like I said, I talk about, you know, real life situations.
32:40
I talk about, you know, marriage.
32:42
I talk about, you know, sometimes I'll talk about kids.
32:45
It just depends. Like I kind of read the crowd to
32:47
to develop my set as I'm going and then I.
32:50
RIP off crowd too. Yeah, we're your crowd.
32:53
So what are you going to make us laugh about?
32:56
Well, we've been talking about a lot of stuff, so I mean 40
32:59
countries, you know what I mean? Right. 40 countries after I
33:03
left. I don't know what that that that
33:04
kind of made me feel bad, you know?
33:07
No, it improved. We started at 34.
33:10
Yeah, it started at 34. You gained you gained 6
33:12
countries while I was gone like. Jason Because everybody called
33:16
their friends and they all signed on and.
33:18
They had a guy off there. We're just looking at a green
33:20
screen now like that's. There's blood in the background.
33:26
What's going on? It's like 15 midgets that we
33:28
just put up on the green screen behind him so.
33:32
We stack them. Like a coatable.
33:34
It's the band, It's the band. It reminds me too.
33:39
I was like, you know, I, I talked about doing that
33:40
self-defense stuff and everything, and I was like, I
33:42
was thinking about writing a book on a calling it The Short
33:45
Guide to Little Survival, but it's all for midgets.
33:48
Oh, dude, yeah, I didn't. That would be great.
33:52
People would buy that shit because there's.
33:53
Something like pop up pictures and stuff and it's just like
33:55
munchkins everywhere, like a lollipop Guild.
34:01
Yeah, I'm not even that tall by the way, guys.
34:04
I'm only like 5/8 on my tallest day, so.
34:07
OK. OK, I only got you by an inch.
34:09
I'm not that tall. Yeah, I got you a few, I got you
34:12
by a few, but I don't, you know. Yeah, my wife want to lay down
34:15
on my. Wife, you know what I mean.
34:22
So when you. No, I mean.
34:23
What you inspect with me is like I said, it's always, it's always
34:26
going to be something like that stuff, that random stuff I'm
34:28
going to bring up. Yeah, I read the crowd a little
34:31
bit. I try to, I just try to play off
34:32
everybody like that, that hitman stuff to get into that.
34:37
How I got that nickname. I was talking about that before,
34:40
before I got interrupted earlier.
34:42
The hitman stuff came from a buddy of mine called Bear Love.
34:45
He's another comedian. He started a group called Comedy
34:48
Cartel, which I'm, I'm one of the admins or whatever on that
34:52
group too. So I'm kind of, I help them kind
34:54
of run it. But we got a group of like 4000
34:57
comics in there across the country, across the world
35:00
actually that we kind of help and we, we network with.
35:03
And that's kind of how we, we kind of make our way across the
35:06
country with everybody. We, we work together and
35:08
collaborate with a bunch of comedians.
35:09
So yeah, Matt, Matt Nike somehow got connected on Facebook.
35:15
He reached out to me and stuff and we just kind of clicked and
35:18
and started working together. Xander quit.
35:23
You hear that, kid? He did.
35:26
He just, he just tested me, man. Like, yeah, they need to bring
35:32
back Spanky. Do you know what I mean?
35:33
Like they do like. Spanky's never went away.
35:37
Yeah, yeah, they do online. So you know what I mean.
35:42
They do online. You got to you got to you
35:44
remember that? The whole thing where they reach
35:45
back and smack you and then hug you at the same time.
35:47
You know what I mean? Like that was great.
35:49
My mom was a my mom was a expert at that stuff.
35:54
The whole flyswatter in the front dash.
35:55
You know like there you. Go.
35:57
I found the comedy cart. I found the Comedy cartel.
36:00
There it is. Yeah, yeah, that's a great
36:02
place. That's another guy you guys
36:03
should talk to too. Bear loves.
36:05
He's a good friend of mine so. I just, I just joined it.
36:10
Telling you to go register as a guest?
36:12
Yeah, we'll get. Him joined, yeah.
36:14
Join up. Yeah, both of you joined.
36:15
Man, it's a great place. Yeah, tell him to.
36:18
Go to our website and register as a guest.
36:20
We'll get him on here. I will.
36:22
Get him on there wrestling with comedy that's funny.
36:26
Yeah, there's there's so much stuff on there.
36:28
A lot of the comedians will post like it's kind of like a
36:31
networking group on there. But then there's Stand Up Comedy
36:33
USA. If you go on to Stand Up Comedy
36:36
USA and join on there, that's another one where we actually
36:40
post our Flyers upcoming shows. We we also quit or you can get a
36:47
job and pay the bill. Anyways, we post, sorry, we we
36:54
post, we post our our mainly like videos and clips and stuff
36:58
over there. We encourage like that's for
37:00
comedians plus comedian fans or comedy fans.
37:03
Oh cool, so cool. That's what we do over there.
37:05
There's like over I think there's like 11,000 followers on
37:08
that group now where we have more comedians on a comedy
37:12
cartel than we do on the other one.
37:14
It's just more of like more of an advertising and and promotion
37:17
side on the stand up comedy USA. But you can find shows all over
37:21
the country, probably all over the world, because I think we
37:23
got some people from the UK and Australia and stuff in there
37:25
too. I did see, I I did see the the
37:30
the first one you referenced that had the bear love created.
37:34
Yeah, when I when I first did that, there was one that came up
37:37
that was dot AU and that's Australia, right?
37:41
Yeah, yeah, it's Australia, which the funny story about that
37:45
Instagram. OK, so there's another comedian
37:47
named like Dan Rath or Dan Roth or something like that.
37:50
And I was, I was actually on, I started getting follows on
37:54
Instagram because they thought I was that guy, I guess.
37:56
So I made friends from Australia because they thought I was some
37:59
other comedian. That's awesome.
38:02
And they? Ended up like I'll take it.
38:03
You know, I'll take the publicity so.
38:05
Yeah, that's cool. Was that buddy?
38:09
Nothing wrong? Nothing wrong.
38:10
With that, I bet go upstairs and wait on her.
38:14
She'll be here in a little bit, I promise.
38:16
No. No.
38:16
Yeah, that's a that's his best word.
38:19
No. You should have seen him in the
38:20
store earlier. No, he told me he was my boss.
38:24
Oh, and he and so he and so he got his got the what is the
38:28
influence influenza B. Yes, yeah.
38:32
Yeah. It's just a it's just a flu.
38:34
It's just a flu, Yeah. You got A and you got AB side.
38:38
I guess you just flip it and flip it over and play that
38:39
track. I don't know.
38:41
Yeah. He went behind the green screen,
38:43
so it might be flopping around back there.
38:46
Oh, it is. It's all good.
38:47
It's all good, man. It's.
38:48
Gonna scare everybody if you're on.
38:49
If you're on an acid trip, this is going to be weird for you.
38:52
Right, this will be a. Fun.
38:53
Thankfully, this will be a. Fun show.
38:56
But if somebody is welcome to the trip.
39:00
Right. So, so just so what's, what's,
39:03
what are you playing at? What shows you playing at in the
39:05
next month or so? Next this weekend coming up I'm
39:09
actually driving down I'm I'm leaving Friday morning I was
39:12
going to leave early because I had a guest spot at another
39:15
pretty prominent comedy club but him ended up sick.
39:18
I had to actually tell him I couldn't make it because I
39:21
couldn't leave early because I'm going to have him for the next
39:22
day or two until his mom takes him.
39:25
But I'm leaving early Friday morning because Austin is about
39:29
11 to 12 hour drive for me. Give me a second.
39:34
Hey, I'm talking. I'm talking.
39:36
OK. Yeah, I know.
39:38
I'll be Dave. Yeah.
39:40
Yeah. You stay here for a little bit.
39:42
Oh, stay toy. You need the mic.
39:45
It's. A microphone You just want to
39:47
get in here. You want to talk?
39:49
It's a comedian. It's a comedian being heckled by
39:51
his son on Live I. Know he's the worst Heckler in
39:53
the world, man. That is pretty amazing.
39:56
He called me a bit. You saw it here.
39:57
You saw it here first on the Chris and Mike Show.
40:00
Yeah, 7 year old Heckler. He's a 7 year old Heckler.
40:06
What do you? What's your deal, man?
40:07
This show is getting interrupted by you.
40:09
You're the one interrupting it. Did you got a bloody nose?
40:12
It's all good. Did you tell him you got a
40:14
bloody nose? Yes.
40:16
I watched you. You did it upstairs?
40:18
Yes. Is there, is it like some type
40:20
of like, you know, toddler to whatever grade I see bike club
40:23
you're not supposed to talk about?
40:26
Yeah. Sierra's room.
40:26
That's my daughter's name is Sierra.
40:28
She's going to be 15 this year. So actually this month.
40:32
Right on. Happy birthday.
40:34
Sierra. Yeah, she's 15 going 15 going on
40:37
25. You know that's what they do.
40:41
Boys are easier man dating and stuff.
40:44
And like, I'm not that typical dad, you know what I mean?
40:46
Like they're like, what are you going to do whenever he starts
40:48
bringing home boyfriends and stuff?
40:49
And I'm like, I, I'm not, I don't think I can be that guy
40:52
that just throws him a bullet and says, you know, that type of
40:55
stuff. I don't want to be that that
40:57
type of dad. But I do kind of like, embarrass
41:00
her all the time. Like one time she was going to
41:02
the movies and she had to go meet these boys.
41:05
And it was a muddy day and she got a little bit of mud on the
41:07
back of her pants. So whenever she got out of the
41:09
car, I just yelled out the window.
41:11
She was meeting them. I said, don't worry.
41:12
It happens to people all the time.
41:13
Oh yeah. You've got to worry about it
41:20
that way, You know, we get creative.
41:23
Yeah. How are you?
41:25
You don't see yourself. Oh, yeah.
41:27
Wait. I like to have fun with my kids.
41:29
They're they're they're they're different.
41:31
I've got other kids too. I mean, they're not with me.
41:33
I've got a kid in. I got a kid in Florida and.
41:36
How many, how many kids do you have, Dan?
41:38
Are you like Eddie Murphy? 17 kids, 17 different David
41:40
Mamas, you know. My grandpa was my grandpa called
41:43
Summer kids, you know what I mean?
41:44
Summer here. Some are there, but I talk about
41:51
it on stage. Actually, it was kind of funny
41:53
because how I had one of my kids.
41:55
That girl thought I was a Wahlberg, you know what I mean?
41:59
So yeah. Start of one of the Wahlberg
42:01
brothers. Yes, I am.
42:02
So yeah, I can see that, yeah. I get that a lot.
42:06
It's kind of weird. I'm like, I don't, I don't know.
42:08
But I mean, it's not a bad thing because those are good looking
42:11
dudes. So I mean, you could be, it
42:13
could have been like Steve Buscemi or something like that.
42:15
You know what I mean that. Would have been awful, right?
42:17
Yeah. Going every direction and stuff
42:20
yeah but look confused I. Don't know how people that have
42:26
those funny looks get such high, go so high in the movie industry
42:30
either. You know, like we were watching
42:31
something the other day and this is not a slam on people that are
42:33
shape, but we're my wife and I watched something yesterday.
42:36
It was some kind of, it was the pit, the hospital show up with
42:38
Noah Wiley and this, this, this guy that's on the show is like
42:44
£450. He has to have a breathing tube
42:47
stuck down his nose. So there's obviously casting
42:51
calls for people of every shape and form and age and just across
42:59
the whole entire gamut, right? Because I can't imagine the
43:03
casting director like looking at a script saying I I need a guy
43:05
that's £450 for this scene. Are you sure he's not 280 lbs
43:10
wearing a fat suit? Well, that's the thing.
43:12
And there's always. You can tell.
43:15
There's a market for it all, you know what I mean?
43:17
Like you got to, you got to, there's a market for everybody.
43:20
It seems like, you know, there, there's typical Hollywood thing
43:24
is, you know, you got to be good looking.
43:25
You got to be like 6 foot tall or whatever it is.
43:27
I mean, look at Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise is like 5-5 or
43:30
something like that. You know he's not really at.
43:33
Least he's arguably a good looking guy, right?
43:36
But that's what. I'm saying, but he has, yeah.
43:38
So he has a certain look. I was playing one night at a
43:43
casino and the girl that was playing next to me, that's what
43:46
she did. She cast people in commercials,
43:50
movies, and she was saying the same thing.
43:53
You know, it's not what you think.
43:54
I'm not looking for the best looking people all the time.
43:56
I'm looking for the role, Right. So Steve Mushimi, he fits a lot
44:01
of roles. He's great at what he does.
44:03
I mean, imagine Boardwalk Empire without that dude.
44:06
That's. True.
44:07
Honestly, I I couldn't imagine Conair without him, you know
44:10
what I mean? His role in.
44:11
Car. It was a movie theater to see
44:13
that dude. Yeah, it's great.
44:14
I mean, it's, it's one of those called classics, you know what I
44:18
mean? Exactly.
44:19
It's honestly, it's probably one of my favorite Nicolas Cage
44:21
movies, but it's it's which is not really a whole lot of movies
44:25
that I'm I'm really favorite Nicolas Cage.
44:28
But he does all right at what he does.
44:31
Yeah, he's good and he's and and that's the thing.
44:33
He's like, I'll never turn down the script.
44:35
OK, why not? You do it.
44:36
You you love to act, go act. Sure.
44:38
You know, go. He's an Oscar award-winning
44:42
actor. You know his first.
44:44
Role that he's got a certain look too, you know, that's his.
44:47
First his his first role, he went under Nicholas Coppola.
44:52
You got either one of you guys knows what knows knew what know
44:55
what that role was. I'd say that faster time.
44:57
Remember, I know he was up for Superman at one point in time.
45:00
No, no. This was his first role under
45:02
Nicholas Coppola ever. He was in line.
45:06
He was in line in school, at fast times at Ridgemont High,
45:10
when Brad was talking to the other dude about getting a job
45:13
at All American Burger. Nicholas.
45:14
Coppola. Was standing behind Brad.
45:17
I forget what Brad's name is in real life.
45:21
Let's talk. Remember, that's Nicholas.
45:23
Was that Jude Law? That's.
45:25
Crazy. No, no, it was he.
45:27
He was in Beverly Hills Movie with Axel Foley.
45:31
Yeah. Yeah, Judge Reinhold.
45:32
Judge Reinhold? Yeah.
45:34
So Judge Reinhold. Nicholas Coppola is behind Judge
45:37
Reinhold. He's been talking to the short
45:38
dude who wanted to work at All American Burger.
45:39
No, that was Nicholas Cage's first active role in a movie.
45:43
I've seen that's crazy so many times.
45:45
I'll have to pay attention next time.
45:46
Yeah, right. I'll.
45:47
Have to watch that again because that's a that's a great movie
45:49
too, like. It's a great movie, dude.
45:51
It goes by like that. Like you don't realize how fast
45:54
good movies go until you watch them again.
45:56
Like that just started and it's like an hour night, you know, an
46:00
hour or 40 minutes later, it's like, wow.
46:02
It's like. Watching this much like that
46:04
100. Percent house or two, you know,
46:05
like a lot of people are like. I didn't realize.
46:07
He was in Dazed and Confused and I'm like, I'm like, he's in so
46:11
many movies, like it's crazy. But in his look, now that he's
46:14
done this whole thing on that, that RIP character off of a that
46:17
he's doing that now he looks totally different.
46:20
So people are like, I can't believe that's the same guy.
46:22
And I'm like, well, he had to, he had to play part.
46:24
So yeah. Yeah, because without, if he
46:27
looked like, if he looked like Cole Hauser, that wouldn't have
46:29
worked. It wouldn't have worked.
46:31
No, no, that you don't look at Cole Hauser, right?
46:34
You don't look at Cole Hauser, redhead ginger man with the
46:37
beard, thinking, oh, you're going to take me to the strange
46:40
station, OK, but with the fucking dark hair, dark eyes
46:44
that, you know, the sunglasses, the beard, the burly little.
46:49
Yeah, OK. It's like, yeah, OK, he's going
46:51
to kick. Which?
46:52
Much better water. And it's cracks me up too,
46:55
because all like, now all the girls are like swooning over
46:57
that look nowadays, you know, and it's like, OK, so now every
47:01
guy's out there trying to grow a beard and a little bit of a gut,
47:04
you know, like, what's going on with this?
47:07
I'm like, I don't know. So I'm like, you realize that
47:09
you could have got that guy like 10 years ago anywhere in the,
47:13
you know, in the country town, you know, so.
47:16
Just walk into the local neighborhood Tavern.
47:19
Exactly, You could have got that guy anytime and you might even
47:22
pitch a domestic with it too. I mean, you might.
47:24
It's a 2 for one special. You know.
47:29
So. So do you do?
47:31
Do you need cop jokes when you're on stage?
47:35
Mainly is that I actually, I, I talk about, you know, like, you
47:38
know, we go back to the, the whole history of me being a
47:41
police officer. I, I was a tribal policeman for
47:43
about 6 months or so too. And I worked for a tribe over
47:46
there in Kansas, which is weird because I don't, I don't think I
47:49
have enough to even get college for free in me.
47:53
So, so yeah, if you got that anyway, but I was wearing this.
48:01
Hat on my car, so we're with you.
48:03
So. I talk about how I use, I look
48:05
like the guy that put them there.
48:07
So anyway, hey, yeah, quit. I'm on the you're not being
48:12
very, you're not being very respectful.
48:14
I'm not done yet. That's OK.
48:17
Hey, can you you got? 5:00 You got 5 minutes, so
48:20
you're good. Yeah.
48:21
OK, cool. Man, that went fast.
48:24
And so you can. Yeah.
48:26
So you can let them know we got 5 minutes.
48:27
It's not, it's not. Well, that's why we do the way
48:29
we do it, man. It's just a conversation.
48:32
I enjoy it. This is one of the funnest
48:34
podcasts I've ever been on. Real I I enjoy it a lot.
48:37
Yeah, so. If you want to come, if you want
48:38
to, if you want to come back, yeah, yeah, we'll get you on a
48:41
Friday if you want to come back that way we're we can have all
48:43
the time in the world because Fridays we start at 10:30 and
48:45
just go as long as we want. Heck yeah, I like that.
48:48
I'll do that with you guys sometime.
48:50
Definitely. I wasn't even actually supposed
48:51
to have him tonight, but since he had the flu or whatever, I
48:53
ended up keeping him overnight. We're kind of going to swap.
48:55
Some date. Out.
48:56
It's all good. Dude.
48:57
Dude, when I originally. Played it first man, family
49:00
first. It's all good.
49:01
But we love each other, don't we now?
49:04
Yeah, you. So he blows it up you.
49:07
Have to. That's where it's all.
49:09
That's where it all starts. Oh yeah, yeah.
49:12
Really. Really.
49:12
Even if you didn't love him, you sure to say so because you're on
49:14
a show. Yeah, yeah, like, no, it's OK,
49:19
buddy. I'll I'll we'll be give me give
49:21
me a few minutes. OK, few more minutes.
49:23
I know it's forever when you're 7.
49:25
We're almost, we're almost. We're.
49:27
Almost done, Zander. Yeah, he's he's, he's.
49:31
Now, now, where are you? Do what?
49:34
You're in Missouri. Yeah, I'm in Saint here in
49:36
Missouri, where I I live currently.
49:39
OK, cool. It's where meth and mortals
49:41
meet. Cool, so.
49:44
OK, cool. Yeah, I can see that, Yeah.
49:49
Yeah, he's like, you see that? Like I look like I'm on meth.
49:52
You got, you got, I mean. No, I know, but it it took me a
49:56
second there because you you are.
49:58
You're off the cuff, dude. They come out of nowhere.
49:59
I like it. Yeah.
50:01
Like you don't expect it. Then it's like, oh, yeah, Meth
50:02
and morals. I get it.
50:03
Missouri meth and morals. So yeah.
50:05
Well, we not my friends, but not the type that most people want,
50:08
you know what I mean? So that's that morale.
50:14
So, you know, I had AI had a racket take my, my lawn mower
50:17
out of my yard one time at my old house and I, I just waited
50:20
for him to come back, mow my lawn and take it back, you know,
50:23
so it was a win, win situation for me.
50:25
So it's a return on your investment.
50:30
You know what I mean? And get a lot.
50:32
Out of that it is. Now I always have like a $15
50:35
yard. Sale lawn mower that.
50:36
My parents gave me. Oh, nice.
50:41
And it still works, right? You what?
50:44
Oh, there you go. Even better.
50:46
The the nice little round ones that you could you could you
50:48
could you could. OK.
50:50
I actually fell down the hill that I was, I was mowing one
50:52
time there in my house. I fell down the hill and I was
50:54
like, it's a couple years back, probably about 3 or 4 years and
50:59
I fell and I actually tore my I did something with my back or
51:03
whatever. And I felt because I'm almost
51:05
40, I don't know how long you guys are, but.
51:08
OK. I'll be 40 this.
51:10
Year we're in our 50s. December.
51:11
Yeah. You what?
51:12
Yeah, 505656. Geez. 52.
51:20
I don't, I don't live I, I live a very.
51:22
I live a very. Don't look that old though by
51:24
the way, I'm trying to get on here.
51:25
But I'm just saying thank you. Well, no, but it's, you know,
51:29
we, I, you know, it's, it's good living, man.
51:30
It's healthy food. And I don't drink.
51:32
I've been sober for 21 years and you know, it's just.
51:36
You know I'm trying to get a. Spot how you live your life is
51:39
you know. Through a A Yeah. 4 so.
51:44
Drinking. No Explain.
51:45
I don't drink a whole lot. I usually, only time I usually
51:48
drink is like when I'm up on stage, I'll have a few beers or
51:50
whatever. But there's a joke I tell about
51:52
that because I usually drink Miller Lite.
51:54
And I talk about, you know, I've been trying to get Miller Lite
51:57
to sponsor me since I started, you know, because I'm just like
51:59
persistent. Yeah.
52:00
So one of the jokes I talk about is I pull up my drink and I say
52:03
I'm trying to get a sponsor. And I say, and I pause, and then
52:06
I'll say through a, a, you know what I mean?
52:09
Yeah. Yeah.
52:10
The last show. I did with Matt.
52:12
Well, A. Couple Fridays.
52:13
It was, you know, one. Yeah, it was last Friday.
52:15
I believe me and Matt were in Topeka, KS.
52:17
That one flyer you popped up with Chrissy.
52:21
We didn't have very many people in the crowd.
52:22
And I said something about, you know, I've been to bigger a a
52:25
meetings than the crowd, so it was a little different.
52:29
Yeah. And so, but it it was there, the
52:33
the ice, ice box, buddy, it made a noise.
52:36
It's fine. No, no, no, it's not.
52:38
OK. So, all right, That's what they
52:41
say in Missouri. Yeah, that's what.
52:43
They say in Missouri Ice box, Yeah.
52:45
That's a different term. Over here.
52:47
You know my great grandma used to say that too.
52:49
Ice. Box, absolutely.
52:52
It was the freezer, but you know what I mean.
52:54
The box of ice that makes the noises.
52:57
So now we have a lot of fun out there.
53:02
That's good. All right, boys and girls, so.
53:05
If you want to. Find Dan Raffin on you can find
53:11
me on socials. Facebook is just Dan.
53:15
Yeah. Dan Rathman comedy, right?
53:16
Yeah. Yeah, TikTok, YouTube, all
53:20
that's at. Dan Rathman, Comedy.
53:21
I kept it simple. So anybody that searches my
53:24
name, if you Google me, you're going to find me.
53:26
You're going to find ways to find me If you Google me.
53:29
Don't pay attention to the most important thing.
53:31
I'm still trying to beat those. So.
53:32
Yeah. Right.
53:36
Yeah, Just so. Jan Rathman.
53:38
And Zander coming to a stage near you soon.
53:41
It's going to be a quite the comedy duo.
53:43
Oh, yeah. So we wrap every show up like
53:45
this, boys and girls, if you're feeling, if you're feeling sad,
53:47
suicidal, depressed, don't do it.
53:48
Go go journal, go scream in a pillow.
53:50
Go run, go workout. Go find somebody to talk to you.
53:52
If you cannot find someone to talk to you, text 988.
53:54
Somebody's there to help talk you off that ledge because you
53:57
are a better person for waking up in our world tomorrow.
53:59
Don't leave a hole in somebody else's heart because you decide
54:02
to take your own life. It's not worth it for Christian.
54:05
Mike. I'm Chris.
54:06
He's Mike. This is Dan Rathman.
54:07
Dan the hitman Rathman. Dan Rathman Comedy.
54:10
Google him. You're going to find all this
54:11
stuff. Go check him out.
54:13
He came to us through a friend of ours, Matt Farrell, who we
54:15
love. So we're going to have Dan back
54:16
on on a Friday where we can have a little bit more time and just
54:19
kind of let him do his thing and showcase what he does.
54:23
Xander, it's nice meeting you, man.
54:26
Thanks for doing this, Dan. Appreciate.
54:28
Hope you feel better, yeah? Yeah, feel better.
54:31
Yeah, feel better. Bye.
54:33
Hey, love you brother. We'll see you.
54:34
Love you too man.