#69 Pennsylvania ft. Mike Vecchione
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Hello, folks. Welcome to Nate Land. As always, I'm here with Brian. Well, not always. We had one that we weren't, but almost always. Basically, every time. Trying to be less and less, but slowly. I keep coming back. He keeps showing up. We're like, oh, man. I thought, all right. You changed the record day on me, and I still... Still showed up. Yeah. He just was in our driveway last night, sitting in his car. Yeah.

Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, and we have a wonderful guest with us, Mike Vecchione. Thank you for having me to Nate Land. You're welcome. It's fantastic here. Thank you. It's amusement park. Me and Mike started comedy in New York together forever ago. Right. We've been great friends for 15 years, something like that. Lost touch for a little bit because he lost his hearing for two of those years, and we

I was trying to get someone older than Brian. Couldn't do it, but I'm close.

I'm trying to throw Brian a bone in the gut. We started in New York together, good times, a lot of years. And then you moved to LA and we remained close. I came out and stayed with you and Carson for a couple when I was in LA a little bit. I walked in on him meditating once. Yeah. I said, don't do that in this room. Yeah. He said, don't do it. It's not allowed in this house. It's a God-fearing house. What you're doing is some kind of voodoo and we don't appreciate it. It's affecting my wife. Outside, Mike. Outside. Outside.

Yeah. And I remember when I was trying to park and I had to back out and do it again. You go, does it ever just work out? Does it ever just work out? I'm like, Nate, I want to equidistantly park, but does it ever just work out? Yeah. What I'm saying, it's not easy to be Nate's friend. Yeah. All these years. There's a lot of jokes. Right. You said this weekend, you told me you can't ever just leave. Yeah.

I always say one thing right before you leave. That's it. But it's showmanship. Showmanship is you always make a joke, and I do it if it's just one-on-one or if it's a room full of people. You always got to have a strong closer. Always got to. You can't get out. That guy closes strong. It's just me here, but he closes strong. I think about clothes. Look, I have a whole theory about it.

that I think you will make everybody's day. If even if you're, say you're talking to an employee that you don't know it, you know, bed, bath and body works. I've seen something that is that one, the combination is bed, bath and beyond. And then bath and body. Well, if you're at bed, bath and body works, it's a new store that just got started. Um,

And you're asking for something, and then you just make a little joke. Me and Graham K., we were on the road this weekend. We had to go to Apple. So we go in there, and Graham's asking this person all these questions. And right when I left, I was like, hey, I'm sorry about him asking that. She was like, oh, it's okay. I go, no, no, no, I'm going to talk to him about it. And she laughed, and that was it. She walked away. And then the next person she talked to, she was like,

in a good mood for a second. It's like if you do that and send it, then maybe that guy does it. But what happens when they don't get it and they go,

It's the opposite. They go, this weirdo. Can you please take him off my hands? I'm going to go to lunch. Yeah, it's a big matzo ball hanging out there. If it doesn't work out, and it doesn't sometimes. Sometimes you do it, and the people are like, what? And you're like, all right. I gave it a go. But I tried. He did try. And their day's more – than those people, their day, they spiral out, and they yell. I just watch them yell at everybody the rest of the day. So it can go two ways. It's a 50-50 shot.

So we're going to start reading you guys' comments. As always, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast Reviews, and you can always email nateland at natebargetzi.com. Ben Crichton. Probably Crichton because we're in the South. Yeah, Crichton. He might not be in the South. Yeah. Where'd you say he was from? Where's his family from?

Probably from England. I think you said stupid England. Stupid England. I didn't know we were to say that on here. Yeah, it is a clean podcast, but we do call people idiots and stupid. I'm the nicest man in stand-up. And then...

You just turn on your fans in Nate Land? You feel safe in Nate Land? I didn't. Look, I think Ben's a great guy. First of all, I think it's Ben Crichton. You want to bet me on this? Yeah. No one knows about your vicious gambling problem. I'll bring him in here. Bren, I would bet, I would AC Doocy bet Crichton is his name. Not Crichton, not Crichton. Yeah. Crichton, Ben Crichton. Crichton. I like Crichton. Yeah. I feel like you would go...

No one would say Crichton. Yeah. And if you said, if he goes, it's Crichton, and you go, Ben goes, no, it's Crichton. And you're like, yeah, that makes sense. And you just messed that guy's life up. Right. Because he's like, because, you know, all right. That's like your name. Your name is spelled wrong. Bargetzi? Yeah. I think we say it wrong. We say it with an accent. Does your whole extended family say it that way too? Nobody says Bargetzi. How do you think it should be spelled?

With an E instead of an A, right? Yeah, we just say E. Or getsy. Yeah. But we say it with an E. And then I think Bargatze, like Fallon would always say, Nate Bargatze. Yeah. Everybody said Nate Bargatze. And that's, I think, how it should be said. It's almost like if you say it correct, people will think that I'm getting it wrong now. Yeah. If I say Bargatze. I don't, if someone says Bargatze, I don't even. Well, I think if people are famous enough, they could just say it however they want. Yeah. Right? Isn't that how we do it? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, you have to. So Ben, we're better than you. So we'll just say it however you... Yeah. Can I talk to him that way? Yeah. Listen, Ben, we're going to say your name however we want. Ooh. Yeah. Look, he gets it. Does Ben get it? Yeah. You're in Nate land now. You're in Nate land, Ben. Welcome to the land of Nate.

I'm a security guard in Nate Land. And you will do as you're told, Ben Crichton. Yeah, you do look like our security guard. Yeah, I'm a security. Yeah. Our comment. Or you know what? I would like to go... I would like to be the traffic guy on Nate Land. And Ben, you got a pretty crazy name. Let's go to traffic. Yeah. And I want to be that guy. We got a lot of... On... What's the road out there? Split Log? Yeah. Split Log Road. Yeah. There was almost an accident last night on Split Log. You saw it? Yeah. Yeah. You drove...

a lars car to zany's and then mike's sense of direction is garbage horrific garbage if you're not in new york with the grid system no i need a grid it's not even new york doesn't matter yes we went on the road and he was driving and we pulled back in manhattan and we might have pulled into la la land because he looked like he's never seen we went through the lincoln tunnel and

And he comes out of it. Not the Lincoln. What's the one farthest down? Holland. Holland Tunnel. I can remember the names of the landmarks. We lived, because you live in the Holland Tunnel. So we come through the Holland Tunnel. We make it out. And I remember Vecchione was like,

He goes, all right, where are we? And I'm like, I mean, we're in New York now, dude. And he's like, I know, but where's... I mean, he would have drove to the Statue of Liberty from there. Like he just... And we're living in Queens. Like we have to go the other way. That is true. He just had no concept. I have no concept. But what does help me in New York...

And Aaron had it right. And I just met him five minutes ago. Knows me better than you. The grid system really does help with the avenues and the streets. Once we get like the Holland is still in that where it's street names. I don't understand. Yeah. I really have a poor sense of direction. I think it's because of math.

My math skills were always really poor. People are like, oh, math doesn't matter. I'm like, it matters a lot, problem-solving-wise. Yeah, that's true. So let that be a lesson to you, Ben. Yeah, all right. Let Mike get off his high horse, and he's going to come on back down. He goes...

Ben Critchton, if you were to tell me a year ago, a new podcast is coming out, one host has gout. Aaron has gout. One host has dyslexia. I have dyslexia. And the other is geriatric. Geriatric. Geriatric. What is it? Geriatric. Oh, geriatric. At-trick. Yeah. Geriatric. Yes. Yeah. I wouldn't believe that it was my favorite podcast. Thanks, and keep it going, guys.

I think what Ben is trying to say is your flaws are what make you guys the powerhouse of a podcast. Yeah. I think so too. I think so too. Because people don't want to feel like you're on your, like you said, high horse. They're like, oh, these guys have flaws. I have a lot of flaws. Yeah. You know? You don't, but. I don't, personally. But I'm a guest on this podcast. I'm not on it. We like to bring in just excellence. Yeah. Yeah. You're sitting next to, I won't let your foot touch Aaron's foot because he has gout. Yeah.

I don't know how it switches over, but, I mean, no one's really looked into it that much. I don't know which one it is, but it's the wider shoe. It's one that's got two different shoe sizes. He's got to throw two shoes away. He orders two pair, and he throws the two middle ones away. One's a wide 15. I don't know what wide is. Tim Eigenfeld. Egenfeld. Yeah.

I'm an eighth grade teacher in Wisconsin. I started listening to podcasts over the summer and now every day to and from work.

Whether you're talking about something as riveting as ocean size or who the smallest president was, each episode is like stepping into a middle school classroom. That's what we are, is that we are a middle school. Every comment is more random and humorous than the last. Thanks, Nate, Aaron, and Blackboard for the lighthearted banter and for preparing me for another year of teaching. Wow.

Well, that's awesome, Tim. Yeah, Godspeed. Yeah. So everybody calls him a different bee name. Oh, really? So maybe call me Ben Crichton. Yeah. Crichton. Christian? Yeah, Crichton. Christian. Ryan Coyle.

That's what I like.

You go, that's not right. And then you're like, no, it turns out none of us are right. We bring you down too. Yeah, but the charm of it is you're so confident that you are right. I don't know about that you personally. Yeah. You're so confident you are right. And then afterwards it's kind of a charm like, ah, let's just move on to the next. Let's go have some breakfast. It doesn't matter. Micah Brokheimer. These are some names today.

Broek Emiyer Micah. How would you say it? Micah Brookmeyer. That's a lot. But it's B-R-O-E. I think you just got to ignore some of those letters. You know what I mean? Apparently, you're not fluent in German, Nate, because it's Brookmeyer. Is it Brookmeyer? I think so. Yeah. Is it stupid German or is it? This is high level. Oh, high level. Yeah. You respect Germany. That makes sense. I do respect Germany.

Should we start calling Brian's fans the Breakfast Club? Yeah. I actually love that. Yeah. Yeah, they should do that. Pretty good. I know. Is there a podcast, The Breakfast Club? Yeah, Charlamagne. You don't listen to The Breakfast Club? Charlamagne Tha God? Yeah. I have it caught up. It's in my list. Yeah. Yeah, I think the people that are Brian fans should be a part of The Breakfast Club. Yeah. And y'all could probably meet, table for four, and eat.

saying it's a small group what's behind bogo why do they call it bogo by somebody that's they either call it the breakfast club or bogo we're bogo fans breakfast is one of the more popular names for me yeah they call you breakfast yeah what's the significance of it i mean everybody knows on this podcast so maybe we're just you guys kind of filming can you explain it this is a long form the first two letters of breakfast are the first two letters of brian

No, but I mean, is there some, he gets up early. Somebody just called me breakfast. Someone just calls you breakfast. Nate loved it. That's really as deep as it gets. Yeah. And then we've all just made up different names. Right. And they just call him breakfast. They call him, I mean, they call him Blackboard too. Right. They just call him a different name. A different B name. Blackboard's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. I liked Blackboard. Blackboard's a funny word. Uh,

Matt Gable, our house was damaged by a storm in early May, so we're currently living in a hotel. There's a cricket living in the air conditioning unit in our hotel room. It chirps all night and drives my wife crazy. I've convinced her that I can't hear it and have no clue what she's talking about. To be honest, the cricket is driving me nuts too. How long do I let this play out before trying to get rid of the cricket?

I mean, I think you let her listen to this, and then you get rid of the cricket. I say you keep going until you get a divorce. It actually plays out in court. Yeah. There was a cricket. I never heard it. Just in the – there's a court. I mean, that would be on the – people would talk about that story. Oh, yeah. Going, where was it? And then he has a little cricket noise there in the –

My dad used to have a box. He turned the lights off and a cricket would always go off. And like, so it was like motion, light motion. It was so, or you can make,

He had another one that you would hide somewhere when the lights go off. It would be a drip. And he did it to my grandmother, my mom's mom. And he had to go in there and they had to stop it because she was in there with a wrench and was going to fix it. She was looking for it. She was looking for it. And my mom and dad had to go in there and go, it's not that. She was very funny.

But she was very innocent, just like, well, I guess I got to fix this drip. I think it was her and her sister. So they're both probably in their 70s at this point. And then my grandmother's sister. And they were both in there like, well, they figured out when the light goes off, it's still...

Does it? Why? And if you turned the light back on, it would stop? It would stop. That's so funny. It's a great... I'll see if I can find out what it is, and I'll let you know. Because it's a very fun thing to buy someone. But that's what Matt should do in court.

is have that. And then just like put it under the table and it goes lights and the judge is like, but I hear a cricket. He goes, y'all are all crazy. And then everybody goes, well, I think Matt's crazy because he doesn't hear crickets and he doesn't hear on that high frequency. He's like the opposite of a dog.

He's like an elephant. They don't hear his big loud noises. I don't know an elephant hears. Have we ever talked about, you know, when I was in middle school, everyone had ringtones on their phone. That was such a high pitch that the teacher couldn't hear it. That's back when I taught middle school, by the way, probably what you're talking about. Do you know what I'm talking about where kids had that on their phone? I was just in the early, I taught in the early 2000s when cell phones first came out. Now it's probably. I think what teachers do, you have to put the cell phone in a bag.

When you come into class, you can't have it on you. Yeah. They did...

What's the high pitch that the teacher couldn't hear? Because the teacher's older. When the teacher's older, they can't hear. So we would all have ringtones, and our phones would be making noises that we could all hear as a kid, but the teacher couldn't hear it because it was such a high pitch. I think your teacher just let it happen because I don't believe there's a high pitch. There is, though. There's not. There's no way. I mean, is your teacher 90? Or is he like 40? The teacher's probably in the early 30s. No.

No, there's no way. Even that age difference, you would not be able to hear it. I think you absolutely can. You're doing it to me right now, aren't you? Yeah. No. Y'all hear it, don't you? What was the frequency called? TikTok? Brian's never known. Yeah. That's pretty solid. That's a good joke. Let's go to traffic. Brian, yeah. You want to go ahead? Split log world. Yeah. Give my home address out, Mike. They did...

You know, we've been playing, we played the theme song during the whole episode. What? Yeah, in the back. What if we were doing that and he never heard it? Harry, you don't hear that right now? I don't think there's... There's frequencies that younger people can't hear. If you're under 25 and still can't hear it, try turning your volume up. You want to try this? Yeah. See if you can hear it? Yeah. I distinctly, I remember I had it on my phone and I would play it and my parents couldn't hear it and then all the kids had it. What's muted? That's why. Well, yeah. All right, we're about to play this.

Everybody. Because we're just sitting there. You hear it? No. You don't hear that? You can hear it? You can hear it? Do it again. Do you hear it? Yeah, dude. Do you hear it? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I hear it. You hear it too? I don't believe any of you. Me and the boys. Come on, man. That's crazy. What is it making? What noise? I don't know. Probably messing with us.

I don't know. It doesn't have the hertz or whatever. I don't even know what you call it. Well, I mean, is it going beep? It's just a high-pitched like a... noise. Oh, my gosh. Wow. That's unbelievable. That's so crazy, dude. That's fun. That worked out well. Yeah. I'm glad that worked. I would borderline believe that you're not...

There's no sound. I think if you believe the earth is flat, you won't be able to hear it. All flat earthers can't hear that. Well, because the sound's different on a flat earth than it is a circle earth. So we are circled earth. And then Aaron... Circled earth. A circled earth? Is it not a circle? Is it not a circle? No.

What's a globe? Is a globe not a circle? It's a sphere. But it's a circle. That's true. If you're looking at one side of it. It's a 3D circle. If you were flying in outer space, you go look at that circle over there, and then it would take you a while to get to go, I think it's a sphere. And I think you would be. But if you're on one side of the earth, and you're coming in, and you're an alien, and you go, let's go see what that circle's talking about. And then you go over it, and then you're like,

man this might be a sphere dude and then the other guy goes oh yeah i mean but where we were coming from it's a circle and he goes okay and they would probably agree yeah he goes no i understand uh-huh have you ever seen it i'm honestly i'm gonna switch to flat earth now i don't like how i'm getting treated over in the not flat earth world they treat me nice and say whatever i want over there

That's crazy. Could you hear that through this? Like everybody at home could have heard that? Probably. I think they should be able to hear that. They should be able to hear that on the podcast. So see, tell me if anybody is. Yeah, I want to be curious. So I'm 42. Anybody my age can do it. Obviously, he only shares out of one year now. Every time I talk to him over here, he goes, God, what? He doesn't know.

Easy for him. Yeah, he just thinks one side. So obviously it's not broken down by age. It is. Well... Because he's 28. The guys in the 40s could not hear it. The 29-year-old couldn't. Well, you could hear it, though. I was joking. You couldn't hear it? I can't hear him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I read lips. Yeah, everybody else is young. And us, the 40s, couldn't hear it. We couldn't hear it. Yeah, I'm a young 40s. Just y'all lumping me in with y'all's nonsense. Yeah.

Ginny Weiss. Weiss. Weiss. I'm still waiting for a response to the idea I had about having a Nate Land wedding. I don't know if I'm super committed to the idea or just want to berate you because you won't acknowledge my comment. She's talking to me about that. Remember the guy who had you propose to his girlfriend in the comment? Yeah. Well, Ginny, I think, suggested to him to do a Nate Land wedding, and he says his fiance's on board with it.

So we would like, would I marry them? I don't know if you have to marry them, but they could get married on the podcast. Oh. Oh, yeah. I would let that happen. Didn't he live in England? All right. Him and Ben Critchin come over and we'll have a ceremony. Yeah, you guys get a boat together, head on over, and then, yeah. If we could get to, if we could go. Where would you have it? I said we'd go to theirs. Where would you have it? We would just go there. Oh.

It's going to be tough to find a time that I can go there. Well, no, you can officiate it. Maybe you could officiate it. That's what I'm saying. We all just go to England. We're groomsmen. If they're in England. Yeah. Y'all are going to be groomsmen. Or we'll just be his groomsmen. And you can have a real person marry you. Yeah. And we'll be his groomsmen. Make all the groom photos. Uh-huh. Yeah. You're going to have an old aunt that's like, I never met his friends. You know? That's going to be super confused by it.

It will be tough to find the time. That's the only thing I'll tell you. Cat Rockwell. I need to go to England. I want to go. People ask me to go. I'm dying to go to England. So do I really want to go too. Yeah. It's great over there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The motherland. Have you ever performed over there? Have you ever performed overseas? I mean, Iraq.

Those are for Americans, right? Yeah. I was in China. Well, mine was for Saddam as a private party. I was there the night before they blew up his. He had no idea what was coming. He had no idea. He had a big party going, and I was like, right when I left, I go, hey, just a heads up. I'm hearing some stuff. I might close the party down a little bit early and go to one of your other palaces. He goes, yeah, I thought I was joking because I'm a comedian. And then so it happened.

I always love saying that to people. They go, when you say, I go, I performed in Iraq because I've stayed at Saddam's palace. And I say that and I was like, he was still there, but it was good. Cat Rockwell. That sounds like a fake name, by the way. Yeah, could be. Cat Rockwell? That's the only name I believe. Cat Rockwell. Yeah, that's a fun name. That's a good name. That's a fun name.

In the 80s, when we went to a local aquatic theme park, they called it Aquatic Theme Park. You just call it a water park? Is that not what it's called? I mean, to have a name like Cat Rockwell, I think you should be saying water park. I don't think the... Maybe... Is this a Rockwell family? Maybe it's a very wealthy family, and I feel like cats, they're wild cards. Well, when you read the comment, you may change your mind. My mom rinsed out bottles of log cabin syrup. Yeah.

Filled them up with water and tied a string around it so we could have portable bottles of water. Years later, I showed a photo of my husband of me with a water-filled syrup bottle around my neck and explained that it was the late 80s before bottled water was invented. To which he replied, water bottles existed back then. It was then I discovered my parents were just too frugal to spend money on bottled water. It's pretty great. Yeah, it's pretty great. You heard of a latchkey, kid. This is a latch water bottle.

Kid? Yeah. I don't know what that means. Man, I wonder if it had a syrup. It feels like something my parents would do. Yeah. If it had a syrup taste to it. There's no way you get all the syrup out of that. Yeah, it's pretty tough. Unless you washed it. It seemed like a milk jug or something. I still think you'd have one sip that was like, ugh. Oh, yeah. It's a little discolored, too, probably. Yeah. It's half syrup, half water. We all got diabetes. What if it was just syrup? And they go, we all had diabetes by the age of 10. Yeah.

Don't know why. Day 5465. Day 5465. I think that's a real one. You believe that one more than Cat Rockwell? Oh. That's their screen name, isn't it? What does that mean? Thanks for going along with the joke. Pleasure.

Thought I had a professional comedian over here who doesn't get at jokes. I didn't move that fast. Yo, folks. I've been wondering for too long and have to ask, what are the books on top of Nate's bookshelves and has he ever read them? If so, how long did it take? I love the show. Nate, Aaron, and Burbiglia are all awesome and essential. Keep it up. I like Burbiglia.

What are they? I can answer that second question. No, he is not. Yeah. It's a book called Train Your Brain up there. You've been reading that one? I don't think I read Train Your Brain. I read...

Some, not all of Outliers. I have Outliers. I read some of Outliers. I didn't read it all. Outliers is a great book. It talks about just like the Beatles, like having that 10,000 hours and what you got to do in Bill Gates. And Bill Gates was like, he had 10,000 hours of just doing stuff on his own. And the Beatles played in some whatever bar, whatever.

before anybody knew who they were. And it's like, you just needed so many songs. You needed so many songs. So you just hit, you just end up, I think that's what New York comedy was, was you're just getting your hours in and you're just every day, just up. We went up every day. A lot of comedy books.

Do fish drink water? That was a book with weird facts, which I might actually, I should look at that again. I bought that book for a joke I did, just to get my mind thinking. Comedy writing, step-by-step. Comedy writing secrets. I read some of those there a while ago. The great, I don't know, I can't see everything. I'm dying up here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a great book. Yeah, I'm dying up here is a great one.

Yeah, just stuff like that. A lot of people think the Seinfeld DVDs are just Kraft macaroni and cheese. Oh, no, they're real DVDs. So, yeah, there's that. It's all just basic comedy books.

a couple like seal team six or you know i read like i read some military books i would always read those in case nateland gets attacked yeah we need a military thank you guys for giving it something yeah i like the books but then also i want the fans to know that there are a lot of helmets here also and not for sports just helmets just general just a bike helmet there's a deflated football

Yeah. There's a brick from that hit my face at Zany's. He just saw Zany's last night. Saw that. Jacob Turner. I once taped a Kentucky-Tennessee basketball game back in 2008. I told my friends to not say anything about the game. One of my friends blew it and told me Kentucky won. As a Kentucky fan, I was mad he told me what happened, but happy that my team had won. Turns out the friend was lying, so I watched the whole game only to watch us lose. Yeah.

and we had a shot at the buzzer to send it into overtime, which I obviously thought we made since I thought we won the game. It clanked off the rim, and I was devastated. That's hilarious. Pretty great. Your friend, I mean, might be a genius. That's so funny. I never even thought about that. Just tell someone they won in a close game, and then they have to – that loss hurts more than ever. This guy's friend should be friends with the cricket guy.

Yeah. I think those guys should hang out. Yeah. They should. His lawyer. Yeah. The cricket guy should get this guy's buddy to be his lawyer. Right. Because he's down for whatever. It's going to be like, yo, I'm making this up. We could go to jail forever. And he goes, I don't care. I think I can win this case. And all he does is play that song. He goes, yeah.

Does everybody hear it? And all Matt's got to do is be like, who here's to raise your hand? And that guy raised their hand. Or no, the opposite. It's got to be the opposite. Oh, he's got to do the opposite. Yeah.

He goes, y'all are old. Yeah, I don't know. You know, it's funny. I posted a Slanket commercial that I did on my Instagram, and I'm watching a Vandy Kentucky. Oh, that's Kentucky-Tennessee. I'm watching a Vandy Kentucky game where Kentucky won, and it was around that same time. 2008, we won the SEC Championship that year.

Is that right? Yeah, because we beat Kentucky. I'm almost positive because that was the year we beat Kentucky, and then Kentucky won the championship. You may be right. I was thinking it was a little bit later than that, but you may be right. I don't know. Maybe it was later. Anna Walker, I was wondering, when y'all meet up and do the podcast together, obviously, Broff and Briner does his own project and research for each topic, but Nate and Aaron, do you do your own research beforehand, or do you go into the podcast without any research under your belt?

I mean, I think it's pretty obvious. Yeah, I do no research, but I mean, I bring the heat every time. That's true. And Aaron, just lucky to be here. Do you know who Broffen Brenner is? No. I've heard people say something like that. Yeah. What is it? I just looked him up. I'd never heard of him. Oh, okay. So you didn't know. I wasn't going to make fun of you for not knowing. You were trying to.

Well, I was just curious whether you blew through the name. It was the third time you read it today. I mean, I have active conversations about Bronfenbrenner, but it's never about this guy. It's just another guy I know named Bronfenbrenner. Yuri Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American psychologist.

All right. Yeah. Is he alive still? No, probably not. No, he's dead for quite a while. Born in Moscow, Russia. Died in Ithaca, New York. Lived a life. There's two very random places. Very different places. You're born in Moscow. Oh, cool. And then you're like, oh, where's he buried? Ithaca? Is that the town from Nashville? From Seinfeld? He started the Head Start program. What is that?

That's, I believe, starting kids in school earlier to get them a jump on their education. Oh, okay. So what do you do? Two months, you throw them in there? Yeah, get them in school. It's like when you make them swim? Well, three months into being born, you go to their crib and you go, party's over. Yeah. Time to catch the bus. Hope you had fun. Yeah. And they crawl to the bus. Crawl to the bus. And they can't even reach the top part. That's right. They can't hold their heads up. Yeah. Yeah.

They're all just in the classroom, just heads down. Heads up, heads up, heads up. That's where the heads up comes from. That was a head start.

Kyle Techmeyer. I am a high school teacher, and last night we had our Meet the Teacher Night via Zoom. For every class meeting, I started out with the classic, Hello, folks! At the end of one of the meetings, as parents were logging off, one of my senior parents said, Let's go, folks! This immediately derailed me in the best way possible as we chatted about the podcast, much to the confusion of the other parents still in the meeting.

It turns out we both are going to a show in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was a long night, but that provided me with comic relief if I needed to get through it. Well, that's awesome. Well, is it? Because they should be talking about the curriculum and preparing these young people for the future. That is true. Instead, they're having banter about your podcast. Well, this is a senior parent, so one of the seniors have kids. And so that's the school they're in. Well, he's a teacher.

One of my senior parents. I take it as he's a senior in high school and he's already a parent. And his kids are already in the school. That's how I read it. Okay. All right. I wish I don't know how to read. Jose Venta.

I decided to buy a suit for my wedding and went to men's warehouse. And the lady taking care of me was so nice. And she kept suggesting different accessories and whatnot. And by the time it was checked out time, she rang me up for $850. I paid because I was too embarrassed to be like, yeah. So after you did all this, I'm not going to pay that much.

I called my wife in the parking lot to ask for a huge favor to see if she could pretend to be a bridezilla and come return the suit after shift change at the store. This is when I knew we were meant to be together because she agreed. That's awesome. Wow. That's why, that's a, you know, look, I think it's either you're going to have a wife or a husband, but you got to have one of those that will do that. Who's a loose cannon? Who's a loose cannon. And,

and is going to be, that's willing to go do that. Because I would do that too. I would just pay for it because you're like- And Laura would go in and fix it for you? Laura would go back. Or my mom. Yeah. My mom, it depends on what kind of scene I want. If my mom will go back, my mom does it very nice, but I mean, my mom will- She'll get it done. She'll get stuff done where you're like, I mean, the store is called We Don't Take Refunds. And she'll walk in and come out with that refund.

She doesn't let up. That's why she would have done your, uh, planet fitness. I mean, you would have, might've got your, all your money back. Yeah. She would have figured it out. She's just really good at that. And, uh, Laura also is good at it too. Like Laura will call and do that kind of stuff. So I got a little, you know, if it's too heavy for Laura, I go, look, I'll bring in, I'll bring in the big guns if you want me to. And my mom will do it. But yeah, you gotta have that. Uh,

All right. Thank you, everybody, for listening. As always, we're going to get started with... You want to mention this? Oh. So someone made this. Nathan Udell from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He made us a cool Nateland. Wow. You know how many license plates he had to ruin on people's cars? This took him, I mean, parking lot after parking lot. Twelve, I think. And he would go in...

And they would watch them, usually older, you know, an older couple. Right. He knows they're going to be in the grocery store for a while. And he would just saw off. And they don't notice until they get pulled over and put in jail. That's when they notice. That's pretty awesome, man. We're going to set that up on the...

On the shelf. Yeah. Take some of those books down. Yeah. Put down the Nate Land license plate. Yeah. Which was probably made in a prison close by. And I had Megan McCloskey, I believe that's her name, she made me this mug this weekend in Red Bank, New Jersey. If you listen to this, we just got done with Red Bank, New Jersey, and I think this is coming out in two weeks, the week of October 20th.

So if you listen to it, this was a few weeks ago. But yeah, let's go, folks. And she makes those. I think she has Megan McCloskey. I think she has like, I think she might do stuff like this, you know.

This is all she can do. If she has a hello, folks, I'd take it. She has a hello, folks. I have it, so you can have it. All right. So you have the hello, folks. I have the let's go, folks. People still shout it out every show. I love it. It's just so nice. It's filling all of us together. Baltimore, first show, no one shouted it out.

And that I didn't hear. First show Baltimore. Second show Baltimore, they did. And I talked to a nice young lady, Katrina. And she goes, I was going to shout it out, but I was too nervous. So Katrina blew it. And I told her I was going to let everybody know that she blew it. And so. Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina. Blew it. Came in, blew it. Yeah, exactly. That's pretty great. Some great banter. Yeah. That's a good joke. I mean, I get why people tune in. Yeah.

He's writing it down to remember. Yeah. Hurricane Katrina. She blew it. And I'm like, that's good. I might use that in my hurricane chunk.

That is a comedian. Comedians are great. I always think about that when a comedian's like, were you talking about that? It's so funny. Just like before you go up, just like you're saying stuff, you're like, I'm going to close with the refrigerator joke tonight. And you just let you like, that's a job. A job is to tell someone that you're going to do that. You're like, hey, I'm going to do my circus stuff a little bit earlier than normal. And then another person goes, that sounds good. And they both get it.

And that's crazy. That's a conversation. Shop talk. Yeah. Yeah. Talk shop? Yeah. I don't think it's shop talk. It's shop talk. Is that what you say? No, that's what everybody says. Don't they say talk shop? Shop talk. Somebody look it up. They don't say shop talk. Aaron will have it by the end of the episode. Aaron, we thought was good at Google. Shop talk, it popped right up. Jay Cutler looked right through them. I mean, it popped right up. Talk shop. No one says shop talk.

But you can... I've heard talk and shop before. Talk and shop. Talk and shop before. No one goes, y'all want to do some shop talk? I'm more of a concise comic. I don't like to spread things out. That's true. It's word economy, right? Word economy. Thank you. So this week, Mike Vecchione lived many places. Right. But we like to...

Pick Pennsylvania. Is that the most you've lived in? Went to Penn State University, 91 to 95. Wrestled? And then I wrestled for one year. For one year? Because the guys who wrestled for...

the guys who are really good. I want to separate myself and give them the credit that they deserve. Like, so another one, big one, people don't know Greg Warren, Greg Warren, Greg Warren, very funny comedian wrestled at Missouri. And he was, he was an all American. So people in the comedy community don't understand the wrestling community. And they go, Oh, you wrestled, he wrestled you guys. What would happen if you guys wrestled each other? I'm like,

Like he would destroy me on another level. He was an all American. We had all Americans up and down our lineup. So he was like one of those guys who was just. We all wrestled at the same time. I think he took seventh in the country. So that's seventh division one in the United States. That's insane. Yeah. And he plays it down, obviously. He's such a humble guy. So I had to play it up and go, no, no, no, no. I'm not even in the same ballpark. Yeah.

And did y'all wrestle around at the same time? He's a little bit older. Yeah, yeah. And then...

Yeah, would you ever heard of him back then? Or is it... There's no... No, but there was a guy like he... Yeah, I mean, if you looked at the rankings and stuff, you would see he was a guy. Yeah, he was an All-American. That's so crazy. That's like when Kurt Angle wrestled Brock Lesnar for real. Right. When nobody... And he... Brock's so much bigger, but Kurt just took him down because he knew how to do the right thing. Yeah, Kurt Angle was a beast. And so was Brock Lesnar. Those guys were two...

they were national champions you win nationals but kurt was all-american right i mean uh yeah so that's how much better wrestler because because brock lester is that good yeah he was a national champion and and then he goes to the olympics kurt angler and he's angle and he's it's not even close no that's so crazy i mean you would think though that

You talking about when they wrestled in the WWE? Yeah. For fun. Yeah. For fun. It's a sports entertainment, but as competitors, these guys were insane. Unbelievable. They didn't wrestle for real. No, no, no. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm making a... It wasn't... They just did it for real, but not on TV. Oh. Just to see... Afterward. Did they wrestle each other competitively? I don't know what years they were. I know they were both national champs, but at heavyweight. No, he's saying they did it like one day. It was like, hey, let's have a real wrestle. We're not... They don't tape it. Right. It's like just them... The real thing. The real thing. People watched. Like at the beginning of Rocky IV. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And I hope your fans get that reference. Huh? Yeah. Apollo Creed and... Yeah, the older ones will. Kurt Angle from Pennsylvania, right? Yep. Yeah, he's from PA. Oh. How about that? So Pennsylvania, you think your longest time that you've lived, or Florida is probably your longest. Florida, probably. But Pennsylvania, I had great years in Pennsylvania, 91 to 95, then moved to Philly, and from Philly, 95 to 2003. And taught... 12 years. You taught school? I taught, got my master's. I got undergrad from Penn State.

University of Criminal Justice. That sounds bad. Penn State University? Undergrad. Blue and white? Undergrad. Undergrad. I don't know what that really means, but that's...

You know, it sounds made up and it sounds, I always think undergrad sounds not good. Like it's very insulting. That means you graduate. Right. Do you know what an adjunct professor is? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, were we allowed to talk about that? Because Nate doesn't know what that is. If he doesn't know what college is, he probably doesn't know what an adjunct professor is. Oh, yeah. I don't. No. So it's off limits. Yeah. This podcast is making me look stupid.

I don't want to make you look bad on your podcast. We're close. So I got my undergrad criminal justice from Penn State and then went to Philly and started working with gang kids at a school called Glen Mills, which is no longer there. It took adjudicated kids that were going to go to lock up and tried to rehabilitate them.

Not tried. They did a great job. And then I just started working in the mental health system with kids. And then I went back at night for five years and got a master's in special education. And then I taught for five years in Philadelphia and then a working class suburb called Upper Darby and then upper middle class suburb called Garnet Valley.

That's correct. And then I moved to New York. Threw it all away. Threw it all away for comedy. Yeah. I feel like we put you on the stand to prove you're an expert witness. Yeah. Yeah. You're like Marissa Tomei. Yeah. My cousin Vinny up there. Yeah. Do you hear the cricket noise right now?

I hear the cricket noise when I do my set. Yeah. That's pretty solid. Yeah, that's why I quit teaching. This past weekend, cricket in the ceiling of the club. Oh, really? The whole show. Oh, wow. That's kind of charming for a comedy club. Yeah. If a joke's getting nothing and then a cricket is naturally up there, it's not even a joke sound. Yeah. It's always tough because you're like,

You address it, and then no one really moves on from it. Did everybody move on, or is it kind of like you just hear it? It wasn't super loud that it dominated the room, but I could hear it and the people in the front. Did you acknowledge it? The comics could hear it. I didn't because the guy before me didn't. You should have said, I didn't hear it because I was killing so hard. Yeah. But the guy before me told me. Yeah, then the cricket got quiet and started, I heard laughs from up there. And I go, wow. Yeah.

This guy's a fan. Yeah, that's almost the best way that situation should be handled is you have the person that goes up first, make fun of it, address it, and then when you go up, we're not addressing it and just try to get it out of people's minds. Because it's always like sometimes you can hear a noise and you think, should I address it? And you're like, if I address this, then it's going to continue to happen. I'm going to have to keep bringing it up the whole show. Yeah.

And then people can't do it. I have a joke about that now, about this girl's laugh, which I'm not going to say because it's a joke. But it was like that, where it was like, you just, it wasn't going to go good. You have to address it. You have to address it. Well, I had an incident. This happened a couple times where it's like, the room is full, which I know is hard for you to believe. But sometimes the room gets full for me. And there's people in the front and I'm doing, you know, everything's timing. People don't realize that, you know?

And the people in the front are going, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did that too. I did it too. But they're saying it so that you can hear it, but they're trying to make it about themselves, but they're saying it, but they're right in the front. So no one else can hear, but they're saying it to you. And it's like, you have to stop the show and go, Hey dude, you got to stop doing that. You're throwing my timing off. Like you have to stop. They're like, what, what am I doing? I'm like,

You know what you're doing. Stop doing it because it's going to ruin the show. I can't, I already have trouble thinking on my own and you doing this is making it way worse. And then they just sit there with a crown on their face the entire time. It's like, what do you, do you understand what this is? Like you wouldn't do that in a play, you know, just say stuff. So you have to do that. And then you have to try to get the rest of the room back.

Yeah. Which is challenging. Yeah, yeah. That's all I learned. That was one thing you learned. Those are the little tricks that are little things you got to learn kind of on the fly and someone says it. I remember someone saying that like if someone, if you ask the crowd something and they yell it out, you always repeat it in the microphone because you can't, people even like, people can't hear what they say. Right. And,

And sometimes you wouldn't think to repeat it. And then you're like, well, if they didn't, I make the joke and no one really laughs because like, I don't even know what that person yelled. Right. And so you got to do it or you got to address like that kind of situation. I'll try not to, too. But then you get to a point where you're like, well, it's not, it's happening. If it's happening early in the set and you're like, look, I have an hour here and it's happening five minutes in and it's like, oh, this is going to be,

Because I don't want to address it either. I want to keep, I want to try to build momentum and the fun. But if it's like five minutes in, you're like, I have 40 more minutes of this. It's like, I got to do this in the, but it's like, you try to have fun with it and make it a joke, but you almost can't make it a joke in that situation because you got to let the person know that you're serious. Like, it's not funny. Like, I'm not having a good time with this. So it's like, please stop doing it. It's ruining the show. Yeah, it's like, because they, what you got to understand is it makes our mind wander.

And so we're trying to do our jokes and we know the jokes and trying to really get into a rhythm with the show and murder and hope and make everybody have a good time. And if it's just like, like upfront and no one can hear, that's all you can think about.

And so then you just hear it and you're trying to go through it and then it's like, it's not happening. And you're, it's good if you stop it early and then say it. You don't want to like make someone feel bad. No, what I try to say is like, look, I don't want you to get kicked out. I want you to be here. Yeah. I appreciate you being, I want you to be here. Yeah. But please stop. Like you guys, I don't want you to get kicked out. Yeah. I want you to have a great time. Yeah. Yeah.

I just did a show where I looked down and my shoestring was untied. So the whole set, I'm debating, do I stop, put this mic down, and stop for the time I shoot? In my head, I'm thinking, I don't think anybody can see it or notice. And when I got done, so many people after the show said, the whole time you were up there, all I could focus on was that shoe being untied. That's all they thought about. That's really cool. Yeah.

That's a Bates show right there. That's so great. Like Bates, when you get done with it, you go – there's always one thing that you're like, there was a white mark on the stage behind you, and I could only think, you know, your watch was undone. It's backwards. I noticed that for some reason, and I could never – that's all I thought about. Okay.

Because they don't... I don't kill enough to distract people. No, I'm saying they don't kill enough, but you don't look like a kid could do that. And you would think Pete Davidson could do it, and you'd be like, oh, he's cool. He leaves his shoe untied. They untie their shoe. Yeah, you move on. And then with you, you're like, he forgot to tie his shoe. Bless his heart. He may fall. Someone walks up and goes, and they tie it for him. Those situations, because you think...

This is, it's very funny. Like when doing comedy with that, cause you're like,

That's why comedy is – that's why it's so hard is because you're – you have to be on the whole time. You're not a band where it's like they can be looking at a bunch of different things or they can talk and it doesn't matter because no one can hear. It's the most focus on just one singular person. I check my zipper all the time up there. I just kind of touch it like right when I get up just to make sure. If a laugh gets too – if I get too hard of a laugh, I'll check my zipper because I'm like –

I don't know if that was – I don't trust that laugh. And then you're like sitting there like, is something on me? And then they – and so you – but you're there. I think that moment you got to tie your shoe and you make a joke about it. You put in the mic stand, you tie your shoe, and then you're going to – and you just know as a comedian you're good enough to come up with something funny. Yeah. And it's a very real moment. Yeah. And people like real moments. Yeah. And so you do it, you tie your shoe. People also like you to be dressed.

Before you go on stage. Yeah. That's true. Maybe show them respect. You know, when you walk out there. I just did a corporate show and the guy before me was a motivational speaker. He had the whole headset, like a TED talk, and he was great. He spoke for over an hour. And I mean, everybody's taking notes. I started taking notes. He was so good. Talking about how to change your life and just, I mean, talking about how everything in life is a deposit or a

any time you take a sip of water, it's a deposit. I mean, just how your whole life is. And then I have to follow you. Did he take the sip of water from a maple syrup bottle that was around his neck? Callback. I'm sorry. Let's keep going. He squeezes it.

And then Letsa just drops it from there and it lands on his stomach. But then I have to follow him and my whole set is just about self-deprecating how, you know, if things are not going well for me and he was in the audience watching and the whole time. It's so great. After every joke, you should have gone, withdraw. And then at the end go bankrupt. Good night. That would have been unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

It was just a very shift in the day. You could just see the mood of the room shift. You got to, yeah, that's a situation that they're tough and you got to just go, I know how to do it and you have to address that. There's times you don't have to address something and there's times that you just like, I got to start with addressing this so I can talk about like,

I know this is ridiculous that I'm up here now. That guy was amazing. I, you know, saying that like I was back. I did address it. Yeah. Yeah. It's like you just do that and then that's, you know, because that is a good way to think. It's the withdrawal and deposit. Yeah. So you're depositing. Water's good. Soda's bad. So you're withdrawing. Yeah. Even though you're depositing it, it's going nowhere. Yeah.

But it's hurting your body. Like, it's not even a neutral. It's... Yeah. Was it like a nutrition? No, it was just... What about... It was like what Nate was saying. Like, you make a joke, put somebody in a good mood, that's a deposit, a positive deposit. Then they're depositing, they're bringing that goodwill around to everybody else, you know, versus saying something negative to somebody now puts them in a bad mood. Now they're negative to everybody. Yeah. So I'm doing... I live that life. Right. So that's what we're getting to.

This guy has just looked at my life, nicest man in stand-up, and said, I'll just talk about him. Is that what we're... I'm all right today. I'm all right today.

But is it thoughts-wise? Did he do something about thoughts? I mean, you took notes. Yeah. Yeah, he did talk about – Where are the notes? Well, I don't have them on me, but he talked about relationships with your wife and at your work and just very positive. I usually make people feel better about themselves by talking about my life. He just made them feel better about themselves by just giving them positive stuff to talk about. Right. Wow. Well, that's when you make fun of yourself. You've got to have some confidence in it.

to like have fun with it. And then that, like we would, we talked about when you were first starting and you, you don't do it anymore, but like, it was like you have at the beginning when you're self deprecating, you have a hard time where people feel sad for you. And so you're like, you got to do it in a way that it's not sad. Right. And then they can laugh with you. So instead of them laughing, you're not, don't make them laugh at you.

you want them to laugh kind of with you and be like, oh, I've done that. Or they think, oh, I knew he would do that. That's so funny. And you got to get them in that kind of thought process. I mean, I've talked about it here, the stuff with my wife jokes. It was always like, at the beginning, you're going to be too mean. And people are like, why are you married? And you're like, well, that's not... Then I got to figure out how to...

Whether I give, I do jokes about giving her some wins. She's got to be, you know, the powerful one in the relationship. And then I'm the dumb one. And then there's times that I can be the powerful one. And it's a balance. So you show a marriage because that's what a marriage is, is not one person's better than the other. It's like they have their ups and downs. He's good at this. She's good at that. You know, whatever. Yeah.

I like it if you just switch. Now I'd like to do my Saudi Arabian set. Yeah. And just be like, I mean, they nailed it, right? And they shouldn't be driving. Yeah. Good night. Good night, everybody. That's a great one. He Adam jokes about them voting where he goes. He,

He goes, I mean, because then we had to vote to see if women could vote. Well, how did we lose that vote? Like, that's a very... I think about that joke all the time. It's just a very funny... It's always like little jokes you think of that just kind of stick with you. And you're like, that's one of them. I think he tells that in Comedian. Yeah, I think so too. But it's... And so maybe it's... But it's always... I don't remember all of Seinfeld's jokes in Comedian, but that one always stuck with me. Like, I don't know. You know, you just have jokes that kind of stick with you and you're like...

Oh, yeah. In little bits and pieces. It's usually the simplest thing. It's usually the simplest. It just sticks with you. It's so funny. Yeah. And you're like, that's so funny. You know? So Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. I lived in Philly for eight years. What do they say about it?

Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and... Alabama in between. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's funny. It is. But it's... I mean, I'm from Ohio originally. Ohio is a great wrestling state. Pennsylvania is... Pennsylvania and Iowa are probably the two, at least when I was coming up, the two best wrestling states. It's always those northern kind of like...

Blockheads. Blockheads. Hill folk. Yeah. That's what he called us. A lot of country boys. That's what he called us this weekend. Hill folk. He always called me Travis and Chase, our merch guy, hill folk. He goes, I'm sorry, is the hill folk talking? He's just talking about us three. And it was the best put down I've ever heard in my life. Hill folk. Hill folk is so funny to just be like, a bunch of hill folk over here. Like,

It is like, I mean, you can't say anything back to that. You're like, oh, yeah, I guess it's just running up a hill. We live on the side of a mountain. Look at all those hill folk up there.

Drinking water out of maple syrup bottles. Yeah. Your whole lives. What's the first Pennsylvania thing? That's one of the original 13 colonies. Wow. Y'all live off that, huh? You've been eating off that for quite a while. Pretty solid. Yeah. It was founded by William Penn. Yeah. Good dude. Haven for the Quakers. He was a good guy? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. He wanted to just be called Sylvania. Yeah.

which is Latin for woods. Yeah. Hill folk. But King Charles II named it Pennsylvania after his father, after Penn's father. Right. But Penn was worried that the settlers would believe he named it after himself. So he was worried that everybody would be like, oh, great. It's an ego state. So he might be. It's a state with a lot of people with huge egos. Sounds like it. Sounds like a good guy.

All right, at least to have that thought process. How much of a fight did he put up? Yeah, he may have made all that up. I'm sure he said, he goes, I don't know, how does it look? And then you're like, no, dude, it just, Sylvania sounds bad. Like Pennsylvania sounds really good. And look, it just happens to be that. And you did find this land. It's not crazy. And now looking back, you wouldn't think that's an ego thing, but I understand the idea. So I think it's...

And there is probably some pride in the fact that you don't want to say it, but then everybody else says it. You're like, I don't know. Because I was going to name it William Penn, but Pennsylvania is better. If you found an island and you had naming rights to it, would you name it? I'd name it Nateland now. You would name it Nateland? It's like somebody calling something Nateland. Yeah.

I would say somebody would do that. I talked to someone about an island, something in his islands in a river and you can buy them and they're not crazy. It's a, I don't know how much they are. It might be like one 50, 200,000 for an island. Yeah.

Which is like, I mean, the houses are more than that. And it's out in the middle of nowhere, but it's like, can you one day just buy an island? Yeah. And you, it would be crazy. Like, that would be the best thing ever, just to have an island. And just go to it and just know, you know, you're on an island. I mean, would you go to it or would you just put your enemies on that island? I might do that. You go to the island. When I don't want to go, I would then rent it out to prisons. Yeah.

He would take me out there on a boat, and then when I'm not looking, he would just take off. Brrrr.

He just hears me. And he doesn't hear that noise. Now that frequency is too not enough for him. You're like, that's one. You're like, well, this is over 70. You don't hear this. He looks back and I still haven't turned around. I heard nothing. He's just sitting there with his hands on his hips. Bates just looking at the new land. Hearing nothing. Yeah.

Quiet back there. Yeah. No, he loves it. All right. But Sylvania sounds like a vampire state. I'm glad they used Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is an upbeat place. I'm trying to think what states are named after, I mean, a person. Washington. Right. Is there any other? Most of them are like Native American names. Yeah. Yeah, let's get into it. Georgia. Let's dive into it. I think that's interesting. No? Georgia's one.

Oh, who's it named after? King George, man. All right. Come on, dude. Tighten up. Philadelphia. Philadelphia was the nation's capital. Yes. I did know that. Yeah. I did know that. And then y'all lost it. We lost it. You didn't have it for long, right? Ten years, I think. How do you lose it?

Well, they were building the White House, I think, or the Capitol building in D.C. It'd be great if they were doing it in secret. It's like, we're keeping this as the Capitol, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why are you guys building a White House over there? It's like, just, no, we just wanted to build a White House. Guy moved in over there. It's family. Who is it? It's like, Abraham Lincoln. And you're like...

Abraham Lincoln bought that house that's in Hawaii. He just bought it. Don't worry about it. I wouldn't even get crazy about it. Who would want to live there? It's in the middle of the city. It doesn't even make sense. We're going to fence around it. Secret service up top. We're not going to take anything from y'all. And then y'all left and left the bell. Yeah, the cracked bell. The cracked bell. Y'all can keep that bell. It's cracked. It's cracked.

put it in a museum that's all you got yeah well we got rocky also yeah rocky that's the great it's the best burr uh when burr went off on uh philadelphia it's like y'all's whole y'all worship uh uh your best athlete is a movie yeah yeah it's a fake guy it's a fake joe frazier is from there yeah yeah yeah yeah it's

Slap in the face. It's such a slap in the face to Joe Frazier. He's the greatest boxer in Philadelphia. Everybody goes, Rocky. And Joe's like, well, I'm here. And I'm real. And would murder Rocky. It's nicknamed the Keystone State. Yeah. To the beer? I don't think so. I think the beer was probably named after something. After the Keystone Pipeline. I think that's why they did it.

They just said it was such a keystone to establishing the country. And that's what they said? That's a way worse reason than ours. Yeah, I'd rather pipeline. I think just a stat here, I don't know if it's on your sheet there, but the most pro quarterbacks, I think, have come out of the Pittsburgh, Aliquippa area. Joe Namath, Joe Montana, these guys all. Dan Marino. Dan Marino. They all come out of Pennsylvania. Johnny Unitas, I think. Wow. What are they doing special there?

I don't know. I think it's in the water. I don't know. Oh, wow, dude. That's Johnny Unitas, Joe Montana, Joe Namath, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, George Blonda, Terrell Pryor. Johnny Lujak. Johnny Lujak. Go Irish. Golly, that's crazy. Yeah. Kerry Collins, Matt Schaub.

Bruce Grodowski. Rich Gannon. Matt Ryan. Rich Gannon. That's crazy, dude. He trained people to be quarterbacks. Yeah. That is unreal. Gus Ferret. Gus Ferret. Ferret. Yeah, he was great. I mean. The list is getting worse. Let's move on. Yeah. No, I mean, he's still like, every time you go, you're like, well, I know who that person is. John Huffnagle. Yeah. That's crazy, dude. Yeah, that is crazy. That's a lot of people. High school football is real big in Pennsylvania, right? Huge. Yeah. Yeah.

That's impressive, man. Right. Pennsylvania has more Amish than any other state. Joe Paterno. Right. We just went, I just did a one-nighter for Soljo. Shout out to Soljo. Soljo. Yeah, we talked about Soljo on you. He's fantastic. And we saw Amish on the way there. Yeah. I think that's a, you know, you used to, I don't know, you used to think, wow, it'd be tough to live. Why would you do that? But it's actually, now that I think about it, fantastic. Yeah. Fantastic way to live.

Well, that was, yeah, it's when you see them, you're like, it's got to be just such a great. Great. Like, you know, the kid is a kid. You wouldn't understand it. Right. In the order you get, you do. That was someone said, like yesterday, which if you listen, this is a couple weeks ago. But when like Instagram or Facebook went down and, you know, it's like, is this good or bad? And you're like, it's not bad. Like it's, you know, it's not a bad thing. It's it's.

like enjoy the day of like, well, I can't look at my phone. So, and then just enjoy. Well, you would start to realize how addicted you are to it. You know what I mean? Like, it's like, oh, wow, I can't check my phone. Think about how many times you pulled it and it said, couldn't refresh. If you pulled that a hundred times, you're wildly addicted to it. I shut my phone off and on. I deleted the app and then reinstalled it. Yeah. And I don't know how to do anything, but I know how to do that. I was like, I was like a rat just hitting a pellet. I was like, yeah,

Yeah. You didn't just look up on Twitter, is Instagram down? And they go, yes. I won't betray Instagram by going on Twitter. Oh. Yeah, look at them as separate entities. Yeah, that's good. But surely there's a way to live in between being addicted to Instagram. There isn't, and don't call me Shirley. And Amish.

He did the fist bump. That's a podcast first. That's a podcast first. He initiated the fist bump. He loves it. I don't know if that was for me, but I took it. No, it was. So Vecchione was doing it all weekend. And it's very funny, the fist bump. And I forgot. I was talking about your fist bump.

But every, like he just says it, he called us hill folk and he's like, right. And he'll just do it to us. And you got to go. Yeah. That's insulting. Why do I have to do it? It's a very funny. Yeah. If you're at home, it's a very funny thing. Just make, just trash someone to their face and be right. And then make them fist bump. And then they were going to naturally just be like, and they fist bump their own thing that they got made fun of. I was surprised that Amish has grown. It seemed like it'd be something that would be fading out. It's like,

Doubling. And they're not taking in new members. Well, there's people born. That's what I'm saying. That's what's crazy. Why aren't they? Because it's, I mean. They're full? Yeah, do they take members? I don't know if you take members there. I don't know, yeah. I read a book a long time ago called Growing Up Amish. Yeah. And it's this guy who, believe it or not, grew up Amish. And he wrote in it that it is extraordinarily rare for someone outside of the community to join. In his entire life, he only knew of one guy. Yeah.

So unless that's changed dramatically, that's all just people having kids. Did he also say, we would love it if people joined and no one wants to? They have no interest. They have no interest in growing their numbers at all. They're just like, we just want to live our life the way we live it. Yeah, yeah. That's great. They're having a lot of kids, though. Well, I mean, they have to. They don't have entertainment. At the end of living in Finland.

At the end of living in Philadelphia, I worked with my buddy, just some part-time stuff like installing marble. We installed Italian marble into this house. And as we were installing, it was a beautiful house that we were carrying the marble into and installing it. The Amish were doing woodwork at the same time, and it was top of the line. Unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah.

On the same house? Yeah, in the same house. We were installing the marble tops and they were doing some woodworking and I just happened to go on a break and look at their woodworking. It is just phenomenal. They're phenomenal. So they looked at you, a meathead, carrying Italian marble. Italians. And Italy. Yeah. So they looked at like, oh, that's what the Italians are good at, carrying heavy things. Right. And then you look at Domish and y'all both like respected each other. Acknowledged. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I think so. Pennsylvania was founded as a Quaker state. Quaker state. That's pretty solid. But that's different than Amish? Yeah, well, there's not like a monolithic just Amish. There's a bunch of different types of... Man, no one knows what that word means. Monolithic, yeah, for Nate. Can you break it down? We all looked at Nate immediately. Yeah, I don't think he knows what Amish is. I think he's...

That's what I would assume. You get to a point, you ask one question too many, so then you come back with just a giant word. And then everybody goes, oh, I guess he does know this stuff. And then we move on, and you hope we move on. But I think you were done. No one answers. And so you threw out monolithic. No.

I'm saying I don't think there's not one big Amish group where they all have the same rules and live the same way. It's a bunch of different types of communities. So it really depends on where you're from. But I don't think Quaker is a sect of Amish. They're different. They're totally different? Yeah, they're totally different. I think they're totally different. Like a section of? A sect. Is that a section? It's a section. But people don't say sect. People say, that's where section came from, that root word, sect.

Why would they not say section? That's the more popular one. I know, but that's the... So every time you see them say a sect, it just means section. No, a sect is a group of people. Yeah. A section is a part of something, an object. So sect is just, it's a group. Okay. Let's go back to the guy who taught middle school. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see what he's thinking about. My big word I always used was, the only one I knew was encyclopedia. And I would just throw that out if I needed it.

Someone said something. I was like, well, you know, our encyclopedias are doing really good right now. That was my big word. You said our encyclopedia. Huh? You just said it wrong, too. Encyclopedia? You said our encyclopedia. No, I think I'd say encyclopedia. Our encyclopedia. I didn't mean... That was a sentence that came too close together. But...

Encyclopedia was my big. That's so funny. If somebody goes, what's your big word? I go, encyclopedia. Oh, yeah. And then that's all in there. That's such a funny word. You know nothing. It's in the encyclopedia, but you know the word. But I know it's a long way to get to the end of it. And so that's what I would do. Encyclopedia. Did you ever see the Friends episode where an encyclopedia salesman comes to Joey and he can only afford to buy one letter? So he buys V and he just knows everything about V stuff. Oh, that's funny. But nothing else. It's very funny. It's Pengeolet. That's right. It's Pengeolet. It's a seller.

Benjamin Franklin inaugurated the first public zoo in Philadelphia. Who? Benjamin Franklin. He designed it? He inaugurated. What's the zoo called? Pittsburgh? The people in Pittsburgh are not going to like that one. I can't wait to see the comments next week.

Pittsburgh. It was supposed to open in 1859, but it was delayed until 1874 because the Civil War was going on. Not a good time, I guess, to have animals. Yeah. Phil should have tried it.

You know. First zoo. Imagine that Civil War. That's how many had the first zoo? First public zoo. All right. People had private zoos. Yeah. It's like, hey, want to see my zebra? Yeah. Get over here. Hey, pal. Yeah. Hey. Just come out of a bush. Your head comes out. In a, in a, just making noises. What?

You guys want to see a zoo? What's a zoo? Yeah, what's a zoo? It's this private thing that locks animals in cages. That's cool, man. And you just go back and look at it. Yeah, that guy's got a tiger back there. That's crazy. Some famous people from Pennsylvania. Bill Cosby, Jerry Sandusky, Mike Vecchione. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Boom. Boom. Mike. That was great. Hill people. Hill folk. Hill folk. Hill folk returned fire. It really does. Speaking of, Gettysburg. Yeah. This is getting some bad news. Yeah. Bad news baits too. Yeah. Bad news baits. That's a great one. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great nickname. Come with like a black cape. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, he is. It's about to unleash everyone. He brings something. This all started with, he talked about babies dying for like 30 minutes. It was relevant at the moment. The episode was called Best Time to Be Alive. Yeah. Tried to balance it out. Wow.

most casualties of the entire Civil War was at Gettysburg, Battle of Gettysburg. Wow. How many? 23,000 Union and 28,000 Confederate. That's so many people, man. Yeah. That's a real, like that's, it's crazy. It's like,

That's a real war. It's like straight up, you're meeting on a field and you're like, let's go. And it's a civil war too. It's like you can speak the same language. So it's like, hey, can you, you shot me. Right?

Stop shooting. Can you stop stabbing me with the thing on the end of the musket? Come on, man. I'm already hurt, dude. Come on. You know, what's that? Is that Randy Moss where he does the, come on, man. Come on, man. The whole Civil War is that. Come on, man. I'm already, I got hit. I'm walking back to my side. I'm out. I'm out like it's dodgeball. Like it's dodgeball. I already got hit. Already got hit. Relax, relax.

there's i mean he has like brothers and yeah i mean it's just brutal dude that's brutal time must have been a brutal time i mean yeah that's so hard dude and there you're just fighting your own people just a curiosity what do you ever look at life expectancy i like i'm 48 so i look at life expectancy and like i like in 1901 i would be taking my last breath about right now yeah we

We talked about it on Best Time to Be Alive. Yeah, yeah. That's what we did. Because it's a lot longer now. Yeah, everybody died really young. Young. Like 30 was like your grandfather. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You ever been to a civil war reenactment? I think that's great though. I love, I like it. Would you go to one? Absolutely. I would go. Absolutely. I want to go to Gettysburg. I'm going to stop. I'm gonna try to go to it on the bus when we go up around that way. And I haven't been close enough yet to it, but I'm going to try to do it. I didn't take Harper to that one. Uh, but not a civil war reenactor. Did you do it? I knew, I knew guys that did. That's so great. I went to one in a field trip when I was younger. We went to one. Yeah. Uh,

But I haven't been as an adult. I feel like it'd be much better. How was it? It was a blast. It was a blast. I also want to go to the Renaissance, like a Renaissance thing. I've done that. Yeah. I did that randomly in Nashville. Where you eat dinner and watch a show and like, I want to be in it. Well, I mean, what's that restaurant called where they do that? Medieval Times? Yeah. Medieval Times.

That's a great restaurant. They're still around, right? Yeah, they still got those. You would think that those would be doing, they should, people need to go to those. It's very fun. It's very fun to take kids to it. They come out and like I went as kids and you're like, this is the best thing ever. They do jousting and stuff. Yeah. I don't feel like there's enough of them, you know? Yeah. I don't think there's one here. Yeah. All right.

Just average people can joust? Mm-hmm. They have a table for two. It's like, would you like to joust? Two horses that are like, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. They just go very slow at each other. And then one guy drops his stick and he's like, God, he's just frustrated by it. I like the idea of jousting for a table. Oh, yeah. That's a good idea. We have a table for two and we have the Smiths versus the Johnsons. Yeah, put them out there. Let's go. Throw them out there. Fight to the death. Yeah. Do you know what the most popular tourist attraction in Pennsylvania is? Hold on.

It's a statue of Mike Vecchione at Penn State. They have a statue of you? Yeah. They took Joe Paterno down. That's how far the line they had to go to find just a decent person at Penn State. Yeah.

Wait, what was the question? James Franklin's in Penn State. James Franklin, yeah. Most popular tourist attraction. In Pennsylvania or Philadelphia? Is it Gettysburg? It's not Gettysburg? Can I guess? The steps. Rocky steps? That's a good guess, but no. The bell? It's not the bell, is it? The bell. Stakes. No. It's not in Philadelphia. Wow. Where is it? Something in Pittsburgh. If I tell you, you'll know. Pittsburgh Brewing. Steelers Stadium?

It's in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Oh, wow. That's number one in the state? Yeah. According to this. I just was there. We were just in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and it was three shows. Unbelievable show. And we went to Hershey Park, Hershey World. Did we talk about that yet with Nick? Show Nick. Yeah, the Hershey thing. And so, yeah, I get it, dude. I mean, it's a cool, cool area. It's very cool. Yeah.

Yeah, that's cool. I get that. They have a zoo in there. Yeah. I didn't even expect that. Yeah, we saw a zoo. We walked it the backwards way. Yeah. That was dumb. The rides, we didn't go on any of the rides. You tried. I tried. The line was just too long. Yeah. It wasn't because we were afraid. How close is that to Gettysburg? I think it's on the land of Gettysburg.

So I counted that as going to Gettysburg. They were told us they would hide behind this roller coaster. They'd wear a red shirt, get behind the red roller coaster, and then just dump out at them. It's a great town, though, man. It's just somebody would want to take her daughter to Gettysburg instead of the Hershey. No, I would take her to both. But you can only do one. Yeah, she should go see Gettysburg.

Pat Oliveri invented the Philly cheesesteak. I hope I'm saying his name right. Is that the name of it, Pat's? Pat's and Gino's are across the street from each other on 9th Street, which is the Italian market in Philadelphia. And which one do you think is better? Because Pat's the original. I like Pat's, but I never get a cheesesteak. I get a roast pork with broccoli rabe and sharp provolone. Yeah. Wow. No bread? Actually, Tony Luke's is better. No, I'll eat bread now. That soft bread.

I went, he's referring to the fact that I went keto for a long time and I would denounce bread to the point where we were on the bus. He's like, do you put bread in the refrigerator? You leave it out. I go, bread is for the week. And he had to ask somebody else awkwardly on the bus. Yeah. Travis, my tour manager puts the bread in the refrigerator, keeps it in there. I've never heard of that. Yeah. And then he goes, perfect. Travis.

Just goes, yeah, it makes it last longer. And you're like, but I don't want to eat. I go, what do you do when you eat a sandwich? He goes, you eat cold meat on cold bread. And like, that's normal. And I was like, no one does this. Laura puts it in the freezer when she buys like some, so it saves. That's keeping it. Yeah. But I don't want to eat cold bread.

Like, no one does that. I think my grandmother did that. Yeah, well, your grandmother, Travis. She's a Bears fan, too. That's my tour manager. That's what he goes. He does everything else great, and I'm furious about the bread. Y'all put syrup in the fridge? No. No, I don't either. Yeah. Lucy does. Ketchup's out of the fridge. That's a big one. We talked about that thing. Oh, you guys do ketchup free range? Yeah. Sorry. Jesus.

I don't know if it's... I probably left it in the fridge, to be honest with that joke. Or microwave it, let it heat up a little bit. I keep my ketchup out of the refrigerator. And Laura, we didn't growing up, and Laura didn't. But I was like, every time you eat ketchup, it's warm. It's at a restaurant. It's at wherever. Every time you use ketchup. You don't ever do cold ketchup unless you go to someone's house. Don't they tell you to refrigerate after opening? It's been going great...

And I've been doing it for 15 years. And it's going. I've never had a problem. I mean, the only reason you would do that stuff is if you're like, yeah, if you eat ketchup twice a year, then yeah, you need to do it. If ketchup is in your life, then you don't have to do it. That's all condiments you do that? All of them. Maybe mustard's in the refrigerator. Mayonnaise you got to put in the fridge. Mayonnaise is in the refrigerator. Mustard, I believe, is in the refrigerator. Yeah, mustard's in the refrigerator. But then ketchup, I don't.

I think Laura has it in there and she microwaves it when you're not around. No, she doesn't. I got her. Why would you, you don't ever eat it cold. You don't ever use ketchup cold anywhere. I guess not. Except at your house. I guess not. And it's because they want to keep it. That's fair. But I mean, how bad, they act like ketchup can't handle it.

ketchup can't it just gets put on a shelf and then it's weak and it's like I don't like getting so hot and you're like well let me get you in the fridge there's so many chemicals in it probably it could sustain itself it's fine yeah and ketchup invented in Pennsylvania right

I don't know. Heinz? Isn't Heinz in Pittsburgh? Yes, that's right. That's true. That's a good pull. Yeah. Thanks, man. Surprised you didn't look that up. Solid. And that was a legitimate fist bump. That wasn't like, I'm scorching you or you're scorching me. I'm telling the cheesesteak here. Yeah, I'm sorry. The cheesesteak is... But it's fantastic food in Philadelphia. And I'll tell you what. In New York...

It's great food, but you have to pay for it. Like the food is expensive and a lot in a lot of places in South Philadelphia, though, a lot of these corner like Italian places. And I've been back in a long time, but the food is legitimately homemade and delicious and cheap. At least it was like delicious and cheap.

so good yeah so good there was a place in south philadelphia called evelyn and shanks when i was dating a girl in south philadelphia we'd get up in the morning and go to this place and it was a hole-in-the-wall place three women and cooking like in a kitchen four tables and it was the greatest food you've ever eaten fried meatballs it was just through the roof yeah yeah and only four times so they could like four tables there's always a line

No, I don't know how many people knew about this before the internet really. Probably enough. I mean, yeah. I always think that's the best way to start a restaurant is do something like that. I would think most restaurants when they have trouble starting because it's a hard thing to start is they get them too big. And so you're like, that's like, you know, comedy clubs can have that trouble. They build one and be like 600 seats and you're like,

Not everybody can sell 600 tickets. And so you end up having to have all these curtains. But, you know, which sometimes is okay. Like West Palm Beach is like that. And they just have curtains. So does Stand Up Live, which is great. And they have ways that they know that. And so they can make it feel very good and small. Or if they get, you know, Bill Burr is running an hour and wants to go to a comedy club.

They can do that. And so that's a good idea. But like restaurants, I would think we went to a breakfast place in Destin and it was, I mean, I think it was four tables. So, I mean, there's 15 people in there and then you, you just get that and you got to wait for someone to be done. And it's like, that's almost better. It makes more people want to go. And then you probably get your,

Your cooks and chefs or whatever get more time to make the food better because they're not just... But the whole thing is turnover too. You want to turn the tables over and when you have less tables, you're going to make less money because you can't turn them over as fast.

Yeah, but I don't think you have to spend as much money either. And so it's a balance of what's the perfect amount. There's probably a number that's like, we can get the most out of this number and be consistent every day to be packed, or we can go big and then we're packed on Sunday and the rest of the week we have, you walk in a restaurant and there's one person sitting at a table. I think it's high pressure waiters. You go, are you done yet? Are you done yet? Yeah. Look,

Wrap it up, guys. It'd be great if you gave them a light at the table. Oh, yeah. Like comics. Get a red light. You guys got five minutes. Finish it up because we will have to... Well, you could do that 30 minutes. You could be like, everybody has 30 minutes to eat. We'll have your food to you and you have... I'd be like, or you could say...

Once we get your food to you, you have 30 minutes. Yeah. And the clock starts. They set a timer on that. And we will come take your food at 30 minutes. That's enough time to eat. You don't get leftovers. No, you can get it boxed. But if you, that clock, the second it runs out, you just go, I'm sorry. And then people waiting would have no exact time when the table would be ready. 22 minutes left. Let's wait it out. Yeah. Yeah.

And that'd be a great place to go break up with somebody. It's like you eat and then it's like, look, I really think it's over. Well, we're out of time. Yeah. Oh, let's go. All right. I'll see you.

Yeah. I'm going to start that restaurant. No onion, no tomatoes? A timed restaurant. A timed restaurant. No onions, no tomatoes. We'll be very friendly, but it's like everybody's trying to get in here. This ain't a come spin all day kind of thing. You give them a light with like two minutes. No onions, no tomatoes. Yeah. What was Michael Scott's? Every time I watch The Office, there's always some reference reminds me of you. He canceled the ad team that was making the commercial, and he's on the phone, and...

Ryan's trying to explain to him, you're not in advertising. He's like, I went to open a restaurant because I don't know anything. And Michael said, well, I do know about a restaurant. I have it. What is it? Mike's Cereal Shack. Is that it? Yeah, it's Mike's Cereal Shack. I'm pretty sure. Okay. I think of you every time I see that episode. And that show, to bring it back to the theme of the podcast, set in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Yeah. There you go. Thank you. That was nice. Look at you and I just getting it back on track. It's too much. Let him get it out. Get it all out.

This is your time. This is the only time I get a guest who's friendly. That's friendly. Every guest we've had on here. Hostile? Nick knows Mick. Mick is hostile. Nick had him in a headlight. So they called him Mick. Everybody calls him Mick when they see Nick. But yeah, Nick comes out. Nick asked to not sit there.

Where did he want to sit? Just not. On your lap. Just not. He said literally anywhere. Anywhere but here. He goes, I'd rather, I'd even not do it. Oh my God. Hostile. Yeah. Nick's a real diva until these cameras come on. No one sees that side of him. Two U.S. presidents were born in Pennsylvania. Yes. Two? Yep. Yeah. James Buchanan. Anybody want to guess the other one? I don't care. Biden.

Joe Biden. Wow. Yeah, that's true. That's a great poll. Yeah.

He saw my notes. I'm sorry to say, Aaron's having a great show. I'll say it. Yeah. Thank you, man. He saw my notes. He wouldn't have guessed it. Oh, yeah, I did, but I knew that one, too. Yeah. All right. All right. Is he from Scranton? Whoever has the best show, do we get a bat or something? A what? A bat or something from the bookshelf? Yeah. Not a book? Yeah, one of the books. You don't get the bat. That's Sonny. That's Sonny Gray giving those bats, which I think he's here down there. I think so. Sonny! Yeah.

Crayola factory can be found in Easton, Pennsylvania. Yes. Crayola. People don't get excited about crayons as much as they used to. Y'all did... Y'all made some like...

Really lifelong faints. Crayola is unbelievable. Crayola, Heinz, Hershey's. I mean, some pretty staple. Is the Lego factory in Pennsylvania? I don't know. Let's look it up. I mean, that's like pretty wild to be like this state has just got some monsters. I mean, those three things could pay for everything in the state. So why don't they? Chocolate and crayons. That's what we like to do. Three main factories in Denmark. Actually, not in America.

Yeah. Mexico. Yeah. That was... Y'all lost. Y'all let that one go. Because it would have fit in there. Because your town's built on nothing. Buildings are falling left and left. Left and left. I can't. God.

But we still got Crayola, right? Three billion crayons produced each year. Yes. Nine million a day. And what are some new colors? Enough to wrap around the earth six times. Wow. The round earth. The round earth, right? The circle. Not the flat earth. No, that means once and back. Oh. Like it goes to the end, it touches the wall, then another one goes and runs. It goes all the way back. Go ahead.

let's get to some new colors hold on we should talk about a little bit because they're coming up with new colors and when we were growing up it was just like blue red green but now there's like fuchsia and go ahead and i remember razzmatazz oh that's a color that's a pinkish red yeah wow for this ad yeah all right just yeah it doesn't matter don't oh my gosh it's like you look stuff up

Man, it just doesn't make sense. What are you talking about? This is a great list, but then all these ads, these ads, they wait until you're actually using the site, and then they just pounce on it. And your answer's not even on there. Yeah, well, something happened here. There's got to be an easier way. Here's the list. Okay, we got Razzmatazz. That's the pinkest red. Outer Space. What is that? It's like a dark gray. Dark gray, wow. It's like the color of outer space.

jazzberry jam a lot of fun stuff you skipped periwinkle yeah i feel like we've all heard of periwinkle i've never heard of her periwinkle blue no yeah i have but you know i don't talk about it that much yeah it doesn't it doesn't hit normal conversation i can't believe that you skipped periwinkle and thought whatever obviously uh

Obviously Periwinkle. That shouldn't even be on the list. Fuzzy Wuzzy. Jasberry Jam. Unmellow Yellow. These don't even feel like royal colors. Yeah, Blutiful. Isn't that great? Neon Carrot. That's just a bad name. That's like someone's

You know, like someone's kid, like the guy, Mr. Crayola's son was like, well, I'd like to name one. And they go, well, yeah, we'll let you do it. He goes, Neon Carrot. And everybody else that works there is like, oh, God. And then he's like, my boy came up with a color. You're like, can you pick it out? I think so. Neon Carrot.

I think I would come up with Fern. Yeah. Fern. Manatee would be mine. Wow. These look like wing options. Piggy Pink, Atomic Tangerine, Wisteria. Yeah. Oh, jeez. All right.

Ringing rocks. You guys familiar with this, Mike? Ringing rocks? Beer? No. It's our intern Cole found this one. It's a place, I guess a park you go to with a hammer and hit some of the rocks and it makes a ringing sound. And scientists still aren't sure what caused this to happen. But it makes it like a sound. How long has it been there? Probably for thousands of years. Yeah, so maybe it's time to figure it out. Yeah.

It's... Hitting a rock with a hammer. Where is it? It's in Pennsylvania. That's all I know. Like, it's so crazy to think, like, scientists, like, you listen to them for everything, and then you go, what about those rocks? Why do they ring? He goes, I'll be honest, that's a tough one. You're like, and you are going to solve cancer? And you don't know the rocks? Why they're ringing? Maybe two different guys, but...

Well, send a group over there. That seems like a geology. I'm sure they have some theories. I don't know what they are. Yeah, but send a good, smart group and be like, can y'all go do this? Seriously, just take a weekend. And just please figure it out because it looks ridiculous. I have a rock joke from my Geocide 2020 class at Penn State. Let's hear it. What did the igneous rock say to the metamorphic rock? What? Don't take me for granted.

Who said that? That was in your rock class? TSI 2020. Rocks for jocks. Rocks for jocks. Is the class called that? Yep. Rocks for jocks? Rocks for jocks. Is that like the joke?

Or that was their actual name. Now, that's the joke name of the class. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rocks for Jucks. Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. But I don't know how smart Penn State is. So I thought maybe y'all, that's how y'all. Yeah. I thought that's how dumb athletes are that they had to name it that. Rocks for Jucks. So they go, they're not getting it. What was it called? It was like called something. GSI 2020. Yeah. So everybody's like, well, I ain't taking that. And they go, no, no, dude. This is like, you learn about dumb rocks.

I would have saw the ringing rock thing. No, no. I mean, not even close. Do these rocks, when you hit them, is it different ringtones? I think so. Yeah. Did they update them? Did they update their rock part? Maybe they all ring. It's just old people who are going to it. I don't know. Yeah. Only young people can hear it. Yeah. All right.

Want to move it along? Yeah, move it along. I can't watch Aaron try to figure this out. The bottleneck, we can get into it if you want, but the bottleneck in this process is not my ability to Google. It is, though. But you should go to my YouTube that doesn't have ads. I'm on your YouTube. You're not. You're on internet YouTube.

So you would go to... What? You're on Google. What's this called? Nicest guy in comedy loses it on his stuff? You're on like... You're on internet YouTube. No, you're on like the search. Like just, you know, you search in the thing. Okay. I just want to hear him hit these rocks. Yeah. All right. There you go.

Yeah, that's cool. It's a little more underwhelming than I thought it would be. It's definitely cool, but it's definitely like, I guess we were in the area and we went and did it. I don't think you... You know why they haven't looked into it that much. It'd be really bad if you went there and you forgot your hammer. Yeah. It's like, ah, I gotta punch a rock now? You go, you just walk around and you're like, hey, can I...

are you almost done with that hammer do you mind if i just do it a little bit he goes well you can hear when i do it he goes i know but i want to it's different it's different i just left the house i don't think i need a hammer wonder they have hammers just laying around this guy's having a great time yeah yeah he's alone there's one guy he just changed clothes and they're trying to be like everybody's coming here and you're like that's the same guy yeah he's always by himself yeah

How many times did he do it for you? All right, I get it. What if the solution, they come and they go, you know what it is, guys? It's the hammer. That's what's making this noise. God, how stupid were we? It's the hammer. Because I did it on my table at home, same noise. It's the hammer. All right. Um.

Getting some sports. Steelers won six Super Bowls, four in the 70s, two in the aughts. Four in the 70s. Just a fun fact. I'm from Youngstown, Ohio, which is halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. So half the people are Cleveland Browns fans and half are Pittsburgh Steelers fans. And back when I was growing up, the Browns were always struggling and the Steelers were great. So they would always be like four Super Bowls. Anytime you'd argue with them because...

They go four Super Bowls. What's up? I think you can look at a person's personality by who they would pick. Like, I think I'm someone that would pick the Browns. I think we all are. We're Vandy fans. So we would pick the Browns. Yeah. And then you, some of that goes, well, I'm doing Steelers.

And you would be like, well, they – Ron Malone. Yeah, Ron Malone. But he was a Steelers fan because as a kid they were co-hosts of Vanderbilt. So he didn't live there. But I'm saying if you go to Youngstown and you could see the people, who would you want to be around? Someone that picks the Steelers in Youngstown or someone that picks the Browns? You always go to the underdog. I always go underdog. Then you go Browns. I was an Alabama fan in Alabama.

Well, you were in Alabama. I know, but it's like it's split Auburn and Alabama. Yeah. It's kind of the same. Yeah, both are pretty good, though. The Browns are, it's rough. Neither of them were that good back in the day. But like one was historically much better than the other. Yeah. Yeah. So it's the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I think you're the least liked on the podcast.

I don't know if you've seen that poll. It's when I started. And I did it. It's only got one vote. It's me. It's me and Brian. It's got two votes. Two votes for yes. These are daggers. I'm going to have to take up for it. No, I actually voted against myself. Yeah. And self-deprecating. He just made a withdrawal. He made it. Oh, but it was sad. But it felt sad. Yeah.

So that's why it's a withdrawal, right? Yeah. It was a good joke. Yeah, but you do two withdrawals. You draw from yourself and then the crowd feels bad for you. You draw from there. So no one's winning. It's a double negative. It's a double negative. You're like, God, that just sucks the energy out. Hi, everybody.

Sorry to be here. Sorry to be here. That's how you start the show. Hello, folks. I know you can't wait till I say goodbye, folks. Sorry to be here. That's a good way to start a show, though. Sorry we have to do this, everybody. There you go. We're rooting for you, buddy. No, they get it. They're on board with it. Yeah.

Eagles won Super Bowl in 2017. Yes. I was the comedy teller for that one. And some of the Boston guys were sitting in the corner watching the game and we had a whole table of Philly guys. We separated and watched the game and exciting, huge win. And afterwards, we did a mini riot where we...

flipped over cars yeah and it was gonna happen either way win or lose yeah because we're not that strong but i think you're weak oh i think you're talking about the comedians or the town i was talking about the town but i think the comedians yes i think that's really comedians are weak i think you're all week you jay kevin hart kevin hart kevin hart great shape yeah yeah maybe you are stronger than i think but you have nick

So we have Nick with Kurt Metzger, who's South Jersey. He's got just like maniac strength. He's got. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And who else do we have from Philly? All right. Let's keep it moving. I watched this game at the Super Bowl at Nate's house and later. Joe DeRosa. Joe DeRosa. King of Prussia's own. Yeah.

Later that evening, sorry to interrupt, I told my future wife I loved her for the first time. Oh, really? Really. After the Eagles Super Bowl? Was it because they won? No, it was because I took her to Nate's house, kind of the first gathering. His entire family was there. And I was like, if she can, she had a good time, put up with this family. She can put up with this family. She's the one. Yeah. Told her later that night. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Oh, wow. Look at that. That's the test. Just bring, if you want to see if you should be married,

Come over to the Bargett's and if she can handle that, that's a woman right there. That's so great. I wasn't worried about my family. I was worried about Nate's family. That's so great. It'd be great if you got the traditions wrong, like you got down on a knee to say it. Traditions? Traditions. What'd you say? Drud-ditions? No, I said traditions, I think. Okay, I'll rewind that.

What? Oh, have you got it wrong? And then set it on the... Well, if you get down on one knee and say, I love you. Yeah. He mixed up the... He practiced it on me first. He goes, Nate, I love you. And I go, all right, dude. Quit being weird. Yeah. And then he got in the car and told Ruth. And she said the same thing. She goes, all right, bro. Don't weird me out like that. You know? She was weirded out more than Nate was. Yeah.

For one season in 1943, the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers merged to form the Steagals due to the loss of many players during World War II. That's cool. They should do that again. The Steagals? The World War? No, yeah. World War, yeah. We should do another World War. I think we're about due for a Civil War, to be honest, when you think about it. The timing feels right. The Bengals and the...

The Browns, they could have merged there for a while. Yeah, you should have like every – like they should have like a fun like all-star. Football is just so hard to do extra stuff. They should go like, all right, you take – it's like an all-star game.

Man, that's unreal, dude. That's just an overlooked thing when these guys had to go to war. It was unreal. It's unreal. It was majorly overlooked. It didn't matter who you were. If you were the heavyweight championship in the world, we just got drafted. It's like there's no excuses. Everybody goes, man. And now there's excuses. None of them would have to go now. Now they would never let

Like the elite or the famous. Now I think it should go about how many TikTok followers you have. Yeah, that's how you get drafted. You have 100,000, you don't go. Oh, I think you do. Oh, you send them? Yeah, you only send them so we can watch the news coverage of it. Why, because it'll be a short war?

Boom. It'll be a short war and we're going to wear them down with them having to try to make them all do this. Some little dance. And it's like, they put their guns down to be like, ready? And then they go do that, whatever they do. And then, you know. Little League World Series has been held in Williamsport since 1946. Yes. I did know that. Yeah. Did you? I knew it. It was in the back of my head. It was right by Periwinkle in my brain. Yeah. You'd always go watch them alone. Yeah.

Can we get that guy out of here? He goes, I have season tickets. I buy them every year. You know, there's a way to tell a joke without telling a joke. You just did it. You just pulled it off. Everybody got what you were saying. Everybody got your accusations. Penn State won two national championships in football. Wow. Joe Paterno has the most wins. Oh, that's good. He's a good guy. They gave him his wins back. They did? Yes. That's good. Pat LaCourte.

I don't know. What? Appellate court. I thought they appealed it. They took his wins. He appealed it. I thought you said Pat LaCourte. No. He died immediately. Appellate court. Let me talk slower because you guys are from the South. Appellate court. That's what always crazed me with Cosby. Like, what happened to Joe Paterno? He died immediately.

When you're that old, it's like it was just, it crushed him, and then it was, and he died. And Cosby is talking about going back out on tour. He's doing better than ever. Yeah, I mean, like, I thought, you thought for sure, like, all right, well, like, this Cosby stuff's so heavy. Yeah. And he's getting crushed. They're like, it's going to just kill an old man. Yeah. And then Cosby, I mean, he's 80 or something. He's in his 80s. And he's just, I mean, best shape of his life.

The Eagles old stadium, the vet had jail with four cells. Yeah. I was living there at that time. Yeah. Underneath the stadium. Yep. Yeah. The new Lincoln Financial Field had jail with four cells, but they closed it due to good behavior of the fans. Yeah. I thought they were just going to go community service. Yeah. I feel like now they go, we closed it, but we still have the keys. Yeah. So don't get crazy. In their defense, the behavior...

it was so bad. Like, I don't, I don't personally like that. I'm all for rooting for your team and everything, but like when it becomes a thing where it's, it's not even about the sport anymore, it's you just looking to get your anger out on somebody else and you're extrapolating it out through this sporting. I don't like any of that. And then there was a lot of that in Philly at that, like at that time, years ago. Yeah. But, uh, I think this is right after Rocky lost.

Yeah. They threw snowballs at Santa Claus. With batteries in them, I think. Oh, really? They threw batteries at somebody. No, that's Cleveland. That's Tim Couch. No. Yeah. They threw car batteries at Tim Couch. Oh, they threw car batteries. Yeah. Yeah, the fans. Oh, the fans of Cleveland? Yes. Really? They threw car batteries at Tim Couch. Tim Couch is like a number one pick. No, no, no. That's Bottlegate. The beer bottle. They threw beer bottles at Tim Couch.

And then in Cleveland. Car batteries. Where was the car batteries? No, that was in Philadelphia. I thought they threw batteries at. John Elway. Yeah. Cleveland. So you're saying they put batteries in snowballs. I thought they put batteries in snowballs. I thought they had to just do batteries in Philadelphia. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And see, I'm sure they did it. If they didn't, then it's coming. You just gave them the idea. Yeah. They get... Eagles are throwing batteries. Yeah. Oh, when they... That's regular batteries. That's when they win. They won the Super Bowl and the fans are very excited and walk around with a... Like, I'm just... This is... I imagine the article says, walks around with a bag of batteries...

And that means if you get hit in the eye with a double A, it was a good day. Yeah. He was hoping it's not a D. Yeah. All right. Mischief Night. Do you know this? Yeah. Yeah.

Actually, I do. Do you? I was hoping you weren't going to bring it up. It's the night before Halloween. Yep. Oh. Thank you, Nate. Oh, well. You really were going to call me on the carpet about that. Yeah, yeah. So now take your loss. Call you on the carpet. I think you're making a lot of sayings up in here. Shop talk, that was Aaron. Y'all do some shop talk? Well, I'm not going to call you on the carpet. Would you like that? Some great phrases. Yeah. Basically, it's the night before Halloween where kids can just do vandal stuff, right? Yeah. Toilet paper, paper.

They allow it? I think it's just a tradition in the Philadelphia kind of northeast region. Oh, that's cool. What's next, that purge? They're one step away from it. Philadelphia's going to just start allowing that. In 1991, it got out of hand in Camden. I guess it's Camden, New Jersey, which went across the river. Yeah. And 133 fire calls. Yeah. The busiest day in their history. Yeah. Yeah.

I delivered FedEx in Camden. Camden's rough. Yeah. Maybe not Camden. But it was right at that Philadelphia. Because I actually went to Laugh House. When I delivered FedEx and they had me come down to New Jersey, right next to Philadelphia. I took a cab over there. So whatever town was over there. And so then when I was delivering FedEx, I was always a good FedEx driver.

And they, so I would do it in New York and then that town needed help. So they brought us down there to go deliver. And I delivered when I got done, they go, that's the quickest we've ever seen it done. Because I was at home. I was like, this was back to like regular home. So I'm just driving to houses. Yeah. So I like, and then I came back in and they were like, I mean, you're the best, the best we've ever seen. Wow. And I was like, yeah. At any point where you like, maybe I just, just,

Quit this comedy thing. I think it helped me go for comedy because I knew I could always go back. I mean, I would talk to those guys in New York. They buy their trucks. And it would be, you pay for a route. So, like, the best routes, I think, were, like, Manhattan. Even though it's Manhattan, but it's a grid. It's just, I mean, I did Manhattan. You're just going back and forth. You just kind of double-hark and just run up there and, like, ring the thing and set the thing there. And then...

But they would buy, it might be $100,000 to buy. If someone's going to retire, the guy then goes, all right, I'm going to sell my route. And then everybody has a bidding for his route. And so then they pay him because he paid too or something like that. And they, you know, be like, all right, it's $100,000. You invest, but you get this route. And then that's your route. And then you can, you're almost a contractor. And so you could even eventually just like not have to drive the truck. You pay someone to drive the truck and then something like that.

in New York. But I did, I think it helped me because I was like, they used to call me every holiday and was like, hey, we come back. And it was like, I'm just not doing it right now. You know, I mean, I would have to tell them no. Like they wanted me just to come back for the holidays. Well, they needed help. And they knew I knew what to do. Yeah. What if they called you this year? If I could have the time off, I'll be honest with you. I don't think I would mind it. Yeah. I don't know if I would want to go back to New York to do it. But like if Nashville FedEx needed help or a delivery company,

in Nashville needed help and I had and I have the time yeah and I only had to do it like a week but here's a twist I would go do it you don't bring the package you bring your own merch ooh new fans I leave them their package and a t-shirt iced coffee with cream shirt yeah yeah I do always the size medium and they go well I give them the size I look at their house and I give the size what I think what kind of monster's about to walk out of that house you go this is gonna be a big one triple XL

That actually reminds me of a thing because people, kids in school, they don't know what they want to do. How do you know what you want to do for a living when you're in high school? You don't know the options. My thing was just go to a house that you like, knock on the door,

And the person comes to the door and be like, do you own the home? They go, yes. You're like, what do you do for a living? They tell you and you just do that. Yeah. That's a good idea. It's perfect. That's perfect. Isn't that like the guidance counselor who says, if you had a million dollars, what would you do? And then that's what you should pursue. No, but that's if you have a million dollars. He's saying, here's how you go get a million dollars. Go to a million dollar neighborhood, knock on all the doors and say, and just go, probably knock on a few doors and go, what do you do? I think they would like it. I think the person answering would like that answer.

Right. And then they, and everybody likes talking about their success. So at a random day, they get to go, I get to talk about someone's success. Or make it more confrontational, knock on the door, ask them what they do. And they're glad to tell you in a kind of a mentorship type of way. And at the end of it, go in five years, I'll own your house. Pack up, start packing right now. I'm not saying pack everything. I'd go ahead and work on the cups. Yeah.

Back of the glasses. Yeah. There's a guy on TikTok that does that. He goes around to Beverly Hills and knocks on and just goes, what do you do? And a lot of people, they'll talk about it. Yeah, that's cool. Actor. Actor. Director. Actor. Director, producer. FedEx driver. Oh.

And then I'll end with a lobster boy. Yes. You know him? Yeah. Oh, you're you're cool over there. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's right. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. We got Cole. I didn't, I said we were going to do this. I forgot about it. Uh,

That's your internship here. Yeah. Cool. Next to her neighbor's kid. He's going to college. Very smart. He's a high school senior now? Yeah. Yeah. He's super, super smart. And so I was talking to his dad, Dwayne, and he was just trying to find an internship, something for his ease. If you ever need help, because they need the internships. And I was like, you know what?

It would be great because he can help Brian with the research, you know, because Brian has to look all this stuff up. And so, yeah, he's crushed it. He's crushed it. So he's in, yeah. We got our first intern. That's so great. Yeah. We're doing really good. He has to pay us. I make his dad pay us. And so it's the opposite of what it should be. He complained, but I was like, look, I pay to be on here too, buddy. So we all do it.

Do you know Lobster Boy? Like who that is? Yeah, because I used to read the Weekly World News when it was being published. Yeah, yeah. They had a great paper. Well, that's because they didn't have TV. Go ahead. They had Lobster Boy and they did a lot about Bat Boy. Oh, yeah. I don't know Bat Boy. Bat Boy found. Was it hard to read with a fire light? Would you do a lantern and it would ever catch on fire? Village lantern. Oh, he's so good at it.

Lobster Boy, his name was Grady Stiles. He was a freak show performer. Right.

He had a genetic condition which his fingers and toes were fused together to form claw-like extremities. I thought you said his fingers and toes were fused to ever get together. And every time he goes to tie his shoes, he would be like, no, no, no, no, no. And he's like, guys, we have to work together. And they go, no, I don't want anything to do with him. He goes, he slept with my wife. What?

So because he had lobster claws, he was called Lobster Boy. But he was also an alcoholic and abusive to his family. He was unable to walk, so he would either use a wheelchair but usually crawl on his hands and arms, which gave him superior upper body strength that, along with his bad temper and alcoholism, led to problems. He shot and killed his daughter's fiancée on the eve of their wedding. What? What?

He was a jerk. He was not. And that's more than a jerk. How do you pull the trigger with a claw? Yeah. Yeah. Especially form out a gun. That's what should have been his argument. And alcoholism too. It's like, you got to get somebody to get you a beer every time and hold it for you. Yeah. He was not sent to prison or a state institution because they weren't equipped to care for an inmate with his condition. So he was sentenced to house arrest and 15 years probation and

He soon became drinking again and he became more abusive. So his wife hired someone to kill him, another sideshow performer, for $300. Someone remarried him? So he goes, oh, what happened to your last wife? That's a doozy of a story. I shot and killed her and our daughter.

Oh, that's cool. So you want to go out and grab a drink? Yeah, I'd love to hear more about it, if you don't mind. Actually, I can't leave the house for a while. I'm here. Do you mind living here? He was hated so much that at his funeral, only 10 people came, and no one would volunteer to be a pallbearer to carry the coffin.

For a lobster boy, he seems like a little bit of a crab. Yeah. Oh! Boom. Wow. You know, it's like such a sad thing because you're like, yes, it's awful that you have to live like that. And then, but you think, you would think like you get married and you'd be like, well, I'm lucky. Things are looking up. Yeah. Like, I'm lucky that someone looks past all this and is, you know, he's not a terrible looking guy. Like, he's a normal, besides the hands. The feet. Yeah.

Hands and the feet are tough, but overall, the whole thing is not bad. Would you rather be him or Green Man? I don't know. That's not a fun... I don't want to have that conversation. I think it's amazing that in 19... So he was hired... 1992, his wife hired somebody to kill him for $300. But he was a circus. I feel like that's so cheap. Well, someone that was hated that much, that's probably like...

I mean, the guy, he just took whatever number she said. Yeah, he would have done it for free. Yeah, if he goes, free. He goes, yeah, I'll do whatever. That'd be great, the plot to kill him. It's like, we're going to lure him into a lobster trap. Yeah. And we're going to pull him up. And then we'll get him. We'll put him in a boiling pot. Yeah. It's like...

That's a natural conclusion. All right. It's a lobster boy. Rubber bands on him. Yeah, rubber bands. Butter. Keep giving him butter. He's going to be delicious. That's rubber bands on him.

Yeah, that's, I mean, how do you get, it's funny, it's like people can be jerks. Like you would think, I mean, look, you got to realize he probably grew up crazy. Back then, dude, I mean, he probably got beaten by, like, people were not like, it was not a cool thing. And it just translated into his regular life. But I mean, he's pretty active for not being, I mean, I mean. He lived a full life. Yeah, for him to kill you, you got to really walk into that. Like you're, you know, honey? Yeah.

Can you come help me? Yeah. This guy seems like a good guy. Turn the corner. He said there's a picture of him with the bearded lady. Was it her?

That's who he was married to? It's an interesting thing. When you die, you're so hated that nobody wants to be a pallbearer. Meanwhile, it's just a functional thing to move the body. We'll just leave him here. That's probably going to be more of a distraction. Leaving the body in the middle of civilization. They kicked it. They just kept kicking it down a little bit. You don't pick something up, you're just going to kick it forward. Scrape it. Is that it? I think so. I think that's it. That's it.

It's a fun one. Welcome, Mike. Well, thank you for having me. We'll be doing another one.

I will be this week, San Diego, October 20th and 22nd. Two shows on 22nd, doing three shows in San Diego. Bakersfield on the 21st, Anaheim on the 23rd, two shows. And then the next week, a big week, which I'll probably remind you, I'll be at the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman, October 27th, 28th. In Columbus, Ohio, October 29th, two shows in Columbus. So I hope you can make some of those.

It's been amazing. The crowds have been, you've seen, they're unbelievable. It's been so great. Yes, they are unbelievable, dude. They're just so nice. And you guys, none of that, as always, as I always say, none of it's lost on me. I appreciate it. I would continue to

Always have the gratitude to you guys. You're the only reason we have a career. And then you have stuff. If you listen to this, the day comes out. Tonight I'll be at Zaney's for a fundraiser. Our good friend Bone Hamptons going through some medical issues, and there's a fundraiser show tonight at Zaney's for him. So please come out if you listen to this day of. Right, right.

Right. Which people do, by the way. Yeah. And then this weekend I'll be in Phoenix, Stand Up Live with Dusty Slay. And then I'm headlining Gutties in Greenwood, Indiana, which Brian did. Yeah. Last month. Yeah. I'm doing that first weekend of November. So come out and see that. Ooh. Yeah. Yeah. Stand Up Live is a great club. Yeah. That's what I've heard. Yeah.

October 23rd. I'll be at Governor's in Long Island. October 23rd. So if you're in the New York area, please come out to that. Two shows, 7 and 9.30. Do we do social media? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. At ComicMikeV on all social media platforms. ComicMikeV.com. If you have Facebook but you don't have Instagram, it's a link tree to all of my social media sites. So ComicMikeV.com, at ComicMikeV on Instagram and Twitter.

which I'm mostly at. And also I have two podcasts. One, Mike Vecchione Investigates. It's my own podcast. You can get it anywhere you get podcasts for free. And the other one is called Macaroni Rascals and it's a Patreon, but we do release the episodes. So Macaroni Rascals, look out for that. That's me and Greg Stone talking everything macaroni related. Yeah, that's good. A lot of people probably want to hear that. And

I love macaroni. Yeah. Everybody talk about everything macaroni? That's our catchphrase. Yeah. The macaroni's ready. Yeah. That's our let's go, folks. You don't talk about macaroni. I don't talk about Italian stuff. Yeah, Italian stuff. You know, how much we love our mothers. Yeah. How much gel we put on our hair. Stuff like that. Riveting cutting edge. Yeah, yeah. And then you say, how's the macaroni? Which is great. Now it's very funny. Now I'm going to watch it. Yeah.

Yeah. Mike's very, very funny, everybody.

He's got a lot of Tonight Show clips. Yes. He's got, you're going to be recording stuff hopefully soon. And then Epix, you're on that. You were, I mean, just your suit. You're an unbelievable comedian, Mike. Thank you. We were together at the beginning at Boston Comedy Club. And I'm glad you've come out with me some now. And because people are getting to, you know, people see it. And you're, as all of us as comedians,

You're everybody's favorite. Thank you. And you're a real... A lot of jokes. And that's what... You know, it's very fun. You and David Tell, I would say, two guys that I would pay to go watch. Because it's like, I know it's just going to be jokes, and it's going to be funny, and it's going to be... I could watch you multiple shows. Because it's like, I like hearing people laugh to those. Right. Because it's very... It can be very silly, which is great. It's not... You know, it's not...

you're not heavy. It's just jokes. Right. It's all jokes and that's, you know, much needed now. And so, go check Mike Vecchione out, everybody. All right. Well, thank you and thank you for bringing me on the podcast and bringing me on tour. I appreciate it. Well, I love having you out, buddy. So, all right. We will see you next week, everybody. Thanks.

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