#35 Washington feat. Adam Ray
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Hello folks, welcome to Nate Land. All right, welcome. So we've had a little bit behind because as you know, I think a lot of places got snow. Yeah. We did. We got a ton. Most snow I've seen in Nashville, I think that I ever remember for this long. For a while, for sure, yeah. It was like, I mean, a guy skied. There's a hill. Yeah.

by us and a guy had his skis out it was like colorado it was like snow like that there's a dude snowboarding in my neighborhood yeah on the back of a truck yeah pulled around yeah we got the ice first round and then we got snow on top of it yeah it was like perfect we went sledding i got i posted a video about me sledding and everybody got mad at me with uh because i had my hands down

but I would like everybody to know that hill was nuts. I, I want to go see what it was actually. Now the snow's gone. Cause I think it's something we shouldn't have been on and you just don't know, you know, like it was, I mean, it was so fast and I remember going down it and,

I had my feet at first and I was like, well, that's, that's not going to stop. And so then I just had my hands, you kind of steering, you know, but it's, I mean, it was straight down, super bumpy. Yeah. It was, you know, and then it goes back up a hill and I was like, I don't want to shoot off Clark Griswold. Yeah. Just to be gone. I mean, there was one part of it. I went down and I went back up to the top and he was like,

It was a lot. You would see some rocks sticking up and you're like, just don't go. You tell the kids, just don't go over by those rocks. You're like, I just don't know if there's a giant rock that we're like, I'm very curious to go see because it could be a big problem. Also, since we did this, my special was announced March 18th. The greatest average American, which you guys knew first here.

March 18th, Netflix, Greatest Average American. I'm excited about it. We'll see what happens. About to do just a ton of stuff for it. It gets so hectic. You just want just to be like, it's out. The amount of interviews you got to go do. I mean, it's fun. You have to do them.

But it's a lot. So this is all I have to do here, March 18th. Right. Netflix. It's exciting, man. Thanks. Congrats. Yeah, it'll be fun. Starting to figure out some new stuff. I got some club dates too. So I'm going to Phoenix, stand up live March 4 to 7.

And then a bunch of other stuff. I'm going to post something about that and I'll just let y'all know. But we're doing some club dates to kind of get back into, it's all half capacity, whatever the rules are. But to get back in the groove of it before I start back on the theater tour, which I got to think of a name for that. So we'll see what happens, whatever that's going to be. There's a lot going on. Yeah, we had a couple people ask.

We got tickets for Nate in the fall. Should we wait watching the Netflix special? I hope not. I mean, I, that's why I'm going out now. So I'll go out, you know, March four to seven is the beginning of the clubs. And I got a bunch of clubs I've been doing. We've been doing Zany's. I think I have about 20 minutes new. You know, I think it's okay. It's fine. Um,

Still figuring some of it out. So I would hope... I think you could watch it. I think, look, that is always something people ask. And a lot of people do wait. I mean, if you were close enough, I mean, if you wanted to wait, you could. Like, I would have people... If it comes out that weekend, you know. But I think overall...

Yeah, I mean, usually what you try to do is I'll do at the beginning all the new stuff. So I'm hoping by the time the fall comes around, I'm hoping then I'll be 50 minutes at least. And then maybe I close with some old jokes. But overall, it should be new. So I think watch it. Put the pressure on me. Watch it. Watch it. And then I just watch you leave during the show and you go...

He's at it. All right. So this week we're going to play the episode. It's a prerecorded episode that we did with Adam Ray.

about Washington State. But Adam also tells a bunch of fun stories. He was at Universal Studio and worked there, and it was very funny. Just him. He was Wolverine and just super funny. He's also on the new show The Young Rock on NBC. He plays Vince McMahon.

And so, but we, these comments, the comments are new. So you're going to see our outfits will change, but we wanted to get some new comments because we want to at least be able to talk to y'all. Cause I feel like we've done a lot of, we've had a prerecord, a few of them. And so we want to be able to, you know, talk in a regular time. And we said, we've missed some of these comments.

So first up, Christopher Mallow. Oh, Malloy. Christopher Malloy. M-A-L-L-O-Y. We're back. We're back, baby. Malloy. I don't know why I thought Mall. I think I thought it was heading the Mall direction. Yeah. And then it took a turn.

Best episode yet. This is the New York episode. Best episode yet. Nate has so much history in comedy with some of the best comedians of our era. I like to rapport with Aaron and Beagle, and they should be a majority of the episodes, but please have more New York comics on. It's a nice treat.

uh, thank you. I agree that they should be, you guys should be majority. I would love for you not being everyone, but you know, some of the comments were there and just like, man, it's good to see date. Finally talking to some comedians. Yeah. Yeah. Real comics. Yes. Real comics. How do you think I feel? You know, I mean, it was nice. Uh,

Yeah, we will have New York comics. As they come into Zany's and stuff like that, a lot of guys that I started with. Did you have a different speed when you were in New York? Yeah, yeah. It was just so fast, but then you kind of adapted to it, do you feel like? Oh, yeah. When you go back to New York, that was the biggest thing. So when you're doing shows in New York, it's very fast because you're in front of an audience.

People don't, like, you go to an audience that always sends them to go on these shows that they don't expect it to be a comedy show. Yeah. Or they don't know what they expect. They don't know you are, you know, it's not, it's just different. You don't, so you got to, like, just crush them. And everybody's killing. Everyone on the show has got TV credits. These are all, it's basically a show full of headliners.

And so you got to kind of bring it and you can always feel it when you would leave. And then when you go back to New York, so once I moved and then would go back and you're like, Oh, I got it. I mean, I would bomb the first, you know, not bomb, but like, it would be not great. Cause you got to like, kind of get back into that New York rhythm of like, Oh, I got to hit them pretty quick. And you, you get everything kind of tight. New York's really good about teaching how to get stuff tight. Like really making a, like a tonight show set, like a quick set. It makes it be super tight. Um,

And that's why I think New York comics are the best is because they know how to do that. So, yeah, you do. And, yeah, Giannis is also from New York, so he's just super, you know, they talk a lot. Kayla McNair. Giannis describing his grandfather paying off the mafia to keep things nice in the neighborhood. Sounds a lot like my HOA fees. It's the new HOA fee. Yeah. I...

Yeah, we have our HOA fees. Everybody pays HOA. I think you pay HOA. I guess if you're in a neighborhood. Yeah. And you will one day. I won't. Grow up and get gold. But you will. Well, you don't live in the neighborhood. You're in a neighborhood, but it's not like you don't enter a thing. It's like, welcome to this neighborhood. No, anybody can enter my neighborhood. It's on a main road. It's on the highway. Yeah.

You live here, see those houses that are always on the high, like just, I'm driving 80, my kids playing in the front yard, you're like, oh, sorry. Our roads were super snowy, and so they didn't get someone to clear them at all. And my neighbor ordered pizza, and the pizza guy went to the door and said, these are the worst roads I've seen.

And it was, you know, in Bjargón, you pay these HOA fees and you do, you're like, where are they going? What are we paying? It's like, well, they cut the grass in front of the entrance. And you're like, I mean, there's a lot of houses in this neighborhood. I mean, there's not a little reserve that you go, well, this is for, we pay the snow plow. Salt the roads or something. Salt or something. Yeah. They did nothing. We just, it's going to melt. They handled it as if you, how you would handle it in the wild. Yeah.

If you just live and you just go, well, the sun will get it eventually. Summer's coming. So that'll solve it. Cameron Mork. Or Mork. Yeah, that's fine. Mork.

I was going to be very upset if old long days didn't make the editors work at least a little. Getting guests that aren't clean and trying to be clean is a funny concept, and you should run with it. Well, that would be all the New York guys, so don't worry about that. There would be plenty more of that if they can do it. I think every one of them that will come in will have trouble. I think Adam did good. He's an L.A. guy, though. They're weaker, and there's, I don't know. They're not.

But yeah, we'll have some more New York guys come in. Steve Byrne lives here. We just saw him today, actually. And he's a New York guy. And so he'll be, I mean, he can't keep it clean in front of his kids. So we'll see what happens here. All right. These are the Wall Street comments. All right. Three T's, three L's, and three D's. And then three number threes. It's crazy. It's a tittle to three through three.

He probably just made this to comment. This was a podcast review, Apple podcast review. This is in the... Yikes! That Wall Street episode was like stretching Kramer and Jerry's clueless conversation about write-offs into two whole hours. Who's writing them off? You should have let financial advisors bid to sponsor that episode with an ad at the end asking listeners that they had heard enough to now appreciate the services of a knowledgeable adult.

That's pretty bad. It's not good. Yeah. He gave us five stars. Oh, five stars? That's nice. My future father-in-law heard the episode and sent me a book. Yeah? Yeah. He texted me. He was like, just listen. Why don't you give this a read? It's just about money. Yeah. I haven't read it yet, but I will. Well, I mean, he's putting his daughter's life in your hands.

There's a lot of people who are like, you guys were out of your league on this one. Yeah. Well, I think a lot of people are out of the league, though. Yeah. We're normal people that don't know it. Yeah. As everybody that doesn't know it. So that's why, yeah, that's a tough one. If these people are so smart, they should listen to go, here's the regular people. You know? Yeah. So this is what...

Because guess what? We won. Regular people won that, right? Or not anymore. I didn't. You didn't. We bought too late. You never lose. You don't lose until you sell. Yeah. That's my philosophy. Miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Yeah. That's right. Michael Scott, Wayne Gretzky. You haven't sold yet? Diamond Hands? No, so I haven't lost. You haven't lost? I haven't lost any money. What's it down? I couldn't put something down. Like, you're just...

GameStop's at like $45 right now. I bought it at $325. Yeah. Just waiting for it to go back up. Your father-in-law sent you a book, huh? And so you're just holding on to it. Just hold on for dear life, dude. What does it happen? Does it eventually just go away? I mean, it will get down to... Zero. Whatever it gets down to. It doesn't get down to zero unless the company...

What if the company goes, will you hold? It does happen sometimes. And then you're just, so you paid $325 just to stick it to the man. Good job, Aaron. Which I'm fine with. I think it's fine. You know, the main dude who just testified in front of Congress, he doubled down. He bought a ton more. Oh, really? He's still in it, man. Yeah.

If he's staying in, I stay in. Yeah, I like it. $325. I mean, it's $325. It's gone. Yeah. You know? Well, now it's $50. Now it's $50. Yeah. And how many did you buy? It's more than $325. No, I bought not a lot. Okay. Okay. You bought it at $325. Right. It was $325. Each share. Yeah. Each share. Every share. So you bought one share? Yeah.

I bought one share of that. I bought a lot of AMC stock, which is down a bunch, too. Yeah. They're all down. They're all, yeah. Well, you had a good run. I think you really. I didn't. Huh? I did, though. Well, you stuck it to them. But you're sitting here happy, having fun. That's right. That's a good way to look at it. Yeah. Thanks, man. And they lost money. Right. Udaya Tinnity. Udaya.

I've worked on Wall Street since 2014 and Nate's asking all the same questions I've been asking. I mean, see? There you go. People just don't want to ask these questions. Everybody wants to be, everybody's so smart.

But no one wants to just be like, why does it exist? Now I'm probably lost. They're like, why didn't I ask that? Connor Anthony. A company only receives money from the initial sale of the stock. To put it in context of comedy, if you sell 1,000 tickets at $100 a piece, you earn $100,000. That is the equivalent of your IPO. If those... I'm already lost.

If those ticket holders then go selling your tickets on secondary markets like Craigslist or eBay and the ticket price continues to rise, you will not see any of that money because it is just private people trading amongst themselves. So the short answer is no. When people are buying and selling a company's stock in the market, the company does not get any part of the money because they already got paid their lump sum from their initial issuance of the stock. Is that it? Is that a word? Issuance? Yeah. Issuance?

So you just asked originally, like, do they keep getting money? Yeah. And basically, no, they get it the first time when they sell them. Yeah. It's a game outside of it. Yeah. And it's just like scalpers. GameStop got none of that money. Yeah. GameStop is along for the ride. Issuance. What does that mean? Their initial issuance. Nice way of saying issuing. Oh, yeah. When they issued. Oh, it's a prettier version. Did y'all use that a lot in your family? Yeah.

Issuance? Yeah. Thanksgiving? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanksgiving? Yeah. You're very quick with the issuance of this dinner. Oh, yeah. Something like that. That's nice. Thank you, Aaron. Your buddy that's like, can you pass me the peas? You do that and also say penguin. What are the odds of that?

Guy that says penguin and knows what issuance means. I'm one of a kind, dude. You still feel like that's the right way to say it though, right? Because I feel like we're hearing two different things. I actually feel now more than ever, I feel for sure that's what it's supposed to be. Yeah, reaffirmed. Penguin. Reaffirmed. Now, I don't have to put so much oomph in the first syllable of it. Yeah. But it is penguin. Well, it depends on how big the crowd is. You have to put, you know, if you've got a large crowd, you're about to do a penguin show, you've got to be like, welcome to the penguin show. You're going to add a little more to it.

I think that's the only reason you're... That's true. I think if you were just at the zoo and you're like, oh, let's go check out the penguins, I would be like, oh, God. I was like, how about we not? I don't even know. I would go to it being like, I think we're looking at penguins, but I don't know. That's how I would enter. I would follow them going, where are you guys going? I think maybe he said penguins. I kind of know where we're going.

Whitney Burdett, another missed opportunity to mention Ryan Hamilton's bid on canceling a gym membership, but truly love the podcast. My favorite episodes all have the sweet spot combo where Nate goes on an unprovoked straight rant. Aaron starts laughing so hard he can't breathe. And Boat Ramp has some hilarious one-liners that get ignored. So more of that, please. Great job. I like Boat Ramp. Boat Ramp's great.

Bo Ram's a good one. Yeah, Ryan Hamilton has a very funny joke about canceling his gym and sending him a letter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He does. Ryan Hamilton's very funny. He's got a Netflix special.

Anyway, James Hodgins. Aaron, please do not cancel your gym membership. I will pay for it if you start using it. Also, have you seen a doctor yet for your gout? I only listen to the podcast because I'm concerned about your health. Aaron. So this is James Hodgins. This is one of my college roommates. Oh, really? He's from New York City. He's from New York. Yeah, he's from New York. What's he doing now? Wall Street? Yeah, he works at...

Maybe not Wall Street. He works at E&Y, I think. Ernst & Young. Oh. Maybe I shouldn't say that. Yeah, I don't even know what that means. Is that a county firm? Yeah, I think it's one of the big four. Yeah. Oh, wow. Ernst & Young. Is that it? What is it called?

Ernst & Young. E-N-Y. I think he still works there. He's a groomsman at my wedding. Maybe you should find out what he does. Is he going to have to put your arm on his shoulder as you try to walk down the aisle with your gout?

You think with your gout, when we all go in to the wedding, you'll already be up there? I'll just say. Like you're going to have to, when did Aaron get up there? He's been here for a while. Wow, because they can't, you don't want everybody to know that you're weak because of your gout. So you will just get there super early. Yeah. And I'll be like FDR, you know, nobody would let, he wouldn't let people take pictures of him in the wheelchair. All the wedding pictures will just be me. Yeah.

No, she's up. Yeah. Waste up. You never know. Yeah. Yeah. I'm already standing. You're already up there with a bubble wrap around one foot and you go, wow, he's excited about this. Uh, you have to sit down. I, uh, yeah, I don't know. I don't have anything else. Uh, but yeah, he, look, he's gonna pay for it. He's doing good. Dude. He's Ernst and Young.

let him pay for it dude he's like it doesn't even matter I haven't cancelled it yet so maybe yeah we had someone write the letter somebody wrote a beautifully written letter for me just send that letter yeah I forgot about it till now I'll print it out and send it yeah you should just send that letter that someone else wrote and see what happens I'll do that we'll read the letter once you send it we won't read it till you send it you gotta send it okay

All right, so the alien comments. Misguided Son. That's the guy's name. Misguided Son. It's a family name. The bit about having an alien child in space was probably the hardest I've laughed in more than five years. Blowfish somehow seemed to keep it together, but I'm glad Aaron was there to wheeze through it with me. Thank you all for being such a bright light in these dark times.

Blowfish, for a minute, I kind of forgot. I was like, what does that mean? There was a second of just in my head going, Blowfish. They kept it together. Justin Flory. Nate went on air and for gasping at one of the biggest technological advancements of the 2000s, but got blown away by an umbrella that solves a minor inconvenience. That's true. I'm just...

I was blown away by it. I didn't gasp alone when I saw it. When I watched the program, I didn't. I wasn't. What's a gasp? Yeah, I didn't do that. So I'm still blown away by it. What was it? The umbrella that opens out. It's a great idea. Yeah.

I remember it. It's amazing. I remember it. That's what I was. Maybe that explains why where we're at is where we're at. You were watching the iPhone thing, and I watched the guy that did the umbrella. We were watching two different things. They were going on at the same time. Yeah. They were the same thing. You went to one channel. I went to the other. Mine was on Fox. I think it was on Fox. Yeah. The gasp is the only thing. I'm not saying you're not excited about the iPhone. I think it's exciting. I get it.

gasping alone i was watching with my sister okay uh doesn't make it better richard gatling gatling richard gatling the only person qualified to interview aliens is an adjunct professor my brother-in-law by the way who was an adjunct professor i found that out uh never really asked him about it but i will ask him now what his thoughts are uh

Yeah, they would, you know. But they couldn't do it for long, right? Because then they would move on. Who'd do it for long? An adjunct professor. Oh, interview the aliens? Would we get a lot of stuff done? Or would we be like, I got to go teach social studies? Well, what did your brother-in-law teach? He's a band director now. But he taught whatever he taught before that. Music stuff, probably. Uh-huh. I don't know. In a small college? Yeah. You know, I don't know these classes, but...

I don't remember any, you know, I didn't go. Yeah. I took math. I've said it. Speech. That's what I took. I don't mean your classes, but I thought maybe you knew the class ETAW. I don't then know. If once I realize I'm not getting into it, then my thought, then my brain is done with it. Okay. I don't remember a lot of stuff.

My mom's even texted me and said, how do you not know this? She's now to the point where she thinks she's wasted my high school education. She went that far to go, I don't know if we should have even done that. Like I should have just been kept in the fence in the backyard. You had classic PE games though. We had AP Wellness. Yeah. We called it. Yeah. I told that on this, right? Yeah. AP Wellness.

So, yeah, because it was a real deal. Yeah, I've been thinking about that, why I don't remember stuff. I don't. I just, I forget. I watch these movies over and over again. I just forget stuff. And Laura always says, like, she thinks, it's like things we have to have so much in our, we're thinking about so much. As a comedian, you have so much, like, of your act. You have just, I mean, you know, I've done, this is, I mean, like four hours, five hours of material.

And you just have so much that it's like new stuff doesn't come in and stay. Like, unless it's like I'm going to use it for my job, it doesn't stay with me. And so I don't, you know. I think even if you don't remember it, that doesn't mean it doesn't benefit you or change you in some way. Maybe, you know, I don't know. I probably, I don't think it does. If you don't remember it, then it's like, you know. You're telling me like the first five years of your life weren't important and fundamental? No.

but you don't remember anything from when you were zero to five. That's a good point, Aaron. Wow. Notre Dame. I didn't go to college, so. Is that what they teach there? Stuff like that? Not really. Not really, man. You're talking about math. I took a class called friendship in college. Oh. You paid a bunch of money for that. What did they teach in friendship? It was called friendship from Aristotle to Facebook, and it was just about... Should have been Aristotle to Ted Lasso. Yeah, Ted Lasso wouldn't go to that. Um...

Which, by the way, we have... I don't have my phone. Do you have your phone? Did I show you the... Yeah. So I texted...

Jason, I know Jason Sudeikis. I know everybody doesn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I know these people. But Jason, Jason is so great. He really is. If you watch Ted Lasso, he is that guy. He's just a wonderful person. Very positive. Very positive. A super, I mean, just a wonderful person. So we posted the Ted Lasso clip about you did Aristotle, and I came back with Ted Lasso. And I sent him that clip.

And I said, I started a podcast and just wanted to share with you how impactful Ted Lasso has been. Ted is my Aristotle. And then he laughed. He laughed and said, you're right. Your co-hosts are wrong. History will make them look like fools. You're a prophet. That's not an easy path. That's straight up from Ted Lasso. Wow. Text Aristotle. See what he says. What's he going to do? Huh? What's he going to say?

What's your friendship class about? It's about how we understand what it means to be a friend. In college, man? Yeah. They taught that in college? Where do you get the nerve? Aristotle had some interesting things to say about friendship. Oh, my God. Did they not? Because they thought, what is it, a class of a bunch of losers that didn't have friends? God, no.

I mean, that's unreal. There's zero. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. You can't get a degree in it. You know, you can't get a major in friendship, but it was just a little seminar class. Well, you should go get coffee and have this conversation. You shouldn't be, your parents should get their money back.

You should honestly be like, we're going to send you a check for like 500 bucks because that friendship stuff was like, I don't know what we were thinking. That's what Notre Dame should do. They should go, I don't know what we were thinking back then, dude. Like we just got into this friendship thing. And so we, that doesn't make sense. If you, did you tell your family that you took a friendship class? I don't think they know. No. Did you choose this class or was it required? It was, you have to pick a seminar and I just chose. Okay. It would fill the philosophy requirement too. And how long was it?

A semester. I don't know. You know, I just don't. But Aaron does have a lot of friends. Have you learned something from it? That Aristotle quote? But that's my fault. I just didn't learn anything. You didn't apply it? I actually did. I remember. Aristotle said, he said, men can't be friends until you've eaten salt together. That's what he said.

In other words, you have to go through some sort of. You can pick your nose and you can pick your friends. Like they write that on the board when you walk in. That's what I write when you sit down. You're like, oh, this will be a good one today. Where is this going to go? That's unreal, dude. I don't, you know, I didn't get into college. And this is what they're teaching? This isn't like the main class that you take, you know? What are they learning there?

We read through different philosophers and authors and what they thought about what it means to be a friend.

Call it something else. What do you call it? Philosophy. Like just something else. And this should be a subject. You shouldn't go, I've got to go to my friendship class. I wouldn't be friends with you. If you go, I got to go to my friendship class. I'd be like, what? I would be like, so us being friends is fake, dude. It looks like you're going to study so we can hang out later. So we can just sit and talk. A treatment. Yeah.

That's unreal. That's unbelievable. I would love to see some of that. It wasn't like lessons on how to make friends, dude. It was just real. It broke it down? Yeah. What is friendship? What does friendship mean? Well, that's the question, dude. That's what we're exploring. What does it mean? It means to be friends with someone. Yeah, but what does that mean, dude? Well, then that never stops because we can always keep going, well, what is that? Then what does that mean? What does that mean? See? Dude, I would love- It's a year of philosophy major. That's what it's all about. Yeah.

And then do you ever, so there's no answer. So at the end of it, you just go. Everybody has their. So what'd you learn? You go, I don't know if I learned anything. I learned that a lot of people think different things. Oh, man. This is one of the top universities in the country, in the world. We should go through some. I mean, I took math and I get made fun of. That's actually, people are using it.

We should go do... We should look at some of these classes. I took a lot of classes like that. Thomas Aquinas on angels. I took that. What is that? It's a class about what Thomas Aquinas thought about angels. Just him. Just him. He wrote a lot about it. Thomas who? Aquinas. You've never heard of him? No. It was Aquinas College here in Nashville. Is that after him too? Oh. They probably didn't teach that there. You know? He's at his own college. Y'all just took a class. I mean, that seems...

I took a class about what John Deere thought about tractors. It's called John Deere. We learned all about John Deere and just what his world was about, which would be a better class than the classes you're naming. A John Deere class? You should learn about tractors. That's how we got this table here, I think. John Deere brought it. It's actually a guy named John Deere. Kelly Jones. I'm not someone who typically believes in things like this, but I've seen the Men in Black.

They walked up my neighbor's long driveway past their house and walked into the dense woods behind their house. Two men in black suits, sunglasses, black suitcases. I watched it from my kitchen window about 100 feet away. My parents lived in a round-shaped house, so we think it may attract these things. She wouldn't lie about that.

She may not know what an encyclopedia salesman is. I don't get how... Why are they walking in the woods? I don't get how it follows from the fact that their house is round. What does that have to do with anything? Because it's a weird shaped house, so the aliens think they're welcomed. I think that's very logical. I'm sure you didn't learn it in your college, but that would be... That makes the most sense to me, to be honest. Yeah.

I didn't believe her until she said that. And then once I read that, I go, I mean, obviously she's telling the truth. She's got a round shaped house. She's got a round shaped house. Clearly what happened. Yeah. They fly over and they look for, they go on. So there's us. Oh, crop circles are the same, same principle. Say, I know. I don't, I mean, that people make those, I think. Yeah. Maybe they do make them in a land there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't really know about to communicate with. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty good. Uh, all right. That was it. Right. Uh,

And now we will be switching over to the great, the very funny to talk about the state of Washington, Adam Ray. How are you? What's your name? Caleb. Caleb, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Tristan, you just don't care. I think I got it when I came in, didn't I? I think he mumbled it. It sounded like it was, or he was like giving me his credits or something. I don't know. He's like, you might see me on this. He's like, what's up, man? Yeah, he's like, what's up?

All right, everybody. Today, we've been doing states. Yeah. And so we've been talking about different states, and it's kind of turned into this thing that actually I've had some comics come in, and when they come in town, and you're like, oh, great. We're just talking about their state with them. And so we have Adam Ray.

who is from uh washington yeah washington edit in some crowd noise i'm guessing yeah people are excited if i'm not mistaken chas washington is that where you're from that's a joke you know chad well your acting has gotten better during the pandemic yeah i was like it's pretty good right yeah yeah i wear so much seattle i know chas but that's the is that still a thing uh is that a place no that's the thing where they took over the middle yeah chad wasn't it chad

I think they changed it. It was Chop at one point. It was Chop and then Chaz. People were like, you know where you can get a salad? We'll edit that out. But I think it was Chaz and then it went to Chad. Or was it Chad to Chaz? I think it was Chaz and Chop.

Gotcha. I don't think Chad ever. Either way, there was a lot of- I think Chad started it. Really bummed that they called him Chaz. Yeah, yeah. Guys, finally, I started a movement. I can't get any- Crown part of the town. Yeah, that was a big deal. Yeah. I do remember-

And when I saw it and I was like, typical, you know, that part of Seattle. Yeah. Very, you know, hippy dippy ish, but also down for the cause looking to make a change. Yeah. And then and then I started hearing rumblings that it was getting kind of violent.

But then I'd see images, but then like Dave Matthews would go on Instagram and be like, guys, I'm down here to tell you that it's just all Jamba Juice and high fives. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing too crazy is really happening. So I believe Dave Matthews over the news. Yeah. That's where I get my news from. Totally. Is he from there too? He lives there. His wife went to University of Washington.

And I think he's from Virginia originally. But they live there and rep it pretty hard. So he went down there to kind of give the full scoop. Virginia makes sense for...

for him now that i think about it i think he was born in south africa yeah which is why he's got all the uh crazy guitar rhythms and whatnot but uh and then he brought it to virginia totally yeah and they were like you can go ahead and take that over to chaz washington and it really took off from there he's like only if i can give people the actual story yeah yeah i don't want to just go and absolutely uh

Dave Matthews, I remember his Hug Me song where he had Judah Friedlander. Oh, every day with Judah, yeah. That was a big deal. Judah was talking about credits. That was a thing for a while where I think it was on his poster because that video was so big. It was when I first moved to New York and started comedy and Judah would come in. We get it, dude. You work. It was, yeah. And so like 2004 or 5, and that's how you'd bring Judah up on stage with the Hug Me guy from Dave Matthews.

Wow. So that was his credit. And everybody knew. And so Judah's been recognized. He's got a very unique look. He does. But Judah is... Yeah, I'll never forget. That was his first... That was the credit. And everybody knew what it was. And that video was so big. Enormously popular. Do you remember your first credit? I just had a conversation about this with a buddy about the thing that I would go on stage to when I first... You know, I think prior...

it was the first real credit prior to that. I think it was like, you know, there was an Adam Ray who did a sketch on like Jimmy Kimmel, but it was spelled like R E Y. But I was like, you can just say it to me. So I'd go up to that. And, um, and then I was a guest star on, uh, Jim Belushi's according to Jim in 2007. Yeah. And, um,

And I would, I was so jacked to tell people, like, I think it was the improv. And then I found out it was going to be the season premiere. So I remember slipping that into, I was like, oh, I knew you can say it's the season premiere. Like I'd be like, wait, what? Can I do what Tristan did to me? We're starting to, yeah. Yeah. What are you doing, man? I don't know. I just got here. Yeah. Hanging at the doorway if you don't mind. We're starting, you're starting the season of, you're like, yeah, it's a new season. You got just a little one spot on, according to Jim, you're like, yeah.

Yeah, this season's going to go through a lot of ups and downs. You're like, oh, yeah. Did they tell you the whole season arc? Nah, but you could just feel it from the set. You know what's going to happen. They're going to stay together, you know, Jim and Courtney Thorne-Smith. Does she go by her character name? Nah, she goes by Courtney. But you would know you weren't there. Yeah.

She did. I would, yeah, my, my first career, well, New York would always be, no one cared where your credits were. No one had credits. So they would make credits being, they would be, they would sound insane. So when you go on, still wanted to go up to something, right? They want to go up to something in the host, just what it wouldn't matter. And so the host would then, uh,

bring up, they bring it and they'd be like, this guy's been on VH1. This is when VH1 best week ever was every comment. Yeah. And so they would just, everybody'd be brought up to that. This guy's been on VH1, BT, economy central, just naming HBO, naming all this stuff. And then, you know, you're in New York. And so it's supposed to be, everybody's kind of supposed to be famous. That's going on these stages.

obviously no one is so they would just do a bunch of credits I don't know if I've told you the Mike Vecchione story where they mentioned so Vecchione you know Vecchione right so we're at this comedy club called Comics and Mike Vecchione is supposed to go up and the host forgets Mike's name

And so he keeps going and he's like, all right, we've got this next comic coming up. And he's been on Comedy Central, HBO, Showtime. He's just trying to remember his name and he keeps rattling off credits. And so, I mean, it sounds like he's like Apollo. All he's doing is giving the biggest. And you're like, I mean, this is going to be one of the most famous people ever. Eddie Murphy?

Yeah, you're like, who is this going to be? He's done everything. And he keeps just naming stuff. So it's giving like specific facts. His favorite color is like magenta. He's been to the Dave and Buster's in Queens. Yeah, he founded this club. And then he can't remember his name. So he goes, everybody, make some noise for him. And he just called him him. Yeah. And then him, here he is. Him. And he's like, all right. Which is great because I would love to know what was the alt.

What was also locked and loaded that he was going to maybe say, but then he was like, just say him. Did he have a version of the name? Did he, in his head, sometimes you meet somebody and you're like, oh, I think it's, I thankfully remember Tristan because you said it right after again, but maybe if I walked out, I would have been like, I'll see you, like, Tram, Tram, Tram. I knew it was a T, but I was like, Trammy Tram. So maybe like Mike, he had a version of that. T-Dog, T-Bone. Yeah.

The T-Ster. The T-Ster. You just reminded me of another hymn type moment. It was the Irvine Improv. And Mark Serratel and I were on this comedy juice show. And Mark had this friend named Brett Palacano who was like his eighth time doing stand-up. But he was a real sweet guy. Like just so much energy and passion out of the gate for life and stand-up. Was he good? No.

No. And, uh, but he was a sweet kid and from there. So he was like, I can bring like 80 people. Yeah. And you know, it's comedy juice Tuesday night, 10 PM show. Mark's like, I'm going to give him a spot. Cause he's going to bring a lot of people and he's so likable. He's like, and he'll host. He's like, and he's actually not terrible with like crowd interactions enough to be a host.

And he's bringing 80 people. Totally. Even if he's not doing jokes in his crowd work, he's just got that fun like, where are you guys from? Oh, I've been there. Was that a joke? Or was he just confirming that he's also seen that spot? But he definitely leaned in and had the timing of that being a punchline. What are those chicken fingers? Delicious. Again, was that a joke? So he gets to bring in a comic up.

And this is unreal. And we find out later that he was pretty under the influence, but was hiding it well. And he's giving a long intro. And he just goes, this next guy gives a whole long thing. And you can see him start to rattle and spiral out of control. We're like, oh, he doesn't know who's next. And then he just confidently commits to it and just goes, so keep it going. Make some noise for my.

my man but set it to where you're like i think that's the guy's name or i think that's his like alter ego yeah that this comic gets up and was like thanks and hoping that people be like my man you know have to my man t-shirts you know so that's my man it would be a comic that

would be selling out that you wouldn't know who he is. You'd be like, who is it? You're like, it's my man. It's a my man guy. He sells out. Comedian my man? Yeah. He's doing 40 shows at Zany's. You're like, really? I don't know. Those 80 people came here for bread, but they love my man. Yeah. It's a my man crowd. It's tough when you're hosting as...

It's an art. Yeah. And it's an acquired skill set. I don't know how much you did of it getting going. I feel like you just – I did do it. I was usually terrible at it. Yeah. And I would do a lot of – at Caroline's, I would host. Because Caroline's would just have – a lot of times, you'd have just a host and then the headliner. And then sometimes, someone would bring a feature. But the way Caroline's ran on Broadway is when they did weekend shows, it was a regular –

New York is usually showcase shows. So it's like six comics on a show. But Caroline's was almost like a, with a Zanies or, you know, sides, but just regular host feature headliner. And so the host would always be a local New York comic. That's actually pretty good. And like every, because it's all these New York guys that you'd get paid the most to host. So you'd want to go work a weekend. Right. And so, so many times people bring in a feature that would be not good.

Because they're just bringing their buddy from the road or whatever. And then you have someone hosting that's been on five lettermans and all this kind of stuff. And it's really good. So you would host in those kind of situations. But I would never do a lot of crowd work. I always just kind of did my act. And I tried sometimes. But it's... Crowd work wasn't really a... By the way, should I be hugging the mic more? Or is this distance fine? No, this is good. Okay. I feel like you would have done some aggressive like... Yeah. You don't seem above doing big gestures to get...

what you need. Yeah. He's not, we just let it out. We're starting our own podcast. Yeah. Well, look at that. Yeah. You know what it is? Go ahead and plug your dates, man. What are you doing? Well, you know, when it airs during this podcast, uh,

But doing crowd work in New York isn't a... Well, the guys are so good at it. Yeah. And they do it so well. And it's the best crowd work that... Because every night is where are you from? And someone's from somewhere. Just going to say LA, New York. I think cities where you're getting a lot of...

You can ask people. People from all over, right? Cities where there is a lot of coming and going from all places. And they crumble on the road because they go, where are you from? They're like, Houston. Omaha, man. I haven't left since I was a kid. What about you in the back? And they're like, Omaha. So everybody's from Omaha? You're like, yeah, dude. No transplants. No one else. And that's where they have trouble. I mean, the good ones figured out, but...

It's definitely an art to it. I mean, you got to know how to do it. Do you think it's come in and out of fashion? Has it always been a popular thing? I feel like I see a lot more of it now than it did even a few years ago. Yeah, it's just become kind of a trendy thing to do. Yeah, I think it's hard to write an act. That's my theory with it. It's very hard to come up with jokes. Totally. And so...

it's a lazier way to be like, you can still be very funny and still put on a great show and people enjoy it, but you're not having to write an act and come up with stuff. And that's, it's very, very hard to come up with jokes. I think if you're doing, yeah, a thousand percent, which is why, uh, you're so brilliant. Exactly. Yeah. This is what I've been saying the whole time. You are man. Um, even when I was just trying to think the last time I saw you, I was going to say it was opening for Chris rock in Seattle. Yeah. Um,

But then it was at the store actually. And you had just so much new stuff and it was like,

you know, you're, you're so good. And, and one of my faves to watch. So it's like, there's no, no real, uh, opportunity for like jealousy. Cause I'm just like, that's, I, I'm never going to think like that. Yeah. And the stuff, but then you did a couple of things where I was like, how come my brain isn't better? Yeah. You know, uh, you always, everybody feels that. I feel that like now coming up with new, cause I'm trying to write a new hour now and coming up with that is like, you just feel you're like, dude, I am awful. I got nothing. I'm all. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I, there's, I go to Zany's and we're just work on this new stuff. And I mean, I just, you get done. You're like, dude, I mean, I might be one of the worst comedians in America. Uh, you just, you just feel that way. It just doesn't,

It's hard to come up with a new act this way now. I do it so much on stage. Now when the stage is gone, it's a new way that I got to figure out how to do it. It's interesting. I mean, it's a whole... But I mean, you're like that. We did a show together. Where did we go? Phoenix, Arizona. Oh, I think it was Mesa. Mesa, yeah. Yeah. That was fun. That was a fun time. Went to Hooters. We did. Went to Hooters. It was a good...

Some people are probably thinking right now, pre-show? No, post-show. For sure. We didn't get our pre-show dinner. But there was truly nothing in the area. And that sounds like an excuse to be like, oh, you just really... You probably took the gig because the Hooters was there. That's what I took. It was the Hooters tour, actually. Not a bad idea. There was a golf tour that was a Hooters tour. They did that. This was when Hooters was in their heyday. Hooters is...

It's, it's not what it was. It's not. It's, um, and, uh, we had a good time there because again, it was like, the show was so fun. And, and this is what's the best, uh, about being with, um, hanging with comics you haven't kicked with on the road for the first time. If you're hopefully both willing to just make the best of what's around you. And, uh, and it was like, all right, what's nearby that has TVs for sports, uh, and good enough food. And, um,

I do like clean bathrooms. Yeah. You know, remember that? Remember the bathrooms being cleaner than normal, cleaner than other Hooters? I was like, this must be the, where it started, you know? I bring everybody down to my reality when they, when we hang out on the road. Like they go, they're usually going to go to some like better, healthier kind of decision. And then I, I, and I think that I get it thrown on me a lot because I think,

Like if you want to eat healthy and you're with me, you're like, well, Nate, you can know that you're going to, once you get with me, he's going to want to go to some chain thing. And so you kind of save up. I love that though. You save up until you get to me. Oh, gotcha. And then you're like, perfect. Try to eat well until you hang with Nate. And then you can, yeah. Do you remember that there was a bodybuilding competition right next door to us? Oh, yeah. Because it was you and I and I want to say Brooks Whelan or Thomas Dale. Yeah. Yeah.

And those are two completely different comics, but I feel like it was one of... The energies are also different. I think it was Brooks. I think it was Brooks, too. Because I feel like there was definitely like a melancholy, stoned feeling in the green room before we got there. Yeah, they were getting spray... They were spray tanning. Yeah. Right? In the hallways. And it smelled...

like you would think it smelled like a bodybuilding competition which i know you're like well what does that smell like well think of a lot of tanning oil yeah and no carbs around and uh just i mean just jacked women men they were just all down that's what threw me for a loop because i've seen the the men but i don't think i've gone out of my way to really get to know the female bodybuilding competition and what because it scares me yeah a little bit and also it's like

Seeing it live, it's just like anything. It's like when I first went to a hockey game live, I was like, oh, it's way better live. Not the case for bodybuilding. You know, you're seeing it up close. You're like, I'd rather just see this from afar. Seeing it backstage is definitely different. Totally. They're just walking by you. Yeah. What are you guys here for? Obviously not what you're doing. Yeah, I mean, just the opposite. Just walking by. Just a mess, like just going in. But just so jacked. And I always wondered, there was a girl from high school,

Jennifer Stewart was her name. Probably changed now because she got married. But she was, A, the first girl that I remember having a crush on that I went out of my way to get like a gift for, right? Yeah.

And I'm a real, real big kid. You know, love to double fist Pop-Tarts, dip them in Cool Whip. Still do. Yeah. But... You were a big kid. Yeah. Growing up. Yeah. Because now you're, I mean, now you're good. Okay, dude. Well, that just lets me know that I will definitely be going to the gym when I get back to the hotel. Yeah. I mean, you're just like kind of a big guy. Yeah, I'm a big guy. I fluctuate, you know? Yeah. I could probably be down another 10 right now, but... Yeah. Yeah.

We'll see. I do agree with that. The show that I'm on, I'm on the young rock, uh, the rock show. Oh yeah. And I'm playing a, um, a guy that's, uh,

I can't really say yet, but he's like... Look, he's a very prominent guy in the wrestling world and in Dwayne's career. But in future seasons, if we get more, I'm going to have to check... Take your shirt off. Oh, shirt off, but also probably like... Yeah. Whether it's creatine or straight-up roids, I'm going all in. Well, so the roid thing is a lot of people do it. People do it more than you think. Oh, yeah. And now when you see it, you're like, well, how's that guy so big? You forget that... Yeah, because the...

The guy we work out with is a strong man. Oh, cool. And he's a big dude. And he's like... We like push his cars and... Yeah, they do all that kind of stuff. Yeah, like throwing just odd-shaped things over tall things. Matt McQuiston. You can follow him on Instagram. That's awesome. But he shows all his videos.

And I mean, he looks like Thor, a redheaded Thor. And he is a big dude, but he talks about like getting that extra jacked as they have to take something. Your body can only do so much. Yeah. And then you got to add a little extra to it. People forget, like you look at Frank Thomas and you're like,

And for the listeners who don't follow baseball, they're like, the eugenics guy? Yeah. No, he was a superstar in the 90s. I had a shoe, the Big Hurt, and was just a beast. But yeah, he didn't just do a couple extra push-ups to become the biggest guy in baseball. And then you forget...

When they all got busted, it's not like that was the end of it. They just were like, oh, we'll find a different one. They find a better way to do it where you can't. When your 24-hour fitness closes, you go to a Bally's or a Curse. You just adjust. I don't know if you guys get sponsored by them. Yeah, Bally's or Curse. You're just in there. Just doing a real heavy weight. I was at a 24-hour fitness in LA, the one on Sunset once, and they closed at 11 on Fridays and Saturdays. Yeah.

I don't know why. And, uh, I remember leaving PM 11 PM. Yeah. It's 24 hour fitness. Yeah. And I, to this point, I had always walked in. If I was working on a, a night like that, you know, it's about 10 30 or whatever. I'm walking out. And, uh, cause I just know the, uh, the rules. And I see a guy walking in and the gal as I'm, before I'm leaving, she goes, Oh, so just a quick reminder. If you got about 15 minutes for your workout and he's got, he just goes, I'm sorry. What? And she goes, 15 minutes. He goes, what are you doing?

what are you talking about? It's like, we closed at 11. He goes, and he just looks up at the sign and goes, and she's like, I know it's just, and he goes, what are you doing? And just made such a hassle. So I was like right at the door. So then I just kind of took my phone out and lingered and was like, Oh, I got a couple of emails. Just to listen to him, uh, berate this sweet gal. And he flipped like full on, like if you've got,

put it on the website change the name of your gym to Fridays and Saturdays at 11 and sometimes 24 hours and to her credit she was like yeah well that's obviously too many letters for the marquee she was thinking it I could see it in her eyes he would agree with that and there you go well don't you think it would be a better name probably yeah sometimes fitness it's false advertising sometimes sometimes fitness Planet Fitness is kind of my favorite because they went for it they're just like look

we're not going to tell you how long we're open. He's going to tell you that this is the place that's, you know, I guess we've got a guy right here. That's kind of locked in with them. Are you really? Yeah. He's got a sponsored deal with planet fitness. I joined planet fitness after Ralphie may die. I haven't been once. Yeah. I'm going to take that. You know, they called their Ralphie may package. You just, I mean, true Ralphie may form. Did Ralphie ever hit a gym?

Probably. I mean, maybe. No, I don't know. I mean, he just got, I mean, he did the surgery, I know. Right. But then that's the thing. A lot of them do, a lot of guys have to do that surgery where there's something, but they just, it goes back.

Yeah, because you can't just – it's not like a – it takes away your hunger too. It's true. It's hard to – when you've got to eat healthy, and I have trouble with it now. I mean, I have a – I was making my food last week. That's already gone. Where I was trying to, like, cook for the week and then kind of package stuff. Meal prepping. And it's just such a big thing. It's such a nightmare to do. And then so it's hard not to be. You get hungry and you're like, I'm just going to eat whatever your brain can –

come up with. This is a great transition to the rest of my story with Jennifer Stewart. So it was the first girl I had a crush on and I told my mom I wanted to give her something for Valentine's Day and she's in a different classroom. So I get flowers, chocolates, and a stuffed animal. I'm going for it. The triple threat of do you also...

feel the same way about me. You know, didn't have any note or card, but I was like, I feel like three gifts is probably the message is clear, you know? And so I go to the, and it's before school. Hey, I'm bringing, I'm biked, bike to school with all of it. So that was already a mess. And look, did I eat a couple of the chocolate chocolates when I got to school?

I don't remember. Maybe. For sure I did. And so I'm giving her a half complete box of chocolates, but I'm like, maybe we can go to the store and buy the rest together as our first date. And so I walk into her classroom, people are putting all their bags and coats away. It's so funny how vividly I remember this. And I walk in and I'm just like,

And I didn't have a speech prepared. I'm sure I did in my head of like, you know, these last few months have been just crazy. And I know you don't think much of me now, but someday I'm going to guest star on According to Jim, you know, and you're going to think differently, right? The tables will turn, you know, and you'll want to hang out with Belushi and Olive and in, you know? And so I give her all the gifts and I'm just like, happy Valentine's day. Like what?

Like, hope it's a great day. And she just looks at me and I think got a little thrown off by the people that kind of looked and saw that it turned into a little bit of a presentation. So she was like, I don't want that. And I just quickly, you know,

You know, just kind of went into myself and was like, cool. I wanted this stuffed animal, which was like not nobody. Everyone knew that I didn't. So it was even sadder. I was like, oh, no, you know, you didn't. You didn't want it. You don't want that stuffed bear with chocolate. Definitely wanted those chocolates. Yeah. So cut to the point of that story. She years later became a bodybuilder.

Maybe you steered in that direction. Possibly. But I remember commenting on her page in classic comic form. I was like, there's got to be a fun way for me to give a throwback to that story and what she's doing now. And I wrote a little like, remember when I gave you this? Like, congrats. It's looking great with all that. I go, remember when I gave you all that stuff? And you said no. And she's like, yeah, I still feel bad about that. And then I made one more joke like,

Yeah, well, you know, it's still got the chocolates, you know? And then just no response. And I was like, lesson learned. Like, non-comics sometimes just don't really have... That was like too much stuff...

you probably gave her too much then and then you commented too much oh i'm constantly just the give and take ratio the second comment the first comment was the bear boy this guy just doesn't know what the second comment was this the chocolate music here we go again we go again yeah this guy's just constantly yeah just constantly coming at me yeah but now just you know you'll be on the rock i mean now you know all the movies you've been in a couple you're you're so sweet i remember when we first kicked it in montreal i think i'd only done like uh

you know, two movies and you were just like, everywhere we go, you're like, you know, this guy's in movies, you know, you're the movie star, but you're at the, but you're in movies and it's not like just done enough little dumb. It's your couple of cool ones. And Sandra Bullock, your friend, Sandra Bullock was texting with her the other day. I mean, huh? How fun is that? Very good. What was that about?

What we were texting about? Yeah. I gave her some chocolates. Yeah. He keeps trying it. Same move. Some, it's going to work on somebody. Yeah. I was like, I know Valentine's day is just around the corner. Yeah. No, it was, what were we texting about?

well you what was uh the what was the movie it was uh the heat i watched the heat yeah yeah classic yeah a good uh a good just put on the background like enough jokes per those are the types of comedies i like to because it's you know the story's good enough the plot's not too yeah crazy for you to follow it's a fun movie yeah and i would think i'd like a rapport in it bill burrs in it at a at a movie when you when you film a movie it's uh

I mean, you're there for... How long were you there for the heat? Oh, man, maybe two months, which was awesome. Where was it at? They put us up in Boston, and it stayed at the Fairmont in the wharf. Little Italy was right around the corner. It was the first day I shot. I only shot one thing. It took a half hour, and so Michael Rappaport and I, I'd never met him, so he was just like, you want to go get some food? I was like, I would love to. And then a bunch of cursing, and then...

And we walked down a little Italy, got some food, chummed it up. Guys need like minimal info to really get to know each other. I feel like sports, comedy, you know, especially with comedy, we've seen Nickelback live. And then it was just like, we're big fans of Nickelback. Are you really? Yeah. Are you really? Yeah, I am. Yeah. I think they get a bad rap. Yeah. Their sound is, I don't know how you are with, with tunes, but it's like,

If the sound is good, like OMC, How Bizarre, still one of my favorite songs. Yeah. Because it's just like a fun, upbeat... Do I know any of the words? No. Nate doesn't listen to lyrics. That's his thing. Me neither. Yeah. And I'm so bad. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Crossroads, another one of my favorite songs. See? That's most white dudes when they try to sing it. Did you know... Was it the Reaper song?

Don't Fear the Reaper. Don't Fear the Reaper. Did you know that that's... By Bone Thugs? Yeah. No. Who sings that? Blue Oyster Cult. You know it. Sing it for me. It's the cowbell, right? The cowbell. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. Great song. Bone Thugs should cover it. Yeah, they should. It fits with what they do, you know? That's what they should do. But that song's about suicide or something. And I was...

Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind. Another great song that I remember. That was my first concert too in Seattle with Semi-Charmed Life at Memorial Stadium. You played Bumbershoot, right? Yep. Great festival. Back in the day when I went,

Like any festival, I think it hadn't truly gotten commercialized yet. They had great talent, but it was, I mean, saw Sugar Ray at a smaller stage right when Fly popped. And it was packed because Fly was getting a lot of momentum. But I remember they were playing like other songs that weren't Fly. And everyone is not about that. They're like, we came for what we came for and it's not what you're doing. So figure it out, Mark McGrath. And so everyone starts booing like through the third or fourth song.

And I joined in because I was just like, hey, I'm a man of the people and peer pressure. And so he stops mid-song and just goes, all right, all right, all right.

I know you guys just want to hear one song. We have other songs we're trying to play. We just got a few more. And then, and then the booze just overwhelmed them. So then he just goes, F it. He goes, hit it. And it goes, boom. And everyone goes nuts. They played it and then go walked off stage. That's pretty good. They got, they got to leave early. Totally. Yeah. And then he got on the bus, went right to extra. Yeah. And, um, uh, it was bumper shoot. Uh, great festival. Yeah. What was the one at George Washington?

That's a, it was the Sasquatch festival. Sasquatch. Also cool. Did you do that one? I did that one. That venue is unbelievable. I mean, Bumbershoot had more space so they could get more stuff from there. Yeah. And that's why when I saw third, I blinded this, uh, um, uh, soccer stadium. Yeah. First concert packed, made my way all the way to the front of my buddy. There was mosh pits and all that. It got real hot. Couldn't like breathe almost. Cause it was so many people compact and, uh, got knocked to the ground, uh,

uh from mosh pits and whatever which i just i guess i just assumed maybe mosh pits weren't happening during like you know i wish you could step back i think we can all just stand yeah enjoy it they rock out man yeah they do don't trash third eye blind dude no i'm just saying the the crowd oh right right the mosh pit was not uh lining up for those songs yeah that does oh it's one of my favorite bands yeah okay

Dude, you're coming in real hot. We're cool. We're cool, man. He came in real... I mean, that was aggressive. One of my favorite bands. Yeah. Okay, awesome. I take my shirt off. I wish I had a third-eye blind tattoo just to kind of... Sorry, man. Sorry, dude. Calm down, Aaron. I'll sit down for a few minutes. What'd you say? He's going to vote not to air this episode. That's what...

You want to talk about it on your other podcast? Yeah, dude. You guys want to go? Hey, man, what's up with Adam? Adam Ray. The title is just Adam Ray sucks. You could have come up with a more clever title. Yeah. No, the music is so great as well. So the mosh pitting didn't seem... You would agree with mosh pitting is weird. I agree it's weird to do it to Jumper. That's what I'm saying. But they do have the same pay. It took me a second to catch up. I'm all good now. I apologize. Yeah, it's all good. Do you... We just start fighting right now. The...

the music, they do have some tunes that are conducive to bumping bodies and taking people down. And one of those, I think was graduate or, right. There's a, there's other tunes that are aggressive. Well, don't, you don't have to make up. I feel like I just got to include them. I'm not looking at you guys. Hey, what are you?

So what are you doing? I mean, there's other songs. I'm mosh pits. A lot of their songs. Actually, you're overwhelmed. That's me, man. Just a nice guy, you know, but, uh, uh, so, so I, I fall down and then people fall on top of me and I'm screaming. Yeah. And, uh, and then I just hear faintly, there's a guy at the bottom of the pile.

I hear this whole conversation through the chaos because they're kind of just like close enough to where the music's above the ground so I can just hear voices. And somebody's like, what? He goes, there's a guy under the people. And he goes, yeah. Clearly didn't hear what the guy said.

And he's like, there's a guy under the people. He goes, under that guy is another guy. And I'm literally under, there's like two or three people on top of me and I'm at the bottom and more people were just falling. So I'm like, oh, I'm going to die listening to Third Eye Blind. And then thankfully they picked me up and I lived. Okay.

Mosh pits are usually pretty nice. They are. In that idea that they will help you up. Let's talk to our mosh pit expert. I've been to a mosh pit. What is the nicest mosh pit you feel like you've seen? I've never been involved in a mosh pit at all. Oh, wow. Maybe you should have backed off on the mosh pit. But I've seen Third Eye Blind live, but I saw them way past their prime, and there was not a mosh pit energy in the crowd. Right. Yeah.

Are you old enough to remember when the grunge movement took off in Seattle? Totally. So I'm 38. I think I was about actually maybe 11 and 12 when it really got. So unless Pearl Jam was covering like Hakuna Matata, I was like, all right, like, what do you guys do? But I was around it enough, but I didn't have any older siblings that were, I think I needed maybe to like bring it into my world. Yeah. But I did have buddies with siblings that did that, that got us into, yeah, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and Oasis and Nirvana. Nirvana.

Was Nirvana huge? Like it just got in Seattle? Like that stuff was just... Enormous. And it was also just like the fact that it, you know, originated there and kind of started this movement. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it was really... Like set the tone for the whole city. Totally. Like just kids that were listening to it were just... Yeah. And it was... And Seattle just has a...

And Chaz Washington, too, has this. That's why sports, I think, thrive, comedy, and tunes, because a lot of indoor activities do well because of the weather, obviously, which isn't as bad as people say all year. Yeah, I always say that when someone asks that. I always say, from wherever I talk to, I've been there a few times. It's been the prettiest place.

In the country. Like, it's the best. And then I've did days that it does rain. And that's what they say. You just get used to it. It's always kind of just, like, rainy. It's like... And it's how you adjust. It's why there is, especially in the arts and the sports world, when people find ways to use the time to get good at stuff like that. Like, and, I mean, I was making...

So many, a couple of buddies and I from high school, we just started doing the sketches and home movie thing like in seventh grade when it was like on weekends when it was pouring rain and you... That's all you could do. Yeah, it was just like finding ways. It was, you know, how long can you play a game? When you're growing up there, you don't ever remember... You never remember thinking...

Man, it rains a lot. When you grow up in it, I don't think you know any different. As soon as I got to LA, I was like, you can wear shorts every day. Well, LA is a whole nother, it's another planet. I mean, it's perfect every day. LA doesn't realize, people get tired of that.

where it's just they want some kind of change you hear a lot of people go i miss the seasons yeah i miss you and i do i mean you get them here right we get them here i think we have a good balance of where we're mainly during winter you're around 50 degrees roughly 40 to 50 in the winter yesterday was super warm here but then today's it will get a little bit colder so we have a good balance where you will have your days of snow and a little bit it's not too much it's not new york new york was when he

When it would snow, it was a nightmare. It was just a... The city, it just was a pain to walk around. It's so cold. You don't feel like you ever get a break from it. And it was just... It was a lot. Yeah. And so here, Nashville's got a good balance. We get a lot of rain, though. Do... Is the same...

So just to piggyback on Seattle in the 90s, I just interviewed Sean Kemp at his cannabis store in Seattle. Unbelievable. Not only just to talk to a childhood hero, but also we went deep into what was it like to be...

so glorified and a part of the best time in Seattle, arguably with him and Ken Griffey Jr. The same time. Yes. So he was like, I would go to M's game sometimes till like the fourth inning. Cause you want to think too. You're like, are all the greats in my city, like buddies, you know, like, yeah, like, um, like it's Derek Henry and, uh, OJ Mayo and Darius Rucker. Are they all just playing Uno at a cheesecake factory somewhere? Yeah. Uh,

Possibly. O.J. Mayo, that was a wild name to throw out. I know. That was the first one I could think of. That's a pretty good name. But at least I knew somebody, right? Now, that is somebody. That's a great name to throw out, to be honest. Mike Conley, I guess. I could have said Marc Gasol. Mike Conley's got... Yeah. I like O.J. Mayo. O.J. Mayo was a... Yeah, it's a good one. If you're playing the O.J. Mayo drinking game at home, I think you just... Someone's like, whoa, yeah. Two things in Mayo. Yeah. But so he was like, we'd go to M's games, and then Griffey would come to the Sonics games and watch the fourth quarter. He's like, we'd go to Pearl Jam. He's like, they were all...

do whatever they want. Just homies together, which is great. Um, but, uh, I was like, was it that cool to be a part of as it felt? And in hindsight, you see footage of just that air and he's like, Oh, it was the best man. He's like, the city was alive and, and basketball ruled for Seattle. And I think that's why there's such a big void. Like obviously soccer has gotten to be cool. And the Mariners did their thing for a minute and, and you know, football is, uh,

Seahawks strong, yeah. Strong as it can be before you just blow it. I've been to one Seahawks game. I'm cracking. I'm fired up for that. Again, hockey, never had it. And why I love hockey even more. Wait, do you have an NHL team? We just got one.

Oh, really? I think it's this fall. Yeah. I didn't hear that. I mean, they just started. Yeah. Season tickets sold in like 20 minutes. And they're called the Kraken? Yeah. I kind of like that. Yeah. One of the cooler logos. Yeah. So maybe it'll be the crack house. Fans of crack heads. Who knows? Yeah. When the Titans got, I mean, when the Nashville got the Predators, that was like us. We didn't even know. No one knew anything about hockey here. Yeah.

and it's now yeah yeah I mean it took it was they they stuck here for you know they were here 20 something years and for it I feel like I mean everybody was going and it was like but now it's it's one of if I've I've been to uh some playoff games of the Predators oh cool and I'm one where they lost the Stanley Cup I went to Stanley Cup finals wow and it's uh I mean it's

Maybe the best live sporting event I've ever been to is the Predators game. Just everything that goes on, how loud it is. They got lights. They got all this stuff. It's very, you know, the crowd's like chanting. I mean, it's definitely awesome. I kind of like that it's cold too. Yeah. Maybe that's just the Northwest. It feels good. You wear a jacket. It's fun to wear a jacket. It's fun to wear a jacket. Yeah. That's the name of my next special. Yeah. Fun to wear a jacket. What was he talking about? Long jacket. Yeah.

Surprisingly. They don't think it's anything jacket stuff. You go, nah, dude, it's a ton of jacket stuff. He's got one 17-minute mosh pit third-eye blind story that is not worth sticking around for. I wouldn't stay in it. It's actually just an excerpt from a podcast. You just hear someone in the crowd go, all right, dude, don't trash third-eye blinding. And then the guy comes back and goes, no, okay, I agree with what you're saying. Yeah, because you killed the momentum of the show.

That's what it is. Is there in-game entertainment in the... Is it Thunderbirds? Who's your... Predators. Predators. Yeah. There's like a house band up there. There's a house band. They have stuff. I mean, they have two intermissions, so that was hard to get. As a football fan, they have almost like two halftimes. Yeah, that's weird. Unless you... I do like the house band. The Mariners at Safeco Field about, I'd say, 10 years ago...

had the Baja men for a game, which was a bold move. Hey, man, an inning is fine. But they were like, hey, you guys can be here from the second to the eighth. And I'm sure even they were like, I mean, I don't know. They did a lot. You let the dogs out like every inning? Oh, it was another Sugar Ray type thing where they tried to play. I think they have one other hit that was in an animated film. And...

You're going to look it up? Oh, yeah. Hell, yeah. It'd be great if you had the page already pulled up and you're like, I'm actually a big Baja man. Another band you can't mosh pit at. Do you know the Baja men were formed in 1977? They've been around that long. I don't believe that at all. Yeah. For real? Yeah. And are they considered like, it's not, is it a, yeah, Bohemian, right? What does it say? 1977. Bahamas, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Move like this. That's what it was. Remember? Yeah. But who let the dogs out? They've definitely played it more than once. Yeah. And nobody had a problem with it. And it was in the outfield in the beer garden. So I remember I had a couple of buddies that were out there that they were like, you got to come to the garden, man. Everyone's going crazy. I'm like, I can see it from here. I can still hear the band, but it was great. And it was a cool addition because I...

I'm always fascinated by the stadiums, arenas, whatever, trying to come up with – It's a show. For baseball too, like what? What are you getting? 100 home games maybe? Yeah. You can't just have multiple bat nights and jersey nights and bobblehead giveaways and fireworks spectaculars. You're like, yeah, maybe – Somebody in the Mariners organization was like, I could probably get the Baja Man for like six grand. They could play the second through the eighth. And they're like, yeah. Yeah.

You've thrown out the first pitch, right? Yeah. It's great. One of the coolest things ever. And I wore a Dave Niehaus jersey. At a Mariners game? Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, yeah. No, just outside Nate's house. Yeah. 2006. Yeah. I'm sorry, dude. I think we got off to a rocky start. You didn't deserve that. Yeah, I don't think y'all will ever hang out again outside of this. That's what I'm betting on. I think all those vibrates in my pocket were him adding me on Facebook or just like a pre-apology text before I got here. Yeah, yeah.

Hey, man, I'm in a mood. I'm going to come at you pretty hard, all right? You got a sweet laugh and an infectious disposition. Yeah. Another great album title. Yeah, that's a big word. We don't use big words here. My bad, dude. You're a likable guy. Yeah. Why would you just say that? Actually, he's the one guy who would like those words. He wants to know today. Now, I don't like people, though. Those words for me are fine enough, but I don't like when people do...

like use words that you're like, come on. Like one and 50 million people say that word on a kindred spirits, man. I like that. Yeah. Kindred spirits is a cool phrase. Yeah. That's fine. He's he's, we've had it. People say obsequious. I kicked them out of my house. The words he's using are not one in 50 million. Oh really? What's your favorite? Do you have a favorite word? Do you have a go-to word? I think everyone's got a word that they probably say too much.

once you learn it like i remember once i learned the word bewildered yeah oh probably i just was going out of my way to be confused just to be like yeah why are you using that i say like a lot so that's my work me too yeah i can't stop it yeah yeah you got i went to a big uh egregious phase cool that's a good word it's a good word is that i don't use it very often anymore

- Egregious? - And I know what that means, but for the fans, if you could just throw it out, definition real quick. Bad. - Oh. - Yeah, okay.

Specifically, so bad that you need to be cast out of whatever you're in. There's a little more to it. It means bad. This is a potentially egregious performance on the podcast so far. Me today. Most of the words he says, they're pretty common, actually. Last week he used fulcrum, and I didn't know that one. Yikes.

Yeah. Now, I just, this just might be my stupid. He has a calendar, though, that tells him to use a word every day. See, I hear fulcrum, and I think of Falcor from Never Ending Story or Velcro the shoe. Yeah. It's not far off. Go ahead. Yeah, that's what fulcrum means. What does fulcrum mean? It's a seesaw.

Oh, yeah. It's a seesaw? It's part of a simple machine, like the middle of a seesaw. Yeah, why did you say it? The definition is more boring than the word. We were talking about early inventions, like a caveman. Oh, cool. Okay. And that's what he would say as a kid. He goes, hey, you want to go do the fulcrum? And I guess he rode that fulcrum alone a lot, the guy that called it fulcrum. Big solo fulcrum rider. And then everybody, they go, I don't know what that is.

So you grew up, where'd you grow up? In Seattle? So Shoreline, Lake Forest Park is what I say. I've stayed at a hotel in Seattle. What's the one the Beatles stayed at? La Quinta Inn? Yeah. Fifth Avenue? Yeah, it was early. Early day. People don't know La Quinta Inn, same year as the Bahamas, 1970. There's a hotel there where it's on the water.

Oh, I mean, there's the Ritz-Carlton next to the Pike Place Market. No, it's not that. I thought the Beatles stayed there. I want to say it was Wood. A lot of Wood. Lin Wood? Lin Wood, maybe. That's an area. Could be. Yeah, I'm going off nothing. I thought the Beatles thing would be enough. If that's not enough, then I think I'm out. But that's the one of the moments. I was with Graham K., a comedian. And I remember Graham. We were talking about because we're looking over the water. Yeah. And as a parent, you always have a fear of...

of like your kid falling in water and you have to go find them. Dude, I fear that for my nieces. Yeah. And even my kids, like they're even like taking a bath. I'm like, somebody, do you want to have your mom walk? Like, yeah. Yeah. You get nervous. You're terrified of it. And I was like, and Harper wasn't with me, but as like, just as a parent, like some of that, you know, all those bad things, sometimes pop in your head. And I tell Graham that, and then he goes, oh man, it's just nice. You have something in your life that you love that much. And I was like, you should maybe jump in this water. I was like,

What are you, loser? Like, how sad is, like, a single person's life? Like, when you just name something, and they're like, I wish I had something like that. And you're like, I was like, Graham, what are you doing, dude? Like, I'll never forget. That's what I remember. Do you think it's something about the, because there is the whole, there's a word for it, too, where you get affected by the weather. I had a girlfriend that we were doing long distance. She was still in Seattle. I was in LA. And she was like,

A myriad of reasons got in the way as far as distance, not being around all the time, but also the weather was really, I'd be in sunny LA moving and shaking. And she's on a day where she loved to be doing that inside pouring down rain. And it was affecting her on that level. Seasonal depression. Yeah, for sure. And so I'm wondering if maybe he got a little dose of that and was on that bridge looking at the water being like,

yeah maybe i was born to be a fish we were there for 24 hours i don't know if that yeah okay there's enough goodness around you he just walks around with that energy so uh he type of guy that chowder can't even cheer him up yeah you're like come on man let's get some job yeah you go down to the pikes uh was it pikes place market would you ever go there as growing up oh yeah still would go and anytime friends would come up there's a handful of touristy places i think like anywhere you even

even the space needle is dope. Like to go up there, it's like such an amazing view, even on a cloudy day. And, uh, and there's like a restaurant at one level that rotates that, um, I remember I went to a kid's bar mitzvah there, which was like, sounded cool on paper, but we didn't stop moving. So I was like, Hey man, everyone's throwing up. You know, a Chuck E. Cheese would have sufficed perfectly. So, uh,

It feels like it moves a little quicker. Yeah, it was like speeding up like a Gravitron that they have at county fairs. You're like, okay, who's that same kid running this motion here? Would y'all go there? That would be like your field trips? Field trips, we would go to like the aquarium, which is where I met my first celebrity at the Seattle Aquarium, local celebrity. Because remember when you would see people on the news? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I think every- He worked in news for a long time. Oh, did you really? Yeah. Like an anchor or sports or- No, just producer. Producer. This is the first time he's ever been on camera. Yeah.

Really? Can't tell. Yeah. This is our mistake. They go, they fired him because he wanted to be on camera. And we go, we're taking you on camera. We'll plop you right down and throw one right on your face. You do it the way that you've segued into a couple of the questions was very like, you know, you're

You're on top of the interview. You're very professional. He does all the research, and so he knows a lot about your state. Awesome. I always think that's got to be some channel. That's got to be news journalists looking stuff up. Does the name Steve Poole ring a bell? No. So Steve Poole was our weatherman. Yeah. Yeah. Get a great picture of Stevie up. This will help to sell the story. And again, it's like, didn't LA have like Fritz Coleman, right? Was like the weather guy. I'm sure you-

back then, you're, I mean, I think they're still kind of known, but like he would say, you would go out with, because he'd go out with all the people that were the local, like who'd you go out with? Like Chris Clark. Yep. And so they were, all these people in the news, I mean, they would be,

million celebrities, dude. Like they're gigantic celebrities. You see them every day. Yeah. And I, you know, I don't think people when they saw him would be like, what's it going to be tomorrow? But it was more just like seeing them on TV a lot and then seeing them out and about. And, uh, and I saw him at the aquarium and,

And I fanned out at, what, 10? And was just like, Steve Poole. And he just kind of like slow motion turn like, hey, kid. And just lights around him. And then he had a headshot on him and signed it for me. Oh, wow. And I didn't ask for that. Yeah. I was just like, are you here to see the fish? And he was like, what's your name, kid? And I was like, all right, he's just on autopilot. But took it and was awesome and was real sweet. And it carried around the rest of the day?

Oh yeah. But it was awesome. It was a cool, he was carrying it around. Yeah. He finally got rid of it. Yeah. Thank God. Uh, but, but people were, I remember other kids being like, no way you met Steve pool. Like it was a big deal, but yeah, man, I mean, I, I, I miss field trips. Yeah. I miss, I love the idea. Yeah. Our daughter, I mean, our daughter goes on, uh,

she was starting to go on field trips and I think it's kind of gone down, but where like the parents would go, I haven't gone to one, but my wife went where the, you know, you get like a couple of adults go and you go back. It's the best. We would go to like cider farms or the zoo was a big thing. Um, parks. You know what I got to see later in, uh,

as I got older, when I started working at Universal Studios, right? I was a tour guide there for a little bit and was doing Wolverine and then I was doing the cop. Have you ever been to Universal Studios, which Ross just shot my special at? Yes. I was so geeked out when I saw that, man. You probably... Right where you were. Moments away where you could have seen

me getting into a fight with the guy who was playing shrek is where you filmed your next special you you did it at the highest level not like you know there's always like hollywood but you go see the hollywood boulevard where spider-man's got like you know asics on and peanut butter dripping from his pants yeah it's not it's not pretty uh but you were you worked at universal and you did you were wolverine so you would come out someone have to walk out with you right

There would be a chaperone security for all the characters, but we would initially pull out all together Captain America, Spider-Man, Storm, and Green Goblin and myself, which is just already a weird sentence. If I had any sort of...

you know, a post-work chat with like, I lived with the guys that were a chef and one worked at AT&T and we'd be going around and be like, so what, how was work today? Oh man, this person came in just so furious about the new phone and like couldn't get it to work. And it was just such a pain in the ass. And like, I'm probably going to quit. Like I'm just over this type of customer service. Other kid, you know, the chef, he's like, yeah, it was just, you know, we had, we're just busy, more busy than normal. I thought it was going to be the slow season, but I'm happy to be home, man. I was cooking up a storm, you know, but I love what I do. So what about you, Adam?

Well, you know, Five-O, Curious George, and SpongeBob, they were on a trolley with a song blasting, ooh-ee, ooh-ah-ah, ching-chang, wah-la-wah-la, bing-bang. And I got accosted by my boss because I was a New York cop and I was squirting a squirt gun that wasn't from that time period, apparently. But, you know, so just a regular Tuesday. Yeah, regular. So you would do more than Wolverine. You would do... So the last job I did was the New York cop, which was like, not from anything. You're just a beat cop. And they had a chunk of the...

next to the Blues Brothers stage that was like 1940s New York. So they had a couple people up in the window that would scream down and be like, hey, welcome to New York Street. And everyone's like, I feel like we're in Brooklyn. And then they had like a cab there and then like a pizzeria. But yeah, that whole... We'd come out together on these ATVs. And then we would...

And by the way, there was not people waiting for us. So we'd come out and people were just kind of like... They had us come out together. It's not like a show. We all zoom out together and then pose. So we'd come out and then stand up on your thing and go... And by the way, there's people just like on their maps like... Are we supposed to... Do we watch this? And then we go...

and then we would parade around a little area and then stop at one section of the park and take pictures for a while yeah so first time i'm first day working on the atv had to even take a little atv uh you know practice uh thing i'm out there in the full suit just bare minimum facts you know i used to joke about this my act kids would be like you know what's your favorite food and i was like potato salad who cares you know you know i'm not the real guy and um

And why do I got to know this? You know, isn't the sideburns and the fake abs enough for your imagination? And so I would parade along and I was at the very end.

And a kid runs up to me for an autograph and a picture. And I was like, yeah, hurry up, hurry up. Gotta catch up with the gang, you know? And so he's standing real close to me and took the picture and then thought he ran away. He kind of lingered, as you do with a celeb. Yeah. And because we're just, the way they look at you was crazy. Oh, yeah. I mean, kids crying, being like, you're my favorite thing in the whole world. Yeah. And so I, you know, put it into full throttle and take off and feel the wheel just go up and over something. And I was like, oh, boy. Yeah.

And then I turn back and I hear, ah! So then I'm like, all right, now I'm just quickly going through my head. What's the move? And so I went through three options. What would Wolverine do? What would he do? And so I was like, all right, do I look at him and go, hey, hang in there, bub? Or hey, stuff happens. Get better soon. I want to see you back here for the same spot, same picture five years from now. Or

or uh or do i like put it in reverse yeah go back over the other foot just for good measure so i couldn't i couldn't think what to do i literally just was like frozen so i did nothing yeah but i thought everything while i'm staring at him so let's recap run over his foot turn back stare him down and drive away to which that gets back obviously because whoever the chaperone was was also an adult tattletale yeah and was like you know i don't

And so I'll go into my boss's office. So it's your first day. And this is everyone's, everyone's first of all, getting a lot of compliments, like just the voice, the, your mannerisms. It's just Captain America said you're, you know, so far just his favorite Wolverine to work with. And I'm like, Oh, Scott said that, you know, that's just a guy, right? All right. Just making sure you and I, he drives an Escalade when he leaves work with a bumper sticker that says nobody's ugly after 2 a.m.

yeah that's not a catchphrase so uh so then uh so then she gave me you know read me the right act of as far as like just being more aware just in general running over kids how no one's wrong yeah yeah i should have probably you know it's assumed don't run over a kid's foot but just be cautious because they're they're gonna run up to you and just be you know as close as they can to you because you're

Wolverine, that's a big deal. I'm like, yeah. I guess I just didn't see the foot. Also, it's my first time on these things. I got a lot of power. She gave me a hard time at one point for getting a little...

Which I thought I was like probably in the best shape I've been in, in a minute. You would have to be in good shape. Well, they give you the fake abs and like the fake chops and- So you're wearing something. I'm wearing something. But still, you can't be a complete- Yeah. Because I've seen the Orlando Wolverine once when I went down there for a friend's bachelor party thing. And we went there and-

The Wolverine was like Hollywood Boulevard adjacent. Like he was like Crenshaw Wolverine and just very like, you know, he looked like he was 280. Yeah. And like, and you're like, you gotta be in somewhat for the suit to fit. Yeah. It's a tight suit. And she told me to lose weight. She was like, we're going to have you take five weeks off so you can,

Hit the gym and go to 24-Hour Fitness. It's like, we're close to 11. Do you get paid good doing that? Yeah, so it was... Doing the tour guide was eight bucks an hour. And then you had to work a handful of hours to get a pay bump. But it was just season. And that's where you're on the trolley telling them Jaws. Yeah, and that was awesome because that was like an hour-long show where I'm like...

running bits you know like a lot of comics open mics that night yeah and it would have uh you know and would do just stupid stunts and things with the video and and um would really freak out for the jaws part like to where like i made a couple kids cry because i'm fresh out of acting school at sc and i'm like this is an acting exercise yeah to see if a kid will believe if that's a real shark

But it was, it was fun. But I mean, look, I do love that. Think of all the stuff that, all the acting that you have gotten where I'm a, but, but you have, that stuff is like, I, people, uh, I'm a big, like, I love the idea of that, that you, you do recognize that you're like, yeah, man, like I got to feel stupid. Now you feel stupid doing this, but this is something that will help me. They weren't, they weren't wasted reps for sure. I feel like they, every day, even as Wolverine, cause I would get, uh, uh, uh,

you know harassed too for my boss about like being too funny because and that's why the cop thing was the best because it was truly not from anything and uh so i could just do and say whatever and i would be riffing up a storm and go back to dave matthews he came through the park with his family and i would always break character to talk to everybody greg maddox had a 10 minute conversation with just about baseball and he was and dave matthews and his family i'd always go up and do bits

And then make them laugh. And Maddox was just slowly eating a cone, just judging me before I even broke character. He was just like, you know, just watch me like, you know, try to make his kids laugh. And then I just pulled him aside. I was like, hey, dude, you're just one of the best. He was like, oh. And he goes.

Can you just do a different voice like that and it's all right? I was like, yeah, man, this job doesn't mean anything. You're Greg Madden. That's such a... Yeah, dude, I'll quit right now. You're Greg Madden, dude. Such a weird guy to quit. I know. It's a picture from the 90s. He's like, I'm not even doing anything anymore. You're like, dude, if you want me to quit, dude, I'll quit. You're like... Just give me the word, dude. Yeah. You see no one's coming up to me, right? You know how many feet I've almost ran over today? Yeah, yeah. Just to get over here? Yeah.

But it was like, Wolverine was like 23 an hour. But yeah, it was just flexing that, I guess, performing muscle. But also, it's probably why I enjoy doing like crowd work in my shows. And just also it helped with, I don't know, even podcasting on a certain level, just to get in that...

you know, get those reps in of just, I guess, improvising and just, and getting comfortable with talking with anybody. But there, there were these groups when we were talking about field trips, they'd get these older kids, probably like high school, right? I don't know if you've heard of these, these shows at the improv, they'd be called prom show teen tours. We would do prom show. Okay. Is that like in that teen tour was a thing where they'd get like 40 kids from a certain city. I think upstate New York was a lot of them that I would see.

And they do this whole thing was, I think like 50 grand. Yeah. It's the Jewish kids, isn't it? Totally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you mosh pit with them, huh? Yeah. No mosh pits at the bar mitzvahs I went to. Should have been. But, but.

but they, they pay a lot of money. At noon? Was this like during the day? No, they were still nighttime shows, but they do Vegas, San Diego, San Fran and LA. And they'd on a big bus, they'd stay at all these dope hotels. And then they'd be like, Legoland, Disneyland, uh, the improv universal and really just Vegas for, you know, I don't know the Hooters and bet, you know? And, um, and so they would come to universal and, uh,

And just always try to, and that was like the most fun because these kids were like, they were just spunky little,

you know, D bags and trying to like mess with me. Like some of the young kids, like trying to like size me up and like impress like their young girlfriends by like poking fun of me. Yeah. And then chocolates and Ted, find them $40 Mr. Pibbs at universal. So I would like, that was fun. Cause then I would just like go toe to toe and just roast them in front of these girls and just, you know? Yeah. And it was awesome. Cause they were just like,

I'd be like, oh, yeah, let me know when you get that mustache in and hair on your back or whatever. Just, you know. Well, they don't know that a professional comedian is the first to buy it. Greg Maddox is like, this guy sucks. Just make fun of that guy's back hair. I like that you took it, taking it seriously. That's when you go to Disney, which is the same idea with the universe with these characters. Disney's so, they take it so seriously.

that it makes it great. And you're going there as an adult, you're going there. So my, my daughter believes that these are all real princesses. Yes. And so I want, you want that experience. And when you go meet Cinderella and, you know, Elsa and all these people, it's like, they're so good. Yeah. They really, some of those, uh, yeah. Princesses, they had princess Fiona at universal. And, uh, yeah, I mean, there's different, uh, variations of commitment level, but like,

That was the cool thing was being every day people coming in and being like, you're like, wow, you're part of this person's

that's why i would like to actually chat people up and get to know them a little bit yeah and because i was always curious of like man you're getting people from all walks of life some people that were like you know i get a guy pull me aside being like yeah i emptied my bank account for this vacay and so i'm just i'm like oh pressure all right now i gotta so then i go out of my way to maybe go get some front of the line passes for him or something like that or yeah or uh or you know pictures with all the avenger i'd rally everybody you know just things you know and then some people were uh

you know, just had their season passes and we're coming through and some people would divulge like,

info to me this one guy was like giving me a whole run uh run down after his family uh sent him off to water world he's like i'm gonna stay here and i there's the one bar in the park and he went to and he gave me this whole thing he's like yeah he's like i just we do it's my new wife like my ex-wife he's like i'm not technically divorced yet but like i'm on this vacay and i'm just like hey man the bathroom's over there yeah have you been on the shrek ride yeah yeah change the subject you just got your wolverine claws scratching your head you're like all right you're like all right man i gotta get out of here like it's

yeah water world is we filmed uh the specials right kind of by the way that middle circle yeah dude that uh or by right by we walked by water world i'm so between you know universal like the back of your hand if you go a thousand percent that's why when he says like you're do you get do you still know people there oh yeah there's some like so you're you're you're nieces and you have nieces and nephews uh one nephew's one of you and so like oh wow

So when you take them, it's like... They haven't been yet, so I'm just... Oh, you're going to... Oh, April, we were going to do a Disneyland, and then I was trying to find a way to get them to stay maybe a couple other days and crash with us to go to Universal because it's still very kid-friendly. I mean, talk about the uncle of the year. Oh, yeah. When you do get to take them to Universal...

Because you're going to just know... The fact that you will know everything. Yeah, that'll be cool. And then you're going to know... Yeah, I feel like you're going to... You're going to know some of the characters to give some preferential treatment. Yeah. Was it cool to do it there? I don't know how much...

you have other than it being a cool venue? You know, I do have a connection with it. A, I have a joke about claustrophobia and it happened on the Simpsons ride when all that kind of kicked off. Oh, that's a real thing on that ride. Yeah. And so I was able to kind of say that and we were right next to the Simpsons ride. So I kind of like when sometimes you have a story. I like the idea of, you know, I like the idea of

doing this thing in my act where it's like this big thing that I talk about in my act that's this joke and be like, I have this joke because of there, right next to where I'm standing. That's so great. And then, I remember going to Universal when I would go to LA. The first time I went out there, I'd always stay with friends, but the first time I did Conan out there. Mm-hmm.

And we, you would stay at, I stayed at the Sheridan. That was right there or something. And so I always walked around the boardwalk or city walk. And I would always walk around the city walk. And cause I mean, and I would do it. I didn't really know anybody in LA. I was coming from New York and you don't, you know, it's when you'd go to LA thinking you hear everybody goes to LA and has all these meetings. And then you go there and you don't. And so then you're there in a hotel and you are there for three days longer than you should be. And sometimes it could get depressing cause you're like,

You know, some people are doing meetings. You have nothing going on. And so I'd always walk around CityWalk. I always, a lot of times, would stay at that Sheraton or the Hilton. And I would just, so I could go walk up there. I could go eat. It was easy to walk up there and eat. I kind of liked that I was in this little area. There's a lot of people around. Yeah. And I enjoyed it. It's a nice little bubble. So that was a big deal to me for shooting that special there. Cool. Because that's where I would go and be, I would be at that hotel and be miserable. Yeah.

And then not miserable, but I enjoyed, I really, it meant a lot to me to walk around. You remember those feelings of hoping it was better and happy. And just going every night, just walking there alone. Wow. Would you write on the, did you have like, would you go to like the subway and like? Yeah, I would, I mean, I never, I've never been a writer like that. So, but I would, I would just go walk around and go eat there. I'd go just, I mean, I would go into the stores. I mean, I could walk around for hours on city walk and just.

it's not even, I went to universal. I just would go walk on city walk. And so it was like, I have a, I do have an attachment to that place. That's extra special. Yeah. It was extra special. When does it come out by the way? I'm sure you've touched. Uh,

You know what? Don't know yet. When do we think? Maybe by the time this- No, it won't be because I think I know the date. I think March. We don't know for sure, but I think March. This will come out. If people are hearing this, we recorded early. I think it's coming out February 17th. This is? Yeah. Great. And then March is when the special will come out. Great. Yeah. I'm so pumped. So yeah. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited. Is there something about- This is your what? Fifth? Sixth? I mean, overall special? Yeah.

This is my, for hours, this is my third hour. Cool. And then I've done a half hour and then I've done two half hours. So it'll be four hours total of standup and an album. Is it even fair to ask where it ranks or how it compares? Or is it almost like when people go Mike or LeBron and you're like different eras, different time, different material, but just hearing your sentiments and the attachment to it, I feel like it's got to be...

And it's up there. It's going to be one that's remembered more because it was shot during this pandemic. And it was... So I was very happy to... Wait, the what? Huh? COVID. Yeah. All right, look. I'm here. Same. What's that? Yeah. It's like a cold... Scene. Okay. Yeah, scene. That's a great... It is very funny to just always act like you don't know. Like if someone...

Did you do that in the Uber? Yeah, dude, I used to do that all the time. I mean, there was one kid, I think it started when my folks split when I was nine and a kid told me who knew my folks that they got back together when I was at recess and I believed it. And so I went home being like, mom, awesome. She's like, what? And I was like, you're dead, figure it out. No? Oh! Yeah.

and then go back to school and uh and and i think i started messing with people after that yeah because i was like oh that felt awful yeah but i was like oh i'm very gullible i wonder if people are but i wouldn't do that's that was pretty you know that was a deep i love that that kid would hear it before her own son would and i believe that it's like where you got a good source of this he's like pretty decent source yeah yeah your dad's back in the picture

So what about Washington? Let's get some facts about Washington. I got a lot of questions for you. I love that you've left Steve Pull up, by the way. Well, he's retired. 40 years, man. Isn't that crazy? 40 years of just Doppler radars and photosynthesis. You get a good weatherman, it's hard to let them go. And people like to see their weatherman. Like you feel more confident. Yeah, trust them. I trust, let's leave them alone.

And then he'll let us know. The weather, though, for most times in Seattle was like, you know, you're like, all right. And weather in general, I feel like when they're showing 30 percent terrain every day. Yeah. And if there's when they put up like a picture of a son wearing sunglasses, like if you can't see that and like decipher for yourself what type of wardrobe to put on. Yeah.

Do you really need a guy to like spell it out for you after that? But I think it's, you're right. It's the personal touch, right? It's the, yeah, you know, it's comforting. And he's got a cool weather name. I feel like it's almost like with athletes, like Steve pool. Yeah. Cool. Come on. Yeah. Or maybe he made his name cool. I don't know. He's trying to be, let's talk about it more. Yeah. Do you ever have tornadoes? Uh, Western the Rockies? No, no. I remember you have earthquakes, fill out earthquakes, had a couple of high school that were crazy. Uh,

One, I remember watching a Sonic's game when I was in the downstairs and, and you know, the rain man had a crazy downstairs. Wow. Yeah. But I'm getting money. So you get from money. I mean, you had an upstairs and downstairs.

When my folks were together, yeah. And then when we moved into another... Your dad moved upstairs and your mom stayed downstairs. Hilarious. My friend at school told me that. I didn't know that. I thought he was out of the house. What I hear is your dad's going to live upstairs and your mom will be downstairs. You're like, wow, dude. All right. That's a compromise. That's good. I basically got two playrooms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, there's earthquakes, decent...

I'd say there was probably three that I remember living through. Tornadoes, no. When I would go visit my grandparents in Oklahoma, tornado warnings every other 10 minutes. Every 10 minutes, there was the beep and then under the ticker of get to a shed or a bunker ASAP or go to a Hardee's drive-thru. Wow.

Yeah. Advertise. They try to advertise during a tornado. Yeah. Swing through running any hard as bathroom. But before that bathroom, get the new steak and shake, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, and the quakes were always like these, there was one that was like a five something or a 6.5. That was like a pretty good, uh, rim shake. Yeah. Like you, you felt it. And then one at school, what I remember getting under the tables, uh,

And I remember, again, like you just follow blindly those types of rules. I remember we all went out to a field after. It was a bomb scare the same day as an earthquake where you're just like, I felt like your buddy on the edge being like, let me just jump into the ocean. Yeah. And because this day was not meant for any of us. And the bomb scare wasn't as crazy because we were all out on the field and everyone's just like business as usual.

Like waiting for the school to blow up. Joking, being like, hey, I hope that we get the summer off. A good goal, if a teacher, they made up the bomb scare and they're in the field and then someone just runs out of the school and they go, turns out the bomb's in the field! Everybody back at the school! And then you're like, no! And then everybody has to leave the field. Whoa. And you're like, I didn't know. Didn't think about that. Yeah, what if the bomb, yeah. Because they just hear bomb and they go, everybody get out. It's like, maybe we should locate where it is. Yeah. Yeah.

They don't touch. Go to the field. It's actually right where it is. I don't know if I ever had a bomb skier. We did. Really? Yep. When we go out and the kids say the same thing. Was it dynamite? I hope it's real. I hope it's real. Was it a dynamite skier? He's older, so they used dynamite more back then. I love that. Yeah. I think it is.

They're building the railroads. They're building the railroads. Guys, there's a TNT box over here. And you're like, is there? When Sputnik went up, y'all were doing... Are you taking away my mic? Oh, sorry. I was trying to... What else you got? This is an Aaron's best day. This is all from Wikipedia, so you can tell me. Approximately 60% of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metro area, which consists of Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue. Sure.

Yeah. Bellevue's like the nicer part of town. Lake Forest Park, where I grew up, is like a decent, quiet suburb. Bellevue was very... They had a comedy club there. They did. Parlor. That's where... The parlor, did it close? Both of them. The downtown and the Bellevue. Yeah. So the Bellevue one, last time I was there, Tacoma Comedy Club. Tacoma's a great comedy club. Great. And that's where my dead horse story came from, was Tacoma. I was supposed to do that in a couple weeks, but they're not at the proper phase yet to get something on, which stinks. Yeah, it's...

I love Tacoma Comedy Club. And they have great jokes where... Because their streets, it goes up a hill.

like every street is just a hill yeah and so every block you have to walk straight up a hill a lot of seattle's very hilly yeah and so i mean you're walking there and i think i had a joke about there's a lot of homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk and it's like but it's just people that are so tired that they get up one block and they go i'm gonna sleep here then i'll i'll try to get up oh yeah eventually to my house that horse story crushed i remember when you uh were at the paramount with with rock

You did it. Yeah. I want to say that was like pretty fresh too. It was very fresh then. Cause I remember, uh, you know, complimenting it and, and you being like, yeah, it's still working it out or whatever. I was like, Oh yeah, cool. That must be. That was my, uh, with Paul Allen was at that show. That's when I went to, yeah. So I knew Paul Allen and, uh, yeah. And then I did a show for him.

at a, this big private cruise. Uh, it was in the whole insane. I've talked about on this podcast before, but a crazy corporate gig I did. And then we met him and he was the nicest man ever. Uh, and so I told him, I told him like we were in town and I was like, we're with Chris rock. And then, so he came, it was funny. As I remember after the show, we get done, we all walk upstairs and then, uh, he just comes in the elevator with Chris.

Because it's like, I mean, dude, he's a billionaire. So it's like he just goes. I mean, when he... Oh, he ran Seattle. He ran, yeah. And when someone got that much money, dude, like they have more money than these cities, these countries. The crews that went on, we'd go to countries. He would have more money than that country. So he has to have secret service type security. But we went to the Seahawks game.

That Sunday? Yeah, Kristen Goh. But we went and we sat in his box with him, and they honored him for 20 years of owning the team. That was that? That was that day. I was in the box with – so they gave him the award on the field, and then he came up and sat, and we all just sat there and watched the game with him. And I talked to him for a little bit then. That's amazing. He was like – you would talk to him. He's the guy that you would talk to, and he –

you'd feel like you're like, all right, I need to probably walk away. Yeah, wrap it up. And then he would keep talking to you, and you're like, oh, do you want me to stay? You don't want to overstay your welcome. Yeah, you got these chocolates if you want to explain. Yeah, his family is wonderful, and his sister. Oh, a bunch of team now, yeah. Yeah, they're all very nice. So I'd always talk to them more than him. But he was a super, super fun guy. You could really have a lot of fun with him. Would he comment on any jokes or ask comedy questions? Yeah, he would. I mean, on that cruise, he would bring up something funny.

I figured we did, we went something. He's like, I know this isn't a Walmart, but I hope it's good enough for you. Like it'd make a funny joke about that. The attempt. Yeah. I love. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you're like, I got so much money. He's probably got riders for him for that cruise. Yeah. Yeah. And maybe somebody did give him that one. He almost, so on this cruise, there's only 200 people on it, but he had his big yacht.

you know, that his gigantic yacht, there's like a famous yacht that he had. Wow. And he had it behind, he almost brought it to travel behind the cruise ship. Yes. Because he can get kind of, he's like an introvert, right? He doesn't want, it can become, everything can become a lot. He wouldn't escape room. Yeah. And so he almost was like, well, I might need, I might want off this cruise ship. By the way, it's only, it had, it was 1,500 people could be on this ship and there was only 200.

And so it's like, it's not, there's a lot of room. So he had a helicopter too, by the way. The octopus. Is that what it was called? The ultimate Irish goodbye, getting on a helicopter and just bouncing from your own party. Yeah. Thank you. Did I ever tell the story with this, with Derek Trucks? So I met Derek Trucks, Tedeschi Trucks band, his wife, Tedeschi. And then Derek Trucks, Derek Trucks was, is a child prodigy with the guitar. He was in the Allman Brothers at 13.

and his uncle was in the Allman Brothers. And so he's, I mean, he's a phenom and we just could do this out of the gate. And he's one of the, he's, I think he's already, he's about our age. I'm 41. So you're 38, probably in the middle of us. And he's, uh, he was already ranked top 10 greatest guitarist of all time. Uh, he's that good. And so he, him and Paul, and they, they all became really, they, he was doing these kinds of stuff with Paul for a long time. So they'd go to every Superbowl with Paul. And, uh,

He goes down one time when they're in Miami or somewhere, when the Super Bowl is. And so Paul's like, come down. And this was when Paul was going through his first chemo and cancer, so it was really tough. And so they come down and hang out, and he brings his son. It was just him and his son could come. And they go, and then Paul's like, there's another guy coming with his kid, and y'all can just hang out a lot. Because Paul was kind of hanging out, but he was going through cancer, so he'd have to back away. And so...

they goes, all right, that's cool, man. And so the other guy that comes is Brad Pitt. So it's Brad Pitt and his kid. So Derek had no idea. So Derek's just now hanging out with the Brad Pitt and his son though. And they're just all on this big yacht. Uh,

uh, octopus shot. And so they, this is, they're doing a shuttle launch too, uh, during that weekend. So Paul goes, Hey, do you want to go see the shuttle launch? And they're like, yeah, man, that'd be cool. So what, so they get on the helicopter on the boat, they fly to a plane and then just fly in the air to watch the shuttle launch from the air. So it wasn't like, Oh, we're going to go over to where it's at. No, no, we're going to watch as it goes by us. Yeah.

And it was just like such a crazy, like, all right, such a wild trip. But he was like that kind of guy that liked the cruise was he wanted all these people that are, it was high tech people that would invent all these, you know, some guys are other billionaires on the, the guy. I remember that your phone zooms in and out with your fingers. That guy was there. That guy was there after a show. I do the show. And then the, I do a show and, uh,

We get done and the guy's talking to me. He's like, you know, typical after a show, like, great show. And you're like, I appreciate it, man. And then one of the girls that works for Paul was like, hey, just so you know, she's like, that's the reason your phone zooms in and out is that guy. That guy made that. And you're like, oh, that's cool. That's the this guy. Do you feel pressure to like...

Then go back and be like, dude, thank you. You know what I'm saying? To really... Oh, to really... Because dude, because I... Well, he would have more than me. I mean, I'm using it right now, man. Yeah, you're zooming in now. I mean, they had... I mean, you know... Stevie Wonder was also one of the performers on this. Oh, wow. I mean, it was...

a ton of really famous people, but it was cool to be on it because he, what he did is he wanted to give these people a normal experience. You want to go see a cruise ship? Uh, I'll give you, and we did a, Harry Shearer was on it. Like we hung out with him. Awesome. And then, so we would go, you would go just do a typical, like it was a cruise ship vacation, but with these, uh,

famous people. So you were performing on this? I performed on it and then it went good so they asked us to stay, me and my wife to stay the rest, like for nine more days. Was it, were you nervous for that, an eclectic group of people? Were you like, dude, I might take this away from my phone if I bomb or like? Yeah, well, so I didn't really meet everybody before. We kind of saw them here and there. Better that way. Yeah, and then, I mean, but we're definitely seeing these celebrities. Like hey, the Handy Snacks guys here. Well, me and Derek Trucks kind of hit it off with his wife and

Laura, my wife. And so it was funny as me and Derek trucks are in the South trying to see on a yacht with all these people talking about the Jaguars and Titans, which no one, cause he's a big Jags fan. You're like, dude, there's no one in Nashville talking about this matchup. Like nobody cares about, uh, but yeah,

It was... The experience was unreal. And then after I did the show, it's like then everybody's like, oh, I know what you... You know where they're like, oh, I get it. You're very funny. So then you're just hanging out with everybody. Because they saw you... And Quentin Tarantino was there. Oh, my goodness. Very funny. So I had to do another show again, which I might have explained all this before I came here. But I did another show again, and Quentin Tarantino came out. And right when I got off stage...

he came out of the bathroom and he's like, how'd it go? And that was his joke as he watched the show. But it's very funny to be like, oh, how'd it go, man? I missed it. And you're like, oh, well, it went pretty good. He's like, I'm just kidding. I was out there. It was great. You know, very funny. Wow. Yeah. That is, man, that's why this...

So one time me and captain America and, no, I'm joking. Uh, but, uh, that the inventions of the things you don't think about. Yeah. There's a kid in my fraternity at USC that had a house party at his house and we're driving up through the neighborhood and, uh,

And it's like, he's like, yeah, Shackler's over there. Denzel's over there. And this is like, I haven't been around any. I met, kind of met, accosted Larry King at the movie theater like a month prior. Yeah. Where he was with his nephew. They were at the snack machine.

and i was a little stony baloney and i was like hey larry big fan and he was like oh thanks and i was like you getting some snacks just lingering shouldn't have said anything but in my head i was like i gotta say something no you don't yeah and so he was like i'm with my nephew do you mind and i was like i just got interviewed by larry king not at all and my buddy pulled me away but so that was my only encounter up until that point that's such a i'm with my nephew do you mind you're

And you're just going, do you have any snacks? Didn't know when to pull out of the story or the moment. And so we're driving up this hill and it's becoming very apparent that money is not an issue for people that live in this area. So his house is bonkers.

And, uh, I mean, a couple of screening rooms, uh, closets with multiple guitars, like probably 30, uh, in each closet and a big guest house, just bowls of cigarettes at every station. And, uh, and finally I'm like, yo Miles, what does your dad do? He's like, oh, you know that, um, thing for the batteries. You do that to test if the battery like has any juice left. I go, yeah. He's like,

That. I was like, what? He's like, no, not that. Do you know the game of cricket? I was like, no, I'm joking. It was the battery thing. The battery thing. But I'd never think about that guy. Yeah, and that guy is crushing it. Yeah, but like, you know, I wish my brain worked in that way where I saw those small

Yeah, you always think it's just a company that probably just kind of slowly evolved, but it sounds like it was just one dude that just kind of invented it. One dude. Yeah, he probably had a team, but maybe not. I'm sure he did it when he came up with the idea. I want to come up with a snack that just changes the game, but I don't know what that is. I feel like every year there's a... And it doesn't even need to be healthy, just something that's so... I mean, you're dipping Pop-Tarts in Cool Whip. You said that's pretty innovative. Yeah.

Cool with flavored pop tarts? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Based on Nate saying, yeah, nervously three times, that's not really going to push me through to the prototype stage. Look, I think the audience would love you to hear more spitballing. Uh, I got to read the room better. Yeah. Like Larry, I feel like Larry King over here. Hey, do you mind? I'm with my nephew. Oh, let's get some more Washington facts. Uh,

I do love his response. Do you mind where your nephew? Oh, I got interviewed by Larry. It's a very funny. He chuckled when I said that too. I'll never forget that because that was like, he's like, that's gotta be good. He gets it. He's like, he's got a great sense of humor, you know? And, and, and I didn't feel as, because I remember, you know, obviously I still felt very embarrassed and, and you know, that I was giving him a hard time or whatever, but seeing him chuckle, I was like, okay, cool. That wasn't a complete bomb of a moment. Yeah. Yeah.

What's some more Washington facts? Mount Rainier is the third tallest mountain in the U.S. I believe it. Let's keep going. One day, what is the joke? It doesn't have the energy of a one or two. Mount St. Helens, when it erupted, it was the largest landslide in recorded history. Yeah. How did you feel about that when that happened? I can't stop thinking about it. Yeah? It was a big day? It was a big day. What day was it? It was the same day as the bomb day? It was 1980. So, before you were born. Two years before. Yeah. Yeah.

Rob Markman: Was your mom, does she always bring it up? Always brings it up. She's like, "You know what?

Mount St. Helens. Yeah, actually. You're lucky to be alive now because we had Mount St. Helens. I do remember hearing about it in, maybe it was just a day of school where it was like Seattle history and seeing footage of it. Pretty crazy. Definitely made me never want to go. I mean, 57 people were killed. Yeah, I mean, it's such a thing. This feels like it happens in the middle of nowhere. You don't think it's going to happen in one of our major cities. Well, it wasn't in Seattle, but...

I'll be honest with you. I don't know where Mount St. Helens is. It's pretty deep south. I forgot we're doing all Washington. I thought this was a Seattle thing. Is this near the Beatles Hotel? This is Mount St. Helens? The base is where the hotel is.

Yeah, I mean, it definitely made me go, oh, I never want to, I don't know, climb a mountain. 47 people died. I mean, how many people die on a normal volcano blast? 47 to me is enough. Like even when, you know, people. 57? Yeah. Still a significant number. Like when people got, I think there was like three people that got E. coli from, was it Jack in the Box back in the day? Yeah.

That was enough for me to be like, cool, I guess. I'm a Wendy's guy now. But it was like, oh, just get the fries. What? Yeah. And then, you know, Phil added some jokes and improv stuff. What's the next quote we got? Washington. New Mound, St. Helens again. The state is typically divided politically by the Cascade Mountains. Western Washington's liberal, Eastern Washington's conservative. But since Seattle's in Western Washington, the state always votes liberal.

Y'all should meet at the top of the Cascade Mountains and hash it out. What about up there is where all the libertarians are? They're like, we don't think anybody should be involved in anything. And it's just that this one ridge. Yeah. It's pretty Eastern Washington. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I feel like it. You feel that way? Yeah. I don't. I guess I don't.

Have you ever met a conservative? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So there is conservatives, yeah. I think so. I think you think of Seattle like super. It's very progressive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is. Yeah, for sure. I mean, there's...

I mean, it took over part of the town. So that's a good sign. A lot of people letting you merge on the freeway. That's always a good sign. Yeah. Yeah. No state has gone longer without a Republican governor in Washington. Wow. Yeah. I mean, look, you know, we were the first to legalize pot. What do you guys say about that? Yeah.

Yeah, you guys are... You're assistant suicide? You're ahead of the game. Yeah, euthanasia is one of the first, right? Yeah. Encourage suicide is the next step. As you start seeing commercials going, hey, can you not get through this? Maybe, then maybe call it a day. Don't fear the Reaper, dude. Don't fear the Reaper. That's playing underneath it. I usually find out about...

or learn of a, uh, how conservative someone is, is if they try to pitch me a joke after a show, despite where it is. Yeah. Um, I think I was in Ohio and this guy was like, he's like, I liked all that juice stuff. I mean, it was literally one bit, but, uh, yeah, it was significant enough, uh, yeah. For you to remember. Yes. Yeah.

That's what the track on the album is called. Yeah. Yeah. It's easy. Just spell it out for him. So he goes, he talks a lot about jackets. Like it's still, it doesn't even make Jewish jackets. Yeah. So he goes, he goes, what's a, what's a Jewish dilemma. And I was like, or first of all, he asked, he's like, he's like, you want, I got a joke for you. If you want to use that, I was like, I'm good, man. He goes, what's a Jewish dilemma. So I was like, I don't know if you're, yeah. And, and I go, what? He goes, a free ham sandwich. And so I gave him like a, Oh,

yeah, yeah, I can see, you know, no laughter. And he was like, right? I was like, no, no, I didn't laugh, you know? And then he was like, you can have that. Thanks, man. Yeah. And so I opened with it. When he said, what's a Jewish dilemma, you should have said this. Where were you, Nate? I know. I just pop up around the corner and you're like, hey, how long you been here? I'm like, dude, I come here every week because that guy asks everybody. Oh,

The largest building in the world by volume is in Everett, Washington. The Boeing factory. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. 98.7 acres. Huge. Yeah. It's a building? What's in it? Oh, Boeing. Yeah, the airplanes. I guess you do need a big... Make it pretty big. Everett, Washington, home to the first nightclub I went to. I don't think it's there anymore. Also home to my brother-in-law, Tim, rapper name Derte. Look him up. Yeah.

Yeah. That's your brother-in-law? Yep. Is the rapper? Yes. Oh, wow. And he lives in Irving. And I love how you said the rapper like you've already heard of him. Yeah. I've never even heard of Boeing. So it's, yeah. Yeah, Everett's a, it's on the up and up. Yeah. I don't think most people would guess it's the largest building. That's a big building, man. That's big. I'd say, I'd guess it was up there.

Yeah, but I mean, you think about tallest, but that's the largest. Here's Everett. In the world? Yeah. Wow. Here's Everett. You were like, oh, the Beatles stayed at the first hotel in downtown Seattle. Everett's got a hotel where you're like, oh, I think the Barenaked Ladies stayed there. It's like that type of. Yeah. Which, no knock on the Barenaked Ladies. There's probably a better. Aaron, do you want to defend Barenaked Ladies? Are you upset about it? Yeah. I like the Barenaked Ladies.

We have the same taste in music, dude. We do. Yeah. Well, you're really trying to come around now after that, too. You're going to start liking it. You're like, that hat's awesome, man. I'd love to buy a hat. You should just dress like Adam the next five years. Yeah, you're doing fine. Yeah.

I'm dressed like a kid who was guest starring on like a, like boy meets world. But then halfway through they rewrote the scene. They go, we're actually not going to shoot your part today. And I was like, Oh cool. But there's a Nickelodeon game show. You can be a contestant on. Cause that, you know, I think you're just like, you walked in restaurant and they said, you got to wear a collar and you go, well, do you have a shirt? They go, yeah.

And then they give you that shirt. Wait, wait. These are the equivalent of emergency clothes? Did you ever have that at elementary school where you would fall in the mud or poo yourself or both and say it was mud? And then they go, well, here's... Or if you forgot your lunch, they would give you emergency lunch, which was half drink, milk, and like a grilled cheese that was a week old. And it wasn't cheese. They were like, it was just melted chocolate, but it's bright now. And so the clothes were always like... I had to do it twice. And it was a purple...

tank top, no, purple turtleneck and black sweatpants. I would never wear that. And so not only do I have to come back from recess and lunch in that, I got to wear it the rest of the day and wear it home. And I remember, I mean...

you might as well just go, well, let's just announce it on the loudspeaker. It's the same thing. And everyone knows it's emergency clothes. You hope, or everyone's just like, oh, I guess he just wasn't feeling what he came to school with, and he wanted to mix it up. Maybe he's trying to get Jennifer to take that bear. In the locker room in third grade, you went to the... Yeah, why are you dressed like a concert pianist? We can edit that out. Go ahead. What's the next one? One too many. That's all right.

Of the four major North American sports, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, the Mariners have the longest playoff drought. Yeah. 2001. Yeah. Last time they went to the playoffs. Yeah. And the only team now, I think, in baseball or professional sports to not make it to, well, the only baseball team to not make it to the World Series after the Nationals won. Is Ken Griffey, so he's the most loved. Oh, yeah. Itro, though, he's got to be a favorite. Very beloved. Yeah. Itro, I mean. Edgar Martinez. Edgar.

just got in the whole thing. Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson, I love. Even though Randy Johnson screamed at myself and a bunch of other kids when we ran at his Bronco at spring training in 1995 trying to get some autographs. Oh, you ran into it? Ran up to his, he pulled out, all the players post-practice would pull up and it was kind of a no thing. Yeah, you run up, but kids, there was about probably 50 of us deep just charged and he goes, back away from my

I'll never forget it. That's not an impression or an over-exaggeration of a 6'10 beast screaming at children to back away from his vehicle. Literally, the window was down. We came running.

Didn't even know fully what he said because his diction was bad. But it was the equivalent of a fastball verbally. And everyone backed away. A lot of kids needed emergency clothes. And I just stuck my ball in his face. So I was the first one to get an autograph. And I still have it because everyone literally backed away to where I was like, and he was like, one at a time. Yeah.

What's your name? I was like, oh, you just put your name. I saw autographs. I'll put Steve Poole. All right. Anybody want this ball? You got the Steve Poole baseball signed by Randy Johnson. Oh, man. I wish that was the case. There's got to be a lot of celebrities that tell stories and it's you.

Like you have, like Larry King's got his story. Like how's your fan interaction? Larry King, Steve pool, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddox. I mean, they all have some crazy. I met this one guy once and it's all, that's what if it comes in? How do I get a special?

built around those guys. It would be amazing if you could find, if we could somehow find out if they remember any of those stories. And get sound bites, even if they don't. Even if they don't. But it's like the idea that if all of them had one and they all remembered it and you're, I mean. And it's not the way it went or do you want it to line up? No, no, I want it to line up but I'm saying like it's just funny to be, I mean it kind of shows like you're

at where you're at where you're like you were memorable like you know you have a you have a funny story with all these great match like yeah this guy wouldn't leave my kids alone Greg Maddox I would almost think remembers that Randy Johnson could have probably yelled it he's yelled that before I was not the first kid that month he yelled at no he yelled him all Larry which sadly we would never know but Larry King Larry King would I bet would remember could remember that that was because it was such a funny unique kind of thing totally at the movies with his nephews you're gonna I mean he got a laugh yeah Larry

Yeah, and Greg Maddix, I think, would. Wow. Steve Poole, I mean, I think he's like, ah, dude, I hand it out. I mean, hundreds. You think you're special? You think you were the first fat Jewish kid I gave a headshot to? Yeah, yeah. Seahawks fans set a sports record for loudest crowd noise during a Monday Night Football game. Yeah. 137.6 decibels. On the Beastquake, right? On Marshawn Lynch's epic run. No, this was a Monday Night Football game.

- Hmm. - September, 2013. - Yeah, well, thanks for having me on guys. - Hey, are you really from there? - That's what does it for you. - Yeah, that place gets loud. I remember Bill Burr gave me a hard time once about, he's like, "You guys like built the stadium to have it be louder. You like pumping crowd noise in there." And I was like, I mean, it's just a lot of people get fired up about the team. "Ah, the seats are like built to like absorb noise." - Yeah. - Well, that's what everybody thinks.

It might have been. Paul Allen might. It's designed. I think it does like acoustically trap all the sound. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In a music city, we're all about the acoustics, the 12th man. It's real. Yeah, it's not about the sound going up and out. It is to make it be louder. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

uh gonzaga university is based in spokane has number one team college basketball yeah there it's crazy i was there oh you were so my buddy's brother uh is mike nielsen and he was on the team in 95 that went to the i think grade eight of the sweet 16 but the farthest gonzaga biggest it put gonzaga on the map it was matt santangelo richie from casey calvary is that before adam orson yes okay it's what paved the way for adam orson and dan dickow and just all those greats and uh

And so I went to senior night at Gonzaga. It was crazy because it was their last game. It was before that run, which put them on the map. It was a big deal in Washington State, all over, really. Changed everything. I mean, Gonzaga was, I've never heard of Gonzaga. No one's ever heard of Gonzaga. Now Gonzaga's a top school. Did they win? I don't remember one at all. No, they've just had player on player that's changed. It went to the finals when you're. Yeah, Adam Morrison's year, right? Yeah.

I thought they won a couple years ago against North Carolina. Boy, that... What a... Look at this guy, man. I mean, how do you be... This is why sports...

There is just no guarantee in any of these businesses. Because what a college career. Yeah. And couldn't even... There's guys you could probably think of that go, oh, man, they made a splash for a couple seasons. Yeah. And either injuries got in the way or off-court troubles. I don't think he ever... He also got drafted by a team. Got a big payday. Did he really? Yeah, I mean, because he was drafted, I think, early. Mm-hmm.

And by the way, I went to Charlotte and then he got, did he, I don't remember, but he, uh, I want to say, and then he got, and then he went from there. Boy, Randy. I mean, I love those pictures back to back. I feel like Adam Morrison is what, what should have happened to me after I got screamed at outside the van. It's long hair mustache. Don't care. Yeah. You know,

I'm actually surprised I turned out halfway decent after getting just scolded. I mean, yeah. I think you're very positive. Yeah. And so like that's – So I probably looked at everybody and be like, guys, he's having a bad day. Yeah. I mean, Randy's just lucky that you were one of the kids. Totally. That could probably calm everybody down. Y'all might have mobbed and flipped his truck. I mean, I think that's what he thought was going to happen. The strength of 50 kids is a lot. Yeah.

You know, it really is. Yeah. Don't doubt 50 kids together. Anyway, with their mind together, they got one goal, one guy yelled at them. So their main goal is to end that guy's driving. I just had this flash of you as a motivational speaker, but you only speak to groups of 50 kids. Yeah. So you're like, I'm telling you the power of 50. I'm starting movements. Power of 50. I'm starting movements with kids. Power of 50. But most of the kids are like, look, Nate, you're great at speaking. We get the message, but at any given point, there's not going to be 50 of us together. Yeah.

And then you go, this was a waste of my time. And I'm only going to talk to kids that are willing to travel in packs of 50. Yeah, willing to. They'll never be stopped. Eastern Washington plays on a red field.

And the only Redfield. That feels like one we could have skipped out. What's the next one? Yeah. I mean, we always have a few. You know that vaccines cure people? We've said that before. And we asked if animals have ever invented something. Well, that I would love a follow-up to. Yeah. You don't think that's interesting? They play on a Redfield? Yeah, I do think it is. Did you know the field's named after a guy you know?

Who? Michael Roos. Oh, really? Oh, really? Michael Roos donated $500,000. It is kind of Michael Roos. Yeah. So there you go. Pullman. This is Washington State. Oh, Eastern Washington. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. They've got a, it still feels like something you should have told me after the show. And I would have been like, Oh, that's cool, man. Yeah. One of those throwaway facts. All right. That is a cool field. Boise is blue and they're red. Yeah. All right. We've talked about too much. I'm trying to now stretch it out now. It's cool. It's one of those things that doesn't, you know, they have a track around it. I've never seen that except every field ever. Now, what would be your followup? If you were in a, let's say you're at a barbecue and somebody brought that up,

right? The way that we just were on the receiving end of, and you felt the

you know inadequacy of like oh boy that what a weird fact but I don't want to make this guy feel bad let me piggyback on it yeah get like act super interested what would you ask like oh I wonder if it's tough for them to see like you know what would you I would be like I think the burgers are done I would just get us into I'd get into a different pack yeah focus on the food yeah all right let's get some Nate will be interesting Washington has more Bigfoot sightings than any state in the country okay by far there it is there's the map yeah

I mean, 676. No one's even close. I mean... California's second. Come on, man. And this is where I just go, all right, let's...

Like, let's tone down some of the progressiveness and the weed smoking. Like, this is the other side of the Cascade Mountains. I mean, yeah, these are, this is, there's a lot of Bigfoot fans here. Are you really? Yeah. So you're going there. I think there's a lot of guys. You don't believe in Bigfoot. There's a lot of guys out there looking for Bigfoot being like, yeah, you ever heard, Hey, what's a Jewish dilemma? I think there's a lot of that going on up there.

Yeah. Look, here's what I'll say about Bigfoot. If you're Jewish and looking for Bigfoot, that's a pretty big dilemma. You got yourself in a situation. I think, honestly, I don't, I like the idea of believing in it for sure. Yeah. Do I think Harry and the Hendersons was based on a true story? Yeah.

Do I want to? Yeah. Do I want to think that somewhere there's John Lithgow met the real guy that was like, I had to tell him to go home. Yeah. And he's like, it's crazy. You sound like me. But there's a difference between believing Bigfoot and thinking Harry and Henderson is a documentary. Have you ever met anyone who said they spotted Bigfoot?

No, but I've seen Finding Bigfoot in which they don't. You know who does, which we will do another Bigfoot. They're always like, hey, there's a footprint. We're going to do another Bigfoot episode. I'd love to be there for it. Well, you're not now with that attitude. But another fellow Washington, Jeff Dye. Oh, I know. He knows everything about him. He goes to the Bigfoot, all the conditions. But is Jeff going to be our barometer for Bigfoot?

It's, he's opened enough to, I mean, dude, he's going to these conventions. Like he's, you know, he's into it. Jeff is a great dude. Great comic and a smooth talker. Good looking dude. Um,

Yeah, I don't know if everything's clicking up there. Oh, I totally agree. But that's why I love him. But that's why I love him. And he's more street smart than book smart. But he even announces that, which is why I love him. That being said, I think I need to be... That's why being here for that next podcast you guys do and getting some more firsthand accounts, meeting somebody, if I could see it in their eyes and not have to...

Also, these aren't the guys I'm accustomed to that say that Bigfoot is out there. Again, the guys on the show usually look like they themselves... They saw themselves in a mirror. Yeah. And they're like, there it is. Yeah. Or they... I don't know. I guess I just... For the record, one of us is more of an enthusiast than the other two. For sure. I'm way on board. What would you do if you saw him? You ever think about that? Oh.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you would just be in disbelief. Yeah, because then you want to go back with the story. But that's the thing that's hard is those... Look, look at these 676 sightings, and that's just there. That's the most. 445 is in California. But, I mean, you add that, that's thousands of people saying they saw Bigfoot. And so... Why don't we hear about this more? How come there isn't... Like, I feel like that's a very... Because the government doesn't want us to know. No, it's... It's because if you think it's crazy, it's, you know, it's like, I don't know, it's...

there's no real proof besides these sightings. There's nothing concrete that you can go. It's a hundred percent. This you're always, anytime you see a picture, it's like, I don't know, but all these people see this stuff. I mean, dude, there's a, I mean, we aliens, we all kind of believe in aliens now, right? A thousand percent. Why can't there be a Bigfoot? I mean, aliens opens the door to everything. Yes. And so you're like, maybe there is. And there, what the idea of it is like,

The more logical thinking, I think, is that it's kind of like an ape. It's like something that can stay well hidden. There's animals that we don't know, we never see. Jaguars.

I think Jaguars or Black Panthers, you don't see them in the wild. They're very good, and there's not that many pictures of them because they just don't get seen. I know. I think because we have so much access and there's so many nature or Discovery Channel docs. No one really goes and tries it. That's what I'm saying. I think we cast the wrong guys to try to find them. Yeah. About the show, Finding Meek, but I think those guys are –

are more of like when they were making the show like these are the guys that would be fun to that you would think would go but it's like I don't think they're literally I saw one episode I think it was like season finale yeah the end of the series uh or season and spoiler alert they didn't they didn't find it and he the guy went to the edge of the cliff and just went like oh yeah which was like the bigfoot call and then he was like oh which I was like

Somebody told him as a joke, like, here's how you find them. You just do like a bird choking on some mac and cheese. And he does that. And I was like, what was he hoping that Bigfoot would just be like, hello? From down below? So then he does that. And then steps back and then just looks at his buddies and goes,

he ain't here. And I was like, that's the attempt. It's finding Bigfoot. Not let's take a stab and bird call into a crevice. So, so that was, that just kind of took me out of it as far as like, you guys don't even want this. You don't even want to find it. Yeah. Yeah. But also I think to your point, and again, I don't not, I believe in the, I want to believe it. So, so I, again, because I think there is something to be said about,

to piggyback on what you said about that, just because I think he doesn't want to be, or she doesn't want to be found. Right. I think there's, and just because we haven't seen footage, maybe there is, maybe there are creatures that are better at eluding. Oh yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, when's the last time you saw Ving Rhames? Yeah. Yeah.

You know? The Bigfoot expert. Kind of stays out of the public eye. The guy we had on the podcast said he doesn't want to see him. Yeah. Just out of respect for him. He goes, I want to. Well, that's lazy. Yeah. That's okay. Who said that? Am I remembering that wrong? No, you're right. He said, I don't want to see him. I don't want to. He wants to go and be around him. He wants to hear him. But he. So that's like, I don't want to meet my hero type thing. Yeah. I think so. Which that kid said the same thing after meeting you as Wolverine. Yeah.

before you ran over it before you ran over it yeah by the way there was I just remember this thing too about one night I was doing an open mic at the comedy store after a shift as Wolverine and there was a family there just at the potluck show like who was staying came early and was staying for like the regular show after and recognized me and the guy came up to me and was like hey you were in our family photo today and showed me I was like dude you gotta let me have this please can you separate I'm at the movies with my nephew laughing

You just use the same. You should start using those lines and all the stuff you've been told. I know. Get away from the car. Back away. Triggering, man. Yeah. I bet Randy Johnson knows where Bigfoot is. Oh, yeah, dude. When you're that big, you got access. He talked to me about him, unlike you. Randy Johnson ain't going to cut me off. That's why we're having Randy Johnson on the next one. You can find him. That's it. We got to renew it. Yeah, we're aware. Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon. That's it. Yeah.

those are all your sponsors yeah yeah yeah we get paid two thousand million dollars a day oh wow look at me are my parents back together just so gullible oh those were things of seattle related those are things we didn't get to i literally was like yeah our sponsors are amazon microsoft and starbucks hey everybody go to starbucks today i mean what that was our ad read at the end you still are yeah what this is a uh

I've watched a lot of these and I was very pumped to be here. No joke. It's great. You guys have a great crew. I'm a big fan of the crew like this. It's a good size. You guys are all like the flow is good. This area is incredible. Yeah, it's a fun... You got a big backyard, which just seems like a lot of fun. The cul-de-sac's cool. Mm-hmm.

You get to stay in cul-de-sac. You got an extra room I think I can stay in. You can stay in here. We have a Helix mattress you can sleep on. You can stay if you ever come here and you need to crash. I'm about to get a Helix mattress for the About Last Night podcast. Yeah, yeah. Is it great? It's great. They're going to send... By the way, what a... Unwrapping it is the funnest. Me asking you, your sponsor, is it good though? Yeah. I go...

I'm like, hey, between us. This has been great. We're going to now cut most of it out. No, yeah. No, Helix is... No, Truby is awesome. All the comics stay on. And they're going to send...

They said, which I'm very- Unwrapping it, we've talked, is awesome. Be sure you record it, film it. Yeah. Just like the way people unwrap their creams and their- Yeah, well, it's vacuum sealed, so it's just- Compressed in. I mean, it's crazy to see the box that it's in and then becomes a mattress. It's pretty crazy. Wait, so it's like it's all scrunched together and then just- It's vacuum sealed. It's like opening a life raft. Vacuum just- You know how they put the thing in the plastic bag, use the vacuum, sucks the air out, and it kind of- Oh, okay. Like a life raft, like you said. Yeah. Yeah.

I basically just, I just said, I just explained vacuum sealed like longer. I got, you're like, I don't know what that is. I go, all right, well, you know, it's a vacuum and then it's, you know, you seal it. And you're like, you know, seal the singer, right? Yeah. So they have nothing to do with each other, but he invented it. Yeah. Huh? Hey, we're here to say your parents are back. Yeah. I'm that gullible. Yeah. Awesome. Well, you're, yeah. I'm so glad you were here. Man, this was great. Thanks for making time. Yeah. Great to see you. See you guys next time.

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