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[Assistant] Yeah, he just went, he goes, he moved it. McKay was just sitting there on the bench and then you got brought up. He goes, I'm bringing Potter in. He goes, and then McKay goes, I guess I'm out. He goes, McKay, it's your lucky day. And then Billy's like, so what does that mean for me? You know, and Billy's.


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[Assistant] Throw it out the back. I like it. Changed his last name, he's a big Harry Potter fan. Hi folks, first time commenter, long time listener. Welcome to the show, McKay Potter, because we've given you the full service. I went to the dentist this morning to get a cramp.


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[Assistant] The dentist had one of those TVs on the ceiling where you can watch Netflix. I put on Greatest Average American and the dentist was giggling the whole time. Pretty uncomfortable to have the dentist laughing while holding a drill in my mouth.


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[Assistant] That I made it out alive and you got a new fan. He said he's going to listen to the podcast. So keep it up.


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[Assistant] Well, welcome to the show. That's awesome. That's awesome, man. That is. I mean, you know, if he's, if he's laughing at it.


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[Assistant] Yes, McKay, could you write us back, could you ask your dentist, I mean, someone's going to, anybody truthfully will let us know and we'll let you know in the comments. Uh, what happens if you put cortisone in your mouth? We're not going to look it up.


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[Assistant] We get everybody, and so let's get some from experience and then maybe just from, uh, some doctor stuff to figure that out. Uh, uh, alright, uh, Scrib.


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[Assistant] Uh, with today's endless amount of content across multiple platforms trying to find a book or audio book, our podcast takes forever.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I even give up before finding something. It's hard to find something, honestly, when you look for something. But now, I have it. I go to one place script.


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[Assistant] Uh, SCRIBD. With Scribd, you get instant access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more. You also get thoughtfully selected editor's picks and smart recommendations based on what you read, which makes choosing your next book that much simpler. Wired tech crutch.


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[Assistant] And Forbes has called it the Netflix for Books, which is great. It's like a streaming service for TV today.


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[Assistant] Uh, they have access to so much content at our fingertips. The same thing goes for books. Instead of standing in front of your bookshelf waiting for a title to jump out at you, sign up for Scribd. You get instant access to millions of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more with all with one low monthly subscription.


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[Assistant] Uh, right now Scrib is offering our listeners a free 60 day trial. Why would you not try it for that?


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[Assistant] You're a musician? Yea, how crazy is that? I mean, it's such a good idea, like, uh.


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[Assistant] It's like, just to have all this stuff, like, you know, you get, uh,


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[Assistant] I mean, just reading magazines and stuff, the news. Yeah, it's like just easier to get to. It's all in one place. And then, I mean, people probably do it just in the, just magazines, even they weren't reading all these books. I was even thinking about, cause I was been looking for some, uh, new books. I was into reading these military books.


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[Assistant] And like, uh, I watched 13 hours again and I was like, oh, let me go read something about that. Like, I just end up like, and so it's like, you just go there and you're like, well, I can look at it like the Netflix, like, and then I don't know. You know, it's hard to find stuff when you go to bookstore.


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[Assistant] That is, so you would type in try, then just a dot, then SCRIBD.com slash Nate to get 60 days of Scribd for free. Very cool. Uh, and final Vivint, Vivint, we, we have a Vivint door.


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[Assistant] Uh, most secure systems can detect crime, but can yours actively prevent it? That's what Vivint does.


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[Assistant] Uh, when it comes to home security, every system I've looked at can detect somebody coming to your house, but I wanted something that would actually stop them before they even got there. When it comes to home security, it's important to have the best


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[Assistant] That's why you have got to check out Vivint. They make the best home security system money can buy.


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[Assistant] But don't take my word for it cause, uh, USA Today and US Newsweek picked Vivint as 2021's best overall home security system and TechCrunch says don't do DIY, uh, don't do it yourself. Oh wait, hold on, I'm messing up this.


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[Assistant] They says don't DIY your smart home security system. The pros at Vivint are totally worth the cost. Basically that, I can't even say that word.


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[Assistant] So you don't, don't go put your alarm system together that does nothing. Just have the pros come do it. That's what they do, man. It's nothing better than they come fix it. They've been there for over 20 years. Vivint has put home security first. Vivint's smart home security system that is custom built.


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[Assistant] Uh, for your unique home that will give you peace of mind.


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[Assistant] Uh, security cameras, and we have the doorbell camera they sent us. My favorite feature is seeing who's there and not having to, you don't have to get up.


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[Assistant] You know, cause a lot of times if someone's dropping a package off or something like that, you gotta think, you gotta run there and you're like, oh, I don't gotta go up. Not only is Vivint the best home security, we are giving Nate land listeners the best offer you will find anywhere for Vivint home security system. If you go to vivint.com slash Nate and use promo code Nate, you will receive up to six months of free monitoring, mon, monitoring. Reza, how do you say it?


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[Assistant] Monitoring when you go to vivint.com slash Nate and you use promo code Nate, or you can even call them at one eight five five V I V I N T zero and use our promo code Nate on the phone.


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[Assistant] Go use them, help us out. Cause I don't know how to say, the main thing they do is just monitor. And so I learned that word.


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[Assistant] You're not a big doorbell guy. Damn, there's no doorbell on the bus. Why didn't you use the code to get in?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. You gave Ricky the experience.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, uh, so we, we had, so I mean today was, I saw, uh, you know, obviously I usually work out, uh, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We tried to if I'm in town and, uh, trying to turn a new leaf. I'm actually in great shape and, but I eat still so bad.


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[Assistant] It's just my, my body's like solid. It's just solid. My fat is like...


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[Assistant] We had a Krispy Kreme this week. Uh, we got, uh, I mean, Kevin Best is the best. So funny. I ate some of those Sour Patch Kids last night and, uh, we were almost out of them.


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[Assistant] I didn't really realize what happened, but I was like, I thought they were gone. And I was like, these are back to full. And Kevin noticed that we were down and sent us a new box.


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[Assistant] Uh, I looked at the box, I thought it was Arm and Hammer. So I started drinking it.


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[Assistant] What if we put bleach under the sink next to, uh, mouthwash?


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[Assistant] I wonder if that, say type in Ajax, Ajax to get your teeth wiped. I wonder if that was a common thing or if it's like your dad's neighborhood.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's just one of those. It's like giving like a baby.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Hershey PA, we'll be there. We added a third show on Hershey PA on that Sunday. So, uh, if you want to go Hershey PA, apparently a lot of, a lot of fans there, pretty,


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[Assistant] So we need to go work. Maybe we're trying to go Sunday because we have two shows Saturday and then Sunday. I think we have someone talk about golf. I think I'm golfing. I'm golfing Saturday morning.


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[Assistant] Uh, in D.C. And then, so I don't know if I could go golf in Hershey. I'd rather, honestly, I mean, I do not want to go golfing, but I would like to go see that because I've never seen there. So let's try to go Sunday. Do the Hershey, what is it, Hershey World?


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[Assistant] Uh, Hershey World is like, you go, that's, uh, I've lost a lot of, a lot of stuff on this. You walk by, you see di- because now you've lost weight, so you go look by Diabetes Grave and you go like, ain't gonna see you anymore. That's where gout, the gout's buried.


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[Assistant] Uh, and all the things that you conquered. Uh, the, uh, he used to have a gal. Oh wow. Might still have it. Afraid to get checked. He is 1800s. Yeah, he fits right in.


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[Assistant] We gotta go see Gettysburg. That's true. Would we choose Hershey's over Gettysburg? I think we might just because we're in a town.


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[Assistant] Uh, may, well, I got a golf that morning. It's going to be, we got to get there. We have two shows Saturday. Uh, and we'll be in DC. We're coming from DC. Uh, but maybe we can, yeah, cause I want to, we, so this weekend we were in Portland, Maine. Awesome, awesome town. And, uh, they, uh,


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[Assistant] Portland's a, Maine's a, it's just very, very pretty up there. And so we got up there and, uh, and so we ended up having one day off, Northampton, Massachusetts, which we apologize, Northampton. Uh, they canceled that show. They canceled it on us.


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[Assistant] Uh, basically the day before, uh, is when we kind of found out about it. And so we couldn't go, they're doing other shows there. I don't, I don't, you know, who knows? The guy said it was because of COVID, but they were doing other shows in the town.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I, I don't know. I don't, you know, I feel bad. I don't want to just trash the guy. There could be a reason he had to do it. Uh, or he thought he had to do it. Uh, so we're going back June 5th. Tickets are on sale now for that show. We're going, uh,


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[Assistant] That place, I'm sure is a wonderful place and it just worked out. It felt bad for everybody. I mean, we were very excited to go to Northampton. Uh, we were, I mean, we're out there. We want to go do a show and that's why we ended up going to Mohegan Sun. Uh, so, uh, we will be back there, uh, June 5th, which they have to wait again. Uh,


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[Assistant] So sorry, uh, but, uh, we were there and actually, some of that was gonna come, the Batesville.


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[Assistant] Uh, and so Batesville, they were going to come to that show that gets canceled. We then invite, so we, they, they, but she lives in the middle of Connecticut, Torrington and Northampton. And, uh,


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[Assistant] So we were like, she messaged Nick, we, I talked to her and then so we're like, well just come to Connecticut. She was like, I think lived closer to Connecticut and we're going to go meet and do some meet and greet. I was going to meet her and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, not RM, but just with the venue and like, it was just a kind of a thing and, uh,


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[Assistant] Doesn't make it, which is, which we, as Bates told her is just perfectly on brand and even makes it, I mean, sadly, but Bates is not even here today. It's all, it's all just kind of comes together. It all kind of works out. Uh, and I mean, cause I wish she will, she will be at a show. We will meet her.


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[Assistant] So I'm not worried about that. It's very funny to be the Batesville one. Batesville podcast doesn't make the show. You get in all kinds of baits.


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[Assistant] Yeah, very excited. Uh, so, uh, yeah, she was wonderful. Very, she was very nice that we messaged with her. And so we will, we will, we will meet Batesville, uh, next time we come through. I, yeah, I mean, it's just perfect though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, she calls you Mick. So Nick, it's called Mick. We had some let's go folks yell it out. We talked about that last week though. Like I love it. I love it every time they yell it out. I mean, it's built perfectly.


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[Assistant] And so it's a fun, uh, it's a fun, fun time. And that, that means great. The Aaron jacket, Aaron and Nate's jacket. I mean, that's perfect. That's perfect.


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[Assistant] Uh, so very funny. So yeah, so we had, uh, yeah, I mean, this, so this morning was talking about, so I was supposed to work out. I didn't tell it till, right? So nine four, you usually work out nine 45 in the morning, which I'll be honest with you, honestly, I usually roll out. I mean, I am waking up and working out within sometimes three minutes of waking up. I don't know if that's good for you.


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[Assistant] No, no, I just throw them on real fast and we work out in my driveway. And so I just have to walk out there. But I mean, I come out and I mean, it's like, I always wonder, is that bad to be, I am dead asleep and then within three minutes I am sprinting up the cul-de-sac.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Oh, I don't have water yet. Uh, so I go, I wake up, pee, and then I'm sprinting. Zero to a hundred. Yeah. All within seven minutes. Yeah. Yeah, that's a lot. And then lifting weights. I mean like, yeah, but it's just, I try to wake up at nine. I'm trying to make myself get up at nine.


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[Assistant] And 9am's a tough one. It's, I'm trying to make myself, I wanna go.


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[Assistant] I wanna be like, 9am would be perfect. I'm not gonna go to bed at 1, even 2 and get 7 hours and just set the alarm for 9. But it's like, I don't fall asleep at 2, it gets hard, especially we've been now, and so this morning,


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[Assistant] I set my alarm for, uh, I was set it for like nine.


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[Assistant] I never, I don't hear it. Laura comes in at 940. I remember it was like 942. I asked her, I go, what time is it? She goes 942. She goes, they're out there working out. And I don't know what I thought. And I was like, all right. I go, okay. And then, uh, I wake up at 1120. I mean, I slept, I went to bed, probably fell asleep close to two.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so what is that? Nine hours, nine and a half hours. Uh, I think I, we, I was just, I think that I needed that more than I needed.


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[Assistant] To work out. I wanted to work out. I just, you know, we were, I was very tired last night. We were all very tired last night. I've been going, uh, since we started this tour as Seventh. I've only had one day home since then.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's just been, you know, it's hard to get back to sleep on the road. And like the weekend before we had double shows every night. So I mean, I wasn't going to bed till four every morning. And then, you know, some nights I'd just wake up at 11. Sometimes I'd have to get up at like nine or 10. And, uh,


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[Assistant] And so it was, I think that my body was like, it's just over, it was like done.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean last year, last night we went in and tried to play some golf and...


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[Assistant] And so we ended up having to spend the night in Torrington. So we found, we just went to a parking lot and parked the bus, uh, and had the greatest night ever. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was, it was like 65 degrees.


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[Assistant] Uh, 63 degrees, you know, you wear a hoodie or you could wear, you know, some short sleeves. And we went out and played poker. Ricky, Ricky wear a bus driver. This is his hat. He was in the Navy. And, uh, so Ricky saw me wear an Air Force hat one time and he goes, I gotta get you a Navy hat. And I kept asking, I was like, where is it, Ricky? You told me you would get it.


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[Assistant] Ricky gave it to me, so here it is. Uh, and so Ricky was out with us.


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[Assistant] We gotta chase, sells our, sells the merch. 22 years old. He's, uh, we, but we think he's like a Benjam button kind of thing. And so we think he could be 80. Cause he knows like too many things. Like we play poker and we're like, you know, I play poker and he's 22. Like I'm learning poker. I've been playing for a month.


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[Assistant] So at 22, I'm like, well, he doesn't know about poker and he knows everything about poker.


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[Assistant] We're all, we're still like, what? My tour manager, uh, which I think I posted, if you want to follow Travis on Instagram, uh, I think it's Travis on tour 13 or something.


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[Assistant] And then he, uh, yeaah, you can look up that. So he's been posting a lot of stuff kind of behind the scenes. There might be a dash in there too, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uh, but he's been posting a lot of stuff, uh, no, that's it. Travis on tour 13. There you go. Uh, so he's been posting. So that was our, uh, so that's just the poker thing. Yeah. So that was us in the venue. Just, yeah, those three are good. And you can go look at more if you want to go look at it. Uh, and so Travis on tour, uh,


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[Assistant] Look at that top part though, the Instagram with the- Uh, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Just the very top. We had, that was the, the, uh, what's it called? The flop or the river? The river. No, but it's, that's the river, right? So the river is the thing that's all in the middle. And so if you look at that, it's like, can you click it?


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[Assistant] Oh, what do you call the thing in the middle then? The fly.


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[Assistant] And so you don't call it, that's not the river, that's a lake, lake of coral.


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[Assistant] I mean, we, we pulled the, we had a table, Travis bought, had some poke, Travis is very, he's good at poker too. And so he plays, uh,


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[Assistant] I always say with Travis, Travis, if he ever gets low, he just looks at us like an ATM and he just goes, all right, I'll go get some more money now. And then he just gets it. And then he's like, Travis will be like, you're like, I think he's going to lose this time. Like we did one night and then, and we do, it's a very fun, we do $20 buy ins.


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[Assistant] We had music playing. I mean, no one was really around and it was just like, this is, this is what it's about. Like, you know, and so we've been posting stuff yet. So if you want to go follow Travis, uh, is me and Travis grew up together, uh, went to high school together and, uh, he's now my tour manager and he's been posting a lot of, uh, behind the scenes kind of stuff. Uh, so Travis on tour 13, so you can see stuff.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not posting that he, he does, uh, and you see Chase when you go by merch. Chase is great. Ask him. Ask him how old he is. He thinks he's, I just think he just knows too much, man.


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[Assistant] He's like, it's, it's, he knows everything. It is like a reincarnation thing. It makes you think.


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[Assistant] He looks 22. But that's why we think it's the Benjamin Button. So we think he's on the back end. And he's lived a life. And so he knows everything more than us.


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[Assistant] Just an old soul. I mean, the stuff we think he knows is poker and video games. Those are the two things that we were blown away by video games. We played, we played NBA 2k, which me and Nick always have a running game. And, uh, he's like, yeah, I'll play it. Just.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. He said it's gonna be a big cortisone talk. And I'm like, I dive into that pocket. So, uh.


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[Assistant] So anyway, we ended up having a wonderful weekend. Northampton, we're back. Portland, Torrington, Connecticut. Two great shows. We met some wonderful people. Brent, I think Brent Stark was his name.


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[Assistant] I believe it was Brent Stark. And then, uh, yeaah, it was Brent, though, and his son Austin. Uh, they took me golfing out there, we went with them, and it was, uh, I met his family afterwards.


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[Assistant] And so it was, it was, it worked out. I get a lot of messages about golf and people always ask, uh,


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[Assistant] I, yeaah, look, I wanna try to, I don't always see em, and, but if you, uh, email, you could email, I mean, you could email the podcast, nateland at natebargetzi.com. If you have a place, uh, to go play, sometimes I get to play, sometimes when we have two shows, it's actually kinda hard for me to play with two shows.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm, I try to play and I can't say we're always going to get back to you, but if it can work out, I mean, I went and played with them by myself. Like I don't mind playing with, uh, you know, sometimes maybe I'll bring one person with me and then you bring two people. It's fun. You get to meet, you get to meet some people. It's cool. Uh, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a fun, fun time. These dudes were great. They played great. Uh, and so it was, uh, I got it. Austin, I showed him how I read greens.


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[Assistant] Felt great about that. Probably don't even do it right, but he, it made sense to him. And he actually just wrote, he's, he's, uh.


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[Assistant] Oh man, how old was he? He's in 8th grade I think. And uh, he broke 90 for the first time. After he did my green putting method.


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[Assistant] That's amazing. That's amazing. Sold out. Sold out quicker than mine. Sold out. He's got three or four. I only did one. That's the thing. Yea, he only did one. That's true. But sold out. Can you believe that?


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[Assistant] Uh, were you featuring for Dustin? Yeah. Uh, so he was, so man, can you imagine that? That's, that's, that's the highs and lows of comedy. Of comedy. He headlines the right one.


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[Assistant] Yeah. That's great. Okay. He opened for Kathleen Madigan at the Ryman. Yeah. Okay.


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[Assistant] I mean that was everybody, everybody at home gotta watch that. Just to be like.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. It's so funny to think. I've done some gigs like that where I remember I did a show, there's a guy, I've actually seen him, he works for the FBI. And we got a tour of the FBI last time I was in DC. And I did a show at his house.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was in San Jose. San Jose, a weird city that I've been to quite a bit. Very early on. I don't know, I actually haven't been back in a while now. But very early I went to San Jose. I was like, that was one of the most cities I've been to.


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[Assistant] And, uh, just opening for people. Angela Johnson a lot.


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[Assistant] And, uh, she's from there, so that's a big reason for it. And, but then I was able to have a corporate gig up there. It always just ended up being there. So he asked me, uh, to come in there and, uh, headline at his house and he had.


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[Assistant] A little microphone, little tiny room, you know, like 20 people in there. It was great. Uh, and then I went from, I flew from his house to open for Fallon.


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[Assistant] The next night. So within 24 hours, it was just a, I was in front of, it's just so, it's like so crazy.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's so funny to be like, that's what you end up doing is like, you're just in this kind of like, and all, all are great shows. But you go in and you're like, all right, I'm in front of 20 people and now you're in front of 3000. And you're like, just as I talking to 20 people.


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[Assistant] C.M.T., uh, over here, C.M.T. Comedy Stage, hosted by Melissa Peterman. A lot of funny great, uh, comics were on it. First TV credit I got was shot in Nashville. Uh, everybody on the show thought I worked for C.M.T. That's how much no one knew me.


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[Assistant] I go and do that as a Nashville is very cool. Everybody got to go to it, my family and all that. And then I go back to New York and we've talked about barking on this show. So we all barked or you barked early. Then you ran the club. Uh, and so we were, uh, I went back to barking after that.


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[Assistant] And I remember just thinking, I was at the Village Lan- not Boston, but as the, I think Boston might've been already wrapped at this point. And then, uh, yea, we were at the improv. And then so, uh, and so I'm having to hand out flyers at the Village Lantern and I was like, I was on TV.


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[Assistant] I just did TV and that's how much, the little they thought of CMT.


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[Assistant] They would still use my credit to get everybody in. This guy was on CMT and I would tell them that I was just on CMT. Would you like to come to the show and then have to bark them in?


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[Assistant] You put me on it. Yeah, you were in it. Yeah. Uh, Boston Comedy Club, uh, so we, I, you know, I've talked about, uh, how we started in here. And what's cool is you're getting to see this is it. This is how we started. Dustin, at that point, uh, was running the Boston Comedy Club.


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[Assistant] And so it was a, it was a huge part of my career is cause we, when I came to New York, I started, you know, in Chicago, I took the comedy class, but then I got like the real comedy class of learning.


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[Assistant] I always say, and it's kind of sad because I don't, there's, there's not much of it anymore, right? Like that kind of, that kind of mentoring or


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[Assistant] In the fact, I always thought it was like, I got very lucky to be able to start. So if you've seen the show HBO Crashing with Pete Holmes, Pete Holmes is also with us all starting. And, uh, it was very, it's like, you know, it's just pretty rare to get that.


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[Assistant] Like we got, like, you know, we had to pass out flyers, so you have to earn it, but you feel a lot more ownership in your career now.


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[Assistant] I do now and the fact that you had to kind of go through everything.


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[Assistant] And so you had to be like, we're out there, you're barking for the show that you're going to be on.


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[Assistant] And you're learning about these comics that, you know, before you get there, I don't really know who Bill Burry is. And everybody's gotta realize, someone said in that article they called, uh,


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[Assistant] He was calling Bill Burr and Patrice up-and-comers, like in the Atlantic Arnold, cause they said that. But when I started in 04, they were up-and-comers. That's what he meant by that. Like they were, they were the up-and-comers. They were the ones that were, you know, on the rise, been doing comedy 10 years and like kind of starting to get like, you know, but no one knew them.


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[Assistant] They weren't selling out. Cause we would go, I would see Bill Burr. I've watched Bill, we all watched Bill Burr and Patrice. I mean, watch Bill Burr at Caroline's. They, they have a curtain in the middle. I think I've talked about it. They closed the curtain because it would either be a really, it could make it be a room for a hundred people or it could be a 300 seat room.


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[Assistant] Uh, when the room is so big and then it's like if people are just sitting there and if you close that curtain.


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[Assistant] Uh, and so a lot of clubs started doing that, but I mean, we saw Burr, I mean, I remember going and you could just walk in and there was 40 people there.


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[Assistant] So this is all, let's just set it where it is. So uh, the West Village.


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[Assistant] Uh, I remember we saw Dennis Miller. He's actually told Dennis this story when I was on his podcast. I got his autograph there. Yeah, yeah. Remember I told him this story. I said, we saw you come out and we, uh, and I remember we were all like, we need to go make him try to go up.


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[Assistant] Do you want to, you can just, we're like, you know, and that was one of the greatest things I think I liked the most. And one thing that I think it's a little lost now, uh, something that you did that I always liked.


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[Assistant] Is if something like that where Dennis Miller wanted to go up, you were like, you want to go up now?


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[Assistant] You would make it so easy for, which he said no, but I mean this time he's, I think was, uh,


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[Assistant] Dude, there's like, so sometimes comics like, uh, they, you know, they get upset about it now. So they get bumped. They're like, oh, why am I getting bumped? It's like a guy's doing comedy for...


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[Assistant] Five years or four years or three months. It doesn't even matter. And you're, you're like the ego to think you don't get, should get bumped is crazy. But getting bumped was part of the thing that I wanted to get bumped.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I got bumped by Dave Chappelle. How great of a story is that you get to go home and be like, are you doing it? You're like, I mean, Dave Chappelle went up and I didn't get to go up. So he was on the stage and I do shows on that stage.


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[Assistant] Do whatever he wanna do. Now, we watched him in front of seven people.


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[Assistant] It wouldn't be like that for long because we'd go outside and be like, Dave Chappelle's on stage and it would fill up.


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[Assistant] I'm not kidding. I watched Dave Chappelle once walk out and he had a hoodie, he put a hoodie on and he almost ran into these two people. And, uh, just cause he didn't see them, cause he's, you'd come down these stairs and once you come out and these two were walking, he goes, oh, sorry. And they were, uh, no problem. And then they, he ran off. And I always think about them, like, they don't know, like they could've been like, that was Dave Chappelle.


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[Assistant] You know, like the big thing when he left was like, it was like almost like he was too, it got too crazy and famous and it was almost like a Beatles kind of thing. Like, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just everybody yelling at him and, uh, and we had, below it was the Bagatee Inn in Boston, which was this Irish, uh, bar we talked about this weekend. Uh, Wild Nights thing. Yeah. Got a little crazy down there. Got a little crazy down there. You would go underneath it.


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[Assistant] I mean, so it was, it was the, uh, the, uh, so you gotta, uh, where's that wine thing? It was, uh, uh, Western. So you go up to McDougal and make a right. Yeah. Okay. Well, one thing, it's like two, yep. Keep going. And then it's, uh, stop right there. It's either.


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[Assistant] Where was it? The wine thing? Where it's the Amity Hall? Is that it?


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[Assistant] Right here. So that's it. That's it. So that's it right there. So it's basically on third and Thompson, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I would, and I would bark, I'd go bark at Third and Thompson a lot. And I would also...


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[Assistant] On that intersection. There you're kind of in front of the club, so you're actually kind of working the club to that spot. And then I would also go down the corner of McDougal.


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[Assistant] And third street, which the seller was right there and that was the biggest.


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[Assistant] Yeah, where would we go bark? Cause then you'd have some turf war on barking.


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[Assistant] So like that, so that's the, the idea of like, so I'm, eh, you know, people have always, this is the most explanation I think I've ever given it where we're showing maps and stuff of it.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is, was not there when we first started. It was there, but it was a, uh, music.


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[Assistant] Yeah, both two amazing places. I mean, the Cellars obviously still there now and the Cellars, you know, obviously the most famous club in New York. But there's the fire.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the fire, uh, yeah, that's the restaurant, right? Yeah, the fancy restaurant. The fancy restaurant is, uh, where you couldn't, you would just see famous people walking out.


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[Assistant] So that's what I would say, like, that's why...


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[Assistant] I wouldn't trade, I mean I almost feel bad that the new comics don't have what I had.


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[Assistant] Because I just don't think they would have got, they would have learned. I always consider myself a New York comic because I mean that's where I was the most. That's where I really learned. I was in Chicago at the beginning. Chicago was very important to be in.


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[Assistant] I mean yeaah. And just hearing him, like it was crazy to be, I'm just from Nashville, I'm talking, and then the world just opened up. Cause then you're like,


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[Assistant] You're in it? You were doing it? Like it was just, I mean you couldn't ever imagine these worlds would come together. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] Amazing. They had, yeaah, so, uh, the boss of the Boston Comedy Club was, uh, it was such a big deal.


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[Assistant] For me, like I said, because it was like handing out those flyers. So you're having to earn, you know, my dad loved that. You know, my dad, he would have magicians because he knew a bunch of magicians in New York.


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[Assistant] Cause you know, my parents were having to, you know, I mean, I worked at FedEx. I mean, that was such a crazy time because I would, we, we'd hang out to Boston till three in the morning and then I would just go home to Brooklyn. We lived in Brooklyn at the time. And I'd go to Brooklyn. I'd go to FedEx and work there.


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[Assistant] Uh, at 5 a.m., and so I would go to bed at 5 to 10 a.m., then I'd go to bed at like noon and sleep until we had to be back at 6, 7.


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[Assistant] A lot of my time at the beginning was just like, it's 24 hours. If you're doing something, you're, you go sleep. And the other route was to go do open mics and do that kind of scene, which I hadn't Sven Wexler, who I moved there with.


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[Assistant] By all these clubs, if you got passed by them, you could call in the veils. So they get you calling every week. Hey, I can do, uh,


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[Assistant] So you'd call in the VALS and you'd be like, I can do Monday.


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[Assistant] Tuesday, Wednesday, I can do after 9.30, not before 9.30, uh, and I can do Friday, Saturday, I'm wide open. And so you'd call the Vails in for the Econoclubs, and they would tell you, call in all over the city.


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[Assistant] And then they would come back with you and that's how your week would be built.


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[Assistant] And so then you would look at it and you'd be like, alright, so I gotta go here, here, here, all these different comic books.


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[Assistant] Uh, but being at the, the Boston was handing out those flyers and then.


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[Assistant] They'd want to hug him. So every, he was the hug me guy in the Dave Matthews band and everybody would know him from that. Ben Bailey was there before he did, hosted Cash Cab. Way before. Way before.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, over cash cap. Yeah, when he got it, uh, it was such a big deal. And we're like, golly, you're just watching these people do it. Aziz Ansari, I don't know if he came to the Boston. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I went up there. That was the craziest barking. I went up there.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And then they would, I remember barking in Times Square. That was, that's the wildest thing you're ever doing. I mean, I was, that was the first thing I think I did. And then I came to Boston.


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[Assistant] So I was like trying to figure it out and Pete said, Boston, he goes, Hey, come down here. And, uh, he was like, it's great down here. And then I remember being in Times Square. I mean, it's just.


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[Assistant] Cause you know, well, you're coming, like you, you were a guy from Texas that's in New York City. You know that shot. It's such a big shot.


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[Assistant] They treat you weird, and so you're like, I gotta make sure this dude, you know, Vic Haley was like that, Vic Haley.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, bless his soul, uh, but he was, he's from Alabama. He went to Auburn and he was super Southern and he was like kind of a older, you know, he was with Jeff Foxworthy. And so he was a comic that I remember first time I went to, uh,


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[Assistant] Comedy, the comic strip, I bought a ticket to go. We just moved to New York and we're just trying to see the shows. And Vic Kenley, I remember, they called him. He was at his apartment. Someone didn't show up.


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[Assistant] And Vic Hilling comes on stage and was like, just tell us. He goes, I was in my apartment watching TV and I get a phone call that's like, yo, whoever doesn't show up, can you come?


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[Assistant] And everybody's laughing at that. And I remember as a comic, that was one of the...


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[Assistant] Almost best things I could have ever seen. And it was my, it was my first kind of thing, it was the first...


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[Assistant] I want to say one of the first shows I went to, and just to hear a guy


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[Assistant] And be like, everybody else just is like, oh, that's crazy and funny. But as a beginning comic.


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[Assistant] It was such a big deal to me to go, this is where I have to be. That's crazy. That guy was at home and now he's on stage in front of everybody at this famous comedy club. I was like, I want to be that.


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[Assistant] How do I become that? And it wasn't like, I'm not like I want to be Madison Square Garden. I just want to be that. How do I get to be at home and get a phone call and now I get to go do comedy at the comic strip? Like one of the most famous comedy clubs in the world.


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[Assistant] And you're like, God, how do you do that? And so then you're like, well, there's steps to get to that. So obviously, and then we started, then we go down there with you, and then you're at Boston, you're seeing people, there was levels. So it was us that were barkers.


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[Assistant] Uh, who were you saying? It was me, Devanshi Patel, who's writing now in LA.


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[Assistant] Jamie Kilstein, Jamie Kilstein, John F. O'Donnell, uh, Pete Holmes, uh, Ali Breen, uh, Bart, I think Ditchie, maybe towards the end. Yeah. Yeah. There's a few we don't, that were all, yeah, that was, yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, you'd have to make your own flyers and we go there and then it's, uh, we would go there and sit and do it. And it was, you know, and it was, yeah, it was such a.


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[Assistant] New thing. And so I were there and you would like talk to us all and you were like, all right.


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[Assistant] We got to, let's get people on the show tonight. We would always get to go up last and so.


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[Assistant] Depending on, that could be from midnight, maybe even if you're lucky it was 11, it was a night where not a lot of people were there. Not audience, but like not a lot of comics dropping in. And then so you go up from 11, I mean possibly 2 in the morning.


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[Assistant] The show would run from, that I love the show ran like that, and I think places should run it like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, or, you know, Comedy Star doesn't do it, but it was perfect because it was the opposite of what the other, there was no shows. There was, during the week, it was, show starts at eight, you can show up at any point.


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[Assistant] All night long. So it depends on how many people we would have stop by would depend on how long. And I think you were one of the first comics that treated like the Bill Burrs and the Patrices with the respect that they weren't getting anywhere else because they weren't known, but they were starting to be known. And the fact when they would come in, you're like, yeah, yeah, we'll get you up in two.


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[Assistant] Greg Giroldo, which I mean, you know, it's like you, it was, they were guys, Louis CK, Louis CK was probably oh four or five. He was like, kind of like Shane was right.


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[Assistant] He was kind of a big deal. I mean, he's probably selling out carolines at this point. About to start selling out the guard and all that stuff. But he was, he was the top outside of Chapelle.


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[Assistant] They hit about the same time. And then, uh, so seeing, but I mean, you would show that respect to like,


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[Assistant] Ben Bailey would come and he was a big comic.


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[Assistant] Even though he's not hosting Cash Cab, but you would, those guys would get to, they could come, they knew they could come at 10.


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[Assistant] If you're, uh, uh, comic-less-ness in New York, if you're at Caroline's and you gotta go...


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[Assistant] And you got subway was just so much faster and you could do it. And, but then sometimes you're like, you know, you're making.


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[Assistant] I think we've talked about it. So you'd get $25 a spot during the week, uh, Sunday to Thursday, uh, 75 to host during that week. And then, uh, weekends, you'd get 125 to host a show because the idea was if you're hosting, you always got paid more because you couldn't go run around and make money at spots.


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[Assistant] Somebody good, yeaah, somebody good. Somebody good to be hosted. I mean, you go, the host dude, I mean, we watch people headline care lines, and there's, there's comics that are hosting, they're better than the headline.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's the real deal, like, maybe people, they're not famous. I mean, they could be like, no one knows who this guy is, but you're like, he's a better comic than the guy you're coming to see. The guy you're coming to see is just famous. Vikinley goes up, is, I mean, a warrior that's going up every single night.


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[Assistant] But you would get so then that 75 for your on a weekend spot. Sure. So you'd run around, you know, and you know, I think if you were, you could balance it out. I mean, you could probably make.


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[Assistant] If you worked every weekend, that was the grind of New York was just so tough. But if you, once you got past the clubs, I mean, what do you think? Two grand, 1,500,000, two grand a week. Like you could probably make, uh, if you got a lot of spots that you worked for.


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[Assistant] On the weekend. On the weekend, yeaah. You'd want two during the week, two, maybe three during the week, Sunday to Thursday was good. Yeaah. And then Saturday and Sunday you wanted it, you needed at least five a night.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So it's like, so then, yeah, so you could, yeah, like that's how you would really make your money. Cause, uh, so you really had to go during the week, you like at least needed to do two. And then, uh, the weekend was like, at least you need to go do five. Yeah. Uh, but most of us would go to.


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[Assistant] So the, I wanted, I wanted to just say the levels of it. So, alright, Barker was the very bottom level. So you're handing out these flyers, you're getting, your payment is stage time. Which is, I mean, it's just a beautiful thing.


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[Assistant] It's the love of the game. That's how much we love it. We don't care. I waited tables. Remember the time I had to wait tables? Oh, did you do so much for me? You did all that stuff.


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[Assistant] The servers didn't show up. Yeah. And, uh, so we got to do a show and I'm like, well, I've, I mean, I just waited tables in Chicago and in Nashville. So I was like, well, I know how to wait tables.


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[Assistant] And so I, I waited tables and then I went on stage and did my five minutes and then got off and then, uh,


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[Assistant] Just cause you're older, obviously, but like, then you're like, you're like, I mean, I was like, I can wait tables and I was like, and he's like, great.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is great. When we went to New York Comedy Club, uh, I would check all the girls out cause I knew how to.


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[Assistant] I was always, I was a barker and then your, your big move up. So yeah, it was work waiting at tables and stuff like that was like the first kind of thing you can do. So I came in as barking. So I was doing the barking and barking. You just wanted to get to the point where you got to stand at the door.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's when you meet everybody. Chappelle is walking through, everybody has to walk through the door. Yeah. Yeah. And so you're like, how do I get off this corner? And I just want to get to, you know, like you were never making big. That's why a huge part of my career.


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[Assistant] Something that has helped me very much is I never had goals that were never unattainable because your, my goals were always just, I was, I didn't want to be on the corner because I'm staying outside and it's freezing. How do I just get to the door? I just want to be able to stand in the door because you're at least


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[Assistant] Get it kind of out of the weather. And like you said, everybody has to come through you and they ask you, Chappelle comes in and goes, how's it going tonight? It's going great. You get a response. You're like, I think he kind of knows me and you're like all this kind of stuff. And so you were, you loved it. So it was like the matter of just getting to that door.


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[Assistant] And then I think I ran Boston a couple of times, cause you, if you had a road gig, I was in it enough at that point. You ran it for me. You ran a lot of stuff for me. Cause you would start, you would, you were starting to get some road work. So you go do the road and so on a weekend or something, I would have to do it. My biggest fear was like.


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[Assistant] And so I was like so scared. What if Chappelle and Chris Rock walk in at the same time? I was like, what do I do? You had this crazy thing that I have to choose, which now you just know you let them choose. They figure it out. But I'm just, you know, I mean, I've been doing comedy. I mean, this point has to be, when did Boston end? Uh, I don't remember. Yeah. Was it 05, 04, 05?


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe the end of 04, maybe a little 05.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, Sholston, he was a Village Lantern guy.


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[Assistant] I met, I met, uh, Barry Katz in, uh, which Barry Katz did, Barry Katz was great.


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[Assistant] So 2004. Well Barry opened it and then he moved to LA. I'm maybe 25 years old or 26 and I have no idea that this even, I'm not thinking about it as an owner of anything. Like I can't even, I'm coming out of the subway and just hope I can find where the Boston is at. Like, you're, you know, and then, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's cool. I've never looked at that. Uh, but Barry Katz is a big manager. Barry Katz, I met him at Boston Comedy Club. Barry Katz did do, uh, was always very, very nice to me. Barry Katz was someone that you did want, you always wanted him to know you.


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[Assistant] And we let him do it every once and he'd come in by himself. And I mean.


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[Assistant] It would be six of us. He's just a great laughter. It was like someone that just was rooting for all of us. He just wanted us to make it. He loved comedy and he loved just seeing it, this ground floor of like, these guys are just chasing their dreams, man. And, uh, he, when I did a show for him once, I mean, I remember where we were like being like,


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[Assistant] Bob, I don't, I don't know if I want to do this, like we knew him. So we're like, I'm on stage like, Bob, I don't know if we can do it. He's like, you can do it, man. He goes, it'll be great. And his laugh, he was so good at laughing that you could do it.


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[Assistant] Because you could be like, he would just have this great loud laugh, he'd laugh to the right parts, uh, he was just a gem of a-


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[Assistant] All you needed was one guy. Yeaah. Yeaah. Yeaah. You just, you needed him. Yeaah. You needed him. He was, I mean, just a, just a, a one, the best dude. Uh, and then, so, yeaah, so, uh, uh, Barry Katz, yeaah, so he ran that. I don't know. So anyway.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that was like the idea with Boston. And then they had, so a big thing was too that happened at Boston. It was, I was there for that, uh, when Ted Alexandro and, uh, Russ Meneve, I think started the, they got, they kind of comics were going on strike for more money.


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[Assistant] That happened when I was there, and so they had all the meetings with all the comics, so they would all come to Boston.


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[Assistant] Yeah. What was it? I don't know, strike of 2004. It had to be four or five. Uh, uh, uh, something like that. And so they did it, uh, uh, comedy, what's that? Um, uh, comedians union. Comedian union. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So they're, uh, so the weekday pay at that time, which was about $15 to $25 a set, uh, as well as holiday pay for regulars, uh, would make up to $200 for a weekend gig, as opposed to the current rate of $75 to $125. I thought it was less than that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you weren't, yeah. Did you pay, we didn't pay you spots, anybody? Or weekend? Yeah, we paid. I paid. I paid like 16.


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[Assistant] Just trying to get an audience. Yeah. And then, so yeah, we didn't, we, yeah, there's, it's not a profit. Boston was not.


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[Assistant] So they did, it was a good, they were Ted and then they weren't going after Boston. They were going after the seller and they were going after all these places that were making real money and these shows are sold out every night. I mean, they were like, this is crazy. There needed to be a raise and they, I remember not going to this meeting.


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[Assistant] Uh, because I remember just, I was, I was barking and I thought, I remember some other barkers where we are other people like my level. I mean, I'm doing comedy a year, two years and they'd be like, I'm going to go. And I, and I wish I would have went just to see it for the history of it.


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[Assistant] But I just remember I was embarrassed to be like, I can't go in there. Like I'm going to look, they're going to be like, who are you?


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[Assistant] I knew my role. I wasn't deserved to get, I was like, I'm not in this argument. I don't know. I'm lucky I'm getting the goal. I'm lucky I'm almost paying to go on. You're just at a point where you're like, I don't deserve this.


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[Assistant] A lot. I mean, you're around each other every single day. Cause I went with you to New York and then I went with you to improv. Then you lived with me. We lived together. The three of us lived together. So, I mean, if it was, you know, I mean, I would see y'all, even when I got married, I would see y'all probably more than my wife. Like you're just around each other for hours and hours and hours. And, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, this, this was a great, the thing with it, I do agree. That's why I don't think we should have went. I agree with all that kind of stuff, but I didn't, I do understand that they were just trying to move it up a little bit. And, uh, I get that. They were just, because the clubs were starting to make money.


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[Assistant] Yes. Each venue, it did vary, but like, you know, I get the economy seller, like some of the bigger clubs.


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[Assistant] It was very, it was more of an underground kind of thing. It was more where you could pop in and everybody could get extra time. And so this was really kind of going after.


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[Assistant] That's kind of the other comics. I mean, I'm, Ted, I, something I've, uh, uh, something he told me a long time ago that I think about a time where I remember Ted would always tell me


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[Assistant] 90% of your work will come from other comedians. And like he said that, and that's never been more true ever. Like if, I remember hearing that at first, I was like, how does that even make sense? And then you just look around and you're like, well, I'm getting work because of you. I'm getting, you know, we go to, we thought we'd get work from you.


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[Assistant] We said about Nick, Nick, they go about Nick Giggs, we go, 90% will not pan out. So it was the opposite. Uh, but it was, it was like, that's all, your com, other comics with fellow, I, I opened for Greg Giraldo once. That was because, uh, I remember Pat Dixon would open for Greg Giraldo and they needed someone to drive out. I think I done just talked about this with, uh,


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[Assistant] I think I mentioned this, this tour, but like, so going out, so I got to, I got to open for Greg once and I get to sit in this big theater and watch him and.


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[Assistant] Uh, he rode in the car with us, he sat in the back, it was just asking him all these comedy questions, it was this magical thing.


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[Assistant] Greg Drawder was my guy that I got to sit, I would get, remember the seller, I would get paid.


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[Assistant] To just sit there in case he didn't show up because Greg obviously had a lot of.


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[Assistant] Demons he was fighting, and so it'd be, it'd come back and forth where sometimes...


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[Assistant] He would be cool, sometimes he's not, sometimes he'd kinda be off the rails and he wouldn't show up. So I would get to go sit at the cellar and just be like, is Greg gonna show up or not?


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I've, you know, I've talked about it on this podcast, which helped a lot of people, a lot of people at home do it. You're just around alcohol too much. It's just, it's just, your world is too much of this. The audience sends you free drinks. Yeah, you're on stage. It's a show. It's too much. And you realize like, I'm not going to get anywhere if I...


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[Assistant] And at the beginning you would go back and forth.


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[Assistant] When you first moved there, you're having a good time. It's fun. It's your college years and you're like.


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[Assistant] That 4 p.m., yeaah. I remember doing those camps just standing in New York, did a lot of those. You go perform for kids. I love those. They were great cause you, it was always so great cause you're like, you felt like you worked.


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[Assistant] You kind of just go run around doing more shows cause that's the kind that leads to is like stat. You kind of run the shows and then you kind of end up going like now you're trying to get past all the clubs. And, uh, and so then you're like, how many spots you do? Like I did five. Like you did, like you got a lot.


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[Assistant] The people that are going to do these shows, they're not normal people. Like they don't think about stuff.


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[Assistant] They will do, they'll be professional. Camp shows. But stuff's going to slip in. And the opposite of that was prom shows. Prom shows. Where you go, the show would be at 2, 3 in the morning.


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[Assistant] Okay. Well, it was good money. And then once you get to do it, you're like, oh, so you start, I mean, during prom season, you're, you're able to go to Caroline's like, I mean, after what you would get. 50 bucks usually. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That was like a good, yeah, I didn't think you, I thought you got a hundred or something.


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[Assistant] I think it was like a hundred, I think it was like something so crazy that you're like, dude, if I do these, that's like an extra hundred a night.


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[Assistant] Danger fields and stuff. I think might've even paid more than it might've been a couple hundred or 300. I just remember it was something kind of crazy that you were like.


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[Assistant] You're like, yeah dude, I can't believe I'm getting to do this. And then the other guys that were starting to do the road stuff were like, oh, I don't need that at night. No, it's not fun to be up at 3 a.m. I remember Vecchione doing one one night.


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[Assistant] And I mean, these kids would come in and the, you know, obviously no alcohol, but they show up. They somehow are finding it. And, uh, I mean, we remember we did a show and, uh, we're on stage and we just do the show. Mike, again, this girl.


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[Assistant] Uh, call the ambulance, paramedics, paramedics, come put her on a thing.


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[Assistant] But we can't send you home, the show's gotta go on. And yeaah, it was such a crazy, crazy time.


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[Assistant] This is the stuff that, that, that makes it all great. You know, you know, it's funny, I was just reminding me of Barry Katz. If you want to see him, if you watch Comedian, uh, it's about Seinfeld and I think I've talked about it here. If you haven't watched it, Comedian is on


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[Assistant] It's on Netflix now. It's perfect. It's one of the best.


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[Assistant] And then that's kind of, you can get a feel for what we were kind of going through.


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[Assistant] A little bit. You've seen it through Seinfeld eyes, obviously, but you see Ornie Adams, who's very funny and like, uh.


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[Assistant] Well they wanted to show to someone like Seinfeld that when they walk in he gets an applause and then they want to show, well here's what the other comedians have to go through.


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[Assistant] You see Orny get bumped by Seinfeld. Well that's where a bump conversation. That's the bump conversation. And Orny, Orny's a great guy. Like if you watch this thing, I know Orny now. Orny's an amazing comedian.


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[Assistant] Uh, very, very funny. Just destroys. And uh, is a great dude, but he's kind of the guy that you see in that kind of thing. He's just kind of that dude.


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[Assistant] Uh, talk to Ornie Adams, one of my favorite lines, very funny, Ornie Adams, cause I, you know, you've all been dumb and say something like this, where you go like, you talk about Steve Wright, he goes, yeah, what's Steve Wright even doing? And Barry Kasich goes, he won an Oscar. Like, and he goes.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. You always get kind of, uh, shoved into that spot. So yeaah, comedians on, uh, Netflix, uh, with Seinfeld. All Seinfeld's going to Netflix too, by the way. And, uh, so, uh, still haven't met Seinfeld. That's my one.


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[Assistant] No. I'm trying to do, I'm trying to like start to like ask around, like I'm trying to be like, hey can I open for, like I just want to go with him.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I need to watch it again too. Uh, I've watched it again not too long ago, but it's, uh, go listen to the commentary too, it's great. Uh, Colin Quinn. Oh him and Colin Quinn. It's so funny. They took out Barry and everything, it's so funny. Cut his hair, cut your hair man.


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[Assistant] They, so it's like, yeah, go watch it and then go listen and then talk about it. It's so funny. Go watch it first if you haven't seen it and then go back and listen. Uh, but it's with Orny, uh,


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[Assistant] I mean everybody would have been a little bit like, why does he get to be the one chosen?


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[Assistant] He was in the system, playing all the clubs, he was kind of past that point.


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[Assistant] And do it. Yeah. Uh, all right. We, this was a long two hours, 18. It's pretty good.


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[Assistant] We all remember different things. Stuff sticks out to us. So it's nice to be able to go talk back with us and just be like, oh yeah, I remember you remember this and that.


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[Assistant] Remember, you know, one of the worst bombings I had was at Boston.


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[Assistant] I remember that. I remember I had to go walk around afterwards and I had a green button down shirt and I had it tucked in and I never wore that shirt again. I thought it was the shirt.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember that night I remember as Boston, I remember I did it. I think it was so bad that like we had another show that we have to bark for cause it was on the weekend. And, uh, you let me just, you were like, Hey man, go just go walk around. Like it was like one of the, like you knew enough to go like, it was my first.


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[Assistant] You know, obviously at the beginning, you don't do good at the beginning, but it doesn't really matter because you don't know what good feels like. At that point, I've started to do good. Yeah. And so this is the first time I kind of had, well, everybody was, you think you're better than everybody. Well, they're doing good. I mean, I'm going to.


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[Assistant] Merrick. It's the first time you have that thought and you allow yourself to have that thought and then you go up there and it was...


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[Assistant] Out of all the bombs, that's the only one I really remember. Besides the shirt. Besides the shirt. What else did I do? Sure was you used this thing. I didn't wear it on the second show. Luckily back then I would wear two shirts.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright everybody. Thank you so much. This was such a great episode.


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[Assistant] Being able to catch up with you guys, obviously also, uh, you know, with Brian.


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[Assistant] Uh, Keith Bryan, uh, keeps his prayers for him, his family, uh, his wife's family. Uh, you know, I don't, we don't know everything that's going on, but just, uh, we're talking about where obviously we'll tell you guys is, uh, but, uh, think about him. Uh, Aaron, you got also Bates, what's his name, Bates has been out with Leann Morgan. He's doing a bunch of shows with Leann.


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[Assistant] It's great when they come out. Uh, we will be, uh, in, we're going to DC this weekend. Uh, yeah. So you're, cause it comes out Wednesday. So we're on our, oh, we're going to Norfolk. Norfolk, Virginia first and then DC, uh,


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[Assistant] Norfolk is Thursday, uh, I don't know where.


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[Assistant] No, no. The constitutional? The constitutional? Yeah, D-A-R. And then, uh, so I'm in, uh, yeah, where is my going?


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[Assistant] So it's Thursday, uh, yeah, look at the schedule. I'm, I'm very confused. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Uh, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I know, but, oh, cause two shows are in. Yes. Three shows in Hershey. All right. So I'm right. Chrysler Hall, Norfolk, Virginia.


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[Assistant] The D.A.R. Constitution Hall in D.C., uh, Hershey, Pennsylvania. First show, first show is sold out. Second show is close. And then there's a third show, uh, that we added on that sun, on, on Sunday, on the 26th. Uh, so you can go to that. So those first two shows are about to be, first one's gone, second one's about to be gone. And then that third show, uh,


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[Assistant] Go get tickets for that if you can do that. And then I'll be back doing another night in DC the next week of the 30th.


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[Assistant] And then, yeah, so we, I mean, go to my website, you'll see all the stuff. We're out. We're running around. Everybody listens to this podcast. I can't, you come to, you guys come to these shows, uh, whether you, a lot of you were, yell, let's go folks. It means the world. Uh, truly we, uh, as always appreciate.


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[Assistant] We'll never not appreciate you guys. We're, you know, we're not, none of us are owed any of this. As we told you the stories, we don't think we're, we're owed anything. And so we're lucky to even be here and uh, we will never take that for granted. Uh, thanks for sticking to the ads. We did four ads this time. We're keeping it. I mean, I, I think four will always be the most. I don't want to go too much on you guys. Uh, but it means a lot to how Aaron eats.


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[Assistant] It's like they get it, we, uh, we, and look, I'm only giving you stuff that I actually use. I'm not just trying to throw anything on there. Uh, and then, you know, we got to support your feeding window.


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[Assistant] Thank you. My, my, by the way, my earlier fact apartment joke, just so people heads up, I might be able to do that on stage. So if you hear that on stage, same, I'll just, that was great. Or Nick will, you know, if you come to my hour, I think I'm only, you can correct me, but I think I'm only doing, uh,


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[Assistant] Three things that I've something, some of them are just, they're now full jokes. And so on the podcast, you would have just heard me talk about it. I've now made them jokes.


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[Assistant] But I think it's only three, I want to say it's maybe three things, maybe four, but I think three that I can think of, which is pretty good for an hour. So I'm not, if you come to see the show, it's all stuff you never heard, but you probably be hearing this little fat, but the fat thing is just be a quick little add on.


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[Assistant] I don't, but I think I'll do it in Norfolk. So the Norfolk show, let's see how it goes. We can all see how, you know, be interesting. It's like a behind the scenes, like comedians. Yeah, it's like, this is like our own comedian.


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[Assistant] So thank you all, that all came out, again, uh, DustinChafin.com.


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[Assistant] Big into vinyl records, uh, does show, live in LA, do spots there. Nick?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. Make an amazing film. Yeah. The least group that's used, right?


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[Assistant] I'm going to say it's the guy that used to work with your sister who's the Bigfoot Express. He is. It is.


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[Assistant] From Lebanon. Really? Yea, he was in Panama City on his senior trip.


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[Assistant] He was out in the ocean and shark bit him. Was this the guy you went to school with? He's younger than I am. I went to school with his brothers. Okay. And his dad. I went to school with his grandfather. His dad's not much older than I am, I'll say that. His whole leg?


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[Assistant] Wow. That's crazy. It was like national news. Like all the way up to the hip. Craig Hutto was his name. This was, uh, late nineties, early two thousands. Wow.


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[Assistant] People love the states and they don't like it when we veer off, talk about other stuff, so.


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[Assistant] But I mean, we said we'd have Greg back from Missouri part two. I'm sure somebody will bail out here.


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[Assistant] The mules. I didn't know a mule was a cross between a horse and a donkey. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] 28 fatal shark attacks in one year. That'd be a big...


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[Assistant] I was, it was the very end of the podcast and I was looking down for one more to throw out and, uh, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Now Greg says Jif got too much publicity last week, so Skippy did a hit job and brought out this recall.


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[Assistant] That's a lot. It does feel like a lot. I agree. The 13 stars represent 13 colonies, they said. Well, what does that even- I agree.


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[Assistant] I agree. And this was a 20 year.


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[Assistant] Thing that they have finally had to go to court about it because it was an urban legend that they were Satanists. There was this story that.


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[Assistant] The president of Procter & Gamble went on Phil Donahue's show and said, yeah, I'm a Satanist. There's not enough Christians to even matter to stop us. And for years, churches would not buy Procter & Gamble products.


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[Assistant] I know, but that was, that was the early eighties and Parker and Gamble denied it the whole time, but the rumors kept spreading that, yeah, they went on Phil Donahue and you had no way to look stuff up.


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[Assistant] I weighed last night and I weigh essentially exactly the same. What is it? Like 185. What did I weigh?


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[Assistant] So my theory was, I knew your barber was going on the road with you as your nutritionist. I thought it was just for one leg.


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[Assistant] And I was like, nah, he'll slip up and then he'll slip back. And then I saw him at Mike Vacchione's tape and he's like, no, I'm on the road with him permanently. And I was like, uh oh, I may be in trouble.


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[Assistant] Well, breakfast was one of the earlier ones and Nate said that was his favorite and then it kind of stuck. But yeah, there's a lot of.


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[Assistant] There's one healthy thing I'm doing with my eating and that is athletic green. If it wasn't for athletic green, I wouldn't even still be the same weight.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I make, uh, you pour one scoop in, 12 ounces of water. That's my breakfast. I make.


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[Assistant] Uh, Eleanor, her little scoops and we both have breakfast together. Breakfast as breakfast with Eleanor.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it's, it's great. It's, uh, none of us eat very well the rest of the time, but athletic green is great every morning. It tastes great. It's easy to make. Drink quickly.


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[Assistant] I think I speak two languages because my wife's from California and my mom, as you pointed out, the bases have always been here. So when my mom comes and stays with us, I have to be a translator. We just had, uh, we got another critter issue.


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[Assistant] We, uh, we're, oh, I mean, it's, it's getting out of hand. It's really getting out of hand, but I was going to bed other night, just got Eleanor down like two AM and Kevin, I was like, I smell a skunk.


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[Assistant] And it got worse and worse. Uhm, and then I, but then I went ahead and went to sleep. This has nothing to do with my mom, but then I woke up next morning, smells gone.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it's gone. So I'm like, what are you going to do? I looked out the windows. They went out there smoking a cigarette.


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[Assistant] Late that afternoon, I go walk the dog. I come back in. Smell's still there. It's completely there. We just got used to it overnight as we, it's permeated throughout the house. I got the Opry in like three hours. And I think maybe all my clothes, everything smells like skunk, but I can't tell.


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[Assistant] So I was really, I was considering going to Walmart and just go up somebody in the aisle, like you smell something.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Then Ruth got in her head that she looked online that gas leaks can sometimes smell like skunks. So now she's thinking maybe there's a gas leak. This is where my mom, my mom comes to stay with us. So you bring your mom into this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really is. But she was already white. She kind of, and she's like, that ain't nothing but a pole cat.


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[Assistant] That's what my mom calls skunks. Have y'all ever heard that? So my mom has all these words I have to translate for my wife, what they mean, but that's what she calls a skunk.


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[Assistant] Did you ever find out? Uh, it's still there. I mean.


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[Assistant] I told the story that night on the Opry, how I was afraid it was going to kill Jeannie Seeley. Um, there's still a little, like, friends are coming over now bringing us food and seeing the baby and stuff. And we just, we often just stand outside and talk to them because our house kind of. No one's looking into it.


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[Assistant] That wasn't what I did last time. I love the fact that they say when you go hiking just make sure you take your phone and some water. They both had phones.


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[Assistant] If things go bad and we all got to go, which one of us do you think lasts the longest?


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[Assistant] So I read where over 50% of the executives at Silicon Valley have bought, uh,


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[Assistant] Hey, I'm looking for a house in New Zealand, meaning I want to get off the grid and all these billionaires were buying up all the land there in New Zealand. They say it's a good place because it's, uh, I mean, it's probably safer than


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[Assistant] North America or Europe as far as being attacked. They still speak English. It's it's own island.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So that's kind of like the hot, hot place to go. But I mean, do you have a way to grow food and, and stuff?


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[Assistant] I don't know but I read where underground bunkers are up 300% in sales, uh, even since the war in Ukraine happened.


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[Assistant] There was that show Doomsday Preppers on National Geographic. It was the most popular show they ever had. But real preppers say...


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[Assistant] It's the worst thing that could happen to them because it was just a bunch of crazy people. And now they, everyone, they think crazy, but.


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[Assistant] People all the time send us stuff like, I never got this until I watched her. But now this week, everyone was like, I got this GIF recall. Like, you can't blame that on us. That's just in the news.


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[Assistant] Why am I? I don't need to know that. Dusty's, uh, I don't know. Can I mention your other podcast?


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[Assistant] That's the own podcast. Are you still doing it?


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[Assistant] But he'll have some, uh, some funny stuff on there that he'll say, uh, cause it's just him. Let me pull up this and tell you about it. And then he'll say, God, my wifi is terrible, but I'm glad it's terrible cause they're listening to our thoughts anyway. Okay, here it is right here. And then he'll just keep on going. And it is just so funny.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there's a deuce- I like Vin Diesel. There's a- You don't have an-


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[Assistant] What guest? I stole that from, uh, Mark Anunson. He has a joke about Vin Diesel being a bad character. There's a doomsday clock.


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[Assistant] That the scientists have been doing since I think World War II where they count down.


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[Assistant] Based on what's going on in the world, how close we are to midnight, which is doomsday.


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[Assistant] We're now closer than we've ever been, I believe. Well, that would make sense if they started that. It's a hundred seconds to midnight.


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[Assistant] Uh, let me see here. I think it went back to 14 minutes to midnight. Like they don't start it.


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[Assistant] Y'all may be taking it a little too literal as far as the clock, but, uh, but it's supposed to show you just how when things go bad, we're getting closer to the end times, stuff like that. I mean, that's crazy.


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[Assistant] We've got a global seed vault in Norway where we're storing all the world's seeds in this underground.


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[Assistant] Bunker, uh, vault in Norway. Uh, it's the farthest north you can fly on a commercial airline.


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[Assistant] And, uh, they have 930,000 varieties of food crops. So if the things ever go bad, we could replenish the earth with these seeds from all over the world. All right. Yeah. As long as that place is okay. Yeah. So they found the place they thought was the safest to store it. Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh, Norway did it? Norway paid for this seed vault and people all over the world brought them in.


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah. Yep. Yep. There's a, some scientists proposing a sperm bank on the moon.


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[Assistant] Well again, if the wor- yeaah. If the world's destroyed- Are you asking what for?


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[Assistant] Why didn't I think about this? Again, if a meteor hits the earth and everything's destroyed, we gotta have some people living on the moon.


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[Assistant] Uh, but they've got 6.7 proposing million, uh, different


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[Assistant] Indonesia's Mount Toba erupted 75,000 years ago.


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[Assistant] And it caused a hundred thousand year cooling period where a lot of species died. So he's like, it could happen again.


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[Assistant] Well, at the end, the super rich- Are you ru- I mean, are you ruining-


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[Assistant] Alright, let me rephrase the question. If something terrible went down, do you think the super rich, the Illuminati, would have a way to get out of here? They're already gone. Yea dude, the Denver Everett.


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[Assistant] What's up with Matt Damon always living somewhere where you gotta go rescue him? Did you say Matt Damon?


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[Assistant] So some of the suggestions they gave, like if war broke out or somebody tried to overtake us, one, LASIK eye surgery.


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[Assistant] Another thing they suggest, especially for the big city, have a motorcycle.


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[Assistant] Because when there's gridlock and everybody's trying to get out of town, you need a motorcycle to get an electric bike.


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[Assistant] So out in New Mexico, they're building these things called Earthships.


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[Assistant] It is basically recycled material like old tires and stuff like that. It's a hundred percent, uh, off the grid, uh, don't need, I think they have solar panels and you have to build a water system.


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[Assistant] But our friend, comedian friend, Chad Raiden, has bought one.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. He bought land from a woman, I believe, who sold pot. Pot's legal out there, so she made her money off selling pot, and now he's bought some land, and he's gonna build a Earthship. Wow. Uh, he's gonna live in New Mexico, in the desert.


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[Assistant] Yup, gotta build some type of cistern for clean water and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Hey, it was a good idea, Chad. I'm sorry I made fun of you.


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[Assistant] I like it. I think he wants to build like a comedy commune where comedians can come hang out, do some shows, all of it.


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[Assistant] Uh, cold. But then it's in a vault, it's also...


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[Assistant] I think they're, so they're putting this on like film, like a little digital film, like, uh, paintings and plans and stuff like that. It's almost like...


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[Assistant] If everything went bad and years from now someone came to visit our planet, they could look and see what we did and could recreate it.


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[Assistant] Well with those spaceships, the Saturn 1 and 2 we talked about, we sent out.


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[Assistant] They've got records and all kinds of stuff on them.


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[Assistant] They've left our solar system. Do you know about them, Dusty? I don't know about them. What is it? Saturn one and Saturn two, I think, or is it Voyager one and two?


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[Assistant] It happened last week, but they said basically nothing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, of course. Yeaah. So food prices, some people argue it's going up because these food storage plants are all being destroyed.


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[Assistant] Now Snopes is debunked it as being anything but just your average accidents. But a lot of people think there's something undermining that's something bad is going to go down.


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[Assistant] That guy right there, that's the hearing last week on alien, Scott Bray, that guy right there. I'm friends with him.


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[Assistant] Uh, on Facebook, he and his wife share, they're one of these that share a Facebook page, but his wife and I graduated high school together and we were friends. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] What he did in DC, she was always super smart, but apparently he was the spokesperson last week for these.


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[Assistant] I feel like it was episode two of this pod. We talked about that documentary about, uh, unsolved mysteries.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's been a few end of the world predictions that, uh, surprise did not work out.


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[Assistant] The 2012 Mayan calendar, a lot of people thought that that was going to be the end of the world.


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[Assistant] I did, uh, I had a incident a couple of months ago where, uh, my flight was so delayed getting out because of snow, I got stuck in Atlanta and, uh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I had to stay, spend the night in Atlanta airport. So I just found a, uh, one of the gates that was just empty and just went and slept on the floor there. It was a Southwest terminal and I was sleeping pretty good.


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[Assistant] And I just finally wake up and I kind of hear some stuff and they had lined up Southwest for the flight.


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[Assistant] What time was that? That was like the earliest, that was like 6 AM, but I'd been up all night. So I was just trying to lay back down. I memorized the.


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[Assistant] The greeting from the Atlanta mayor, because I heard it so many times that night that I had it down in memory. But I say that to say, well, I don't know now, but he's like, what?


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[Assistant] Welcome to Atlanta, whether you're a native, uh, Atlantean or visiting, whatever, come see, you know, I don't know. I can't remember the rest of it, but at the time I had it, but Ruth, Ruth said,


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[Assistant] Well yeah, that's my point. Roost said, uh, if you want a cameo from Brian.


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[Assistant] Well, it was, I thought I was pretty far down, but that line was pretty long.


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[Assistant] There was a couple other people that were sleeping, they already had their corners, so I just had to...


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[Assistant] Because your flight was... It took my flight so long to get out of Nashville because of snow. Yeah. That when we finally got there, it was after midnight and they had... So you're walking around your hotel. Where's your hotel? Yeah, then were you on a layover?


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[Assistant] It was, yes, uhm, I was just gonna, I thought if I, there was snow in Nashville, I thought if I could get to my first leg, Atlanta, then I could get out the next morning, because I had an early flight, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I went ahead and went to Atlanta, but last minute, like when I finally realized our flight was getting out of Nashville, I just went on and grabbed a cheap hotel near the airport. And then when I got there, we got there so late that they had given away and then they're like, we're completely full.


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[Assistant] And that was like a Ramada. Then there's a Red Roof Inn next door. Walked over there. They're full. There's a...


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[Assistant] So another end of the war prediction. I vaguely remember this. Harold Camping was this Christian radio broadcaster. You guys know him? Harold Camping?


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[Assistant] At all these stations, and he said the world was going to end May 2011.


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[Assistant] And he said that five months, so it's going to be like the rapture.


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[Assistant] And then the bad people stay and then five months later in, uh, what would that be? December? October?


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[Assistant] Then there's the second coming where Christ just does it all.


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[Assistant] So May 2011 rolls around and nothing happened. He had the exact date, uh, and nothing happened. So then he's like, Oh, you know what? I miscalculated. It's just all going to happen in October, the whole thing. Just one big shebang.


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[Assistant] So he doubled down, he doubled down, and then October 2011 happened. And people quit their jobs, cause they're like, what's the point?


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[Assistant] Uh, some people, like, commit a suicide.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And, uh, and so the lady like cut her wrists and cut her kids. They all survive, but yeah, that's, I mean, people.


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[Assistant] He predicted it a few times. That one got the most traction. After that one, he said, I'm not going to do anymore. That's sinful for me to even pre-predicting.


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[Assistant] Maybe that'd be more torturous on earth, so they'd kill themselves.


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[Assistant] A couple more. There was a hymn that was laying eggs that said, a message Christ is coming.


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[Assistant] And people thought that was a sign, but it turns out the owner was just a trick. She was pushing it, the eggs back up in the hen and then.


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[Assistant] If you're that woman, why are you doing that? I think she was making money off of it. People were coming to see it.


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[Assistant] It's a combination. It's Bed Bath & Beyond and then Bath & Body Works.


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[Assistant] Uh, what's like your name? Your name is spelled wrong. Barghetti? Yea.


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[Assistant] Does your whole extended family say it that way too?


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[Assistant] How do you think it should be spelled? With an E instead of an A, right? Yea, we just say E. Or getsy. Yea.


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[Assistant] It's almost like if you say it correct, people will think that I'm getting it wrong now.


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[Assistant] If you're not in New York with the grid system.


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[Assistant] I think you just gotta ignore some of those letters.


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[Assistant] The first two letters of breakfast are the first two letters of Brian.


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[Assistant] We were talking about, you know, when I was in middle school, everyone had ringtones on their phone. That was such a high pitch that the teacher couldn't hear it.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I'm talking about where kids had that on their phones?


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[Assistant] Because the teacher's older. With teachers older, they can't hear. So we would all have ringtones and our phones would be making noises that we could all hear as a kid, but the teacher couldn't hear it because it was such a high.


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[Assistant] I distinctly, I remember I had it on my phone and I would play it and my parents couldn't hear it and then all the kids had it.


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[Assistant] Have you ever performed over there? They all performed overseas.


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[Assistant] Those are four Americans, right?


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. It's a little discolored too, probably.


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[Assistant] What is it? He was a, I just, I just looked him up, I never heard.


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[Assistant] Well, I was just curious whether you had heard, you blew through the name like it was like, it was the third time you read it today. You know?


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[Assistant] This past weekend, cricket in the ceiling of the club, the whole show. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] It wasn't super loud that like it dominated the room, but I could hear it in the people in the front. Did you acknowledge it? I didn't because the guy before me did.


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[Assistant] And you had naming rights to it. Would you name it? I'd name it Nate Land now. Yea, you would name it Nate Land.


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[Assistant] But surely there's a way to live in between being addicted to Instagram. There isn't, and don't call me Shirley.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying. That's what's crazy is, is just- Why aren't they? Cause it's, I mean...


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[Assistant] And he wrote in it that it is extraordinarily rare for someone outside of the community to join. In his entire life he only knew of one guy.


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[Assistant] So unless that's changed dramatically, that's all just people having kids.