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[Assistant] And then you got to, uh, make the choice if you wanted to see how it worked or not. If you wanted, if you didn't want to know, close your eyes and then they actually showed you how it worked. Which if you remember how it worked, it's exactly how it got out of the milk can.


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[Assistant] So they were doing, they were doing Houdini's philosophy, but kind of like, we think it's pretty cool how it works. So let us show you how it works. Those that want to know.


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[Assistant] Some people have to know. Those are the ones that get you going. It's just, it just drives them crazy and stuff like that. So, uh, I hope, I hope that if you, I think it's fun to know. What gets me is sometimes if somebody,


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[Assistant] Well, they think they know, and they can live with that, they can go.


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[Assistant] Uh, Aaron was in on it. Then they go, okay, I can go to bed now. He was in on it, even though he wasn't, but they can live with that fact of thinking that they...


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[Assistant] They got themselves the answer they needed to know. That's all I needed to know, that he was...


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[Assistant] Uh, in on it and I'm okay and stuff and what kills me too, I do school shows and it is true that.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, you know, uh, I put all the, my rules is all the kids have to be on one side of the gym. And I do a couple of tricks that if you're behind me, it's a different show and you're going to see how it works. And so.


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[Assistant] You know, and my guy works with me, always goes and tells them, look, I mean, you can't tell the teacher, get out of here. You got to go sit over there. But, uh, he can say, if you sat here, you're going to not enjoy it near as much. And he tried, but some of them don't.


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[Assistant] But what gets me is, what's funny is that after the show this guy will come up to me and he goes, I figured that trick out. And you wanna go, did you figure it out or did you see it? There's a difference.


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[Assistant] That was, uh, and that's, he was the guy that really got me. I really loved Doug Henney and I got to meet him and I went all the way to Chattanooga to meet him. Came outside and, uh, after the theater, I just stood in the alley to meet him and he was as nice as guy. He did the newspaper trick that we're going to.


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[Assistant] I probably saw him in, uh, uh, 76 or 8, something like that. I went down there to see Doug Henney.


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[Assistant] Have you met her? Uh, yep, I have and stuff, uh, crazy. No, I wouldn't do that. It's, it's, it's, and that's that, that's like that trick with this, uh,


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[Assistant] They do the, they do by far the best version. And I do not know how they do it. Uh, and neither do 90% of the magicians in this world. They, the Penn and Teller has taken it to a level where even the guys that know how the original trick worked.


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[Assistant] Just like, it's kind of like that card trick where I eliminated all the possibilities. So we know what you would have to have happen in a bullet catch. And so.


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[Assistant] Penn and Teller eliminated everything. So you go, well, that didn't happen. That couldn't happen. He did that. He had the bullet mark. He had this done and, and, and so theirs is theirs is by far the best I think that's ever been invented or anybody doing it and how they, why they do it every night. It's just, and it makes me nervous every time I've seen it. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I did the straight jacket for a long time and you could hurt yourself, but I don't even do that anymore since I'm a little overweight now. I need to lose about 20 pounds to start doing that trick.


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[Assistant] That is one of the funniest pieces I ever have and it's called, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, if you look up straight jacket of death with thick baskets, it's a very, very funny routine. That's probably the most physical thing. Uh, I actually did do the spike trick before and, and just to do it. And then I realized I don't want to do this.


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[Assistant] This is, this is too crazy here, something like that. I work with Lady Houdini, who's traveling right now, and as a matter of fact, she is in, uh, uh, Atlanta, I think. They started her first fair back with the, with the...


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[Assistant] And she actually does a under, she does the Houdini water thing in a glass thing where you watch her, uh,


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[Assistant] Change to the bottom so she can't get out and she's picking the locks and I did six shows with her and every time I did it, I thought she's gonna die and I'm just going, I couldn't, I can't believe.


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[Assistant] That she is doing this night after night after night. That she's going in there and doing it two times a night sometimes.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Holding her breath that long and having to escape. But I know she has something, I think the video of her, she has passed out in there, uh, twice.


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[Assistant] Nate, my son, I decided once when, when we, when Nate was young to dress him up as a clown and go with me and I'm going to do this trick and it was called Bonzo the dog. And it's a, it's based on a famous trick for magicians called Run Rabbit Run.


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[Assistant] And it's where this, you have a, uh, a thing about two, two feet long, two and a half feet long and has a little wooden dog that goes in and he.


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[Assistant] They were like hot dogs, sponge hot dogs, that if he does his trick right, he gets the hot dogs. So you set them down and, uh,


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[Assistant] And, uh, so he just pointing, he's not talking.


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[Assistant] So he's supposed to go, dad, the dog went across. Cause what the trick is that every time the magician looks away, the dog would run and get a bone. And then he'd come back by the time I look back and I'd act like, ah, and the kids are all screaming. Well, it's supposed to have been Nate screaming at me. Dad, the dog just went, but he just pointing.


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[Assistant] So I pick him and put him up on the back of the stage. He's sitting there and he, but he's sitting in front of the bag.


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[Assistant] That has the sponge, hot, the hot dogs in it. And now the dog's going, and then he looks.


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[Assistant] And I don't want to give away too much, but there are two dogs being involved and my job is to get.


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[Assistant] There's one card laying on a table right now. Brian, name any card in the deck. Three of diamonds. Now there's no, anyway, we, we used the three earlier.


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[Assistant] And uh, with the three of spades, but you said the diamond. Yeah. Okay. If that's the three of diamonds, you're going to freak out.


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[Assistant] That's impressive. That was an out. Cause I laid the joker down.


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[Assistant] But I would try to lay down the right card, but if I don't get it, you have to have it out, a way to get out to make it look like you're right. So I made it, I did not have, I had the joker down here, so I had to switch it for the three.


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[Assistant] But so to you, nothing went wrong. Right. But to me, it went wrong. Huh. I didn't have the right card. And uh, but does that make sense? So I try to do all my magic where I can have an out.


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[Assistant] Where there's, if something goes wrong, then I can still get out of it. But there's some things that you just can't.


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[Assistant] And again, I think that's what makes a professional, professional. Nobody knows.


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[Assistant] In the same way with you guys, if you forget a joke or a tag or something like that, nobody knows about you.


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[Assistant] And you're the one that's disappointed. So I think if you could do a show and you know it wasn't the best, but then people come up to you and say, that was the greatest thing, that was awesome. That, that then, you know, you've, you're, I can call yourself a professional. I've got this. They like my bad show.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, uh, uh, he's, one of them, I thought he was talking about the, the, uh,


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[Assistant] The big ones now, you can go look on, there are the guys that are doing the knife stab with the spike in the bag. A good friend of mine, Martin Cox, he stayed at our house a couple times and, uh, he did it with a girl and it went.


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[Assistant] So crazy, he grabs a girl's hand and he takes her hand over. So when he slams down on the bag, there's four bags and underneath it is a big metal spike.


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[Assistant] He actually went through her hand and into his hand. It's the craziest thing in the world.


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[Assistant] He did not. He was lucky because the girl, it was at a magic convention and she was an assistant to another magician. So she was used to it and he got in the spike.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I met a guy that once he was juggler and he, he, he juggles.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And so I, he ended up now, he puts, uh, like a blindfold on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember that when that happened. It was on TV? No, I mean, it was just in every magazine, every magic thing that was out there. So, I mean, you don't even see it.


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[Assistant] To dig out, I mean Houdini, uh, was, only did it once. Uh, Lance, I think there's been several guys that's done it. It is a very, David Blaine did it. It's a very difficult trick to do even if it works. Cause his plan was to get out and dig his way up through the dirt.


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[Assistant] So no matter what, even with a breathing tire or whatever you have, it's, it's, it's tough because you got your dick in your, you at least dig five feet through dirt. You just hope it's loose.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's what happened. He didn't, he hadn't planned on the, the coffee.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know when David Blaine did the balloon thing, which is, it was a pretty cool show if you like that. But then the guy helping him jumped 22,000 feet, whatever, just out of a plane without a parachute and landed in a net. Did you see? I mean, when I saw that, I looked that up and I went, you got to be kidding. That was 10 times better than what Blaine did.


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[Assistant] I mean, he went higher, jumped out of a plane, nothing on, and lands in a big nap.


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[Assistant] That looked like a little square by his camera. You go, I'm gonna land in that thing. Who would do that?


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[Assistant] You know, and, uh, there's a guy named Jim Hines. It was a friend of mine and I don't think Jim performed. I thought he was one of the funniest guys. He would come out on a, uh, a magician's magic convention and it would be the only place you would ever see him. And he would have a tuxedo and everything and he would tell.


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[Assistant] The saddest story, like somebody broke into his truck last night and stole his whole show. So all of it popped in there and everybody believed it.


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[Assistant] But then he goes, well luckily I've sent home and I've got slides.


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[Assistant] And so his whole show is slides. He showed one slide, him standing in front of a building, the next slide, it'd be him empty. And this was back in the eighties and nineties. And, but it was hilarious. He just made everything disappear, thing jumped, but he did a lecture the next day. And in his lecture, he did this, he did this trick, that trick.


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[Assistant] He goes, this is my favorite birthday party trick. You get the birthday child up and you pour one night of ash. And then he had, later on I saw him do it where he had.


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[Assistant] He was trying to really catch a bullet. People gotta realize that every catch a bullet trick is not, there's a trick.


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[Assistant] But, uh, he wanted to really, really do it. And the people, you die at it because somebody gets the, something can happen before you can put the...


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, they switched guns or somebody had the wrong kind of bullet or it's not in the right chamber. I mean, that's what goes wrong. The trick itself doesn't go wrong unless you're going to steal the bullet out.


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[Assistant] Uh, I do remember I had a dart gun that shot a little dart.


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[Assistant] And what you would do is you would trim the dart.


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[Assistant] So when you loaded the bullet, the dart in, you would shoot it. Then you would load one of those skinny ones in. And when you handed them the gun, the dart would fall back out in your hand.


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[Assistant] That it worked because I had the dart in my hand and then I would, I would have somebody shoot at me and I had a magnet in my shirt and I made it. I did that for a little while and chased that trick and stuff.


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[Assistant] But, but all of them are usually tricks like that. He, Blaine wanted to, I really want to, he was trying to be like, he wanted to do, he does all of what Houdini did and he wanted to really catch the bullet. And the only way to do that is to have that, a metal thing that can stop a bullet.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, Paulo Robbins, he's a very good friend of mine, I don't know what you


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[Assistant] This right here, and we feel that. It's got some weight in it. Yeah, for sure. Apollo Robbins.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was not president at this time, but, uh, I was over in England, in Blackpool, England. We were doing a show and we went to get the photograph made of all the performers. And, uh, uh, the president was missing this. It was gone.


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[Assistant] And they were going, where's it at? And do it. And he goes, Paulo, I know you must've done it. And Apollo goes, well, everybody check your pocket. I'm sitting there and I go.


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[Assistant] Not in my pocket, because I would know if something this big got loaded into my pocket, front pocket. And uh, and this is, I'm telling the truth, Apollo is a great guy and uh, he, uh,


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[Assistant] Finally had to say, Bargatzi, look in your front pocket. And when I did, this big old thing was in my pocket. And I was going, what in the world? I, I still, I had not a clue when or how or anything, nor how he did that. Uh, stuff. He also, John Dorn, boss, is a good, uh, player.


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[Assistant] Right. And his, and we became friends when he came here, uh, found out that I do magic and, and stuff, and we still are really good friends to this day. So his wife, when he was getting married, his wife called and said, I want to give him something really cool and magic. What would be something that I could give him?


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[Assistant] And, uh, so I got ahold of Apollo and asked if he would give private lessons to John. Cause John was very interested in how to steal watches and wallets and all that stuff. I said, well then I know the best guy, Apollo's the best in the world.


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[Assistant] I said, I know him and we set it up and John went and spent a week with him. That was his wedding present.


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[Assistant] So I can go, oh no, it's okay to joke. Uh, let me do, and I would do this trick. So it was my, it was my out in case I got caught. But then eventually I got where I just didn't get caught very much. And, uh.


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[Assistant] So you, you just have to have, it just takes guts. You just gotta keep doing it and doing it until you can get away with it. And I still get caught today. I mean, now I started my shows back.


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[Assistant] And I'm, I usually steal the watch doing that cup trick. And, uh, but I can't, I can't touch them. So I had, it made a lot easier because it's really awful hard to find watches. They're coming back now because of the Apple watch. And believe it or not, Apple watches are the easiest to steal.


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[Assistant] There are some things you got to do to keep them from feeling it. And if I messed up, they do feel it. So I got to, I got to be really careful. But, uh, there's a way to do it, but, but I think these are way easier than the, uh, the old ways. Now if I got a choice, I'll take an Apple watch. Somebody has one. That's my first choice.


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[Assistant] Nah, just Magician.org if they want to look up the IBM. Yeah. And, uh, the Mind Magic of Steven with a PH. Yeah. And you can go on there and you can see some of these videos and see some stuff.


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[Assistant] That should always look at the back. That's how I find them. I don't look at the front. You can tell the lot from the back of a card. Some of them are different, like this one.


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[Assistant] I feel like there's not gangs anymore, I feel like. Is that?


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? This is Nate Barghetti. We're here at the Nate Land Podcast once again.


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[Assistant] This show's still happening, still going on. I'm sitting with the young Aaron Weber.


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[Assistant] Uh, you guys have been awesome as always. We love you all. You've been very nice. Uh, still you, we're all, we're keeping it rolling. You're making it seem, you know, it's like, it was a good choice to start this podcast. This is how I started my comedy career.


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[Assistant] When you try to decide, are you, you know, you always get asked, are you, how did you know that you're supposed to do it? And I, I got like CMT comedy stage very early, five years in.


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[Assistant] Or something like five years in, I had a TV credit. So it was like, Oh, all right. I'm choosing. All right. I'm clearly supposed to be doing this thing. And I feel like this podcast is like that where it's like, we're.


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[Assistant] What, eight episodes in and you know, we're getting a lot of people watching a lot of the nice comments, like people enjoy it. This is 10 I think, right? 10 episodes in, we're 10 episodes in.


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[Assistant] So it's, you know, it's a good thing cause then we get all these people listening and you know, if we rode out, if we never grown past what we have now, we did it. We did it. And we don't want anybody else.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, as usual, we're gonna start with the comments that, uh, like to read through all you guys' comments. Uh, and as usual, if you don't like this, fast forward it. Uh, alright, I think some people only read the comments, to be honest. My wife's more of a fan of the comments than the whole show.


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[Assistant] I enjoy doing it too. And then, uh, so yeah, it's good. And, uh, my wife's never listened past the comments. So, and she's a producer on the...


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[Assistant] Podcast, you just gave her something. She doesn't even know what it is. I don't either, but we're figuring it out. Uh, all right. First comment more.


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[Assistant] J881, all I can say is thank you. My wife and I are police officers in Kansas City and in today's climate it is very difficult to unplug from the news and find something unbiased and generally funny. This is a great way for us to disconnect from reality and just laugh for a while. We were looking, we really look forward to every Wednesday. Thank you. And that's it. That'd almost be the bio of the show.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I might put that as the bio of the show. It's, that's what you want it to be. That's what this is about. That's awesome. It's, uh, if you're here for, you're thinking you gotta make, you know, I don't, there's enough. Right. And go listen to those. That's, go, go if you want to, you want to get riled up.


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[Assistant] Go get riled up. Sometimes you gotta get riled up. That's good. And sometimes, I mean, it gets a police honk. I mean, it's gotta be in pure insanity.


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[Assistant] Uh, and you know, just wants to go home. It's like watching old Seinfeld episodes. Yeah, it's very nice. I think we had the old Seinfeld episode of podcast.


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[Assistant] Peter bridge. When Bruce told the story about the woman, I like how it's now just, I mean, it's not even, I can't even find one that calls me by my real name. I looked and it's what's so, it's just how quickly it goes in. You know what I mean? Like it's not like where it's an obvious, we're making fun of a joke.


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[Assistant] When Bruce told the story about the woman labeled, I mean, it's just like not, like a breeze. When Bruce told the story about the woman labeling him as worried, it quite literally made me pee. Those chicks just totally nailed it.


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[Assistant] Maybe my life. Yeah. You really should do your next album. Should be worried. My next album. It's just you being, well you're going to have to do one now. The people are going to want to hear it. Yeah. Uh, you know, everybody go buy his first album. It's still out there. And, uh.


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[Assistant] 1007. Sounds like, I mean, some of these are like, uh, like you're in jail, like it's a prison, you know.


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[Assistant] Firstinate1007 to the stand, did you?


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[Assistant] This podcast could grow up for 500 episodes and each one would have a moment where Nate references a Seinfeld episode. I would actually love to see an episode of Nate Land devoted to the topic of Seinfeld. Yes, that's, we, we do want to do that for sure. And we should have almost done it last time. And that's when John came in, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, we do, we like it, but if somebody's like Seinfeld, they're out, you know? Uh, so we will do a Seinfeld episode, maybe we'll do it as just an extra one, and that way people that want it can have it, and then the other people are not forced into, uh, or might make those people listen to it. Just force them down. Uh, non-linear car,


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[Assistant] Here I am counting Seinfeld references. Then they proceeded to talk about Seinfeld for 30 minutes. Best episode yet. Gold, Jerry, gold. Yep. He gets it. He gets it. Uh, ace here. Bilbo's PBS pick is underrated.


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[Assistant] Aaron pointed out someone called me breakfast. Breakfast is unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Breakfast is as good as worried. I don't think it's on here, but it was in the comments. I mean, breakfast is unreal. That's amazing. That's it. That's the best one I've heard just to call them. I don't know. Is breakfast coming up?


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[Assistant] Seriously, how did Arrested Development not get mentioned? There are so many great episodes and storylines.


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[Assistant] I agree. Even though I was more of the first run of the rest of the development, I didn't really give it much of a chance on that second run. I was also late to it. Uh, I was very late to rest of the development and then I watched it later and loved it. And then I, but I haven't really given the Netflix stuff a chance. Uh, yeah, we should, you know, we learned like last week, the television episode, it was just kind of,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, sometimes when we're choosing this stuff, it can get very broad.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it can be too broad, which is not good. And so sometimes when like last week, it felt like we were reading a lot. I was reading a lot of information, which is all stuff that's kind of interesting, but it's like, you know, we're trying to figure out the rhythm of this.


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[Assistant] And the, the, you know, and we're going to slowly keep getting better and better at it. But last week you did feel we should have just done TV episodes and we're, so we will, we'll make it up. Make people watch it again.


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[Assistant] But Arrested Development is great. It's great. It's an amazing show. Yeah. Yeah. Unbelievable show. Tonya... Tonya Kovarik.


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[Assistant] I waited for an hour and fifty minutes for someone to mention Game of Thrones and y'all just passed on it like it was nothing. Sigh. You should try it again. Best show hands down. Uh, has any of us watched Game of Thrones?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we haven't watched it. Uh, I watched the first, I'm not a fantasy guy. I'm not sci-fi, I'm not fantasy.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, I mean like Star Wars, but I'm not, I was never obsessed with Star Wars. I'm not even a big superhero.


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[Assistant] I like them, I'll go to all of them, but I've just, it's not my thing. And I try to watch Game and Throw, I watched that first season, I just don't care. Like, I got done with it. I mean, I need to give it another go.


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[Assistant] When Aaron talks about how it's frustrating when you have a show you really like and just don't know anyone else that watches it, that's me and this podcast.


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[Assistant] You guys are really crushing it though and I love every second of it. Thank you Jessica. That is very, she's like, you watch Nate Land and they're like, what are you talking about? When they mention, yeaah, I mean Nate Land's gotta, it's gotta be like, what? Do you watch what?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, do we, what's something, I can't think of something that I've heard about or I've watched that no one else, I've watched episodes, is that what it's called? The Ricky Gervais show? No, I did watch episodes, that was great, Ricky Gervais had it, that was a great, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, Rob Schneider's show on, uh, Netflix. It's about him. It's his wife. Jamie Lissow's in it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's good. It's his real wife. It's his real wife. Yeah. And, uh, I forget what it's called.


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[Assistant] But it's great, and I think the new season came out. It was one that I was like, oh, let me see this. And you know, I've kind of interacted with Rob, I don't really know him.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I was like, yeah, let me check this out. And then I like just kind of went through it. I enjoyed it. I thought it was very, you know, episodes is, uh, like that with Matt LeBlanc. That was a big show, but I loved episodes, you know, and then, uh, yeah, Ricky Gervais's Extra is awesome.


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[Assistant] The end of extras is great. It's got a very, very sweet, sweet moment to it. One of my favorite sweet moments.


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[Assistant] Trent Stewart, growing up in a pastor's home, we had some interesting things happen. Once during service, a lady asked my dad and the entire church to pray for Marlena because she is in the hospital in a coma. We were worried sick, come to find out it was Marlena on days of our lives.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's gotta be, I mean, just eighties probably, right?


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[Assistant] So is she implying that the woman thought Marlena was a real person?


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[Assistant] I just, they told her to pray for it. It's a TV girl. So yeah, I mean, I'm sure she did, you know, but, or something, she was just still worried. Like, you know, we were worried.


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[Assistant] Chris Evans. Well, it's the Chris Evans. Probably. Uh, isn't that a famous guy? Chris Evans. It is. Captain America. Yea, Captain America. Uh, so this is from Captain America. Embarrassing as a kid, I used to think that the audience laugh track in sitcoms was the laughter of other people at home watching at the same time. That's awesome.


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[Assistant] He had one of those giant late early, giant late eighties, early nineties entertainment centers in our living room, four foot tall speakers. And I would sit next up next to one of the speakers and laugh as loud as I could. Anytime the laugh track play, just hoping that the other people watching would hear my laugh over everyone else.


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[Assistant] I regrettably believed that until I was probably around 10 years old and I had friends over and tried to get them to yell stuff in the speakers.


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[Assistant] Thinking other kids at home would talk back. My friends finally broke the news to me that I'm stupid. Love the show. I look forward to every Wednesday now knowing I get to hear Nate ragging on Bryson worried Bates any chance he gets. That's an unbelievable story.


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[Assistant] And I mean, getting them to talk, I mean, and to go, how much you gotta build up to get brave enough to go.


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[Assistant] How am I gonna tell my friends to yell into the speaker? Like, you know, the confi- because at first you're like, is that true? You probably second-guess it, then you assume it, and then you do have to cross a line.


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[Assistant] That you're willing to bring people into your insane question. And I guess his parents just hadn't broke the knees to him. I was gonna say his family.


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[Assistant] Oh, I hope they did. I hope they did. That's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Fun fact about the marine biologist ending, the episode was supposed to end on George walking to the ocean to help the beach well, but the live audience didn't give him much of a reception. So Larry Dave wrote George's final, the sea was angry that day, my friends monologue with him pulling the golf ball out of the bull hole on the spot.


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[Assistant] Jason Alexander memorized it in 10 minutes, they filmed it and got the biggest laugh in series history. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, it's a great scene.


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[Assistant] Such a gigantic scene and for it to be, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, just to be like last minute. I feel like that's how stuff works, man. You know the longest, I would say the longest laugh recorded.


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[Assistant] And so, you know, and he was on like tonight show or Ed Sullivan show whenever he was doing it. And, uh, he did, he said, uh, your money or your life. And he just looked at the camera.


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[Assistant] Like you said, a guy went to rob him and said, money or your life. And the whole...


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[Assistant] Country knows, like, well he's so cheap.


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[Assistant] And that was like, it was like a, maybe a full minute or something. We'll have to look it up. Where it was the live eye just lost their mind.


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[Assistant] Just a look to the camera. Just a look, yeah. Cause I mean everybody, that's, that's, you know. They got it. Yeah, they got it.


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[Assistant] Zach is nobody, I just saw that West Wing is reuniting.


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[Assistant] For some kind of special. Aaron is about to have a wreck any moment now. Are you gonna watch the new?


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[Assistant] That's dangerous. You won't, uh, I know, but say you're at home. Do you go sit in the car and watch it? Even if you don't drive somewhere.


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[Assistant] Like when you lived at home with your parents? Or now? Always. Always. Yea. But especially back then. I've never listened to an album like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I'd listen, I like listening to music, but I've never thought a new album came out. I gotta go, you go sit there for the full like hour. Sometimes, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. I like that. I'm just talking about that album thing. Have you ever listened to an album full? Like just to hear? I haven't gone to the car just to listen to it. But you've listened, you've sat and been like in one sitting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and just for the, just to see like how was it? Is it good? I like this, I like that.


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[Assistant] I don't know man. Holden Lanohenry. How could you not mention the threat level midnight episode of the, or the nap episode? Worst Seinfeld, the office podcast I've ever heard. That's not as fair.


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[Assistant] You know, we didn't get into the, again, we should have got into more of the episodes. I think we will do, uh, we could do an Office episode, we could do, might do a Seinfeld and Office episode and compare those two because those are our two favorite shows and then, so we will do, we will, we can, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, we should have probably broke down more episodes, to be honest, now looking back. I'm not a-


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, he shows it. Yeah, it is stupid. Yeah. But it was like almost bleeding up. You think that's jumping the shark though? Cause that's, that's, it's, they've talked, he's written this script forever. So they're like, well, everybody's going to want to watch this movie.


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[Assistant] And he made it, like the idea of the, the idea of the episode is actually brilliant. Like you could see when they finally, they probably thought of that. He's a script writer. He's writing Threat Level Midnight and they thought we're going to see when we put it out and.


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[Assistant] This is gonna be a gigantic episode. Because who's not gonna, a character on TV's written a movie, you're gonna eventually wanna see what he wrote.


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[Assistant] That, that was a point where the office was on the backside. And maybe if they throw that in at season four, you're like, this is unbelievable, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought it, yeah, I get, yeah, I thought it's, I thought when it goes from good to bad, like it just is like, yeah.


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[Assistant] They took advantage. I don't think of it as trying to save it. I think of it as you're taking advantage of your audience and now you're like, we can do something insane.


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[Assistant] So let's try something insane and then that you lose everybody. Which is probably about when you start losing people to begin with.


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[Assistant] Probably bought them back. Uh, I guess, like yeaah. They would just bring them back, right?


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[Assistant] Maybe, but, uh, their hairstyles and their weight and all that. They did a good job with that. That makes sense. Yeah. Caleb Elliott with every intro Nate does.


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[Assistant] With every intro Nate does, he sounds, that wasn't me.


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[Assistant] Everybody, so don't, you know, with every intro, Nate, does he sound like he is not sure what podcast he's on and who is on the podcast with him? Okay.


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[Assistant] Maybe, I could see that. I mean, I read these words, I look at words, I don't know what these words are about to be. So, I could see it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And that's mid sentence. Right. If I would've been, so what are you guys doing later? I was listening to this podcast with every intro Nate does, he sound like he is not, I still can't get it.


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[Assistant] With every intro Nate does, he sounds like he is not sure what podcast he is on and who is on the podcast with him. Explanation point.


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[Assistant] I've, I've seen them open for some time. That's funny. All right. Jesse Mathieson.


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[Assistant] They should make an Aaron Weber Secret Genius t-shirt.


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[Assistant] Are you a secret genius? No. Have you ever had your IQ tasted? Tasted. Tasted.


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[Assistant] Have you walked into a, just a glass door? Or you know, you always see it.


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[Assistant] I think that's genius though, because a genius does dumb stuff like that. That's how, that's how you know.


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[Assistant] Okay. Cause I'm really good and I, cause all I got is to be aware of my surroundings. So, my, uh, wife's


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[Assistant] Uncle, uh, we went to go, you know, this was whenever, what, five, six, seven years ago. We all go eat with her family and we go to this restaurant and he's like six.


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[Assistant] Seven or six, eight, huge. And we get done, we're all sitting there eating, they go to leave. It was like a Sunday, like after church, like, you know, it was like that kind of vibe.


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[Assistant] It's hot outside. Everybody's wearing nice clothes, like, and we're eating and then he gets, they go to leave and he's an older, older guy. And, uh, I mean, walks out the door and it's a door. And I mean, look, I get it. It's a door with just glass. Like it doesn't make sense that the glass is there and man, he just.


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[Assistant] Boom, just popped a dude with his head and just was like, and you heard it. I saw the whole thing and it was, I mean, you just laughed so much. Like it's, I mean, you felt so bad cause he, he blessed his heart. Like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that video of that one, there's one video girl, she does it like three times. Like there's, it's glass and so there's a door and she just keeps like one, two, and she keeps making these turns.


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[Assistant] And then, I mean, then does it again. It's, it's, it's remarkable, dude.


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[Assistant] It's just a weird thing. Yea, well, I mean, you walk, there's no, there's no stop. I mean, that's what's crazy, just how confident it is. Yea. Uh, Chris Thomas, I swear if Nate calls Nelson, Nelson, Nelson, right, means one more time I'm going to scream 80s rock lyrics.


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[Assistant] Tell you what, we've got a lot of people hung up on some weird stuff on this, but like, I mean, we've had some people get mad at one thing and then they just, it's a wrap. But you know what? I get it. I'm like that too. Uh, what do you say?


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[Assistant] And then, I mean, I would always be in every conversation, every conversation they have.


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[Assistant] What about the Nelson ratings? I'm like, you know Nelson too? He's got, he knows everybody. Amazes me every time.


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[Assistant] Nick A, speaking of the TV shows and how timing programming has changed so much with the streaming and Netflix world. I have kids that are six and eight for the first time we watched a show as a family. Disney's Mandorians.


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[Assistant] Mandalorian. My kids were so completely confused at the fact that we had to wait until next week to be able to watch the next episode. We literally had to explain the process to them because they thought we were holding out and making them wait until next week and because it was bedtime we weren't letting them watch one more episode.


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[Assistant] Oh, so like, cause they were watching it, cause that's what they did with that show. Yep, they do it one a week. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm a, I think it's, I think you should. I do too. I think that that's very underrated in the fact of you.


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[Assistant] Excited to it's, you know, just jamming through them. I don't think, you know, I think with Netflix.


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[Assistant] Like Narcos, I love Narcos, but all the guys on Narcos, they're, that show's probably so watched, and if they...


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[Assistant] Spread it out week by week. I think it's talked about like it's the Sopranos. But because everybody watches it on their own time, no one really talks about it. And it's this amazing show that we all love. But none of those guys are super famous. Like if you saw them on the street, I mean you might not even realize it at first.


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[Assistant] They, but if they were, if they aired it every other week and it was a must watch TV thing, then those people would be super famous because people would talk about it. But you can't talk about Narcos. Now you can't talk about anything because you're like, do you watch Narcos? You're like, I haven't seen it yet. Ah, all right. You got to find the guy that.


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[Assistant] I built on Ozark, I need to probably give it a go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I do. I do. They're making, how they're making more, I think they are. I love cartel stuff. Yeah, they do.


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[Assistant] We should do cartel ups. I love cartel stuff. Darko's is amazing. But they did, uh,


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[Assistant] I need to watch Ozark. Ozark I just bailed on. It was like, I watched it. I think I watched it too much, too close to Breaking Bad. I felt like it was trying to be Breaking Bad. And then I just was like, I can't do this again. And I needed a break. I didn't love the beginning of the thing was like they were, I mean, I'm not ruining this cause I haven't seen him, but it was like in there into money laundering.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, they moved to the Ozarks and get into more money laundering. Like that's like, that was like, all right. Like, is that what I gotta believe? Like you gotta.


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[Assistant] A gigantic one. That's a big problem. Yeah, well we are too. That's funny that we met here.


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[Assistant] Sarah Thomason, it's weird that it's a radio show they put on TV. He said on his podcast episode that is being shown on YouTube.


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[Assistant] I didn't, all I, I do love asking him like, so what do you, do you remember this? Do you remember that? You know, it's because it's like your first time feeling old. Yeah. I mean, that's, we can ask you that. You're young too. You're 28. Yeah. It's crazy, man.


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[Assistant] It's crazy how young you are. Uh, you got your whole future ahead of you. Don't blow it, Aaron. Don't blow it. Thanks. Uh, it's not a bright future. Uh, oh, you can hear in that. Two more, or three more. Uh, Taylor Smith, I love how Brady.


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[Assistant] I love how Brady is like when your mom makes you take your little brother with you and hang out with your friends. But at the same time, Nate acts like there is 20 years between them. Great stuff. You guys are the best. P.S. This has bothered, bothered me since the second episode. It's pronounced syncope.


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[Assistant] Meaning to faint. Like goats. The feigning goats. Syncope. My, my, uh, neighbor texted me that too, Felix. P.S. P.S. I wonder how that guy that fainted from laughing is doing. How is that guy doing?


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[Assistant] Uh, it's very, well thank you. Uh, Chris Johnson, I'm pretty sure Nate scratches his forehead as a signal to stop talking about certain stuff. That's funny. I don't, do I? I don't remember noticing. Now I'm going to notice it.


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[Assistant] Uh, John Slater, it's unbelievable, unbelievable, how many times Nate says unbelievable per episode. Uh, I do say unbelievable a lot.


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[Assistant] I've always said it, you know. It's a good word. Yeah. I think everybody says words the same. I think even every, I always get, I say like a lot, you know, like I went to the store, you know, I, I, and I've even tried to work on it. I tried to make myself think about it. I do it in my regular conversation to try to not say like.


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[Assistant] In regular life, because I'm trying to not make it be into my act, but


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[Assistant] What people have to realize too in your act is about rhythm. It's about conversation.


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[Assistant] You say like, most people say like when they're doing normal conversations. So I've seen someone say,


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[Assistant] Well you think you're a professional speaker, you would not say like. I'm not a professional speaker in the sense that I'm not presenting, I'm not selling you something, I'm not, that person shouldn't say like.


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[Assistant] I'm a person that's supposed to talk to where you think.


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[Assistant] You mean you were just talking. That's my job as a comic. Is to be like, oh this is my buddy just talking. Well your buddy says like.


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[Assistant] And that's what I've got to be. So it's like, that's where that stuff says. And unbelievable, I do say it a lot. I do am conscious that I try not to overly do it, but you know, unbelievable that guy said that.


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[Assistant] I was by my, my neighbors, my neighbor Dwayne was, uh, saw him walking this morning and I was like, you listening to the podcast? I mean, I like yelled at him like, yeah. And he's like, I am, I am, crime episode. He's a little behind.


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[Assistant] I go, we've done 50 more, Dwayne. And then, uh, alright. So, uh, this episode, uh, we get asked a lot about comedy, about, you know,


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[Assistant] Stand-up comedy. So we're just gonna do it. We're gonna dive into stand-up comedy. Uh, we're gonna do a stand-up comedy episode. And this is gonna be that episode. And we're gonna start it off this video. Last week we didn't do a video either. I forgot. Oh, we had, we had one of Aaron's videos and we forgot to play it.


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[Assistant] We forgot, I don't think it was good. And so we, I think we did Aaron a favor. You know, that's what a lot of people said. Yeah. Okay.


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[Assistant] They, uh, no, we, I, we just kind of forgot because we had a guest. It was a new thing. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. Uh, Holly was losing at the dog. Uh,


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[Assistant] My wife is gone again and that messes everything up and she's not here. So, uh, this, this week we got a video and, uh, the video is a little sketch video I shot during COVID with my neighbors.


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[Assistant] And it was, uh, I mean, you're gonna see what it is trying to do stand-up comedy during COVID times. There's a little fun little just sketch video that we've never put out and this is the premier.


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[Assistant] Of, uh, doing it. We shot it with my daughter, uh, Harper, uh, the other kids. And with this group, we've all quarantined together. We were a cul-de-sac that's quarantined together.


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[Assistant] Uh, Blair, Carter, and Reese, and then Jack and Cole, uh, and so all the kids in our little neighborhood, and uh, they did a wonderful job. So here's the, here's the video.


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[Assistant] The Tonight Show was trying to look for stuff and they talked to me about like trying to shoot something.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's very funny not having it. It's a very, it's a funny kid's video. Kids do great. Uh, doing comedy during the COVID times. Uh, got a couple of golf sets back in my golf clubs. Uh, but there, but it's, yeah, the kids were, the kids did great and we did it and it was hot. Uh,


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[Assistant] Bates edited that together, put the music, if you don't like it, you know where to complain about.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the, but it was, he, uh, he edited it together. I mean, it's a fun, it's a very cute, fun video. And, uh, if you're listening at home, you can go, we're posted on the socials so you can go find it.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, that's stand up comedy. Alright everybody, we're, uh, just bell on this episode. And that's how you do stand up comedy. Uh, also we're going to do it, we're going to have Bates take the lead. I think it's a lot for, you know, I think people can handle me reading the comments. And I think past that, it gets...


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[Assistant] Uh, so Bates take it away. All right. So today we're talking about standup comedy.


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[Assistant] You're doing a project. That sounded just like a student, did it not?


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[Assistant] Okay, today, stand up comedy, uh, yeaah. Alright, you wanna take it back?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think I bring flavor into it. But go ahead, read it. Alright, three words in and...


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[Assistant] But you know, you'd probably be like, don't count them as stand-up comics. That's like nowadays, like being like, I'm an improv. You're like, we're not doing the same thing.


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[Assistant] Court gestures, like, you know, what would be their competitor? Like a juggler? Like if you're a court jester and the juggler's like, oh, like we hang out, we do the same thing. And you're like, all right, dude, take it easy.


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[Assistant] That was, Vaudeville was up, Chillingsters was southern, right? Or no?


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[Assistant] So, oh, so that's just black rooms. And then Vaudeville is Jewish. It wasn't only Jewish, it was New York. We're already in trouble.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought it was just kinda- I thought it was New York. Yeah, I think it is. And then I think it was- and all Jewish people were from New York? Not like- are you mean like- Is that fair to say? Is that right?


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, I meant like, I think that back then it was, uh, I think all those guys are Jewish. Okay. And all these, all of them are Jewish. Moms, maybe he's not. Well, that's arguable. Okay. Uh, I don't know what that means. No, but Jack Binnie was bought, like it was, I think.


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[Assistant] They used to go travel up there. I think it was like a big, the rich people of New York would go and travel those vaudevilles and they would stay.


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[Assistant] Catskills is what I was thinking about when I said the Hamptons. Yeah. Yes. Maybe I'm thinking of Catskills. That's exactly what I'm thinking about.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Mafia, not that bad of a thing. Take away the...


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[Assistant] Yeah. So the thirties and the fifties. Yeah. I mean, look how many there's, yeah, there's, what is their standups? There's like six, you know, there's just nobody.


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[Assistant] And those people, those were, I mean, there's gotta be obviously more than that. These are the famous ones. I'm sure there was like, you know, I mean, Cosby used to go like at a commie seller in New York, Cosby would go and uh, perform at the


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[Assistant] I wanna say it's ha, or narwha, or something. Whatever's next to...


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[Assistant] Uh, the comedy cellar. And it's, they do music down there now. And I know Cosby used to go down there. Carlin used to go down there. And they, uh, they would, they, cause they, they didn't have the comedy cellar. They didn't have clubs. So they would do all that kind of stuff. And, but that was going on then. I mean, just bounce around doing comedy.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, like, I mean, back then, there was such a big deal with albums, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] Come out and be a comedian and to do that is nuts. And nowadays, I mean, it's, I mean, it's impossible. Yeah. I mean, he beat every, like, musician. It didn't happen.


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[Assistant] We, yeaah, you know, comedy doesn't really get its own thing. Like comedy is the only thing in awards that like, it's not, you know, a part of something.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I mean, should they be nominated for an Oscar? Should specials be, you know, could they be like, it'd be great. I think all that stuff would be, but we just don't get to do it. But I mean, specials are shot beautifully now and.


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[Assistant] They're done, they just don't, comics don't get it. Not saying we would, you know.


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[Assistant] It feels weird cause we could think that we don't want it either. Uh, cause the comic is not about, but you know, you do want it. Every comic does want it. They're going to say, but the idea is like they don't. Like Seinfeld when he won that one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean that's when you get to that level and you're like, I don't need, I don't need any of this stuff. Like, this doesn't do many favors. Uh, he only takes it if he feels like he owes it to them to go take it. You know? Yeah.


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[Assistant] The, not the, with the episode that JR got shot, the one before that.


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[Assistant] Was, uh, March, like 21st, like 1980. Okay. And, uh, my parents were, everybody came over to my house and we were all going to watch it. I was one, I guess, about to be one. March 25th was my birthday. Okay. It was my birthday. So I was going to be one. My family came down. We were going to celebrate my first birthday, you know, and I had a seizure, seizure.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, I forget, it's a seizure that babies have or something. And then, uh.


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[Assistant] So my parents just had to go to the hospital, my mom didn't get to see it. And they didn't have, you know, they didn't have VCR to record. They didn't have any of that stuff. So she just never shawled. She didn't see the episode where he got shot. Did they know it was coming?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, like we were going to be celebrating my birthday and it was, it's a big show. Yeah. So it wasn't like they were watching because they knew.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean maybe they did, maybe they didn't, but I think it was just a big show and my birthday was, we're celebrating my first birthday, I'll come down, we'll watch Dallas, you know, it was a thing. It was like a, you know, and then I had a seizure and they went to the hospital, so my mom never saw it.


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[Assistant] She's still mad about it. Still brings it up. Yeah. She brought it up. She talked about the seizure. Uh, and I go, no, I'm trying to move on past that. Uh, that's interesting. I had one when I was one and five. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's some great documentaries, great books, uh, there's a great book about the boom in comedy.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, I've talked to a lot of guys that started in that kind of era, a lot of people, my dad, they had the big strike where they weren't getting paid. We had a strike in New York, uh, when I moved, or almost, almost a strike where they wanted comics to get paid.


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[Assistant] Uh, with Ted, Ted Alexander, uh, put it together. I just moved to New York, it was like 2004 or 2005. I was handing out flyers at Boston Comedy Club, and...


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[Assistant] They would have meetings and they wanted the pay to go up. So.


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[Assistant] To do spots in New York City, you would, uh, am I jumping ahead? Should I be telling this later? No, it's fine.


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[Assistant] So, uh, to do cov, to do make money in New York city, how they all make money is you do spots. And so when you do shows in New York city, it's not like on the road. So if you live in, in Kansas city at the Kansas city improv, there you go watch a headliner, an opener and then of MC.


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[Assistant] But in New York City or in LA, you see people do spots. And so New York City was where I was, uh, and how they do it is you're doing like six comics for one show. So you go to a show and you're gonna see six comics. And the,


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[Assistant] I forget, I don't know what they were getting paid then. I wasn't getting paid because I was handing out flyers. That was a new comic. But they wanted the pay to go up.


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[Assistant] And so they got it up, whatever it was, whatever it was, but to, I think, some of it's up even more now since I've left, but they got it up during the week. It's $25 a spot. So.


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[Assistant] Sunday to Thursday is $25 a spot. And that's why you'd go do four or five spots. So you can make a couple hundred bucks that night.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then if you hosted, you got $75 a spot Sunday to Thursday because that person couldn't run around and do more shows to get money.


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[Assistant] And then the weekend was one, uh, was $75 a spot. It's not hosting. So then you could go and make 75 bucks a spot and then host would get $125 I believe.


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[Assistant] To stay on the show and then the host would just typically, if you did three shows a night, he would just stay there that whole night. And so it'd be a matter of do you want to host and stay or do you want to go run around? And that's how New York comics make all their money. That's how you eventually get in. And I mean, you would make money. I mean, you can make.


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[Assistant] I don't know, a thousand dollars a week maybe. Really? Well, I mean what? $25 a spot. If you're doing, I mean, I would go out in the real peak of it.


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[Assistant] I'm doing two shows every night. I mean I did nine years I did a show every night. Every night for nine years. And then, but at those times I'm not getting paid. And then when I start getting paid, I mean I'm easily doing...


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[Assistant] To a night, I would do, uh, you know, you would just be like, where you at? Like, oh, I'm at Stanton, New York and I'm gonna run down to, uh, the stand or I'm gonna run down to,


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[Assistant] The ca- or run over to comic strip. You try to stay uptown too, like, so you try to stay...


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[Assistant] If you, if you, if you could do Stand Up New York was like 80 something, 90th, 89th in Amsterdam or it was Upper West Side and the comic strip was Upper East Side.


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[Assistant] So you would try to, if you could, you'd just like almost stay up there. And if I could run back between the two. And so you would just stay in New York. And then sometimes the best nights were when it was nice and it was like nice outside and you had a break.


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[Assistant] You could just walk over. So like you would just, you know, I have an hour and you're like, I'm gonna just walk over and you have a comic with you and you're just like, ah, let's walk. And you walk over, you go into the comic strip, you do the show and then you got to go back and.


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[Assistant] But yeah, so you make, do two a night, 25, 50 bucks.


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[Assistant] What is that 54 days is 200 bucks. And then the weekend, if you do five shows at 75, whatever that would be, you know, I mean, is that, that's probably about a thousand, right? Something like that.


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[Assistant] So, that's how you make, uh, yeaah, that's how the comics in New York would make their money. They run around and do this. It's a lot. The problem is, it's a lot of work. You're working for that money. I mean, you're doing shows. The most shows I ever did was seven.


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[Assistant] And one night and so all these sets too are 15 minutes long. Uh, so the most I ever did was seven and it was that seven. I just remember it was too much.


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[Assistant] By the time you got to the last one, you're, you don't even, you don't know if you've said the same joke.


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[Assistant] You're like, have I already said this joke? Cause you're doing the same set.


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[Assistant] So like, you know, I mean, I think most people listening to this podcast will understand no comedy, but you're doing the same set majority of the times. And that's how you fix the set and make it become really good.


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[Assistant] And you gotta do it over and over and over and over again. And so you would be doing that in New York. And I remember, I mean, you just would do, but mostly five, like if I go back now, like if I'm doing a Tonight Show and I go back, I like to run like


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[Assistant] I don't have to do as much as I used to, but I'll do, I still do probably three one night to the next night. And then I'll do this night show the next day. And so that's what I'll end up doing. And I'll just do, and what I want to do when I do it, usually the first couple of sets, I'll do full sets.


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[Assistant] 15 minutes and I'll just open with my Tonight Show set, that's 5 minutes. So I open with it and I'll do 10 minutes.


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[Assistant] And then, but the last day I like to do just five. I want to do just, I don't want to do 15. I want to do my five. I want to pop in and be able to do so I can truly time it and know what the set is at, what time it is at.


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[Assistant] Uh, and that's how I do, that's how, so when I do tonight shows, I used to always go do it in a bad room too. I would go to a room that's tough. Uh, not a, really not a comedy club, I might find a little bar and then go do somewhere where the audience is not going to be great because I knew if I could,


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[Assistant] If I could do the set during that, I could do it at this, I wouldn't be nervous at this night show. Cause in my head I'm like, well I've already, I did this where no one laughed and everybody hated me.


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[Assistant] So, I'll go, now I'm fine. Now I've, it's just putting that set through the mud, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, you're like alright, but really the timing is what I'm looking at.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at, you know, I'm looking at the timing of...


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[Assistant] Doing this without big laughs. I'm not worried about like...


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[Assistant] You're not going to bomb. No one's going to boo me or anything. But if they don't laugh how I think they're going to laugh, that's the only really, you know, so I gotta get, I gotta get my time. Like if I can do it where the audience is not laughing.


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[Assistant] Then I know that timing. And I've said it. I can get through these jokes without, I'm not relying on that timing. It's not going to mess me up.


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[Assistant] I've already said it without them laughing. Cause if you get in front of a Tonight Show crowd.


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[Assistant] Some of them can be overcrowded, they can be overexcited where they clap too much and they're applauded, you have to stop. I mean, symptoms in tonight's show, you have to...


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[Assistant] They're going to kind of stop your momentum and the joke is still like, I'm in the middle. It's not like that's the end of that joke. I'm in the middle of that joke and you got to kind of be like, and then I went, I went to the store. So I went, I went to the store there that you got to kind of, you got to do that. And that's how you kind of keep them at.


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[Assistant] But like that's how you kind of be like, no, no, no, no, I'm not done without saying no, I'm not done.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're just controlling the response because you're like, I can't really, we can't get out of it. If we all clap and we get out of this, it's going to feel weird for me to get back into it. But I have to get back into it. So you try to kind of, you're trying to like,


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[Assistant] Keep everything, the rhythm of it's really great. Cause I mean, you know, they're just, they like the joke. And the TV crowd is going to be, they're a little more hoorah than,


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[Assistant] A normal crowd, but I mean, I, I always say tonight show, when you do a tonight show set, I don't, it's not like you go have the greatest, you feel like the reaction is the greatest you've ever been a part of.


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[Assistant] I never think it is. I think you, I think you can do, you're end up getting.


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[Assistant] Bigger laughs at a comedy club the night before because the comedy club is built for that. And it's, and when you do a tonight show, I mean.


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[Assistant] So night shows actually a really good setup for late night shows. Uh, that you walk out and you stand, there's a little four leaf clover, right? Where the thing is they ask you if you want to hold the mic, if you, whatever you want to do. Uh, Fallon does a great, great job of, uh, telling them what's going to happen. He does an awesome, I mean, you know, I've seen a lot. Telling the comic.


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[Assistant] No, the audience. Oh, the audience. So the, you know, all I've ever done is Conan, I did Late Night with Conan, uh, Conan when he was at TBS. I did Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and then Fallon, he's at Tonight Show. So those were all in different studios.


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[Assistant] And Conan was, uh, late night with Conan was a good setup. When you went to TBS, not a good setup. It was, you're very far. The audience is set up where you walk out and there's some people kind of right in front of you and then think of like a,


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[Assistant] Like a kidney beam, like that's what the seats kind of are shaped like that.


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[Assistant] It kinda goes that way. So the person...


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[Assistant] Someone's really far away from you, like a lot of people are really far away from you. So the audience is not kind of on you. So you just got to get, that's a kind of a weird setup and they can throw people off where you're kind of like, what is this?


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[Assistant] If you can look at the crowd, you try not to look at the camera too much. I mean, you know, I think people have decided, you know, is like, what do you want to do? Do you want to talk to, here's the problem. Like if you're watching on YouTube, like if you can, what I always think about,


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[Assistant] When I'm performing and what I've noticed, the audience is going to be, they're a little bit above. So they're above the camera.


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[Assistant] So when you're talking, if I'm looking like this into the camera and I'm like, hey,


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[Assistant] Hey, and I'm talking to the jokes, and I know if you're listening to this, you might, this might not make sense, but I'll try to explain. But you're talking, I'm looking right at the camera, my eye line is the camera is side to side, you see this. If I look at the crowd, now you're seeing the whites of my eyes. And so I've have done it.


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[Assistant] And but then you realize, oh, that doesn't look good. Like it's just like, and you saw a comic being like, so what's going on? You know, the person at home is getting a much different experience than the people there.


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[Assistant] So I've learned to not really try to do that. I don't look past too high up.


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[Assistant] You're just trying to kind of stay level. So in the audience thinks you're looking at them and then, you know, and then they don't. So it's an interesting.


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[Assistant] Okay, but so yeaah, the Tideshow does very- so what Fallon does is so good.


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[Assistant] And the guy that books Conan JP, uh, is unbelievable. He's awesome. The two best bookers.


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[Assistant] And really the ones that I've dealt with. So there, there is JP, then Michael Cox, who books the tonight show and he's.


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[Assistant] He's the real deal. I've dealt with a lot of bookers. Tonight Show, they went through a lot of bookers at one point when they were just trying to find bookers. The guys at the stand, Comedy Club at the stand, but they're, they're great. They booked it at one point and it was like, I don't think they realized they owned the stand at Comedy Club in New York and they're like, you can't.


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[Assistant] Like you're like, how is this going to work out? Like you're, it's a huge conflict of interest. And then they eventually found out. But I was a lot of, when a new Booker came on, I was a lot of their first.


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[Assistant] I'm clean. I'm not trying to push any envelope. I'm not trying to get on there and say something crazy. I'm kind of minding my own business. So I was a lot of like, when this night show needed someone, it was like, fountain likes you, let's have you on. And then they get to, you know, they're doing it.


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[Assistant] But the guy that books tonight's show now is amazing and he's really good because you gotta send them your set. They gotta look at the set. I mean it's much different. When I first started it was you gotta have this stuff on tape.


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[Assistant] You have to, my first Conan, I mean I feel like I'm just keep rambling.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so the, well let me say the type show, so what Fallon does is he goes...


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[Assistant] And before he brings you out in front of the crowd, like you talked to him backstage, it's very just, it's a wonderful, everybody that works there is wonderful. Every time I go back, I see it. Uh, the roots are amazing. They always come and like say something very nice.


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, but before Fallon brings you out, he goes and stands where you're going to stand and he talks to the crowd that's there. Cause you need that crowd to be great because that's your reaction. And, uh.


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[Assistant] So he's like, we got a great stand-up comedian, he's gonna be coming out, he's so funny, it's great, you're gonna love it, he's gonna stay right here and you're gonna enjoy it. And so, that's so important.


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[Assistant] Because now they know where you're gonna come, they know where to look, they know, like, they're setting you up very nicely. And then he brings you out, and uh, and you always wave at the band. I always heard that was kind of a thing.


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[Assistant] With some of these late night shows, some people come out, not comics, but it could be anybody, the celebrities and they don't acknowledge the band and it's not, it looks bad. Like, you know, people, it's just kind of.


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[Assistant] And you know, so you're like, oh, do you do it? Do you not acknowledge them? Do you acknowledge them? And, uh, I always heard you got to acknowledge them because you look crazy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think everyone will, will they, will they, do they wave at the band or do they not?


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[Assistant] Uh, you gotta give a fair that some people could be nervous and they're not thinking, you know, they're going to walk out and be like, oh yeah, there's a blur dude. I didn't even notice the audience, but, uh, you know. How nervous were you when you?


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[Assistant] When I first did it, the first one I did Conan. So how I got Conan.


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[Assistant] Uh, the first one was, I was in New York, Eastville Comedy Club, and they were doing auditions. And they would come and just watch comics, they'd do a showcase, we're gonna watch comics, and so I'd go, my managers, uh, went and got them, my old managers, and they went and got them, and uh,


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[Assistant] They, I got the audition, I did it, the set went good and I was on the next week. Uh, so it was very quick and this was with Late Night with Conan O'Brien right before he left.


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[Assistant] And then the second time I did it, he was about to leave and go take over The Tonight Show.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it was like, I want to say it was like February. I did it in September and then they were doing other auditions at Eastville and I wanted to do it in February and I told my managers, my older managers, I was like, hey, I want to do it again.


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[Assistant] And they were like, it's too soon, you can't do it. And I was like, I think I can do it. And they're like, nah, they're never gonna, there's no reason to even go try. And I knew Mulaney, who I started with, John Mulaney was a


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[Assistant] I went and called, I went and I knew, obviously the book or the club, and I told them, Hey, I want to do it again. They were like, yeah, they would love to see you. Like I'm going to clean comedian. Like they're going to, you know, I can at least have a shot and I just did it. Uh.


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[Assistant] So I went and did it and I did not tell those managers. I was like, I'm not going to tell them. I wanted to just get on Conan and them see me on Conan. And so, uh, I didn't tell them and then they call me because, uh,


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[Assistant] It's the Steinbergs, these managers, they're, and they're eye level. They're, they made it that I think I would almost, I would, I would tell them this, I might've told them this story. They're, they were the, they were known, they were New York managers, they're two brothers and they're all, they're actually awesome. Uh, great. I still talk to Evan, like he's in Arizona now, but, uh, they're,


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[Assistant] So they, they, they, they get, Conan people call my managers that day.


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[Assistant] And say, hey, Nate's gotta be there at the club, whatever. And so then they call me and they go.


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[Assistant] So you gotta be at the club for the Conan audition and since are you doing it? And I was like, yeah, y'all told me I couldn't do it. And I just asked the club and they're letting me do it. And then, uh.


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[Assistant] So I went down, I went down to Conan and I did it and, uh, it was, the set went great and I did it the next week and I did it again. And, uh, that one I did with, uh. Were they mad?


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[Assistant] No, no, they were, they, they were happy. They don't care. Like, you know, it's like, they're like,


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[Assistant] I didn't know that they would have called and said, here, tell Nate what time we're coming. But, uh.


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[Assistant] Or I would have stopped that. I would have been like, don't tell them. I was really trying to. And then I just, but I didn't know that they called your manager. I didn't think about it because I, you know, I was new to all this kind of.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, I was hoping that I could just show them. I would have loved it, just to have been like, to see me on. Uh, it would have been very funny. But that was, when I did those, I was nervous. Julia Louis-Stryfus was...


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[Assistant] She's been a guest twice that I, when I've been on, uh, Conan and then another one on Tonight Show. Never, never talked to her. Really? Uh, great. Did I tell this story on? One story I saw backstage at Tonight Show, Val Kilmer was on, uh, the Tonight Show and he's just walking around, dude. He's in his own world, man. He's great.


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[Assistant] And so you don't always talk to all the guests. I've, I'm trying to think of who may have ever really.


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[Assistant] You know, Vince Vaughn, I talked to once, which I was doing the Nashville Fest, he was used to be a part of that. And, uh, he was cool. Aaron Paul, uh, when I was on here, he was just like, Hey, what's up? And that was about it. Uh, trying to think anybody.


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[Assistant] I don't, none of them I really, you kind of try to stay out of the way. You kind of not try to like, you know, I've not always talked to Fallon a lot, but, uh, you just kind of, you know, I don't really, Patton Oswald was on the show. Obviously I knew Patton and so it was kind of, uh, but I, yeah, most you don't, it's just, I don't really mess with anything. And so.


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[Assistant] Uh, Val Coomer's on the show and he just keeps like walking, he just kinda walks around into every room.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and then, so I was like, I mean, I think I talked to him for a second, but not much. And, uh.


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[Assistant] He and Julia, he just walks into her. I just see him walk into, uh.


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[Assistant] Her green room and she's sitting there and she's like, Hey Val, and he's like, I'm getting married in two months. You're going to come. And then walks off and that's it. She had no idea that he's getting married and like, he just was like, you're invited to the wedding.


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[Assistant] And then leaves no more, no more information, no more anything. And just, that was, I think the only time they talked was that.


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[Assistant] And he was, cause she left right after and you know, and he, but he was just like a kind of guy like that.


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[Assistant] And then he, and then he ended up like following me and like, I think listened to me and tweeted at me a few times. Uh, it was, it was very nice. And I didn't really even talk to him that much at the time show. But besides that, I just remember him inviting her to his wedding.


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[Assistant] And she was like, okay, like, and then he just kinda kept going and just kinda keep walking down, you know. That's great.


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[Assistant] I mean on TV, I want to say it was Sinbad.


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[Assistant] You know, I think maybe Seinfeld at the end of a Seinfeld episode when it was on, uh, I think it's about even before then.


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[Assistant] Uh, I remember Jim Brewer was the first live one. Did they say live? Yeah. Uh, uh, Jim Brewer was the first live one. It was at Zany's in Nashville. I was in high school. I have on my...


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[Assistant] What I was going to do in 10 years when you write like your senior year, like where are you going to be in 10 years? And I said, Joe, I said, I'm going to be playing in the NBA. I was like always saying, I was going to still make the NBA. I love basketball and I technically did because I played for the Nashville Baptist Association.


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[Assistant] And I kind of put that I think as a joke. Like it was, I wasn't, I had no concept of really being like, I'm going to start doing comedy, but I remember I went and watched Jim Brewer and he, I just remember how good he did. I mean, he walked off stage. I gave him a high five. I mean, I was like, this guy's amazing, dude. I was like, this was, it was unbelievable how hard we laughed. Uh,


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[Assistant] And I remember seeing the openers. I thought everybody was just probably rich on that show. And then you start emceeing and you're like, Oh, that guy was poor as I was a senior in high school and I've made more money than he did. I mean, he was making nothing like $10 maybe or something stupid.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeah, Jim Brewer was the first one and I got to work with him. I don't, you know, I've only, I've been around him a few times, but we never talked a ton, but I'm still a gigantic Jim Brewer fan and Jim Brewer is very, very funny.


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[Assistant] Very unbelievable comedian. A little underrated in the fact that he doesn't get the clout that I think he deserves. He's up there with all the tops and he's an awesome, awesome comment.


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[Assistant] Beer? A teapack? A teapack, yea. Yea, I was there. Was it 2003? Yea? I was there.


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[Assistant] I didn't know who Brian Regan was. Uh, it was, uh, I didn't know Brian Regan was either. And we, I flew back, that's when I started comedy. I moved to Chicago and then we came back. I was, was it September 11th or around 12th? Cause I remember it was 2002.


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[Assistant] It was early 2000. It was 2002 cause I flew back on September 11th.


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[Assistant] 2002, so it was a year after. I remember flying back one year on the one year anniversary of 9-11. And, uh, back to Nashville and I moved, we moved to Chicago, me and Michael Clay, who I'm wearing his daughter's softball hat this week, Moxie.


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[Assistant] She's in a real legit travel soft. Like it's like real deal. They're good. Uh.


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[Assistant] All that travel, kid stuff, I think it gets crazy, you know? It gets super serious anyway.


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[Assistant] So me and Michael moved in Chicago and, uh, I came back to see Simon and it was Brian Regan opening. I believe Brian Regan opened for him. It's funny is I remember the opener being super funny, but you have no concept of what's happening. Like now since I'm in this world, I understand it so much. And like, you're like, how do these people not know? Like,


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[Assistant] There's people that come to shows and they don't know that there's an opener. Still. Still. And, but like, I think I could have been that person. I mean, if you're not going to a live show, I think stand-up comedy is a lot more mainstream now than it was then. Uh, I mean, it's, I mean, I think stand-up comedy is becoming very mainstream. And, uh,


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[Assistant] It's people are listening to it like a little more consuming it like music. But, but then, yeaah, I didn't think about it. And a lot of stuff was I just never thought stuff through.


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[Assistant] Influence my career. It's some weird ones that are not going to be probably normal, but mine, uh,


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[Assistant] One of, uh, I mean, the beginning of Big Jay Okerson and Kurt Metzger, two very dirty guys, but two very close friends of mine. And we just moved to New York. That's the great thing about New York is when you go move in, you just kind of, you kind of hang out with guys that, it's not like you're hanging out with


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[Assistant] Me and you are probably the closest act that our acts are clean and whatever. I mean, even by all of us.


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[Assistant] Are kind of the closest I've, where we're like, you would think, oh yeaah, I could see those comics hanging out. Usually, the acts are pretty different, and I think it's really New York. The acts were very different, and so you're hanging out with guys that are filthy, and like, because it's like, those are just your friends. And so, I mean, Big Jay, Kurt Metzger, uh,


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[Assistant] They, they were huge influences on me because they were just right above me and, uh, just how funny they were. That was the first time I moved and I saw these guys, no one


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[Assistant] I knew who these guys were, and we're all basically kind of still starting, and I was blown, I was like, God, dude, these guys are so...


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[Assistant] That's funny. Like it was unbelievable just being like, you've been in a comedy for years and you're just like, like it's nuts. And you're seeing these guys and that's being at Boston. I'm Dustin Chaffin, the guy I started with.


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[Assistant] Uh, he would run it and like, he was, and he's a comic too, but he would, we would all be there and just all beat him. Like I wouldn't take that time away.


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[Assistant] At all. Like with being at Boston Comedy Club. It was amazing to get to watch all these people. Bill Burr.


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[Assistant] Patricio Nuberber is probably the biggest as far as not saying act wise, you know, I don't think people.


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[Assistant] I mean, David Tell, you know, uh, was a big deal watching how funny he was, but like Burr was a big deal because Burr, I saw Burr, you know, I think I've talked about this before, but like Burr's path to me was I watched him, I remember the Philly rant before it happened. I remember him telling us about it.


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[Assistant] 30 people there to, then at, then the Carolina being mad if you asked if you could go watch them, cause you know how busy we are this weekend. Bill Burr is here, like, and how that is, uh,


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[Assistant] I mean, just like, yea, seeing Bird to Town Hall, that's great. Me and Soder went to Town Hall to watch Bird when he first did Town Hall. And, you know, it was like, kind of like, kind of knowing him at that point. I think he would always be like, yea, Nate, yea, you would know me, but I'd always still introduce myself to him.


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[Assistant] He's the biggest to me just cause I've watched all his success and just seeing it was like, God, this, this is, there's a path.


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[Assistant] There's a way to do it. That guy's doing it. That guy is unbelievable. I'm gonna do a dude in town all with me and Soder.


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[Assistant] And sitting in the like very fifth row and watching him at town hall. So then I performed at town hall last year was, is pretty wild. Like it was, I mean, it was, I think 10 years to the almost weekend.


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[Assistant] Wow. And it was, I mean, so I remember someone yelled at him and I remember all this stuff and I remember how big that place was and then, you know, and then you're there and you're like.


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[Assistant] Seinfeld. Seinfeld. Seinfeld is the big, I mean Seinfeld is the biggest. Seinfeld, I moved from Chicago to New York.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're just so far up there that you're not, you're not gonna, like, I mean, Seinfeld, I'm not meeting Seinfeld, I'm not hanging out with him, but like, brr, I was getting to kind of get to know, you know, I mean, as, you know, not like we were best friends, but


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[Assistant] I was getting like, I could go talk to him. I could ask that guy a question, you know? And so again, to sit and watch.


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[Assistant] From a distance, Tim Burr was yeaah, the biggest. But Seinfeld, still never met him. Uh, and I mean, that's it. He's the last, he's the last one.


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[Assistant] Last ones that I want to meet, I mean, almost anybody. I mean, I would love to meet like Tiger and Michael Jordan. Yeah. But, uh. Among comedians. Yeah, comedians he's it. Yeah. There's no one else I... Rock, you know. Cosby.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no one, I'm trying to thank anybody else. Yeah, uh.


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[Assistant] I've never, Chappelle, I've, I've, I've been around Chappelle, Chappelle would come into the Boston Comedy Club all the time when we first started, and we would, have I ever told these Chappelle stories? No.


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[Assistant] There, so Chappelle would always come in and when we'd be handing out these flyers, Chappelle's show is on the air when this is all going. Like this, this is when he's doing the Chappelle show, it's the peak of the Chappelle show.


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[Assistant] I mean, when I was doing all these is not much and then he left and was just gone. So I saw him up to then he left and then was gone. Uh, and so Chappelle would always come in. We, you know, we'd had Boston Comedy Club. So the idea of it was the comedy club would just be open and it would run from, I don't know, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.


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[Assistant] And it would just, everybody can pop in and go on. Really the, the, you would have some guys booked. So the actual show would be like eight to 10.


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[Assistant] And then it would just run on and anybody can go and just jump on whenever they want. Dustin really, like it was really run like a very great place. And so people would come down and go up.


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[Assistant] And so you would see them come on whenever they want. So you see Burr, Patrice, you see all these guys.


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[Assistant] And then Chappelle would always kind of stop by after he taped the show. He loved Boston Comic Con. I think he started there. Neil Brennan worked the door there. And, uh, so they, they, there was a big deal, you know, that club. So Chappelle would always come down. I remember, I remember having makeup on, uh, like behind his ear.


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[Assistant] Like he would, cause he'd come straight from there just to do stand up. And I mean, he'd be in front of.


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[Assistant] Six people. I mean, no one's, sometimes he'd be on, no one's in there. And then we would walk outside and be like, hey, Chappelle's on stage and you can go watch for free, not even charge tickets. And I mean, it would then be a hundred, we could get it to a hundred people.


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[Assistant] 15 minutes by just saying Chappelle's on stage. And so we'd go out there and we would say, I remember telling someone, I told them Chappelle's on stage.


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[Assistant] And I was like, well, I'm at a comedy club. It's not insane for me to say Dave Chappelle's on stage. And I was like, there's three stairs that led up to it and then a glass door. And I was like, go look if he's not on those.


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[Assistant] If he's not on stage, then turn around. I'm not going to make you stay. And they go, no, we don't believe you. And I was like, just look.


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[Assistant] If he's not there, then don't go. What do you think is going to happen? And then they just left. They never did it. And I think about those people a lot. They, I hope they ever hear it. They missed a great issue. They could have saw Dave Chappelle for free.


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[Assistant] Uh, and they, and they just did it. I remember him coming up, uh, and being on the phone once, he would always park up front. You couldn't park in front of the club, but like he could. And then Patrice O'Neill also could, would have park and I would sit in Patrice's car.


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[Assistant] Uh, and if he, and so if a cop came, I would just drive it around until he got off stage. Uh.


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[Assistant] But Chappelle Parks, as he walks in, he's like on the phone with like a customer service. Cause I just hear him, he just goes.


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[Assistant] Here, like, you know, he's like talking to, you know, I don't know, like his dentist or something like, or whatever he's, no one does that with their dentist office, but whoever he's talking to, his insurance company. And it was just such a, it always like stuck with me because it was like a weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, so it was like such a crazy thing, but then I remember, yeah, like him just being on stage and him going on really late. He hosted a show one night, uh.


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[Assistant] Where he just was like, oh there's other comics on it, I wanna go. The coolest moment I saw at the comic se- so he would do the comedy seller and he would go on very, very late.


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[Assistant] And did do long, long sets. For, this was, he was kinda starting to talk for three or four hours. And, uh, and would just bump all the other comics. And I mean, it was cool, but then, some comics, it would start to get annoying.


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[Assistant] I wasn't to the point of, he wasn't bumping me because I was such a new comic, uh.


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[Assistant] But it was, the guys that were working were like, every night dude, you're doing four hours, like, we all need to get on stage. And the comics would get paid, but they just wouldn't perform. And so...


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[Assistant] It was, it was a mix of like cool and, but then becoming not cool, whatever.


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[Assistant] And so, and he was not being a jerk about it. It's like, that's the deal, man. He got that famous. He gets to do that. That's the bet. That's what you're, that's what you're trying to do.


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[Assistant] I want to walk in and they go, you get to go up next. That's my goal. I mean, I got bumped by everybody. I mean, I got bumped. Louis CK bumped me one night.