WEBVTT - Getting Real with Dusty Slay: Comedy Climber, Opry Regular, Netflix Natural 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.120 Carrie Line. She's a queen and talking, so. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.599 She's getting really not afraid to feel so so just 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:21.319 let her flow. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.360 No one can do we quiet, Cary Line. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:31.560 It sound like Caroline Dusty Sleigh is in the house. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.519 You're you're a fun person to have in the house. Actually, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.560 well thank you. Okay, So we were talking about dogs 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.720 because my dog was like attacking you. Well not really, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.040 she just sounds like an attack dog. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.239 Well, yeah, I was just sitting in the truck and 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.199 the dog came up, and I felt like I was 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.040 back to delivering pizzas again, where I'm calling, I go, hey, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.000 your dog's out here, come get your pizza. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.560 Because honestly, we had this experience with the FedEx driver 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.560 and fed Ex driver, delivery men, all of them, Like 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.920 I understand the thing with dogs, because Sugar, my dog 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.800 ran with her full thing's mouth, ferocious bark. Sounds like 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.720 she's gonna kill you. The FedEx driver, I have never 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.680 seen anyone do this in my life. Hauled ass like 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.160 was flying almost floating on the air, jumped on the 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.480 back of his tail, of his like bumper, and like 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.319 climbed up it. Because it's true, Like I know, my 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.720 dog's not gonna bite you, but like you really are 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:23.480 in harm's way. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.240 Well, he doesn't know. And if you come out and 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.920 the FedEx drivers out there kicking your dog, you're gonna 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.160 be like, what's going on here, buddy, it's a tough 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.000 situation abusing my dog. But he's like, well, your dog 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.679 was trying to bite me, and you're like, sugar, Sugar 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.160 wouldn't bite anyone. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.160 Right, have you been bit? 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.959 I don't think I've been bit. I mean not as an. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.520 Adult blacked out you can't remember. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.760 Well I did used to drink a lot, so who knows. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:52.559 But but dogs, I don't know. They're just you know people. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:57.080 I don't think people really understand their dogs these days. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:58.600 Okay, tell me why, I'll tell you. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.680 I'll tell you a story. Tell me I want to hear. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.720 I want to hear a story. Horrific though, Is it 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:03.160 about you? 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.520 It's not about me? But my I got a relative, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:06.360 it's his step mom. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.040 I'm close to your mouth. Okay, sorry, I'm a little 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:10.720 old old school back here. Let's hear you. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.800 It's pretty horrific. The story, though, I don't know if 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.440 you want to hear it. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:15.839 Did somebody die? 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.079 Yeah, like a kid, No, not a kid. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:18.839 Okay, thank god. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.240 I like telling the story. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:21.320 Well, then let's hear it does. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.880 It's pretty horrific though. This my I don't want to 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:30.000 say who, but but a relative, his step mom lived 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.560 next to these people that had these Cane corso dogs. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.160 They're like you would have to look up a picture 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.280 of these dogs. They're huge dogs. And this guy had 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.280 two of them, and he was out of town. He 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:47.600 had his mom house sitting. So my relative's step mom 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.840 goes over to their house to see the mom and 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.760 goes to give her a hug. The dogs get out 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:58.040 of the cage and attack this woman and kill this 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.320 woman and her husband. I had to come over and 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:02.120 shoot the. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.400 Dogs after his wife had died. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.640 Well she wasn't dead yet, to get them off of her. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.600 And then she went to the hospital and she died 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.240 in the hospital. It's it happened in Alabama. You can 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.680 look up the story. It's out there. It's horrific. But 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.520 I'm just saying, people like the King Corseo is probably 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.040 great with the owner, right, they're best friends, the sweetest dogs, 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.839 I bet, but they're just so strong that if they 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.919 do attack, there's like nothing you can do. I don't 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.880 know if this is the best way to start the podcast. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.880 Maybe you edit it, add this in towards the middle 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.200 or end. Because I'm a comedian and I've come in 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.560 with like just the most horrific story with no jokes 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:44.280 in there. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.160 And just like, do you have a pressure to always 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:46.760 sell a joke? 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.360 Well, you know, it's like, I don't feel the pressure. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:51.880 I'm actually pretty serious. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:52.800 I think you are. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.920 I think so. I think my voice helps me sound funny. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:58.720 Is that your real voice or have you worked on 0:03:58.720 --> 0:03:59.160 this voice? 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.560 No, this is my I mean I smoked for a 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.120 long time, so it might have added some rasps. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.680 It's a great voice though, thank you, yeah. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.640 Thank you. And well, you know, me and my wife 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.520 we dated long distance for a little while. She's from Canada, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.440 so while she was working on a visa. So she 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.640 always says that this voice kept that relationship going because 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.039 we would talk on the phone a lot. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.320 Is it, Yeah, it's just a it's a good voice 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.279 for your phone voice, right, So have you used it 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:27.359 for other things on the phone? 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.680 I don't think so, you know, I'm yeah, I'm not 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.120 really into I don't know your traditional. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.920 Dude, Yeah, I like that about you. Dusty. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.320 I mean I could text some stuff, I think, but 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.600 I don't, you know, I'm not much. I'm more I 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.240 could be more of a dirty Texter than a dirty. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.040 Oh okay, it's easier to text than talk, isn't it. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:46.560 I think so. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.440 I think it's way easier to text. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.120 I think there are a lot of dudes like that, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.200 sadly that they've only done online dating. Yeah, so they're 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.120 really good Texters and then when they meet up with 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:58.120 the girl, they don't know. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.200 What to do exactly. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.120 I had to go grow up in an era where 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:02.560 you like had to talk to people. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.960 I know, I was offloaded. I would ignore everyone. I 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.920 was mean. My talking was being mean back in the day. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:08.080 Oh yeah, I don't know if you did that. But 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.719 if like you wanted to talk to someone, I'm going 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.279 to be an extra big dick to you. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.680 No, I did. I do know. That's a thing that 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:14.680 women do. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:15.960 It's a protective mechanics. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.840 I wish I knew that back then, because like, there 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.640 were probably a lot of opportunities for me. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.520 But he thought they hated you. Yeah, I know, but really, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.800 the tests you're supposed to push through, I know you're 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.279 supposed to show me you don't care that they're a 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:28.960 raging bitch. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.960 I know, I know you are supposed to, but I 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:33.520 didn't know back then. I had did a lot of 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:34.160 growing up to do. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.400 I know, if we only knew now, I knew then, right, I. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.039 Know I was weak with it as a kid. I 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.560 had to I had to learn things. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.520 Were you were you good at dating? 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.320 I think I became a good dater. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.200 Okay, how did you become one? 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.480 Well? I actually worked with this guy who was an 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:50.080 older guy. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.720 He taught you everything, I. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.479 Think, so yeah, yeah, he was an older guy. He 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.760 was like at late sixties and he used to play 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.400 in the NFL. He played for the Buffalo was like 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:01.000 way back. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.320 Okay, so you had like he had. He had game 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:04.400 for sure, and he just. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.520 He had like he looked like Billy Graham a little bit. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:06.960 Okay. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.520 We had big chin, like slick back, kind of gray hair. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.160 Ok And we would just you know, we would do 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:14.640 a little work and then we would go sit in 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.720 this truck and he would chain smoke cigarettes. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.039 You love smoking and being around people would smoke. Yeah, 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.120 it makes you feel safe. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.960 Yeah. You would just talk to me about. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.200 He would give me some insights. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.800 We would just ask me things about what was going 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.000 on in my life, and I was forced to like 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.560 have a conversation with a one on one conversation with 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.120 a grown man. That intimidated me. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.360 Okay, so when you were talking about your dating life, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.279 what would he like say, like, what was his like 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:41.360 pieces of advice? 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.920 He was just like almost disgusted at my you know, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.120 the tactics of the day, you know, just like you know, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.160 like things like you know, you meet someone and then 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.800 you wait a couple of days to call, and then 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.200 you just all this beating around the book. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.800 It takes forever, draws it out and really, so what 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:02.359 is he saying? Just get right to it? 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.680 It was like, you know, but yeah, be more direct. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.360 Just be direct about what you want and if they're 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.160 not into it, just move on. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.240 I know. But when you find the one that you 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.080 think is so cool, especially in a small town, it's like, 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:15.880 who do you move on to? 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.320 Well, that's right, but I was, you know, I had moved. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.840 I was living in Charleston, South Care, so there was. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:21.920 You had a bigger thing. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.960 It was more like, but yeah, when you're in a 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.280 small town, it's kind of like the dating is like, oh, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.559 I've been knowing you since I was a kid, let's 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.600 hang out, you know what I mean. So it was 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.760 I didn't know how to date because I was just like, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.520 you know, hey, come over to the party, and. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.360 Then would you just kind of friends friends on it, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.000 or would you like put this was my move. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.559 If they were at my house and they were sitting 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.560 over there, I go, I go, why are you sitting 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.480 way over there? And then if they moved, then you 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.160 got okay. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.320 But if they didn't move, well, then you know you 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.160 were supposed to pursue. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.080 It was, you know, the move work more often than 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:01.600 you would say. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.720 You weren't laid back guy about it. You weren't like 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:05.000 pressing forward. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.760 Well, I guess outwardly I was laid back right right. Internally, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.120 there's probably a lot going on. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:10.400 I know. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.680 You know you're like, oh, well, you know I told 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.640 that to my friend. He loved that. I used to 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.800 That was my move, Why you're sitting way over there? 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.000 It worked a lot of times. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.080 Is that how you got your wife? 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.880 No, my wife used to do comedy. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.280 Well, I snooped for Instagram and she's funny too. What 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.920 is like two comics of one house? 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.840 Well, it's funny. Most of the time. We have two kids. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.400 Now we have a four year old and a two 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.800 year old, so you know, it gets stressful. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.880 Oh yeah, I had three kids a day. I normally 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.760 have one. And I was like, this is why people 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.400 don't gentle parent. Yeah, you can't. When you get like 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.400 out numbered, your brain literally explodes. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.920 No, we're stressed. I yelled at my son the other day. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.560 He's too Yeah, and I later I go. I asked 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.360 my wife her, go, you mad at me? And she 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.760 was like, why I go because I yelled at you know, 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.840 our son, and she goes, I yell at the kids 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.040 all the time. She goes, I think I've ruined my 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:02.120 relationship with our daughter yelling at her. But it's like, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.640 you don't mean to yell, but you're like, it's like, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.720 what else do you do? It's like, you know, you 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.679 can give a spanking whench You know, we do do that. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.880 We're not into it, we don't like it, Yeah, but 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.680 we do do it because it's like, I don't know, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.120 I feel like there's yelling and then there's spanking. What 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.720 else is there? They'll go sit in the corner thing. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:20.839 It doesn't work for us. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.920 Yeah, yeah, No, I had three today. And I was like, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.160 literally love all of them. They're great kids, amazing, but 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.080 all together my brain was fully exploding and I was like, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.520 you do what I say because I said it. Yeah, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.319 I didn't really say that, but in my head, well, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:34.959 my you know. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.440 My son's at the table the other day, he's eating, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.280 he's he has this piece of watermelon. He throws it 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.160 on the floor and we go, don't throw your food 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.440 on the floor, and then he makes eye contact with 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.440 us and throws more food on the floor, and it's like, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.040 what do you do do you? You know, you can't 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:51.400 let the kid run you. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.040 I know, I know. So I have an only child. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.480 So an only child, there is like a caveat because 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.040 you can kind of go over and you can be like, hey, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.200 don't do that because and you have like the patient 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.319 to explain and there's no other kid to like feel 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.480 it on. So like I feel like I've been able 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.600 to talk better with her, But like, I don't think 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.040 you can do it when you have more than one kid. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.840 Yeah, I found if you give one spanking and the 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.319 other kid sees, then you can ride. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.880 That out for a while because there's a fear fact. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.120 You can go hey, you know, we're doing spanking. We 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.080 do this, we're doing spankings. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.199 Again, they're not out ruled, they're not out there, still here, 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:24.240 they have not left. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.280 Yeah, and then you rotate them so you don't have 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.880 to do it a lot and you don't want you know, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.280 it's like it's a quick thing. It's only to inflict 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.400 the slightest amount of pain just to go, Hey, your 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.760 bad behavior is a you know, you associate that with 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.520 this pain, and you go, I don't want that, So 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.360 maybe I'll listen to what my dad says. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.199 I know it only sent me to therapy for my 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:46.920 whole adult life, but I think it's totally funny. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.920 Yeah. Well, I don't think I got spanked enough. And 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.480 you know, I could probably use therapy too, that's what 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:53.240 my wife tells me. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:54.440 You don't do therapy. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.280 Oh no, really, I wouldn't. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.480 I don't want a stranger to know all my problems. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:00.920 Well who knows all your problems? 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.040 I don't know unless I turn them into jokes. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:05.439 No, is that how you're outlet? 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:05.720 Yeah? 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.160 Do you just keep it all inside? 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:07.960 I think so? 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.760 Have you started at your beginning of the beginning childhood trauma? 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:14.520 Well, I think I try to deal with it on 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:14.880 my own. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.319 Yeah, okay, because you make it into jokes, so your 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.319 jokes are funny though you talk about them. And also 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.440 we'll get back to your wife because I sidetracked. I'm 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.880 so excited to talk to you, Dusty, I like splatter 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.920 my thoughts, but I want to know about your wife. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.559 But we're gonna come back. But you were born in 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.880 a trailer park and you grew up with a lot 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.199 of cigarette smoke. I know that. Yeah, because you love 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.040 a cigarette. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.600 I do. I don't smoke anymore. I do smoke cigars. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.040 Even though I'm on a two week break. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.520 I think I'm gonna why are you going a break? 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.319 Well, I don't know. I do it too much, and I. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.120 Think it are you trying to break up with things? 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.840 That's what my husband says. He's like, I'm just trying 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.080 to find something else to break up with. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.040 Yeah, I don't know. I love cigars, but I just 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.920 I feel like I just was doing it too much. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.600 Like it's like I go, I can go, like all right, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.720 I only do it after shows. I'll do it two 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.280 or three times a week, and then it becomes slowly 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.280 every night of the week, and then I start slipping 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.720 in daytime cigars, and then I gotta scale it back. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.240 I gotta go, let's take a break, and let's get 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.160 back to only after comedy shows. And I have a 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.160 show tonight, so I think I'll probably end up breaking 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.280 the cigar thing. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.319 Where's your show at Zanne's? Zadi? Is there anywhere else 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:18.800 to do shows but Zani's in Nashville. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.040 There are other shows, but Zany's is the only club 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:24.480 and the best club. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.360 And your face is on the wall it is. Yeah, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:27.080 that feels good. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.400 Zanie's has two clubs now side by side, so we 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.880 have two rooms. And then I also do comedy at 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.120 the Opry. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.120 And then forty times. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.480 Well yeah, I've probably about that many times. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.280 Yeah, do you have to scale back your jokes at 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.199 the Opry to make sure they're like blue haired friendly 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.000 because you know there's gonna be a bunch of older 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:42.760 people at the opera. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.320 Yeah, And I mean there's certain jokes I won't do, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.800 but the you know, the Opry's cool with me. They 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.720 like me, and I'll just go Can you push it. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.560 A little bit because there's such a respect thing with 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:52.040 the Opry. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.640 Well, I'm pretty clean as it is. I like that 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.200 about you, But I'll ask them. I had a joke 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.520 where I was talking about the you know, Brooks and Song. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.040 I don't know. I've been done The working Man. What's 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.280 it called Workingman? I don't know, hard working, hard working man. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.400 It's on my special that's coming out July twenty on Netflix. Netflix. 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.840 Is this your second one? Yeah, you're so cool. I 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.920 mean a Netflix special that's a big dealing. The whole 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.719 world can watch it if they want to. I know, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.000 you're just like on everyone's TV. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.840 I know, it's pretty amazing. I feel like, I don't 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.120 mean it's amazing, like look at what I've done. I 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.280 mean it's amazing, Like I can't believe it's happened. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.280 A lot of comics don't get a special. Yeah, but 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.560 you've gotten too. That's true, So you're very good. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.600 I funded these specials myself, right. The first one was 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.760 really a big deal because I was like, it cost 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.840 a lot to have people come and film things. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.000 Do you know that it's gonna make it to Netflix when. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:45.120 You do it? 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:45.199 No? 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.760 I no either special. I didn't know. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.560 So you're just hoping that it's gonna make it to Netflix. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.800 A minut'es like you might end up on YouTube which 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.160 is fine. I have stuff on YouTube that does very well, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.960 but on Netflix. Yeah, the amount of money that it 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.080 takes to film. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.000 These things, how much money? 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.280 Well, I don't even want to say. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:03.360 Okay, a lot. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.160 Yeah, it's too much. I mean, I don't know. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.680 You're but worth it when it makes it a good gamble, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.000 but you got a gamble. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.640 It It is worth it when it makes it. But 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.080 if it goes to YouTube, it's like, I don't know, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.760 you could make the money back, but it would need 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:17.720 a lot of views. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.760 Do you feel like you get much more famous every 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:20.880 time you have a special one? 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.640 I don't know. Well, this is my second one. So 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.760 I did go from clubs to theaters with the first one. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:27.600 That feels nice. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.000 So now I'm trying to get to like two thousand 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:30.680 seat theaters. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.840 That's this is just like an artist fine the same way. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.840 Yeah. I mean, comedy and music are so much the same, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.040 except for I travel alone. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:40.280 Is that depressing? 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.360 It's I guess it can be, but it's also awesome. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:45.560 I mean, I don't have to hang out with a 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:46.520 ton of people all the time. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:47.600 Are you kind of an introvert? 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.400 I think so. I never thought of myself like that, 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.520 but now that I do comedy and I get to 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.840 go out and you know, do this comedy for hundreds 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:02.040 of people, sometimes thousands. I yeah, like want to not 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.640 talk to people? Yeah, you know, I mean you you 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.600 know you do. I do a lot of podcasts and 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.080 I like doing them. But yeah, you just I'm just 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.920 talking all the time, all the time. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.680 It's like exhausting, right. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.920 And if I'm if I travel alone, you know, I 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.840 walk through the airport with headphones on, I just listen 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.880 to music. It's great. And then but if I travel 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.320 with someone, We're talking the whole time, right, And then 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.080 you never stop talking, right, You talk and talk and talk, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.320 and then you get to the you get to the venue, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.400 and then you go to comedy and then after you 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:34.280 go have cigars. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.600 And you can't be in a bad mood either, you know, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.280 like you have to be nice to people. Not that 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:39.840 like I'm trying to be in a bad mood, but 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.120 like people are like wanting you to talk, and they're 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:44.960 wanting you to be funny, and they're wanting you to 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.160 like engage with them all the time, and you if 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:48.960 you don't, then they're gonna think you're an asshole. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.680 Yeah, you know, And I get recognized because I got 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.000 a pretty recognizable look. Yeah, but sometimes you know, I 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.080 like wearing a hat, right, So it's like I don't 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.520 want to not wear a hat just because I don't 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.320 want people to recognize me. But I used to, especially 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.040 on Sundays on like the on the on the way home, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.240 I would take edibles and just you know, just relax and. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.120 Really on the airplane. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.480 Yeah, on the airplane, I'm walking through the airport and 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.240 I'm just like, yeah, I'm just in the zone. But 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.120 now people come up and talk to me, and I 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.840 feel like, I I feel like I seem so stupid 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.840 when people come up and talk to me because I'm like, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.840 I'm all, I'm all zoned out. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:23.960 Are you on an edible stiff? 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.560 I still like to do them. I mean I don't 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.640 do them when I do comedy, but it's on the 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:29.200 way home. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.240 Have you have you ever done comedy? Stone? No? 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.080 Maybe like an open mic. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.640 Okay, you don't like it? No, No, you're risky. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.200 It's just like you can't trust weed. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:39.960 Oh, like what might happen? 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.440 Well, it's like one time you do weed and you're 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.000 like all fun and everything. You're so you're like, oh, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.000 I'm having a good time here and and everybody's laughing, 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.160 and you're like, I'm such a great mood. I feel good. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.960 And then another time you're like, I can't believe that 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.160 I even do comedy. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:16:59.040 You know what I mean? 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:06.080 So insane and you need so strong. It's like one 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.440 I did. I was in Portland, Maine, and I bought 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.200 some weed at a dispensary. I bought a pre roll joint. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.439 I did one hit out on a park bench and 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.119 I was gonna smoke a cigar and I was so 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.600 high out there. I was like, I was like, I 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.920 don't need to be outside. I don't think I could 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.479 smoke the cigar, but I don't need to go in 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.800 my hotel room and be alone right now. I need something. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.200 And then my wife called and I was like, oh. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.040 Good, she knew I need She could feel it. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.719 Yeah, I think so, because I tell my wife, I go, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.480 oh yeah, I thought I was having a heart attack 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.960 in the hotel last night. And then she goes, were 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.560 you on edibles? I go yeah. She goes, oh, okay, well, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.560 and then she's not worried about it. Right, stuff happens 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.199 to me with edibles. I was you keep going I know. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.000 I don't know why I was convinced. I was had 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.800 like a like a pain, like a pressure right here, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.600 and I convinced myself my gallbladder was gonna explode. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:54.240 Why gallbladder. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.520 I don't even know what this is. I don't even 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:56.840 know it. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.320 Your mid chest, Yeah, I think your robber is a lawyer, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:00.280 but okay, goble. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.840 And I just I was in La. I was doing 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.600 the Netflix as a Joke Comedy festival, and I had 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.280 a night off, so I just did a little edible, 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.960 just was in my hotel room and then but all 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.280 the other people were staying at this hotel and I 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.520 was like I felt trapped in there because I was 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.200 like I don't want to leave and run into other 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:17.960 people to talk. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.280 So you don't like to be around people on an edible. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.720 No, not really just my friends. But I was like, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.120 I'm afraid I'll run into somebody and they'll go, hey, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.919 do you want to come do this podcast? You know? 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.640 So I was like I got to stay in here. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:32.760 I was like, I was like, am I going to 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.360 go to the emergency room in La? 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.120 So you're one of those cases that thinks they're dying by. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:42.639 Weed sometimes and I started like burping, and then it 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.480 started to feel better, and I was like, oh good, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:19:00.359 it's so insane. But the Opry I was going to say, Yes, 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.680 there was a joke where I wanted to say prostitute, right, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.680 So I asked him at the Opry, I go, can 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:07.840 I say prostitute? 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:08.680 Can we hear the joke? 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.120 Well, it's a longer joke, but I I just talk 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.920 about the hard working man song by he's. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.720 A steel hard hat or. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.600 A steel hard hat, Yeah, and then I just kind 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.600 of break that song down. Yeah, But basically in the song, 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.399 he's kind of telling you that he works so hard, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:27.919 but yet he can't he can't understand where all his 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.600 money's going. And then he says, you know, come Friday night, 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.719 I like to party hard. I like to carry on 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.919 with the Cadillac Cuties, spend my whole week's pay on 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:38.000 some weekend beauty. 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:39.800 And does that mean prostitute? 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:40.119 I don't know. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:41.400 I never knew that. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.600 There you're spending everything you make and one night on 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.919 some sort of a prostitute here, and that it's a 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:48.520 longer joke. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:49.360 Did it go over well? 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.840 It was great. The Opry loves things to be a touch. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.080 Dirty okay a little. How do you have your meter, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.840 because I'm going to tell you something, dusty. I don't 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.560 like the heavy meter of vulgar, like if if someone 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.640 is too vulgar. I went and saw somebody I don't 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.600 even know who. It was a big comedian because we 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.960 were like at a big venue and I was just 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:13.160 like everything was like making fun of someone or super 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.560 vulgar or incredibly sexual, and I'm. 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:16.919 Like, I am so uncomfortable. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.560 But I'm also like I'm just not good at laughing 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.200 and stuff like that. But people were dying. 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:22.480 I know, people like you. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.600 Are so funny. You and I can never say it's 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.480 correct name Nate Gargets Nate Bergazi. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.440 Well, I've been told that I've been saying it wrong. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.960 Apparently it's Bargetzi. I do a podcast with him. I 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:36.240 know wrong for years. Apparently it's Barghetzi, Barghetsi. Bargatzi is 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:36.879 how it's spelled. 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.000 Bargatzi. Yeah, but you two run together, and I love 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.080 y'all style and ver but I appreciate that. 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.560 Yeah, and I you know, I feel like I get 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.199 a little dirtier, but I like to me, I like 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.760 I always describe it like you're like the edgy guy 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:57.399 in church, right right, it's not so bad that they're like, 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.240 I don't want that guy around anymore. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.959 You like rode up in a motorcycle and you were 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:02.159 smoking cigarette on the way in. 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.639 Yeah, and you're saying the stuff totally nobody else will say. 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:06.760 But it's not too. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.480 Fall, but everyone's definitely thinking it. 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.200 You're like you're making fun of grandma a little bit. 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:14.720 But everyone's still laughing. Yeaeah, okay, So you so if 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.320 this if vulgar, vulgar's ten and then like nothing is zero? 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:18.840 Where are you? 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:20.960 I don't know, maybe a three. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.200 I like that about you, though, Yeah, I don't. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.280 I don't like doing that I used to do. I 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:27.800 got some jokes that are a little dirtier here and there. 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.000 I got some jokes I'm working on now where I'm 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.520 like making fun of all these It feels like all 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.879 these stores and stuff or like like Dick Sporting Goods, 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:37.040 It's like, why we calling it? 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.879 That's actually no, I'm with you. There's more stores like 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:41.680 that too, Yeah, you probably know them. 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:47.080 Well. There's Bej's. There's a lot of initials guys. Yeah, 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.320 and there's I mean out in Myrtle Beach. They love 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.480 to name the restaurants. You know, there's also there's Dick's 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:57.240 Last Resort, and then they like a crab shack loves 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.480 to play into crabs. There was a place I'm not 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.520 making this up. This is North Myrtle Beach. This is 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.320 a restaurant right off. It's called Dirty Dick's Crab House. 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:11.440 And I'm like, geez, guys, let's let's relax a little bit. 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:13.440 Yeah, no, is it? 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:14.320 That's funny? 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.280 Yeah, And so it's like a little dirty because I'm 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.440 saying all these things. But like there's other stuff where 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.639 like like these like kind of like American Mexican restaurants. 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:29.159 They love to like play like you know, uh you know, 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.880 like they're like what do they say, like suck the tequila, 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.920 suck the lime. Uh you know, I don't know. It's 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.600 like suck and lick and and I'm like, guys, there's 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.959 kids in here. You know. It's like we're just we 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.280 can handle, you know, we can drink and eat you know, 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:48.520 tacos without all this. 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:49.640 I agree with you. 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:52.639 And the host was wearing this shirt. It was like, 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:54.840 I forget the whole thing, but it was like suck 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:57.199 lick and blow. But it was like those words were 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:00.720 real big, and then the little font was like tequila 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:05.280 lawn salt, and it's like okay, break. Yeah, It's like 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.040 at least Hooters back in the day, Hooters was like 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:10.919 you knew what Hooters was, right. They weren't pretending to 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.359 be something else. They were like, this is what's going 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:13.920 on in here? 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:16.720 I mean they needed Hooters for boobs, right, Yeah, it's 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:17.679 that obvious, correct. 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:19.679 Yeah. I mean they try to put an owl in 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.760 the logo, right, we know what's going right, they got 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:25.119 a calendar. They're really putting it out there. This is 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.280 what we're doing. They weren't trying to lure the kids 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:29.280 in no, no. 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:30.240 Yeah. 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:32.640 I went as a kid, of course, but I grew 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:34.360 up in a trailer. My mom was a big fan 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:38.000 of Alan Kolwiki, the NASCAR driver that drove the Hooters call. 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:40.399 Did that shape your life growing up going to Hooters 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:42.160 all the time and living in a trailer with people 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:44.639 like oh, well, that just let you know, because you 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:46.679 said you used to tell adult jokes all the time 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:48.159 and people would laugh at you and you didn't know 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:48.720 what you were saying. 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:52.159 Yeah, I mean there was a joke. I mean, I 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:55.439 just I did Tracy Lawrence's podcast and I told some 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:58.159 of this joke. But it's like, yeah, there was a 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:00.080 joke that you would tell. And it was like he 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.479 was like a kid. He took a shower with his 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:04.280 mom and he was like looked up and he goes, 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:06.520 what are those? And she's like them are my headlights? 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.120 And then he's like what's that? She goes, then are 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:10.960 my gates? And then he took a shower with his 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:12.640 dad and he's like what is that? And he goes, 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:15.199 that's my Z twenty eight, you know. And then like 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:18.359 the mom's in bed one night and the dad's coming 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:21.200 in and the kid goes, better turn on your head lights, 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:23.560 better open your gates, because here comes daddy with a 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:26.200 Z twenty eight. Right, And that's a stupid joke. 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:27.040 That's terrible. 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:30.000 But I'm a little kid, and my older cousins told 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:32.000 me this joke. Yeah, and I used to tell this 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:36.080 to people all the time. Yeah, and adults loved it. Yeah, 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:38.800 they would go, you shouldn't be telling stuff like that, 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.400 but right after they got done laughing. 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:44.560 So did you always know you're funny? Is that what 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:45.119 started it? 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:48.119 I don't know, I think I like I was around 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:50.720 funny people. My mom's funny, my dad's funny. 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:52.439 You like your parents. 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:54.920 I like them. They're not married, but I do like them. 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:55.440 That's good. 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:58.360 Yeah, I like them. We get along, I mean yeah, 0:24:58.359 --> 0:25:00.480 I mean we I fight well, my dad at a bit, 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:04.040 but we get along. We're very similar, I think. So 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:08.440 we can't be around each other too long. Yeah, because 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:13.320 if anything comes up that we disagree on, nobody we 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:14.400 neither will budge. 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:17.560 Really, so, y'all are both real stubborn. Yeah, but I 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:17.960 feel like. 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:23.040 I'm always right when it comes to these. I think 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.560 my dad thinks he's always right. Yeah, and so I'm like, 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:27.840 I go, I always go. I don't want to argue 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:28.280 with you. 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:31.240 But getting hot inside and stand offish. 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:34.000 Yeah, I mean. We yelled at each other on Christmas, 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:37.040 you know, long ago, Okay, you know so, and then 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:40.280 we we got some family photos that we took, and 0:25:40.320 --> 0:25:42.840 we did that right after we got done yelling at 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:46.199 each other. They look good, But you know what's you know. 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:49.360 I mean, almost every family picture a fight has gone 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:51.760 down with someone right before it's taken. 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:55.200 That's the magic of a family photo. You really actually 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:58.040 knew what was going on behind that picture. At every 0:25:58.119 --> 0:25:59.320 family photo. 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:02.159 We too, going at the waffle House and Hermitage, we 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:04.480 all went eight and then we forgot to get a photo. 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:06.280 So my dad was like, let's find somebody to get her. 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:07.119 That's a good spot. 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:09.639 And then we couldn't find anyone and then we finally 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:11.960 found a guy. But we fought in between. 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:13.280 You and your dad and found y'all fought at the 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:13.800 waffle house. 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:16.160 Yeah, everybody was fighting. We were outside. We actually found 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:18.640 a nice spot that was kind of on some limestone, 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:20.480 so you don't really know. It's in a wane. 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:22.800 Yeah, that might have been cooler. 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:26.440 That would have been cooler probably, yeah, next time, next time. Yeah, 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:29.840 but the yeah, so yeah, so there's a lot of 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:33.680 family photos where oh we all know how to smile. Yeah, 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:36.280 we just did throw it up. And actually, I don't 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:37.200 even know if we're that mad. 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:39.560 We're just is it just like a habit, it's just 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.720 you'll thing, I think, so, like it's just how y'all 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:43.919 communicate and show love, because you can't get mad at 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:45.080 somebody if you don't love them. 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:47.240 I guess that's so maybe that's just I love it 0:26:47.480 --> 0:26:48.240 is that that's our thing. 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:50.000 That's how you say I love your dad? 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:52.800 Yeah, and then yeah, and so I get along with 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:55.040 all my family. I think a lot of my family 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:58.080 liked it better when I drank because I was more fun. 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:00.719 You were a fine drunk. Yeah, I was lou Okay. 0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:03.560 Now I'm more serious okay than I used to be 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:04.720 when I was drinking all the time. 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:06.080 How have you found an outlet? 0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:06.240 Like? 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:07.440 How do you did you feel like you had to 0:27:07.480 --> 0:27:09.639 find your personality again? Was it like what was the 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:10.480 transition period? 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:13.160 Like they say people say this that if you get 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:15.760 wasted all the time that you stop maturing. 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:16.640 I believe that. 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:21.000 And then when you get sober, you're like rapidly mature. 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:23.320 Because you have so much. It's just like catching up 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:24.040 at lightning experience. 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:27.560 Yeah, and I started. I mean I started drinking probably seventeen, 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:30.320 which is really late for a kid in Alabama. 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:30.680 And a Tuler park. 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:34.959 Yeah, so I held out. But you know, at twenty 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:37.879 one though, I really got into it because I know 0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:40.320 I was always looked real young, so I couldn't get 0:27:40.320 --> 0:27:42.720 into bars. I never was. I never wanted to sneak 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:45.359 into a bar, but we would drink. But once I 0:27:45.600 --> 0:27:48.240 had the access to the bar, I was like, this 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:51.679 is great. This is what I've been missing. Uh huh, 0:27:51.800 --> 0:27:54.800 just going to a place where people were at and 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:58.560 you just hanging, You're just drinking and just being fun. Yeah, 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:00.840 I blocked out. I was a black out drinker. 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:01.400 Okay. 0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:03.040 So I would be in the ball I would make 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:04.280 friends with everybody. 0:28:03.960 --> 0:28:05.960 In there where you didn't know you were making friends. 0:28:06.119 --> 0:28:08.439 No, no, we were. This is what would happened to me. 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:10.720 I would make friends with everybody. We'd have a good time, 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.600 everything's great, and then I would go one shot too 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:16.720 far and then and then my eyes would get all 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:18.720 glossy and it would be like that. You know, you 0:28:18.760 --> 0:28:21.800 could make eye contact with me, but there's a emptiness 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:24.680 in there. I think it's referred to as hollow eyed 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:29.280 in country music. Okay, and that's when and then suddenly 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.320 I would lose all those friends that I just made. 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:34.040 I would get mad at people, and it was a 0:28:34.080 --> 0:28:35.240 real darkness in there. 0:28:35.400 --> 0:28:40.520 Yeah, okay, but you have you have you? Why'd you stop? 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:41.760 Did you figure out why you were getting? 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:42.080 Well? 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:44.040 I just started to feel real bad. I was just 0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:45.680 gained in a lot of weight because I was eating 0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:47.680 real bad all the time, and I just felt bad 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:51.320 and I wanted to like take a break, and then 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:54.920 I just started feeling so good that I was like, 0:28:55.000 --> 0:28:58.000 this is great. Yeah, and I'm like why and then 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:00.520 I remember, I mean, it's so far in the now, 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:03.440 but I remember, you know, I remember when I hit 0:29:03.480 --> 0:29:05.800 a month of no drinking, I was like, oh man, 0:29:05.840 --> 0:29:07.760 this is pretty great. And then I hit two months, 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:10.360 which I had never done. I had taken a month 0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:12.840 break here and there. I wrecked a car one time 0:29:12.880 --> 0:29:15.680 and took a month. I got beat up real bad 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:17.120 one time and took a month off. 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:18.720 Gosh, beat up. 0:29:19.080 --> 0:29:21.600 Yeah, but it was fine. I was you know, I 0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:23.720 was a real mouth I mean I should have been 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:28.960 killed because I was so mouthy. I would get I 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.680 would get myself in all kinds of situations. But I'm 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:36.479 a good talker, so I think most times I was 0:29:37.000 --> 0:29:42.120 a talker enough to make someone not want to find Okay, 0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:45.000 they were I'm I think maybe they were unsure about 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:48.200 what would happen. But I got jumped by a few guys. 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:51.000 I mean I was probably twenty two or twenty three. 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:51.880 So you're just letting it fly. 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:55.040 Yeah, but I got both my eyes were swollen, shunk, 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:58.080 but I never bled, and there was no broken bones, 0:29:58.160 --> 0:29:59.640 and so I felt pretty good about it. 0:29:59.640 --> 0:30:02.320 That's a pretty solid I think, so pretty strong. 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:03.160 No scars. 0:30:03.360 --> 0:30:04.920 Yeah I get you now. 0:30:05.120 --> 0:30:06.960 Yeah, I was like I got beat up, but not 0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:07.560 a big deal. 0:30:07.760 --> 0:30:08.160 Okay. 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:10.360 I used to have pictures, but I had them on 0:30:10.400 --> 0:30:11.840 a hard drive and the hard drive broke. 0:30:11.880 --> 0:30:14.200 It's another gone, and I think. 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:16.080 I think maybe it's good. I think I had that 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:19.520 whole phase of my life in a hard drive and 0:30:19.560 --> 0:30:20.520 it's locked away. 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:21.479 Can you believe that? 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:23.760 I know, it's pretty wild. 0:30:24.240 --> 0:30:26.680 So when so, have you been in a new face since? 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:29.200 Did you like reinvent yourself or like what happened when 0:30:29.240 --> 0:30:30.640 you decided to close that chapter? 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:33.600 Well, when I I was already doing comedy. But when 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.360 I quit drinking, I quit drinking at twenty nine, but 0:30:36.440 --> 0:30:39.880 I was almost thirty, So basically my twenties I drank 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:40.560 the whole time. 0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:42.920 So you only drank for like a little like ten years, 0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:45.200 like ten years, yeah, okay, not all you needed. 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:47.240 Yeah, I mean I drank enough. I mean I lived 0:30:47.240 --> 0:30:49.239 in Charleston, South Carolina. I don't know if you've been, 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:51.960 but it's a yeah, it's a beautiful place. I lived 0:30:51.960 --> 0:30:54.800 on the beach for a while. I lived downtown. It's 0:30:54.880 --> 0:30:57.200 just like you know, day drink. I love the day drink. 0:30:57.720 --> 0:30:59.720 I love to go out to happy hour with a 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:04.240 with the window open and a and a sea breeze blowing. 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:05.560 In while also a romantic sounding. 0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:10.640 Yeah. Well, I'm eating shrimp, cocktails, hot wings and uh 0:31:10.680 --> 0:31:13.560 you know, raw oysters and drinking margarita. 0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:14.920 It's just oh yeah, it's good. 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.880 It's unbelievable. Yeah yeah, and then wrecking my bike on 0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:20.280 the way home or something like that, you know, in 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:23.600 front of some tourists just trying to enjoy their life. Yeah, 0:31:23.680 --> 0:31:26.680 you know, here's some guy in his work uniform with 0:31:26.720 --> 0:31:32.320 a bunch of cocktail saucepilled on it. You know that 0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:34.560 sort of stuff. You know, because I worked at a 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:38.360 seafood restaurant for a while. Uh and so a place 0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:41.240 called Hyman Seafood is what it was called. And uh, 0:31:41.360 --> 0:31:43.240 but I worked there for a long time. It's great. 0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:44.840 They got my picture on the wall in there. 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:46.080 You got your picture on your wall in a lot 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:46.479 of places. 0:31:46.560 --> 0:31:48.360 Yeah, I encourage it. 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:50.360 Does it make you feel like you kind of like 0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:53.080 have ownership and that place? 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:55.480 Yeah, you know, make it feels good to know that 0:31:55.560 --> 0:31:57.959 people love you, like Yeah, yeah, I got I went 0:31:58.000 --> 0:32:01.040 to my hometown of oap like Alabama this past year 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:04.000 was the grand marshal of the Christmas Parade, and I 0:32:04.040 --> 0:32:05.120 got a key to the city. 0:32:05.360 --> 0:32:05.680 Nice. 0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:09.360 So that's good. Yeah, it feels great. Yeah, because I 0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:12.000 you know, even some of my high school friends saw 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:14.000 me at the parade and they go, they were like 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:16.760 so surprised. They were like, not that, not that I'm 0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:18.720 doing well, but they were like, did you ever think 0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:21.080 you would be getting this? Because you know, I was 0:32:21.120 --> 0:32:23.640 getting into you know, I was getting into some stuff. 0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:25.440 So you could have gone a lot of different directions. 0:32:25.600 --> 0:32:29.960 Oh So, I mean, like, it's wild how you can 0:32:30.000 --> 0:32:32.000 look at your life and just go, man, this could 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:36.280 have gone a lot of ways. Yeah. Uh, even just 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:39.040 like a regular way, Like I was a pesticide salesman 0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:39.719 and I was doing that. 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:41.160 Oh yeah, I saw you talk about that. 0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:43.480 I had a salary position. I always make fun of 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:45.160 the job, but I had a salary and I had 0:32:45.200 --> 0:32:46.800 a car allowance. 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:47.280 And heck y'all. 0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:49.160 Yeah, so it was that awesome. Yes, it was a 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:52.600 good job. Yeah, and I could have just did that. 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:53.680 Why'd you stop? 0:32:54.000 --> 0:32:56.440 Well, I just you know, wanted to do other things. 0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:57.400 You want to do comedy. 0:32:57.440 --> 0:33:00.160 Yeah, I was already like doing comedy and I on 0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:02.160 comedy contest in Charleston. 0:33:02.240 --> 0:33:03.960 Okay, were you just kind of like trying it on 0:33:04.240 --> 0:33:06.200 or were you like kind of being professional at that time? 0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:08.400 Well? No, I was just it was just something to do. 0:33:08.880 --> 0:33:11.880 It's like it's a way to meet people. You're doing. 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:13.920 You go to a bar, you drink with your buddies, 0:33:13.920 --> 0:33:16.160 and then we all do comedy and you know, you 0:33:16.200 --> 0:33:16.640 just keep. 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:18.520 Drinking and then you kind of started getting good at it. 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:20.320 Yeah, and then I started getting good. Then I went 0:33:20.400 --> 0:33:22.320 a contest and I was like, oh, maybe I could 0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:25.480 make something out of this. So I won a contest 0:33:25.520 --> 0:33:29.360 in late twenty eleven, and then in January of twenty twelve, 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:34.040 I quit drinking. So and then I got way better 0:33:34.080 --> 0:33:38.480 at comedy in that number, Like, okay, better almost right away. 0:33:38.680 --> 0:33:39.479 Why do you think? 0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:42.560 I just think that I was more focused. I had 0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:45.480 more time to do things, because when you when you're 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:49.360 drinking in a fun city, it doesn't even seem sad 0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:52.040 that you're doing this. Yeah, you're like, yeah, I can 0:33:52.080 --> 0:33:53.680 walk down to the bar. I can walk down to 0:33:53.680 --> 0:33:57.520 the bar alone into a bar filled with people I 0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:00.240 know yeah, and just we can drink it have a 0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:03.600 good time in as everything I've described, or even there 0:34:03.640 --> 0:34:05.920 was a bar called Big Johns, which was a dark, 0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:09.200 dingy bar where we used to smoke cigarettes. Yeah, even that. 0:34:09.360 --> 0:34:10.319 It was fun in there. 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:11.839 Yeah, you know, I do. 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:14.000 They were doing karaoke, and but you. 0:34:13.920 --> 0:34:15.960 Can't get stuck there. If you get stuck at Big John's, 0:34:16.000 --> 0:34:17.839 there comes a point where you got to phase out. Yeah, 0:34:17.880 --> 0:34:19.880 because you see the people who've been at Big John's too. 0:34:19.760 --> 0:34:22.719 Long, and you're like, and I I was always, you know, 0:34:22.719 --> 0:34:24.759 when I was drinking, I was always a little poetic. 0:34:24.800 --> 0:34:27.319 I like to, you know, I like to I would 0:34:27.360 --> 0:34:29.320 get you know, this was before social media and I 0:34:29.320 --> 0:34:31.880 had I would write in notebooks. I write jokes. But 0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:33.960 then sometimes if I got too drunk, I would I 0:34:33.960 --> 0:34:37.160 would write little poems, or I would write messages to 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:39.640 myself to remember to be mad at certain people. 0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:42.680 Do not forget. 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.040 But I wrote on the bathroom in Big John's because 0:34:45.040 --> 0:34:46.880 everybody wrote on the bathroom in Big John's. And I 0:34:46.920 --> 0:34:50.040 remember writing here I am again, like I said, I 0:34:50.080 --> 0:34:50.600 wouldn't be. 0:34:51.160 --> 0:34:54.439 Oh that's a great song title. Yeah, have you given 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:55.600 that toy of your songwriter friends? 0:34:55.680 --> 0:34:59.439 No, m no, but no, none of the songwriter people 0:34:59.480 --> 0:35:00.000 take my auntie. 0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:01.680 I'm gonna tell my husband when he comes up here, 0:35:01.680 --> 0:35:02.560 and y'all can ride it together. 0:35:02.600 --> 0:35:05.960 Okay, that'd be great, Yes you should. But when I so, 0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:08.200 every time I would be in Big John's and I 0:35:08.239 --> 0:35:11.120 would be drunk, I would pass by that thing that 0:35:11.160 --> 0:35:13.320 I had written on the wall and go, oh, geez, 0:35:13.400 --> 0:35:15.239 here I am again in here. 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:17.439 Oh and this so there camp point, You're like, okay, 0:35:17.480 --> 0:35:19.240 I'm done. Yeah, being in Big Johns. 0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:22.040 Yeah, I mean, just yeah, I mean everything in general. 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:24.760 It just like I would. I live downtown, so sometimes 0:35:24.800 --> 0:35:26.839 I would go out of down. I would drive out 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:28.600 of downtown and I would go drink at these other 0:35:28.640 --> 0:35:30.719 bars and then I would drive my car back to 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:31.240 my apartment. 0:35:31.239 --> 0:35:32.200 Already not good. 0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:35.880 Yeah, like drinking and driving in Charleston in the you know, 0:35:36.200 --> 0:35:39.600 early two thousands to mid two thousands, everyone in the 0:35:39.719 --> 0:35:40.360 entire city was. 0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:42.319 Doing so no one should be on the roads. Really no. 0:35:42.520 --> 0:35:44.080 I mean, I don't know what it's like now because 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:46.680 uber and lift exist. Yeah, but back then, it's like 0:35:47.800 --> 0:35:49.799 I tell people, like I tell my wife, who grew 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:51.680 up in Canada, how much I used to drink and 0:35:51.760 --> 0:35:53.480 drive and it blows her mind that. 0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:55.840 Yeah, but we would, you know, we would all go 0:35:55.840 --> 0:35:57.920 to the restaurant. It's pretty awful. Can you believe it? 0:35:57.960 --> 0:35:58.759 Like back in the day. 0:35:59.120 --> 0:36:00.520 I can't believe it at all. 0:36:00.600 --> 0:36:03.360 I know, it's so like unbelievable because you're really not 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:05.120 present at all driving a car. 0:36:05.280 --> 0:36:09.560 No, we would, you know, you know, ten of us 0:36:09.640 --> 0:36:11.719 would get off work at the restaurant. We would go 0:36:11.760 --> 0:36:14.680 to another restaurant. It would be midnight when we got 0:36:14.680 --> 0:36:18.440 out of there, so we would get drunk as fast 0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:21.120 as we could and then all go get in our 0:36:21.160 --> 0:36:24.640 cars and driving home. It terrible, Yeah, I know, and 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:26.879 and you know, and that's just what we were doing 0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:28.839 all the time. But I had a bar right next 0:36:28.880 --> 0:36:31.480 to my house, so I would get real you know, wasted, 0:36:31.520 --> 0:36:34.239 and then drive home and then stumble into this other 0:36:34.320 --> 0:36:36.640 bar and try to like I don't know what I 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:38.720 was trying to do, just trying to keep it going. 0:36:39.000 --> 0:36:40.960 I know, isn't it weird? Because then when you get 0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:42.799 out of it, I haven't drank it three years either, 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.040 and it's like, what was I trying? What was I 0:36:45.120 --> 0:36:48.360 trying to do? I because you're not what's the goal? 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:52.719 You know? Yeah, and I didn't really use AA but 0:36:52.840 --> 0:36:55.840 I had a friend one time who was in the program. 0:36:55.960 --> 0:36:58.959 He gave me the Big Blue Book and I read 0:36:59.000 --> 0:37:01.360 that book and I and then I also went to 0:37:01.400 --> 0:37:04.040 a couple of meetings with some other people later and 0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:08.160 like their slogan is like I think it's like one 0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:12.040 is too many and a thousand isn't enough, And that 0:37:12.239 --> 0:37:13.960 was the case for me. I was told like I 0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:17.440 wasn't like waking up in the morning drinking, but I 0:37:17.600 --> 0:37:20.600 was totally like once I started, yeah, it was on. 0:37:20.680 --> 0:37:22.600 That was it. Yeah, yeah, it was. 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:24.960 I mean, I you know, a couple of times I've like, 0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:28.080 you know, you go, I'd be a happy hour and like, 0:37:28.160 --> 0:37:29.960 you know, we would go to brunch and we would 0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:33.880 do mimosas, and then we would stay until it started 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:37.680 to turn into you know, afternoon drinks, and then I'd 0:37:37.680 --> 0:37:40.560 do a shot of some whiskey and then go around 0:37:40.600 --> 0:37:42.600 to the side of the building and throw up and 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:45.440 then come back in and keep going. I know, it's disgusting. 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:47.160 It's a different age. I was talking to Maddie. He's 0:37:47.200 --> 0:37:48.759 right here and she's twenty five, and I was like, 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:51.880 y'all iteration just knows better than ours. It like ours 0:37:51.960 --> 0:37:55.200 is like let's get as drunk as possible because it's awesome, 0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:57.760 and they're like, oh my gosh, that is so unhealthy. 0:37:57.800 --> 0:38:00.359 It's like how you know how we use to kind 0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:03.200 of use cigarettes, like we knew it was bad for us. Yeah, 0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:05.080 but it's like now they know it's bad for them 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:07.600 for some reason we didn't know or we. 0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:10.239 Didn't well, I don't think we cared. Also, they say 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:12.040 that drinking is like an all time belove. 0:38:12.239 --> 0:38:14.480 Yeah, because this new generation is smart. 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:17.919 I think they're smart. But also there's so much video now, 0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:21.360 uh huh that nobody wants to be caught on video. 0:38:21.560 --> 0:38:24.279 Oh that's a good batch. Oh yeah, because nothing was 0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:25.239 documented back then. 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:26.319 Yeah, you could be. 0:38:26.480 --> 0:38:28.360 You could go crazy, like that's when rock stars were 0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:31.080 throwing TV's out of window. Could you imagine if someone 0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:31.640 did that now? 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:35.080 Yeah, you know it's like that. I think it's Joe 0:38:35.080 --> 0:38:37.680 Walsh has that song where he says, I live in hotels, 0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:40.440 tear out the walls, I have accountdance, pay for it all. 0:38:40.440 --> 0:38:42.120 It's like nobody's doing that. 0:38:42.160 --> 0:38:44.719 Nobody you would be, you would be, you would be canceled. 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:47.680 I clean up my hotel before I check out, you do. 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:49.720 I like to make sure everything's in this spot. 0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:53.239 That cleaning up I tip. I'm like, I can't, you know, 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:54.040 I feel bad. 0:38:54.480 --> 0:38:55.839 Yeah, you don't want to leave it a wreck. 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:58.040 I can't imagine trash in a hotel. 0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:11.800 Oh my god, right, I know. Okay, So tell me 0:39:11.800 --> 0:39:13.680 about your life. Now. How'd you meet your wife? She's 0:39:13.680 --> 0:39:15.360 from Canada. You are both comedians. 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:18.840 We were both visiting New York City doing open mics. 0:39:19.080 --> 0:39:20.719 George in the city at the same time. 0:39:20.800 --> 0:39:23.200 Yeah, she was visiting from Toronto. I was visiting from 0:39:23.280 --> 0:39:26.560 Charleston and we were just doing open mics and we 0:39:26.640 --> 0:39:29.520 met at this one open mic, and then, you know, 0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:32.440 I think I think she was pretty unhappy with how 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:35.319 her trip was going in the comedy world. Uh. And 0:39:35.360 --> 0:39:39.080 she was like, like she told me, she was like, 0:39:39.560 --> 0:39:41.480 I was in part of my language. She said, I 0:39:41.560 --> 0:39:44.040 was in bitch mode. She was like I was, I 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:47.279 was like mad or whatever. And then she came up 0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:49.400 to me at this barn. She goes, hey, where's the 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:51.759 sign up for the open mic? Okay, and then she 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:55.000 heard me talk and she goes, oh, this guy's not 0:39:55.040 --> 0:39:58.480 from around here, you know, And so we just kind 0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:00.320 of hung out because I was like, I didn't know 0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:02.279 anyone either, and so we just kind of hung out. 0:40:02.280 --> 0:40:03.920 And then the rest of that week while she was 0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:06.880 in town, we just went around and did open mics together. 0:40:07.280 --> 0:40:10.120 Okay, so that's fun. Y'all have that in common. You 0:40:10.239 --> 0:40:11.759 kind of maybe need to be married someone who at 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:15.520 least appreciates humor. Yeah, but guess better if they're good 0:40:15.560 --> 0:40:15.839 at it. 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:19.200 Yeah, and also just understands like the road kind of 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:21.880 stuff that I'm gonna be, you know gone. Because she 0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:24.080 did comedy for a long time with me, and then 0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:27.680 she eventually, yeah, we would, Yeah, she would open for me, 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:30.240 and then because I already had a bunch of gigs, 0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:32.479 so she would just go with me. And she's really 0:40:32.480 --> 0:40:35.120 good at comedy, but she just eventually was like I 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:38.200 hate doing this. She's like, I don't want to do this. 0:40:38.400 --> 0:40:40.440 No, it's not for the faint of heart. Yeah, and 0:40:40.760 --> 0:40:41.480 brutal out there. 0:40:41.520 --> 0:40:43.960 But at the time I was like, I'm not really 0:40:44.000 --> 0:40:46.200 making enough money to support us. 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:48.839 Both, and she was, Wow, to make money in comedy, right, yes, 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:50.719 oh a long time, like a long time. Same with 0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:53.239 being an artist, yeah, a long time. People think you're 0:40:53.280 --> 0:40:55.799 all doing great, but really you're like barely getting enough 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:56.800 to get to the next gig. 0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:00.759 Yeah, it's like the if you tell people what you like. 0:41:00.760 --> 0:41:02.840 I would tell people what I'm getting paid in comedy 0:41:02.880 --> 0:41:05.040 back then, and they would like act like I was 0:41:05.080 --> 0:41:07.960 getting ripped off, like yeah, I was making all the 0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:10.360 wrong moves, and I'm like, this is what it is. Yeah, 0:41:10.480 --> 0:41:13.239 this this gig is paying me this much money. But 0:41:13.360 --> 0:41:16.720 I beg them to give me the gig. Yeah, because 0:41:16.719 --> 0:41:18.560 you just need stage time. That's the only way you're 0:41:18.600 --> 0:41:21.040 gonna get better. So you gotta keep getting the gigs. 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:24.120 You know. You would drive you know, ten hours to 0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:26.359 do a Friday and Saturday at a club for two 0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:29.400 hundred and seventy dollars, right, and then you and it's like, 0:41:29.480 --> 0:41:32.080 that's so you're losing money. I was able to support 0:41:32.120 --> 0:41:34.560 myself because my car was paid off and I had 0:41:34.800 --> 0:41:38.239 an addic department in the West Side for two hundred 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:38.960 and fifty dollars. 0:41:38.840 --> 0:41:40.360 A month a score. 0:41:40.520 --> 0:41:44.160 Yeah. It was tiny and not insulated well, so very 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:46.400 cold in the winter, very hot in the summer. 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:49.040 But a place, but a place for very cheap. 0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:52.200 For very cheap, so I had virtually no expenses. Okay, 0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:53.759 so that's how I was able to do it. And 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:55.279 then she moved down and she was on a work 0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:59.680 visa for entertainment, so she can only do entertainment gig. 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:02.719 Couldn't even get a regular job. So I was like, 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.200 you got to keep doing it. And then the moment 0:42:05.400 --> 0:42:08.239 I was making enough money to support us both, I 0:42:08.280 --> 0:42:09.920 was like, you can quit now if you want to, 0:42:10.440 --> 0:42:12.360 and she quit and canceled gigs. 0:42:12.719 --> 0:42:14.120 She didn't like she was so done. 0:42:14.360 --> 0:42:16.880 Yeah, it wasn't like a lot of people quit comedy 0:42:16.920 --> 0:42:19.680 because they have no gigs. They're just like, I got 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:22.560 nothing going on. I'm just gonna stop doing this. She 0:42:22.719 --> 0:42:24.799 quit and had to call people and go, hey, I'm 0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:26.080 not gonna come do this gig. 0:42:27.000 --> 0:42:29.080 That's awesome. Yeah, So what are y'all like at home? 0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:31.600 Like how is your conversation? Like are y'all how are 0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:33.759 y'all communicating? Because I feel like y'all would be a 0:42:33.840 --> 0:42:35.320 very fun couple to be around. 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:37.800 Yeah, we do have a fun time. I mean we're both, 0:42:37.960 --> 0:42:40.640 you know, pretty fired up people. We get, you know, 0:42:40.680 --> 0:42:43.319 we can get so we can have some we can 0:42:43.360 --> 0:42:44.360 have some good fights. 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:46.800 Okay, but that's good to have a good fight. Do 0:42:46.800 --> 0:42:48.080 you have a fighting technique? 0:42:48.840 --> 0:42:51.040 I don't know. I feel like we did for a while. 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:54.120 We kind of would fake fight with each other, okay 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:58.200 to like almost comedically, but we were able to express 0:42:58.239 --> 0:42:59.359 the things that were bothering us. 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:00.000 That's funny. 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:03.480 But I think we wore that out, okay, I And 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:06.279 now I just think mainly it's just like we get 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:08.520 stressed out right because we don't have a lot of help. 0:43:08.640 --> 0:43:10.560 So because I don't trust a lot of people, so 0:43:10.600 --> 0:43:13.319 it's really my fault that we don't have help. And 0:43:13.360 --> 0:43:16.080 none of our family lives around here, so it's like 0:43:16.120 --> 0:43:18.800 when I'm gone, it's my wife alone with the kids, 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:23.720 so she's stressed. And then when I get home, I'm tired, 0:43:23.960 --> 0:43:25.680 but she's like, well I need some. 0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:27.359 Time on my own, so here are the kids. 0:43:27.480 --> 0:43:30.040 Yes, so we get stress and we love our kids. 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:31.879 I want to be around my kids all the time, 0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:33.880 of course, But she left to go to the grocery 0:43:33.920 --> 0:43:36.560 store today and I'm yelling at the kids because they're 0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:38.600 in the garage destroying things. 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:39.800 Oh my god. 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:41.920 I mean, I'm telling you I've lost all sins of 0:43:41.960 --> 0:43:44.200 calmness today because I have these three kids who I love, 0:43:44.239 --> 0:43:46.239 Like I said, yeah, but like you walk in one 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:48.160 is dumping out a bag of rocks. The next one 0:43:48.200 --> 0:43:50.480 is cutting paper all over the another one's drawing on 0:43:50.520 --> 0:43:52.280 the couch, and then they're coming up to you asking 0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:55.240 for a million things. Somebody's mad at somebody else, somebody 0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:58.200 just pooped their pants, and it's literally like, oh my gosh, 0:43:58.280 --> 0:44:00.919 I'm my brain has exploded. I don't have enough time 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:03.240 to process it all. It's all happening too fast. 0:44:03.560 --> 0:44:03.799 I know. 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:06.839 I think that's why parents lose they're cool. And it's 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:09.040 really it's not about the kids, it's whatever. Really, it's 0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:14.560 about me, like calming my nervous system enough to respond calmly. 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:16.239 I know it's so hard. 0:44:16.760 --> 0:44:19.120 Yeah, that's what you know. We talked about spanking, and 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:22.319 that's what you know. With that, it's like, you never can. 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:24.920 This is what they say, and I believe this. You 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:27.880 never can. You don't spank out of in that mode. 0:44:28.080 --> 0:44:30.840 When you're in like I'm frazzled mode, you have to 0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:33.200 It's like all right, you have to almost like talk 0:44:33.239 --> 0:44:35.400 to them and go, this is why we're doing this 0:44:35.560 --> 0:44:38.560 right now, this is there's a reason why this is happening. 0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:41.200 If you do it and just freak out mode, then 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:43.399 nobody knows what's going on. It just seems like you're 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:46.080 beating your kids. And yeah, nobody knows what's happening, and 0:44:46.080 --> 0:44:48.440 that's no good. But I go out in the garage. 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:50.360 My kids are crying. I go, what's happened? I go 0:44:50.400 --> 0:44:53.520 out and there both trying to get into this stroller 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:56.200 and they're both stuck in there, and I'm like, why 0:44:56.200 --> 0:44:57.920 are you doing this? You don't even want to be 0:44:57.960 --> 0:44:59.719 in this stroller when I ask you to get in. 0:44:59.800 --> 0:45:01.480 Right, Yeah, it's because one of them wants it. 0:45:01.600 --> 0:45:02.239 Yeah, I know. 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:05.799 It's really something. It's really great. It's amazing, but it's 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:08.600 like it really pushes you. It really shows you how 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:10.520 far you can go, which is great. 0:45:10.400 --> 0:45:12.879 I do think. I mean, I'm forty three. I didn't 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:15.640 have a kid till I was almost forty, so I 0:45:15.719 --> 0:45:19.400 basically have this my my period, my decades. Right, my 0:45:19.440 --> 0:45:21.480 twenties I was an alcoholic Okay, I don't like to 0:45:21.520 --> 0:45:23.960 say alcoholic because I just drank a lot. You just 0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:28.080 drink a lot, right, And then thirties I was learning 0:45:28.120 --> 0:45:31.240 to become a comic and smoking a lot of weed. 0:45:31.719 --> 0:45:34.680 And then in my forties I'm like, this is dad, 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:35.720 my dad. 0:45:35.880 --> 0:45:37.000 I love the chapters. 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:38.520 Yeah, it's my dad decade. 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:40.640 Have they all helped and build upon each other? 0:45:40.760 --> 0:45:43.080 Yeah, I mean I think having kids, and I never 0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:45.680 thought that. I never wanted to have kids. I always 0:45:45.719 --> 0:45:47.680 feel like, not that I don't like kids, I love them, 0:45:47.719 --> 0:45:51.200 but I felt like, you know, the world's exploding. I 0:45:51.239 --> 0:45:53.440 mean in my mind, you know, the world's been about 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:55.760 to end for the last fifteen years. I mean, right, 0:45:55.840 --> 0:45:58.239 So I was like, I don't want to bring kids 0:45:58.320 --> 0:46:01.000 into the world. But the moment I did it, I 0:46:01.080 --> 0:46:04.560 was like, oh, what was I thinking? Like kids, it 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:08.640 takes you to a next level of adulthood and it does, 0:46:08.840 --> 0:46:10.759 you know, and I think you have to do it. 0:46:11.120 --> 0:46:12.480 What have you learned about yourself? 0:46:15.080 --> 0:46:18.160 I mean, you mean as like a dad. Yeah, I 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:20.280 don't know. I mean that's a hard question. I feel 0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:23.279 like I feel like a lot of things. But you know, 0:46:23.320 --> 0:46:28.440 I'm just I don't know. I've learned that, you know. 0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:30.360 I don't know. Maybe I don't have the patience that 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:33.839 I once thought I had, you know, I don't know. 0:46:33.920 --> 0:46:35.200 I do think I'm pretty patient. 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:36.839 I taught you. 0:46:38.560 --> 0:46:43.000 I don't know, but it's taught me that I needed 0:46:43.040 --> 0:46:43.520 to do that. 0:46:43.800 --> 0:46:46.040 I feel that it took because what you're saying, it 0:46:46.080 --> 0:46:49.200 did take me somewhere that I've had to. Like, you 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:51.160 know what it's done for me? Is it shown me 0:46:51.280 --> 0:46:53.680 all my edges, Like I have seen all of my 0:46:53.840 --> 0:46:56.160 edges and I'm like, ooh, I need to round that 0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:58.360 one off a little bit, or ooh that one's a 0:46:58.400 --> 0:47:00.640 little spicy, or you know. But then it also showed 0:47:00.640 --> 0:47:03.560 me how much I can love, like I didn't know how. 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:06.040 Of course I love my husband, of course I love 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:09.279 my family, but like, I didn't know I could love 0:47:09.360 --> 0:47:12.200 this much because I've never loved anything until, like it 0:47:12.239 --> 0:47:14.600 physically hurt me before until I had kids, and it 0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:16.120 like physically hurts you know. 0:47:16.400 --> 0:47:19.000 That's yeah, that's good. I feel like that's true. It's 0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:23.000 like now when I'm on a plane and somebody else's 0:47:23.080 --> 0:47:27.040 kids are crying, I'm not mad about I feel sorry 0:47:27.080 --> 0:47:29.440 for the kids. Yeah, I almost want. 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:31.000 To help because you know they're distressed. 0:47:31.040 --> 0:47:32.799 Yeah, I almost want to go let me hold them 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:35.520 for a minute. Yeah, let me see what I can do, yes, 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:38.120 because I yeah, I feel bad. I feel like that. 0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:40.759 When you don't have kids, you just think, oh, what's 0:47:40.760 --> 0:47:42.880 going on with these kids? Make the kids be quiet? 0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:45.040 But when you're an adult, you know, like with kids, 0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:48.320 you're like, well that you can't make the kid be quiet? Yeah, 0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:50.919 and maybe you know my ears. I have real bad 0:47:50.960 --> 0:47:53.160 problems with my ears. I'm flying all the time. Almost 0:47:53.160 --> 0:47:54.719 every time, I have to do this thing where I 0:47:54.800 --> 0:47:58.839 pop my ears almost every flight, or it builds up 0:47:59.000 --> 0:48:02.319 so bad that it's really painful. I don't know what's 0:48:02.400 --> 0:48:05.080 going on with it, but that's what happens. So I 0:48:05.120 --> 0:48:07.440 always think, well, maybe that's what's going on with the kids. Yeah, 0:48:07.480 --> 0:48:09.279 and they don't know how to blow their blow their 0:48:09.280 --> 0:48:09.799 ears out? 0:48:09.960 --> 0:48:10.920 Yeah totally. 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:15.320 And also, uh, you know, I I like kids better 0:48:15.360 --> 0:48:18.839 in general when I see kids out, I like them. 0:48:18.800 --> 0:48:20.080 Better now Yeah, yeah, I feel it. 0:48:20.200 --> 0:48:22.359 And I made a joke about this on on my 0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:26.920 uh my working man, uh special Uh but and this 0:48:27.080 --> 0:48:31.040 seems morbid. Well, I just would always like like if 0:48:31.080 --> 0:48:33.120 I were on a plane before and I felt like 0:48:33.160 --> 0:48:36.200 the plane was going down, I was like, well, I 0:48:36.239 --> 0:48:39.600 don't want to die, but you know, so be it right, 0:48:39.680 --> 0:48:42.400 who cares? Right? But now that I have kids, I'm like, no, 0:48:42.560 --> 0:48:43.239 I gotta live. 0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:44.440 I know you have to. 0:48:44.640 --> 0:48:47.080 I gotta I gotta be there for them. What's gonna 0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:49.839 happen if I die. Who you know, so I gotta live? 0:48:50.239 --> 0:48:53.000 You can't, Yeah, you have to. Yeah, it's kind of 0:48:53.000 --> 0:48:55.160 a little bit more. You're just kind of like, well 0:48:55.360 --> 0:48:57.880 case the ras raw when it's just you, yeah, but 0:48:57.920 --> 0:48:59.640 then when it's yeah, exactly. 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:00.480 Yeah. 0:49:00.560 --> 0:49:02.880 I mean, I just felt like I'm at peace with it. 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:05.160 If I die, that's a good place to be, though 0:49:05.280 --> 0:49:10.440 it is, but I you know, I'm Christian. I feel like, 0:49:10.600 --> 0:49:13.239 if I die, I go to Heaven. And I'm like, 0:49:13.680 --> 0:49:17.279 why would I want to be on Earth where things 0:49:17.320 --> 0:49:19.319 are bad? If I could go to a different place. 0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:21.120 But now that I have kids, I'm like, well, I 0:49:21.120 --> 0:49:25.000 got a responsibility. I can't just escape to paradise while 0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:27.480 they were in here. I brought these kids in, uh huh, 0:49:27.480 --> 0:49:29.799 and there I gotta you know, I gotta be here 0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:34.120 to you know, protect these kids because and I guess 0:49:34.160 --> 0:49:36.360 I've also learned that sort of stuff too that it's like, 0:49:36.440 --> 0:49:38.239 I gotta, you know, there's things you gotta do to 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:40.279 protect kids. You can't you know, I don't know. I 0:49:40.320 --> 0:49:43.000 just feel like when I was growing up in the nineties, 0:49:43.040 --> 0:49:46.600 it was eighties and nineties and eighties or something, Yeah, 0:49:46.680 --> 0:49:48.400 you could, you know, you could just let the I 0:49:48.400 --> 0:49:49.759 would just I would leave. 0:49:50.560 --> 0:49:52.200 Parents would just send you outside all day. 0:49:52.400 --> 0:49:54.719 I would ride before I got four wheelers. When I 0:49:54.760 --> 0:49:57.799 was younger, we would ride bikes everywhere. Wait, we would 0:49:57.880 --> 0:50:01.200 ride bikes down to the to the river was the river, 0:50:01.360 --> 0:50:03.000 the Tallapoosa River. 0:50:02.880 --> 0:50:04.239 In Alabama, and no one knew. 0:50:04.400 --> 0:50:07.160 We would go down there and swim in the river 0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:08.520 as little kids. 0:50:08.840 --> 0:50:11.520 And where you were what you're doing swimming in the 0:50:11.600 --> 0:50:14.200 river with no adult supervision? Yeah, so many things could 0:50:14.200 --> 0:50:15.280 happen to little kids. 0:50:15.840 --> 0:50:16.480 Yeah. 0:50:16.520 --> 0:50:18.880 And then when we were older, we had four wheelers, 0:50:18.920 --> 0:50:20.360 and then we would just do the same thing with 0:50:20.400 --> 0:50:22.759 the four wheelers. I grew up in the trailer park, 0:50:22.800 --> 0:50:24.920 and we would we had woods on either side. We 0:50:24.920 --> 0:50:26.719 would just disappear, and. 0:50:26.719 --> 0:50:28.279 They're gonna worry that you're gonna get hit by a 0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:31.320 car or you know, lost in the woods or around 0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:31.759 on the river. 0:50:31.920 --> 0:50:34.160 My mom worked third shift. She came home and went 0:50:34.200 --> 0:50:34.640 to sleep. 0:50:34.719 --> 0:50:36.200 Yeah, they just knew it was gonna be okay. 0:50:36.280 --> 0:50:38.320 She was happy that I was out of the house 0:50:38.360 --> 0:50:41.479 so she could sleep, I know. And then my mom 0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:44.160 would go to work. I mean, you know, when I 0:50:44.200 --> 0:50:46.920 was a little little kid, I had some somebody with me. 0:50:47.040 --> 0:50:50.080 But as I got, I mean I was alone at night, 0:50:50.280 --> 0:50:51.120 way too young. 0:50:51.360 --> 0:50:53.839 Yeah, it's a different time I got. 0:50:53.920 --> 0:50:56.040 You know how collect calls used to get my sister. 0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:58.440 We lived in one trailer and then my sister and 0:50:58.480 --> 0:51:02.240 her husband lived in the trailer next store. Okay, not always, 0:51:02.280 --> 0:51:04.160 but for a little while. Yeah, because we had our 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:06.719 own little We had our own little yard because you know, 0:51:06.760 --> 0:51:09.719 and you'd share the yard in a trailer trailer park, 0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:12.000 So we had our own little shared you. I think 0:51:12.080 --> 0:51:14.680 that's just nice, but I you know, collect calls used 0:51:14.680 --> 0:51:16.480 to be like you would get a call to the 0:51:16.560 --> 0:51:18.840 landline and it would say, uh, you know, you have 0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:20.960 an AT and T Collect call from, and then it 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:23.440 would be the person's voice and they would say, oh Jerry, 0:51:23.840 --> 0:51:26.400 you know, and then you could accept or not. One night, 0:51:26.520 --> 0:51:28.560 I got a call my mom's at work. I'm alone. 0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:30.360 I wake up. I answered, and it says, you have 0:51:30.400 --> 0:51:34.479 a collect call from I know where you live. You're dead. Yeah, 0:51:34.680 --> 0:51:37.640 So I freak out and I run to my sister's 0:51:37.680 --> 0:51:41.680 house and I wouldn't and then I stayed at my 0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:44.520 sister's house for a long time. But they smoked cigarettes inside, 0:51:44.960 --> 0:51:47.520 so uh, I would just be I would go to 0:51:47.560 --> 0:51:49.759 school smell like smoke and be real smoky. So I 0:51:49.800 --> 0:51:51.800 was just like, you know what, I'll just risk his 0:51:52.320 --> 0:51:53.799 back at the back of the house. 0:51:54.239 --> 0:51:55.239 Did you ever find out who it was? 0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:57.200 No? I had no, but you know, we had phone 0:51:57.200 --> 0:52:00.440 books back then, which is also a wild Can you 0:52:00.520 --> 0:52:03.920 believe it that you just have your name and home address. 0:52:03.760 --> 0:52:06.360 And number in a book for everyone to have. 0:52:06.560 --> 0:52:08.640 So it just was so true. It was just my 0:52:08.800 --> 0:52:11.759 mom's name in there, and so there was a we 0:52:11.840 --> 0:52:14.320 called the cops, you know, and there was so because 0:52:14.320 --> 0:52:16.920 it was a voicemail, but the voicemail was just like 0:52:17.760 --> 0:52:20.440 clearly a reference to it, just because it like the 0:52:20.480 --> 0:52:23.120 whole time the voicemail's going, it's going to collect call, 0:52:23.280 --> 0:52:25.600 you know, so you don't pick it all up, and 0:52:25.640 --> 0:52:27.879 then you just get to the message and you hear 0:52:27.920 --> 0:52:31.040 that same voice go you're titties, you know. So it's 0:52:31.080 --> 0:52:36.279 like it's clearly just some creepy trying to you know, 0:52:36.520 --> 0:52:38.720 who knows. Maybe it was one of my mom's ex boyfriends, 0:52:38.760 --> 0:52:43.040 I don't know, but it was like, I don't know, freaked. 0:52:42.760 --> 0:52:44.719 Us out and just like though it was just a 0:52:44.719 --> 0:52:47.200 different time of life, like all that all that went down. 0:52:47.440 --> 0:52:49.040 I talked to my daughter about the eighties all the time, 0:52:49.080 --> 0:52:51.319 and she's always telling me she's like, that's that was 0:52:51.360 --> 0:52:53.680 different though, because it was the eighties. I'm like, it was. 0:52:53.800 --> 0:52:55.760 It was a totally different time in the eighties. 0:52:56.239 --> 0:52:58.160 Yeah, And I think about it all the time and 0:52:58.200 --> 0:53:00.920 I think how much better it was. But I you know, 0:53:00.960 --> 0:53:04.120 I've kept journals at various times in my life. Not always, 0:53:04.480 --> 0:53:07.240 but I had like a journal from the late nineties 0:53:07.280 --> 0:53:10.560 early two thousands where I would periodically write, and I'm like, 0:53:10.600 --> 0:53:12.040 I was reading some of that stuff the other day 0:53:12.040 --> 0:53:14.279 and I was like, I was not happy back then. 0:53:14.680 --> 0:53:19.080 I remember it like, oh, it's just a dollge ast. Yeah, 0:53:19.120 --> 0:53:21.480 but I I read that and I go, no, it's better. 0:53:21.280 --> 0:53:22.920 Now you're angsting. Yeah. 0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:26.319 I think social media as bad as I don't like it. 0:53:26.400 --> 0:53:28.200 As much as I don't like it, I think there's 0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:31.719 so many good things that, like, I don't know, it 0:53:31.800 --> 0:53:34.719 keeps you from being lonely, yeah, which I think is 0:53:35.000 --> 0:53:38.560 good and bad, right, because I think loneliness helps you 0:53:38.600 --> 0:53:39.280 be creative. 0:53:39.480 --> 0:53:40.320 That's a good point. 0:53:40.560 --> 0:53:43.960 So when you're never lonely, you're like, oh, you know, 0:53:44.000 --> 0:53:45.600 if I'm like when I used to if I had 0:53:45.640 --> 0:53:48.239 to go to the DMV or something and wait, I 0:53:48.280 --> 0:53:50.719 would I would take a book and I would just 0:53:50.760 --> 0:53:53.000 read a book. And now I go to the DMV, 0:53:53.120 --> 0:53:54.040 I go, I just got my phone. 0:53:54.080 --> 0:53:55.440 I'll you for hours. 0:53:55.520 --> 0:53:56.879 Yeah, I'll just veg out in here. 0:53:57.360 --> 0:53:57.800 Yeah. 0:53:57.840 --> 0:53:59.480 But I used to, you know, I read when I worked, 0:53:59.480 --> 0:54:03.719 when I sawicides, I would like, my boss lived four 0:54:03.760 --> 0:54:06.000 hours away in Atlanta, so I was off on my own, 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:07.919 so I would go in. I would do my work 0:54:07.920 --> 0:54:10.120 in the store. But the you know, the rule was 0:54:10.160 --> 0:54:12.480 you never wanted them to know how fast you could 0:54:12.480 --> 0:54:12.960 get the job. 0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:14.640 You want to do it the slowest possible, right, So 0:54:14.760 --> 0:54:15.280 you would. 0:54:15.080 --> 0:54:16.520 Do the work. And then I would go sit in 0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:19.399 the car and smoke cigarettes and read books. And I read. 0:54:19.440 --> 0:54:22.200 I read The Shining, which is a book like this. Yeah, 0:54:22.239 --> 0:54:25.120 because and I don't read a lot of books, but 0:54:25.239 --> 0:54:26.479 I just had all this free time. 0:54:26.719 --> 0:54:27.080 Yeah. 0:54:27.080 --> 0:54:29.600 But the moment I got a smartphone at that job, 0:54:29.640 --> 0:54:30.799 book's gone. The book's gone. 0:54:30.840 --> 0:54:35.640 Book's gone. Okay. So when you are on stage and 0:54:35.640 --> 0:54:37.200 people probably ask you this all the time, but this 0:54:37.239 --> 0:54:40.279 would be my absolute biggest fear, Like I've said this 0:54:40.400 --> 0:54:44.000 so many times, being a comedian would be like my 0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:46.960 worst nightmare, like for me personally, because the thought of 0:54:47.000 --> 0:54:49.560 all the pressure of having to make people laugh, because like, 0:54:49.640 --> 0:54:53.440 have you ever stood up there and it just is bombing? 0:54:53.880 --> 0:54:57.719 Because I know you succeed because you're hilarious, like people 0:54:57.760 --> 0:54:59.440 are dying laughing at you. But have you ever had 0:54:59.440 --> 0:55:02.320 a moment that's it's like, oh my god, a board ship? 0:55:02.840 --> 0:55:04.800 Yeah, I mean many, many times. 0:55:04.800 --> 0:55:05.799 How do you survive it? 0:55:05.920 --> 0:55:09.480 Well, it's like, now you know, it's like coming up 0:55:09.520 --> 0:55:11.839 in comedy, you're you're like, you know, you're figuring out 0:55:11.840 --> 0:55:14.920 your jokes, so you a bomb sometimes. And then when 0:55:14.960 --> 0:55:17.360 you're an opening act, it's like a lot of times 0:55:17.400 --> 0:55:20.879 either it's either you're performing for an audience that has 0:55:20.960 --> 0:55:23.359 no idea what comics are going to be there, or 0:55:23.400 --> 0:55:26.480 they're just there for the headliner, so you know, you 0:55:26.600 --> 0:55:29.240 just may not be the comic for them. But now 0:55:29.960 --> 0:55:32.160 you know, it's my audience that comes to shows, So 0:55:32.200 --> 0:55:35.640 I don't really have it at my shows thankfully, I mean, 0:55:35.680 --> 0:55:38.000 because they're there for me. I have some shows that 0:55:38.040 --> 0:55:41.080 go better than others, but no bombs. But now what 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:44.319 happens is I'll do like a corporate gig where a 0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:47.560 company hires me, and the boss that's hired me is 0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:51.640 a huge fan. And but you know, I'm performing for 0:55:51.680 --> 0:55:54.799 an audience of people that is either you know, there's 0:55:55.360 --> 0:55:58.800 either they don't care about comedy or they've been listening 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:01.680 to speakers all day, and so even though I'm there 0:56:01.680 --> 0:56:04.680 telling jokes, I'm still just another guy talking yep. But 0:56:04.719 --> 0:56:08.200 they're just not into it, okay. So in that situation, 0:56:08.280 --> 0:56:10.279 you know, you just have to rely on the fact 0:56:10.320 --> 0:56:12.960 that you're like, all right, I know I'm funny, I 0:56:13.080 --> 0:56:17.960 know these jokes work, and this is just this kind 0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:20.080 of show. And as long as you don't have too 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:23.640 many of those in a row, you're okay. You walk 0:56:23.640 --> 0:56:26.600 away from that. I've done some corporate gigs where they've 0:56:26.600 --> 0:56:29.400 paid me a lot of money and I I almost 0:56:29.400 --> 0:56:32.080 want to apologize to them at the end of the night, 0:56:32.560 --> 0:56:33.399 but it's not my. 0:56:33.400 --> 0:56:34.640 Fault because it's who you are. 0:56:34.760 --> 0:56:37.279 And they're like, yeah, I came ready, Yeah I did 0:56:37.320 --> 0:56:40.840 the joke because so many jokes because I have albums 0:56:40.880 --> 0:56:43.000 and specials. So I'm like, all right, if this joke's 0:56:43.000 --> 0:56:45.040 not working, I'll pivot to this joke. 0:56:45.160 --> 0:56:46.920 Do you just have a memorize in your head. 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:49.960 Most of them, yeah, okay, and then I'll go I'll go, 0:56:50.000 --> 0:56:52.080 all right, I'll do this joke. This joke always works. 0:56:52.080 --> 0:56:54.239 And if I do a joke that always works and 0:56:54.320 --> 0:56:56.920 it doesn't work and it doesn't work, then I almost 0:56:57.000 --> 0:56:59.239 go all right, I'm just gonna do brand. 0:56:58.960 --> 0:57:01.440 New jokes a good place to try. 0:57:01.280 --> 0:57:03.880 Because brand new jokes you don't know what kind of 0:57:03.880 --> 0:57:07.480 reaction they're supposed to get, So any reaction is good, okay. 0:57:07.480 --> 0:57:09.520 But an old joke where I go, I know they 0:57:09.600 --> 0:57:12.799 laugh here, here, and here, and then they don't laugh 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:15.160 in those spots, then I feel bad about the joke. 0:57:15.200 --> 0:57:17.520 I go, is that even a good joke? But if 0:57:17.560 --> 0:57:20.640 I do new jokes and I get one laugh, I go, okay, 0:57:20.760 --> 0:57:21.720 maybe there's something here. 0:57:21.960 --> 0:57:35.280 Okay. 0:57:36.080 --> 0:57:37.959 So that's how I handle it. But yeah, I don't 0:57:37.960 --> 0:57:40.000 have a lot of Sometimes I do the opera and 0:57:40.040 --> 0:57:42.200 we were talking about, you know, just being older people. 0:57:42.560 --> 0:57:47.040 Sometimes the first joke or two doesn't really land with it, okay, 0:57:47.360 --> 0:57:49.560 But I've done it enough times where like, all the 0:57:49.560 --> 0:57:52.000 people in the backup band are like my friends now, 0:57:52.280 --> 0:57:55.120 they're all cool. All the people off to the side, 0:57:55.200 --> 0:57:58.200 they're all cool. So even if it's not working. I 0:57:58.240 --> 0:58:01.360 know they're into it. I think they're into it if 0:58:01.360 --> 0:58:04.360 it's not working because I improv a little bit. Mm hmmm, 0:58:04.640 --> 0:58:06.920 uh so you know you got that sort of stuff. 0:58:07.520 --> 0:58:10.080 But yeah, I mean I've done some corporates where I'm like, jeez, 0:58:10.200 --> 0:58:12.880 what is this is brutal? What's the deal out here? 0:58:13.280 --> 0:58:16.960 Do you think that like you and Nate garget Ski 0:58:17.120 --> 0:58:20.840 Barghetti BARGATSI his like because all y'all's crew like, y'all 0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:22.960 you said, y'all are more clean humor, y'all kind of 0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:25.880 stick together, y'all are doing his podcast like, y'all are 0:58:26.000 --> 0:58:28.040 very funny, but it's not like it doesn't it's not 0:58:28.080 --> 0:58:32.000 this like vulgar extreme humor in like in the past, 0:58:32.000 --> 0:58:34.400 if like comedians kind of were most of the time. 0:58:34.720 --> 0:58:36.640 Do you think that people are craving this because I 0:58:36.680 --> 0:58:38.960 know I am. I like, am actually sitting there laughing 0:58:38.960 --> 0:58:41.439 at your special and I'm like laughing at Nate stuff 0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:43.520 because I'm like, I relate to this and I don't 0:58:43.520 --> 0:58:45.280 feel like awkward laughing at it. 0:58:45.600 --> 0:58:48.160 Yeah, I think this has happened. I think like maybe 0:58:48.240 --> 0:58:51.560 early on, like people weren't allowed to say certain things 0:58:51.680 --> 0:58:56.440 so Special TV. So these edgy comics were like suddenly 0:58:56.520 --> 0:58:59.080 like a new thing where you were like, oh. 0:58:58.720 --> 0:59:00.120 I can't wait they're saying that. 0:59:00.120 --> 0:59:03.080 Yeah, And then it's like, over time, in order to 0:59:03.120 --> 0:59:05.560 be edgier, it has to just get worse and worse 0:59:05.640 --> 0:59:08.240 and worse into where you reach a place where it's 0:59:08.280 --> 0:59:11.880 like it's so over the top that there's still an 0:59:11.920 --> 0:59:14.240 audience for that. I like a lot of there's a 0:59:14.280 --> 0:59:17.360 lot of comics that I like that are super edgy 0:59:17.440 --> 0:59:20.480 and dirty. As long as they're you know, creative and funny, 0:59:20.600 --> 0:59:23.840 I think it's really great. But you know, there's an 0:59:23.840 --> 0:59:26.440 audience of people that they don't want that. Yeah, And 0:59:27.240 --> 0:59:31.360 I think people are not necessarily searching for super clean 0:59:31.440 --> 0:59:33.440 although there is an audience for that. There's a lot 0:59:33.440 --> 0:59:36.200 of Nateland people now that listen, not all of them. 0:59:36.200 --> 0:59:38.320 There's some of the people that listen to atlant are 0:59:38.320 --> 0:59:41.440 like the greatest people, but some of them are like, 0:59:42.240 --> 0:59:46.480 if it's not ultra clean, they're like, what's happening, Okay, right? 0:59:46.800 --> 0:59:49.080 I don't I always say I don't do comedy for kids. 0:59:49.520 --> 0:59:52.000 I don't want kids to watch my comedy because I 0:59:52.480 --> 0:59:55.360 want to talk about weed and drinking and stuff like that. 0:59:55.760 --> 1:00:01.080 But yeah, like keep it within reason. It's because with comedy, 1:00:01.480 --> 1:00:03.040 if you don't know what you're going to see, you 1:00:03.040 --> 1:00:06.200 could see you could see someone very nice. You could 1:00:06.240 --> 1:00:09.840 go see innate and go, oh, this was really fun 1:00:09.880 --> 1:00:12.880 and funny, or you could hear the worst thing you've 1:00:12.960 --> 1:00:14.160 ever heard in your life. 1:00:14.200 --> 1:00:17.439 It's so the spectrum is so big. 1:00:17.600 --> 1:00:20.520 Yeah. I took my brother in law, who's not a prude, 1:00:20.600 --> 1:00:22.560 but he's a Christian guy. I took him to an 1:00:22.560 --> 1:00:24.680 open mic with me when I first moved to Nashville, 1:00:25.160 --> 1:00:28.240 and it blew his mind. I think he left there 1:00:28.280 --> 1:00:32.520 emotionally scarred. Yeah, because he had never heard some of 1:00:32.560 --> 1:00:35.440 those things. Yeah, the way people talk. I mean, I'm 1:00:35.480 --> 1:00:38.080 pretty desensitized to it now because I've been around so 1:00:38.200 --> 1:00:40.720 much comedy. I think I have a theory that that's 1:00:40.760 --> 1:00:44.880 why more women don't do comedy, because you know, you 1:00:45.000 --> 1:00:47.560 have this open mic scene that you have to really 1:00:47.560 --> 1:00:50.320 go through to get somewhere. Yeah, And it's like, I 1:00:50.360 --> 1:00:52.520 think a lot of women are like, I don't need 1:00:52.560 --> 1:00:55.920 this in my life. Huh, I'm gonna do a different thing. Yeah, 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:59.160 I'm not gonna listen to these guys, you know, talk 1:00:59.200 --> 1:01:01.520 about what they're doing in their private bedroom. 1:01:01.720 --> 1:01:04.520 I know, you know, yeah, I'm with you, though. I 1:01:04.560 --> 1:01:06.480 think it was so shock value in the first because 1:01:06.480 --> 1:01:08.880 people didn't talk about stuff, and now they talk about everything, 1:01:08.920 --> 1:01:10.440 and so now it's like, oh my gosh, what a 1:01:10.440 --> 1:01:13.360 breath of fresh air to have some good just some 1:01:13.560 --> 1:01:15.440 good humor that we can really laugh at. 1:01:15.480 --> 1:01:18.080 But it's not like, yeah, and there's a ton of 1:01:18.120 --> 1:01:21.000 clean comedy out there's a ton of clean comedy, but 1:01:21.040 --> 1:01:24.479 there's only a little of the clean comedy that's really good. 1:01:24.680 --> 1:01:26.560 Yeah, how you says in that group, who do you 1:01:26.640 --> 1:01:27.200 run around with? 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:29.520 Well, I mean we have a lot. I mean Aaron 1:01:29.560 --> 1:01:32.480 and Brian, Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, who both through the 1:01:32.520 --> 1:01:37.440 podcast very funny, very funny, very clean. I mean we have. 1:01:38.320 --> 1:01:40.760 Now there are a handful of comics in Nashville that 1:01:41.320 --> 1:01:44.240 can do both. Like there's a guy Zach Townsend and 1:01:44.280 --> 1:01:46.640 a guy Connor Larson. I'd take them on the road 1:01:46.640 --> 1:01:50.120 with me some and they are clean for me. Okay, 1:01:50.240 --> 1:01:52.640 So if you saw them at my show, you'd be like, oh, 1:01:52.640 --> 1:01:55.240 these are really funny, clean comics. And then if you 1:01:55.280 --> 1:01:58.840 saw them on a not clean show, you would be like, 1:01:58.880 --> 1:02:00.120 what happened is that? 1:02:00.200 --> 1:02:01.440 A thing clean and not clean. 1:02:01.560 --> 1:02:04.400 I think so because you're coming up in comedy. As 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:06.200 long as you can be clean, then you can open 1:02:06.240 --> 1:02:09.920 for anybody. Okay, because a lot of comics, even dirty comics, 1:02:10.040 --> 1:02:13.640 want clean openers because they're like, the dirty is my thing. 1:02:14.120 --> 1:02:16.680 I don't want you to use up all the dirty jokes. 1:02:16.880 --> 1:02:18.200 Oh there's strategy here. 1:02:18.360 --> 1:02:22.560 Yeah, okay, with a clean comic, you like, there's a 1:02:22.600 --> 1:02:25.160 couple of reasons you want clean openers if you're clean one. 1:02:25.720 --> 1:02:27.760 I always say this. I always tell comics like, if 1:02:27.800 --> 1:02:30.960 you're dirty and you bomb, great, that's gonna be great 1:02:31.000 --> 1:02:33.720 for me. But if you're dirty and you crush, it's 1:02:33.720 --> 1:02:35.520 gonna be kind of hard to follow you with the 1:02:35.600 --> 1:02:38.920 jokes about the home depot. I can do it, but 1:02:39.040 --> 1:02:41.360 it's gonna be harder, and it's my show. I don't 1:02:41.400 --> 1:02:42.200 want to work that hard. 1:02:42.280 --> 1:02:44.200 I get it. Yeah, it makes sense. 1:02:44.400 --> 1:02:46.680 But also, once you start to get an art not. 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:49.000 Even I could not even know this as thoughts. 1:02:49.120 --> 1:02:51.760 Yes, but then once you have your own audience, well, 1:02:51.760 --> 1:02:54.960 your audience is coming because they like your kind of comedy. 1:02:55.080 --> 1:02:57.000 Yeah, so then you bring someone else who fits into that. 1:02:57.120 --> 1:02:59.680 Yeah, So you don't want to bring somebody that's gonna. 1:02:59.560 --> 1:03:04.240 Like, yeah Mojo, Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, so it really 1:03:04.280 --> 1:03:05.080 is like Genres. 1:03:05.720 --> 1:03:08.120 Yeah. There was a comic named Rich Voss and he 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:10.480 said this, He said, you know, cause he's he was, 1:03:10.640 --> 1:03:13.000 he's a he's out of New York, very offensive comic 1:03:13.080 --> 1:03:15.680 I worked for. I opened for him one time a 1:03:16.040 --> 1:03:18.200 Zany's and he really blew my mind in a good way. 1:03:18.200 --> 1:03:21.920 I thought he was very funny, and he he offended 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:23.680 these people and they left, you know, and he goes. 1:03:24.120 --> 1:03:27.040 People never research the comic they're going to see. They 1:03:27.080 --> 1:03:29.080 never they never look up to see what they're going 1:03:29.120 --> 1:03:31.720 to see. You would never go to see music and 1:03:31.760 --> 1:03:36.040 sit in the front row and go, I hope it's jazz. Right, 1:03:37.120 --> 1:03:39.479 So yeah, you know. So it's like if you're gonna 1:03:39.480 --> 1:03:42.160 go see someone that you don't know, watch a video. 1:03:42.200 --> 1:03:44.120 Yeah, total, Because I have people that do that. 1:03:44.480 --> 1:03:47.160 Sometimes the audience might not be laughing. In the beginning, 1:03:47.200 --> 1:03:50.120 I go, have you guys ever watched a video of me? 1:03:50.840 --> 1:03:53.840 Because if you watched any video of me, there's nothing 1:03:53.840 --> 1:03:56.120 that would lead you to believe I'm gonna do anything 1:03:56.160 --> 1:03:58.640 different than what I'm doing right now. Okay, it doesn't 1:03:58.640 --> 1:04:01.120 happen to me much anymore. But I I, you know, 1:04:01.480 --> 1:04:04.520 I've not been at this level for a long time. 1:04:04.560 --> 1:04:08.000 I've been you know, slowly going up. So, you know, 1:04:08.080 --> 1:04:10.720 for a long time, I was headlining clubs, yeah, where 1:04:10.760 --> 1:04:13.400 some people were coming to see me, other people were 1:04:13.440 --> 1:04:15.880 just coming, and then other people would be free tickets 1:04:15.880 --> 1:04:18.200 that the club would gave out. You know, So I 1:04:18.320 --> 1:04:20.880 used to you know, I you know, I could bomb 1:04:20.920 --> 1:04:23.320 for ten minutes and then finally have a joke that 1:04:23.440 --> 1:04:26.640 works and I go, yeah, these are funny jokes. People, 1:04:26.840 --> 1:04:29.400 I go get into it. I don't travel the country 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:32.800 doing mediocre jokes out here. I almost like hit them 1:04:32.800 --> 1:04:35.680 with that to like be like lighting up guys. Yeah, 1:04:35.760 --> 1:04:37.720 we're just we're just telling jokes here. 1:04:39.280 --> 1:04:41.560 Okay, so we've already been talking an hour. I know 1:04:41.600 --> 1:04:45.640 you have a show tonight. I want to just ask 1:04:45.720 --> 1:04:49.520 you a question, two questions. What would you tell someone 1:04:49.560 --> 1:04:51.920 who wants to get into comedy, Like how do you 1:04:52.000 --> 1:04:53.880 do it? Like how do you survive the grind to 1:04:53.920 --> 1:04:54.720 get to where you are? 1:04:55.840 --> 1:04:58.040 Well? I would say, you know, you just you need 1:04:58.080 --> 1:05:02.120 stage time, You need to be jokes. Don't you know, 1:05:02.280 --> 1:05:04.120 have an idea of what you're gonna say when you 1:05:04.160 --> 1:05:07.120 get on stage. Don't go I'm funny for my friends. 1:05:07.960 --> 1:05:08.880 I'm just gonna wing. 1:05:08.760 --> 1:05:09.600 It an outline. 1:05:09.680 --> 1:05:11.480 Yeah, have an idea of what you want to say, 1:05:11.480 --> 1:05:13.520 even if you're like, I'm just gonna tell this story. 1:05:14.160 --> 1:05:17.680 Say the story out loud to yourself, just to know 1:05:17.760 --> 1:05:20.360 how you want it to go. Sometimes you think something's 1:05:20.360 --> 1:05:22.280 funny and you say it out loud and you go, now, 1:05:22.320 --> 1:05:25.080 that's not funny. So you you work it out and 1:05:25.120 --> 1:05:28.360 then get plenty of stage time and then don't expect 1:05:28.680 --> 1:05:31.680 anything to happen for you for a long time, like 1:05:31.760 --> 1:05:34.320 a long time. It may, but don't expect it. 1:05:34.400 --> 1:05:34.600 Yeah. 1:05:34.960 --> 1:05:37.959 People get into comedy and they just think, all right, 1:05:38.280 --> 1:05:40.640 I'm about to make it happen. I mean, there's a 1:05:40.640 --> 1:05:42.240 guy out there. I just saw a video the other 1:05:42.280 --> 1:05:44.800 day and he's like talking about follow me on my 1:05:44.960 --> 1:05:49.280 journey from you know, open mics to stadiums, and he's 1:05:49.280 --> 1:05:51.400 like just gotten into comedy. And I'm like, you know, 1:05:51.920 --> 1:05:54.480 he's very good at editing videos. And I applaud him 1:05:54.480 --> 1:05:54.919 for his. 1:05:55.440 --> 1:05:56.360 You know confidence. 1:05:56.480 --> 1:06:00.000 Yes, but it's like, dude, it it takes a long time. Yeah, 1:06:00.080 --> 1:06:02.320 And I think taking a long time is the way 1:06:02.440 --> 1:06:06.600 now nowadays, Yeah, nowadays, people can go viral and they 1:06:06.600 --> 1:06:07.880 can draw an audience. Pretty cool. 1:06:07.920 --> 1:06:09.520 Can they continue to deliver? 1:06:09.720 --> 1:06:13.960 Right, It's like taking a long time helps you become 1:06:14.040 --> 1:06:16.960 good and then we finally get the audience. 1:06:17.760 --> 1:06:18.640 You're so broken in. 1:06:18.760 --> 1:06:22.160 Yeah, there's a comic. I know. She's very funny. She 1:06:22.280 --> 1:06:24.560 and she worked, she did a different way. This is 1:06:24.760 --> 1:06:28.720 I'm talking about Chelsea Lynn Trailer Park Tammy. Oh. Yeah, 1:06:28.840 --> 1:06:32.560 we're friends, and I talked to her about this because she, 1:06:33.360 --> 1:06:37.040 you know, for a long time worked social media and 1:06:37.200 --> 1:06:40.280 only social media. Now she's better at that than me, 1:06:40.520 --> 1:06:44.320 so that's a skill all its own, right. But when 1:06:44.360 --> 1:06:48.320 she decided to go into comedy, stand up comedy, she 1:06:48.520 --> 1:06:52.160 was immediately selling out theaters right now. She worked, So 1:06:52.160 --> 1:06:54.520 I'm not taking anything away from her, but I think, 1:06:55.320 --> 1:07:00.120 to me, that's the most terrifying thing, right to already 1:07:00.160 --> 1:07:03.200 have this audience of people that's now coming to see you, 1:07:04.920 --> 1:07:07.360 and you've not really done a lot of standings. 1:07:06.960 --> 1:07:08.400 And now you have to go perform, so you have 1:07:08.440 --> 1:07:09.800 to get through the stage right on there. 1:07:09.880 --> 1:07:11.840 But she's very funny and she's doing it well. 1:07:12.120 --> 1:07:12.400 Okay. 1:07:12.440 --> 1:07:15.000 I just think that's a terrifying way the way I 1:07:15.040 --> 1:07:17.640 did it. You know, I'm opening for people. I mean, 1:07:17.680 --> 1:07:20.320 I'm doing open mics with you know, I used to 1:07:20.320 --> 1:07:21.480 do Bobby's Idol Hour. 1:07:21.560 --> 1:07:23.480 You know that place. Oh yes, there used to. 1:07:23.480 --> 1:07:26.160 Be a Monday open mic at Bobby's Idle Hour and 1:07:26.240 --> 1:07:29.040 it would be like just comics and then like a 1:07:29.120 --> 1:07:31.360 handful of guys sitting at the bar drinking. 1:07:31.480 --> 1:07:31.840 Yeah. 1:07:31.880 --> 1:07:34.880 So my gauge was always, if I can get one 1:07:34.880 --> 1:07:37.640 of those guys to turn around and listen to me, 1:07:38.040 --> 1:07:38.960 then this is a good joke. 1:07:39.040 --> 1:07:39.360 Okay. 1:07:39.520 --> 1:07:41.200 There was one old man that used to sit on 1:07:41.200 --> 1:07:43.960 the corner, pretty overweight, and if I could make that 1:07:44.000 --> 1:07:46.720 guy laugh, I was like, oh, that's a good job, right. 1:07:46.720 --> 1:07:48.880 But it's like no one was seeing me bomb. 1:07:49.640 --> 1:07:52.160 Yeah, exactly. It's a totally different error because like it's 1:07:52.160 --> 1:07:53.960 the same thing. This is so the same as music. 1:07:54.200 --> 1:07:56.560 Kids are breaking on TikTok. They're waking up every day 1:07:56.560 --> 1:07:59.200 singing songs into the camera. They get a huge audience, 1:07:59.240 --> 1:08:02.000 and then all of a sudden they're selling out theaters 1:08:02.000 --> 1:08:03.320 and it's like, oh my god, they have to learn 1:08:03.320 --> 1:08:06.200 how to perform. Yeah, it's just reverse. It's a totally 1:08:06.360 --> 1:08:07.720 reversed way. Now. 1:08:07.960 --> 1:08:11.000 Yeah, and even Chelsea Lynn her thing like she worked 1:08:11.760 --> 1:08:13.600 because I did a I did a you know, a 1:08:13.680 --> 1:08:15.640 couple of podcasts with her, and it's like she had 1:08:15.680 --> 1:08:19.760 a long journey with social media, right, so she's been 1:08:19.800 --> 1:08:22.960 working it for a really long time. Some people hit 1:08:24.280 --> 1:08:27.160 almost right away in social media and then develop this 1:08:27.240 --> 1:08:30.400 audience and they've not worked anything. Yeah, and then they 1:08:30.400 --> 1:08:32.040 go to the and people tell me about them. They 1:08:32.080 --> 1:08:34.559 go to these clubs and people people go they sold 1:08:34.560 --> 1:08:37.679 a ton of tickets, but terrible show one way or another. 1:08:37.680 --> 1:08:39.519 You gotta be able to like do it on the stage. 1:08:39.520 --> 1:08:41.880 You're so right, Okay. I always wrap up with leave 1:08:41.920 --> 1:08:45.040 your light and it's just super open ended. What do 1:08:45.080 --> 1:08:49.679 you want people to know? Just drop some inspiration? Well, 1:08:52.080 --> 1:08:54.040 I don't know, well big wisdom here. 1:08:55.280 --> 1:08:57.880 Well you know, I'm you know, this is sort of 1:08:57.880 --> 1:08:59.719 my thing. I love to talk about these sort of things, 1:08:59.720 --> 1:09:01.880 like how you know, like life is good, you know 1:09:01.920 --> 1:09:03.400 what I mean, It's like you just got to work hard. 1:09:03.439 --> 1:09:05.559 I know, there's this thing out there these days where 1:09:05.560 --> 1:09:08.840 people are saying, oh, the boomers are saying, you gotta, 1:09:09.280 --> 1:09:11.679 you know, pull up your bootstraps and just get to work. 1:09:11.880 --> 1:09:13.800 And it's like, I know, things are not exactly the 1:09:13.800 --> 1:09:16.240 same as they used to be, but it is still 1:09:16.400 --> 1:09:19.080 a thing you gotta work for whatever you want to do. 1:09:19.439 --> 1:09:22.800 It's like I was sitting out and I was in 1:09:22.840 --> 1:09:26.320 Georgia somewhere, just kind of in the woods, not it 1:09:26.400 --> 1:09:28.840 was public woods, and this guy comes up with a 1:09:28.880 --> 1:09:30.679 camera and they go, if you could give a millennial 1:09:30.960 --> 1:09:33.400 or whatever. H he is some advice and I go, 1:09:33.520 --> 1:09:34.880 what are you trying to do? And he's like, oh, 1:09:34.880 --> 1:09:36.680 I want to do this kind of video content. Well 1:09:36.680 --> 1:09:39.559 I'm like, well, just learn to be really good at 1:09:39.560 --> 1:09:43.000 this because people are always looking for video people. People 1:09:43.040 --> 1:09:46.080 are always looking for content creators, So be really good 1:09:46.080 --> 1:09:48.479 at that. So whatever it is that you want to do, 1:09:49.439 --> 1:09:53.000 just be really good at it. You know, everybody wants 1:09:53.040 --> 1:09:55.439 to use AI now is very against AI for a 1:09:55.439 --> 1:09:58.160 long time. I'm not completely against it now. As long 1:09:58.160 --> 1:10:02.000 as you're not using AI to come up with your ideas. 1:10:01.439 --> 1:10:02.639 For you, it's enhance them. 1:10:02.800 --> 1:10:05.840 Yeah, have your own ideas, you know, But anything you 1:10:05.840 --> 1:10:08.120 want to do, just work hard at it. They like, 1:10:08.200 --> 1:10:12.479 I can't play guitar, but people always say that. You know, 1:10:12.560 --> 1:10:15.000 people go, oh, when you're in your you know, you know, 1:10:15.080 --> 1:10:17.360 I say, you're fifteen you want to play guitar, You're like, oh, 1:10:17.800 --> 1:10:19.880 I wish I could play guitar, and then it takes 1:10:19.920 --> 1:10:22.000 ten years to get really good at guitar. And then 1:10:22.000 --> 1:10:23.800 you go, oh, that's too long. And then by the 1:10:23.840 --> 1:10:26.439 time you're twenty five you're you're still like, I wish 1:10:26.520 --> 1:10:28.360 I could play guitar. Yeah, and if you would have 1:10:28.400 --> 1:10:31.040 started at fifteen, you would be able to do it 1:10:31.080 --> 1:10:31.400 by day. 1:10:31.439 --> 1:10:32.680 So just start and get good at it. 1:10:32.800 --> 1:10:34.640 Yeah. And then you get twenty five, you go, oh, 1:10:34.680 --> 1:10:37.280 that's too late. But if you start at twenty five, 1:10:37.479 --> 1:10:40.120 by thirty five, you'll be able to play uh huh. 1:10:40.120 --> 1:10:42.960 And don't let people tell you can't do things. Just 1:10:42.960 --> 1:10:45.360 just do the thing, but don't There also is this 1:10:45.439 --> 1:10:48.320 other thing where people are so like they're so they 1:10:48.360 --> 1:10:51.080 so get into this thing of like I'm gonna do it, 1:10:51.200 --> 1:10:52.960 and you know, I know I can do it, and 1:10:53.600 --> 1:10:56.280 like a like a like it's gonna happen. 1:10:56.000 --> 1:10:58.880 Like a manifesting it into existence, so strongly. 1:10:58.680 --> 1:11:01.599 Like this is gonna happen. And for me, you know, 1:11:01.720 --> 1:11:04.240 I said, you know, I'm a Christian. I think a 1:11:04.280 --> 1:11:06.000 lot of Christians will do this sort of thing. And 1:11:06.160 --> 1:11:08.280 I know other people are doing it too, but they'll say, 1:11:08.600 --> 1:11:11.320 you know, God wants this for me, so he'll make 1:11:11.360 --> 1:11:15.000 it happen. And then they kind of like stop putting 1:11:15.040 --> 1:11:17.479 in the work because they just are like, well, God's 1:11:17.520 --> 1:11:20.320 gonna do it, but it's like maybe he will, but 1:11:20.479 --> 1:11:23.240 you need to do the work. Yeah, does that make sense? 1:11:23.360 --> 1:11:24.560 Yes, it's just absolutely. 1:11:24.680 --> 1:11:26.880 I feel like there's just this thing where nobody wants 1:11:26.880 --> 1:11:27.720 to do the work and. 1:11:27.840 --> 1:11:29.240 I don't want to just show up. 1:11:29.320 --> 1:11:32.240 Yeah, you don't have to do manual labor. But I 1:11:32.280 --> 1:11:34.920 know comics that are like they've been given all these 1:11:34.960 --> 1:11:37.519 opportunities and it's like all you got to do now 1:11:38.080 --> 1:11:40.720 is really like work hard at stand up. Yeah, but 1:11:40.760 --> 1:11:43.880 they just keep getting the opportunities and they're not working 1:11:43.920 --> 1:11:46.639 hard at stand up. It's like, nobody wants to go 1:11:46.800 --> 1:11:49.080 and feature for two hundred and seventy dollars a weekend, 1:11:49.200 --> 1:11:51.080 but that's how you get good. 1:11:51.240 --> 1:11:51.840 That's so true. 1:11:51.920 --> 1:11:53.920 Nobody wants to stand in front of the audience of 1:11:54.120 --> 1:11:56.880 Bobby's Idol hour of people that don't laugh at their jokes, 1:11:57.160 --> 1:11:58.200 but that's how you do it. 1:11:58.280 --> 1:11:59.160 That's so true. 1:11:59.240 --> 1:12:00.840 I used to do to try to open for my 1:12:00.880 --> 1:12:04.679 friend's bands and that's always terrible. But it's like, if 1:12:04.720 --> 1:12:06.880 you can, you need the stage time. I would do 1:12:06.920 --> 1:12:08.960 poetry open mics. I had a guy tell me that 1:12:08.960 --> 1:12:11.360 the poetry open mike. He goes, I'll let you do it. 1:12:11.760 --> 1:12:13.839 But this, I just want to tell you, this audience 1:12:13.920 --> 1:12:16.720 does not like when people do comedy here. But I 1:12:17.080 --> 1:12:19.320 just kind of felt the vibe of the room and 1:12:19.360 --> 1:12:22.240 I go, all right, I'm just gonna try to be 1:12:23.240 --> 1:12:25.920 poetic in a way with my jokes. Yeah, I'm gonna 1:12:25.920 --> 1:12:28.519 be soft spoken and I'm gonna tell the jokes. And 1:12:28.560 --> 1:12:31.280 these people started to really like me, and it's like, you. 1:12:31.280 --> 1:12:33.519 Just gotta you got it. You just gotta show up 1:12:33.520 --> 1:12:33.800 and do it. 1:12:33.880 --> 1:12:35.400 Yeah, do the thing that you want to do. 1:12:36.000 --> 1:12:38.720 I love that. You know, Dusty Slate, You're amazing. Okay, 1:12:38.760 --> 1:12:40.880 So you have a two Netflix specials out now. 1:12:40.960 --> 1:12:42.680 I have one out now called working. 1:12:42.479 --> 1:12:44.400 Man, okay, and then nothing one's coming out and. 1:12:44.320 --> 1:12:46.760 In July twenty nineth that have one coming out called 1:12:46.760 --> 1:12:47.360 Wet Heat. 1:12:48.120 --> 1:12:50.240 Okay. Are you on tour also. 1:12:50.479 --> 1:12:52.360 I'm always on tour. I'm taking a little time off 1:12:52.439 --> 1:12:55.719 June and July, but the end of July I'm getting 1:12:55.760 --> 1:12:57.840 back out it. And in the second half of the year. 1:12:57.840 --> 1:12:58.559 I'm all over the. 1:12:58.479 --> 1:13:00.439 Place, and you're on Nateland podcast. 1:13:00.600 --> 1:13:03.960 On Nateland podcast every Wednesday, and I have a podcast 1:13:04.040 --> 1:13:06.519 called the We're Having a Good Time podcast comes out 1:13:06.560 --> 1:13:09.640 every Thursday. Okay, so, and I'm on you know this 1:13:09.840 --> 1:13:13.479 Areas podcast. I'm with socials at Dusty Sleigh, and I'm 1:13:13.600 --> 1:13:16.599 very active on social media and don't be fooled by 1:13:17.479 --> 1:13:19.520 uh there's a lot of fake accounts. 1:13:19.080 --> 1:13:20.920 Now, okay, Dusty Sleigh all day. 1:13:20.800 --> 1:13:23.800 Only one blue check mark by all the things, and 1:13:23.880 --> 1:13:26.760 I do respond okay, but sometimes people are fooled. The 1:13:27.680 --> 1:13:31.799 fake accounts go hello, dear fan, and then people are fooled. 1:13:31.840 --> 1:13:35.960 I'm like, what talk like? Are you even a fan of? 1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:39.120 Maybe you think I'm saying hello first, right and then 1:13:39.320 --> 1:13:40.519 deep here? Yeah? 1:13:40.600 --> 1:13:43.720 Okay, come on, guys, Dusty Sligh, Okay, can I do 1:13:43.760 --> 1:13:44.760 you have like ten more minutes? 1:13:44.800 --> 1:13:44.960 Sure? 1:13:44.960 --> 1:13:46.840 Okay, We're gonna do a bonus episode and we're gonna 1:13:46.880 --> 1:13:49.519 draw some questions called tell me more, Dusty Slay, thank 1:13:49.520 --> 1:13:51.400 you so much for joining me. You're so funny. This 1:13:51.520 --> 1:13:53.040 was so awesome to get to talk to you. I'm 1:13:53.160 --> 1:13:55.639 very inspired by you. Being a comedian is no joke, 1:13:56.760 --> 1:13:57.400 and you're. 1:13:57.200 --> 1:13:58.040 Really good at it. 1:13:58.439 --> 1:14:01.280 That was I didn't even know funny. I'm not funny. 1:14:01.320 --> 1:14:01.880 I don't see that. 1:14:01.880 --> 1:14:02.479 That's a good one. 1:14:02.520 --> 1:14:04.799 No, that is good though, that's not. That's as basic 1:14:04.800 --> 1:14:05.360 as it gets. 1:14:05.400 --> 1:14:08.519 Really, I think, you know, I think the basic thing. 1:14:08.640 --> 1:14:11.240 I think people say that now, and I think BASIC's 1:14:11.280 --> 1:14:15.880 good people, basics, good people to the simple. You know. Yeah, okays, 1:14:16.400 --> 1:14:19.280 like being normal is so bad now being normals. 1:14:19.320 --> 1:14:20.960 Actually, we're all trying to get back to it, right. 1:14:21.439 --> 1:14:24.160 You have a farm, Yeah, I go out in mcmanville. 1:14:24.200 --> 1:14:26.400 I have a little cabin and I have some land 1:14:26.439 --> 1:14:28.800 and live in the good life. Yeah. I read the 1:14:28.800 --> 1:14:33.000 four wheeler around. Yeah, yes, yeah, I got a garden 1:14:33.280 --> 1:14:33.920 I saw. 1:14:34.160 --> 1:14:35.439 Yeah, I love it. 1:14:35.760 --> 1:14:38.080 If I can keep my son from ripping all the 1:14:38.120 --> 1:14:39.200 green vegetables off. 1:14:39.240 --> 1:14:40.120 You might get a salad. 1:14:40.200 --> 1:14:41.280 I might get a salad. 1:14:41.400 --> 1:14:42.320 Yeah, you know what. 1:14:42.400 --> 1:14:47.320 I did have a salad the other day. Lettuce, kale, 1:14:47.360 --> 1:14:51.120 cucumbers and uh. 1:14:50.280 --> 1:14:53.720 Tomato, carrot, carrot, all from the garden. That felt good. 1:14:53.720 --> 1:14:54.800 I bet it did feel good. 1:14:54.840 --> 1:14:56.080 Congratulations, Yes, thank. 1:14:55.960 --> 1:14:56.600 You, Yeah, thank you. 1:14:56.800 --> 1:15:02.000 Dusty's say thank you so much. Okay, bye pop Terance 1:15:02.040 --> 1:15:07.200 The Countile Fop Terence, the countil 1:15:09.800 --> 1:15:09.920 Fo