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Speaker 1: all ball. Um. We have a special podcast for you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a couplemans, a couple of thoughts

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Speaker 1: on k D and Kyrie. Looks like they're staying with

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Speaker 1: the nets for now. Um. Also, I did promise you

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Speaker 1: and I will deliver on more discussion over FIBA basketball.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot I want to get to. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get a chance to coach and the Pangos All American

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Speaker 1: Game or tournament whatever it is this week, so I'll

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Speaker 1: give you some feedback on uh, some of the elite

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Speaker 1: high school kids that will be coming to McBride High

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Speaker 1: School in southern California. But this pod, you know, look

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Speaker 1: I get you know, and we talk hoope on it

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Speaker 1: and we tell stories. Um, Jason Randy Sklar are really

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Speaker 1: really freaking funny. They just are. And they have this

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Speaker 1: amazing ability to finish each other's sentences. And you know, look,

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Speaker 1: you're always amazed and impressed by people's comedic timing, but

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Speaker 1: to have identical twin brothers have that same timing nearly

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Speaker 1: microphone is remarkable. Additionally, they're like delightful people. You know,

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Speaker 1: there is nothing and they've done They have a new

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Speaker 1: show called Nosebleeds and that that we'll talk about on

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Speaker 1: on YouTube on the UFC YouTube channel. But you know,

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Speaker 1: they've done cheap seats. They've done which is Mystery Science

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Speaker 1: Theater three thousand, like making fun of things, but they

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Speaker 1: do it in a way in which it just doesn't

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel at all like it's mean spirited.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of kind of special in this day and

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Speaker 1: comedy with them. We'll talk about how they how they've grown, uh,

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Speaker 1: their story. I thought you'd enjoy it. Let's talk some KD.

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Speaker 1: So the Nets and k D jointly come out and say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I I this used to exist in college sports that

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Speaker 1: You're all good. I'm not giving you your release. Now

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Speaker 1: is how I want to proceed. Does it mean it's forever?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't. You know, there are couples that go to

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Speaker 1: Kobe want to be traded. He went on radio and

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Speaker 1: Sclard brothers are two terrific comedians and um, they've been

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've known them for your known them

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Speaker 1: for years, but haven't known them. Okay, their brothers school

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Speaker 1: be perfect and you can still die. That's just what

425
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,199
Speaker 1: it is. Like. You get on stage and you don't

426
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 1: know what you don't know what the audience is going

427
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: to be. You don't know what's going to trigger people

428
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 1: in a weird way. So you can't have people being like,

429
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 1: don't don't say this, and don't go here, and don't

430
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,159
Speaker 1: do this. And don't do that. You just have to

431
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 1: be free to do what you believe is funny. And

432
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: I hope that the audience is there to laugh and

433
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,880
Speaker 1: if they don't like something, that they'll just sit through

434
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:24,240
Speaker 1: it and go to the next thing. You're act because

435
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 1: you're both funny. You're growing up. When was the first

436
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 1: time you guys said why don't we do this together?

437
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 1: Why don't we do it together? So the first time

438
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 1: we stood on stage together and goofed around? I mean

439
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 1: we would goof around with our friends and be funny

440
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: amongst our friends, and like Jay said, we'd like spew

441
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 1: out Seinfeld's corgeous seven minute a bit, you know everything

442
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: he did, like, you know, his hilarious bit about his

443
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 1: mom's always like what do you think of this wall?

444
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: What do you think of that wall over there? This one?

445
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 1: And he was like to me, if it's forcing you

446
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: to use the door to get out of the room,

447
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: it's doing its job. I mean, that's just a brilliant concept.

448
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 1: But like as eleven year old twelve kids were like

449
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 1: saying that stuff around. When we were fourteen in high school,

450
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 1: there was like a talent show in front of three

451
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: people at our high school and we decided to do

452
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 1: stand up and we wrote a little bit of stuff.

453
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 1: But being fourteen year old kids, we borrowed other people's material,

454
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: which is patently wrong. You're not allowed to do that,

455
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 1: but we were kids and we didn't know, and we

456
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: got on stage and we got a great response even

457
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 1: with our own material. It was a mixture of like,

458
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: we did well with other people's material and we did well,

459
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me some your own material.

460
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: So our material we wrote there was I remember doing

461
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 1: a thing about a math club. There was a math

462
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 1: club at school that just didn't get much traction called

463
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 1: Mu Alpha Theta spells math in in Greek, and uh,

464
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 1: we were like, there just aren't because there weren't that

465
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: many people. There was a bit of a dud of

466
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,719
Speaker 1: a club. And we were like, you need, we know

467
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: how to save your math club. You need better marketing.

468
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 1: You need to hire the guys that did the truck

469
00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: and tractor pull commercials to do a commerce for your

470
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: math club. And so exactly, move Alpha Theta truck and

471
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: pro tractor pull. The truck and pro tractor poll is

472
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: a kind of a good joke, right, So you know,

473
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: we basically like we kind of did an entire commercial

474
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 1: like that, the one over to so and so. I mean,

475
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: we're doing all these math jokes in this sort of

476
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: announcer voice, and the crowd loved it. Was it perfect? No,

477
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: But that was probably our first crafted bit that still

478
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: reflects the style that we perform in today. We were

479
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: just drawn to these big performative bits that you know,

480
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: gave us a chance to bounce off of each other

481
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: without creating these false characters that we didn't like because

482
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: we figured, you know, we're a comedy team, but we're twins.

483
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: We aren't like, there isn't one of us who's like,

484
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: I'm so dumb and crazy and the other one has

485
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: to reel them back in. That's what the Smothers brothers did.

486
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: So we were like, we want to create this scenario

487
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: where we're on stage where it is like a tornado

488
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: of fun and ship. That's that's exactly what it is.

489
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: How did the thing that's amazing about you guys is

490
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: I think one of your voices work together? Thank you,

491
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: because there's similar bit different and so you know, like

492
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: you know, and but it's more than anything, it's the

493
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: timing of how you guys one up each other or

494
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: back each other up or complete the joke. How does

495
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: how does that get? So? So J? We so J

496
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: and I just went on this like crazy hike with

497
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 1: a friend of us who turned fifty and he had

498
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: like a bunch of guys go on this hike in

499
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: around mont Blanc, which is in uh Switzerland and France.

500
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: We were in the Swiss Alps and the French Alps

501
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: and the Italian Alps doing this like crazy difficult hike

502
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: up and down, you know, ten and a half miles

503
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: a day. It was super cool and it was like

504
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 1: challenging and fun. And we're with our buddy Brad Meltzer,

505
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: who's the New York Times best selling author. He went

506
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 1: to college with us, and Jay, you can finish this

507
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: because you know, he was talking about this Ted talk

508
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: that this guy Simon Sinek dead years ago and and

509
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: he met him before the Ted Talk. But it was

510
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: really about trying to figure out what are you? What

511
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: is your message? What is your mission as a creator?

512
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: And this is something that exercise you could do Doug

513
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: for yourself. And the idea was like, look, it's like

514
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: a dartboard, right outer circle is what you do? You

515
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: know you can argue that you're you're a broadcaster, all right, Doug.

516
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: That's what you do. You're a player. You're a broadcaster.

517
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: You bring that knowledge to the table. How you do

518
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: it is the inner circle right inside of that So

519
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: you call upon all of your experiences in your life

520
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: as a player, all that stuff, and that's how you

521
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 1: do it. Inside that circle is the bull's eye, and

522
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: that's why you do what you do. And so he

523
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: got with Meltzer, this guy, and they met and they

524
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: went through a whole thing, and and he asked him

525
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: a ton of questions because he was trying to help

526
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: Brad figure out what is his mission. And they talked

527
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: for hours and then he said, I think I know

528
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: what your mission. Mission is, your sort of mission statement

529
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: or I don't know what the exact term is, is

530
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: that you think dinary people can change the world. And

531
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: Brad was like, holy crap, that's exactly what I think.

532
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: And that comes through all my work. So as Brad's

533
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: talking to me about this, I'm of course thinking like,

534
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: what is our mission and what and and have we

535
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 1: been working on this since the beginning And it's usually

536
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: it's usually already inside of the work that you do

537
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: so it's not like you have to go out and

538
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: figure out what it is you You're you're you're organically

539
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: creating it, right, So I think our original As I'm

540
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,479
Speaker 1: talking to him, I'm like, I know what our mission

541
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 1: statement is. Our mission statement is simple. It is we

542
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: are better together then we are individually. We are better

543
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: together than we are individually, which is basically what you

544
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,719
Speaker 1: were just saying. The thing that resonated with you is

545
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: how we do it together, and we show a togetherness

546
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: that whether people know it or not, they leave our

547
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: show and they're like, well, that was cool. There's a

548
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: sense of collaboration between these two people, especially I and I,

549
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: and I would argue, sorry, I ran to cut you

550
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: off that one of our early in LUNs is that

551
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: did this so well, which I'm sure you were influenced

552
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: by them as well, was the Beastie Boys. We would

553
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: watch the Beastie Boys and listen to the beast two Boys,

554
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: and we're like, number one, they're hilarious. Number two, how

555
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: much freaking fun are they having all the time. It

556
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 1: feels like you just want to be around them because

557
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: you're like, he says this, then he says this, Then

558
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: they all say this together and then he backs him

559
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: up and he hypes him and he does a little yeah,

560
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: and he does a little thing. And their timing is

561
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: beautiful and they work like this three headed organism. And

562
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: I think we saw the fun in that and we

563
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,239
Speaker 1: were like, we can do that. That's something we have

564
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: within us. And there's a little wish fulfillment. People are

565
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: sitting in the crowd going, I wish I had a

566
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: twin brother who was on my wavelength. You know, show

567
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: college you get so we you know, we weren't really

568
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: and we didn't say we have to go to college together,

569
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,959
Speaker 1: just like we didn't say we have to get up

570
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: on stage when we were fourteen years old and do

571
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: it together. There was no discussion like hey, j do

572
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: you want to go out first and then I'll go

573
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: out second. There was none of that. It was like, hey,

574
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: we want to do comedy, let's just go. So when

575
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: we're thinking of colleges, we looked at Wisconsin, we looked

576
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: at pen and we looked at Michigan. We applied to

577
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: all three. Were like that pretty much covers it for

578
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: us Ivy League school to you know, satisfy our Jewish

579
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: parents from St. Louis Michigan because a it's a phenomenal

580
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: state institution, really good school, tremendous academics, great sports, which

581
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: was something that we loved, and we had become fans

582
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: of Michigan in the late eighties and the bow teams

583
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: and you know the Glenn Rice and you know Romeo

584
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: Robinson basketball teams, like we became a fan of the

585
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: of the school in that way. And then Wisconsin because

586
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: we're like, look, if we can't get into Michigan and

587
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: we can't get independ Wisconsin is a phenomenal grade state

588
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: school too, and it would be fun to go there

589
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: as well. We knew some people who went there, so

590
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: we're like, that covers it for us. That's all. It's

591
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: my kids going through going to college right now. And

592
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: it's like she's gonna apply to twelve places. It was

593
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: three for us. That's the only thing we did together

594
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: was we applied to all three. And then we said, well,

595
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: we have different scores and we have some things that

596
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: are different. If you get into pen and you get

597
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: into Michigan, then we got a decision to make, like

598
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: who's gonna go. Are we gonna go together or not?

599
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: Let's decide late we luckily got into all three, which

600
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: is a humble brag of me saying that we got

601
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: into Pen and that's the that's the way I tell

602
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: you that we got into an Ivy League school. And uh.

603
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: Then we both decided that Michigan would be a lot.

604
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: We visited Pen and we thought the kids were not

605
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: having fun. It was a good school, it's a cool school,

606
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: but we were just like, God, there's so much pressure

607
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: on these kids. They're not enjoying what they're doing. Then

608
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: we go to Michigan and we're like, this is the

609
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: most fun place ever. And the kids are so dynamics,

610
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: really cool, so like we're going there. We're we're going

611
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: there and we're gonna have a blast. And we did.

612
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: In addition to being around like really smart people who

613
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: are really dynamic from their high schools and they just

614
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: everybody seemed like they were doing really cool things, pushing

615
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: you to push yourself. And at at college, we started

616
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: to do stand up. At college at the at University

617
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: of Michigan, we started doing stand up there. Then later

618
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: into our years, we started doing it in ann Arbor

619
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: at the local comedy club. Then we would drive into

620
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: Detroit to Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle, and we'd do on

621
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 1: a Monday night, do like new talent in this and

622
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: even Detroit nights. And to relate that to an athlete,

623
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure there were times where when you were in

624
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: school where it was a Monday night or Tuesday night

625
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: and you're sitting taking three hundred free throws at like

626
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: ten at night, and you know, other people are out

627
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: at parties and you're like, why the funk am I

628
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: doing this? Like why seriously, why am I doing this?

629
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: I should be hanging with friends, and and we would

630
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: think that as we were driving into Detroit, especially if

631
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: our stand up wasn't that great, we were just like,

632
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: we have to get on stage. We have to get

633
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: on stage. This is where we figure out who we

634
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: are and what we're doing. And it was hard to

635
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: get on stage without great material because you never knew

636
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: how it was going to do. But we just were like,

637
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: we gotta do this. This is the sacrifice we make.

638
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: We we take ourselves off the shelf and we go

639
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: up there and we do this. How did you know

640
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: you made it? So we so we kind of hedged

641
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: our bet a little bit. We applied to law school.

642
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: Both of us got in too again sort of a

643
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: piece were you guys both applied to the same three schools,

644
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: you both got into all three schools. Then you both

645
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: applied to law school. Then you both get into law

646
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: Schoolho got the better else score by this, so JA

647
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: did better. JA did better. And then because I tried

648
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: this new method the second time, I took it where

649
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: I would basically circle all the answers in the workbook

650
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: and then at the very end, before time was up,

651
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: you know, right them in and color them in. The

652
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: problem was there were twenty four answers and I only

653
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: had twenty three bubbles colored in. On the eighth, I

654
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: accidentally skipped the eighth answer from the book, so everything

655
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: after that was the the wrong thing. And I just

656
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,239
Speaker 1: I tanked my second score and I had to use

657
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: my first score. Whatever point is, it didn't matter. We

658
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: both got in. Jay got into Emery in Atlanta, which

659
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: is the top twenty law school, and I got into

660
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: George Washington in in d C. And Jay got into

661
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: wash You as well, And it looked like, Okay, we're

662
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: going to go different places, but we said, no, we

663
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: have to try and do this thing that we've been

664
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: working on. We we have to because if we don't

665
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: give it a try, we'll never forgive ourselves for that.

666
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: We can always go back to law school always, let's

667
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: defer it for a year and whatnot. So we came

668
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: to New York and we gave ourselves like a little

669
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: bit of time to figure out. Of course, we needed

670
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: more time to figure things out than the time we

671
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: allotted ourselves after a year. When you guys get a studio,

672
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: do you guys get a one bedroom? There's three of

673
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: us living in a one bedroom apartment. We actually built

674
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: a wall and so there's two people share one bedroom.

675
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: It's we're living with a friend of ours who moved

676
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: who went to Cornell, and a childhood friend from Camp

677
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: who was also a comedy writer who's still rates well.

678
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: Camp Cama is a Jewish summer camp in Wisconsin. We

679
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: went to Okay, my kids have gone to four Stakers

680
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: and Indian Acres, which is it's in in Friburg, Maine. Right, gorgeous,

681
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: I mean those are the camps. It was like this

682
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: camera camp had been around since that. We went to

683
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: so old school, beautiful on a lake. It was like perfect.

684
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: So so so if that went to Cornell, what's his name?

685
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: His name is Eric Friedman, and he's created like TV

686
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: shows for Nickelodeon and for UH, for Disney XD, and

687
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: he writes more kids stuff. But he's a writer. He

688
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: wrote on Cheap Seats. He's brilliant, really really funny dude.

689
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: He didn't know if you want to do stand up

690
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: or writing. Were like, let's all move to New York

691
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 1: and let's figure this out. And so we moved to

692
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: the city and about six months into the dark time there,

693
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: we realized that all of our materials sucked and it

694
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: was like college based stuff. And here we are in

695
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: New York City with Sarah Silverman and you know, Chappelle

696
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: and David Tell and Jeff Ross and all these like

697
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: Mark Mayren, all these top level comics, and we're like,

698
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: we don't freaking belong here. So we quit, which was

699
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: really hard for us. And then we took a sketch

700
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: writing class in in New York called at Chicago City Limits,

701
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: just to try try something different. Maybe we're gonna be

702
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: sketch writers. We don't know, And we started writing sketches

703
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: and performing these sketches and our teacher was this guy,

704
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: were like, this dude is freaking amazing. He's such a

705
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: good writer. Why isn't he working? Why is he just

706
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: teaching a class at Chicago City Limits. Two years later,

707
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: him and his brother became the head writers of Letterman,

708
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: Justin Stangel and Eric Stangle. So we were right on

709
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: about how smart and talented that guy was, and he

710
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: was actually telling us, you guys are very talented and

711
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: you guys should stick with this, and that gave us confidence.

712
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: And then this alternative comedy movement started started to like

713
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: expand in the Lower East Side of New York, and

714
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: we realized, Okay were alternative comedy, So I can I

715
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: can explain it in a yeah, I can explain in

716
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: a sports sense. So in the late eighties and early nineties,

717
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: like there was stand up comedy all over TV, like

718
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: A and E head comedy. You're like, the only reason

719
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 1: ay should ever have comedy is if like a comedian

720
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: gets murdered and they're doing a cold case file about

721
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 1: how that happened. Like there shouldn't be It was everywhere,

722
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: so everybody had these TV credits And then you go

723
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: to Des Moines, Iowa, and there'll be three comedy clubs.

724
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: You're like, why is there? Why are there three comedy clubs?

725
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: Into one eye. You can barely support one of them. Well,

726
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: if there are three clubs on that week and there

727
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: needs to be three headliners, so you had a lot

728
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: of people. It was we had thirty minutes who were

729
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: being asked to do forty five minutes of comedy, and

730
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: comedy suffered because a lot of people were just bad

731
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: facts similes of the people who were on TV. So

732
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: if you it's like if you added four baseball teams

733
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: to Major League Baseball, the overall general pool of baseball,

734
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: the players, the talent would go down because you're you

735
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: have to use guys who aren't ready, you know what

736
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: I mean. And so that's exactly what happened, and so

737
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: people were really Comedy became a very basic thing where

738
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: you see a fat guy get up on stage and

739
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: I could do his act for He's gonna do forty

740
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: five minutes of fat jokes, some of them not even his,

741
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, what are we even doing here?

742
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: Nothing was surprising, nothing was interesting, and that's what where

743
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: comedy gets you is when it's surprising. So this movement

744
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: kind of grew up on the coast in l A.

745
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: And in in New York and in San Francisco, where

746
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: people are like, we want to do comedy, that's surprising.

747
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: We want to do stuff that is anti what's happening

748
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: in the clubs right now. And it was really cool.

749
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: It was super cool that that sort of grew up

750
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: because for us, we didn't want to do comedy about

751
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,720
Speaker 1: being twins. We didn't want to do forty five minutes

752
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: about he's this one and I'm this one. That's just

753
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: not what we wanted. We wanted to be funny the

754
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: way we were funny around our friends, which is a

755
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: much different way, in a much more organic way. And this,

756
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: this whole movement allowed us to do that. And from

757
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: that we wound up getting an MTV show in to

758
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: host this show called Apartment two f which had Zach

759
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: Alfin akiss on it, and it had Michael show Walter

760
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 1: on it, and it had Stephen Colbert in the first episode. Okay,

761
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: so so help me out here. Okay, so from ninety

762
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: four you move there. Yeah, how much was your rent?

763
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: Our rent back in the time and the day was

764
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: like fift hundred dollars, not less, just less than fourteen

765
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: seventy five for this one better apartment. So each of

766
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: us are playing like fo Bucks and how are you

767
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: guys paying day jobs? Day jobs? So Jason worked at

768
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: q two, which was QVC's younger, hipper like channel, and

769
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: we actually pitched them characters that we would play, like

770
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: these warehouse gates. How amazing would that show be if

771
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: you guys were doing QVC that would They totally missed it.

772
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: They missed the boat they I mean, I was in

773
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: the talent department. I'm like preparing all this stuff for

774
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: these hosts, and meanwhile, Rainy and I are like, we

775
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 1: could be so funny in this thing. And we pitched

776
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: characters and we did them a little bit on there

777
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: on the air. We just we kept grinding. I mean,

778
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: and that's I mean, you know this, you know this,

779
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 1: Like we we are like you. We have talent, I believe,

780
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: and we also have drive and grind. And it's like

781
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: that's the only way you're gonna We don't have enough

782
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: talent to not have the drive just to make it.

783
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: We need to have this oversized grind. And so we

784
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: would just push and we're like, hey, we're gonna make

785
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: our rent day jobs. We're gonna go out and perform

786
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: comedy every night. We started doing it. We get this

787
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: MTV show three years later by the time we were

788
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: twenty five, which is super rare. It was a great opportunity.

789
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: I think we were too young at the time and

790
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: we thought, you know, when it ended after a season,

791
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: we thought to ourselves, Okay, we're on the map. That

792
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: was really cool. I wish we had another opportunity to

793
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: do something like this. And then four years later Cheap

794
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: Seats comes along, or five years later, Cheap Seats comes along.

795
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 1: But but in that time we had done a number

796
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: of other projects, like we started to develop a show

797
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: in like Out in l A. So we were coming

798
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: out to l A with like NBC and HBO, Independent

799
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: Productions and Warner Brothers were developing this sitcom. Like many

800
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: things in l A and in Hollywood, you develop it

801
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: and then it never goes so you get paid to

802
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: do it and paid to develop it. So we were

803
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: getting paid money. But at the same time, it never

804
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:35,439
Speaker 1: saw the light of day. And it was a great

805
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,479
Speaker 1: project and we loved it, but it just never saw

806
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: the light of day. But that got us coming out

807
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: to l A. And we were thinking to ourselves, all right,

808
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: if we really want to do this, yes, you can

809
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: stay in New York. There's a handful of great late

810
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: night shows that you could try and write on or

811
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: be a part of. S and L being the top

812
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: tip top of that. But you know, you're thinking of

813
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, The Daily Show and a handful of others.

814
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: But we're like, we gotta move out to l A

815
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: if we're going to do this. So we really love

816
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: the scene because we'd come out for a week every

817
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: month and you know, right during the day and perform

818
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: out here at night in in l A. And we're like,

819
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: there's a cool scene out here too that kind of

820
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: mirrored the scene that was in New York. And we're like,

821
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: we got to move out here. So we did in

822
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: ninety nine and and and then ironically, three years later,

823
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: we get chief seats on ESPN Classic and we fly

824
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: back to New York one week out of every month

825
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: to shoot that show. Hilarious. Well, you guys been together

826
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: this whole time, living together, so we lived together until

827
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: so we lived together, we moved out to l A

828
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: with our buddy Eric Friedman again, he moved with us

829
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: out to l A and we lived That was the

830
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 1: other thing. So we were living in Chelsea. So we

831
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: moved from the one bedroom apartment to a three bedroom

832
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: apartment in nine and eight, and again rent was not

833
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: that bad when you consider it was like bucks a month,

834
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: so you're not even paying that much to live in

835
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: the city. In New York, it was just something you

836
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: couldn't do. But then we got a place out here,

837
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: a three bedroom, huge dupe like upstairs of a duplex,

838
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: and it was so much room and so much space.

839
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: You just felt like you could live more like a

840
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: human being out here in l A. The three of

841
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 1: us came out here and we lived together there. Then

842
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: you know, I was dating my then girlfriend who is

843
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 1: now my wife, but she and I moved in together

844
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: in in two thousand and that was the last time

845
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 1: we lived. Jay and I lived together, And it's actually

846
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: I think it's allowed us to continue our career, the

847
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: fact that we have separate lives and wives and kids

848
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: and families. That you go into those environments and you're

849
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: no longer the scar brothers. You're just the dad who

850
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: screwed up the thing that your kid wanted you to do,

851
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: but you screwed it up. Jay, has there ever been

852
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: a talk of, Hey, I want to do my own thing.

853
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: You know, that's such a great question. I love that

854
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: question because, yeah, we have actually mulled that stuff over

855
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: and we have gone and done our own things within

856
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: other projects. And the truth is we feel like, if

857
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: I go back to even that mantra, we still feel

858
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: like we are better together than we are on our own,

859
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: and we have more to learn, more to do, and

860
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: we mind, you know, we'll we'll play this out as

861
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: long as it feels comfortable for us, and we're by

862
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: the way, we we are not beholden to any one thing, like,

863
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: if it starts to feel uncomfortable, we're happy to go

864
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: our separate ways. But we still love it. We still

865
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: love doing stuff together. But we have definitely had moments

866
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: where we're like, hey, do you think we would be

867
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: more successful if we just sort of branched out and

868
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: did our own thing. And I think the answer was

869
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: we should take advantage of every individual opportunity that comes up,

870
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: but we should still be the squad brothers. That's what

871
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: we've worked so hard to do and create, and that

872
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: is what I think is super unique. There's not that

873
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: you know, we do something that like to be a

874
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: headlining comedian, you're doing something already that like two people

875
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: in the world can do. That's it. So it's you're

876
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: already in a really small thing. Now we're part of

877
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: a comedy team, so me and without a guitar in

878
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: the act or music in the act. There are maybe

879
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: like four or five other comedy teams in the world

880
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: that are doing it on the level that we're doing it.

881
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: So you say to yourself, why would I remove that

882
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 1: unique thing that feels so special to us? Why would

883
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: I take that out of what we do? We just

884
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. Um coolest place you guys have ever played?

885
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: Cools venue or coolest? Yeah? Coolest venue? Um? Jay? What

886
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: what did we love more than anything? What was the

887
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: coolest venue we played? We we had a recent set

888
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: in the Man at the Montreal Comedy Festival up in

889
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 1: the Palace of Arts, up there in front of people,

890
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: and it was a TV set where we recorded for

891
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: television there CBC. It's gonna be played up there was

892
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: a gallup. Mark Marin hosted it and we did just

893
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: a short like eight eight minutes set and the theater

894
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: was gorgeous. It was like several tiers up and packed

895
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: so great. The energy was so great, and I thought

896
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: this was our best short set material for TV that

897
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: we've ever done. We were we were in it. We

898
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: were having fun, you know, and not to use the

899
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: sports analogy, but I know you appreciate this like the

900
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: game slowed down. Game slows down and you start to

901
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 1: see you're in it and you love it. So Jane

902
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: I are having moments between each other that the audience

903
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: can't even see, where we're ecstatic about how things are

904
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,919
Speaker 1: going and that they're receiving it the way we want

905
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: them to. And you know, you're always better when things

906
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 1: are going great. When the audience is giving it back

907
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: to you. Something happens in the chemistry of your brain

908
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: where synapses start to fire and you start thinking comedically

909
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: and you actually in the in those moments. In our career,

910
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: we've been able to create on the spot and create

911
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: comedy in those moments, and that rarely happens when you're

912
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: taping a TV show, because in the back of your

913
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: mind there's this thing like I only have one shot

914
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: at this. If anything goes weird, you know, we got

915
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: we gotta live with that. It's such an odd thing.

916
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,280
Speaker 1: And so to have the freedom and feel that free,

917
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: I would say that was a great moment. I would

918
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: say Another moment we had in our career that was

919
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: fascinating and phenomenal was this is maybe almost twenty years ago.

920
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: Eighteen years ago. We were in l a at the

921
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 1: Palace which is now that's in front of like two

922
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: thousand people, and we opened for Tenacious D, which is

923
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 1: Jack Black and Kyle Gas and I mean, their fans

924
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: are so hardcore and they love those dudes and like

925
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: they're there to see them, and our attitude is can

926
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 1: we step on this stage and do what we do

927
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: and come with power and give them the setup that

928
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: they deserve. And I just remember doing that set, performing

929
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: and having a really good set and walking off stage

930
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: and high fiving Jack Black, JB given him some love

931
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: and him being like, thanks, boys, you set it up perfectly.

932
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: And that for me, like as a young comic, and

933
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: obviously we love them and we just love the work

934
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 1: they were doing. That felt really special because we didn't

935
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: know how it was going to go that night, and

936
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: that room was really special and big and packed with

937
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: great energy. And so we've had a few of those

938
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: types of shows in our career, which feel good, um

939
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: okay show. The show was called Nose Bleeds. Does Dana

940
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: say anything's off limits. No, yep, the nose bleeds no. No.

941
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: I mean, but again, almost like a good roast, you

942
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: kind of have to be smart about it. You gotta

943
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: do it from a place of love because if it

944
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: looks like because Dana understands his audience and certainly the

945
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: audience that Fight Pass, where all these episodes are available

946
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: on UFC Fight Pass, which is like ESPN Classic, a

947
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: library for all the I mean, it's the largest combat

948
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: library in the world. It's fantastic. I mean, the stuff

949
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: they have on there is just brilliant. And again you

950
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: go back into the nineties and and check out these

951
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: you know, the first ever, the first, the second, the

952
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: third Ufcason, but just like remember the same sort. But

953
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,919
Speaker 1: I think right the current fight, it was like going

954
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: on that it deserves, and I think some die hard

955
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: UFC fans were like, that feels a little disrespectful. It

956
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: didn't feel like he gave it its due. So we're

957
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: always super careful about that. We're like, probably not good

958
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: for us to be commenting on what's happening in the

959
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 1: last like year or two, unless it's a crazy event

960
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: that is worth it. Like one of the episodes we

961
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: did was during COVID, they tried to put on fights

962
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: in Alaska for a f C Alaska Fighting Championship, and

963
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: those were like in someone's backyard near a church, and

964
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: they're like covering up the playground with like a tarp,

965
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: and it's like funny, and so that's where we can

966
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: go in and have fun. But I don't think people

967
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: want to hear us make comments and jokes about a

968
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 1: Covington fight, So like for us to go back, we

969
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: were kind of self editing and going to a place

970
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: where we know fight fans will think it's cool and

971
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: funny and interesting and nostalgic. What was the who was

972
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: the fighter the other night? He was licking the other guy,

973
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: licking the blood. He was rubbing his blood on his

974
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: face all over the face of the other dude. That

975
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: was insane. Oh my god, Luke Rock Hole, that was unbelievable.

976
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: So it was in that moment and Luke rock holds

977
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: like a fascinating dude. Who I watched this whole Michael Bisping, Uh,

978
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: you know, a phenomenal Michael Bisping documentary. I watched it

979
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: on a plane as we were flying back from Europe recently,

980
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: and he like Luke rock Holds sort of life with

981
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: and and and career path of Michael Bisping, Like rock

982
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: Hold beats him in the first fight and it's like

983
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: there's no way, or actually I think I think he be.

984
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: They each beat each other and they were like knockdown,

985
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: drag out fights, and I'm like, I cant belie Luke

986
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: rock Hold. It's rock is still around. He is and

987
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: this was his last fight, and I think he in

988
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: those last moments he's like, I know I'm taking this

989
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: to the distance, and he was just like I'm gonna

990
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: do something crazy like again. That to me was fascinating

991
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: and crazy and hilarious. And he's like, you're gonna taste

992
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: my blood. I'm gonna roll it all of your faith

993
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: and there's nothing you can do about it because we're

994
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: clenched down low. It's kind of like a crazy, disrespectful

995
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: thing that is hilarious in our minds. What's amazing about

996
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: it is we're all kind of your guys are a

997
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: couple of years old than me. But I remember the

998
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: first time I saw blood Sport and and you're like,

999
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: there's no way that's real, right, kind it's kind of

1000
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: go and now like crazy, super popular, and now people

1001
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: go down to a bar and pay pay per view

1002
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: and it's on every weekend and it's you know, you

1003
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: have seen was sold for four billion dollars. Like it's

1004
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: crazy how in our lifetime this board has become not

1005
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: a legitimate but really mainstream. And so J and I.

1006
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: J and I were at the airport this past week

1007
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: and we did a show in Tulsa, Okay on Saturday night,

1008
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: and you know, we were on stage. It was better

1009
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: by the way you were J in the show. J,

1010
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: who was better? I think I think I. I think

1011
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: I was a little anyway, whatever, what's it agreed to disagree?

1012
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean I was carrying Jay for a while. You

1013
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: saw like one set of footprints and that was when

1014
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: I was carrying Jesus. So uh no, So the so

1015
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: we're so we're at the airport in the next morning,

1016
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: we're talking about the fight, and this guy behind us

1017
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: at like security just starts talking like I didn't think

1018
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: this guy was a UFC fan at all, there's no wake.

1019
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: He just starts talking about the Leon Edwards kicked to

1020
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: the face Tomorrow's mind. Like he just starts talking about it,

1021
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh my God, this is like if

1022
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: you know, if someone said, hey, did you see Pool's

1023
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: hit two home runs last night and he's now at

1024
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: six two and he's on his way to seven, would

1025
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: have that discussion. But like, remarkable that we're now having

1026
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: this discussion about this leg kick her around the web.

1027
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: I think it's because the UFC did something very smart

1028
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: and they seized on a moment and a vacuum that

1029
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: boxing created when boxing didn't make the Pacquiao Mayweather fight

1030
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: for five freaking years, UFC just slid right in. They

1031
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: were already on the rise, but they were like, look,

1032
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna make the fights you want to see every week.

1033
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: Every month. There's gonna be a pay per view with

1034
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: a massive fight in it. We're going to create a

1035
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: lot of stars and a lot of people who want

1036
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: to see men women Women can headline our card and

1037
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 1: that'll be a fascinating match. You want the coolest, coolest

1038
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: thing that it's brilliant. They did it, so we're and

1039
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: and here's the best thing. Because we talked about ESPN

1040
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: doing a version of Cheap Seats without us in terms

1041
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: of role to tape, and you know, I mean it

1042
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: was their prerogative. We told them like, you guys, this

1043
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: is we literally told them because they were kind of

1044
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: talking to us to potentially do it, to to do

1045
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: it again. But then they're like, no, we want to

1046
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: go in a different direction. We're like, I don't think

1047
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: you understand what you're saying. But the best thing is

1048
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: that because the prelimb fights were on ESPN and ABC,

1049
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 1: they ran a promo for the Nosebleeds during that on ESPN,

1050
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: and you know, we're we're all competitors. There's a little

1051
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: bit of schaden freud for us, or just it felt good.

1052
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: You want to You want to beat every team that

1053
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,280
Speaker 1: turns you down, that didn't drift. You want to show

1054
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: them that you're that you're in the show and that

1055
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:15,320
Speaker 1: you belong and look what you passed up. Well listen,

1056
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: I can't wait watch more of this cheap seats is

1057
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,399
Speaker 1: It was on my tvo as well, And you guys

1058
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: are always amazing and incredibly kind with your time, so

1059
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: I appreciate you joined me and telling everybody I know

1060
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: to go and watch Nosebleed, which of course is on

1061
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: on YouTube and it's on the first episode is for

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Speaker 1: free on UFC's YouTube page. We just look up Nosebleed

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Speaker 1: Squad Brothers UFC. You can do that and the next

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Speaker 1: is um You can see the rest of the episodes

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Speaker 1: on UFC Fight Pass. I mean, it's a great thing

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Speaker 1: to subscribe to. You can see the other five. So

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Speaker 1: super fun. Man. When when is the next live show?

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Speaker 1: You have? Live show? We're doing shows in an arbor,

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Speaker 1: Michigan at the end of September at the inn Ourbor

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Speaker 1: Comedy Showcase. We're gonna do our podcast Dumb People Town.

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Speaker 1: We have a little mini run in uh in October

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Speaker 1: we're doing We're participating in a comedy festival in Minneapolis

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Speaker 1: October seven. So a lot of stuff go to Superscars

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Speaker 1: dot com and you can see it. But every week

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Speaker 1: we're up at the comedy Store here in l A.

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Speaker 1: And so you can just check out on Superscars dot

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Speaker 1: com or tour dates. All right, last thing I promised,

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Speaker 1: I know you guys gotta go. Okay, Michigan it's Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: Last year the greatest. I have two children and I

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Speaker 1: watched both of them being born. This fell was more

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Speaker 1: satisfied or only Washington to be born. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is because Michigan's. Michigan's program was reborn in that game. Michigan,

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Speaker 1: Like something I followed for way longer than following my

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Speaker 1: kids has been Michigan football, and you just wanted to

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Speaker 1: be a good rivalry. Like right now everyone's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: High State, it's gonna kill him because it's in Columbus.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't know, Like you don't know

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Speaker 1: what their defense is going to be. You know what

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Speaker 1: Michigan's offer it's gonna be. You just don't know, and

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Speaker 1: so you never know. To me, it would be amazing.

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Speaker 1: So finally walk into a season and be like, we

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Speaker 1: don't know if we're gonna win or lose. That's so

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Speaker 1: much better than what we've been doing for the last

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Speaker 1: twenty years, which is how badly are we gonna lose?

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Speaker 1: And so for that feeling for in our souls to

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Speaker 1: have the one thing that happens for most teams, aside

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Speaker 1: from the Detroit Lions, is to have hope, to have

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Speaker 1: hope at the beginning of the season, hope in your team,

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Speaker 1: belief in your team. That's that's that sense of sports,

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Speaker 1: and Michigan gave us that gift last year by winning.

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Speaker 1: Right that you have a this is in listening to

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Speaker 1: your idea of comedy. You have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors to you, right to to do what

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Speaker 1: you do with joy? Al right? I love it with

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Speaker 1: with joy, every man Slashers of comedy. Thank you. I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you get. Randy's gonna pick up a hammer

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Speaker 1: and start helping you. I love it all right, brother,

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Speaker 1: see Doug. My thanks to Randy and Jason. They were awesome. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is the This is the All Ball podcast reminder

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Speaker 1: you can want. You can listen to the Doug Gottlieb

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Speaker 1: Show daily three to six Eastern or twelve three Pacific

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Speaker 1: on your I Heart Radio app, on Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio dot Com, or any of your Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio affiliates. Thanks so much for listening. There's more

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Speaker 1: of these great interviews to come. I'm Doug Gottlieb. This

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Speaker 1: is All Ball.