EP 455 - NICK THUNE joins the bros!

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1:00That's interesting. I remember listening to your first Marin. It was very vulnerable. You guys really got into it. Remember the early Marin episodes where he was about how he had a rude history with someone and then they would work it out with them in the thing? Do you feel like comedians didn't know in that first wave of podcasting how permanent and pervasive it would become? No. I left his house that day if fear of my life. I felt like I lived like a month of fear. He even sent me an email. I think that night he was like, hey, good chat. I think people are going to really like this. I was just so scared. Then the day that it came out, I had other people listen to it. Then they were like, it's pretty good, man. Then I started getting like, I got a text from Sarah Silverman. I got like other people that were like, wow, had no idea that your life was like like that.

2:02That was so cool to hear. I was like, oh, maybe that was a good thing. You had a vulnerability hangover, I call it. I also just didn't think about the people that listened to that. People like Sarah Silverman. They want to hear this. It's like thoughtful people who want to hear a deep rich conversation. They want to hear like this. Yeah, they just, it's on their schedule every week to listen to. Right. What were you scared of specifically just that you're so vulnerable or like career repercussions? It got into religion. Oh, okay. I just thought, I don't know. It just like, because you came out pretty strong. You grew up religious and there was moments in that podcast where you were like, kind of, that time in my life, I didn't know what I was. But I also didn't like being shamed. Yeah, of course. You know, and I think Mark wouldn't do that anymore now. But at that time, I think that was part of the podcast. I felt like I was on my heels, you know, defending something that I don't even understand. But I also just wanted the right to defend it without being judged or something.

3:05Which felt like was happening. Yeah, that was that kind of moment too. I feel like that was almost like atheism's peak was around that. But I would love it. If we are recording, I would tell a story about some bad, a bad podcast experience that really was so bad. It was before comedy, bang bang, it was comedy death ray at the time. And I was going on it quite a bit, like, you know, like once a month or something. And I was just running out of things to talk about. And so my neighbor had gone crazy. And it was this whole thing I recorded, like him having like a manic kind of hoaked out episode in his backyard. Just trying to start, um, Chainsaw, yelling at the owner of my building. And he was in his underwear. He was wearing a headlamp. He was singing the Hills or a live. It was a, it was a real moment. And I caught audio of it. And so I played it on comedy death ray and talked about it.

4:05And just didn't think about repercussions. Didn't think about how many people listen to this podcast. And then one day I came home, like three in the morning. I think I'd tied one on and I was outside. And I heard my voice, like out on the street. Oh, wow. And I was like, what? And then I listened. I was like, oh my gosh, that's me on the podcast. And then I looked at his house. And his office windows were open. And he was just standing there looking at me. Oh, God. And the podcast was playing. Was he in his underwear? No, no, just right. I wish that would have been the best tire. And so the next day I went over and knocked on his door. And I said, hey, man, uh, I'm sorry. I'll have that taken down. I, I don't know. I was just, I was running out of material and I needed something. And I should have thought, like, you know, he was like, actually, it's pretty funny. Like I, somebody brought it up to me to party. I didn't even hear it. Like I, somebody told me they're like, hey, I think someone's talking about you in a podcast.

5:07This is how well this guy was known that way. Yeah. Cut to a year later, I'm at a UCB and I get off stage. And, and I think the old, I haven't been in the old UCB in a long time. But I think it might be the same way where you like kind of get off and you go back into this hallway that's shared with like birds, the restaurant. And it's really no one's there guarding the door. No one's saying like, hey, are you part of the show? Like people and there's just some guy back there and I'm like, he's like, are you Nick Thun? And what I heard because I just walked off stage, I heard, hey man, great set. That's, that's those are the words I heard. But he asked me if I was Nick Thun and I said, yes. And then he handed me an envelope and he said, you've been served. And I was like, and then he just like busted out. And I was like, what? And I looked it up and it's this guy next door is going through a divorce. And his wife was trying to get the recording from the podcast to like, use in court. Prove what a crazy dude he was.

6:07Yeah. And also he's, he was a nice guy. Like it, it just was like a moment, you know? Yeah. And she was out of town. Like it was just all like all the stuff. And anyway, I just talked to her and I said, I'm not going to be a good witness. And then I called Scott and I was like, delete the delete it. And if anyone asks, you don't have it. And I just got out of, got out of being a witness. Wow. But it really showed me what, what you can and can't talk about. Yeah. Damn. And when you got served, did you immediately know it was for? No idea. No, how scary was that opening the envelope? I don't think I was scared. I think I was so confused. And I don't, and beyond that, there was nothing in my life that would have gotten me. Unless somebody was like suing me for a, a, a joke or something. Yeah, crushing too hard for having too good of hair. I mean, that could have been it. It could have been like an old hair stylist that was, yeah, trying to get me in a court for going to someone new.

7:10Did I? That was a joke I used to have that I never, it never worked. But I always, that was funny is that I, I drive around with a wig in my car in case I run into any old hair stylist. It is, I just went into Floyd's and I just go random like whoever they suggestion cut my hair I go with. And I saw the lady who normally cuts my hair and we made eye contact. And it was like seeing an X or something with somebody else. Oh, yeah. That weird tension. Yeah. Do you think I wonder if it caused any turmoil between the staff there? Yeah, do they beef? I've always been bad about that stuff. Like I one time switched trainers at the same gym. Like, but I'm kind of like guys, we're all going to be professionals about this. Yeah, hey, you did great. Like my pecs are looking good. But now I want to work on some background. Exactly. I wanted to get in kettlebells and I was like this guy's specialty. Oh, I remember at his old apartment, we were recording a podcast and I was leaving. This guy comes out to me and he's like, hey man, you've been served. And I'm like, he needs to start dancing. Well, it was for, yeah, yeah, it was a marion. I was like, actually, I've met a say you're about to get served.

8:12Yeah, he's about to get served. He just got to sit down and he just popped up. I was like, thank you. And I went to Aeron. But he's like this for the apartment below you. And he's like, you just came from there. Too much time now. I'm like, I'm like, I didn't come from that apartment. He's like, I saw you come from the building. Like you're served. I'm like, I don't live here. And he's like, no, he's like, I got to serve you, man. I'm like, dude, I don't live here. The guy, I don't know who's below there. He's like, he's like, what do I do? I'm like, I don't know. You just can't serve me. You don't think about that bad servers, guys. He was a bad server, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you don't think about bad servers. You don't think about bad notary publics. Right. Those guys are a friend of mine just sent me a pitch. They're like, I want to shoot a short film with you. It was playing this guy that just came over to like a notary public and it's funny because of my old Twitter bio said I was a notary public. And it was just the amount of messages I would get from people that were like, that's so cool you do that. Yeah.

9:12Yeah. It's why I just decided like, yeah, dude, yeah, it's fun. It's fun. It's a great ass. But yeah, a bad serve. It was a bad serve, yeah. Man. Like Mac and Row. He was really, he was really good after it. Yeah, dude. You tell this guy. No, I had a dig, I had a dig pretty deep to find that one. I was wondering, I was like, was Mac and Row a servant? Well, I couldn't remember. I mean, I know that he was heated. Yeah, he was hot. You gotta be kidding me. I like that. I like that he had an edge. Those are some of the best clips. Oh, him yelling at people is great. I mean, it doesn't happen enough. Not anymore. Serena will give a little bit of like some pushback. She like, I'm going to shove this ball in your mouth. She said that to someone. You did? Yeah. And it wasn't a dog. Then it gets like, hers get all crazy because she's black. So it'll get gnarly in the comments. And then you're like, this is always gets racial. Yeah. Mac and Row, when he was him and Borg, he was just like, all right, this guy's ice, this guy's fire. That was kind of a fun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, those are those those are wild.

10:13The competition is just insane. Yeah. Do you guys feel like that with any other podcasts? Like, like who would be like your board? Like you guys in record road? I got to take them down. Yeah. And I know he feels the same way about us. Yeah. He's Borg. We're Mac and Row. Well, the M. Yeah, well, the M sometimes be like, dude, we like dude, we're covering vaccines. We were like on that like a month before. Yeah. The title is mine. Yeah. And you're like, yeah, this like, this like deer meat you're talking about. Yeah. And we're off that now. Yeah. Yeah. That's like so 10 years ago. Yeah, that's not the protein we're looking for. Yeah, they got Bonsi disease. You shouldn't beat and deer. I made a Bonsi did that sound like a real disease. Yeah. All right. I was like, I was like, I was going to go deer ticks, but I. That's smarter. I couldn't think of that. Yeah. Well, I think if you can't think of something, but you say something confidently, that's almost better. Yeah. Oh, let's go. Yeah. I like that value. People walk away from it.

11:13Dude, I was a big fan of yours. I go way back with it too. Like the first time I met my buddy Strider, we lived in Orange County. We drove up here. You were doing a set at the improv. There's a stack lineup too. It was like you, Tosh, Louis. And it's the first time I'd seen you and you did your joke. I did this to Todd Barrett. You're a big fan of I will repeat jokes to people. Mm-hmm. I bet Todd handled it really well. He hated it. He hated it. But honestly, I cherish that episode. I mean, it's fun to rub Todd the wrong way. Yeah, he's so good at it. And like being kind of put upon. And I'm a huge fan of his. Like, media manager, he was like a really big deal to me. So I was like, yeah, I'm a big Todd Barrett. I think he's one of the best. I could watch him over and over. You know what, I'm actually not going to do the bit to you, but you had some great bits. I'm going to learn from my past experience. Take this moment. What would you title the bit? Porter Roy. I mean, oh, yeah. That. Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. It was good. Yeah. And I've seen you with so much stuff.

12:13Like, dude, that show you did Laft Trek? That was great with Moshe Cashard. Do you remember that? Oh, right. Moshe and I talked about that recently, actually, because, yeah, it was really fun. When you did stand up in front of the dodgeball, guys, it was hilarious. And your energy, whatever happened to that. I don't know. I forget where I even watched it. I think it was like, it was online, right? Yeah. And it was so we were so concerned about doing our own material that we just were like, hey, so we're going to not do our own jokes. We got to write jokes every day. And that became the show. Yeah. But you wrote good jokes. And we did a bit where we went around in like a Hollywood tour bus. And I like on the roof of a tour bus. Did you see that? Do you remember that episode? I don't know if I do. It was like one of those double decker's that you're like driving around. And there's a guy like telling you like, oh, Marilyn Monroe was over here or whatever. And I did, and I was doing it, but I turned it into all like, I'm actually, it turns out in the end. I'm stalking my ex-girlfriend like that. Like she, there she is. There she is.

13:14You know, kind of a thing. And it was such a good bit. And then I saw like, I've seen like five or six people do it since. Dude, we had a tour bus bit in our show. But I didn't remember that. I hope. Yeah. It's like, we did we took every one of Fast and Furious sites. Oh, that's great. And they thought they were going to see classic Hollywood. It was really fun. It was fun. I know that place not too far from here. I'm like, Douglas or something. Yeah. And then in the middle, we get canceled. The Toretto? Yeah. A Toretto's, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we went there. That's a hot spot. We did some kind of like, kind of off the beaten path ones where like, this is in Fast and Furious, the fourth one where he confronts, I forget his name, like Daniel who owned an engine that like knew Vin. And there was just an apartment building. I was like, it was the apartment. I think you guys will be, you guys will like this. And I think that this is also like a fun thing for people to do. I was, when I was locked, I was locked in a house in Vancouver for two weeks. This was going up to shoot a movie.

14:14And it was when like, the pandemic was just in full bore. And you had to like go quarantine for two weeks. And then you can like get out and I was in a five bedroom house and like the suburb of Vancouver, it was wild. I mean, it was dark at times. It was weird. But I committed to watching all of the Fast and Furious backwards. Oh, wow. And it's fun because you're like, Christopher Nolan style. Yeah, you'll be like in the third, third, the season I'm going to say, but it's the third movie and you're like, oh, they're cousins. Yeah. That explains so much what happened the other episodes. You know, you just kind of keep going through until the end and you're like, wow, that's how it all started. And it all connected, huh? Yeah. Wow. I almost think it might be a better way to watch it. It is cool. It's like you, this or something like there's more meaning in doing it out of order. Which ones are your favorite? I mean, I got to be honest, what's the one that's not even, it's not even a Fast and Furious one, I think it's Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo, yeah. That one's sick. Yeah.

15:14You're always kind of. I'm not a fan. It's canon. I don't think it's canon and Paul's not in there. Yeah, but what about the one that's more like Toretto and the brother one and the rock? Oh, that's fast five. Yeah. That one's great. That's when they really up did it became like an ocean's 11 kind of style. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, we're going international. We're going ice. What do you guys? What's your? I mean, I'm an OG guy. I think number one. I think number one. Number one. And you know what? I love, I love when you capture, especially like 90s early 2000s LA, Grady Urban LA. That's something my favorite thing to see in movies. So they captured that really well. And I mean, just the dialogue is, I mean that, that and the second one, the dialogue is by far the best. Yeah. Eric Bernquist did a great job. Yeah. And then like sort of Gary Scott, Tom. See, I think maybe if I would have watched it, if I would have watched it in the right order, I might be in the same page with you guys.

16:16Right. I was kind of starving for something good by the time I got to five. When did you first see the first one? I did see the, you're right. I saw the first one before I did this backwards. So I don't remember. Okay. It wasn't something for you. Did you see it in theaters? Yeah, probably. Yeah. That was a huge experience for me. Seeing in theaters, we got Carl's Jr. after. I think I was beyond the age where that could have worked for me. You know, I think it was like, oh, this is an exciting movie. It's like movies that affected me deeply that I saw on the theater were like Ace Ventura. Right. I just rewatched that with my kids. Mm-hmm. I mean, just did they like it? They didn't love it. But Jim Carey, it's just like a clear answer for kids. That probably worked better. But watching Ace Ventura like, dude, they're basically like, the movie wouldn't work at all with anybody else, right? No. No. And that, that formula is, it's like having one. Comedic star surrounded by actors.

17:16Mm-hmm. Not like the barista is another comedic star. Right. And this one scene, this other dude that is on SNL is like trying to score as a paper boy or whatever. Right. Like, it's just, there's too many comedians in movies out because then you don't have one comedic voice. It's they're all coming from all different directions. And it's nice. Like, and I know that they have more than just Will Forte. But the Magroober movie. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good, but it's because they do, they have mostly actors. Yeah. And it's like him and Chris and Wig and like it's. But then it's Ryan Fleepe. It's Val Kilmer. Yes. It's straight. Yeah. Dude, that's a good shout. Man, that one, the moment where he's, where the van blows up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Magrovers. So you do kids, just, they didn't agree with Jim Carey's choices? They wanted more animals. And I was like, this movie has animals. And I need to, when nature calls me.

18:17I did number one. And then every time the animals left, they were like, where are the animals? Right. And so I thought, I thought, you kind of forget what movies are even like you forget so much about movies. And then you show them back to your kids, you're like, Holy fuck, I didn't remember this movie started with like all the parents dying. Like, and then him getting a blow job and like that. Exactly. He's like, you know, yeah, he comes back in the show. That's a way, I forgot about that. Yeah. A lot of your stuff. You didn't know that was a blow job. Yeah, I remember about my two-month kid. What did you do down there? Well, you know what? That's true, too. Yeah, I forgot all that. Like, I'm like, no, there's no cursing or sex in this movie. And it's like, raw, raw, raw, raw. I'll watch old comedy. He's a common old, but you know, like 2000s, 90s comedies on like when I'm flying. And he just, nowadays, when he watched those movies, I feel like, I'll watch like legally blonde every joke just works so well. Yeah. I don't know what that was with the writing, but it just feels like they're trying to hard. And with this, it's just like, they're so, every detail just works so well.

19:19Like her parents, like just everything about it. And I feel like that, I don't know why that seems to be gone from comedy movies now. Yeah, they really, I mean, and again, Reese Witherspoon, like we don't look at her as a comedic actress. Right. No. You know, like she's an actress. She really played that role well. But in the Ace Venture thing, that was like him doing one of his, you know, in living color characters, pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Like he came with the bits, ready? Oh, yeah. That was like, they were just like put the camera on this guy and give him like a loose script and let's see what happens. Do you know what else you were amazing in? Love life? You were incredible in that show. Oh, thank you. That is such a good show. Yeah. It's such a bummer that it was just us season and then moved on to a new, that they went like anthology with it. Yeah. I mean, it was fine. It didn't last, last past a second season. I think COVID kind of boned in a little bit. Yeah. COVID did actually that, that has been a gripe I've had with COVID. Yeah. Fuck.

20:19Because it came out. A lot of people saw it as a thing because of COVID. Right. But also there were no jobs to get after it because of COVID. Right. You know, like it was like that thing where you're like, oh, yeah, you just scored in three episodes of an HBO show. Yeah. But there's nothing else filming right now. So we're all going to forget about that. Yeah. I'm just going to fuck out of that performance too. Because like I like love that. I hate that photo of me. I, it's like, that's like me at my worst drunk like swollen face. What do you, considering that's how you feel about it, I think you still have handsome in the photo. Thank you. Yeah. Have you always been your fashionable guy? And I'm trying to up my fashion. Now I'm not really doing it now, but my fiancee's into styling. I'm trying to like, have you always had? Is that, were you just born with it or have you cultivated your style? You know, I looked at my senior picture and I'm wearing a denim shirt with a tie. Interesting. To show you where I've come from.

21:20Yeah. Which I think is, I mean, in the 90s, I graduated. It was 98, you know, like kind of it was so against what anyone else was doing. So I, I don't know if I had bad fashion or I just had an idea of what I liked beyond what other people were wearing. Yeah. Because I was really like, my senior year, I was wearing Hawaiian shirts and deck shoes. And no one at my school, it was just a, here comes Nick. Like it was so against anything. Right. What were you basing the look off of? Did you have my dad had, my dad always wore deck shoes and I love my dad and I just thought I want to wear deck shoes like him. That's sweet. And then the Hawaiian shirts, I just thought I'm onto something here that nobody, you know, like, it gives you some flair. It gives you like some attitude. And at that point, it was a not a Hawaiian shirt era. Yeah. Did people give you shit? Yeah, I got made fun of a lot. But I think also, you own that pretty easily. Yeah, this was a good lesson I learned. I learned it later in life that people, because they were still friends with me, you know?

22:26And a lot of times, and maybe this is like a therapist putting bad information into my head. But he was like, do you ever wonder why they felt so comfortable, like making you the butt of the joke? Because they knew you could handle it. Like, it's that thing. It's like that. It was fun. You made it fun. You didn't, like, Ron, you didn't get emotional about it. What if you're picking on, like, we, the guy we make fun of the most in my friend group is like the most handsome and kind of the coolest because it's like, it doesn't feel like there's as much of a psychic cost to it. Like we're like, yeah, we all right, dude. And I wasn't that guy. I was like very lanky and I wasn't as like a project that on to you. No, no, no, but I, but I, at the time though, I was like definitely not all my, all my friends were like the studs. I grew up in a neighborhood where all of the guys within rocks throwing distance from my house were athlete of the year went on to play college baseball, went on to play college football. Like, all of those guys were the top. And I was just this kind of kid in the middle that was like, I played sports up to ninth

23:29grade. I didn't do it. I didn't even try in high school. I was good. But compared to them, I was like, be right. Maybe if you were in a motorboat on town, you could have been like, you know, second best gown varsity, but the competition was so steep. You're like, I got to find a new lane. Yeah, I probably would have still still probably not been on varsity, but I, I did play a year of football. Third best gown, J.F. Yeah. Yeah. And high school you did. Yeah. And ninth grade, I was actually on JVB basketball, JVB basketball. And my mom, I wanted Jordans and she got me the Shaquille O'Neils. I don't know if you guys have seen those. I would love to see. I vaguely remember. They were black, like, swayed with like purple. The fur, they, I think they were like the first ones right there. But they were cheap. Those ones, the ones that you just are, they had the big ones. The one below that. Yeah. They look like moon boots because I had my legs were like toothpicks and I had size 12 feet

24:31and it was like, and I had to wear those on the court and it was. Dude, I thought, when I was a kid, I thought I could ball. I was like, I can dribble and I didn't grow. And yeah, same thing when I got to high school, I was like, I'll just, I'll just get hammered. Yeah. Like, I'll just party and I'll be, I'll be, I'll be that guy. That is, I found out about that. I found out you could be cool. Yeah. And that can be your thing. Yeah, being cool because I, like, I went to school where it's like, we had like kids, you know, college, feature college hockey players, the cross players. And, and then I, anyway, you've gotten kids from like China and stuff. We were like the top basketball player from China and I'm like, fuck, it's all like that. I can chug. Yeah, man. Yeah. I'll just chug. And that'll, that'll be my thing. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. If you ever think about switching insurance companies to see if you could save some cash, Progressive makes it easy to see if you could save when you bundle your home and auto policies. Try it at Progressive.com.

25:32Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates, potential savings will vary, not available in all states. Why does Progressive work hard for truckers? Because truckers unite the world. They unite kids with their first drum sets and parents with earplugs. But truckers can't do this if they're not on the road. That's why Progressive has over 360 heavy truck employees to help truckers stay on time and on track. Quote truck insurance today in as little as eight minutes at ProgressiveCommercial.com. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates. Did you get your driver's license early? No, 16. I mean, yeah, but yeah, that, yeah, that, I consider that early because now kids aren't getting it till they're like, right? Because I got Uber or Waymo or whatever. And even my athlete friends didn't get it as quickly as I got it. Because they had, they already had upper classes and give them lifts, right? They were just busy working too much in my license. And I, I mean, I popped off with mine and got a jet up pretty quickly because I had a job at the grocery store and it was like, I mean, the freedom when you got your driver's

26:34license like that first day when you just like, you just whip out of the parking lot. Yeah, you're going way too fast. You should not be on the road, honestly. Yeah. And then if you can get a chicken the car, give Holly Centoa ride home. And you could back then. Yeah. Yeah. It was legal to have anyone in your car. Now you can't have like anybody under 25 in your car. Is that true? Yeah. For like a whole year. Wow. Are they following along that? I mean, the kids that I've been around that are old enough, no, they're not. Yeah. But how are kids hooking up? Dude, I heard about this this weekend. What? Oh, sorry. I thought you were actually asking how they're hooking up. I mean, yeah, because in my thing is I'd get grown the car and we'd play scaw. Yeah. I do that still happening. But it's a lot of, I heard it's a lot of two in the front seat, two in the back seat. That sounds like a two in the front. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How's rocking group stuff? But I think it's always been that way. But the parents are worried about it.

27:34It's group stuff. Like, orgies? Not like, not inter, not cross pollinating, but like you hook up over there. We hook up over here. Like hand jobs in the front and back. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I don't know why I'm smiling, but I'm just having for these kids. I mean, it's hard to just get half here. Yeah, yeah. Be safe. Be gentle. Listen. Yeah. But good for you guys. Yeah, yeah. Have fun. You guys are doing the right thing. Yeah, I remember. You're working with what you can. I mean, there is no wrong thing, right? You're not a good person. Could you do it? But you're not a bad person either, right? It's just, I've lost my binding moral matrix right now. Can you guys redirect me towards a safe landing? Uh-huh. Because I'm not going to say anything bad about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I could go. Then you start spinning out. I kind of like where you're going. You do thank you. Yeah. Well, because that's the other argument, right? Is that young people who have become too risk averse. Right, right. It's like the anti-social generation. Like, yeah. They don't drink anymore. They're smoking pot. They're more isolated. Pornography has made them burrow into their own insecurities. So, yeah, maybe that's why I like to too.

28:35Because I was like, all right, they're still a little like adventure going on. We should start a campaign like for kids to kind of get back into how we grew up. Get a girl in your car, play Pepper. You know, what I did is I wanted to be a stoner, but I hated weeds. I got a girl in my car, I played Pepper, hot boxed it and freaked out. You left. That's a good moment. I like that experience. Yeah, I think that's pretty cool. Those moments are, I had a girl in, I was 24, but I was in France and like, niece France, I was traveling. I was like working at hostels. You know, you get a job at a train station. Like, you got to go for three hours and pass out flyers and people get off and they let me stay for free every night for that. One day I was with this Australian guy and we were walking and these two girls like pulled up and pulled up in front of us. They like honked at us and then they got up to him and we're like, hey, what's up? And they were French and they were like, oh, we thought you guys were Italian.

29:35And then turns out we were like the two worst versions of guys. They could, you know, American and Australian. Yeah. And so they were like, oh, but you guys can meet us tonight if you want and we're going to be at this place. And so we ended up going to this place and they were not, they ended up liking the Australian guy and just not into me. Americans were very much hated at the time, I think. This is right. When Iraq was going on and stuff like Bush and everything was kind of, it was, yeah, 2000 and it was just sledding over there. It was 2004. And so we were in this place and these guys started handing out these flyers and we look on them and it's not a flyer. It's to sign up for a rock or oaky, which downstairs. There's a band that plays like you could sign up three songs and the band most likely knew one of them. And then they would play it and you sang with them. So it was like a live band karaoke situation. And so I signed up with, I just put two of my classics on there, put hero and reek a glacius. Great song. And then I put every rose as it's thorn poison. Beautiful.

30:35Ballads. Yeah. They knew poise they knew everyone's had it's thorn and I had been in a cover band at the time in Seattle and had a real good version of it going. And I just nailed it. Nailed it so hard to one of the French girls like you want to get out of here. Dude. And so I was like, yeah, I want to get out of here. And so we go down and we hit this beach. The beaches in these France are like stone beaches. And I'm nervous. I had never been with a European woman. I didn't know what was going to happen. Like too good to be true. It didn't feel real. And so I'm thinking you got to really, you got to be good, right? Yeah. And so we're making out. She's on top of me. And I think, all right, I'm going to flip the switch on this and be like, you know, like I really want to make this happen. But again, the beach is not sand. It's stone. And so I like roll or over. And basically like rolled her onto a stone that was not, it was not a good situation. That's mech to it.

31:35Yeah. And it just ended everything. Oh, no. But there wasn't like a, you didn't, she didn't get like hurt or anything, right? She was just too uncomfortable. She said, yeah, like she wasn't like a wound. But yeah, I did hurt. It hurt. Yeah. And it was a, it wasn't my fault. It was, you know, if it was a sand beach, everything would have been fine. Right. Yeah. I think it's better the way it went. Yeah. Do I really feel that way? I don't know. But I don't, it's still a great experience, right? But one of the funnest things that happened on that trip that I think about all the time is, as down on that beach, and there was a guy walking around with a cooler type, a rope tied to it. And it was the beach. You know, the, it was just like, it was, they were like mostly smooth pebbles. That's what got me is like, it's like, how could I go wrong? And then the one, but this guy is walking around and he's singing this song, Coca-Cola, Cuerfesca, and he's singing all of the drinks that he has in his cooler. And then every now and again, he would just say, massage. Like every five run-throughs, you know? And I remember, I was there for a week or two weeks and I remember thinking like, this

32:39guy's throwing a massage. He's there every day until one day. There's these two girls that are like five feet from me, topless, sunbathing, and Coca-Cola, Cuerfesca, massage. And one of the girls is like, two massages. And the guy just acted super cool about it. He's like, all right. They are on their backs now or on their stomachs and he is kneeling between them. And he loobs up both of his hands and their backs. And he starts going to it at a time. Like he's, and he looks over at me and he goes, like it finally worked. He's been saying massage for years. He's just like, I don't know how I finally imagine, dude. I was expecting him to be like a master music dude. That's not good for him.

33:39Yeah, I kind of gave him one of those. Wait, were you doing music before comedy? I was, but it wasn't, I wasn't, I wouldn't call it, wasn't doing music. I was like, entertaining people and playing with a band that was like doing shows at clubs and we were doing cover songs like Push It by Salt and Pepper. But then also like hero, but I would like, one of like the big moments of the show for me at least. But I think comedically wise, was me doing a very passionate version of hero. I love to hear that. Which is still one of my co-op karaoke songs. Yeah, can we hear a little bit or is that putting on the spot too much? No, because there's a moment of it where he goes, would you dance? If I asked you to dance. And right away people are like, oh, he's doing it. He's not doing like a, you're not winking at it. You're going for it. He's performing it. Yeah. Would you run? Would you hold me back? I can't remember, I got to see the words a little bit.

34:40And would you cry for the one you loved? Hold me in your arms. And then it drops in it. I can be and it hits so big as well as monstrous. Yeah, and I would even throw some Spanish words in. Nice. Just to respect for Enrique and everybody. That music video is one of the best music videos I've ever had. Dude, it's been running in my head since we talked. Jennifer loved you. When they're rubbing the stolen money on each other and then Mickey Rork is the heavy. Dude, I mean, the cast and that is insane. It could be a real movie. And it's at a gas station. Yeah. And I don't even know what happens at the end of the day. Kill Enrique? It feels like it. I mean, Dan often you're like, all right, he's going to die for her. But it was like, it was MTV. So I didn't, I don't think they probably didn't let the director take. I bet you there's a director's cut. Can we find out what the budget was for that music video? Enrique Glacier's hero budget. I guess in 2.5 mil. Oh. But I hear where you're going. Like the music videos they used to be like, yeah, it was a short film.

35:44Yeah. It was beautiful. It was really cool to watch. I think it seemed to have the red amount of like moisture on his skin. Yeah. Like a sexy sweat gun, you know, I feel like that's very like, I mean, Britney Spears, I'm a slave for you. It's like the right amount of sweat. You're like, it's yeah, he would, he hit it the right time. You know, I think Ricky Martin had been out and people are like, this is cool. The latter way was cool. This is cool. Yeah. He was a very handsome guy. He was. His moles and tasks. And you're right, the right amount of sweat, like really like, it's important. I watched Heller High Water this weekend, like whatever they did to Chris Pine in that. Yeah. Like the sheen he has going, that's like, oh God, that's seen at the gas station. Yeah. Those two dudes are like, he comes out and just. Shwack. Like I, but his performance is like 60% just like, God, this guy's like, yeah, he's really human. Yeah. I'm rewatching a walking dead. They put on, I mean, I think we do it on purpose too much sweat. Oh. Cause they're in Atlanta and it's, it adds to the effect.

36:46We're like, that's not only are there zombies, but there's all that moisture. Sweaty zombies. Sweaty zombies. Yeah. Yeah. The putting on sweat when you're getting sprayed and you're like, is this going to read? Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a lot of faith. A lot of faith. Like they don't have the wrong setting on the spray things. So it's like just a, like a missile into your. I don't know if that's going to work, but. Yeah. That music video. But that, that, that, that era of my life was a fun. I love that. He's like being a bit, well, yeah, cause you're, you're from Seattle too, right? So it's like a huge musical legacy. But then in my head, I was kind of tracking. I was like, it would kind of make sense to go into comedy at that point. And for Seattle to have a good comedy run because it's like the music thing had already kind of peaked and then people are like, well, what's the next wave of expression out of here? And there was never really the big, big scene. There's obviously some great comedians that come out of there. Because it's like you, Funches, Ankarm, all you guys are from Seattle, right?

37:48No, they're from Portland. Damn it. They're from Oregon. But there is a great scene that came out of Portland to, and Portland had a festival for a while that I think really kind of turned that city into. Right. Seattle never had the right, I don't know, the right start or something. It just never hit the right club with the right owner that was supporting local comedians and like, was the crocodile running back then? The crocodile, yeah, it's still going, but it's not not comedy wise. No, you weren't doing cl- and even now like there's laughs, like the guy that owns laughs in Kirkland is really great. I think Davis's name, like his wife, they're like, they're really supportive and great. I think they're not actually in Kirkland anymore. They're downtown. But at the time there was like the underground and it was just not the best scene. Yeah. I was, I wasn't even ready to do those clubs anyway. I was doing open mics and- Right. Are you following the Seattle issue right now that's kind of captured my imagination? They did work to help the salmon get to the ocean, but it created some bottlenecks

38:49throughout like their ports and whatnot. Probably through though. And their harbors and channels. And now the walruses and seals have gotten hip to it and they all wait at the mouth where it goes into the ocean and they're just eating all the salmon. And now they've spent like a billion dollars trying to create this system. The salmon might get depopulated. So now they have to start killing the walruses and seals, but nobody wants to do it. So it's like, what do you do? And some fishermen are taking their own hands and they're off in the seals and walruses. Because they're like, yeah, dude, like this is our whole livelihood and like the salmon are going to go extinct if we don't do something. Wow. And there's that many seals and walruses that have found out. They're just like, yeah, they're like- Like one of them had a TikTok that hit. You meet me at 37th Harbor. This is how cool they just don't get rock. Yeah, I told you not to bring anybody, dude, who are these guys? Tell everyone this is our spot. You told the seals, no, you stupid fuck man. They're going to get us through-

39:49They're going to tell the walruses, we know that. We're cooked, dude. Yeah, I mean, and seals and seals, they're so adorable. I couldn't do it. So predators often gather in high numbers at artificial structures such as dams and ballered locks. We're migrating the salmon, become easy tar. He's going to say the locks. I lived right by the locks. I lived on the ocean side of the locks in like a place on stilts, basically. It was amazing. That sounds awesome. The great time. That area, yeah, I mean, they had the salmon run at the locks already, which is you can go down and look and you can see the fish kind of swimming from, you know, because they're coming from the river and- Dude, they're migrating. Like Washington, they're going out into the ocean. Yeah, it's a pretty amazing thing. But yeah, it's like- So they messed with nature and now they've got to mess with more nature. Yes. Just to fix the first kind of thing that they did. It's the colliderocracy. It's just layers and layers of bureaucracy and different levers that we put into stuff. And then, and they were doing more patches to fix it and it just gets more and more-

40:51That'd be great if they got seal up into Seattle, the- A singer? Yeah, just, I mean, that wouldn't be a bad publicity stunt for the seals, I think. Yeah. Oh, to defend them. Yeah. He could use it too. Yeah, I think so. He's like, is he going through a tough time? You know, I don't even know why I said that. I guess I just watched a video about him and Heidi Klum. Are they not together? They broke up and so for me, it's raw. For me, it's sensitive. But for most of the world, I don't think they're that advanced. Seal probably knew that was going to happen like a couple of years ago. Yeah. I bet we found out delayed. So he's probably good by now. Yeah, we're doing it. I'm good. Hey, man, listen, we broke up 10 years ago. It's been on post. So the same thing, what was, why did they do in the first place? I think they were having trouble getting out to the water. I forget what the, the origination of it was. But they're trying to help the salmon. But it's their intentions. They help them too much. Yeah. And I think also the salmon might have been having trouble because of like human obstruction in the first place. Okay.

41:51Like they're like, hey, we built this big ass harbor. Okay. Now that the salmon are having trouble getting out. Okay. So what if we built up this different path to them? Oh, now, now it's bottled necking and now like the, yeah, they call it a f***. A salmon and seals are just, the seals are just sitting there like, well, you know, buffet isn't just one food. That's true. Yeah. Maybe you went to a buffet that was just carrot. It's like Barney green grass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's just so much good. They got me. There's got to be some seaweed around I guess. Yeah. Yeah. They're mixing it up with them. Yeah. Someone brings up. They got worms hanging out. Yeah. Yeah. I brought some deal. I got some tar. Just throwing worms in the water. Yeah. Yeah. It is tough. There's no good ending, right? Yeah. It's too bad the seals are so cute. Because I know. And they are, if you talk about the right amount of moist, oh, when you see a seal out of the water, it's fine for days. Oh my god. Is there a picture with Chris Pine and a seal? I bet there is. I would love, or at least we could see Chris Pine sweated up next to a seal and see what

42:55kind of moisture. Oh, you know, seals are kind of the dogs of the ocean, I'd say. Yeah, I think people do consider that. Yeah. The face they have, they've, they've, they've, they've, they've evolved to where they look at you and you're like, I can't do anything to you. Probably helped them. They're like, if we get a little bit anthropomorphic, they might not do anything to us. We can eat it there by fail day and there'll be no repercussions. Oh, I mean, look at that silhouette too. That almost doesn't even look like a real seal. That's the problem is I would talk to the makeup department there and be like, listen, at this point you guys did so good, it looks like a statue. Yeah. You got to take a little moisture off that seal. Yeah. I look, pinnip heads, is that what kind of animal they are? Is it manatee of pinnip head? Because I was going to say, manatees are weird. Like I almost look at them as like alien. And if there are any manatees watching this, you're, we, we don't all feel that way. Did I got attacked by a seal? And Samu Cruz. How? Like what? I jumped, I jumped, so there's just place pleasure point.

43:57Mm-hmm. I jumped in the water with my board and I'm paddling. Is this a euphemism with not a woman? No. I wish. I wish. I got attacked by the real, the best. You know, you know, pleasure point. Yeah. So I hopped in with my board. Yeah. Yeah. I was playing Skaw and just hopped in. So I hopped in and it was, it was like mid to high tide. So I, and I was paddling, it felt like I hit a rock and I was like, that's weird. So I keep paddling. I feel like I feel a bump against the board again. It feels like I hit another rock. So I'm like, what the hell? So I turned the board over and the seal just, just, ah! Like come to attacking at me. He just lunged at me and I fell off my board. I was like, ah, and it bit like a shark sized bite out of my board. Whoa. It was pretty sick and I didn't realize they're so fierce. And took it back to my college and I was like, shark. And I played Skaw and...

44:58That's pretty cool though that you saved the board. I saved the board. I kept it in my room so, you know, after a party, it'd be like, how big was its mouth? It was big. It was like that. Yeah. Kill Sharpe. And Dana point. She was swimming with the seals in a wetsuit. Yeah. Like pretending to be a seal, but they like bite the slowest swimmer. Yeah. And they came back and bitter and she ended up not making it out. They're sharp teeth. Yeah. Has there been any other confirmed seal murders? They don't want you to know about them. You can't even find them in the news because the pro seal lobby's so powerful. I'm joking. Yeah. No, and that's actually the artist's seal and he's like working for the wrong seals. Yeah. Do you prefer acting or being on stage? Being on stage. Yeah. I prefer... Like I kind of want to have like a talk show. Yeah. You'd be great at that. Yeah. But who'd you want to interview like actors and stuff? I don't know. I mean, I... No. No. I don't want to at all.

45:58I would like to interview regular people, but then it's just a podcast. But... Right. Right. I've also like wanted to have like, because I did a talk show at UCB for a couple years that was scripted. And people like Bob Odenkirk would come on and he would play like the, you know, like the air of the Scantron family. And my dad worked, my dad, we're, I'm from the number three pencil family and we kind of got obviously number two pencils kind of got in with Scantron. Right. And so... And Bob, you guys out. Our whole interview was me actually accusing him of like taking my family's livelihood by signing some dumb deal with number two pencils. Number three. It was like... And I loved that. It was so fun. Yeah. But at the time there was a comedy bang bang show and I think Eric Andres was just starting and it was like there's a lot of talk shows happening and I just kind of missed that. Right. That boat. There were first to market on it. It was like there was already the... Yeah, or it was like happening.

46:59It was all happening at the same time. Yeah. I think they got to be coming back, right? Here, I think they are. Like a lot of the podcasts that I listened to are now turning into game shows. For example, like... Oh, yeah. Like bad friends is now like they got a bad friends game show. Oh, yeah. I saw that. I saw that. I saw him in Santino and Bobby Lee. Yeah. And I feel like since late night died people started doing like a lot of podcasts and now I feel like it's kind of swinging back the other way. So maybe we need to start a game show. Yeah. Are you a game show guy? No. That's okay too. I don't know. I don't want you to know it all to be honest. Yeah. You know, I did what I was... Because when I was growing up, like I graduated high school in 2006. It was like... Maybe when I was in junior high I was like when who wants to be a millionaire and all that stuff came out. That was huge. Yeah. Like Regis doing that? Mm-hmm. The 50-50s? I'm listening to Bob Iger's book again. They're talking about... Right of a lifetime? Yeah. I remember that. I love that. Yeah. That like 2000 won. He's changed. He has changed. This is 2019, Bob Iger.

47:59He was cooking. Yeah. He was on top. But yeah, that year where it was like 30 million... I'm just listening to that. 30 million viewers a night. Unbelievable. How crazy is that? And then they did the weakest link. Remember? The weakest link. You are the weakest link. Yeah. I think I did watch the Regis, the millionaire. I think when that was like really hot. And the best episodes are like normal Donald going on. Unbelievable. Yeah. 50-50. It's not going to just leave Lisbon and Madrid, right? And then it does a great face. Yeah. Dude, I think I haven't been thinking about this lately. I think we need the monoculture back. Yeah. Let me know. What do you think? What does that mean? Like this. Like everyone's watching who wants to be a millionaire. Everyone's watching lost. Everyone's watching CNN. Monoculture? Yeah. Like before Web2Low, like individuated everybody's kind of media experience and we could silo off into like our own kind of taste and algorithm. Like we all just had to watch the same thing. Yeah.

49:00Yeah. It's the last one that was like that, do you think? The most recent. Like Taylor Swift and Football are the only remnants of the monoculture where everyone is aware of what happens in those two spaces. Yeah. You don't think baseball? Now we're in the past. Now. No. I think baseball is like not, I think it's coming back a little bit. I mean, the World Series, I think, was pretty. No, but I don't think baseball's ratings are like even more, are you a big baseball guy? Yeah. But I know they're getting better for sure, like you said. Yeah. The pitch clocks helped a time. Yeah. Yeah. But you're right. Yeah. I think football is probably, but I feel like maybe more people watch the World Series than. No. Because of Japan, specifically, I do, I've been talking about the Japanese players on here, and I'm a huge, each row guy. I was on here a couple of weeks ago. I said, I think he's the most, I think he has the highest approval rating of any athlete of my lifetime. He just hits him out of the park up in Seattle. They had like a class, like an old-timers home run derby. And he, like my friend was there and he said that he was like ranking balls.

50:00Is it, Jake was telling me about that? Is that the toughest place to hit a homer? And is it? I think there's some stats. I feel like places are tough. They say the water's heavier from the... Yeah. I mean, it's on the Puget Sound. I mean, you couldn't almost get closer to the water. I love the sound. I think it is, and is it like Denver's the easiest place to hit a homer? Yeah, the altitude. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's... Like when I was growing up, Galaraga, Larry Walker, Dante, they were all hitting like 50 bombs. Yeah. I was thinking about how lucky the people in Denver are, their team is like not good, but they can basically go at any time and see other teams hit their biggest home runs ever. Yeah. You're going to have some fun at the game. Like, hey, at least we got this, you know. Were you a Mariner's fan growing up? Yeah, you... That was a 16. That was so fun. You had like Griffey and Jay Buener in those guys. Randy Johnson, I mean... A-Raw. There was so many... Yeah, I remember when A-Raw was there. I remember when he left. I went to the first game. He came back and played against us when he was with Texas. What do you say? People were so angry. Wow. They were throwing the nobleman money.

51:01Like, it was just... Oh, hilarious. Loading in the stadium. Yeah. But yeah, he... That was such a fun time. I remember going and seeing Bo Jackson play. Wow. He came out. He was with the white socks at this point. It was like towards the end of his career. And it was some monumental part of his career. Yeah. Like, there was a record he had broken or something. But he rode out onto the field in a Harley. Really? Yeah. That's... Nothing at all. He wasn't hiding in it. Yeah. He was on it. Yeah. It was like, it wasn't a Trojan Horse situation. Wow. He came out. Well, I mean, I was so... He was my favorite. I read his book. It was called Bo Knows. I read everything. It talks about how he, like, he dunked a rock. Oh my gosh. There it is. He dunked a rock in like a basketball hoop when he was in like seventh grade or something that was in the book. And I just remember being like, what a stud. It's unbelievable. And then I saw Michael Jordan play against the Sonics.

52:01Dude. And that was... You guys had a good Sonics team too. We did it that time. The finals? Dude, what's so crazy is two weeks ago, a week ago, I was flying to North Carolina and I was getting on the plane. And I just last minute my friend, Luke, had given me the Sonics hat and I was like, oh, where, I never wear this and I love it. It's a good hat. I'm walking on the plane. Gary Payton is in first class. Yeah. And he sees me like around the corner and he looks and I see him clock the hat and kind of goes. This guy's going to want to talk to me probably. He was wearing all Oregon State ducks gear. And I walked by him and I just said, like, hey, I'm not going to bother you, but... That's good. I do the same level if I saw Tony Allen. And I'm not even like, I didn't even know I was a Tony Allen fan. And then when I saw him, I was like, I'm the biggest Tony Allen fan in the world. And I was like, hey man, you're like the best defender in my lifetime. And he was just like, thanks. And then he walked up and I was like, I felt good. That's how you do it. I was on the during the fires when the fires were happening here.

53:01I was on staying with some people down on the coast for a week. We were like trying to get away from it. And like Dana Poinish kind of, and I'm on the path in Ranny Johnson is just riding a bike down the path. Sick. And I just put my hand up and he low-fived it. Like he was so high on a bike. And then one time I high-fived BUNER in New York City. And he also took my arm off. I mean, it was a... He's a strong dude. He looks it. Yeah. He's like, if you were like drawing, he looks like he'd be in the movie like Road House or something like that. He was such a badass. Have you seen one? Can't graffiti. Have you ever wondered who's out there making the world go round? It's truckers. Who unites baristas with coffee beans? Truckers. Who unites dogs with their favorite shoe toy? Truckers. That's why progressive offers truckers even more protection with cargo plus coverage to keep truckers moving right along. Quote truck insurance today in as little as eight minutes at progressivecommercial.com. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates

54:03coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. Not yet available in California, New York, and Virginia. Tune in King Griffey talks about J. BUNER and he's like, he's like, one guy likes country, one guy likes hip hop. But if anything ever happened to me, he'd be the one I'd want to watch my kids and then BUNER starts to cry and gives him the finger. Yeah. Have you seen that shit? I watched that all. I remember when Griffey heard his finger, I think it was like, I feel like people talked about it. He was in the shower or something. And he sprained his finger. And it was just such a, and during that time, he went and bought a BMW or his sister or somebody, his niece or something at a dealership that my dad worked with. And I just thought like, it basically at the time I felt like I'd met King Griffey Jr. Because I was through three different people. Yeah. Did Randy Johnson love a mullet when he saw him? He's rocking something. No, no, I don't think he has a mullet anymore. Him and Griffey, both him before Griffey,

55:03takes photos of like the NFL and like Metallica. Wow. And Griffey's now taking photos like real, like. Really? Yeah. Oh, look at that. Cool. That's cool. Isn't that what like my space founder did too? Yeah. He sold my space and he became a photographer. That's cool. Yeah, look at that. I mean, that vest itself, like, Oh, dude, yeah. Do you think he thinks about that bird he killed sometimes? I could have nightmares about it. Probably one of the best things that ever happened to him. He thinks that he's proud of it. Oh, leave a boy. I mean, listen, if you didn't do it on purpose. Yeah. I had a cat one time. I didn't run over a cat. A cat was darting across the street and it hit my hubcap and killed itself. Like it was like the timing of it was just so. I don't mean to laugh. But it hit my hubcap. And I always kind of thought I could relate to Randy

56:04with that situation. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I used to work out this guy, Jim. He was older than us. He became a cop. It didn't work. And he was, he said he got on the freeway and a homeless guy killed himself by jumping in front of his car. Oh, his car. Yeah. Damn. But then this other guy we worked out with, Ted was like, I had that feel. And then Jim was like, honestly, he was in New York. He's like, honestly, pretty rewarding. That's like 60. I was like, what the fuck would that be? For what? It's so good. Yeah. Honestly, I do it again. The cops come there like, all right, who's the drivers? I was me. They're like, all right, get in the trophy. I did. You did good, sir. You're always on behalf of the department. We want to say thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't see him come, but I'm glad it happened. Yeah, I, I, if you did like a speech or something, that would be, that would be nice. Yeah.

57:05Yeah. So you've been on the road with Nate, a bunch, right? Yeah. How's it doing those shows? I mean, those shows are massive, huh? They are. It's pretty fun. I mean, it's really a hit play, hit stop. Yeah. Right. Because you can't like, you can't, you don't know what's happening. Right. You don't, there's like a delay kind of because of where you, where you're located and everything else. Yeah. And so usually my jokes are about a second delayed from me. So I'm saying them and then I'm done and where the laugh normally hits, it hits a second later. And you don't think about it, but it like, it's odd. Yeah. And you're like, in that one second, you have enough time to think they didn't hear it, or it's not going to work. Right. And then it works. And so you're constantly like, and the ones you do it enough, you kind of get used to that, but it's a rhythm too of like waiting for it to go before you say the next thing. Yeah. It's just like artificially built in a little bit of like tape delay in yourself.

58:07Yeah. You kind of have to, you kind of have to just realize you need to keep going at the same speed. Yeah. Even if it sounds like it's delayed a little bit, you need to keep your speed going, to keep your timing going on the delay. So don't wait because there'll be a delay on the next thing. Yeah. You don't like, you can't sit around and wait on it. Oh, that's crazy. That the people are so excited to see Nate, and it's such a big crowd, and they just are just like, it's such a fun experience. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like breaking, he's set the attendance for it. Yeah. Guinness World Record. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's so crazy. I know. I mean, it must be nuts. I like, because I would watch him, he's always been like the funniest dude, but I would watch him at comedy Bang Bang when I first moved up here. And he would like host those shows a lot. And he had great jokes about how you can't retire from stand up. Like, who do you tell? Do you tell Cosby or something? There's really funny bits. But I don't think I would have predicted in that moment that even though I thought he was hilarious, that he was going to be the Guinness World Record holder for most tickets sold in history. Yeah. The one thing I remember that should have been a clue was, because I've known him for so

59:10long, and he's always been, I consider one of my funniest friends on stage. And he didn't want to be a part of the hip comedy scene. Right. He was almost against it, but everyone in the hip comedy scene respected him. The second they saw him perform, they'd be like, yeah, disguised legit, you know? And so when somebody doesn't alter what they do to fit into taste makers, kind of essentially, and they're still liked, it's a good sign that it's going to move forward. It's a great point. Yeah. And the fourth two, I mean, it was never like the caliber of his funny. I was like, oh, he's funny. It was just like, I didn't even know he had that ambition in him, because he was playing like a shlubby character on stage, and which obviously, now that I'm like older, I realize, like, you know, the character you play doesn't have to be totally indicative of the, like, how the wheels turn all the time. But I was just like, I don't think any other industry Nate could have made it because his

1:00:11drive for comedy is so good. And you know, but it's also you get rewarded every time you do it, essentially. Yeah. And so no other job do you get as rewarded. Yeah. So that's quickly you can come up the joke that day and have. But he was just a road dog man, and he was just performing on the road over and over and over, and it's just reward, reward, reward, even if like the tickets are not selling out yet. And you're slowly building this kind of thing, you know? I always thought, because I, you know, I started following him around like, you know, 2013, 2014. I always thought it was like, same to your point, it was, I always loved listening to him because it was very like felt very subtle. And like the way he played his character was very smart. And it was just very appealing. I mean, especially as a comedy fan, where I'm like, oh, the writing's so smart here and so well done. And I just love that character too that he's playing, but he's persona.

1:01:14And the fact that it could translate to such big venues, I think it is so cool. But yeah, it's a similar thing where it's, he's just, and I've heard this about him too, where he never really like, he made the room come to his energy level where he never was like, oh, someone was high energy. I got to bring the energy. It's like, he always kind of like stayed at his. Never. And then they would come to him away. Also it's a guy that's on stage sharing embarrassing moments or sharing embarrassing maybe things like that he doesn't understand. Yeah. In a way that people were afraid to do. Right. And so people hear that and they think, oh, wow, it's so nice. You know, like, yeah. Right, it disarms you a little bit. Yeah, and he's like, he's like, I don't understand how science works. Like if I travel back in his show, I wouldn't be able to like, no, yeah, that's true. Yeah, that was a magician, right? Bill is, yeah. He's on to every now and again. He's brain with him sometimes. Sometimes he'll open. Yeah. And you just put out a special form. I mean, his dad is so it's so everything about Nate's act and his dad is just real

1:02:19as dad. If it is dad is also the sweetest, you know, he's just been doing this fun job his whole life. That's cool. And when you watch him like do tricks on people, it's really fun. You know, magicians though have that way of face to face. They got talking shots. Pro. Yeah. I'm most more than like comedians in a way too. Like if you go to magic castle, you're like, dude, this guy's got like a rap. Like he gets through it fast. He knows how to react to silence. Oh, yeah. It's like, yeah. It's like, it's like going on stage. You know, like a, and some of them can do it with audiences and they have the bigger shows. But some people are just so good at that just face to face kind of. Come on, come on. Hey, should we do some calls? Hey, what is someone did a PR? Here we go. I had that thing, but it's a colon. For what? What? Just an idea. What if you go around to tech people and hit those this idea where you put on a head

1:03:23sect and you see inside a person's rectum? Call it disruption, call it the future. Say it's a different intersection. See the body from the sea to you become self-aware before therapy. I just heard therapy. So he was saying, what if there was a VR camera where you could see inside of someone else's rectum? Oh, I mean, that I'm pretty sure like a live version of it or. Because I think you can just probably look it up and see that. But maybe it's not like a choose your own adventure type rectum search. Maybe that's what he wants. Yeah. Yes, so if it's VR, it wouldn't actually be a real person's rectum. Oh, it's like if you pitch it to tech people. Oh. I guess I'm curious.

1:04:26Would you say tech people are the most unpopular subset of people in the world right now? They get made, yeah, like the tech bro kind of thing. Yeah, I was just at a bar in Austin. Austin's a great deal. Those east side, those east six bars, best bars in America. Oh, yeah, yeah. They're ripping. White horse. That's a coolest place I've been. Everyone's got a great outfit on. Yeah, and Austin's full of them because they've got Google there and they've got. Right. Yeah. But it's like they've become like the catch. It's almost like I think finance is almost an underdog now. Yeah. Yeah, finance, I mean, but isn't that all the same? It is probably in my mind. I don't mean I know it's different, but yeah. It's, I mean, I'm coming from Seattle. I feel like original Microsoft. Well, Microsoft when I was a kid was like that's when it boomed. And that was like everyone working at Microsoft and it just kept growing and growing and it was in the news and you're like, this is a big thing happening in the world and it's happening a mile from my house.

1:05:28You know, like you ever see Bill Gates? Or Bomber any of those guys? I've seen I saw Bomber naked ones. Really? Yeah. Where? In the locker room at a gym. Nice. This is a real story. Yeah. I saw Sean Camsdick. Wow. Wow. These are some really high profile dicks. Yeah. Well, the thing is that so we were members at a place called the pro club, which is right across from where Microsoft was, but we became members when the pro club was a trailer with just like a few workout things in it. It was like 25 bucks a month. And then Microsoft bought it and it became this luxury resort. And it had like an indoor like the Sonic's practice there. Wow. And all the Microsoft people went there and the locker room was just a, if you like dicks, you go in that locker room. Wow. I'm a huge fan. There are guys just waiting to be seen walking around watching ESPN on leather couches, just why? Wow. And that's how I saw Bombers. He was just on a chair. There was no way to not see. Yeah.

1:06:29And he seems comfortable in his own skin. Yeah. I'm sure with that much money, who cares? Was that, uh, do you think that was beneficial for your development as a man? I do. Yeah. Yeah. I think I learned a lot. I think because I peed next to Sean Camp. Uh-huh. Do you have a bigger dicks than him? Yeah. And that's, that's what I thought. Okay. Maybe, maybe things are looking good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shrump. I saw, um, I also did name it. I saw me at Mcmillan's. I don't remember him. Yeah. Of course, he came to college. Yeah. I did his basketball camp. He used to do every summer. The name Mcmillan basketball camp there. Um, Oh, dude. Yeah. Did you went. So when you saw Gary Peyton, did you almost want to be like, Hey man, I never saw him there. But you could have seen a lot of your buddies did. He made his cocks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I would have seen yours. I could have said that. That's the one I wanted though. That was my, what do they call that? You're like, you're unicorn.

1:07:29Yeah. Dude, that, um, if you do a talk show, that could be kind of a, um, something you go back to every episode would be like the time I saw Balmer's dick. It's not time I saw, you know, this guy's dick and how it affected me. Yeah. And, uh, you don't have to like out them or like their size or girth, whatever, but just like the experience. And the thing is, is you can obviously Google dick. Mm-hmm. Um, and you could see multiple pictures. There's huge ones out there, at least 10 or 15 that you can look at immediately. Mm-hmm. And look at it. But it's, it's the in person kind of personal touch to it, you know, where, you know, someone's drying their hair, you know, that, that's the thing is you see like a close up of a dick. You don't know if they're drying their hair or if they're brushing their teeth at that moment. Right. But when you see it in, so close like that, you can tell, you know, what it looks like in that situation. Or what their belly's doing too. Mm-hmm. Like sometimes you'll see kind of like a fupa guy and he's got a long one.

1:08:30Yeah. And it's all kind of jarring to take in at the same time. And you wonder how big it would be if he didn't have the fupa there. If he cut the weight. Yeah. I think they say you get like a quarter of an inch for like every 10 pounds you lose. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think there's probably a place where that stops happening like a certain body fat level. And there's an intervention at some point to be like, listen, you're capable of this. Yeah. You have two extra inches of dent. Are you sure you don't want that? I do. Mm-hmm. You know, I want that for you. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I'm trying to lose weight. That's a good weight loss program. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for telling us all those thoughts. Yeah. That was great. Available dick. Yeah. The dick you have available if you were to lose weight. Yeah. Yeah. Total addressable dick. What's up, Rose? This is Jackie from the Jersey Shore. Thank you. Thanks for all your helpful information on your show. Much of Creech. You know, I've been a chick my whole life, but ever since I started pegging my boyfriend,

1:09:31I've been feeling more like a dude. Mm-hmm. Not like I'm trans or anything. Not even non-binary, but I'm just a lady who really enjoys having a rubber bone or to suck my boyfriend with. Mm-hmm. In fact, anytime my stroke is low, I strap up and instantly feel better. I actually feel like sucking my boyfriend helps to balance out all my womanly hormones that keep me bitching, whining, and stress. And even when I do get stress, I know chill is just a few pumps away. My problem, oh fuck. Listen, here's my real problem. Is I'm thinking that more ladies could regulate, I just thought we'd do this, don't I? Fuck. Does it say aye? You alright? Pound? I think that's a boyfriend coach in her. I think, um, I mean, I knew it was a written deal. Yeah. I mean, to get that information across it, it's nice to write it out.

1:10:31She did a great job. She seems really cool. Yeah, I would say, you know, I don't know what your, your questions, but don't change. Keep doing what you're doing. He's sound awesome. If your boyfriend likes it, I think, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, if he likes it, yeah, I'd be curious to know. If he's doing you a favor. Yeah. I do think we have like a built in judgment when we upset what we think a sexual dynamic is supposed to look like. And I do think it's like a huge amplifier. If you can do something that would be like traditionally shameful. And if you see each other in that context, it actually deepens the relationship because you're like, oh, like you're being vulnerable in front of me. It's almost like telling someone something you're scared of, but it's more visceral because it's physical and it's happening. So yeah, I think I would recommend everybody get pegged, do pegging, and just see what that opens up in you. And there's nothing in any of the traditional J.O. Christian books that even addresses pegging.

1:11:33Right. It's a, I wouldn't call it a loophole, but I'd say it's, it's, you know, yeah, gods, I'm an epitone. He could have called it out if he wanted to. Yeah, and you think they would have brought it up because, right. I don't know if they had rubber back then. So they must have been doing some sort of a bark. Yeah. You know, they do like a silk kind of, yeah, probably like rapist, Dick and silk. Yeah. Ooh, the UTIs must have been crazy back then. Tell me about it. Damn. But yeah, that's cool. She seems cool. I'd really like to have her to keep calling in and leaving more messaging. No, I mean, it was a great cause. Probably one of my favorite calls in the past, like, yeah, in a while. She crushed. It's Chad and JT. A long time listener, first time caller from the Northeast here. I'm going to Hawaii and I'm looking for some rex. I'm going to Big Island, the Wahoo North Shore, Waikigee, and then Kauai.

1:12:37So looking for like, okay, a sigh, all that good stuff. Love the pod. Shout out to Stoker's. Shout out to my brother Jack. You've been to the target in Maui? No. How is it? I would say go there first. Yeah, I'm going for my honeymoon next month. So yeah, I'm going to hit that. Yeah, it's all the same stuff you get here. And it just kind of makes you feel at home, you know? Oh, interesting. Did they have poke? I'm sure they do. They have muscle milk? Yeah, they do. I know that for a fact. That's nice. They got syruvy. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, then you're in you, if you want to keep that tan, I would be using that on the way. You're sure? Yeah. All right. Sounds sick. I got some good, uh, Waikigee, he's going to a Wahoo, right? Yeah. Hellenous? Or no, he's going to the big island. Oh, he's not going to. Oh, they have a target.

1:13:39They have a target? Yeah. Yeah, dude, go to target. Just go target. Damn. Yeah, target's the place. I find it interesting. They asked us for Rex because we live in California. Yeah. Um, so I, I, it's cool that we give off that vibe that we're on the big island, but. I've been to the big island. Me too. Nice. I'm going to the corner and a cruise. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Have you, where are you going? What you said? Uh, Maui, uh, uh, uh, Capelua. Nice. Near, uh, near Honolulu Bay and windmills and, uh, Lahaina. You're going to surf? Yes, surfing and surf, Honolulu Bay. Windmills is a fun laugh that Clay Marzo serves. Are you, are you goofy? I'm goofy. Yeah. You surf? I'm trying. Yeah, we should go out. I'm stronger and then I, I haven't and I'm now. I mean, a lot. Do you surf with Auckland? I've never gone out with Auckland though. Did we all go out?

1:14:39Get your Prano in there? Yeah, I need to, I need to kind of re, re up. Yeah, yeah. Um, I meant, I was at Alporto yesterday. Oh, nice. Yeah. It was crowded though. Have you seen pack? I saw his bus. I didn't see him though. I saw a clips of Huntington yesterday and it was kind of wild. Dude, and Newport, uh, the River Jetties is going off. Is it really spoken? Yeah, I think I think there's a tropical storm coming. There's going to be like 20 to 25 foot waves at the edge. It's El Nino, right? Yeah, super El Nino. This would be bigger than 94 El Nino. Yeah, it's a super big. The wedge is that one that crashes basically like it on the, like, cyclops way. That is so scary. Yeah, it's, you know, it's, you gotta have big balls to go out there. I bend to that beach and then I saw this. There's like an old man just like walking towards the water and like all these people started running like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you can't just go way into this water. No, no, no, no, you had to wedge it. Do you think he was trying to like, was that he'd have a board or anything? He was just going. Do you think it was like his cyanara?

1:15:41Oh, it was like the cat and the hub cat. Mm hmm. Wait a bring that back. Yeah, good. Did call back for the end. Oh, dude, thank you so much for coming on. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah, it was really fun. Yeah. I'm taping my stand up special September 17th in Chicago. Oh, hell yeah. And fortunately, there are still some tickets available. Were you recording it? The Dan. Oh, nice. Two shows. First shows looking good. There's still some tickets on second show. I would love that people come out to that. How good. Guys, head out there. Chicago's great. What are the best comedy towns? It's so sick. Yeah, I love it there. And then I just Nick Thune.com is in Arbis.com. But for tour dates, Nick Thune.com. Nice. Dude, good promo. My friends, my friends 14 year old son built this site for me. Did you get it? Did it have like an 80s, 90s vibe?

1:16:44I know, I told him. I was like, just do something super simple, man. And I, I mean, his first job he ever had and I go, and yeah, I just invoice me and his mom's image he walked in on him like Googling invoice. Yeah. Go, see. Let's go, see. Go, see. Got it, yeah, see.