E369 Nick Swardson
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1 hour and 26 minutes
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190.75044
Hate Speech Sentences
117
Summary
Actor and comedian Brian Callen Swartzen joins us on the pod to talk about his love of the Minnesota Vikings and his love for the Chicago Blackhawks. We also discuss a variety of other topics such as his favorite foods, his favorite sports teams, and how he feels about his ass.
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man and he's got that that thing in him he's got that spunk in him you know he's a real spunk dragon
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if you see him if you beat him spunk would come out that's who he is he's a movie actor and he's a
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comedian you know him from a lot of the greats and um we're here today to get to spend time with him
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we're blessed by this minnesota vikings fan my friend comedian nick swartzen
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for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind shine that light on me
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no i wanted to just quickly say brian callen fucking eat me out
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eat me out brian callen where are the all right that's what i wanted to just kick off
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whoo yeah that's a starter meal huh that's a that's a kick off that's a eat me out off that's a
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slapitizer bro and would he do it though i mean is he that snacky guy i don't know if he would seem
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like a real snacker to me i feel like he would make people do that to him yeah or i'm generous with
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my a noose my fucking anal tunnel oh yeah it's just you know people can just sign up there's a
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sign-up sheet outside my building really yeah anybody that's walking by just jot it down get in
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there damn do you wish you had do you ever wish that your anus was bigger or do you wish it was
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smaller um i've thought about that every day of my life when i wake up yeah i just i touch it and
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i'm like man it's still kind of medium but i think tighter you know what i mean just for
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um a lot of my friends that are you know big finger yeah but um yeah you i mean but yeah it's
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how you could you could steal somebody's ring you know like they do one um member on uh i think
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robin hood when he kisses the um the captain's hand oh yeah um yeah he was fucking throbbing
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as hard as a rock no i don't want my asshole to be too loose like i want to feel my shits you know
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what i mean i don't want to just fall out yeah just go a wall yeah like somebody just throwing
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them on your doorstep like an amazon guy yeah yeah i don't want him just fucking swan diving when i
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take a shit and like clean landing i wanted to i want to feel it yeah oh wow huh yeah damn you're
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like a real outdoorsman yeah i'm very thirsty yeah you're very old school yeah if i can i'll
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take a shit anywhere i think in the future people shitting will be a thing of the past actually
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defecating as a human like if you see somebody go in a room by themselves to have
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special desecration or whatever it's called desecration desecration leave their body
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defecation isn't it defecation yeah yeah desecration i think is um when you put your
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turtleneck on backwards oh damn yeah i think that's what it is um but damn dog no the futures is
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going to be like eye toilets or something or it's like apple will drop like yeah some new thing
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yeah i wonder what's going to happen it's exciting to think about is it yeah yeah i hope apple's
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listening if steve jobs's ghost is here we got to get out a fucking ouija board wake that
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motherfucker up dude where's your eye toilet you fucking dead guy you just press a button and the
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meal leaves your stomach yeah you put your phone like just put it right against your stomach and it
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just fucking absorbs it and then it sends it right to brendan schaub's mouth it just appears
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brendan schaub will be like eating at some fucking stupid restaurant like he and then just shit just
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fills his mouth like a fucking italian chipmunk just harboring nuts for the winter oh and he gets back
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in his leopard skin miata that he bought for eight million dollars because he didn't doesn't know how
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to buy things when you child when you every time you floor it in there you can hear an endangered
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species die i feel like you can hear many special animals kill themselves yeah dude it runs on ebola
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eboli auto that's the new fucking car brendan drives um no but i think in the future you everyone
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will wear like a colostomy bag you'll just empty it i think actually having to go to a room to like
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because it's crazy when you think about it i'm going to go off to a private room
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and get like uh liquids or solids out of my body it almost seems like you're like a bad magician
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right yeah yeah but it's a trick that everybody knows and the trick smells yeah like if you pull
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a rabbit out of a hat doesn't smell unless the rabbit's dead yeah yeah that's true
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that makes sense bad magic and it's just some guys pulling dead rabbits out of a hat
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how is that not a show there's every other fucking show on the air it's so stupid i was like
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quarantining and shit back in the day i can't even say that which is weird so yeah you left out of
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columbus and what i left out of columbus and i didn't know it was happening like everybody else i
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was like what is happening and uh you know people were just it was up in the air and then uh i um
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went and just they're like you gotta quarantine so i came back to la and got my shit and then i went back
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to minnesota where i'm from yeah and quarantined in my sister's basement which was a house that i i
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bought her so your basement my basement she i remind her of that every time i step foot in that
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fucking place anyway i'll digress on that but it was just weird because then it was like there were
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murder hornets and like all this weird shit kept dropping and then i love that the pentagon
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revealed that they're aliens they're like no there's proof there's aliens people like yeah
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yeah cool anyway what's going on with this disease like nobody cared about anything yeah they drop
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murder hornets on us i don't even know what the fuck that is yeah i feel like they kind of like it
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was a time where like they're gonna slip other things out while people are heavily yeah totally
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they're like oh they're looking that way dude it's there's a lot of like distraction going on
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well that comes to my point so i was in quarantine and uh i got in minnesota and what are you doing
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there are you working during the day are you doing anything are you doing email i use my fucking mind
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okay so i just sat there and i read books and i caught up on netflix shows and i journaled and i
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caught up with a lot of friends and i did some podcasts and shit or like phoners and stuff but um i just
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sat there and like really thought about my life and uh you know what i wanted to accomplish in my next
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chapter you know what i mean yeah so i didn't drink or anything i was fucking sober guy dude wow
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yeah i didn't fucking you were living clean out there now were you doing a gym were you elliptical
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in or anything no i just did push-ups it was like a kind of a it was like uh were you incarcerated
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it's not like you're incarcerated yeah it was a prison with netflix your sister's upstairs
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she's upstairs and my nieces and nephews and stuff and i was like just don't even
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don't come in this sanctuary yeah yeah and i took shits i'm not gonna lie yeah and
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uh the dog would run in and he would watch me poop and then he would be like all right i'm
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this is this is like the third time in like half hour you're like he's like rerun yeah and so then i
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got a message from expedia and they were like are you ready for your trip to key west i had fucking
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forgot that i booked a trip to key west that december before covet or anything i was like oh i've
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always wanted to go to key west yeah and just kick it you know i've read hemingway i like the
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show bloodline so i went to key west florida i left there and then i went to south carolina and hung
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out with danny mcbride for like oh yeah yeah i love danny i almost moved there he's like you gotta
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move here dude yeah and i almost did but i went down to key west and uh i was gonna go back up to
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south carolina but i stayed in key west i was supposed to be there for 10 days i stayed for
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a year and a half in fucking key west i was there a year and a half that's not a joke and what did you
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start like a not a farm but did you do like a um job or something did you get hired anywhere nope
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what i just tuned out i was just everything was so fucking bonkers in 2020 that i was just over it
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dude so i just stayed down there and it was so removed from everything like nobody gave a fuck
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i had no idea what day it was after a while when i just stayed i just kicked it were you partying
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were you sailing were you i partied initially and sailed initially yeah and then i just
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fucking had a couple fucking pops and then i would just listen to the song sailing
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yeah by christopher cross and that was a lot easier sailing takes me away and suck my own
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but uh no but it was awesome though like nobody was on twitter nobody was like yeah everybody was
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just like island life and i just fell in love with it and was it like um were you doing um any
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employment at all or you just i didn't do shit i did nothing did you try to get a job did you fill
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i was just over it i thought about some shit and i was like planning on coming home like what like
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real estate or what were you considering no i was gonna like shave my pubes and just make dream
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catchers or some shit like that's what key west is like like after a year i didn't even own clothes
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i just wore like butterflies is there government down there i feel like it's just like basically
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people down there just like obviously these people hate native americans and everybody because
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they're they're trying to get out of america is a lot of cubans is a latino there what is it it's
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kind of everything i mean it's local it's uh i mean it's you know it's a lot of tourists it's a big
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tourist spot you know so it's a lot of people driving from florida and there's a lot of fishing
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there's a lot of fishing and there's a lot of like snowbirds but it's funny because when i landed my
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buddy picked me up and he goes welcome to the island of misfit toys and i go what does that mean he
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goes you'll see and i didn't know what that meant and then after a little bit i was like oh yeah
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like everybody's just going rogue dude like everyone's got a story everybody that i met was
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like yeah i came down here like on a connection with a flight and then i just stayed for like 20
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years like it's just the best like relief yeah i was on the airline they lost my family like the
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airline lost your family yeah i was flying over key west and then i decided fuck i'm just gonna
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parachute out of this shit and just open the door but it was awesome it was just it was fucking
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crazy i can't believe i was there that long wow it was so fun and i met the coolest people all the
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locals are great really yeah now is there a lot of because you seem like a kind of place where people
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are sneaking out they're getting like a lot of times you see on american greed the guy ends up down
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in key west is there like a lot of hidden like people that could have been doing murders or anything
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like that down there i feel like it's a lot of like kind of like you'll never catch me type of
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people i mean you know i didn't i wasn't like a part of that scene but i mean it exists it's like
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the show bloodline have you seen that i saw half the first episode the first season is fucking dope
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it is but it's a lot of hiding bodies i didn't see that i mean i hid a lot of big garbage bags that
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were really heavy but i didn't look inside yeah so it could have been i'm just gonna say it was
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a bunch of um iguanas that's how i'm gonna visualize did you see like um that speak english
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and yell help did you feel did you feel i feel like it's a lot of people wearing eye patches and
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a lot of people like all right if you knew what happened you know you'd be fine lad you couldn't
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your mother was a r you know i feel like it's like a lot of like there is that like there's
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like those bars yeah then there's like heavy tourist bars and then there was uh is there a
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margaritaville um yeah i'm almost sure there was i never went to it they have like the margaritaville
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like the fat tuesdays is there a chico's is that fat tuesdays what's the one that's like the big
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and tall clothing store obese ricks obese ricks yeah no um i don't know yeah yeah big thick ricks
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hey welcome to thick ricks the guy's just talking he's like a mr potato heavy on the potato yeah
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mr potato hey do you mind just pouring some ketchup on my body they don't know they don't have cologne
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they just have gravy they just fucking yeah oh what are you wearing uh that's uh sausage yeah
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that's um stouffer's new cologne yeah why not oh damn no but it's one of those places tyson does a
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deodorant oh my god that's amazing oh my god these condoms have real sheepskin in them
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yeah it's chewy oh man oh no the lamb here is great oh my god this shirt has chocolate chips on
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it um yeah but it's one of those places where the dive bars like i just didn't really go to them
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because it's kind of like you said it's one of those things where i was told this where you walk
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in and they're like who are you like eye patch fucking eye patchies yeah some guy takes his eye
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out of his mouth because it's wet it's just gotten wet enough to put back in socket yeah it makes it
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sound like because it's just been sweating but yeah but there's a lot of great bars sandbar is
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awesome it's like the sports bar there i was there a lot and uh it's just cool man did you think you
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were missing out on the world did you feel no i was a big i don't know anybody else that just kind
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of went to a place and was like this is what i'm gonna do yeah i mean i don't know who else did i
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mean i was there just chilling but it was perfect because every time i would look at my phone or look
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at twitter it was just there was always something fucking bonkers happening like no day was chill
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and it would like stress me out and i'm like oh god yeah so then i was like get me the fuck out of
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here were people down there like in were they uh by is it a lot of people trying to escape the
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pandemic was it people believing the pandemic was it a lot of like deniers or was it just
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what was what was the vibe down there it was a lot of you know it's a lot of locals and it's a lot of
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people that you know there were people that kind of believed it and kind of were you know not believed
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it but like we're like oh yeah no like you got to be careful right i mean nobody was like reckless
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you know nobody was walking around sneezing into a fucking megaphone yeah but um i don't even know
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sneezing straight into a baby's ass yeah get that baby butt sneezing jefferson but uh yeah no it was
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you're sneezing him and his arms go like this yeah boink and he just cries blood out of his ears
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no uh no it was it was chill but like you know there was you know they took your temperature and
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people wore masks and but a lot of people came to key west to like get away from the masks and i hear
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there's a lot of like risque sex parties and stuff down there did you see any i didn't see i'd heard
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stuff that's kind of one reason why i was intrigued i'm not i'm not going to a sex party yeah because
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every party i go to is a sex party no um like i just i hear it's like a real semeny mardi gras down
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there you know like that's kind of what you hear there are semen fights those break out at happy
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hour yeah so it's just you know a lot of fucking spiderwebs i'm looking at new york
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but no it wasn't as wild but also this is post-covid so pre-covid i heard it was a lot
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crazier they have a thing called fantasy fest and they have stuff like that where they're like dude
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it's there's no rules it's just completely insane and it's fantasy fest is it a gay festival because
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it's because it's also no it's like anything it's a it's a lot of like swingers like that was kind
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of a vibe that i got it's a lot of people that are like down like married couples from ohio that
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came down for a weekend oh they wheel in that brother just now they're wearing toilet seats and
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they have all they always have some brother shows up in a tony gwen jersey and you're like oh this dude
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yeah this dude's getting on base and then they're like is that minute ball and it just might be
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best in peace to both those guys they've passed have they yeah oh yeah at fantasy fest
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they started coming all their organs out because they were fucking so much
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blip blip that's my spleen that's my spleen yeah sir you're an organ donor thank you you donated to my
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butt bank oh yeah um but yeah it was great man and then i came back it like kind of changed my whole
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view of everything so i came back briefly to los angeles for a couple weeks to shoot uh commercial
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and uh just makes it a little for what is it for boston market it was for wendy's uh-uh yeah it was like
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um just only online and then i went back to my place in la and i got a condo it's nice you know
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it's chill and i looked at all my stuff i'm like why do i have all this stuff i don't need this shit
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and i fucking got rid of like so much of my clothes my shoes i got rid of my like i had a rolex i had a
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diamond chain i got rid of all of it all of it and i was just like i don't need it and that's what was
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cool about key west is like i was there for that long and i had maybe eight shirts two pairs of
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shorts flip flops and a pair of shoes damn and i was happy as fuck dude i was like why do i don't
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need all this shit you know what i mean it was really cool and it really like made me realize
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how much when you just have so much shit i got rid of my car five years ago yeah and uh like the more
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stuff you have i mean i live in a neighborhood where i can walk everywhere but you know i just got rid
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of shit and it was just i donated it you know what i mean and it felt cathartic you're saying
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it was cathartic and it's like if you if you're out there and you're listening yeah like just look
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around your you know where you live and just go like do i need this so need this there was so much
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backup blender you don't need that yeah you don't need a fucking fourth fax machine yeah you have 40
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bath towels yeah yeah not too much you have one body yeah you have one body yeah and i mean people
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on qs would be like oh yeah dude you're still here that's dope and i go yeah and they're like
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dude do you need another shirt i'm like yeah and they're like all right and we would like barter
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i'm like here here's my spleen and i'd fucking jerk a spleen into their fucking grill
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but uh yeah it was just it was it just really humming bats down there is it the kind of place
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where you're jerking off or you save that more for the mainland what's going on down there be honest
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with me with what because if i get to island if i go out to an island dude i feel like the first
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thing i want to do when i get there is spray out you know just unleash the seed bust 100 son yeah i
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mean i just it's like it's almost like doing it's like your own little christopher columbus it's your
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own little whatever that place is called chesapeake or whatever where'd they land at
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plymouth rock plymouth rock dude yeah no i mean it was i played with my jennies a couple times i
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pretended like my my balls were like an island and then my dick was like a palm tree so i'll just
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squeeze it and then make the tree unleash a fucking blizzard but yeah i know i fucking touched my jens
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was it um it was just like whatever the fuck you want to do it's like the movie office space which is
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great if you haven't seen it watch it but there's a scene where peter um played by ron livingston gets
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hypnotized he's like a nine to five corporate yeah i remember that and um nine to five dude and he gets
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hypnotized and he goes into his zone and has this clarity oh damn and he just the more he doesn't give
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a fuck the more things happen to him that are good and there's a scene where his buddy goes hey man
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peter what's going on with you and peter just goes have you ever done nothing it's so much better than
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you think it is and that's kind of how i was because i was you know i i started comedy when i
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was 19 and i was immediately on tv and toured my whole life and i'm 45 and i was filming and touring
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and filming and touring and i never just stopped and like took a breath because everywhere i went i would
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do shows so i was always kind of it's a little stressful you know so it just was constant so
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when i got there i think that's why i stayed so long because as i was just like oh i've never just
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been like i don't want to go through my emails i don't want to check twitter i don't want to go i
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were on facebook i don't want to do this i just want to like wake up wave to the fucking sun
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go get a fucking cocktail go to the fucking beach it's right there it was just so awesome and the people
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because it is a real because i i i get afraid to take a break sometimes you know well i mean i learned
00:26:02.680
that i to decompress and to like take care of myself and uh also just just you know i mean like
00:26:10.660
again being 45 you know the world just changed so much like we grew up without social media and grew
00:26:15.440
up without all this shit and all this stuff and like i said like 2020 2021 we're just so it's just
00:26:22.200
still insane but it's like it was just system overload essentially yeah so i was like when i
00:26:27.740
was quarantined and i was stone sober i was like oh i i want to go back to like reading and like
00:26:34.260
just hanging out with like being with myself you know and not having stimulus and all these people
00:26:39.900
and all this bullshit would you read you read books zines what were you reading i read fucking zines
00:26:44.780
did you read books yeah i read yeah i can read i think i used to read outdoor american can you pull
00:26:51.380
that up colin don't pull it up unlike callin and shop i can read there you go outdoor america right
00:26:58.740
there budget set up for fall walleye go back to that go back to the dime with the walleye huh
00:27:09.740
dude look at you you want to catch your brown eye hey here we go huh
00:27:35.080
yeah i went out like everybody there has a boat
00:27:37.340
it's like you want to go on the boat and i love the ocean i love the water it's just that to me is really cathartic
00:27:41.960
do you jump in the water when you get out there you stay in the boat
00:27:49.620
it's a trip dude so you go out like way out and it's still walkable
00:42:54.880
And Norm's like, yeah, I thought there was a gun.
00:43:01.940
And the guy walked past him as a security guard.
00:43:08.740
He didn't have a gun, but he just looked like somebody that would have a gun.
00:43:14.820
It was just not a good joke on my part, especially poor Norm.
00:43:25.480
You know, we never, like, were on stage together, like fucking Bonnie and Clyde or whoever.
00:43:31.340
Dude, I was at, I don't think it's, is it Bonnie and Clyde?
00:43:43.460
Bro, he had, I don't know if he eats at, like, a trough or something.
00:43:56.560
And he's a parking attendant, but his shirt says security.
00:44:29.620
Damn, I got my baby a damn freaking scaleless dilla, baby.
00:44:47.940
If I'm looking at scaleless dilla, son, it's on, baby.
00:44:53.900
I will fucking eat a pecan out of my cousin's ass, baby.
00:45:03.040
You think you could do a good Elvis Presley impersonation?
00:45:07.900
I don't know if I would ever use it on anything.
00:45:42.060
That was Benedict Cumberbatch doing Elvis Presley dating Steven Seagal.
00:45:55.020
No, so I went to, I had to go to this casino one time with Norm, right?
00:46:04.880
Adam Eget was there, and I somehow got booked into feature, right?
00:46:10.680
I felt like Norm was on pills, or he was a little bit lit.
00:46:23.280
He could have just been having a, this was like.
00:46:29.820
So, but this is when I was alive, and, you know, in my past.
00:46:32.920
So what happened was, I go on stage, and I ran the light, right?
00:46:40.460
And it was literally in a barn, like, attached to a casino.
00:46:43.460
Like, the place where you could hear, like, there were, like, live births.
00:46:58.460
There was nobody catching these things that were being born, you know?
00:47:23.140
So, anyway, he goes out there, and he is, like, you can barely even hear him.
00:47:32.300
So, anyway, the next day, we're all downstairs.
00:47:43.420
Jerry Mathers is Beaver from Leave It to Beaver.
00:47:47.400
Also, that's a real show for all the kids out there.
00:48:17.120
Whoever the teacher was, he was always at odds with, you know?
00:48:35.700
I bought an autographed picture of him when I was a kid.
00:48:39.960
I had a Jerry Mathers autographed picture on my wall at home.
00:48:43.420
Because his name was Theodore and my name Theodore.
00:48:56.040
He had his picture on, fucking thrown on your fucking eggnog on his face.
00:49:02.640
He goes, I used to get some pussy in Santa Monica.
00:49:11.460
You know, I'm still excited that it's him, but I'm a little shook.
00:49:14.220
But, anyway, in the morning, Norm's downstairs.
00:49:16.180
We'll have to play in this poker tournament that's part of the weekend deal, the package.
00:49:20.960
And Norm's like, man, a lot of hot chicks here, huh?
00:49:23.280
And I'm looking around, and it's like, nobody's hot in this area, right?
00:49:29.440
If somebody here were hot, you would know about it immediately.
00:49:42.200
Yeah, if a decent strand of genes passed through this town, the fucking fire alarms would go off, right?
00:49:51.520
They would be up from the news to a milk carton in, like, a week.
00:49:54.620
There has not been a unique strand of GTAC to roll through this area in fucking...
00:50:01.960
So, Norm was definitely on pills, if he was, like, looking around, like, ah, there's some asymptotail here.
00:50:23.600
He, like, baited me into believing that he was...
00:50:32.960
I mean, I was one of his good friends for a long time.
00:50:39.760
I could kind of gauge, but sometimes I was, like, what is he saying?
00:51:05.200
He always had so many gay jokes, but I never knew him to be gay or anything.
00:51:17.200
And he goes, yeah, it's not a memoir, but, uh...
00:51:43.580
But he goes, you know how deeply closeted means the guy who's gay, but he's so gay,
00:51:55.440
Again, I fucking paraphrased it, but it's on YouTube.
00:52:02.060
Yeah, I watched one of his clips and he was on, I think, The View.
00:52:10.340
The show's, like, ultra-liberal, and he's just trying to be just a realist, like...
00:52:15.900
And they're like, you'll never be back on this show.
00:52:20.840
And he wouldn't because he wasn't, like, just kind of conforming to whatever, like...
00:52:31.160
I can see him doing it, like, if they offered it to him, but I can't...
00:52:36.340
The Democrats don't steal the election from the winner, you know, but...
00:52:48.300
He's a good man, decent, you know, none of this.
00:52:52.080
He's not a liar or a crook murderer or anything like that, so it would be good to get the...
00:53:00.940
See, I think we should get the homicide out of the White House and get, like, a fresh start,
00:53:08.760
I think we should just go on to the next question.
00:53:14.320
Yeah, you know, we're not allowed to put out those accusations without...
00:53:25.720
Oh, it's not mine either, and I'm being very nice, okay?
00:53:35.800
I don't want to get into this, and I don't want to hear it, and this is not the place to make those accusations.
00:53:48.480
But you have been properly chastised by Barbara, so I'm not going to ask the next question.
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They don't even want to talk about the fact that maybe the guy murdered somebody.
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I was driving with a friend of mine and the traffic was all backed up, right?
00:57:02.760
I just go to the outside area where it's not a street, you know?
00:57:10.220
And my friend's like, I just think that he's a comedian.
00:57:13.480
This guy, John Christen, he's like, I think that's just what comedians do.
00:57:17.140
He's like, I think you just see, you don't want to do whatever the conformity is, you
00:57:23.920
I mean, I think that's initially like how, how it, um, the genesis of comedy is going
00:57:30.560
Like when I was in school, when I was a kid, I just would go rogue to make people laugh,
00:57:37.340
So it, you're going against the grain and authority in that sense.
00:57:41.040
And some, you know, I think a lot of comedians, even if they don't do it on stage, they, you
00:57:48.620
And that's when I was in Key West again, for a year and a half, people were like, like
00:57:54.080
I'm of the ilk of like, if somebody tells me I can't do something, I'll be like, fuck
00:57:59.880
So when people are like, well, you can't just stay in Key West.
00:58:02.300
And I go, yeah, I can do whatever the fuck I want.
00:58:05.480
And I'm like, you know, you're making it way worse when you keep telling me that I can't
00:58:10.720
And I just, my family and my friends are like, so I mean, I don't understand.
00:58:24.700
Do you, uh, do you, do you think you'll retire there?
00:58:37.520
Cause like after a while, you know, at first people like Nick Swartzen, the fuck are you
00:58:41.740
And there was a bar and they had like a celebrity, like wall of fame.
00:58:46.100
And they had pictures of people who had been there.
00:58:48.000
And I was like, oh, I've been in Key West for a while.
00:58:51.140
And I go, Hey, do you want, do you want my picture?
00:58:58.460
Like, we don't look at you like a actor, comedian.
00:59:02.680
And he goes, everybody kind of thinks that on the island.
00:59:08.740
And like, I'd walk down the street and people be like, Hey, Nick.
00:59:18.760
So you go to like a bar and there'd be like seven dogs.
00:59:21.740
And if you can't even talk to anybody or if somebody's just, you can't, somebody's just
00:59:25.220
impossible to talk to you, just start petting stuff.
00:59:28.480
I knew people's dogs' names more than their names, which is weird.
00:59:35.520
I feel like it's just, I heard also there's no beach there.
00:59:46.740
How do you be Key West and not have a beach, though?
00:59:53.300
I'm like, where the fuck, like you can make things in the beach?
01:00:00.000
Ready to see some fucking hips slam against each other.
01:00:04.520
I showed up and I'm like, where's that fucking, where are them fucking pussy rafts?
01:00:15.020
Just fucking shoot it up and everybody gathers on the fucking beach.
01:00:21.300
But no, it's a lot about going out on the boat.
01:00:24.920
And you go out to sandbars and there's beaches out there.
01:00:29.840
Everybody's got a boat and they got a golf cart until you travel by golf cart.
01:00:43.300
One of my sisters did drugs one time and climbed up to a nudist colony on accident.
01:01:13.200
And next thing you know, we had to have lunch at that nudist colony.
01:01:15.880
Apparently, they got to like some place where they had like some nudes up there.
01:01:21.980
Or like at a flat area that's along, like by a mountain.
01:01:45.140
Hopefully, she had that little front skunk out.
01:01:57.180
You're the one who's trying to lead the country to an island that's not even an island.
01:02:02.980
And it is an island, but they built a bridge so people from Miami can fucking OD.
01:02:12.540
You can't get there, bro, unless you meet a man who fucking runs a smoothie business and
01:02:34.320
See, I'm gone two years, and now I'm not in demand anymore.
01:02:41.680
Theo, Nick, to the power of two, I just wanted to ask you guys, what was the most influential
01:02:47.180
sports moment you guys have seen either live or on television that really got you up out
01:02:55.920
For me, it was the Seattle Seahawks beating the Packers in the NFC Championship in, like,
01:03:04.180
But they don't win anymore, so it's kind of hard to-
01:03:07.080
I got a little chatty at the end, but seemed like a nice guy.
01:03:12.380
Kyle's the dude that's going to, like, wait, no, is his name Kyle?
01:03:16.580
That guy, it seems like the dude who's like, when you're too drunk at the party, he's like,
01:03:29.920
He's the guy who would get murdered by somebody for being a nice guy, you know?
01:03:34.960
Yeah, he's the guy that, like, oh, that guy's got a flat tire, and then they pull
01:03:38.740
over to help him, and then the tire iron just goes-
01:03:45.940
Next thing you know, you got a flat heart, bro.
01:04:11.220
Oh, to answer your question, the last time I lost my mind, I was in Denver when I was
01:04:16.940
supposed to do those shows, and I was at the bar at the hotel, and I'm watching the Vikings
01:04:25.680
And they fucking did that crazy catch, Casey Keenum to Stefan Diggs.
01:04:32.380
And the bar was full, and nobody's watching the game because it's Denver.
01:04:42.200
I just started screaming, and I fell down on my knees, and I put my hand over my head.
01:04:49.620
And then everybody thought that I was having a problem, like a heart attack or an aneurysm.
01:05:00.220
And then the bartender, who I know, I've stayed there for fucking ever.
01:05:05.300
They just scored like a crazy fucking play, like all time insane.
01:05:37.100
My other favorite was against the Saints, and Kyle Rudolph called it a touchdown.
01:05:53.240
And then the Vikings blow it so it all evens up.
01:06:00.260
That was one of the worst moments ever as a Saints fan, for sure.
01:06:07.100
For like, it was literally, I think, three and a half minutes left.
01:06:09.280
And I stopped the game because I had to do my podcast because I had to get it out for the next day.
01:06:14.040
So towards the end of the, I figured I'm just going to watch the end of the game when I get done.
01:06:33.260
He's like, man, you're just, you're not going to believe this.
01:06:37.000
And we might even be able to, maybe we can put the clip in.
01:06:43.200
And the angle the defensive guys had, it just, and we lost the game.
01:06:46.720
And I'm like, how did we fucking, it was impossible.
01:06:50.800
And you went to your DVR and we're like, hello, dark.
01:07:05.500
He just tried to do like a little, I think it's called a falcon crest.
01:07:17.800
I was there when Kobe scored 81 points, I remember.
01:07:22.980
That's the only Laker game I've ever been to, actually.
01:07:27.400
You know, Sandler's making a movie about Sean Payton.
01:07:35.380
You should have played Sean Payton's wife or something.
01:07:45.440
Drool Breeze if I'd have been in a freaking wheelchair.
01:07:52.260
Say if Drew Breeze got hit by like a car or something.
01:07:57.260
So you're just going to change the whole, like, storyline?
01:08:02.440
I mean, he's like, they want him to play, but he can't, you know?
01:08:08.980
He's like the Stephen Hawking of footballers, kind of.
01:08:17.400
And he just has, like, a t-shirt cannon instead of, like, an arm.
01:08:41.160
It's like, I like to do stuff that's in my control, you know?
01:08:47.120
Everybody's just been telling me, they're like, why don't you do one?
01:08:49.540
And I'm like, I don't know, because it's hard doing the road and filming,
01:08:55.100
Did you get plastic surgery while you were down there?
01:09:17.960
Oh, you mean you get a, you get a, you got this sexual reconstructive surgery?
01:09:26.720
So, if there's somebody's a robot near me, my eyes go right on their dick.
01:09:35.340
Do you think it will still have comedy in the future, Nick?
01:09:38.120
Do you think that this is something that's going to be around for a while?
01:09:52.200
What prompted do you think comedy will be around in the future?
01:10:02.060
Well, they can, they have so much, they can create everything now.
01:10:07.220
So, it's like at a certain point, you're still going to need people when they can just create
01:10:15.440
Well, like, they're just starting to create, like...
01:10:17.700
So, anyway, this comedian that passed away, Matt Bilan, Bilan, Bilan, Bilan, maybe, Bilan?
01:10:26.060
I looked the other day, I went on Facebook, I put Matt Bilan death, right?
01:10:30.180
Because I was just trying to find out what had happened to him.
01:10:33.680
And there were all these articles that were written, but they were written by bots.
01:10:39.340
Now, like, because some of it didn't make sense.
01:10:41.580
It would have, like, some information and then, like, an ad for, like, Zales, like, written
01:10:49.280
But it's, like, five of the six things I even found about him passing away were written
01:10:56.900
Why don't you just call somebody that's a comic?
01:11:01.740
But it's just interesting that, like, bots are writing articles now.
01:11:08.060
And some of the articles, they, it was, you got the, you under, you know, it was information
01:11:19.360
But that's, like, the thing about Instagram, too, is, like, I would meet people or friends
01:11:24.220
of mine that are, like, whatever, personalities.
01:11:33.620
I didn't know they were fucking crushing it that hard.
01:11:40.920
I'm like, they would be like, hey, awesome picture.
01:11:47.860
And all these, like, comments where I'm like, who the fuck is this?
01:12:07.260
That would be amazing if there was, like, a system that would sell you, like, bot comments,
01:12:11.660
but it was just they could say whatever they want.
01:12:17.840
What do you think comedy will be like in the future?
01:12:28.900
Because there's nothing like seeing a live show.
01:12:32.020
When you see a comic live, you know, you don't know what's going to happen.
01:12:38.280
But what about all those people that died at that one event recently?
01:12:49.420
I saw a video of, like, that soccer match in England.
01:12:55.540
And it was a fucking mob pushing against the gate.
01:12:58.200
And it was, like, a fucking, almost like a cheese grater.
01:13:07.360
That's why, like, I don't want to have kids, dude.
01:13:09.340
I don't want to send them off to a fucking concert.
01:13:25.040
It was at a small club, a Prince's Club called First Avenue.
01:13:28.800
I mean, it's not small, but it's, like, you know, 300, 400 people.
01:13:32.240
And their new album, The Bunkers, just came up.
01:13:41.040
But, yeah, and so I saw my buddies, like, you want to go see this band Radiohead?
01:13:48.560
And he goes, yeah, they have a new album called The Benz.
01:13:53.380
And then I was, like, hooked on going to concerts.
01:13:58.800
Like, support, like, your clubs and go see live comedy.
01:14:05.600
And you might find a little fucking diamond in the rough.
01:14:08.600
Like, I used to bring comics that I would meet that were funny.
01:14:17.880
I had, like, a lot of people that you don't know what you're going to see.
01:14:22.420
And somebody would be like, oh, yeah, I wanted to bring you to the concert.
01:14:25.580
Like, I saw The White Stripes, you know, there.
01:14:30.320
And I was really hip to comedy music back then.
01:14:33.860
I had two tickets to The White Stripes at the El Rey.
01:14:43.660
And I went, and it was, like I said, third full.
01:14:50.020
And then years later, my friends would listen to them.
01:15:20.640
It's your boy Dan calling from up here in northern Maine.
01:15:26.200
Would you rather be able to read people's mind?
01:15:28.800
Or would you rather be able to see into the future?
01:15:38.700
That's one of the only states I've never been to.
01:15:54.840
But the future, I don't know if I want to know the future.
01:16:08.420
Because if you read somebody's mind, it couldn't be like literal.
01:16:11.480
Because sometimes I'll just think of weird shit.
01:16:13.260
What if the guy's an idiot and you're stuck with him forever?
01:16:36.380
Fucking Brennan Schaub literally looks like a fucking love seat.
01:16:58.380
He looks like Paul Bunyan's gay little son, dude.
01:17:15.280
So is it safe to say that you're back in the business?
01:17:33.000
Since that, I know one of the questions that came in that was good.
01:17:42.520
I know both you guys in the past have struggled with drugs and alcohol.
01:17:50.600
And myself as well fell victim to the dark arts recently.
01:17:59.180
And I'm going into residential rehab here in a couple days.
01:18:04.360
So I was just curious if you guys had any advice for someone trying to achieve long-term sobriety.
01:18:15.020
I mean, do you want to take it or do you want me to jump in first?
01:18:18.320
And we can also, I mean, I just felt like this is, we could try to just share anything or experience, you know?
01:19:02.560
I mean, I heard you can't even stop just the E-jack from coming out of you.
01:19:06.480
I just, I did it by just an accident once, and I was like, I don't know.
01:19:15.900
And I thought it was fucking, there was some white shit in it.
01:19:21.360
I want to smoke till my fucking wife and kids are gone.
01:19:32.000
Yeah, I mean, you know, it really depends upon you and, you know, I'm not a fucking doctor.
01:19:39.860
But in my experience, which is kind of what you asked, it's tricky.
01:19:44.260
I mean, and that's an understatement, but you've got to just really, I had to pull back a lot.
01:19:51.060
Because I've been hospitalized a couple times for alcohol.
01:19:55.220
And I had to really get a grip on what I wanted out of my life and really take time for myself.
01:20:02.700
And, you know, it sounds corny, but love yourself and appreciate yourself and the people that care about you.
01:20:09.180
And it's, you know, I've seen a lot of people go the opposite and not make it out.
01:20:14.260
And you really have to figure out what you want to do.
01:20:25.940
That's a great, that's a great answer, I think.
01:20:31.520
I mean, it could be up to God if you need to find a higher power to help you.
01:20:35.260
But, yeah, I think trying to have some semblance of what your goal is for yourself.
01:20:40.320
Because a lot of times I find if I'm not, if I'm goalless and I don't have any real intention, then I'm much more likely to fall into the dark arts, really, for me.
01:20:49.980
You know, if I'm just letting the world affect me, however, and I don't have a plan every day when I kind of wake up, then, of course, I'm a fall prey to whatever.
01:20:57.700
And there's a lot of dark forces out there, man.
01:21:05.080
It's really, I mean, in my experience, I've gone back and forth to talk all.
01:21:15.040
And I finally just had to find a reason and goals, like Theo said, where I'm like, you know, this is what I want to do.
01:21:23.720
You've got to, like, care about yourself and stuff like that.
01:21:26.820
And drugs are different, so I don't know what drugs you're into.
01:21:31.580
And drugs, drugs just, that just made me feel like shit.
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Like when I would, I did coke, you know, a handful of times.
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Oh, I'll eat a squirrel from the backside on coke, dude.
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You will start at the back of an animal, sonny, and get to know it.
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Like, if you, you know, just reach out, seek help if you need it.
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But you really, really, really, it comes down to you and wanting to get help and get off that shit, man.
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And it's easier said than done, but I've been down that road.
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I'm thinking about going to a place in January for a couple weeks just to even just get, I'm not even struggling or anything right now.
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But just to have some time for myself to take care of myself.
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You know, I've spent so much time working as well.
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It's like, I've never sat and thought what's even going on in my life or what do I want?
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It's more than you think of people that have struggled with abuse.
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So, you know, reach out and, yeah, be well, man.
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And we'll put you up on social so people can find you and all of that.
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And, man, I'm excited to see you back on stage and stuff.
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Now, I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
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Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.
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But it's gonna take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.
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Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you my stories
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Shine on me And I will find a song I will sing it just for you
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On the runaway train with a heavy load of my past
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They weren't so thin that they're damn near gone
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And as always, I'll be joined by the voices in my head
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