Dave Williamson Comic Pit-Master and Old Guy on Campus!

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Hey man, grab a stool, belly up, and get overserved.
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Okay.
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That's the preview.
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Okay, I'm looking at camera four.
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All right, we're up.
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This is Overserved.
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Uh the podcast for people who serve, people who have served, uh, people who've been served.
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Uh I got Caleb.
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Uh if you don't know, um I've had a lot of technical difficulties, which you may have seen from the previous episodes.
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Caleb is the producing show now, and uh he's gonna help things root run smoothly.
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Uh we got a great guest.
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Uh you may have seen him with uh if you weren't to the University of Auburn.
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You may have seen him.
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Auburn University.
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Auburn University.
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Whatever.
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Come on, man.
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Uh you may have seen him uh if you live in El Segundo, he's got a barbecue place.
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Have you are you full in on that?
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Are you part of the I'm I'm uh I'm in.
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I uh I am earning my sweat equity.
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There you go, man.
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Yeah, it's uh it's called the Old Town Patio.
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It's been in um Elsa Gundo since like the 80s, and you know, I'm sure we'll get into it.
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But as you know, over the past decade I've kind of built a little bit of a reputation in the world of barbecues, specifically in my neighborhood, because I'm always cooking for my neighbors, cooking for parties, you know, doing a little bit of catering here and there.
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And um a couple of uh local dads who own the bar down the street had the opportunity to buy this bar, and so they went for it, and um, you know, they gave it a huge facelift, but they weren't sure what they were gonna do with the kitchen.
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So all the other dads in town were like, dude, you should bring in Dave, let Dave do his, you know, do his meat and his barbecue out of here.
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So we met a couple times, looked at like what that would look like, and these guys are just great dudes, man.
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They're just awesome partners to have because I don't think a lot of people would have taken the chance that they took, because I've never been in the restaurant business before, like I I know barbecue, I know good food, I know marketing, I know, I mean, I I throw a great party, but you know, running a kitchen is a whole different ball game, you know?
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And when you gotta look at, you know, your overhead and your labor costs and your food costs and minimizing food waste and all that stuff, I mean it's and these guys were like, hey man, we we think you can do it.
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We're gonna we're gonna gamble on you.
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And they made me a partner and uh off we went.
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And um, that was almost exactly a year ago.
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And when I get the things popping up on my Facebook memories, like one year ago that we were doing this and that.
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Right, right.
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Oh my god, that feels like a lifetime ago.
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And we just this past three weeks um flipped to an uh full-time barbecue menu.
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Before that, we were just kind of going in phases, like it's my barbecue full time, but it was like brisket sandwiches and pork melts and things that like a line cook could could warm up and and and pump out, you know.
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Uh, but we were just doing like actual barbecue plates on Wednesday, because I'm you know on the road a lot there in the weekends, and I'm like, I'll commit to being there on Wednesdays and um and and slicing brisket and doing ribs fresh and all that kind of stuff.
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And our numbers were just so much better on Wednesdays.
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And so the guys were like, man, this is the gold.
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Like, what are we waiting for?
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Let's go for it.
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So thank God I got my buddy Uncle Chico, who's one of my barbecue buddies, who we hired to be my um my my uh kitchen manager there.
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Right.
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So between the both of us, we were like, all right, man, let's do it.
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We'll we'll if we're not ready, when will we be?
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So we flipped it, and the first week was great, everyone was loving it, but you know, we didn't know how much we should make from day to day.
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And then by the second week, word was out, and it didn't matter how much we made, we were running out by dinner time.
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So we went the past three weeks, we've just been trying to keep up with the demand.
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It's been packed.
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Great, man.
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Old town uh patio.
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Yeah, I wore all the branding for you.
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He's got it all on.
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And uh he donates uh a couple of butt butts to our annual Toys for Tots party, and it it was the hit of the party.
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Everybody was like, Where'd you get this barbecue?
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I said you gotta go to Old Town Patio.
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Yeah phenomenal.
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Uh also I took a few toys.
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I thought that was the exchange.
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Exactly.
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Uh what was the what what was the thing you were talking about?
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The uh the new gift idea that all barbecue people had to have.
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Oh, they were talking about this barbecue bot.
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I don't know if you heard of this.
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A bot?
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It's like the can do gift of the summer.
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It's getting in the grill season.
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It's uh well, I don't know too much about it, but I just know that everybody wants to have this because people have apparently have gotten too lazy to wire brush off the grill.
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So they're like, I want a robot that can do that these days.
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Wow.
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Like 126.
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Like one of those swimming pool cleaners is trying to always clean and try to take my job.
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Exactly, man.
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It's a it's a little it's a Roku for inside your stomach.
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I didn't know we even needed that, but it's I mean, uh you just open up the lid and the robots in there, like I mean, it makes sense, dude.
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I just played this really nice golf course in Miami.
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It's like it's it's a public course, but it's like a$300 public course.
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They just put like$16 million, mind me like golf course down in Miami.
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And they have these like giant Roombas that just are uh mowing the grass.
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Like they were all over the course and they're just out there all day long, just slowly grooming the course.
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And I'm just like were you banging balls at it all day?
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I hit three or four of them.
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You always try to hit the the the guy at the driving range.
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The teenager and the little did you pay for$300 worth of golf?
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Uh I actually got comped.
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Um I was telling somebody, man, when you're a stand-up comic and you were on the road, and then you come off the robe, you're surprised at how much golf costs.
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And when they make you pay for a movie or something like that, man.
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Man, it was even like my wife and I went to go hit balls last night, actually, at the Top Golf now.
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And back in the day, like if you had an else to gun to a resident card, you could play golf there for like nine bucks.
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And even that you went in, and usually the kid knew you, and he was like, go ahead.
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And Topgolf or when it was the legs before before.
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I loved it when it was like, but now that Top Golf runs it, it was like 32 bucks.
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And I was like, golly, dude.
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So I was like, all right, let's just go play.
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And then luckily I asked uh, you know, I didn't just assume that it was outside the hours, and I was like, dude, do we get a discount for being else kind of resonates?
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Oh yeah, it's only 16.
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I'm like, all right.
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I mean, it's not like 30 30 bucks a person is not gonna kill me, but it's just like the the principle of it, though.
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This feels like a lot to play, you know?
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It's an executive course.
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You can't even pull out uh uh anything other than a uh a nine on.
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When we were in Miami, we because I I went back from my high school reunion and I did some shows while I was there too.
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So that's why we me and my buddy, all my buddies were in town for the reunion.
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So we we played two days of golf, one at that course I was just telling you about, and then we played our old home course, right?
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Just like, oh, that'd be fun, nostalgic.
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And when I when I was a kid, we used to play that course all the time.
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It was like maybe 25 bucks.
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It's over a hundred bucks.
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It's true.
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And it has not been improved.
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It's like it's only gotten where it's only it's over a hundred bucks.
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Yeah, man.
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Bang and bug.
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It's gotta be how much how much like the temperature when you play golf in the in in the summer.
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Oh, it's brutal enough.
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Down there?
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Yeah, brutal.
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She's done it.
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Yeah.
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I mean, Florida's like, it's one of the things I actually like about or love about LA is that like I I love Miami, like they're both tropical climates, but in the summer, it's unbearable.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's like it's not even like but hot's one thing, but it's like, yeah, the humid hot.
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Oh yeah.
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So you can't just hop in your car and get in the AC.
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Like, just the time to go from your air-conditioned house to your air-conditioned car, you your pores open up, and now a nice shirt you you put on to go somewhere.
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You're just drip and sweat, your hair's all fucked up.
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Like it, it it's the AC brakes in the car, you're using it.
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Oh, yeah.
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That happened all the time.
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Your AC brakes in your house, you better have a neighbor and you can go hang out and the guy can come out and fix your AC, bro.
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It's like out here we just open the windows and and uh get the fan to blow some breeze through, you know.
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I did a week at the punchline and Houston, Texas, man, and my air conditioner went out my old Volvo.
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And I had like those sheepskin seat clubs.
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I was dying, pitching and sweating and dying.
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I did television with this girl, like the noon show, and they asked her how she liked it.
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She goes, Well, it's a little humid.
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Like it was only April, wait till August.
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It's gonna be like you're walking into a tongue or something, man.
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Well, that's like uh I like going once a year down to QS.
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I worked that club down there.
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It's one of the funnest clubs in the country.
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Like, not just for the club itself, but also just because you're in Key West, and the people who run it are really cool, and um, you know, I've made friends there.
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So it's just a fun, fun week, you know, to go do comedy.
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But um it I've learned about like I know it's a little taboo to wear shorts on stage, but one, the vibe in Key West because they do not care.
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It's just for people down in here, yeah.
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And two, just the heat, you know.
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Like, I'm like, dude, I'm wearing shorts and a tank top on stage.
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Or I I think one time I performed and I had a Hawaiian shirt that I didn't even button.
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Like I was just on stage.
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Like, you gotta go for like the Jimmy Buffett and the dive bar when he was like 24 years old, the kind of vibe when you're doing art in QS.
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Because dude, uh, if you want to just wear jeans to be professional, everyone's gotta watch you melt on your top on stage, you know?
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Speaking of QS band, why don't we crack one of those beers normally?
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I brought over some topics.
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Pick what you want.
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Yeah, I brought a couple hazy.
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I'm having a uh a West Coast IPAs.
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Yeah, West Coast IPAs and uh hazy IPAs are good day drinking beers in my in my book.
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And uh Caleb is already loaded over there with a ranch quad with a ranch quad.
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I haven't got ranch boys.
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I'm going cowboy.
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So uh so June, so we're beer and wine right now.
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June, uh somewhere around June, we're gonna have our liquor license in full effect, man.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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What pairs well with your barbecue?
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Oh man.
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Great question.
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I don't know if I'm prepared to give a good answer to.
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Is it a red wine kind of barbecue?
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No, I mean, I don't know if barbecue in general is really a red wine kind of you know.
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I mean, anything's possible.
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But I mean, obviously, um I I think barbecue pairs good with a nice uh domestic beer.
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Oh, you know?
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PBR.
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It's kind of like when you go to the movie theater.
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I don't, I'm not a big soda guy, but when I'm eating like uh a pepperoni pizza, or if I'm eating uh buttered popcorn in a movie theater, there's something about having an ice cold Coca-Cola where I'm just like, this is this is this tastes like America.
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You know?
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That's what you know, I'm I'm an IPA guy all day.
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I love craft beer, but I think the time that I would find like an ice cold bud light or something along those lines, like most refreshing, is if it was while I was just down in a bunch of just good old Texas style barbecue, you know?
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Especially, you know, our place is called the Old Town Patio for a reason.
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We have this big, awesome, beautiful patio in the back.
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So it's just the outdoor Southern California weather vibes back there.
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We have live music Thursday through Sunday, and we have these mugs called big dogs.
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So they're big 32-ounce mugs with a handle.
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So uh so you know, you got that filled up with an ice cold, you know, domestic beer.
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I think that's what pairs good with barbecue.
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And then a lot of barbecue guys also really like bourbon.
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So you'll see a lot of the I'm going to Memphis in May this weekend.
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Um, it's one of the biggest barbecue competitions in the world.
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And at the end of the night, ever everyone will sit down.
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No one sleeps because we've got to watch the barbecue overnight, but all the hustle and bustle is not going on like you know, like it is during the day.
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So all the Pitmasters will sit down with a bourbon on ice and add a cigar.
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Like that's that's the Pitmaster done.
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I saw Stevie Ray Von and Ray Charles together at Memphis and May.
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Really?
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One of the great rock and roll shows in my life, man.
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It was great.
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Not not cooking barbecue.
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They were they were there.
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They were cooking the music.
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Memphis and May is like a month-long thing, right?
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Like one weekend's music, one weekend's barbecue, and it's like, yeah, kind of like the Houston Rodeo.
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There's a lot of elements to it.
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Now, will you go to all the will you go to Corky's, will you go to the rendezvous, or is it just at the festival?
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I I've been to those places before um on different weekends when I was there for events, but um when you're there for for Memes and May, you're pr especially if you're competing, which I am speaking of.
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Oh, cool.
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You're you're pretty just enveloped by being there at the festival, yeah.
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Will you be drinking the 33 ouncers while you're cooking?
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I I personally can drink and be productive.
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So I'll I'll have a couple I'll have a couple cold beers throughout the day as a treat.
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Like, hey man, good job on that particular thing.
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But um, you know, you're not you're you're there to party, but you're there to get a job done.
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So you're not you're not getting sloppy while you're, you know, present presenting judges or when you're in the so it just depends.
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Like, but then there's certain categories that are maybe a little less serious, or you know, it's a big cook team.
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Like the team's about 15 to 20 people.
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So a couple people are like, um, like, hey, you guys are gonna focus on ribs, you guys are gonna focus on this ancillary.
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So if you're like, you know, responsibility is a little and we go shifts too.
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So we were cooking on the same team in uh Hondo, Texas, which became in top five, and that's how we earned um our our bid here to cook at Memphis.
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So it's like the Boston Marathon.
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You you step your way up to the to the competitions.
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Yeah, you yeah, you exactly.
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Well well, we since we we finished top five, we got a um golden ticket into Memphis in May to to cook here.
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But you know, we were cooking overnight, and so like I kind of like it was all hands on deck throughout the evening, and people were cooking, and then you could tell people are fading, and I was like, dude, I'm I got energy.
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So I'm like, dude, I'll watch the fire, you guys go get a couple hours of sleep, so then I take over that shift, and then you know, I go to bed at three or four in the morning, and some other guys come, you know, so we take turns, you know.
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Yeah.
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So now you drown in your big you hauling the big pit?
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No, that was a question I had.
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How's that some guys do that?
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A lot of those guys live in the middle of the country, so they'll drag their pit.
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I mean, somebody's got to drag their pit for that, you know.
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But I think I'm cooking on Team Canada for this.
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So our main dude's uh from Edmonton, and uh we we borrowed a smoker in Texas from a guy, one of the guys on our team that lived local brought the smoker.
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But um from Memphis, I think we're we just borrowed some smokers.
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And actually, this is pretty cool.
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I don't know.
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I think I can say this because this is gonna air out this is online, right?
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Right.
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Okay.
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So it's gonna air after the thing.
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But um apparently recorded.
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Okay.
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So we we uh we're in the live fire competition.
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That's it.
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Is that online car that I've got an along well, I think in the street sweeper.
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I thought it's I already got a ticket.
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Okay, I saw I saw tickets on cars, so I thought I was like it's safe to park.
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No, yeah, I already got a ticket.
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So um the the main the main thing that we're competing at is live fire.
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Uh huh.
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So we had a Viking ship made.
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It's a big Viking ship with sails.
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So the fire is in the hull of the Viking ship, and all the meat is hanging from the sails and the masts.
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Uh and and uh so just visually it's gonna be so dope.
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I'll send you a picture of it so you can cut it into this if you want.
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Meat sails.
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It's all about look, you eat with your eyes before you eat with your mouth.
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So, like all that presentation and the storytelling, that's how you uh set yourself apart, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, so now switch to the drink apart.
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Let's go.
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What's your um how old were you the first time you had a drink?
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I was probably pretty young.
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I would say that probably when I was in like junior high, I I honestly didn't party too hard as a kid because um I didn't have to.
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Like me and my friend I had such a great group of friends, and we um at the time that a lot I Miami, Florida, like there weren't a lot of sheltered people, you know.
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Like there was a lot of a lot of stuff around us.
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Like we could have found any trouble we wanted to get into, you know.
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It's not like I grew up in some small town somewhere.
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But um with that said, me and my friends were so active.
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We liked sports.
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I lived on a lake.
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We would go um wakeboarding and and knee boarding like every day after school.
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Like uh, you know, I played water polo and I played in the basketball leagues and tennis and all the things.
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So I mean I I didn't have a lot of idle time to find trouble.
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With that said, my parents liked to go boating.
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We went to the Bahamas a lot, right?
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And there's basically no drinking age there.
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Right.
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Um, so you know, they had this light beer called Click that was the beer of the Bahamas.
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Oh, yeah.
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And you I you could just walk up to the bar.
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I was probably like 14 and just order one and they'd serve you, you know.
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So I'm sure I had, or my dad would leave a Budweiser on.
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I'm sure I snuck a few sips or whatever.
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So I mean I had, but the first time, I can tell you the first time I got like wasted.
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Overserved?
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Yeah.
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The first time I overserved myself.
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Um it was it was right after Hurricane Andrew.
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So this was the summer in between my eighth and ninth grade year.
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It's like 95?
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92.
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92.
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Yeah, August 92.
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Right before school was about to start, uh, in between my eighth and ninth grade year.
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And um, you know, nobody had power for like two weeks at least.
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All the streets were shut down, phone lines barely worked, trying to call, you know, our friends to check on them.
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So it was just from dust till dawn.
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You were just cleaning up your street and cleaning up your house, helping your parents move trees, move debris.
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I mean, there was just a lot of work to be done.
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People's roofs were collapsed.
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Um some of our family members uh and friends like moved in and were like camping on our floor because like we had a big hole in our roof, but the rest of our house was alright.
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So um so, anyways, it was like after like a week and a half, two weeks in, um, two of my uh three of my other buddies who lived on our lake uh were like, hey man, we're gonna do a sleepover in uh Mike's backyard.
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Like, come over.
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I'm like, alright, that's fine.
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I asked my mom, my mom's like, Yeah, you need to feel like a kid and go hang out with your friends.
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And so we go over and we we do this sleepover on the on on Mike's uh dock.
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And there was these other dudes who were like, you know, guys in their 20s, their thirties, just you know, vagrants who like came down to look for work, you know.
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And I mean there was a lot of shit going on.
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Like there was rude like uh looters and um, you know, scam artists and all kinds of people just taking advantage of the chaos going on.
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Right, of course, yeah coming down from from Louisiana and Georgia and all over.
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So um these guys were patching Mike's um family's roof.
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So his dad told them that they could camp in the backyard while they were doing two or three days of work on their house.
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So now we're camping in the backyard with these these dudes.
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Not good guys.
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The Joe family.
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Yeah.
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So uh so they gave us a bottle of vodka.
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Oh, hell yeah.
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So we had a you know, like our moms had made us up like a cooler of um Gatorades and waters.
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Oh, okay.
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So we're mixing vodkas with Gatorades, and we're like going to town.
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We got hammered, you know?
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Like we didn't know what we were doing.
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So then uh we're we're like drunk and we're talking to this dude, and he's like, hey, you guys want to play with our gun?
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We're like, yeah, yeah, we do.
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Yeah.
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So a course.
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Yeah, so it's the middle of the night, and we we take this handgun, me and my other three buddies who are like eighth and ninth graders, and we go out in the middle of the lake, and uh there was a swallow course like like set up out in the middle of the lake.
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And uh we go out in the middle of the lake and it's all still and quiet.
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It was like during the pandemic when the planes stopped flying.
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Right, right, right.
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Everything felt eerie.
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Um and there, you know, you could see the night sky because there's no light pollution from downtown and everything.
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And we just we start shooting the the buoys.
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You know, with a you know, what was it, like a 45 or something, you know?
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Some plan.
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Hey, 14-year-old kids, you're gonna take this for 45.
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That's the 90s.
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The 90s were a different time.
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Yeah, I did.
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So so we're out there, so now we're like, all right, that fun's over, like, you know, and uh We knew all the girls were having a sleep over at our friend Jessica's house.
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So we're like, let's sneak over and see if we can hang out with the girls.
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So we take our little 13-foot Boston whaler over there and we sneak up.
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Well, we didn't put two and two together that we just like gunshots just rang through the neighborhood, right?
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So Jessica's dad had heard that, and he's on like like red alert, like you know, he's like awake.
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And so we sneak up to Jessica's bedroom window and we're talking to the girls.
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We're like, yo, come outside and come hang out with us on the beach.
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And they're like, Oh, I'm not allowed to, and and whatever.
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We're like, just sneak out, and they're like, All right, fine.
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And so the girls go to sneak out and they trip on a suitcase and make a big boom, boom, boom.
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And then the dad comes rushing in and we hear it, and we like jump in a bush, and then and then these girls pretended like they were asleep.
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So the dad's like, Did you guys hear something?
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And they were like, No, dad.
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And now the dad just thinks someone's breaking in their house.
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Because if the girls had just said, Yeah, I tripped, he would have been like, Alright, I'm going back to bed.
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Oh, there you go.
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So now the dad's got the gun, and he's like walking around the property, and we're out there like idiots.
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Like, you know?
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So finally, you should have brought the gun with you and got the drop on him.
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Well, that would have had a belly.
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So it all came out.
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Like the guys, the parents all figured it out and called my mom.
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I think it was the first time in my life I was ever grounded, and uh, and and there was a lot of manual labor to be done.
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Oh, yeah, man.
00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:37.839
But I other than that, like I didn't really get into partying and drinking too much until like my senior year, my you know, my freshman year of college, it was on, you know.
00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:38.480
Yeah, of course.
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But um, I I always felt like we were having this conversation the other day just about like 'cause my son's a freshman of college now, and I was talking to one of my friends about it, and like there's there's a and my nephew's in college and a frat and everything.
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There's like these guys who who aren't exposed to it at all, and then they go away to college and they don't know how to behave or how to do it responsibly.
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Like there's a There's a um there's something to be said for being slowly exposed to it so you don't, you know, go crazy when you do that.
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I wish I would have done it.
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I got overly exposed too soon myself.
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Yeah.
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We uh we got I just were thinking that malt liquor is almost going out of business.
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But we wouldn't when we were we were in eighth grade, we would want we would go get some.
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We used to say nides, baby.
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Well, we were cult 45.
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Mad Dog.
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No, that's wine.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's wine.
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Uh what was the one?
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Moon's farm, wine's farm wine, mad dog.
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Anything, yeah.
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Anything.
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Dude, you remember uh the this like now it's like mass-produced, but we were like inventing our own like uh high noons and uh because we would get Zima Zima with the Jolly Rancher.
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It wasn't the first white class.
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Yeah, we invented white claws in the 90s.
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It was a Zima Jolly Rancher.
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You should go to the strand asking, I'd like a Zima, and could you please put an Apple Jolly Rancher?
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I think that's why they had to get rid of Zima.
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They were like, no, these kids are getting it.
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But they've gotten rid of uh the IPAs are killing uh Colt 45 and stuff.
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And that was the first thing we drank.
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We wait outside a convenience store.
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Hey, would you get us some beer?
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What do you want?
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Uh quarter colt 45.
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We each had a quarter colt 45.
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Terrible, but dude, I specifically remember um my high school, my senior prom, uh we got a hotel room down on South Beach for like the after party, and then we all, you know, we got several hotel rooms, our whole crew is gonna crash for the night, you know?
00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:36.079
And uh we we went, we we went, we went, I can't remember whose brother or sister.
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We got to buy us a bunch of booze or whatever, and then we went to go put it in the room earlier in the day.
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And uh I got nat no was it natty ice?
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No, it wasn't natty ice.
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It was um it was like bud ice, or it was some short lived ice ice?
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It was some some short lived.
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Wasn't it like stronger though, right?
00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:57.839
It was oh no, but it was like yeah, it was like bud ice or something like that.
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It was some short-lived beer.
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I was like, this is cool.
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And so we get it, and it was warm, right?
00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:04.400
It was like 2 p.m.
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And I'm like, ah, I don't know if it's gonna be cold enough by like 9 p.m.
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tonight.
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So I put it in the freezer.
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Ah, there you go.
00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:14.319
So then we show out the party, and I had frozen all the beer.
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I'm understood.
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So the only choice was to drink booze at that point.
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And I was like, nah, it's fine.
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We can still drink it.
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And I was like, I was like breaking the cans in half and eating beer slash.
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Eating beer slash.
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Trying to put it in the microwave to defrost it.
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Yeah, the uh you learned, you know, you learn the lessons already.
00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:32.720
So were you drinking at spring break?
00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:36.799
If you grew up in Miami, did you go up to Lauderdale or was Lauderdale already dead by then?
00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:38.160
Oh, I mean, in college I was.
00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:43.119
Yeah, college or yeah, spring break was only we were we would go to Panama City with the MTV.
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Yeah.
00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:46.559
MTV would always be there, or down in uh Key West.
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:49.039
Um Jesus, Miami in the 90s.
00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:49.759
That's must be crazy.
00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.640
We would go to Lauderdale, and it was nuts.
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It was the craziest thing you ever saw.
00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.319
Yeah, Lauderdale at Los Oles and all that.
00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:57.599
Yeah, yeah, it was nutty.
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I mean, we would go the the button.
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There was a bar called the button, and supposedly it's like more tag beer than any place in America, and it was only from the end of February to the beginning of May.
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It was all there.
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And they had college competitions, and I remember being in I was in the kinky banana fantasy contest.
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It's like they had a fucking wet t-shirt contest, they had a beer chug, and I know I'm up there and with a bunch of rugby players, I got scrubs on, and I'm with this girl, and we're doing a we're supposed to eat a banana kinky, and I just dropped trial, man.
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I eat it with my but I remember the the guy at the BJ going, Western Kentucky, please put your clothes on until the contest starts.
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You were like, you don't have to peel it.
00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:46.960
So you had to go all the way, yeah, and then they just shot Waterdale down.
00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:47.680
Yeah, what happened?
00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:48.720
They just got rid of Springfield.
00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:50.799
Well, you know, it it always happened, man.
00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:57.759
It was like such an influx of degenerates that um it was like, yeah, they wanted all that.
00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:05.279
First of all, when you have like five thousand kids who have fake IDs like descend upon an area.
00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:09.279
They're not really contributing to the local economy.
00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:14.960
Like, you know, they're all just buying beers from the 7-Eleven or doing drugs that they brought.
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It's not like they're going out to the restaurants and being respectful to property.
00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:24.960
They're just scaring off actual tourists that are gonna spend money and book hotels.
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They were the original homeless.
00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:30.480
Yeah, the the these spring breakers are putting like 12 people in a hotel room.
00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:31.680
Right, exactly.
00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:32.240
Yes.
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And so I just think really big tippers.
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Yeah.
00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:35.759
Oh yeah.
00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:38.400
The spring break isn't really throwing the cash around.
00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:40.319
Can I have that quarter, please?
00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:45.599
I think it just wreaks havoc on these like areas and like the residents get pissed, you know.
00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:50.160
So so then the the local politicians have to be like, all right, we have to ban spring break.
00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:59.839
So it just it just like migrates, like goes from like Fort Lauderdale to Daytona to Jacksonville to Panama City, back down to Miami, back up to Fort Lauderdale.
00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:02.319
You know, every couple years it rotates where they're gonna go.
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:03.839
And out here it's Habisfoot, right?
00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:05.119
I don't think they'll let them into Alabama.
00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:07.200
They're like, you stay over there.
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:09.680
Yeah, Florama's like, we do this year round.
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.440
Yeah, the Florida Bama.
00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:12.559
What a great bar, man.
00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:13.759
Uh yeah.
00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:20.160
Uh so comedy-wise, you are with Bert sometimes.
00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:21.519
Y'all are partyers, y'all learn.
00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:24.720
Yeah, I toured with Bert really heavy for like five years.
00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:29.519
Um so lately I've just been doing more like the special event stuff for him.
00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:32.000
I just hosted their 5K this past weekend.
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.000
I'm gonna do his cruise in November.
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:44.640
But you know, five years is a long time to usually you bring like an opener on one tour with you, and then you have a new opener for the next tour, and you know, I'm very lucky I got the tour with Bert a bunch.
00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.240
So yeah, I haven't really been on many tour dates uh this past tour.
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.319
Like this is kind of someone else's turn, you know.
00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:54.799
So do you party with like you did with Bert when you're by yourself?
00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:55.680
No.
00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.640
I mean Yeah, saying no.
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:12.960
I mean, there's uh Yeah, yeah, I would say like uh Bert and I have very aligned personalities why we get along so well, and like um Bert's very about um partying hard but working even harder, right?
00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:24.240
So, like, you know, when I was a younger comic and first started doing weekends with him at clubs, so like we would have some beers, but we would like sit and talk about our jokes and um and work, you know?
00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:35.759
Like so Bert didn't like to bring someone on the road with him for for many years when he was a headlining comic because he used to like to support the local comics and um and just like give them work.
00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:38.079
You don't want to take work away from them by bringing someone.
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:56.559
But I think uh I don't want to speak for him, but uh I think um, you know, when as his podcast started getting bigger and his like, you know, visibility starting to get bigger, he was having a hard time uh knowing what he was getting from the local comics because a lot of them were like just fanboys who wanted to party with him.
00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:57.200
Right, right, right.
00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:02.880
So it was kind of like, you know, whereas he would have had someone normally like uh local, like open.
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:14.000
Now it's like someone he's never met before, and they just want to get drunk with the machine, and they just want to uh go out to the but now you got some guy you don't know starting a bar fight, and now he that like it's attached to him.
00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:27.839
And he's like, dude, I just want to go out with the fans, have a few beers, show them appreciation, do an Irish goodbye, go back to the hotel, talk about jokes for another hour or two drinking beers, get some sleep, do it all over again the next day, you know?
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:28.319
Right.
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:37.920
Um, so I think that's when he started reaching out to a couple guys, Jesus Trejo and Shane Torres and me, and we started kind of working the road with him a little bit.
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:40.799
So now you're going on the tour with uh on the cruise.
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:42.559
Are you gonna is that a big drink?
00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:44.640
Because they're just Oh what line is it?
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:45.200
What cruise line?
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:46.000
Well cruise line.
00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:48.720
Oh man, I'm gonna get if I get this wrong, I'm gonna be in trouble.
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:49.359
Whoops.
00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:52.160
Um here.
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:54.559
Let me look it up and then we can edit this part out.
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:56.319
Well, I mean, that who was it?
00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:57.759
What cruise line?
00:29:57.920 --> 00:29:58.720
The Royal Caribbean line.
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.480
Have you heard about the Royal Caribbean thing?
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:01.440
Tell me about it.
00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:08.160
They served this guy 33 drinks, and then he just I mean, unfortunately, he passed away.
00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:08.720
Oh my god.
00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:10.000
This was recently?
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:10.640
It was recently.
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:13.119
It's like the talk of the town about cruises and what's going on.
00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:13.920
33.
00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:14.079
Oh.
00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:20.400
They served him 33 drinks, and the idea is like, well, maybe at 17 somebody should have been a little bit aware to not serve this guy.
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:20.960
But there's video.
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:25.279
When your bar is somewhere that someone could like fall overboard.
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:26.000
32.
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:33.680
You might want to be like super um, you might want to be super trained up on uh what's the most drinks you think in my own.
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:34.400
Well, these people aren't trained.
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:35.279
I've been on a cruise recently.
00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:35.839
They're not stupid.
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.599
I mean, they're good, they're they're good, but they're not like bartender bartenders.
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:40.000
Yeah.
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:45.279
They're serving like a sp like a cocktail list that they don't really even per se know what exactly.
00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:54.160
If you want to make an alteration to it, it's like when you got the when you got the um when you got the the drink package, you want to get your money's worth.
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:55.359
That's the unfortunate thing.
00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:01.359
When you get the drink package and you got the platinum drink package, you're gonna try and get as many of these, you know, high-on liquor drinks as you can.
00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:03.119
You got it all in one day, man.
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:05.119
Unfortunately, as it is.
00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:06.079
Alright, here we go.
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:07.119
It's uh Norwegian.
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:07.759
Uh nice.
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.640
I'm sure they'll only serve you 32.
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:12.480
And where's that going when you gotta take off?
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.759
So uh the last one we did went to um the Bahamas.
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:17.839
This one is going to Mexico.
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:20.880
From from Miami to Mexico.
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:24.000
Um it it's it's a blast.
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:25.680
Yes, there's definitely a lot of drinking.
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:33.519
But I'll tell you, man, I I thought that the last cruise, people were very maybe it's because Bert's fans are good drinkers, you know.
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:49.759
Um there was uh I didn't experience any like over-the-topness as far as like people being just I mean, I everyone was partying hard, but nobody was like fighting or being like uh disrespectful of boundaries or causing scenes.
00:31:49.839 --> 00:32:06.559
Like dude, it was like the most supportive, like just sense of community of everyone just I think everyone was so happy to be there with this like group of comedians that Bert curated that nobody wanted to be the guy who ruined everyone else's good time, you know?
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:08.960
So everyone just knew how to fit in, you know.
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:09.599
Oh man.
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:10.559
It was it was a blast.
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:20.960
Like care, even like the non-comedy sale, like just karaoke and whatever just one day we were supposed to go to the that island in the Bahamas where the crew ship owns the island and stop and party all day.
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:28.079
The weather wasn't good, so we couldn't debark the boat, so they just you know, they just skipped it and we're out to sea for an extra day.
00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:32.240
So the production team had to scramble and create things for people to do during the day.
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:45.039
And so uh, you know, I sleep a couple extra hours when I see we're not getting off the boat, and then when I wake up, I got a text message like, Dave, can you um can you report to um production office when when you wake up?
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:46.799
And I'm like, oh shit, what did I do last night?
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:49.279
Like, I pissed off, what did I say, you know?
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:51.920
So I get down there and they're like, hey man, we need a favor.
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:52.799
And I'm like, what?
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:58.480
To like can you host the drink the ship dry pre-party today?
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:06.559
And I was like, oh my, I was a little hungover, and I was like, I was just about to hit the gym, try to sweat it out, and I'm just like, I'm like, yeah, of course, I'll do whatever you guys need.
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:07.839
Uh, what time does it start?
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.680
And they're like, ten minutes ago.
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:11.039
Oh boy.
00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:17.839
So I go I go straight to the the the you know the main deck wearing my gym shorts and a tank top.
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:24.799
And uh I grab a mic and Cypher Sounds is already playing music, there's already people out there having drinks, you know, it's like mid-morning.
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:28.559
And I'm like, all right, guys, guess this is our day, let's do it, right?
00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:35.119
And the first 10 or 20 minutes, I kind of had this attitude where I was just like, oh man, this is gonna be brutal.
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:36.000
What am I doing?
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:36.720
Whatever.
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:52.720
And then Miss Pat shows up with her, she had like 20 family members and friends with her, and they just come in and they're just they just rush the stage and they're like, Dave, we're here to party, and everyone's going crazy, and everyone ran up to the stage, and then Miss Pat teaches me how to torque.
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.440
She's like, Dave, you need to you need to loosen up.
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:57.039
Smack my ass, Dave.
00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:59.599
You know, and and they just posted the video of it, actually.
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.400
You can see it on my Instagram if you go to Dave W comedy.
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.880
They just posted it, and uh, and it's me up there just awkwardly like smacking Miss Pat.
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:15.599
And so then uh so I had this moment where I look out and I was like, dude, I need to embrace like the fun that that like this opportunity that's been giving me.
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:18.639
And I was like, I go, all right, I go, I'm awake now.
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:20.559
I go, you guys ready to party today?
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:25.679
And everyone was like, yeah, and I realized that people genuinely were ready to go on this like ride with me, right?
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:28.079
And I go, I'm gonna take 10 minutes, I'll be right back.
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:34.480
I ran back to my my uh cabin, I put on like actual party clothes instead of just my gym shorts or whatever.
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:44.320
I got a bunch of uh beers from the bar, I ran up and I was like, uh chugging contest to the first nine dudes that come up to this, and that guy's just sprinted up there.
00:34:44.480 --> 00:35:01.039
We chugged beers, and I realized I go, part of the reason I got into the entertainment industry and got into um like stand-up comedy was I would watch spring break, MTV spring break, and I'd see these VJs, and I would just be I didn't even care about partying.
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:08.559
I was just like, it's cool that these guys bring the party just wherever it was out here, Panama City here, Daytona Beach.
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:15.840
It was just like MTV is descending, it's gonna be music, there's gonna be, you know, fun games on the beach, it's just gonna be a party.
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:19.360
And I was like, dude, I have this opportunity to just create whatever I want to create.
00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:23.840
Someone's giving me a green light, and there's people that actually want to listen to me talk on the microphone.
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:25.519
So I I was like, this is it.
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:27.440
This is being an MTV VJ.
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:28.719
So I had the best time.
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:30.159
I lost my voice that day.
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:33.199
I hosted this party for like four hours, and they were like, you can go.
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:36.000
Because I had like a four o'clock like show that day.
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:38.880
And I'm like, nah, we're doing a push-up contest, push up contest.
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:47.599
We're gonna, we're gonna, we're I I went out in the stands with the microphone, and we were doing like, you know, siphon was playing like songs, and we're doing like Sweet Caroline, bum, bum, bum.
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:49.119
Like, I just made up a day.
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:52.079
Like, you know, and it was like one of the funnest days I've ever had, man.
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:53.599
Are you are you a beer chugger?
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:54.719
Can you chug beer fast?
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:56.719
Man, I can for sure.
00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:01.679
Um, I'm very much in this pocket of life where I don't need to get a hammer.
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:03.199
I don't want to be a fall-down drunk.
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:03.440
Right.
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:09.199
I don't I don't like when I I'm out with the fans or you know, after a show and people are like, we're doing shots.
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:10.400
And I'm like, why?
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.679
I'm like, I'm just gonna just ensuring a hangover.
00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:17.360
I'm like, I want to drink delicious IPAs.
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:23.039
I want to have a nightcap with an amazing bourbon on a big ice cube.
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:26.079
I want to have some really nice wine on my dinner.
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:30.239
Like, I love to drink, but I don't need to be like hammered drunk.
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:32.719
Like, like let's let's milk it to get hammered.
00:36:33.039 --> 00:36:43.199
You know, like let's not let's not being drunk is just uh a byproduct of drinking good stuff, not drinking whatever I can drink to get drunk.
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:43.440
Right?
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:49.519
I've got people come up to me at the bar and they're like, What's the strongest beer you got?
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.639
You know, I'm like what what why don't I have the one that tastes the best?
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:56.159
Yeah, you know, but I what I was asking because I was a pretty big beer chugger.
00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:02.239
I was the guy on the rugby table that could like no hands, man, just tip them back and you know.
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:04.239
It's fun for a social thing.
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:11.199
Like we were doing the 5K the other day, and I was like, you know, I got a couple beers, and then I was like, if you have a beer in your hand, come over right here.
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:12.159
We're gonna kill them together.
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:17.440
And it was like a cheers, and we all went bottoms up, and it was but it was just like to build community.
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:20.800
Yeah, like you know, it wasn't because like let's all get hammer, you know.
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:22.079
No, no, it's a spectacle.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.280
Yeah, it's you know, it's like playing a guitar behind your head in a rock and roll show.
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:26.480
You know, you're up there.
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:28.079
Every once in a while I'll do it at the bar.
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.000
People are like, playing the guitar, you know.
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:31.039
Yes, exactly.
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:34.559
We used to do the pony races, we called it.
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:35.599
You'd take the little millers.
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:37.039
Exactly.
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:45.039
We would take the little millers, and you'd just bend over with your hands behind your back, and you would rake, you know, grab them with your teeth, kill them, and go down the line like that.
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:46.480
It was like a rugby thing.
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:46.639
Yeah.
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.199
Every once in a while I'll take a highlight of the bar.
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:55.840
You know, just uh well, if it's like a great night, like the the night the Dodgers won the World Series, I think I did it and stuff like that.
00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:56.880
Let me tell you something, man.
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:03.760
I you know, I went to Auburn and I played water polo there, and it was very organized, but it's still it was it was club water polo.
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.320
Exactly.
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:07.440
So um so we didn't have like study hall at 6 a.m.
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:12.320
or you know, uh a D1 coach like looking over our shoulder.
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:22.159
So we we could we could uh find the the nice um you know balance between partying and being college students and being a student.
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:28.800
You know, but uh man, those like I feel like we partied pretty hard.
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:30.320
Those rugby players.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:36.079
Uh it was those guys toilet paper and their ass cracked on fire and would run around a party.
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:37.920
I'm like, that's different.
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:40.320
Yeah, that was a lot of nudity.
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:41.679
Uh a lot of drinking.
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:44.559
Uh yeah, it was uh We didn't have one.
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.159
Of course, bowling green Kentucky.
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:47.920
No, there was no polo, water polo.
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:48.559
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:49.679
I bet there's now.
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:50.480
Probably.
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:52.559
Yeah, I guess it's probably everything now, right?
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:56.639
But I mean, we are our I just went to the 15th anniversary of the rugby team.
00:38:56.880 --> 00:39:09.119
And uh the founder of the team, who's like, he goes, he goes, Lawrence, uh, this is a great party and all, but uh hadn't seen anybody naked and uh hadn't heard any songs yet.
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:10.239
What happened to you?
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:12.639
The old guy's like, what happened to you guys, right?
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:16.960
So I go, Oh well, I'll say I'm not getting naked again, but I'll sing a song.
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:18.320
Then I started singing these songs.
00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:21.039
I'm like, ooh, I gotta cut that because people's phones are on.
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:22.159
They're like videotaping.
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:24.719
Can't say that anymore, can't say that anymore.
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:25.840
You know, what's wrong with you?
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.960
No, these filthy rugby songs that are you know misogynistic.
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:31.679
I would have been good.
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:35.119
This podcast would be they would storm in here right now and shoot us all.
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:40.719
Yeah, I just went back for my well, no, okay.
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:43.119
Sorry, I told you about my high school reunion weekend.
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:51.760
But I went back, I the past few years I've been good about going back to Auburn for their home tournament because there's an uh alumni team in the tournament.
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:58.960
So I've I I missed it for years and years and years working the road, having kids, you know, you know, working day jobs.
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.960
And now I'm at a place where I can put shows together and you know make it make sense.
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:13.039
So I've been in tradition in the past three or four years where I go do a one-nighter in Huntsville, do a one nighter in Birmingham, I do a one-nighter in Auburn, and then I could play on the Auburn alumni team on Saturday, Sunday, right?
00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:18.639
So uh I'm definitely the oldest dude who comes back regularly.
00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:20.480
Um often the oldest dude.
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:21.360
Still got it.
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:27.440
I still think I'm one of the better players on the alumni team, even though I'm fattened slow.
00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:30.960
But um, anyways, that's not the point.
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:52.079
So this past year, I go back and me and a couple of the dads go out Saturday night, and we're having uh pizza at one of the old, you know, like nostalgic places, and we're having a couple pitchers of beer, and we're looking across the street, and there's this line of college kids, I'm not exaggerating, a couple miles down the road, like waiting to get into this nightclub.
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.199
And now there's this dude who lives in Auburn, he's an awesome guy.
00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:00.960
He's been hitting me up for years, a fan, hitting me up for years, like, dude, come to my bar when you're in Auburn, come to my bar.
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:03.599
And I was like, Alright, man, whatever.
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:05.760
And so I finally met him a couple years ago.
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.000
I show up to do my show, and he comes out.
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:14.320
Turns out we have a lot of mutual friends, and he invites all of us, like, yo, you want to go down the street to um to my bar.
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:15.119
We go, sure.
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:16.079
Walk down the street.
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:19.199
He's got like one of the most popular bars in Auburn, Southeastern.
00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:20.800
He owns a couple other bars, right?
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:23.199
So I'm like, dude, you own like a legit bar.
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:25.440
And Auburn's like, yeah, man, I've been inviting you for years.
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:26.960
And I'm like, dude, you know.
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:33.039
So uh so we have a blast, and so a couple of the dads who were on the Auburn alumni team with me, they were there that year.
00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:43.920
So now we're back this year, and we're sitting in uh we're sitting in the pizza joint, and this one guy who wasn't there that year looks across the street and goes, I don't really care about going to that nightclub.
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.760
He goes, but I'm kind of curious to see what all the hustle and bustle's about, right?
00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:50.000
And uh and I go, I can get us in.
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:51.119
And he goes, No, you can't.
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:54.480
And the other dads are kind of smirking, and I go, I bet you I can.
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:56.000
And he goes, All right, Dave.
00:41:56.159 --> 00:42:02.000
And so we walk over there and I purposely take him down to the end of the street so we can walk by all these kids and we walk up to the front, right?
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:04.480
There's a manager's house to be standing by the front.
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:10.239
And I walk up and I go, hey man, uh I go, uh, John put me on the on the guest list.
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:13.920
And he goes, uh John's usually pretty good about giving me names.
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:14.800
I don't have any names.
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:16.480
I go, well, you know, he's in Vegas.
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:18.159
He forgets to do stuff when he's in Vegas.
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:19.440
He's like, that's a good point.
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.320
And uh he's like, uh, boy, let me see if I can get a hold of him.
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:23.519
You're not gonna get a hold of him.
00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:24.159
He's in Vegas.
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:24.559
It's late.
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:26.239
I go, but here's the text message.
00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:28.159
And uh he goes, Well, hit his name.
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:32.159
And I hit his name, and like his actual phone number popped up, and he goes, Oh, okay, you're John's buddy.
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:33.199
He's like, Come on in, guys.
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:35.840
And so I turn around, the guys were all awkwardly standing behind me.
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:37.440
I just turn around and go, let's go, boys.
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.000
And then this guy's face was like, How did you do that?
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:40.400
You know?
00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:44.320
Because I mean, I'm not like famous enough as a comedian to like just randomly go.
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:47.280
This guy had no idea I was buddies with a guy who was a bar, you know.
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:49.920
So we go in and we were very uncomfortable.
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:55.119
Like, literally, this one girl walks up to us and literally just looks at me and goes, What are you doing here?
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.000
And I'm like, I'm thinking the same thing, right?
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:05.519
So we have like two beers there, and that's when I remembered that like drinking in the college town is like it's like three dollars for an ice beer.
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:07.119
This like, what is this here, Lawrence?
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.159
You're a bartender.
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:09.440
Uh 10.
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:10.480
At least minimum.
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:14.400
Ten at our half hour.
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:14.719
Yeah.
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:14.960
Yeah.
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:17.280
Uh in Alburn, this would be like three bucks.
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:17.519
Right.
00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:19.119
Now you're like, I'm rich.
00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:20.159
Would you go back home?
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:20.800
I got this one.
00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:22.000
Everybody's like, oh, Mr.
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:22.719
Big Shop.
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:24.079
You have no idea.
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:26.719
So we spend like two beers there, right?
00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.039
And then we go, all right, let's go down to this other bar.
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:30.559
We're a little bit more comfortable there, right?
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:32.719
It's this cool bar called Avalon.
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:34.320
It's a second-story bar.
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:40.400
Like, and it's it's like grad students would hang out there, like actual adults would hang out there, but also some college kids would hang out there.
00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:41.920
But you feel it's a little bit more R-speed.
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:49.599
So we go up, we go upstairs into that bar, and we walk up to the bar where there's just enough, like where there's space where we can go up in order, right?
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:56.719
So there's this like college girl sitting here, and she turns to us immediately and she goes, Oh my god, are y'all the biker gang?
00:43:57.599 --> 00:43:58.960
Please start cracking up.
00:43:59.039 --> 00:43:59.840
We're like we're done.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:00.639
Definitely not a biker.
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:01.679
Dressed in leather?
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:05.679
She's going to love to see them dressed in leather.
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:08.559
I was wearing like a Hawaiian shirt or something, right?
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:08.960
You know?
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:10.480
And so I just started cracking up.
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:12.159
I'm like, we're definitely not a biker game.
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:13.280
But I go, thank you?
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:16.320
That's so much nicer than what the girl said to me in the other bar.
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:19.199
Did y'all just have a prostate example?
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.519
So this girl's cracking us up, right?
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:24.239
She's talking to us.
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:25.599
She's asking all kinds of questions.
00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:26.960
We told her we were playing water polo.
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:27.840
She's like, water polo?
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:32.960
So she was very sweet and nice and right, you know, made us feel welcome.
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:36.559
And so I could tell her friends kind of like, why are you talking to these old dudes, right?
00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:38.480
So I I didn't want her friend to feel awkward.
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:42.960
So I just told her friend, I go, hey, look, I go, I'm sorry that your friend's talking to uh to my buddy.
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:48.320
It's like, you know, um, but you know, just so you know, I go, all five of us are happily married.
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:50.079
None of us are hitting on you guys.
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:53.519
I go, uh, and if you guys want us to buy drinks, do you guys want a drink?
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:54.639
She can put it on our tab.
00:44:54.719 --> 00:44:55.280
It's no problem.
00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.280
We're just grateful you guys are being so nice to us.
00:44:57.679 --> 00:44:59.599
It's nice to talk to someone, you know?
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:00.719
And she was like, Really?
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:01.920
I go, yeah, not a problem.
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:03.280
They were drinking white Russians.
00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:04.880
So I'm like, yeah, I'll buy your milk.
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:05.360
All right.
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.559
It was like$2.50 for a cocktail.
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:10.320
So that she was like, thank you.
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:10.960
That's very nice.
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:12.239
So we sat and talked to them.
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:13.119
They're very nice.
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.280
Met some of their friends, kept coming up, coming back.
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:18.719
But there was these like two or three dudes that they were friends with who wouldn't come over.
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:20.159
They were just like spink eyes.
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:21.039
Uh femin.
00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:23.760
And I'm like, dude, these guys think we're hitting on these girls probably.
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:28.719
You know, like they just you should not be threatened by the beard belly mustache dads like who are over here.
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:29.199
I don't know.
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:30.880
Some of the girls.
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:32.639
My dad was a truck driver.
00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:33.360
What are you doing?
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:34.159
I guess that's true.
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:36.079
I don't know what experiences he's had, right?
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.199
So, anyways, at some point, uh, they were like, nice talking to y'all.
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:40.480
So nice talking to y'all.
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:42.159
Um, we're gonna go hang out with these boys.
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:43.519
They're being dumb, they won't come over here.
00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:46.079
And we're like, yeah, go hang out with your friends, thanks for being cool, whatever.
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:49.519
So we have one or two more drinks, and then we go to leave, right?
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:55.840
And so we walk by the table that they're sitting at as we leave, and I go, bye girls, very nice talking to you guys, thanks for being cool.
00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:58.400
They were like, bye, Dave, bye boys, nice to meet y'all.
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:06.239
And we're like, all right, so we turn the corner and uh and I go to walk down the stairs, but there's a group of people coming up the stairs, right?
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:10.239
So I wait at the top of the stairs for them to come up before I go down.
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:18.719
So this kid who was sitting at the table around the corner probably played it out in his head and figured I'd be out the bottom door and out in the alley by then.
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:18.880
Right.
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:26.719
And so then he gets brave and yells, Why don't you go to another bar and hit on girls your own age, you fucking losers, right?
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:29.199
And I was like, oh bro.
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.239
I go, Did that guy just yell that at me thinking I was gone?
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:32.719
Right?
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:40.159
And I go, dude, if that guy had said that to my face as I was leaving, I would have been like, All right, man, I'll let you have your moment.
00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:41.039
I go, I get it.
00:46:41.119 --> 00:46:42.880
We're the old dudes in a college town.
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:43.280
Right.
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:46.639
I go, I would have, I don't have no interest in fighting anyone ever.
00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:48.559
I've never been a f in my whole life.
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:53.920
Like, I've stood up for people, I don't let people get away with shit, but I have no interest in throwing a point.
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:56.079
I don't want to hurt another human being, you know, whatever.
00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:57.280
And I don't want to get hurt.
00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:58.880
That's amazing for me.
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.400
I don't know, I can't imagery.
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:01.039
Yeah.
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:08.239
So, so uh, you know, if he had said something, I would have been like, all right, man, I go, I'll let you have your moment, I'll let you look tough, and I would have just left.
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:11.119
But I hate fake tough guys.
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:24.719
And the fact that this dude waited until he thought we were long enough before he yelled something brave, I just walked right the second he was done with the sentence, I just walked right back around the corner and I went, Did someone say something to me?
00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:29.840
I go, Did somebody have a message for me and my biker gang?
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:33.519
I go, boys, get back in here.
00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:36.400
And this guy was shitting his pants, dude.
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:36.719
Right?
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:38.480
He was like, what, what?
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:44.239
And I'm like, it sounded like somebody had a message for me and my friends, like that, you know?
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:50.559
And uh, and then the bouncer comes over, the bouncer's laughing because he can just he's like, he's like, dude, these guys aren't gonna hurt each other, you know.
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:55.360
So the bouncer kind of like like puts his like hand on me and starts to like push me out the door.
00:47:55.440 --> 00:48:02.400
And I'm like, I'll be out in the alley if you would like a further this discussion, like kid shitting himself.
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:07.360
So uh so the second we turn the corner, I look at the bouncer and I go, Hey man, I'm not really mad, I don't care.
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.199
Like, you know, and he's like, I know, man.
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:10.480
I've been watching you guys all night.
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:12.719
You guys have been cool as shit, you've been talking to everyone.
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:15.760
He goes, that little punks just like you know, whatever.
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:17.920
And so then I go, look, I'll leave.
00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:19.679
I go, but only if you do one thing.
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:20.480
And he's like, What?
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:30.400
I go, Well, you go back in there and tell that guy that we are really pissed off and that we've got both X fits covered and we are waiting for him at closing time.
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:32.559
And he goes, Nothing would make me happier.
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:51.840
So he goes back in and uh and and uh finds uh I know he told the kid that because one of my friends told uh those girls that I was a comedian, so they found me on Instagram, and then the next day I realized they messaged me and they were like right at closing time, they were like, Dave, I would like to apologize for my friend.
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.519
He's just a really insecure.
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:56.719
And I'm like, oh man, that kid was so scared shitless.
00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:00.159
He was probably getting her to be like, yo, can you message our guys from my way?
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:03.920
I'm like, dude, we were already eating chicken wings and passed out by then, dude.
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:04.559
I like that.
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:06.719
That's all I wanted was to get chicken wings that night.
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.320
I don't care about fighting somebody.
00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:11.599
Did you ever have a fight in a club at a show or anything?
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:12.800
Ever have a problem?
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:18.880
I mean, I've never like gotten into a drop, you know, down like melee or anything.
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:21.280
I have always been able to talk my way.
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:28.480
Because I mean, I I I mean, I've I've certainly like something like that, I get more mad about the principle than I actually get mad at the person.
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:31.519
Like, you know, it's more like who's coming out of this club to fight at the city.
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:33.440
Oh, I'm not gonna fight the pan pana bottom.
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:34.320
Oh bro, dude.
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:38.400
I mean, don't get me wrong, there's been situations where I'm like it was a two drink minimum.
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:40.159
I get it, you pushed you over the edge.
00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:51.760
But man, the thing is, man, 99% of the people out there, and it's a little sad that the state of the world, like you uh you see you like back like back in the day, like you didn't see it, like you had to be there to see it.
00:49:51.920 --> 00:50:02.079
Now you see like you should scroll, which is like every thing is people fighting a target, people fighting at a comedy show, people, and it just like breeds more and more sustain and hate and and you know, whatever.
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:09.119
But uh long story short, I feel like I've always been able to, in a heated moment, be like, hey man, everything's cool.
00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:09.920
Don't worry about it.
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:10.400
We're fine.
00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.840
Like, you know, I I'll I won't like let someone get away with something.
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:14.639
I'll speak my mind.
00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:17.039
I'll be like, look, man, if you want to throw it out, I'll throw it out.
00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:18.079
But I don't want to, bro.
00:50:18.239 --> 00:50:20.079
Like, you know, like I don't know.
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.440
I mean, and I'm I've never been I don't have that deceleration thing, man.
00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:27.679
I'm always just like you know, I just go, I just all guys no brains, man.
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:28.639
It's stupid.
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:30.400
But I mean it it's it's who I am.
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:31.599
I'm trying to learn to be better.
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:34.159
But I mean, I've you know, I've had shit.
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.639
I've probably been in ten bar fights at OB's, man.
00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:38.239
While you were working, yeah.
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:40.960
Main opponent is like teenagers trying to do that.
00:50:41.119 --> 00:50:46.559
No, no, I've never had this these guys from Auburn came in and fucking biker gang.
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:47.360
I tossed him out.
00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:48.320
No, I wish I did.
00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:51.360
Like Duke, my roommate, was like the Mr.'s man.
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:53.599
He was like, you don't, you know, you don't like those people.
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:58.320
And I've always been like, look, this is the line, you're not crossing this line.
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.239
And if you do, we're done.
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:04.880
You know, and I and it's uh and I don't want to fight, but I mean they it seems like they want to fight.
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:06.000
It sounds like you do.
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:07.519
It seems like they want to fight me.
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:09.760
Well, it feels like you're kind of the bouncer and the bartender.
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:10.880
Well, we don't have the bouncer.
00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:13.760
Yeah, so you know you've got to do what you gotta do, yeah.
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:16.400
I don't know, but anyway.
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:18.079
Uh I don't know.
00:51:18.239 --> 00:51:25.920
I'm sure if I really thought I mean there's been times in like a water polo game or something where I start getting like, and really it's more the ref's fault than it is like the other players.
00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:33.599
Because you start getting a little physical, and then when the guy's getting away with it, and he's getting away with it, you get frustrated, and you're like, Well, I want to send a message that you can't get away with that.
00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:37.599
So you'd give them a little like under the water, and then they're gonna see under the water, bro.
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:38.559
Well, I'll tell you this.
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:44.079
So there wasn't that the thing that uh the the under the water and water polo is just a melee.
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:45.440
Y'all are kicking each other and all that.
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:48.159
Yeah, but there's also like uh it's a new one.
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:58.480
Essentially can't see under the water unless it's like uh at the Olympics and they have, you know, VAR or whatever, you know.
00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:06.159
But um you know, if if you're if you have your hands down and someone like looks like they got popped, you're gonna get called for it.
00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:13.360
But if you have your hands up and you're able to pop someone and they're like sneaky with your knee or something, you're probably gonna get away with it, you know.
00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:17.679
But that guy's gonna be pissed at you and he's gonna get you back when he gets a chance, you know.
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:18.559
Like, if Mr.
00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:21.360
Pat's taught you to twerk, you can kind of throw that thing around at him.
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:21.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:27.440
There's a lot of there's a lot of like, you know, uh, I don't know, it's kind of good.
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:34.320
Maybe it's why I haven't gotten into a bar fight, because there's a lot of like de-escalating through like, hey man, you can't do that shit to me.
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:38.159
Like, you know, if someone just takes it and takes it and takes it, they're gonna keep doing it.
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:38.320
Right.
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.239
If you if you like pot someone and put and go, you're alright, you pop me, I'm gonna pop you.
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:45.119
But people are like, all right, respect, let's just play, you know?
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:46.639
So it's a lot of that, you know.
00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:51.760
But usually uh water polo players haven't had eight shots of Jaegermeister.
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:54.639
Well, it depends which tournament you're talking about.
00:52:56.719 --> 00:52:58.239
Um But I don't know, man.
00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:00.559
I never thought of it that way, but I bet there's some truth to that.
00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:13.360
That that that's like a life lesson where it's like, you know, I think that's I've never shied away from like having to puff up to someone at a bar, but also did not want to ever actually like I'd probably get my ass kicked in most situations.
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:14.639
Right neck in a bar.
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:15.599
No, I'm not good.
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:16.000
But yeah.
00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:17.760
I'm like five and thirty in fights.
00:53:18.159 --> 00:53:21.039
But you know, I never I was always just like, hey man, knock it off.
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.079
Or yo, let's get, you know, let's or talk my way out of it.
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:33.519
Like, yo, I I didn't mean that or whatever, you know, like instead of just coming back with like, well, fuck me, fuck ye, you know, and then you know, next thing you know, no one's saying anything intelligible.
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:33.840
Right.
00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:34.960
And you're just swinging, you know.
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:36.719
I've never been accused of being intelligent.
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:37.840
It's not southern either.
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:38.480
That was an accident.
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:39.039
That's true.
00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:39.840
That's true.
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:41.840
Oh no, Miami's Southern, right?
00:53:42.159 --> 00:53:43.840
Well no.
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:45.840
Miami is the north of the South.
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:46.559
Right, exactly.
00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:48.559
Yeah, it's a flipped on its head.
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:49.280
Yeah.
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:51.679
It wasn't there when the South was the South.
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:52.800
It was like a beach.
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:53.280
Right.
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:55.280
You know, and then, oh, talk about fight.
00:53:55.360 --> 00:53:56.320
They're just gonna turn on the course.
00:53:56.559 --> 00:53:57.280
Ah, oh no.
00:53:57.519 --> 00:53:58.559
You want me to rub it for you?
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:00.559
I got you, I got you, bro.
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:01.119
Right here?
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:04.559
Right there, what the f Movie magic.
00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:05.440
I don't know, man.
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:08.480
It just all of a sudden this is what happens to dance.
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:12.400
I was thinking about fighting, and I at this at this age, that's why you don't get to fight.
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:17.119
You throw one, you throw one punch and you're like, hold on, I'm crampling.
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:17.679
I'm crampling.
00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:19.519
Wait, wait, wait, wait, talk him out, talk him out.
00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:24.239
And meanwhile, this guy's beating your face, and you're like, I got a trolley horse, no bear.
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:25.840
Oh my god, I talked about it.
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:27.519
I got a pain in my side.
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:29.199
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:30.639
Oh shit.
00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:31.760
Wow, that was bad.
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:32.960
That was like, whoa.
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:33.599
Oh.
00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:34.559
Anyway.
00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:35.119
All right.
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:36.719
Um there.
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:39.119
What is we talking about earlier?
00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:41.119
I was talking about the drinking on the plane earlier.
00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:41.840
Yeah, man.
00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:42.800
You fly all the time.
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:43.280
Oh, yeah.
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:44.880
They're cutting down on drinking on the plane.
00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:45.599
Do you drink on the plane?
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:46.400
Well, I noticed.
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:47.760
Is this a thing?
00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:53.760
Because I sit normally, like if you sit in first class, they'll come and they'll serve you or whatever.
00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:59.039
But like I normally uh get upgraded to Delta Comfort where you can get free drinks.
00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:04.639
But man, that bar cart comes through once and they they've slowed it down.
00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:06.159
It doesn't come right away anymore.
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:08.159
They want you to be embarrassed by bing.
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:08.719
Yeah.
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:09.679
There he goes again.
00:55:09.840 --> 00:55:10.159
Yeah, yeah.
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:11.760
So if you were the comic.
00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:14.159
You're not allowed to be YOB.
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:14.480
Right.
00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:17.920
So it's just like you you're only gonna drink as much as they're gonna.
00:55:18.239 --> 00:55:20.000
I have so many vouchers on my thing.
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:24.480
I mean, but um, yeah, I mean, I definitely like having a cocktail on the plane.
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:29.599
Uh this guy was complaining about uh cocktails before you get on the plane.
00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:33.360
He's like, I don't want you to be able to drink more than two drinks before you get on the plane.
00:55:33.519 --> 00:55:34.639
People are kind of crying foul.
00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:37.519
They're like, well, that just you just want people to buy more drinks on your plane.
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:46.320
Yeah, but that's gonna hurt the entire economics of air travel because those bars in the airport are banking on people.
00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:47.679
That's the whole economy of the airport.
00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:48.480
I don't do that.
00:55:48.639 --> 00:55:52.800
But I but I've noticed like the lounges where you know they have a selection of what you can have.
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:57.440
First of all, they start they've started limiting the time amount of times per year you can go to the lounge.
00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:02.239
Second of all, they start it's like full and you have to wait a line longer to get in the lounge.
00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:08.079
Third of all, the selection for what you get free in the lounge versus what you pay for in the lounge isn't as good as it used to be.
00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:10.400
And like they'll have the one beer I like to drink, and they're like, oh, we're out of that.
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:14.559
You can only and I'm like, uh, I want to drink a lot of and eat this, you know, whatever.
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:20.800
And then uh, and then you know, you get on the plane, and like you're lucky if they make one round to serve you, you know.
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:26.079
So it's just like, yeah, it's tougher and tougher for sure to have a few cocktails unless you're sitting first class.
00:56:26.239 --> 00:56:28.559
I've seen I had I forgot who I was flying.
00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:31.920
This was about last year, and the guy I watched the guy get on the plane.
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:34.800
I'm like, that dude should not be getting on this plane.
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:35.119
Yeah.
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:39.039
And like three minutes later, I just feel and he just puked on my leg.
00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:40.400
He was sitting there on your leg?
00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:41.119
On my leg.
00:56:41.199 --> 00:56:41.679
Oh, that's right.
00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:43.440
And they're like, well, it's gonna take 30 minutes.
00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:46.800
You're gonna need somebody in here to clean my leg, man.
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:48.480
I'm gonna do the antith theater.
00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:51.840
Or I'm gonna throw another goddamn Charlie horse or something.
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:53.119
Man, that's brutal.
00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:57.920
It's just uh but I don't I I'm the guy that gets to the airport.
00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:00.320
I'm the guy they're waiting on the door.
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:01.920
Like, oh, here's the lake, he's late.
00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:03.360
I don't I hate sitting in an airport.
00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:04.400
They put a bar right there.
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:05.119
Well, you know what?
00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:07.679
I like to be the last person on the board.
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:08.719
Yeah, me too, man.
00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:10.639
You don't want to get crop dusted when you're sitting there.
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:11.280
That happened to me.
00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:25.119
I just don't want to be crop to I'd rather just be at the bar, slow sipping a beer, I eat a little sandwich, uh, and then when I see the last group is boarding, or one of the last groups, uh, I just, you know, I got the priority, so I just skip the line.
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:25.679
It's good, all right.
00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:26.880
I'm gonna get on the little plane now.
00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:31.599
And you know, I put my backpack down under, I don't need to get on in time to I don't carry on ever.
00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:32.800
I always check my bag.
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:35.280
I hate dragging shit to the airport.
00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:46.400
And um I usually have a bag full of merch, which is my purpose seasoning and rub, which you can purchase at any of my shows or on my website, Dave Williamson.com.
00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:47.920
Perfect.
00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:48.880
Oh, thank you, man.
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:59.199
This is some great uh he is I can't say enough, folks, that if you get a chance to go to the old town patio or get his or if you're gonna be in Memphis in Memphis and Meg, go check him out.
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:00.719
This will probably come out after Memphis and Memphis.
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:01.599
Yeah, well, that's true.
00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:02.400
But anyway.
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:05.840
Uh but yeah, it's it's great food, it's wonderful.
00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:08.400
So this is my this is my merch on the road, right?
00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:09.280
I sell those.
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:20.800
But then uh also a lot of the clubs, I'll ship them a couple of those ahead time ahead of time so the bartenders can mess around with them, and then they'll make a Meet Dave specialty menu and they'll do like a spicy margarita with that on the rim.
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:26.159
Oh, they'll do a fireball shot with that in it, or like they'll come up with different cocktails where they can utilize that.
00:58:26.559 --> 00:58:27.039
Nice, yeah.
00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:37.519
Um and uh sometimes I'll even do like barbecue/slash comedy events where it's like uh you know, I'll either cook for the show or sometimes even at the big clubs, I'll cook.
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:45.119
I'll find a smoker I could borrow and cook some uh pulled pork, and then like the the nachos come with my pulled pork on it that night or something like that, you know.
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:47.920
Where do you keep a smoker when you're not on the road?
00:58:48.159 --> 00:58:49.280
When I'm not on the road?
00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:49.599
Yeah.
00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:52.079
When you're not, you're taking it to go borrow.
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:52.960
Do you have a giant?
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:56.079
Oh, no, like if I'm on the road, I usually just borrow one.
00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:56.400
Right.
00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:59.039
Like I have a big enough network of friends and all that.
00:58:59.199 --> 00:58:59.760
But you have one here.
00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:01.039
I've see you I know you got one here.
00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:02.960
I have seven or eight smokers here.
00:59:03.039 --> 00:59:03.920
Yeah, I got a couple more.
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:06.079
Don't you have the big trailer?
00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:08.000
I uh I don't have one on a trailer.
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:11.519
I have um I have a big offset smoker in my yard.
00:59:11.599 --> 00:59:11.920
Uh huh.
00:59:12.079 --> 00:59:14.480
Um I'm gonna order one for the restaurant eventually.
00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:20.079
It's a big thousand gallon offset from Titus Smokers and put it on a trailer and can do catering with it and stuff.
00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:22.000
But um, yeah, we're not there yet.
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:23.840
We gotta do a build-out for a place to park it.
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:25.679
And hey, how about another one of those beers over there?
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:26.239
What do you want?
00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:27.119
One of them.
00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:29.599
I'll take one too, yeah, Lord.
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:33.280
Just give me one of those uh ranch waters.
00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:34.559
Is there another ranch one?
00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:37.199
I'm gonna buy a camo.
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:38.480
Whatever you got.
00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:44.960
These are beers from Common Space Brewery where I do a show the first the first Wednesday of every month.
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:45.599
Fun show.
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:46.159
Free show.
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:48.719
El Sagundo's got some good beers, huh?
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:51.280
Uh yeah, this is in Hawthorne.
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:52.639
Concerts is a Hawthorne.
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:56.559
Um, it's a fun show, dude.
00:59:56.639 --> 00:59:58.400
It's been it's been killer lately.
00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:00.000
We always evolve it every few years.
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:05.360
We move the stage to a different part of the room, or like we know, we we we change like about the show, you know.
01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:12.320
El Segundo has one, two, three, four breweries or not.
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:14.639
Four breweries within walking distance to my house.
01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:16.880
Um and they're all great.
01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:19.360
And uh yeah, it might be forget.
01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:21.440
Oh, we we had a fifth one, but it's gone now.
01:00:21.519 --> 01:00:24.480
But we we have four, all within walking distance of my house.
01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:25.360
It's pretty crazy.
01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:26.079
That's a nice one.
01:00:26.159 --> 01:00:34.159
Uh anchored by El Segundo Brewco, which was one of the t one of the first seven beers in Los Angeles County, our first seven breweries.
01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:40.559
And they also brew um Steve Austin's uh Broken Skull IPA, which is distributed nationwide.
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:42.880
I didn't even know Steve Austin had an IPA.
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:43.920
Oh, dude.
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:46.079
It's it's killer.
01:00:46.159 --> 01:00:46.960
Yeah, it's really popular.
01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:52.639
They've got a great porter that they only put in a bottle that's only out I can't remember.
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:53.840
They have a lot of seasonal beers.
01:00:54.239 --> 01:00:54.639
Yeah, man.
01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:55.760
That is a great beer.
01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:59.360
We always try to go over there and get a slice at the pr at the pizza company.
01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:03.280
Don't know when it's going to a great great place.
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:04.320
We got their beers on top.
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:07.280
Yeah, and I can't remember the name of that beer, but it is really good, man.
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:16.079
It's a good little but it's delicious.
01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:22.800
But you can't, it's like and they don't they won't uh they sell they only sell it in like four packs or something like that.
01:01:23.039 --> 01:01:31.599
You know, it's a great it's it's weird how there's beers that I remember being amazing, like when I first discovered them.
01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:38.960
Because my move is and has been for a long time, when I travel or do gigs, I'll just tell the bartender, I would like a local IPA, please.
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:39.280
Right.
01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:44.239
Or sometimes I'll even throw in like, I'd like a local IPA that you think is delicious, you know?
01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:46.480
And I like the bartender to choose what I should have.
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:52.320
And then even when we were traveling with Bert, like the writer, you know, would say local IPA.
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:59.519
So whoever the local, you know, venue runner was, they would pick out some really good local IPAs for us, and then the fans would bring us local.
01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:02.960
So I like I like discovering regional beers, right?
01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:13.760
And I remember the first time having like um uh Sweetwater 420 and um sculpting and uh uh like uh uh Two Hearted.
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:15.039
Uh Love Too Heart.
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:19.679
Yeah, but I think a lot of those beers have been like bought up by An Hyder Bush and the bigger things.
01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:24.480
Like they're all like, dude, if you can't beat them, join them, and they all started like you know, acquiring those things.
01:02:24.559 --> 01:02:25.840
So it's getting harder and harder.
01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:32.639
But um when you put it into the the bartender's hands, then they can kind of curate it for you.
01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:35.280
And I've had some great beers from around the country, man.
01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:37.679
Have you had Pliny the Elder?
01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:41.119
Oh bro, I remember the first time I had Pliny the Elder.
01:02:41.840 --> 01:02:54.800
I was moving out here from Florida, and my cousin, who's in the restaurant bar business, told me, he's like, dude, we did this like um, you know, beer tasting tour through Napa and Northern California, and he's like, dude, if you can get Pliny the Elder.
01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:56.880
So and I just kept hearing about it.
01:02:57.039 --> 01:03:07.519
And uh when I moved to LA, I was having lunch with my buddy, um, who's a guy who played water polo for University of Florida that I used to play against and we became good friends, lifelong friends.
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:14.880
So I met him for lunch because he was living out here at the time, and I look over on the chalkboard and they had plenty of the elder, and I go, Motherfucker, I got people wanting to try that.
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:19.920
And he was on his lunch break in a suit and tie, and I drank one, and I was like, oh my god, that's so good.
01:03:20.159 --> 01:03:22.719
We sat up there and drank like three Pliny the Elders apiece.
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:27.840
That's uh we have it on our our uh on our POS system, Pliny to the Elder.
01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:29.519
It's never no often do you have it?
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:30.639
No, we've never had it.
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:34.320
It's like, but he's got it in there just in case.
01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:38.320
Well, Pliny the Elder, they they've been the Russian River Brewery, it's been very smart.
01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:53.679
Not only is it do they do a great job, so speaking of two-hearted, like two-hearted and ploting the elderly went back and forth for years as like um whatever it is, uh craft brew magazine or like uh number one IPA in the country.
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:56.239
It was like those two back and forth for years and years.
01:03:57.119 --> 01:04:04.960
Um but what Russian River does, to my understanding, is they've been very smart about not oversaturating the market with it.
01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:08.000
It's a special thing when your local bar gets it.
01:04:08.079 --> 01:04:08.239
Right.
01:04:08.400 --> 01:04:11.679
There's only a few bars around the country that have it like pretty constantly on tap.
01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:14.000
I think the library in Santa Monica is one of them.
01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:14.800
They get it a lot.
01:04:14.880 --> 01:04:19.280
Every now and then uh they'll get it at Slizman Pine or at Richmond Bar and Grill.
01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:19.679
Oh, really?
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:20.800
Segundo, yeah.
01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:29.119
And um back in the day, uh Rock and Brew used to get it, but a couple times they've gotten it, like someone's told me, and then by the time I get down there, it's gone.
01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:34.079
Yeah, but um, but yeah, there's places that get it, but they they just like slow release it.
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:39.519
So so it's still a special It's like an allocation thing, and that way it doesn't you can kind of control the product.
01:04:39.920 --> 01:04:41.199
It's a special treat to get burned.
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:42.480
Yeah, exactly.
01:04:43.679 --> 01:05:04.719
But there's this there's this one random bar in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, which um my buddy Kyle Ruff runs uh comedy shows in Steamboat, and uh I I've gone back the past couple years and done his show for him because you know I like to snowboard, and um I've got I've put together enough gigs around Colorado that I can make little runs out of it, and it's just fun for me.
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:10.239
Like there's a lot of people I really enjoy hanging out with and seeing um uh those Colorado gigs and whatever.
01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:22.880
So I like to support Kyle specifically because he works really hard at um producing comedy shows in this little ski town, and uh they do their show at this place called Schmiggade's, which is like a bar or slash like club.
01:05:23.039 --> 01:05:28.159
Normally they're gonna have music acts, but on Friday, Saturday, early show, they do comedy shows and people show up for it.
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:29.199
It's really fun.
01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:34.719
And then there's this one bar down the street that I can't remember the name of, but everyone just migrates down there.
01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:46.480
And it's just this little hole in the wall, it's like not dimly lit, it's like a well-lit bar, no food, and they just have really good bourbons and really good uh beers, basically.
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:50.239
And they have Pliny the Elder year-round, always there.
01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:56.320
And so the first the first weekend I ever worked there, first night I was drinking some local IPA, it was good or whatever.
01:05:56.480 --> 01:06:01.599
And then the second night uh I was drinking and I asked I You know, I asked the bartender, like, what should I have?
01:06:01.679 --> 01:06:02.800
He goes, You read Pliny the Elder?
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:04.480
I go, Fuck yeah, I've had Pliny the Elder.
01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:05.599
He's like, All right, you should have that.
01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:07.360
I go, You guys have Pliny of the Elder?
01:06:07.679 --> 01:06:08.400
He goes, Yeah.
01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:11.199
I can't believe I wasted a night not drinking that.
01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:12.719
I've been drinking Bud Life.
01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:13.360
What the fuck?
01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:15.360
I'm like, I'm drinking Pliny of the Elder the rest of the night.
01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:19.519
So now, like, every time I go to steamboat streams, I'm just like, gonna have plenty of the elder.
01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:21.599
What's the name of that bar?
01:06:22.719 --> 01:06:24.079
I like sniggeties.
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:26.159
Call Kyle Ruff.
01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:29.039
Kyle Ruff, tell him to give me some pliny of the elder.
01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:29.840
All right.
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:31.440
Uh hold on.
01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:33.760
Here we go.
01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:36.639
This is what Kyle looks like, just so you guys know.
01:06:37.440 --> 01:06:38.000
Burt Reynolds.
01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:38.719
This is fun.
01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:42.880
Kyle, first of all, happy birthday, buddy.
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:44.000
Thank you.
01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:45.199
It's Sunday, but thank you.
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:45.840
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:47.039
But I'm not gonna call you on Sunday.
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:48.159
I'm calling you today.
01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:55.039
Hey man, I'm on the overserved podcast right now, bragging about your show and your scene.
01:06:55.119 --> 01:07:00.400
And I can't what's the name of the bar that we go down and we drink Pliny the Elder till the sun comes up?
01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:02.719
Oh, that's called the Barley.
01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:06.639
The Barley! This is how I described it.
01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:08.079
Very plain Jane.
01:07:08.159 --> 01:07:09.519
It's just like tables and chairs.
01:07:09.599 --> 01:07:17.119
Maybe there's one couch in the corner, and it's got a got a modest bar when you first walk in, a coat rack off to the left, but uh it's not even dim.
01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:18.880
It's like it's like well lit.
01:07:19.039 --> 01:07:21.679
And they just have great beers and great booze.
01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:22.719
And it's very simple.
01:07:23.840 --> 01:07:37.840
Yeah, it's all everything there is from uh at least all the liquor is from Colorado, and then the majority of the beers are Colorado, but they do some special, they call them tourist house like that Finding the Elder, which is from Oregon, I think.
01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:42.159
It's from Rushman River in Northern California, but nice try by it.
01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:44.880
I don't know where things are.
01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:45.440
All right.
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:46.239
I love it, buddy.
01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:47.280
All right, that was gonna kill me.
01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:47.920
I had to think of it.
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:51.119
The barley guys go if you're in steamboat springs, go check out the barley.
01:07:51.199 --> 01:07:53.760
They don't have food, but there's a great pizza place upstairs.
01:07:53.920 --> 01:08:01.119
You can order pizza and bring it down there and check out steamboat comedy uh while you're in town to go see Kyle.
01:08:01.440 --> 01:08:03.360
Yeah, fucking appreciate you, brother.
01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:04.079
All right, I love you.
01:08:04.159 --> 01:08:04.800
I'll call you later.
01:08:07.679 --> 01:08:08.400
The barley.
01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:09.840
That sounds like smiggateys a little.
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:12.239
Smiggade's is like, yeah, that's a great name too.
01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:13.840
Wait, let's see.
01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:16.560
Let's ask you.
01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:17.359
Hold on, hold on.
01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:18.960
I would think that's a good story, too.
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:21.520
Yeah, yeah.
01:08:26.399 --> 01:08:30.079
What's the story behind how they came up with the name Smiggade's?
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:32.479
Dude, I don't know.
01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:35.920
Um, that disappoints us, man.
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:36.800
All right, all right.
01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:39.359
Lupin the loop loop in the owner.
01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:42.000
He told me the story before it was a good it was a good story.
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:47.520
I will I will find out because I gotta go there tonight to run karaoke, so I'll find out and I'll report back.
01:08:47.760 --> 01:08:50.079
All right, get back to me and then we'll do a follow-up episode.
01:08:50.319 --> 01:08:51.439
All right, see you later.
01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:54.800
I never thought I would have to be.
01:08:57.520 --> 01:09:02.880
It was it was uh the owner was at the shikami show, and I asked him, I was like, how'd you go with the name Schmiggities?
01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:08.000
And he was like, it was something like it was it was such a terrible story, it was a good story, right?
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:18.399
Because it was something like uh, oh man, we were drunk trying to come up with a name for the bar, and someone suggested something, and someone else was so drunk they couldn't say it, and the way they kept pronouncing it was Schmiggity, and we went, we're just gonna go with that.
01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:18.560
Yeah.
01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:21.520
And I was like, I go, that was such a bad story, it's a great story.
01:09:21.680 --> 01:09:22.000
There you go.
01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:26.239
But you named your business out of something so flippant, you know, and it worked.
01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:27.920
And it lasted.
01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:28.800
I like it, man.
01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:34.880
So the last time I did their show, uh, it was during season, so it was like, you know, it was uh snow season.
01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:35.520
Right.
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:49.279
So uh you know how like when you go up on the mountain to go snowboarding or snow skiing and they have the the top of the gondola or the ski lift, they have the big cafeterias and the bar and everything where like you know, you would eat mountain you would eat food up on the mountain.
01:09:49.520 --> 01:10:04.000
So he did um he does a show down at the base at that bar, but then he did a special couple shows where on the Saturday night you took the gondola up and then we did the comedy show up on top of the mountain.
01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:04.640
Oh, that's cool.
01:10:04.800 --> 01:10:06.159
And it was so cool.
01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:08.159
I was like, dude, are people gonna go up for this?
01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:08.880
This seems weird.
01:10:09.039 --> 01:10:11.119
And we got up there and it was packed.
01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:21.359
Oh, it's kind of and just like it's not like you're like you're still in just a room, but just the fact you took a gondola up and it like made it like a special event, like the energy was so different.
01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:26.640
Like my comedy show at the patio, like I've produced tons of bar shows around town.
01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:39.520
I've produced tons of shows in general over the years, and something about this show that we're doing every other Wednesday at Old Town Patio, it's the most fun I've ever had producing a show.
01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:44.640
Part of that's probably because I have I'm invested in the butt but but honestly, it's more than that.
01:10:44.720 --> 01:11:00.399
It's just we literally I don't wanna I don't wanna jinx it, but it's like I think just the vibe of it being outside and the the patio itself is such a cool space that I just feel like the crowds not need to be warmed up.
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:07.520
They're like, dude, we showed up to like chill and have a great time, and they're just like invested from the go.
01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:09.840
It's been the most fun I've had.
01:11:09.920 --> 01:11:23.840
Like, I was supposed to leave you out in Memphis and May tomorrow night, um, and I was gonna have a guest host for the show, and our lineup is so banging tomorrow night, and then also I've had so many people reach out being like, dude, I I'm actually free.
01:11:24.159 --> 01:11:25.600
And I just think it's gonna be a packed house.
01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:27.119
And I'm like, dude, I don't want to miss it.
01:11:27.279 --> 01:11:29.279
Like, I've never felt that way about a bar show before.
01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:31.039
Especially an outdoor show.
01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:33.279
Outdoor shows usually dude.
01:11:33.359 --> 01:11:35.199
It started raining halfway through one of the shows.
01:11:35.279 --> 01:11:36.720
Like, not raining, like misting, you know.
01:11:36.960 --> 01:11:38.560
And I was like, oh my god, we're screwed.
01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:44.319
And I went up and I told everyone, like, guys, if we need me to grab some of everyone's like, dude, it's barely like just go.
01:11:44.720 --> 01:11:46.239
And y'all are serving barbecue at this?
01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:47.039
I'm good.
01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:47.439
I'm going.
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:48.000
That's it.
01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:49.680
That's that's the sales pitch right.
01:11:50.159 --> 01:11:51.199
People sat in the rain.
01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:51.680
I like it.
01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:52.960
And watched the second half of the show.
01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:55.119
I'm like, this is random.
01:11:55.279 --> 01:11:56.399
This is not happening normally.
01:11:56.479 --> 01:12:01.359
You know, I I think a year from now it's gonna be the one of the best independent shows in LA.
01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:02.960
It's like the vibe's that good.
01:12:03.039 --> 01:12:04.880
People are starting to reach out to me to do the show.
01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:06.880
Like, you know, you you always feel the tide turn.
01:12:07.199 --> 01:12:07.600
Right, right, right.
01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:11.680
This little area, I hate having to go all the way up to like Hollywood if you want to catch a show or whatever.
01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:13.199
There's only a couple little things down here.
01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:13.680
Yeah.
01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:14.880
Well, Dano's show's great.
01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:17.520
Dano's shows is maybe one of the best going in town.
01:12:17.680 --> 01:12:19.600
Yeah, Dano's an anomaly, dude.
01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:25.760
No one puts the love and energy and and effort into uh consistently running a great show like Dano does.
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:33.920
You know, it's like no, that's that's that's but outside of that, I mean you gotta I I think Dano's shows are great because of Dano.
01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:35.600
Oh yeah, he builds it.
01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:40.319
He he built it and you know this this this show is great despite of me.
01:12:42.479 --> 01:12:44.000
I think it's the barbecue, honestly.
01:12:44.159 --> 01:13:05.119
Yeah, so I run once a year now, I run the Gundo Comedy and Barbecue Festival, and it's because I truly believe there is a symbiotic relationship between the mood, having good food, and having something that's a special uh treat um, you know, brings to uh good entertainment.
01:13:05.199 --> 01:13:07.359
And you've seen it for years at comedy clubs.
01:13:07.439 --> 01:13:36.880
If you want to talk about the bar scene and being overserved, underserved, whatever, uh it's so relevant in the comedy landscape because how many clubs have you worked where the um the tickets were overpriced and the um the servers sucked and they had just big uh sugary drinks that were cost too much money and the uh mozzarella sticks were cold and the server was not good, and then the seats were uncomfortable, and then by the time this comic comes on stage, yeah, this crowd is not ready to laugh at all.
01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:38.239
And it has nothing to do with the comic.
01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:40.560
And this comic's like, why is this room suck so bad?
01:13:40.640 --> 01:13:42.000
It's because people are in a bad mood.
01:13:42.159 --> 01:13:48.800
They just spent a ton of money on a babysitter, and they've had just nothing but bad news after bad news before the comic even got up there.
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:52.560
But on the flip side, you go somewhere where it's like, oh, this was a reasonable ticket price.
01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:54.239
Parking wasn't difficult.
01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:58.000
Um, man, we had two great cocktails before the show even started.
01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:00.640
Like, they're just in a vibe, they're like, Man, we're so happy to be here.
01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:03.279
You know, it's definitely who who cares about comedy?
01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:06.319
It's somebody that loves comedy who wants to make it a good product.
01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:11.199
Lenny says some of the zany's in Nashville, man, that club ran like a time.
01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:15.199
And it was he never dropped, he never dropped checks during the show.
01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:16.560
You know, hey, they're gonna wait.
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:18.720
If you gave them a good show, they're willing to wait.
01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:20.720
You know, why am I gonna interrupt the show?
01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:22.800
Why am I gonna make the show worse?
01:14:22.880 --> 01:14:26.960
Uh, by you know, by dropping the show, the tickets 10 minutes before the end of the show.
01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:31.279
Zany's in and that Zany's group, they were just in Chicago at the time.
01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:45.039
When I was a young comic and I started working the road, that was the first place that I recognized they've curated this atmosphere where people trusted the brand versus trusted who was on the show.
01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:55.439
So it wasn't like, oh, you had to book some reality show guy or some has been because there was name recognition just to sell tickets.
01:14:55.680 --> 01:15:02.079
People who wanted to go to the comedy show would say, We trust Zainies to book people who will make us laugh.
01:15:02.159 --> 01:15:02.319
Yeah.
01:15:02.479 --> 01:15:04.479
So they weren't coming out to see a specific comic.
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:09.119
They were just coming out to see whatever comic Zain's told them, this guy's gonna be great.
01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:12.960
So that for that reason, they were one of the first clubs that used to regularly headline me.
01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:15.199
Because I mean I had no name recognition at the time.
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:16.239
I still barely do.
01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:18.800
They were great, but they were like, dude, we know you're gonna kill it today.
01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:22.079
We know our our our our people are gonna love you, and they would book me.
01:15:22.479 --> 01:15:23.279
Yeah, they're great.
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:45.600
And there's uh those those people who did that, uh the uh I mean uh Bruce and uh in Birmingham at the Stardome, he cared about he was one of those guys, you know, and uh D'Anunzio and those guys at the punchline in Atlanta, yeah, and uh uh uh and De Petta, those guys cared about comedy, so it was always gonna be a great show.
01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:49.680
If you're just putting in comedy as an afterthought, you know what can we do?
01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:51.840
You know, oh well let's get comedy in here.
01:15:51.920 --> 01:15:52.079
Yeah.
01:15:52.159 --> 01:15:53.359
Uh and you don't give a shit.
01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:56.479
Well, just like anything else, if you don't give a shit about it, it's gonna die on the vine.
01:15:56.560 --> 01:15:56.720
Yeah.
01:15:56.880 --> 01:15:57.520
Yeah.
01:15:58.000 --> 01:15:59.039
Well, there you go, man.
01:15:59.119 --> 01:15:59.920
Did you have a good time?
01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:01.119
Dude, the black.
01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:02.479
How long do we go for?
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:03.279
Uh well.
01:16:03.680 --> 01:16:04.800
Should I call more people?
01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:06.000
Let's do it.
01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:07.680
Uh who do you got on the line?
01:16:07.760 --> 01:16:08.159
Call someone.
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:08.800
I don't know, man.
01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:11.039
Uh, but yeah, I appreciate you coming out, man.
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:11.920
Dude, anytime.
01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:12.720
Easy yes.
01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:13.840
Thanks for stalling.
01:16:13.920 --> 01:16:15.199
I had to go get my laps in.
01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:16.720
Uh I see you at the pool sometimes.
01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:18.159
I'm telling you, it's my thing, man.
01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:18.319
Yeah.
01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:19.119
It's my zen.
01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:19.600
Yeah.
01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:20.960
I love the pool.
01:16:21.199 --> 01:16:23.439
So I just started my own water polo club.
01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:24.399
Oh, yeah, there you go.
01:16:24.720 --> 01:16:24.880
Yeah.
01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:25.920
So I'm a water polo guy.
01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:27.760
I played at Auburn like we talked about.
01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:30.560
And I've coached high school for over 20 years.
01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:38.319
Um, and uh, but I've never ran I've I've helped run clubs, I've been a part of clubs, I've never started my own club.
01:16:38.560 --> 01:16:45.199
And um my friend and I, who's a very talented coach, um, she coaches with me at uh El So Kano High School, Neela.
01:16:45.680 --> 01:17:00.640
And um, you know, it just one of the other clubs recently um uh folded, and some of our kids were looking for a place to play, and and some of the other local clubs didn't make sense for them, so they started begging us, like, please guys, start a club, start a club.
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:07.359
So I was like, look, I think I I mean I got a lot on my plate right now, but I I would love to to do this for the community.
01:17:07.439 --> 01:17:14.720
I think it'd be fun, and I just love the marketing side of it, and and I just think we can do a lot of really cool things with relationships we've made over the years or whatever.
01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:20.159
So we we started a club, and told me if you like this name.
01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:20.880
Are you ready?
01:17:21.039 --> 01:17:21.439
I'm ready.
01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:21.920
Alright.
01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:32.079
We wanted something El Segundo without being too on the nose, El Segundo, because we didn't want to like exclude kids from other communities, you know, whatever.
01:17:32.239 --> 01:17:34.560
But we wanted to give a nod to where we're based.
01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:44.399
So we landed on uh a team called Quest water polo because of the famous song Cost My Wallet.
01:17:44.720 --> 01:17:45.760
El Sagundo, right?
01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:46.000
You know?
01:17:46.399 --> 01:17:46.960
I tried Quest.
01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:48.079
Okay, I got to do it.
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:49.520
So we're quest water polo.
01:17:49.680 --> 01:17:50.239
I like that, man.
01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:53.760
Gotta get it.
01:17:53.840 --> 01:17:54.239
Yeah, you know.
01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:55.039
Gotta get it.
01:17:55.119 --> 01:17:55.359
Gotta get it.
01:17:55.840 --> 01:17:56.640
Who are you guys partnering with?
01:17:56.720 --> 01:17:58.640
Who what are your some of your relationships you guys can get?
01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:04.399
Well, I just know like so many I'm great friends with so many college coaches around the country and stuff like that.
01:18:04.640 --> 01:18:15.119
And so I just want to bring them in and use our infrastructure to do clinics and camps and um take the kids to, you know, I every year I take a group of kids from here to Orlando to play in a camp there.
01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:17.520
I just want to give kids like life experiences and memories.
01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:22.720
And then also, man, we're gonna do some cool stuff with like, you know, um Who's your age rate?
01:18:22.960 --> 01:18:24.640
Well, right now we just have the the high school.
01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:26.640
Yeah, high school boys and girls.
01:18:26.720 --> 01:18:30.319
But um, you know, we're we're gonna, you know, get some younger programs going.
01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:36.720
And then also I want to do some cool stuff with uh the masters and like the older guys, and and you know, there's limited opportunities.
01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:41.039
It's just like the same old opportunities where like, oh, you gotta be like on a team and you go to a tournament.
01:18:41.119 --> 01:18:49.439
I want to do some fun like daytime tournaments where you like put together a three-on-three team to play some beach polo, have a band playing out there, do some live uh announcing.
01:18:49.520 --> 01:18:50.800
Like I've started doing that too.
01:18:50.880 --> 01:18:54.479
I went a couple months ago to Phoenix and they have the desert duel.
01:18:54.640 --> 01:18:58.159
And so I purposely booked Tempe Improv the same weekend as it.
01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:12.479
And then I went out and uh I I they gave me a microphone and water polo, you know, unless you're playing like in the Olympics or you're playing for like the final four at D1, you don't get to hear your name over the speakers ever, you know.
01:19:12.720 --> 01:19:19.920
So I was out there, like people are scoring goals, and I was just like, DOM Johnson, what a scorcher!
01:19:20.319 --> 01:19:24.800
And he's like overlooking and be like, yeah, I'm just getting well that's like your bit about the guy at the Olympics.
01:19:24.880 --> 01:19:26.000
Yeah, Marco Kuhnz, bro.
01:19:26.079 --> 01:19:27.119
Yeah, totally, yeah, yeah.
01:19:27.199 --> 01:19:28.079
That's my closer.
01:19:28.319 --> 01:19:31.760
Which made a lot less sense to me until I found out you played waterpot.
01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:32.640
I was like, what is he talking about?
01:19:34.239 --> 01:19:34.560
Yeah.
01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:35.520
Let me ask you this.
01:19:35.680 --> 01:19:37.520
What's the worst condo you ever stayed in?
01:19:37.840 --> 01:19:41.119
Oh, man, we're opening up another hour of talks here.
01:19:41.520 --> 01:19:46.880
I'm surprised because I would think you would say my duplex.
01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:53.520
That was, yeah, that was bad, but that was also a blessing.
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:57.359
This look Lawrence goes, hey man, you take the bet.
01:19:58.079 --> 01:19:59.279
I don't want to put you out, man.
01:19:59.439 --> 01:20:03.439
He's like, I would not forgive myself if I made you sleep on the couch.
01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:06.960
I was doing redoing a building in Louisville, Kentucky.
01:20:07.039 --> 01:20:08.720
My mom's duplex, she had died.
01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:10.960
And I called you, I go, hey man, I saw you're at the club.
01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:12.159
I was at home for the derby.
01:20:13.199 --> 01:20:13.920
This is what happened.
01:20:14.079 --> 01:20:16.720
Like you didn't realize the I didn't know it was derby weekend.
01:20:16.800 --> 01:20:17.760
And you didn't have a place for it.
01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:25.439
So I was going to do like a couple one-nighters in like uh Indianapolis and I don't know where else, but I was like trying to tack one more night on.
01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:30.319
So I saw that the Indianapol or the Louisville Club had a Thursday open.
01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:30.560
Right.
01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:35.920
So I hit them up and they're like, they're like, they booked me like right away, and I go, that felt too easy.
01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:38.079
And so I have no clue.
01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:40.239
I got on the airplane and everyone's like dressed.
01:20:40.319 --> 01:20:42.720
I was like, something weird vibes.
01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:51.199
And then they gave out those little like chocolate things or whatever that are like I guess like customary, but derby, and they're doing like mint julips and stuff.
01:20:51.279 --> 01:20:52.800
And I'm like, the fuck is happening?
01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:54.479
And then they're like, it's derby weekend.
01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:56.399
And I go, oh my god, what have I done?
01:20:56.640 --> 01:20:58.479
Like, no, no one's coming.
01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:00.640
And I you were doing a I was like, hit you up.
01:21:00.880 --> 01:21:03.199
I was like, uh, because I saw you were gonna be in Louisville.
01:21:03.279 --> 01:21:03.359
Yeah.
01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:04.720
And I go, Lord, are you in Louisville?
01:21:04.960 --> 01:21:05.600
And you're like, yeah.
01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:07.680
And I go, dude, I don't have a place to stay.
01:21:07.760 --> 01:21:10.800
I go, I was just gonna grab a hotel room when I got there, and everything's sold out.
01:21:10.960 --> 01:21:12.880
And you're like, dude, crash with me, no problem.
01:21:13.039 --> 01:21:13.680
Like, you want to do this?
01:21:14.159 --> 01:21:14.960
Like, yeah, yeah, come on.
01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:16.640
So we hung out and whatever.
01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:19.760
And but yeah, I was I would have been screwed if you didn't give me a couch to crash.
01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:23.600
There was uh, I mean, the house was literally under construction.
01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:26.960
Yeah, so you were you were at the you were at the Derby already.
01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:27.840
The well, not the Durban.
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:29.119
That was at Thurby.
01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:29.840
Yeah, yeah, Thursday.
01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:30.720
Which is the Thursday.
01:21:31.039 --> 01:21:36.319
I I literally landed, got my rental car, changed in like the parking lot, and I go, I'm gonna be there.
01:21:36.399 --> 01:21:43.760
And I I like dropped 30 bucks to park in someone's yard and like just walked into the the races, and we had a couple mint jups.
01:21:44.319 --> 01:21:44.399
Yeah.
01:21:44.640 --> 01:21:47.359
I was like, mint julep, that's just like bourbon on ice?
01:21:47.439 --> 01:21:47.760
What is that?
01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:51.119
Bourbon, crushed ice, water, and sugar.
01:21:51.279 --> 01:21:51.920
And mint.
01:21:52.880 --> 01:21:53.680
It's not much.
01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:57.520
No, but it's supposedly like the original cocktail.
01:21:57.840 --> 01:21:58.479
What I've always heard.
01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:01.439
Yeah, but you guys were doing construction, there was clothes everywhere.
01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:05.920
No, but I've uh the rest of the shirt, I've stayed in way worse than the cocktail.
01:22:07.439 --> 01:22:08.560
What's the worst?
01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:11.119
Man, Dayton was pretty bad.
01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:12.640
Uh Dayton Wiley's?
01:22:12.800 --> 01:22:13.039
Yeah.
01:22:13.359 --> 01:22:14.239
That was really bad.
01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:27.039
I I was um I was co-headlining my my buddy Leandry, and this was like the tail end of that club right before that dude sold it, and like you could tell he was just like did not have extra money to spend on stuff.
01:22:27.359 --> 01:22:36.079
And uh and so we we went and uh he he brought his uh girl at the time, and so I was like, dude, I'll just take the second bedroom, you guys take the master bed.
01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:45.680
I don't know if either one of them was better than the other, but it was like didn't have headboards, so it was just like the bed, and you could just see the dirt on the wall from where people's hair had the head stained.
01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:46.399
Yeah.
01:22:46.800 --> 01:22:48.239
It was so gross.
01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:50.319
I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:56.479
But uh and and back in the early days of like um working all the Florida like B and C rings.
01:22:56.640 --> 01:22:57.119
Oh my god.
01:22:57.279 --> 01:23:04.800
Like those guys all had cotton because all those shysters that ran those clubs were like, I got this condo button, you know, and they put you up in nose.
01:23:05.039 --> 01:23:07.840
And uh they they were just all so bad, man.
01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:12.880
Uh it it was just Richmond, Virginia had the worst club I think.
01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:14.960
Yeah, uh the old condo.
01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:18.159
So side splitters is an amazing club now, and they take care of you.
01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:20.880
But back in the day, that side splitters, you know.
01:23:21.199 --> 01:23:22.159
Is that Bobby Jewels?
01:23:22.319 --> 01:23:23.119
He's still a Bobby Jules.
01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:24.159
Was it the improv condo?
01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:25.920
I don't want to talk out of turn.
01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:29.039
There was one uh maybe it was the old improv condo.
01:23:29.680 --> 01:23:31.199
They're bad back.
01:23:31.439 --> 01:23:33.600
Yeah, they were one of them was really bad.
01:23:33.920 --> 01:23:36.560
It was just like the paint was like chipping off the walls.
01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:42.079
One of my favorite clubs in America was the it was in Milwaukee, and they had a terrible condo.
01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:46.640
It was like across the street, and it was just terrible.
01:23:46.880 --> 01:23:49.840
But you walked across the street and the club was so good.
01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:51.119
Yeah, you're like, you know.
01:23:51.680 --> 01:23:58.560
One of the best situations was as a young comic when Zane started booking me, uh, they had a club out in St.
01:23:58.720 --> 01:23:59.119
Charles.
01:23:59.279 --> 01:23:59.439
Right.
01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:00.399
It was like in this uh.
01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:09.680
And so it was a club, a really nice club inside this like golf resort, and my kids were little, and my in-laws lived in Indiana.
01:24:09.840 --> 01:24:19.439
So we'd go visit them for a few weeks, and then I'd borrow they would give me a nice suite because I'd be like, I'm bringing my family.
01:24:19.520 --> 01:24:20.560
So they put me in a suite.
01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:26.960
So my kids were like sleeping downstairs, and my wife and I were up on the second level, and so it was like it actually felt like a vacation.
01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:27.359
Yeah, yeah.
01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:34.319
And then they had this awesome pool, and um my kids would just swim all day in the pool, and I would sneak away and play golf.
01:24:34.560 --> 01:24:38.479
And uh then they had like the kids' club, so you could drop the kids off the kids' club.
01:24:38.560 --> 01:24:43.520
My wife would come to the show with me, have a few drinks, and then just walk 50 yards back to our hotel.
01:24:43.600 --> 01:24:45.039
It was like the best weekend every year.
01:24:45.119 --> 01:24:45.680
I loved it.
01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:51.439
And then my first great closer came from being there.
01:24:51.600 --> 01:25:01.039
Uh, we were hanging out in the pool and they had doing they had like a DJ playing at the pool, but it wasn't like a like a spring break Daytona DJ like we're talking about now.
01:25:01.199 --> 01:25:03.520
It was like some old lady who was like a party DJ, you know?
01:25:04.239 --> 01:25:06.319
Yeah, so she did she teach you to twerk.
01:25:07.279 --> 01:25:10.319
She was teaching us how to do like the Macarena or something.
01:25:10.399 --> 01:25:10.720
Like, you know.
01:25:12.640 --> 01:25:17.520
So she would always do these little competitions for the kids, and she'd be like, uh, all right, come on over, guys.
01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:19.279
We're gonna do a you know, bubble.
01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:20.640
Who are we gonna make the biggest bubble?
01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:21.920
And I got a prize for you, whatever.
01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:30.319
So then they did a little race in the pool for the kids, and and uh and then she goes, All right, guys, we're gonna do another another race in the pool, but I have a really good prize, but it's for adults.
01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:32.319
So what's some adults who want to race in the pool?
01:25:32.479 --> 01:25:34.800
And my kids came over and like, Dad, you gotta race.
01:25:35.039 --> 01:25:36.479
And I'm like, nah, I'm just chilling.
01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:39.199
And like, you can do it, Dad.
01:25:39.359 --> 01:25:41.359
And I'm like, Alright, fine, I'll do it.
01:25:41.520 --> 01:25:47.199
So uh I'm gonna shorten the story, but basically, I was just gonna mail it in, but then this guy was kind of talking shit.
01:25:47.359 --> 01:25:54.239
I'm like, so I like, all right, I'll put on the jets and I just I just you know destroy these guys in the race.
01:25:54.399 --> 01:26:02.720
Well, I come in, I finish the race, and then this lady's like, uh, you just won two free tickets to see Dave Williamson in the comedy club today.
01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:05.600
I was like, oh my god.
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:06.560
I don't know, bitch.
01:26:06.800 --> 01:26:07.439
It's so embarrassing.
01:26:07.840 --> 01:26:08.640
Burned that energy.
01:26:09.119 --> 01:26:10.640
Who wants tickets to see me?
01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:11.920
I'm passing them out, man.
01:26:12.079 --> 01:26:15.840
So I so I had this whole like story around it, like a lot more things ensued.
01:26:16.159 --> 01:26:22.800
But I I told that story that night and uh and it crushed, and then I didn't tell it again for like a year and a half.
01:26:22.880 --> 01:26:26.560
And when we went back there, I told the story there, and it just absolutely crushed.
01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:29.359
And I told my wife, I go, I think I could do that story anywhere.
01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:32.399
So I started, and it became like my first great closer.
01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:32.800
Oh yeah.
01:26:32.960 --> 01:26:42.880
Like I told that story for years, like about that swim race, and uh and it was like, you know, it was it was it was like literally my first like you know, banger of a closer.
01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:47.439
Zanies, man, they had a great clo they had a great condo in Nashville when I first started.
01:26:47.520 --> 01:26:49.359
I had a guitar-shaped swimming pool.
01:26:49.520 --> 01:26:49.760
Really?
01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:50.159
Yeah.
01:26:50.319 --> 01:26:55.920
It's like you had uh the feature act had his own uh condo and the headliner had their own condo.
01:26:56.159 --> 01:26:57.520
Everything shaped like a guitar in Nashville.
01:26:58.319 --> 01:26:59.279
Music City, I mean.
01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:00.880
Yeah.
01:27:01.359 --> 01:27:02.960
The uh huh.
01:27:03.439 --> 01:27:04.720
What do you want to talk about now?
01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:05.439
Are we done?
01:27:05.600 --> 01:27:06.159
Are we done?
01:27:06.640 --> 01:27:07.520
That seemed like a good one.
01:27:07.680 --> 01:27:08.319
I mean, yeah, man.
01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:10.319
Seems like we got a little some bonus footage there.
01:27:10.479 --> 01:27:10.880
That was good.
01:27:11.039 --> 01:27:13.840
We were gonna stop and then we went well, we got right back into it.
01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:15.680
This is one of my favorite guys.
01:27:15.760 --> 01:27:21.279
Uh go to the uh old town patio in Elsie Gundo and get some uh pork.
01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:32.880
Come through, and I would tell anyone listening that if you're gonna go to the old town patio, uh their Instagram is at E S Old Town Patio, but follow me at Dave Wcomedy and message me if you're gonna come.
01:27:32.960 --> 01:27:37.359
And if I'm not already there and I'm in town, I will come down and meet you for a beer.
01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:42.159
I love when people come to support, I love meeting people who come uh go out of their way to support.
01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:43.279
So um hit me up.
01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:47.199
I I mean that genuinely, and tell me that you know you heard me on this podcast.
01:27:47.439 --> 01:27:52.560
Um I have another Instagram which is at MeetDaveBBQ.
01:27:52.880 --> 01:27:53.920
Trying to build my barbecue.
01:27:54.319 --> 01:27:55.039
Meet with an A.
01:27:55.199 --> 01:27:55.920
M-E-A-T.
01:27:56.079 --> 01:27:56.720
Yeah, Meet Dave.
01:27:56.880 --> 01:28:00.640
Meet Dave is my barbecue podcast, and it's just become my nickname and my branding.
01:28:00.880 --> 01:28:05.279
Um, and then check out Dave Williamson.com if you want to check out my tour dates.
01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:09.600
And uh the Gundo Comedy and Barbecue Festival in Els Gundo, California.
01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:12.640
It's like the funnest weekend of my year.
01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:13.680
I love it so much.
01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:15.920
It's like been such a cool thing to grow.
01:28:16.079 --> 01:28:21.199
And we sold out every single event last year, and that's gonna be June 25th to 28th.
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:25.359
So um follow that on the socials at Gundo uh Comedy BBQ.
01:28:25.840 --> 01:28:29.119
And uh I think that's that's it.
01:28:29.279 --> 01:28:30.159
I think that's everything, yeah.
01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:32.159
Go uh join his water polo too.
01:28:32.399 --> 01:28:33.279
Quest water polo.
01:28:33.439 --> 01:28:34.319
Quest water polo.
01:28:34.399 --> 01:28:35.119
Yeah, thank you, man.
01:28:35.279 --> 01:28:36.000
Appreciate you coming out.
01:28:36.159 --> 01:28:36.399
Yeah, man.
01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:38.560
Thank you, man.
01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:39.119
Got it.
01:28:39.279 --> 01:28:40.880
That's it for us, guys.